The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, February 25, 1891, Page 5

| | —][S—— J. M. McKIBBEN CLEARING OUT ——HIS—— Winter Stock. BUT'ER WEEKLY TIMES. | LOCAL ITEMS Good house and lot for sale. Call Smt Francisco. The roads are very bad. The young men. are organizing a K. of P. lodge iu this city. The school board wiil meet Fri- day night at the store room of J. M. | McKibben. Our young friend W. O. Radford, of Virginia, called while inthe city ; Saturday. } on | | | | Gabriel Ison, accompanied by his wife gave uaa pleasant call Satur-| oy: ef =) Attend the opera house next Wed- | nesday night. The troupe is one of the best traveling. N.B. McFarland left Monday for Hot Springs, Arkansas, to epend a month or six weeks for his health. Mayor Jas. L. Pace, who has been spending the past week in St. Louis on business returned home Satur- day. Mrs. E. O. Hayes and daughter in- law Mrs. Jobn C. Hayes, are visiting relatives and friends in St. Joseph, Mo. Rich Hill is, aking-an effort to | to become a third-claes city. A vote will be takenon the question Satar- day. , ‘hheyihay tha fond of coal returned | waé Notas good quality as*the load taken from the coal house in the court yard. Judge Miller ought to move to} town also, it'would save mileage and he would be handy to business on the first of exch month. i One: hundyed and weventeen sriners : were killed by an explosion of fire | damp in the Spring Hill coal mine disaster in Nova Scotia Saturday. Turlington, the Boonville murder- | er, reads the Bible all the time. Bet- | ter late than never. The trouble is he didu’t begin soon enough. George Canterbury left Monday | morning for Verona, Lawrence county on real estate business and | will be nbsent about two weeks. | The St. Louis merchants are pro- | testing against the removal of the general offices of the M. K. & T. | railroad from Sedalia to Parsons, Kansas. Read Mr. Carrithers’ plain statc- ment of that tariff argument. He is just from New York, where he spent.three weeks buying his spring stock. Mayor J. L. Pace, of Butler. was | in the city Sunday fora few hours. | The Colcnel is now working to put } Butler abreast of the times in the! way of water and light.—R. H. En. | terprise. The Butler Rifles attended the fun- eral of Gen. Sherman in St. Louis Saturday. The boys say the com- | pany did not get within four miles | of the eemetery so great was the | crowd, Farmers. you will make. ‘money by selling your eggs and butter to | day night last. | plead guilty. There is danger in impure blood. There is safety in taking Hood's Sar- saparilla, the great blood purifier. | 100 doses one dollar. W. Fussell orders the booming Times sent to his address for ove year at Redlands. California. Courtney & Graves will buy all kinds of fees and court costs. Call at Parkinson & Graves’ office. B. F. Grider, our popular young school teacher friend of West Point township favored us with a pleasant call Saturday. Miss Maggie Taylor, of Kansas City, arrived in the city Friday, to spend a month with her sister, Mis. R. E. Delane: The democrats will hold their con- vention to nominate a township tick et Saturday. Let every democrat in the township be present and take part and assist in naming good men. Judge F.M George, of Everett, member of the Cass county court, was in the city Monday and gave us a pleasant call. The judge was in the city on business and returned home the same day. D. A. Colyer's eighteen fine Ken- tucky jacks arrived Saturday eyen- ing and are now on exhibition at | Harris & Lisle’s feed stables in this city. They are an extra fine herd of animals. Sunday night the Ohio at Cincin- nati was fifty three feet and 10inches above low water mark and was rais- ing at the rate of an inch an hour. Great floods are also reported to be raging in Arizona. i petition numerously signed by our citizens was presented the coun- cil’ Thursday aight requesting that y to submit a proposition for the jeltyto vote bonds and put in its own lights. G@. D. Arnold's fine saddle stal- lion whieh he beught in Kentacky last week arrived Sunday night. He isa dark bay. 154 bands high, 3 years old and Blue Jeans and Mark Diamond stock. He goes all the | gaits and isa regular beauty. Liberty, Mo, Feb. 20.—James R Timberlake died in this city last, night. He was sheriff of Clay coun- ty at the time Jesse James was killed jand achieved considerable notoriety on account of his connection with the events incident to that tragedy. A pleasant time was had by the) colored peuple at the social held at the residence of G. K. Ford, Thurse! It was the largest social ever held in the city by the| colored people and a graud time was bad. The tables fairly groaned with | good things and was handscmely } decorated with cut flowers. Ah, ha! And Bro. Atkeson is go- ing to make his own answer after he is relieved from the arduous duties of his burdensome practice in the court room?) When he writes his article it would be well for him to state by what methods he secured the conviction last week, and how much of bis own fees he knocked off as an inducement for said party to Tell it all At. and don’t stoop to vituperation you might Puats & Sox: «| become choleric. Township Coavention. Pursant to the action of the dem- | cratic county central committee the democrats of Mt. Pleasant will meet at the court house on Saturday af- ' ternoon, February, 28th, 1891, at 2 o'clock p. m., for the purpose of se- lecting 16 delegates to thecounty convention on Saturday March 7th, | 1891; and at the same time they will | Mrs. Dr.- Walls, sho has been quite seriously sick the past four weeks with typhoid fever, was sowe better yesterday. Sedalia has again raised the state _capital removal question. To satisfy the people of Sedalia in regard to the matter the legislature ought for once and all settle the agitators. WEDNESDAY’S FIRE | } | The Diamond Fieuring Millis Barned ! to the Ground. |The Mill With be Rebuilt as Soon as the Insurance is Adjusted. The Diamond flouring mills, be- | ., At Opera house P. D. Fisher's longing to J. T. Shannon & Co., lo- Poneman egae S= sore outs Cold Day Co. will be in Butler one | cated in the orth part of this city dates for the several township of [ deplonies Marcnatiinee cn @antlan [was discovered) (toliGelanlareabont we ae nS EAS. ‘evening of fun come and see them. |2 o'clock Wednesday afternnou. The Se Reserved seat tickets on sale at fire originated in the third story of This week we announce W. G. Buck. as a candidate for collector of this township. Mr. Buck is one of | Butler's oldest and best citizens, | and if nominated will poll his party ; vote and more. He is competent, re- | liable and would make an efficient | officer. | bis nomination would add strength | to the ticket. ; The population of Misscuri by; | counties has just been received by the legislature at Jefferson City from | the census department at Washing- ton. Bates county stands the seventh | county in the state, with a popula- | tion of 32,223, Henry 28,235, Cass | 23,301, St. Clair 16,747, Vernon 31,- | 505, Johnson 28,132, Lafayetie 30,- 1184, Jackson 160,510. The total ee of the state is 2,679,184. Rev. W. H. Summy was in the city Monday and gave the Times a | pleacant call. This was his first visit |to the city since the election. He is enjoying the best of health and re- | ports the farmers in his section in | good fighting trim for spring work, aud apxious to get to plowing. He | said his school district would not consent to lose their legal apportion- ment of school money caused by the mistakes of county clerk Drysdale, jand that they proposed to demand of him the balance due the district aaa if not paid the district will seek its legal rights in tho matter. Columbia, Mo., Feb. 22.—The grand jury, the Hon. W. R. Wilhite foreman, after being in session all week, adjourned last night sine die. Among other important matters in- vestigated by them was the alleged defalcation of ex-treasurer J. C. Gil- laspy. After a full inquiry they fail- ed to find a true bill, thus fully are quitting Gillaspy of the charges which have been made against him. peek RATE The Odd Fellows celebration to be held in this city April 27th prom ises to be the largest thing ever held in the city. The Warrensburg cele- bration advertised for the same day has been postponed and that lodge will come to Butler. The commit- tee have received reports from all round even as faras Ft. Scott and LeRoy. Kansas,and all say they will he here. On this occasion Butler ought to put on her Sunday clothes and our citizens should. use their best endeavors to assist the com- mittee in their efforts to make this day one to be remembered. | The name of Miss Lida Abell.of this | city, has been mentioned by promi- nentdemocrats from all sections of county in connection with the demo- cratic nomination for county s¢hool commissioner. Miss Lida isa lady of fine ability, well educated, possessed jot broad views ou jects, is a hard student, a practical teacher andi enthusiastic in school work. But she is not a candidate for office. She believes on the suc- cess of democratic principles de- ;pends good government and if sat- isfied that the success of that party | depended upon her candidacy she j would accept the nomination, but under no other consideration. The county court sat as a board lof equalization and reduced Power | Bros., assessment. Then they found that they could not sit as a board of }equalization and they revoked the | order. But they allowed the claim of the coroner for hold ing av inquest over the body of J. W. MeVeigh, refused by Judge Sul- lens on the grounds that MeVeigh’s estate was plenty able to pay its own debts. They also allowed the claim of the coroner for holding an inquest over Seighman, and his estate was also ample to pay all debts. they must want plus. | to reduce the sur- Farm to rent:—320 acres of fine farm land to rent—cheap rent. Call or write. Gro. M. Cantersury. Pe ee a, eae ee eS ee ee eh Everybody is his friend and | educational sub- | Guess | Rice's Drug Store, on the 25th. The Cold Day Co. have just finish- ed a week's engagement in Kansas | City, and all the papers are loud in their praise. Don't fail to see it and March 4th, reserved seats on sale at Rice's Drug Store. Superintendent Ingalls was locat- ing the water mains Monday from the city limits to the Miami. The stand pipe will be placed near the residence of J. P. Edwards, in the north part of the city, and the water will be drawn from the river above the bridge. As soon as the survey is completed a large force of men will be put to work ditching, laying mains and preparing reservoirs. Capt. J. W. Hannah is making preparatiens to enlarge the Palace hotel and refit it threughout. The most important change to be made is that the office will be placed on the ground floor in the room now occupied by Mrs. Blachert. Anoth- er improvement is that of the dining room which will be extended from front to rear, and the double parlors will be moved across the hall to the room now occupied as an office. Yhe other day one of our promi- nent attorneys in sympathizing with Prosecuting Attorney Atkeson in his failure to convict at this term of cir- cuit court, suggested to him, in view of the fact that he had already dis- missed most of his cases, that he hereafter enter 7o//es in all his cases and he would soon gain the reputa- tion of being the best nolle prosegut lawyer iu Southwest Misseuri. Ow- ing to the fact that the tax-payers have to foot the bill of his xo//es, would it not be better for Mr. Atke- son not to file any more informa- tions. By doing this he might dis- tinguish himself in saving taxes in crimival costs. f The appointment of Cireuit Judge of the 22nd Judicial district to fill the unexpired term of Judge DeAr- mond should go to Bates. county. It was conceded when'Judge DeAr- mond was elected to the office that the-county was entitled to the place by rotation, and she is entitled to’ it forthe entire term. Besides Mr. Smith is a young manof fine ability and his dppointment by Gov. Francis would doubtless be hiffhly satisfact- ory toa majority of the people of the district. Let it be, “Judge Smith of the 22nd district.—_Nevada Noticer.- gaat Last year a democratic county ccurt'award- edtve financial statement to the ‘Democrat and Times at 50 cents per square, ‘and the Rec- ord dwelt upon the fact that: the work coul@ be done much cheaper and censured she court for rewarding.a partisan. press at the expense of the tax-payers. This year the boot is ap the other foot and the Union;Labor reform county court awarded the financial statement to the Union and Record at 75 centa per square, .or 25 cents more than a democratic court paid. Is this to be a grab game and is ‘‘me too, Aus.’’ to have his reward for his assistance in defeat- ing the democratic party at the tax-payers ex- pense.—Butler Weekly Times We are not sufficently acquainted with the above statements to assert or question the truth of the same, but the point made Ly the Times is correct. Seventy-five cents per square is more than the county should pay for printing a statement of any kind. We believe that the farmers were honest in their de- mands fer retrenchment, and that | they intended that the officers elect- ed by them should carry out the principles enunciated in their plat- form. If those men betray the trust imposed on them, let the lash of |publie opinion be applied without |fear or favor. The Journal has no tight to wage either for or against jany party, vet if we see that the ; public officers of our county are using their positions to enrich them selves we shall not hesitate to speak ‘out against it. Let the reform go on the people can stand it, but let it be one that will benefit the people. j at large.—Adrian Journal. A new frame house 5 rooms and ‘pantry, and block of ground, situat- |ed 400 feet from court house square, in best portion of city. Enquire at = office. 5ltf |the building and was supposed to have been caused by a hot box, and | was under full headway before discov- jered. When the alarm was given a |large nember ef citizens repaired to have a good laugh. At Opera house | the scene, but when they arrived it |), was soon discovered that the flames could not be extinguished and all hands turned to saving the large supply of flour stored in the build- and five hundred sacks saved but a jlarge quantity of wheat belonging the mill owners and farmers stored in the bins could not be got out and was destroyed in the flames. The main part of the mill was three stories high and built of stoue with a large addition of wood and corrugated iron on the east side. During the summer the mills had been completely overhauled and a new set of rollers put in at consider- able expense to its owners and at the time of the fire was in first-class order and was turning out flour equal to the best. The loss of the mill at this season of the year is asevere stroke not only to Butler, but to the entire county. However, we are gratified to learn fron. Mr. Shannon that the work of rebuilding the structure will be begun as soon as the insurance is adjusted and that the uew mill will be much more substantial and better in every way than the old one. The mill burned was valued at about forty thousand dollars and was in- sured for ninteen. The wheat, several thousand bush- els, stored in the bins was a total loss tu the owners. The farmers who had wheat stor- ed in the mill will lose nothing as Mr. Shannon says the company will pay them in full for every bushel barned. This speaks well for the proprietors of the mill and their honesty in thus paying a debt for which they are not legally bound, should be appreciated not only by the men who had wheat burned,but by the entire farming community, and wehave no doubt but that it will be. The company have not yet decid- ed whether the new mill will be brick or frame, but hope to decide the matter ina short time. Accidentally Shot Himself. Friday afternoon while out coon hunting in the bottom near Cornland three or four miles south of this city, Wm. R. Thompson accidentally He was in .company shot himself. with his father, John G. Thompsen, and two of their neighbors when the The party had treed a coon and after felling the tree the coon escaped up another tree when it was suggested that young Thompson take the gun and shoot In taking the gun by the muz- mishap took place. it. zle and raising it over a etump against which it had been resting into his breast, killing him almost instantly. He was 18 years of age land owners and farmers in that sec- tion of the county. The funeral took place Monday. Oil cake, meal for stock of all kinds, the very best of satisfaction to these who have tried it. For sale by E. T. Steele & Co., W. G. Womack, Bidg ley & Hall or at my residence, one block east of postoffice, 124 R. W. Jawea | a pair of fine sons. comes to the front with two demo- | eratie voters to shade Major Broek-! (ings future aspirations.—R. H. En- terprise. Wheat Wanted. I Will pay eighty five cents per bushel for wheat delivered at my mill. Iwill take wheat on deposit, and give 334 poucds of the very best flour per bushel. J. T. Saaxsos. j 4 ing. Of this there was between four the hammer caught and the gun was discharged, the entire load passing and his father is one of the largest | Born, to T. J. Gault, Wednesday, ! Thus, Tom | | Tiuted lead for house painting, all shades, buggy paint, farmers wagon and implement paint, linseed oil. al- soul} kinds of paint brushes for | sule cheap by Bernhardt & Co. 133 North side square. Farmers, always go to Pharis & Sen when you want flour in large lots. and will save you money. Charlotte Items. Farmers are preparing their ground for flax and oats....Mr. Rafe informs us his farm is for sale ----Mr. Thompson purchased 10 acres of timber of J W > Bard.... Several of our friends purchased | goods of CH Morrison & Co, of | Chicago last week....Our reporter jinforms us that A J Park is predict- ‘ing a famine this year. .John Hens- y jv, has moved the buildings jon the Chas. Durrett farm which he jhas lately purchased. John is a rustler....P M Faunliver made a | business trip to Cass Co.- last week .---Lofe Short’s nephew of Kansas City, is visiting hiuw this week.... Rumor bad it that the Stratford Inn of Amoret, was destroyed by fire last Saturday night, but upon in- vestigation we find it to be a mis- take....Our reporter informs us that Butler (the garden of Eden) is soon to commence operation on her water works. It’s hard for our neigh- boring towns te keep pace with But- ler as she is under control of live, energetic citizens who are not afraid to do their part....Over two-thirds of the farmers in this viciuity are going to put out flax this year.... Amoret will never bore for gas.... Our fruit tree man, Mr. Hall of But- ler, is reported on the sick list. .N. M. Nestlerode, our pioneer merch- ant of Viginia, is enjoying a good trade and he deserve it....WR Craig 1s coutemplating on renting his farm this year to W Crawford .... Attention ladies! Jach McGuire will be un the market for only 30 days longer. . .It is reported a post- office has been granted te the new town 7 miles north of Amoret and will be in operation soon,...W N. Westover has returned from Cass county, and reports everything love ly in that vicinity....Dr. Robinson. has just informed us of the serious illness of Wm. Oldhaw, nephew of Uncle Billy Oldham. He is afflicted. with typhoid pneumonia. ...Thads Har per, professor of the Grandview school, iuforms us that he will give an entertainment at the town hall soon....Farmers are still losing hogs with the cholera, but the dis- ease is abating somewhat....Mr. B.. Nestlerode contemplates building a ° new house this spring... .Churley. Morrison is having his apple orchard \pruned up. Chas. believes in keep- ing things in order There has been a man through this vicinity selling rug machines. We are dewn on middle men and think farmers should patronage home industry... There has been a number fof farms change hands in locality within the last six months this shows times are fast improving....We met with D. B Henderson of Kincaid, Kan., father of H D, on our streets Inst Friday. He reports business good in Kincaid, but says the farmers are troubled to some extent with the hog cholera....Mr. Lafe Short is loeking after a farm for his father- in-law Among the many who purchased goods of the Chicago dry goode and grocery firm, were Messrs. Wallace, Hughes, Pleasant Hill and Gardner Mr. James Dudley has just completed a fine residence on his farm five miles north of Virginia. Op Sunscarper. Hood’s Sarsaparilla Is a concentrated extract of Sarsaparilis, Yellow Dock, Pipsissewa, Juniper Berries, Mandrake, Dandelion, and other valuable vegetable remedies, every ingredient being strictly pyre, and the best of its kind It is possible to buy. 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