The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, August 26, 1891, Page 5

BUT! ER WEEKLY TIMES shined ITE, SY” ouition will 0 open inney reports quitea frost Sunday night. Yellow fever at Ve era Cruz, Mexi- co, and is killing hundreds of people. | Sedalia has been selected as head- quarters for the World's fair con- mission. Water was turned on Saturday | and the plugs all tested and found! all right. The Sunday school se scholars of the M. FE. church, south, will hold a pic. | nic tomorrow. Govei nor Campbell of Ohio, is on the sick list and has been unable to yet enter the canvass J. M. MeKibben is building a handsome his lot on Ohio street. John DeMott, of Walnut town. ship, was in the city Saturday and gave us a pleasant call The McFarland open air concerts talking of residence on band will on each Friday evening on the public square. give Mis. F. M. Mount and children of Sedalia, are in the city this week visiting re ‘latives and frie nds. The brick masons are at Pharis & Son's new store house on the south side of the square. Mrs. P. J. Jowett, who quite sick for the past two has been weeks weare glad to learn is improving. Mrs. A. have mother relatives friends in Iowa returned Henry and been visiting and home ast week. Mr. tou store, who has been on list for the to note is able to be up again. Gilbert, manager of the Bos- the sick past week, we ure glad The Southwest ‘Missouri oufer ence of the M. BE. church, will meet in Sedalia, Sept. 16th, Bis hop Hargrove of ‘Tennessee presid-| suuth, ing. Twenty thousand people attend - | ed the tariff rally at Plattsburg last Is weck, and the ball for tariff reform | was started a rolling by Senators Vest and Cockrell and others. Adveutist King has beea arrested and jailed A Tennessee for plowing on Sunday. was sustained by the court of the state. Supreme Now that water has pee turned onthe maines and the staud pipe completed it would be a good idea to hurry up the that we may be ready to next fire carts so fight the hose and The Gedney coal mines, located about midway between Lewis sta- tiou and Calhoun, onthe M. K. & T. railway took tire Friday and the entire chute for coaling trains was burned. Rev. S. M. Brown, of Kansas City preached two elegant sermons at Baptist church Sunday. He and his wife are in the city visiting Mrs. Brown's father and mother, Dr. and Mrs. Everingham. The State Alliance is in session at Warrensburg this week, Carroll is attending, and we under- stand will put a chip on his should- er for president which will be knock- ed off in the first round. With the tariff off of sugar and 18 to 20 pounds for $1.00 as against 10 and 12 pounds for a $1.00 with the tariff on, Bro. Austin is still try- ing to make the people believe that necessaries are cheaper under the McKinley increased tariff. Miss Anna Florence, who has been holding a position in the pen- sion department at Washington City has resigned and returned home. She is looking well and says her stayin Washington was very pleasant. Lewis Hoffman, of Kansas City, Tey Holcomb, of Portsmouth, | The many ueste now hace «10, is in the city on business and orders to arrest boys loafing about} Visiting his brother, P. H. Holeomb ‘the depot and jum ping on trains. It} We were complimented by a call| \is a good move and ought to be care] from Father O'Riley, of Rich Hill |"? °vt to the letter. and Mike Curry. Father O'Riley | Albion Norton, who has been! preaches at Butler twice a month. spending a few weeks in the city | Ex-Senator ; Ingalls o of ‘Kaneas, hag | Visiting his parents, and for the past | sailed for Europe. This is to certify Week at Mt. Sterling, Il, visiting that he will not help the republican | frievds, returned to his Lome at AST CHANCE WE WILL CONTINUE OUR work on | who | nated and editor | | party in Ohio or Iowa in their fall Houston, Texas, yesterday, where ! campaign lhe holds a position in a | g i cashier The recorder of deeds aud sheriff | 3 = of Jackson county, Rev. Archibald A. Joues, are getting fat | off the real estate \City. The er day only 2 boom in Kansas | Times contained the oth-| columns of legal ad- vertisements, most of them sheriif | sales | When Edward Woodfin was hurt or the streets of Butler I made the | statement that his father, A. H. see him if he was dying. this charge I reassert | and will swear to before a Notary Public if necessary. Grorce Norris. same | Friday last some person n or persons pa of Will was atieuding the fuueral of his brother, jentered the melon Badgley while he | and appr rie | 1 to; jated every 1 large eu carry off. It was a mean dirty piece | of business, and the guilty parties if | found should receive the punishment they so ausUy deserve. | | eee ae W. A. Stephens ler; now of the city the of But-! Was in} formerly Ash Grove, Mo., the week and gave us a pleasant eall. Mr. Steph-| ens was greatly surprised at the sub- last of | jStantial improvements which Lave been going on in Butler; said it is the nicest little city in the southwest jand expressed a desire to return | to liye. Cards are out announcing the ; marriage of Miss Laura Blachert, of this city and Mr. Frank W. Chiswell |of Topeka, Kansas, the ceremony to take place Sept. Ist. The bride-elect jis the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Blachert, while the groom is a broth- er to our genial friend, Lee Chiswell, | editer of the Lamar Democrat. figes on Robt. L_ Graves and J. . Pierce, appointed by the council, Veoanbeneed the work of measuring the water mains Monday. J. C. Clark acted for the water-works company. The committee started of the square and will measure with a chain | from the southwest corner The case , the entire system in the incorporate | at the res limits. Mrs. W. J. Smith and daughter Miss Maud, of Columbia, are visit-| ing old friends in Butler. Miss Maud is private secretary to the state vet-| jerinary surgeon. Sheis a splendid | stenographer, well up in type writ- ing, speaks French fluently, and in | fact, has made herself indispensible | to the office. Withal she isa charm- ing young !ady, and a host of friends in Butler wish her success. There are twenty five cases of | small pox in the Blue Bottoms, near Independence, Mo. The citizens of cinity have established aa shot gun The other day a patient feeling quite | well got out of bed, walked into Inu- dependence, dined at one of the prin | ts and shortly after- wards had a relapse and fell from | exhaustion in the streets. ab cipal restaur: The city ecouneil ieee located the | public watering places, one is on ner of the square. One near block near the southwest corner of | the square and the otuer ou North Main street just north of the post office. By this arrangement every thing has been made convenient for the farmer to water his stock com cost. Peter Late came home to look af- ter his household m the fire. With the exception of losing ail their canned fruit put up this year and stored in the cellar their loss is not great, as their furniture goods saved f a very laging last year a a platform a clow? jdonkey and Psat oy. The attend | ance was not and those whoj| saved their 50 cents are wiser than | opera house on Wednesday evening | ton, a colored priest of Independence and farmers of the vi- | quarantine inthe infected district. | Ohio street, near the northwest cor-|8Pppears wholesome advise when he! the | advised against the sous of veterans | Laclede hotel, another near the iron | Orgenizing. No one would want to | ing into town and going out free of jlight from the present. | veterans proudly presi | Female College, | spent Monday Tuesday in the city in the inter 1001. The uthern Methodist coll successful institution, lent of Central Lexington, Mo, and | aver: | larger enrollment iny similar in the! SDL 50 of scholar | sti ite By those who woul jattended the Sells show, and S2¢ admit they the cireus | was characterized as being no| your last chance better than the street parade, which band, haif! dozen little ponies S rane horse-back | | consisted of a walking as they Il riders, those who helped the snide along. There will be a lecture at the! which is September 9th, 1891, by Fathe Chicago, jprobably the ouly negro priest in the United States. 9 Our {should turn out and hear Father Tol- ton, as he is reported a very talented people More costs for the county to pay. | Last Saturday Deputy Sheriff Badg- ley, without authority pulled a man / had! procured his city license, and yank-| ed him up before Squire Newsom. | Instead of Atkeson turning him | loose he proceeded to prosecute the | fellow under the peddler act course it could not be isn’t true. selling soap on the street, who proven jrightly and promptly discharged him. But the costs; well,they will be charged up and the county will be \ called upon to foot the bill. The S1O, S10 suits at S87 wll be packed away soon. arriving when you are needing BOOTS & SHOES. you a solid all calf shoe for § mun. The leeture is given for the| paying Sv al ) for. benefit of the Catholic church of our i Pes ety. to be the best ever sold in this tion but nevertheless a true one. Mr. WILL KEA of our Shoe department. ) suits at SES. S81 to buy daily. By the 52 00, We learned Giant Squire Allen | point is Atkeson ought to have known that the law had not been vi- | oluted and dismissed the case. Wright of Summit township, who was in the Monday, that the hail storm which passed through his stion a little oyer a weck ago, did The funeral of “Alfred T. Badgley, = who died of complication of diseases | idence of his mother, Mrs | M. J. Badgley, two miles southwest | of Butle ue at 3 o'clock Thursday last, was held at the Baptist church, of assisted materially which he was au kLonored member, |tion of thecrops. Mr. Friday at 4 o'clock, conducted by! the water from the cloud burst left Rev. J. W. Stockton. The funera j marks on the hedge fences showing }was largely attended and the re- lit had rolled up at three feet high | mains were laid to rest in Oak Hill} oy Jevel ground. Among the farmers cemetery. vast amount of demage to the far- The hail was a mers in its wake. companied by a cloud burst which The deceased was a most | estimable young man, very industri-| | himself 1 ous and his loss will be deeply felt | by this community. The Times joins | 50 acres of corn, and 20 x. nearly or quite all de- stroyed. Thos. New 100 acres of | wi ith the many friends of the family | go7;) and 30 acres of flax, Sam Potts in extending oympe athies. lacres of fis | | 100 acres of corn aud 60 acres of flax, Bates county was 3 well represent- i M ed at the Ex-Confederate re-union | 20 acres of flax, also new poy jlast week in Kansas City. The re- ep Cheatham, G. A. Johnson, Mr. union was the Jargest ever held in | Huff, Jas. McGhee, Herman and {the state and the old veterans had a | Bud Billings, had their crops more Green Parker had . but the istance of {big tim fightine over the battles, | °° less damaged. | renewing old comradeship and feast- | | heavy one oats stack set on fir rain and the as ing. These re-unions of the old soldiers | dono harm, and area fj jby pulling it down, and thereby saved a number of other | close proximity. Squire Wright says | the hail storm seemed to Jump and source of ee stacks 12 | great satisfaction, and comfort to Peter u, but one of the this occasion gave them what to us speakers on | have no regular course to travel. The width of it was something near halfa mile, and the growing corn | and flax suffered wherever it touched. | deprive the old soldier of a single} | His corn was stripped of blade and |laurel so bravely and honorably won | on many battle-tield, | #88el aud almost one-third broken | But the old feelings should not be} ‘off, and he has scarcely kept up and future generations will & put him through the winter. The report of the storm was brought to 3 sulnary enough left a different | jlook at this matter with | Let the ol toWH last week, but we hi ad no idea wear their scars |it Was so severe. and laurels but when dead let them = be burried in the same grave. A southern correspondent to the sls New York Herald says that the pro- Soheitors Wanted. ‘duction of rice in the southern states The undersigued s good live energetic county Agent! has increased in five years from 5.- Solieitors | 000 cs of 182 pounds each to 700. ; township in the county to 000 sacks the we ine present year. He spent Sunday and Monday in the} was about all carried out of the! present the plan and issue contracts jsuys that all of the South Atlantic city on business. He informed us he would take unto himself a rib about the latter part of September. | just moved into the house and Mrs. | business. The lady to whom he is to be mar-|Lane says she had just arranged | mation call on county Agent. tied is Miss Pauline Wisbrun, of Kan- sas City. house and loss ox way of recone 1 this will be in the The family had everything and settled herself for a} rest the day before the-fire. for the World's Fair Excursion Com-! an: pany. and five years states cau produce rice; Either sex can handle the eliecen within the next For all necessary infor- that they will produce the amount equal to the home consumjtion. A similar revolution | the sugar cane industry. De C. Mize Butler, Mo. in the destruc- | Wright said | who lost heaviest in his section was | | He sary Smizer 50 acres of corn and | | neighbors he was able to put it out! is being made in | | rebuild. A Handsome Residence Burned. was destroyed Wednesday about 12. o'clock. had just been completed by Lewis, and was one of the houses of the town. Charlie Mr. tion and had spared neither pains,or labor or beautify and money to succumbed to firea general regret was on the lips of all our citizens for it was not only a prided to its owner but likewise all our citizens aw it was an ornament to the city. Peter Lane, and the property of Mr. Lewis, was also burned. This! dwelling like the other bad just re- | ceived the painters’ brush and was a! handsome two story frame. Both buildings the fire breaking out at such an un- | usual hour by the time help arrived nothing could be done with buckets | were frame and) to stop the ravages of the flames which had already gained good headway, and all hands were turned to saving the furniture. The first floors, except the dining room and kitchen were pretty well cleared, but the second and third stories could not be entered and the furniture in this part of the house was a_ total loss. Iu the adjoined house occu- pied by Mr. Lane almost every arti cle of furniture was carried Mr. Lewis had insurance on build- ings $4,500, but the loss will reach between $5,000 and $6,000. He also had some insurance on his furniture but not fully covered. The fire originated in the room over the kiteh- en and must have been ¢aused from adefective flue Mr. tend the Belton of the fire was in Kausas City. Lewis had left Mouday to at- fair and the night Mr. and Mrs. Lewis have the sym- pathy of all our people in their dis- tress, and itis hoped that he will be ableto make arrangements to DO suits at S823. reliable Clothing at suc: way, make you lower prices than you're used to. such as you've We ee our $2 market. Come in SLING, will have fellow under pr act. Of| | course i y that | the man was peddling and the court NORTH SIDE SQUARE. The adjoining cottage occupied by | ““GUEARANCE SALE FOR ONE WEEK LONGER. Remember al Summer Suits go at Unheard rr ices, 3 50 and $15 at Now is prices We need the room FOR OUR BOOT & SHOE STOCK remember us We'll We'll give been DO calf shoe bold and see if it A asser- charge HOUSE, How is this a good seca’ The palatial residence located just | | No. 8 cook stove with 20 in. oven and north of the Missouri State bank, 60 pieces trimmings $15. and the property of C. B. Lewis, | night | back warranted for ten years, This residence | had better get one quick. Best cook stoves on earth for the money fire you 38 3t. Harrer & Arkison. model had | taken great pride in its construc | Lost Boy. Oscar M. Spencer, 14 years old, | left his home in Bates county last | Monday, Oscar is of medium height, adorn, and when it was known that round features, fair complexion, dark this elegant and beautiful residence | hair, rather stout build and has a small sear over the right eye, whick can be detected by close inspection. 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