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T. E. Wyse, son of H. H. Wyse, | PRESS COMMENTS. i 5 of Altona, died at the residence of! ~ | i J: Sisson, in Butler on the even-| For District Delegate. i ing of the 3rd of February. He Bich Hill Review | was brought to Butler to be near; The twelfth Congressional dis- B : his pyhsician, Dr. J. T. Walls, and | trict is entitled to a delegate to the! 4 was improving, when he got out of | National Democratic convention, and | bed and the exertion brought on | although ample time is yet on hand | MAKE A LINE TO AND SEE HIS ELEGANT STOCK OF Dry Goods. BOOTS AND SHOES, Ex¥ats, Caps, Eiosiery. — -AND THE—— NICEST LINE OF DRESS GOODS TO BE FOUND IN THE CITY. j heart failure Au appropriate obit A | M M C ’ juary written by a friend can be . ba 'found in another column Thesupreme court on Mouday re- versed the decision of the lower court in the cause of Simeon Leshie, respondent vs. ‘The Kich Hull Coal Mining Co., appellant, aud remaud- ed the case to this county ‘This is Simeon Leshe ob- a Cuse lu Which tained u judgment of $7000 against | dhe ich Hil Cual Co, in the Bates circuit court for alleged mjuries re- celved lu Ube 4 Hon. Thos. J Doth was actorney for tue comy aud le is tu be congratulated on his able management of the case Hon. W. W. Graves returned trom Kansas City Monday evening and in }formed us that the Court of Appeals PALACE HOTEL BUILDING, - - BUTLER, MIiswOUne. Ch 1 Ra LTP ae BUT! ER WEEKLY TIMES | It is time democratic clubs were | being organized in our county. To Rext:—160 acre farm. J. M. Vavauay, Butler, Mo LOCAL ITEMS Al Heath is on the sick list. | Dave Colyer informs us that Kis- - - | ner postoffice has been placed on the We are sorry to learn that presid-| Appleton and Butler mail route. { ing Judge Connell is seriously sick. John G. McPeak favored us sub- stantially while in the city Saturday | H.H Colyer, of Richmoal, Ky. arrived in Butler Friday evening with 2 car load of very fine Keatucky | W. H. Warnock spent Sunday at te home with his family. | Several good farms in Bates coun- Ed T. Steele was visiting frieads | fystov exchange toumeuc in Richards, Mo., the first of the! week. | rp dise. Mize & Crarpy. Lae Surer foundation cannot be laid | Hon. T. J. Hendrickson, dropped | than the real merit which is the sol-} in to see us Friday and renewed his | id base for the monumental success | subscription for 1893. of Hood's Sarsaparilla. Frank Smith and wife left Monday Uncle Daniel Fisher, an aged col- for a three weeks’ visit to his broth- | ered man of this city, passed away er st Pine Bluff, Ark. Sunday night. Uncle Daniel was Ee ii Ge SEL ee }an honest, industrious old negro, | Mrs. Peter Lane, left Sunday | and was quite an old man. ‘ evening for St. Joseph, to select her | SS | atock of merchandise. The proprietors of the opera! house saloon, have put in handsome electric light chandaliers in their! bar room, and now have one of the | best bars and lighted rooms in the | | city. Joe Meyers left for the east Sun day evening to buy his spring cloth ing for Sam’l Levy & Co. Harris & Lisle, the king mule buyers of Bates county have 45 ee | Rev. Kuhne informs us that quar- | head of mules on hand. ; terly meeting of the Butler M. E.| - = ss ' church circuit will be held Saturday Hon. W. W. Gravos went to Kan afternoon at 2 o'clock at Ohio street | sas City on Monday, to take deposi- _M. E. church. All officers are ur-}| ‘that he was | keeper and no effurt was made to ou Monday reversed this circuit court in the Douglass case and re- mauded it for new hearing a case in Which Mr indicted and couvicted of selling whiskey to a minor. We understand iudicted as a saloon prove that he was a dramsbop keep er, and this was one of the many points on which the case was revers- ed Lately several window lights have been broken vut of the windows at the east schoel building by boys Damage has aiso been done to the outbuildings, warning we aud other persons depredating on the school grounds had bet- ter be looking @ little out, as the schvuol board will, at the tirst oppor tunity, prosecute without favor the first one caught at the disreputable business, and they intend tu make it their business to find out the guil- ty parties. The schvol law is very strict iv regard to this matter aud a hint to the wise should be sufficient and as a will say that boys Mayor Pace does not have to be urged to perform his duty as chief officer of the city government. Sat urday evening « member of the \school board called on him and in- formed him of the bad condition of the crossing at the West School buiiding and Monday morning be fore the children arrived at the school house the street commission- er had the same cleaned off and the This 1s | Douglass was | hute of | tions in an important law suit. ‘ If you want to buy or sell a farm ‘or make any kind of exchange, call ‘on or write to Mize & Crarpy. Our young friend W. O. Radford, | of Virginia, sou’ of C. R. Radford, | ve us a pleasant call on Monday. | G. D. McNeil and E. C. Mudd, of urdett, were in the city the last of he week attending to business be- jore circuit court. Hon. W. J. Stone was in the city n Monday, in attendance at circuit ourt, aud getting acquaimted with ur people. S J. Bradley, a young goutleman f Henry county, recently from Ken- | ucky was visiting the family of | 4b Wesiey Waruock Sunday. If. C. Wyatt left Mouday fora business trip through Texas. He expects to be gone a week or ten days. The Pleasant Hill Gazette has the picture of Hiram Bledsoe nailed to its mast head labeled, “Our choice for state senator.” Mr. McDowell, the gentlemanly editor of the Adrian Journal was in the city Friday and favored us with « pleasant call. | | Mr. King resigned the office of | Mayor of Nevada last week. He did | not assign any reason for his action in the matter. The democrats must organize and tedeem Bates county this year, fac- tious and selfishness must be lost | tight of and work for the party is hale aud kearty. | son was already located there. lerossing will be raised above the high mud mark. A mayor that : s takes personal interest in matters The new fire bell for the city ar-| of thie kind is the right man for rived Monday and will be placed in| payor of a growing city like Butler. position on the engine house with-| ~ out delay. The new bell takes the | Butler Free Reading Room is an lace of the one recently purchased sans z ; é z jactual fact. The average attendance forthe city, which failed to give sat- |daily has been 60. The board of PO neem Cre |managers have been compelled to Mr. E. K. Whitney, of Independ- | put in another table 25 feet long. ence, Mo., is in the city visiting his | They are very much flattered at the grandson, C A. Denton. Mr. Whit-| encouragement they are receiving. ney is a large farmer and has reach- | This room can be and sheuld be ed the ripe old age of 80 years, but |the pride of the people of Butler. aside frown being a little rheumatic | All of the leading papers and maga- | zines are yn file, which after a cer- Se Er ‘tain time are loaned to any citizen W. 3. Debolt with his family left | of Butler for three days. People the fore part of the week for Vilas, | from the country are cordially invit- Wilson county, Kansas, where he | ed to visit the room when has leased a large tract of land. His! gently requested to be present. in the city West Side Square; open daily s a Mr! from 8 a om. to 9 p m., Sunday Debolt is 2 good citizen and staunch! t,o: 2 tu 5 p.m. democrat and the Times regrets to | see him leave the county. If the Rich Hill hghts are 2,000 jcunimload " ke a candle power, that lets the company A serious railroad wreck occurre ‘out; bui like the most of our citizens, near Centralia, on the Chicago & Al-| we doubt their power, and thus ton, last Sunday night, in which sev- | doubting, if we were a member of eral railroad employees wece killed \the eouncil, we should refuse to ac- and others maimed. A freight train leept thei tillitis proven that they has been side tracked and was wait-| 416 exactly what is claimed; and ing for the fast passenger, but by! pven tien we should regret the neces some mistake the switch was left) sity of doing so, and should get up a — the passenger ran into the | compromise, if possible, and arrange reight. for a stronger light. The present Rev. Pierce received a letter from | light is unsatisfactory, whether it is Rev. J. J. Reed of Morrisville eon- eet or 5,000 candle power. 25 veying the intelligence of the death | lights such as our old Ones were, of Charles H. Hockenhall, of Polk | Would light up the city much more county. Mr. Hockenhall married |thoroughly, and the lights should Miss M. A. Long, of Bates county, | be at least as strong as the old ones September 27, 1874, and immediate | Were- The lights are not satisfac ly moved to Polk county, where he tory to anyone as they a:e.—Review. has since resided. Lieut. Governor Steven H Clay Chief Clerk UW. L. Gray, of the} comb, of Jasper county was in But ry and family left Mon- y night for Litchfield, Ill., to at- nd the funeral of his brother in- w, M. Clair, who died very sudden- state labor bureau, left to-day for !er the last of the week and made Butler, where he will look up the|™S 4 Pleasant ca!!. Me -Clayeomb farm mortgage indebtedness of | as presided over the deliberations Bates county. Mr. Gray is a prom- of the Missouri senate with dignity inent north Missouri statesman, a/@¢ avility. Alwrys at his post, he Monday. elever, congenial, social gentleman, and has a son who is the best news W M. Ellis, a prominent demo-| paper man fer his age in the state. atof Worland, while in the city|Of course he is happy.—Nevada t week as grand juryman from } Mail. ements made us a pleasant | The county court of Cass county never trusted others to perform the duties of the office to which the pec- p'e hadelected him. He isa fine lookirg gentleman, courteous and clever, and possesses the ability to fully represent this state as its chief jexecutive. Vhe democrats of this i ae ee | rescinded the order for an eleetion Miss Mabel McKibben entertain. | Ordered by Judge Phillips, of the * ; he old Tebo & Neosho rail- mfort knotting and candy pulling. | 8'¥€? tot were , Those present report a very enjoya- | road. The court took this action to bie time. stop the election because the bon ' Drug Stock For Sale. county remember bim kindly as one | who threw himself boldly into the & number of her friends on Fri- | United — aaeaee & for the | breach at the last election and at- |like clock work and with perfect ace] yevening with an old fashioned | Compromise o} ” - R. bonds | tempted to stem the tide of combit- feuracy. Yes, the Bennett. Wheeler jed opposition | He neglected his ; Own county's interests to fight our n, and regret exceedingly | for selection of such a representa | itive, the Nevada Mail's nomination | | of a few days ago was quite in or-! jder. The Mail suggested our es-/ |teemed young frend and fellow| worker, Mr. J. D. Allen, of the But | jler Totes, for this position, and no/ paper in this section will more Lear- tily second this nommation than the jReview. Mr Allen is a sterling ;youug Democrat, staunch and stead | fast, liberal and broadgauged, bon-, orable and uucompromising—A dem | vcerat from principle, and one whoj jean be counted on at alltimes Fa voring A pure and honest govern ment, economically administered, | the people's affairs would be safe in | the hands of such men as could com- | jmend JD. Allen's support—and as jfriend Allen is now in the field, | whether of his own volition or not, ilet others stund aside | <a | Pleasant Hill Gazette. | The Right Man- In the Bites County Democrat we | vada Muil endorsing J. D. Allen, of the Butler Times, as a delegate from jths 12th district. to the national d-mocratic conveution to be held at The Mail says: “Mr. Allen is a broad-minded Ken tuckian who came to Missouri sev | enteen years ago, and since that time has never neglected an oppor | tunity to strike a sturty and honest blow for the dewocrane party. He | isa man who does not seek offce. | }He is too modest to elamorously claim those honors of which his ser vice and ability render him worthy. You will never hear him say that the party owes him anything, and jyet it does. He merits any evidence of contidercs which the people of the district cou'd confer upon him.” The district would make no mis take in sending Mr. Allen to the national democratic convention, and besides his being worthy and able to fill the democratic party oweshim some recognition. Jake Alou has been a true demoerat all bis life and has al ways labored ardently for the up building and maintainance of the We know of no one who coald fill that place with more credit and satisfaction than J. D. Allen and he should be unanimously selected as a delegate Chieago in June. such an honorable position, principles of dumocricy Bro J. D. Allen, of the Trtes is spoken of asa candidate to represent this distriet in the national demo eratic convention at Chieage. Mr. Allen is a bard striker for his party and should he be elected would perform the duties of a delegate in a fearless and conscientious manner. —Adrian Journal. Capt. Allen, of the Truxs, has been suggested asa delegate to the National Democratic convention, from this district _ We hope he will be ehosen as the democracy might 40 farther and fare worse.—Record. The Nevada Mail is booming J. D. Allen, editor of the Butler ‘Timms as oue of the delegates from the Twelfth congressional district to the democratic national convention to be held at Chicago in June. This is a case of the honor seeking the man and not the man endeavoring to corral] the henor, as we too often see it.—Sedalia Gazette. NR. R. Earsom of Lone Oak, favor- ed us the last of the week. The Bennett, Wheeler Mercantile Co.. are keeping abreast with the times, and also their latye and in creasing trade. Amoug the late and eeonomical improvements added to the interior of their handsome store room we note they have added the Lamson cash carrier. By doing this they have put in x much nee led im provement, and a labor and time saving apparatus. The carrier has three sections in different parts of the housewbich center at the main station oyer the cashier's desk, pre sided over by that handsome and accomplished young lady, Mias Sal lie Arnold. Miss Arnold keeps the books of the firm, and attends to the wants of the cash carrier, »nd by this new arrangement the books are up toa minut+ and any person de siriug to kuow their standing with the finn ean be accommodated by | the cashier and bookkeeper at a mo- | ment’s notice, as the books are kept posted as the day's business is trans acted. By this system mistakes are javoided and the business of this large and inereasing firm moves on | Mercantile Co are putting on met | ropolitan airs, avd the Tres ix} d-| battles and our people would like to! proud of their enterprise aud suc ‘holders failed to file an agreement assist h peck P I | to accept the proposition if voted. the combination of cireumstaxces , ment appears this weck and cur! jeess. Acchange in their advertise A new cleau stock of drugs for | The indications are that this propo-| which makes he and our distingush-| farmer subscribers will do well tol ale ata bargain. Call on or address | sition would have been badl . S. Pierce, Adrian, Mo. at the polls, anyhow. . i y beaten ed neighbor, Col. W. J. Stone, a/read it. as they are talking agricul | |eandidate for the same office. tural implements. | i ithem. We will pay $1 00 to every man who has bought or will buy a pair of our **Selz $3 50 welt Shoes” and is not sat- isfied with them. We are now. exclusive agents for the *SELZ” boots and shoes in Butler, and will save from you 50¢ to $1 DU per pair over what you have been pay- We of the =Selz” goods. Selz 2 buckle oil grain ing for them. euarantee : every pair plow shoes $1 25, you've paid “!. 75, for All winter Clothing at find an article clipped from the Ne-| Clearing out | Prices. AMERICAN CLOTHING HLOUSE, NORTH SIDE SQUARE, BUTLER, MO. Farm implements. A full and complete line of the best makes just received. Such as BARLOW AND JIM DANDY CORN PLANTERS, Western Cultivators, And the greatest Riding Plow on earth the ; FLYING DUTCHMAN, Also a full line of Walking Plows and Harrows. Buggies, Spring Wagons, and Road Carts, ‘Mitchell and Turnbull Farm Wagons, Grass Seeds, &c. Call and see me SHIRLEY CHILDS. ANOTHER STRIKE! © Why use impure cistern water when Pastures Improved Patent wa- ter filter is guaranteed to purify it For Sale by Benxerr-WaerLer Menc’t. Co. 38-tf Obituary. Mr. T. E. Wyse of Altona depart- ed this life Feb. 3rd, 1892. Aged 23 years, 8 months and I7 days. After three weeks of suffering he bade farewell to friends and earth and | fled to that world where death is | unknown. | When we see a precious blossom That we tended with such care, Rudely taken from our bosom. How our aching hearts despair And around his grave we linger *Till the setting sun is low, Feeling all our hopes have perished With the flower we cherised so | 5 gale. 175 test coal oi! for 60 We have the 175 test, not water white oil as some ef the mere | chants are palming off on the Sleep on, the cold and heavy hand | $radletor 176 teat Of death has stilled thy gentle breath. No rnde hand of this stormy land | 25 lbs brown sugar for 10 Shall mar thy peacefal rest. 22% cranulated « “ 1 (0 Undying granduer round the close | = To count the years to thy repose 50 “ Blue D flour 54 1 26 A day of the far years will break | Blue D is a full patent fleur and On every sea and every shore | In whose bright morning thon shalt wake, | the best flour in Butler. i And rise to sleep no more 5) lbs Hawkeye flour warrent- Praet Hanson. | ed for 1 15 Hawkeye flour is well known fer we have so!d over 100,000 pounds of the onebraniin Makes the | Weak Strong erm:u:. eS . ieee z The marked benefit which people in run | 15 lbs faney new Carolina rice down or weakened state of health derive | for 10 from Hood’s Sarsaparilla, conclusively proves . ‘ the claim that this medicine “makes the weak | 4 8*¥ivg ef 3 lbs on one dollar strong.” It does not act like a stimulant,|1 dozen Calfornia Riverside imparting fictitious strength from which there oranges 20 must follow a reaction of greater weakness = than before, but in the most natural way | 4 packages Arbuckle coffee for 77 Hood's Sarsaparilla overcomes that tired feel- 4 “ Lyon “ “ qT ing, creates an appetite, purifies the blood, and, in short, gives great bodily, nerve, | 4 “any package “ OT: mental and digestive strength. 1 “ “ “ “ 20 | a Fagged Out 20 Ib pail jelly any flavor for 80 “Last spring I was completely fagged out. = My strength left me and Tfelt sick and mis. | 2108 Compressed mince meat 20 erable all the time, so that I could hardly | 1 gal of our fancy honey drip attend to my business. I took one bottle of | syiup for Hood’s Sarsaparilla, and it cured me. There a oe é 50 is nothing like ft.” RB. C. Becoxr, Editor | 1 gal pure cider apple butter 60 Enterprise, Belleville, Mich. ““T derived very much beucft from Hood's | “ll other goods in same proper- Sarsaparilla, which I took for general debility. | tion for CASH ONLY. It built me right up, and gave me an excel- | lentappetite.” Ep. JeNKrNs, Mt. Savage, Md. | N.B. If you decide to take Hood's Sarsa- | parila do not be induced to buy anything else | instead. Insist upon having | _ftood’s WILLIAMS arsaparilla | Sold by all druggists. $1; six for 85. Prepared on!y | . by C. L HOOD & CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass. | = * 100 Doses One Dollar - |