The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, April 6, 1892, Page 1

—_- Che uiler eckhly Gimes. VOL. XIV. ara eae caer eo 8 BUTLER, MISSOURI, WEDNESDAY APRIL 6, 1892. NO. 20 Missouri State Bank OF BUTLER, MO. CAPITAL, - . . = . does a General Banking Business DEPOSITORY FOR COUNTY FUNDS. In the Real Estate Loan Department. Make loans on Real Estate on long or short time at lowest rates without delay. STOCKHOLDERS$ re. Levina Boulware, TC, Physician Burk, Monroe Farmer Ballard, J N Farmer Brown, Lulu Slayback, E Hardinger, WN Farmer Smith, GL Liveryman Rickman,G B Furniture dealer Smith, John T Lawyer Heath, DB Starke, L B Deputy circuit clerk Jenkins, J R Cashier Turner, Mrs M E Capitalist Bartlett, Edmund Farmer Kinney. Don Ass’t Cashier ‘Tucker, W E Dentist Bryner, Margaret Levy. 8am Dry Goods & ClothingTyler, W B Farmer Chelf, H B. Farmer Morrison. C H Farmer Voris, Frank M Farmer eman, Sam’! L Mil Alf Farmer Vanghan M Capitalist Me en, A Farmer Wyeatt, Hi McCracken, Robt Farmer Wells, Wil Lumber dealer M Physician Teacher Ciark, Robert Farmer Owen, M V Farmer West, RG Farmer Courtney, J MStock Dealer Pharis, John Grocery Wolfe, Pattie Deerwester, John Farmer Pharis, U F Grocery Walton, Wm E Cashier Davis, J R Foreman Timks office Powe Booker Farmer Dutcher, C H Prof Normal Sch Pigott, H H Bank Clerk DeArmond,D A, MC Kosier, J M Farmer Kyans, John Farmer Reeder, Oscar Everingham, J Physician Radford, Chas R Farmer Freemam, Carolineand Eliza Reisner, J W Insurance Fowler, Isaac Sullens, J L Banker Wright, TJ Capitalist Weiner, Max Boots & Shoes Walls, Wm Farmer Walton, G W Farmer Walls, JT Physi Whipple. N nysician Williams, & V Farmer president vice-president WM. E. WALTON BOOKER POWELL cashier® asst. cashier J. R. JENKINS DON KINNEY Ballard Items. It's the wind, the terrible lately McClenney has been of our busy men this week, if ; with his new Lome, suv we learn... wind | How about the building that was up one | 8¢t for Chris? All are invited to the you raising about Monday....The wind is to work some o agul Mr. Charley Kun liad mt mhood a [ trip to Kansas Jas Cyrus Requa is on the sick list.... | $110,000. | The son ot Mre. Black is very low! be cremated and the ashes taken to! ; ' ; |with consumption...... Miss Clara St Receives Deposits subject to Check, Loans Money, Makes Collections and | Requs will spend the summer at a home, t Satur enly potatoes on There will be g next Ssturdy ble Branch s« young people of gave Oilando awd Mr surprise on last Sunday ev eigbberhood ning The boys say, come again girls we will make some more good bis the batchelors was Miss Vance Mr | Bob Seifers and Mr. Join Wines a'l jreport a good time. On account jof high winds several of the farmers have to restack their hay...... creek was all over the bottoms § |day night....The U. L. will night at Willow Branch. | Litte Jesse. Rich Valley Items. The farmers are now v |The peach buds in this country are not all killed yet... ;Some wheat bas been injured by ithe extreme wet weather... M: of our reads need working badly Joe Little is still on the sick list. Charles Nafus will farm with John ry busy.. oy ...Mr Showalter plauted his cuit....Among thuee who called on | 4n have | jan open meeting on next Wednesday rt of the since th> atts 5 | he was dead. | | The remains of Judge Drake will} Louis. This in accordance | with the terms of his will. { is Justice Drake was during the re- | constructio: ter the mediately af- the most noted “Drake's Con- war one jleaders in Missouri. Capital. still ‘ stitution” is remembered by | tea _.., thousands of old Missoarians he, 2 and j Were disfranchised by its dictatorial meee | provisions. He born in Cinc eee rege ace j nati, O., April 11, 1811, and after re | | ceiving ar | tion at M jed as a midsbipman in the navy for jthree years He settled in St Louis ncademic military eluca- | leton, Connecticut, serv | | transacts a general Solicited. = lin 1847 and engaged im practicing | law. In 1859 he was against seces- sion. During the war he was a ra ‘nmonist, but did not take an ; part. active He was 2 weimber of the con- | stitutional convention which framed | » hand was found nearly a mile away The in the rear yard of a residence \the military constitution of the state Se | > 3 : {away, and many peeple thought it jand left bis imprint upon every line | wag an earthquake. ; i of that tyranical instrument. He} 7, remains of the three men | was elected United States senater in| yore gathered up iu three small ) 1867, and in 1870 was appointed! ioxes. There was nothing but mu-! |chief justice of the United States | tiated flesh. Banking business. Oaly four meu were , do not think so listen a moment, he, sold a cow, traded a horse for a storm scared the women of our place, last week....Judge Cele ac mule, sold a mare and colt (and still | commodated quite a number with has amare to sell) cut hedge and | raked the garden. Will Cole is left, | he cannot beat that record....Sam | Young and Bill Cole met on MeC— corner a few days since, and as we happened to be there you may guess what a jolly good time and hearty | laugh we had. Hope be may come often during the summer. Our villaye was quite lively to day,us it is paper day; the democrats after | the Ties and Republic, while the j U. L's fool away avout teu minutes reading the Union.... .Aaron Bell, CK Crow and Joseph Wilds, three of our neighbors spent a day in But | ler,... Bill Hughes bas a liking for | cider, so the boys tell us..... Robt | Kuous has his plow at the shop again, also wagon. They got wreck- | ed in the wind storm a few days ago. Robert is better, as he intends put- | ting out a crop this spring ...D R Beatty,our wide awake merchant and postmaster, is the leader of low | prices in these parts. He buys all kinds of produce, even geese; give him a call...Jobn Lentz can tix our plows, Chris G attends the wants of Beatty's customers, McC. and Will Cole, live steck men; Drs. Warford | and McFarland awaiting calls with pockets full of pills, kc. No need | to go toa railroad town, as wants | can be supplied at home....J L Ar-! buckle has entered the ring for the | fall races, we suppose from the | horse he has in training....W Hooper almost added to the list. | Guess it’s only the grip. Have ever | heard of it, or had it, if not, ask | Hick Ray for synopsis....Mrs Em-' tree is reported some better, and | her many friends will be glad to hear it and only hope she may recover... . D L Edrington was a caller at the postoffice a few days since, and to | us he looks just like he did when he voted democracy and no scribbling | ....0 E Warford sympathizes with | any one who has a tooth pulled by | Dr. McF’s method—with pain.... | Have you signed the petition to| have Chris Greer set his fence back | east from the mud hole \ Daniel | Embree and Geo Teeter, two of our; ,voung teachers, will soon leave us for Montana, (sorumor has it) we bespeak for them a bright future, and cau recommend them to any) community....Mrs_McClenney .is- | ited Mrs Embree, who is quite poor- | ly,...Mesdames Greer and Beatty | Visited at Mrs W L Warford’s this week... Two by two the democrats are added to Spruce township, hence expect a large majority this fall; vic- | tory is ours, and we will repay, so say the democrats See that pad dy wagon put up by Ree Cole and } John Lentz; its a daisy.. -Tom} Brown, oue of our bachelor boys, | almost lost an eye while stretching wire afew days since....Sam Me- Farland reports farmers at work in | his locality....Tom Board aud Will | Cole have new harness; good boys _. Will Howard, soid a go od horse to P. & P. of Butler....Mrs Greer reported better to day f Mr Compton,jon Peter cree ed on Tuesday night... .Mys Wilds visited in our burg one evening this week _,..M M Greer and Harve Rhine of | Summit township, were here on busi- | ness this week. Mac is well pleased | ( | sorrow. sced potatoes hist week... Quite a number have brought plows fo the shop aud others will follow, Johu Lentz isa No 1 smith..Bell+ Bros. are setting out an orchard from the Butler nursery....W B Cole made the round trip to Butler intwo days. He has two young mares for sale... Dee O’Bannin sold his cow aud bought a pony; so look out for news from the southwest as he is our lo eal reporter....W B Tyler and Mr | Hendricks called at the postottice | as they were passing by on the hunt ot hogs and horses. Mr H. has about fifty head of horses. ... Misses Mag- gie Cole and Laura Embree were callers a few evenings since...Prof Maxey, who taught our winter school and is employed to t the sum mer term, called this week to find out when to begin teaching We hope to see him do well and assure him tnat, so far as we know, he has the good will of all....Look out, I noticed Nehemiah Board and Judge Cole together a few days since at the postoffice so you may expect to hear something happen this fall, even Spruce restored to her first love (demoeracy)....Judge D W Cloud passed through our city a few even- ings since...... Miss Evans has the ribbon as a horse trader, even traded that spirited filley off, yes, and two horses that did not belong to him, but ahead of Dr. McF....Have you seen Elmer Huffs chin? he bowed toa mules heels..... Mr Summers was over after seed potatoes as was Dick Greer. ... Quite a number have planted potatoes and J B Hayes heads the list with 7 bushels. It was suggested that he intended rooting for aliving....R A Chennoworth at the shop with his planter... .Ber ry Beaman spent an evening in our city with relatives....John Greer | d Marion France at the P O this week.... Willie Keirsey called for his meil, and got a letter from his father who is south feeding cattle. He is getting along nicely Jim Bradley looks as natural as he did when at Mr Elliott’s....John Me- Candlas has to kdep his horse tied up to keep it from going to W B F's We may expect to have him go toa health resort, even to Eldorado Springs....Lloyd Allison seems to have the northern fever, as has Jno Greer....Have you seen Robt Ray? We did once on atime, but to our Jack. Double Branch Items. And still it rains....We eed a} litte more sunshine to make the grass grow....This is the spring that tries men’s souls....The farmers have begun to sow oats....No one knows the kind of weather a day will bring forth ...Jobn Hall is suffering with avery sore hand....Mr. Dillon has been losing some of his stock Spring is coming... .30 celebrate Arbor y at Double Brarcl and weh > out like a lamb. ...A wed- ding is reported in the near future. ....We welcome you spring. with your calm and beautiful days and singing birds Unele Jonnie Hall next Fric nh tree... Hedges this summer; Charley is an | court of claims by President Grant enterpr man, | Holt, T young Gilbreath ivug with a neweorn yp on....Mrs Bever and Nat ing Ing are ta g g Washington ina few weeks....J A Hedges’ bay shed blew down during | the high wind March 26.... Hattie Nichols is now at home; she attend ed school at Schell City during the winter....Miss Nellie Gilbreath, Rosa and Florence Mock are taking lessous in instrumental music.... ..-B Ej k and Jno Stephenson | went to Butler on business Tuesday a came home Mon | nter | | He resigned the sevatorship and re 'moved to Washington where he re | sided until bis death. Will Be Given Away. 4 Our enterp pertumeries, toilet sponges, etc number ot trial bottles of Dr. Miles’ cel ebrated Restorative Nervine. They guarantée it to cure neadache, dizziness, nervous prostration, sleeplessness, the il effects of spirits, tobacco, cottee, etc. Druggists say it is the greatest seller they ever knew, and is universally sat- istactory. They also guarantee Dr. Miles’ New Heart Cure articles, : ing draggist, H. L. Tuck- relatives in| er, who carries the finest stock of drugs, brushes, are giving away a large in all cases of | seemed to be better than at Round Prairie now has a tine brass | band and, as it includes some of the } best musical talent on the prairie we shall expect some fine music at an early date....Some of the boys in er comaunits are talking of or- g gastring band....C E Gil-| breath is the proud owner of a beau- tifnl new accordion. Now play us a tune Claude....N E Stephenson sold a horse to George Smith of But. | Jer last week....Mrs Agnes Spear | is teaching the summer schovoi at Reynard She is a good teacher aud always gives stafisfaction.... The Elmer school will close April 15. It was an eight months term... W W Williams and FS Stephenson spent the evening in the neighbor- hood last Sunday....Charlie Bello my is said to be one of the most pop ular young men around here. He always anticipates the wishes of the | fair ones...... Theodore Kaufman seems in bad luck. Wonder who is to blame....A certain young man went by Mr. Bever’s last Friday night to see if he would be kidnap- | }ped, but es the kidnapper was not there the kid was not napped.... It is said that Emmet Daugherty has nearly blown his lungsaway try- ing to make music on a base drum and is not yet able to blow the scale | on it.... We wonder why some girls | always have the toothache or a sore finger when Theordore is around... A company of the best farmers of | Round Prairie and vicinity purchas- eda fine French Coach stallion of George Smith of Butler last week | paving $1,600. He isa beautiful an- imal and is a credit to the enterprise of the prairie. The farmers seem to be alive to their best interests. JoRER. Charles D. Drake Dead nervous or organic heart disease, palpi- tation, pain in side, smothering, etc. Fine book on Nervous and heart dis- eases free An effort will be made in congres3 to repeal the protective bounty of one-halfacent a pound on granu lated sugar. While raw sugar is admitted free the duty on refined sugar has almost prohibited its im port. Thus the treasury receives no benefit from this tariff and refin ers have advanced the price one- half cent aboye a fair profit to their business. No item in the tariff schedule has been so instructive as the sugar tax. | raw | the tariff ig a tax. The tariff on the refined article has taught the addi mestic article of like kind. Retined deprived of its bonus struggled to conceal. Its exposure urged by wholesale and retail deal to party.—K. C. Times. Bradfield’s Female Regulator suffers from any disorder peculiar to her sex change of life is a powerful tonic; ben 11 who use it. Sord by att druggists, 15-1-m WRECKED BY DYNAMITE. and Four Men Killed. Birmingham, | the entire plant of the Sterling Dy | this morning. | Justice Drake died at the advane- jed age of Sl years. His death was | wholly une | scene of the explosion. jed by flying timbers. ' E : jthree were in the packing house, ected and without warn- i Dr. Joseph Johnson. who has | | been attend b for the past} ‘tweuty years, states that the justice! og Z of dyuamite. caused the explesion. was attacked with a slight ¢: of! Where the packing house once | gi ee weeks ago. His condition | stood is now tuarked bya hole 20} Was not at any time serious enough | feet deep and 59 feet wide. Trees | o un alarm. eyening | for 200 feet about were uprooted walked to Presbyteria churca fo services there After church the jus- ith his He tice went home aud chatted w | family and retired for the night. i ) Its repeal on the ticle taught the people that tional poiat that the tariff rate on imports is added to that of the do- sugar willbe a half cent cheaper when the the refining monopoly is This is the one point which protectionists have is threatened by the bill which is ers and censumers without regard Should be used by sbeyoune woman, she who The Sterling’s Plant Blown to Atoms Ala., April 1—At Bessemer this afternoon at 3 o'clock Washingtos, D. C April 1.—The|namite Company was blown up. The Honorable Chas. D. Drake, late chief | killed are George Hartley, Walter ustice of the United States court of | Lake,Ed and Frank Boykin. The last ‘elaims, was found dead in his bed/| named was running the stationary |engine seventy five yards from the He was kill- The other ‘which contained hundreds of tons} No one knows what/ a aman was found half a| y beyond a creek, a man’s | any) head was found lodged in a tree and| vear itat the time and they were | (killed. The loss is $15,000. The | Boykin boys have a widowed mother | and Lake and Hartley were married. | The Sherman bullion purchase bill is denounced everywhere. — It eaused silver to shrink in value aud } delayed bimetallism. The silver} kings wko conseuted to this com- promise have been properly pun ished. Their commodity — is worth less thac ever before andasaresult free coinage has re- ceived a set back. As an_ illustra- tion of the subtreasury idea it has been such a lesson that farmers are | repudiating the plan.—Kansas City | Star. Stranger Than Fiction. Middleton, N. Y. April 2.—The enumerators recently engaged in tak- ing the State census ran across some | curious facts of a personal nature. | Enumerator A. C. Wolcott of Oueon- | to found in that town a Mrs. Betsey | Wattkeys, a lifelong resident, aged | 91 years, who had travel d beyond the town limits or entered a stage coach, railroad car or other public conveyances. | In the town of Warrensburg found a family of many generatious. The youngest member was aged 3 months and named Ada Chandler. The child’s mother, Mrs. F Chandler, was not yet 15 years old. The child’s | grandmother, Mrs. John Alleu, was | aged 30 years, and the child’s greate grandmother, Mrs. Oscar Green was not yet 45. In the first election district of the town of Middletown, Delaware cout- ty having a scanty rural population, were found three old womea who are remarkable specimens of healtby longevity. They were Mrs. Mary J. Bassett. aged 96; Mrs. Esther Bar- bour, aged 97, and Mrs. Helen Hal- enbeck, aged 98. Perhaps the most remarkable re} turn for longevity came from the town of Thompson, which lies high up among the mountains of Sullivan County. Thompson has a total pep- ulation of 3,482 souls, of which 132 are between 70 and 80 years old, for- ty two are between 80 and 90 years, and three are over 90 years. never | | | was Children Cry for Pitcher’s Castoria. Children Cry for Pitcher’s Castoria. | Children Cry for Pitcher’s Castoria. > Administrator's Notice. That letters testa- » of Nathan Godferr ¢ undersigned on by the probate 1 of es county, Missouri All persons having claims against said a hey shall be for- of April, 1802. N see him before breedinz. to leavethem with me. 13-6 it ack of grip. This) morning when he was called he did | not respond, and when bis room| i oer was opened it was found that OF BATES COUNTY, $50,000.00 * President be -President Vice-President . -.. Cashier Deposits subject to check, Lones Money, issues Uratts and Your patronage respectfully D la | kvyspepsi Few people have suffered more severely from dyspepsia than Mr. E. A. McMahon, a well known grocer of Staunton, Va. He says: | “Before 1878 I was in excellent health, weigh- | ing over 200 pounds. In that year an ailment developed into acute dyspepsia, and soon I | was reduced to 162 pounds, suffering burning sensations in the stomach, palpitation of the heart, nl nausea, ard indigestion. T could not sleep, lost alt heart in my work, had fits of melancholia, and for days at atime E wv id have welcomed death. I became morose, sullen and irritable, and for eight years life aburden. I tried many physicians and many remedies, One day a workman employed by me suggested that IT vake ® Hood’s Sarszpa- ria, as it had ring cured his wife of dyspep- sia. I did so, and before taking the whole of a bottle I began to feel like anew man,, Tho terrible pains to which I had been subjected, ceased, the palpitation of the heart subsided, my stomach became easier, nausea disap- | peared, and my entire system began to | toneup. With returning strength came activity of 8 Y mind and body. Before ears the fifth bottle was taken I had regained my former weight and natural condition, I am today well and I ascribe it to taking Hood’s Sarsapariila.”’ N.B, If you decide to take Hood's Sarsa- parilla do not be induced to buy any other. _Hood’s Sarsaparilla Id by all druggists. g1; six f Prepared: by C. 1. HOOD & 00 A RheceNeLeae eae 100 Doses One Dollar 2,000 POUNDS POULTRY WANTED e ALSO Ezgs, Game, Hides, Furs, Wool. Why sell for low prices CO. will pay you in es than other dealers in Bates county. when McCANTS & h from! to 2e more We want all the Poultry See us before selling a McCANTS & CO. Bouthcest corner of Square, Butler, Mo. Sei BARNEY. Will stand the season of 1m at my stable,eight miles due east of Butler, and 3-4 of a mile south of the Batler and mwontrose road. De- scription and pedigree Barney ie a cosi black jack measly nose, 15 hands high and was sired by Mclonald’s fine mammoth jack, dam wes one of Leonards’ fine jennets, he is a sure and large breeder Terms $19 to insure a egit to 4 sack Colt will stard good for sea Ate service has been rendered any one selling, trading or removing mare for: insurance and money must be paid. € ken to pre- vent accidents tat will + sponsible y ocear, PRINCE she season 85. Con- dark bay, 20) pounds. stock and isa d to calland prepared to desiring Dewitt McDastar He is of trotting a: blooded horse. You are keep @ few mares on pasta