The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, August 31, 1892, Page 8

“ie gents dike iar PRICE'S | | geal Baking y Pure Cream of T P Used in Millions of Homes—4o Years the owder. —No Amnic No Alum. Standard COX SHOWN UP. \ | The Superintendent of the Poor Farm Placed ina Bad Predicament. In the issue of the Times of July | 20th, 1892, the following appeare \*On last Wednesday, the 13th of July, W. J. Cox was arraigned be- ‘fore the City Recorder. on a charge ‘of violating the city ordinance, be- (ing found in company with a lewd | oasbesas | Duvall & Percival ot this | city are saving the farn ers of Bates county thou-! The Mt. Pleasant Democratic Club 10 which Le liquidated. sands of dollars by giving | them the bene of their lower rates of interest on farm loans. Norice—I want, 1000 pounds good butter. C. F. Puarts. Afine rain fell in this section Monday. Get your books ready. The pub- lie schools will open Monday. What has become of Major War- ner? He seems to have disappeared since that Sedalia speech. A beef inspector might be a dis- the dentist, but it would be a good thing forthe town. advantuge to Wesley Arnold and sister Maggie, left Saturday evening for Warrens- burg on a visit of a few days. Geo. M. couple’ of weeks visiting relatives at | Norborne, Mo. The Tres wishes him a pleasant time. unterbury is spending a | i The members of the first Presby- t:rian church have received the new organ for their church and are to be congratulated on having the finest | instrument in the city. Ove Harris, one of the most pop ular democrats in the county, called | while in the city Monday. He said | that the people of northeast Bates Vest. That the clubs will come in a body. will come to hear Win. Daniels, living near Nyhart, | was kicked by a hor on Friday morning last and is seriously if not fatally injured. Dr. O. F. is attending him and has grave fears of the result. Renick | Kansas City Priests of Pallas need | not be worried about selecting the fourteen most beautiful young ladies | in the state to act as maids of honor | to Pallas in October. If they will, send or come to Butler they can get | the full coterie Mrs. Dwight Hartwell, of St. Louis, | who has been visiting the family of , Ki. G. Hartwell, will return home the last of the week. Miss Flossi Hartwell will accompany her and af- ter visiting a few days in the city e | will go to Michigan to attend school | the coming winter. Families moving to town from the | country for the purpose of taking | advantage of our public schools to | educate their children at the ex- | pense of this district will find trou- | ble ahead unless tuition is paid. So | says the Butler school board. | Expect Hon. D. A. DeArmond will be like Davy Crockett’s coon, | come down when he sees- who is after him. Such names as Capt. Dun know-whe and Hon. William Henry Herrison Cundiff are enough to scare anybody.—Harrisonville | Democrat. First grade certificates were issued to the following teachers: E. M. Pers, due, Edward Speece, Sue Fletcher, J. W. Wright, Cosby L. Brown, Mary P. Whipple, Mrs. T. L. Rad- ford, Lillian Wheatley, Cora Fowler, Nellie Barber, Lizzie Smith. Katy Smith, Mary Welch, Jerry Culbert- son, Jennie Donovan, C. M. Leedy, H. P. Boards, J. F. Searight, Mag- gie Arnold, Sallie Hitt, Sue Shaw, Alice Griswold. Zera Royburn was in the city yes- terday and informed us that they organized a Cleveland and Stone club at Mulberry last week. A. L Graves elected president, and Zera Raybourn vice-president; T. A. Wright, secretary; T. C. Mun ford, assistant secrets executive committee, Capt. H. P. N Dick Hackett and Frank Alison. The elub starts out under very favorable auspices and each member is en- thusiastic in the good work. Mr. Raybourn says another club will be organized at Amoret shortly. ic | secretary, Robt. L. lie principles lot D. B. Fisk & Co. | democrat CLUB MEETING. Hold an Important Meeting To-might. The democratic club of this city will hold a meeting at the court “=== | woman and prostitute, oue Ag Tabue. The Recorder fined Cox $5 land costs and the woman 3100 and costs, amounting in all to $17.60. He was ar- ‘rested the night betore, while in ‘company with the woman, going jinto a roem over one of the business j houses, on the square, by the night | Watch, and both were locked up in house to-night for the purpose of | the calaboose.” making arrangements to properl receive Senator Vest, who will ar- rive in the city on the Sth inst. The meeting is an important one and S. W. S. Childs, chairman club, is anxious that there be a full turn-out of the members. The pleasent duty placed upon the club by the campaign committee, at its meeti g Monday was 2 compli- to be appreciated and the members of the club should make an extra effort to see that the pro- gramme of the day is carried to suc- ment | cess lu every detail. The club numbers 213 members jand is manned by the following of-} | ficers: Chairman, S. W. S. Childs vice president, Geo. M. Canterbury Graves; treasur er, C. F 1 live a wake young democrats, who take Pharis aud wide- an interest in the eause of democ Twill leave no stone unturned for the success of the } ty. The Times hopes to see a full meeting of the club to night and urges upon the members ar one and ul, to be present and assist in ar- ranging for the reception of Sena- | tor Vest. A. P. Carithers, of Ky.. is in the city visiting his son, E. S. Carithe rs. party advertise for a tin pan convention aud want all the women and child to come. Miss Mabel McKibben spent se eral days in Rich Hill last week vi ing friends. The people it- A democratic club in every town ship should be before another four weeks rolls around. Miss Jessie Eyans, left Fri Chicago, where she will spend for four or five weeks in the tr ing rooms Squire L. W. Beek, the grand old from | the city Mouday attending a meei- jing of the campaign committee. rs have The people’s party 1 started a paper at Harrisonville. Wonder how mueh this will the deposit in the hands of the treas- urer of the campaign fund now lo- cated in western Bates county. lower In the all ‘purpose ring at the Rich Hill fair Friday, Snow Ball, the beautiful white mare belonging! toC. B. Lewis of this city was . : ~~ mee awarded the first premium. She is ;a beautiful snow white anima! and ‘drives up in style. Saturday was another cireus day in Butler, and everybody and his town. The farmers and the merchants were kept busy. Hurrah for Butler, the best trading point and liveliest town in southw cousin was in Wore 2 smile sles Missouri. Harris & Lisle disposed of a car load of tine mules last week, Levy & Co., of St. Louis, being the pur Mr. Lisle says they are as fine lot of mules as was ever ship- ped fromthe Butler depot. The firm say they are now ready for more 16 chasers. sfrom 15 to Bring them in. good m high. Judge Reese say made that order. hands s the court never What does Clerk Drysdale say to that 1 how will he explain his acts away? The or- der is certainly record. If the court didn’t it then the a Very serious on Ve the court meets the matter. People who give Hood's Sai F parilla a fair trial realize its great meritand are glad to say a good word for it. Have you tried it. | of the} | tell who Cox was and to advise his | near Shobe, was in |” This was the plain unvarnished report of a proceeding in the Re- | corder’s court, which was public, and | was a legitimate item of news. We made no further comment than to jremoval from the office of superin- endent of the poorfarm. We would [have done the same had be been a | democrat. In last week's canton: “The Times Auswered” and | over his own signature Cox devotes Union, un jnearly a column to villifying and tra | ducing the editor of the Times. He ; does not deny that he was arrested, lead guilty in the Reco ers court the jand was fined as uarrated above, aud further that be paid both he woman's fine ¢ iis own only de j inl he made was at the place lof arrest. The Times said he was | P arrested 1¢ into a room over lone of the business houses on the | a square lin the hall of the business hoase and ‘under the full glare of two full barn | jing lamps.” but he failed tos This may be, jed, and in order that our readers j may the better understand the sita- | the southwest corner of the square. | What Mr. Cox was doing up in this! hall at 10 o'clock at night with a }woman of whose character he well ‘knew (for he had told Marshal! Wright what kind of a woman she }was und to watch her) can oaly bea matter of conjec e, but it would be a very hard matter to make the peo ple of this county believe it was the purpose of holding prayer meets {ing or dise i As Mr. Cox | controversy, we W idence in the case judge of who has led. E. P. Hartwell, the offi rrest makes the foll rwho mad ywing state Imes: My attenti called to i Union of Au erence to his arr has been f W. J. Cox th with ref > weeks ago a staten nd iu y of a lewd women. As Lam the < rwho made the the arrest and as Mr Cox has made insinuations in his state ment from which it would appear that a job was put up to entrapa | poor, innocent, unsophisticated man for political purposes, I deem it | but justice to the « officers con nected with the case to state the | circumstances of the arrest. I was dered by the city marshal to ar st the street walker and had been shadowing ‘her for au hour or more when I saw her meet a man on woman in question us a the west side of She w 3 going scuth | the equa | They stopped and and he spoke and pe ing south a north. sed on and after go- few yards she turned j around, followed the man who soon turned the corner at the bank and | waited for her. Together they went west to Wyatt's lumber yard, then south to Skinner's mill, then east to Lisle’s corner, where they separated, she going ou to Powers’ corner and turning toward the square. She crossed the street and went in behind “Goose” up the steps saloon. I and the the saioou follow I got to the top Jet t he sinall b uh a ing to unloe same man I saw w some keys in b light was a small np at the north end of the main hall, which, by actu- al measurement, is 37 feet to the en- i The only He says “I was arrested | y where that hail is locat-| jation we will state that the hall is up} |stairs over the saloon, situated on; trance of the side hall. _ I arrested | them both and took them to the cal-| aboose. He said his rane was W.} J. Cox, that he was a county official | —was superintendent of the county | ‘poor farm and asked that he be per- | ‘mitted to go home and look after the inmates. Said he would give bond | ‘for hisappearance the next morning. This was about 10 oclock at night. we turned them to appear before 1 also vouched shal and attorney both ont. He v the city record for the woman's appearance. The next day Mr. Cox appeared ‘before Reeorder Cannon and plead suilty to the charge of being found in ¢¢ titute and paid and mpany of a pr ts, o the | woman's S17 60 inall Mr. 'Cox then came to me and requested Ime to see Mr. Wade, of the Dem jerat, and keep him from publishing | |the matter in the daily. I didso, but, | Mr. Wade refused to suppress the | item but did suppress the name. I !did not know that Mr. Cox was su | perintendent of the poor farm until |he told me so after his arrest. | E. P. Hanrwe . Tom Cameron, one of the police- /men who assisted in putting Cox in “When L first his fine, and ¢ tine, the calaboose said: jnoticed the | question woman on the night in was on the northeast | Marshal | she jcorner of the | Wright instructed b: a policeman, to follow her. I next | when in to Hart call I went to the east | Hartwell bad | rare and said | square. saw her auswer well’s police side of the Cox and the woman in cl. ihe had into #& Yoom over square. arrested them wiaile poing | the corner saloon While going along the woman said to Cox, ‘why don’t you read that letter to the officers and they will; yx said letter.’ }woman had explained her presence turn us both loose.” ¢ jzie, [haven't got any there by saying that Cox wanted to read a letter from her husband.” We are sorry for Mr. Cox's family | and if he had been a private citizen | we shoul obably not have pub | hed the facts, but he is a county] officer and th a night! to know if the are engag | peop! peop! ctices, and ing in disreputa it is the duty of a newspaper to far nish such information fully and fear lessly, which the Lives has always done in th ist aud will continue} tter who it may injure. | CRISP FOR BULLER. i of that township expect to September 17th. the Date. DA 2, Mo., Dear Sir 2sth., | to Maj. Sal is just reecived. Col. Crisp’: ntment for Butler, | September 17th, will be properly ad-! vertised by uttee. see that the a tment is Tat alls at all rrange- | ule to make the| Very Truly Yours, SB... Cook Secretary. } | Judge DeArmond spoke to day at Greentield, Dade old | home. He is very popular with the county, his people of that county and they will give him arousing turnout. The Jud . -t campaign- ers in this secti and from this time ep the speech- He ough canvass, anc he will t every township before el Democratic Clubs s us he ber Ist, and jney, who | yson Hartwell, | ; | What jthe R A Large amount of Good Coal for Mier cusultivg with the ety ae Sale at the POWERS Bank, near Shobe. Will sell for 5c per bushel at bank. JOHN J. WARCH. 2 Sare —A white las new sew. Enquire at this 41 td. Lost:—At C. B. Lewis’ livery sta Aug. IsSth, a plain gold ring with HOR: for the ring. Leaye with C. B. Lewis Misses Li zzie Ross and Etta Den ve been visiting the past Thayer, Mo.,t Belle Su two week of Mrs kett. returne day eve trip « We heard a prominent Say was in congress he would have a law passed to make money cuou to move the present crop. A good re- j publican standing near, asked him was the matter with Capt. | Donohoe doing it for him? We visited the Gemoeratie com- mittee rooms at the Laclede Hotel in | St. Louis last week. We found Maj. H. W. Salmon with the hard at work, and valuable assistance of able secretary, Mr. Cook, is conduct- ing the state campaign admirably. The M sections of the state at once and is determin- is watching all 'ed that the democracy sball achieye eld. 1 victory T redeem its oy Salmonis one of the best politicians in the state. A letter from J. F. Smith, of Rich Till, notifics us that the democrats hold a auspices of ly, under the Hill den October 15th, , fr peakers 1 t 1oeratic sop club, on Prominent rbroad red and a grand, good time had. Th The ev ection of the country 1 Yr democrats in should hold ies. Let the old wet abre right tions to pic ism rd in ¢ rts, and we will have a cwupaign in Bates that wi of the state county this time the must admiration this command We win FE alles and Miss Je Holloway, were united in warr at the residence of the bride's 5 Aer: par- t Mrs. Wash Holloway, at 7 oclok last even and 1 prese one most exempla you ep, scber aud industrious. Since ope of tke Boston store in this city b has held the po- in that insti- winning goods. The Times hopes to see their to Rememi-r a has the most s »8 $58.00 A liberal reward | his , i eall Saturday {in e# suit of bright red flannel. $58.00 You can buy a first-class ORCAN SPRAGUE & CO. My warranted for 5 years and of styles and latest improvement: C. SPRAGUE & CO.B Norice—I am prepared to handle all the poultry that comes, and pay the cash for it. Cc. F. Puanis. Perscns desiring to have student bearders, those having rooms to let for self boarding and those wishing totake 1 work for their rd, will kindly report at onee to f. Martin » vesidence, py atir ticnla we oar i as Students are inquiring about these matters and we wish to be able to inform them 40 2t. The third party vote of Pettis county, at least, will be very light scare ly worthy of any considera- Those who formerly democrats lave discovered that the intention is to trick them into hold- ing fast, while those of republican faith at the last moment vote for Warner. This is the scheme but it will probably not work.—Sedalia Bazoo. ion were When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria. When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria, When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria, When she had Children, she gave them Castorig The Tives’ staunch friend W. N. 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