The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, February 2, 1893, Page 1

—- a Ss a a= ——e > themselves ¢ etapa sire . The Butler Weekly Times. VOL. XV. BUTLER, MISSOURI, THURSDAY FEBRUARY 2, 18938. NO. 11 That Dissolution Sate Still continues but willlast only a short time longer—and t he longer it runs— the more we sell. Why is this? Simply because the people are finding out that there is NO tricking in this sale that they save one Mexs a Bors OurritvERS [> Ja <4 = sure--and that that discount makes the lowest prices for relia- ble goods ever offered in Bates county. While that discount is given on EVERYTHING in the store, we wish to call especial attention to our boots and shoes. We’ve only been in the shoe business a little over a year, and therefore, have no old stock to work off, but still we give you 25 per on every pair——and do you know that you never bought reliable footwear for so little before—Note these prices. Boys genuine Veal Calf shoes Mens B Calf shoes Mens genuine Dongola shoes Mens full stock calf shoes These are “Selz” goods and have always sold at 3 00 “Selz” $2 00 Enterprise shoes There’s prices for you and the goods are here. Mens full stock T5e | stoga boots 1 50 75e Mens “Selz” best stoga boots 2 63 $113 Mens full stock brogans T5e 2 00 Mens first quality rnbber boots 210 1 88 Mens second quality rubber boots 1 90 Mens second quality rubber arctics 75e $1 50 you every buy reliable footwear for so little before? and remem- ber that every pair of our boots and shoes are just as cheap these for you get same discount——25 per cent--on all. Its in your pocket to buy now and here. AMERICAN CLOTHING HOUSE, PALACE HOTEL CORNER, BUTLER, MO. Missouri State Bank OF BUTLER, MO. CAPITAL, $110,000. Receives Deposits subject to Check, Loans Money, Makes Collections and does a General Banking Business. DEPOSITORY FOR COUNTY FUNDS. In the Real Estate I.oan on Real Estate on long Department. Make loans or short time at lowest rates without delay. STOCKHOLDERS Men, Mrs. Levina Boulware, TC, Physician Burk, od Farmer Hardinger, Ballard, ‘armer Brown, Lula Heath, D B Rartlett, Edmund Farmer Bryner, Margaret Chelf, H B Farmer Coleman, Sam’! L Farmer Caruthers, G A Farmer Christy, J M Physician Clark, Robert Farmer Courtney, J M Stock Dealer Deerwester, John Farmer — J i Dutcher. f DeArmond,D A, M C Levy H Prot Normal Sch Powell, Booker Evans, John Farmer Everingham, J Physician Radford, Chas B vensiaa coher aoe .Don Ags’t Cas! Tareiau Dry Goods & ClothingVoris, Frank M Farmer Morrison. C H Farmer 4 Miller, Alf Farmer McCracken, A Farmer McCracken, Robt Farmer Owen, M V Farmer Pharis, John Grocery ‘oreman Times officePharis, ( F Grocery tt, H H Bank Clerk vi So sch com Rosier, J M Farmer Deerwester, Frank Co sc! eS ana eS Hannah, W simedieal student Slayback, Ed Farmer Hickman,G B Furniture dealer ‘armer Smith, @ L Liveryman Starke,L B Deputy circuit clerk Trrner, Mrs M E Capitalist. Tucker, W E Dentist Tyler, W B Farmer Vaughan, J M Capitalist Wyatt, H C Lumber dealer Wells, Wiley Teacher West, RG Farmer Walton, Wm E President Wright, TJ Capitalist Weiner, Max Merchant Walls, Wm Farmer Walton, G W Farmer Walls, J T Physician Whipple. N L Physician Farmer JW Pension Clerk J. R. JENKINS cashier® nd Eliza Reisner, Francisco’ SP Lawyer Suliens, J L Banker WM. E. WALTON president BOOKER POWELL vice-president DON KINNEY asst. cashier Ballard Items. John Reeder & Co, here trying Jack Carney of to buy mules _ Urich, bought some stock of Mr Buck... .Chris Greer still has mules | for sale....C K Crow moved to the | Thos Broaddus farm this week. ... | Will LaFollett now lives in Spruce} township....Our reporter tells us! of the death of Mr. Wheeler, former- | ly of this place....A nice time was had at M F Perry's Monday night, | where the young folks met to be led in singing by Mr. Perry... .A party at Bud Kuntz’ Monday night. All had a pleasant time... We hear of two blacksmith that talk of Ballard hence think we will at least get one, all we need... ..Dow Moshier of Urieb, is visiting his grandp — Cole... Once again the yeu Cole's and exjeyed met us they always do when they meet there....Milt Beatty is | and-reports plenty of la grippe out west....Coal at White oak on the advance, now Sc per bushels....We noticed the hit in the Union, from Mingo, on the prospects for coal in our (Spruce) township. Come, do not be too fast, your coal prospects | may turn out about like it did for sheriff. We are after the coal in earn- est, and expect to sinka shaft before long. ...Tom Stover out buying cat- tle.... Water getting scarce again | ....And Jeffie was a little too fast; ‘he did not get married, if he did tell a neighbor lady that he had the li- cense, hence need not blame us for telling it just as reperted to us.... Thos Buck bas £0 calves for sale If wan to buy a buggy us 1, only know of ....J3 Wat Cole has a f or rent; address him at C TM Stark shippeda car load of | cattle. ... John McCandles was down | | one evening this week after repairs, neighborhood last week...... Our brother after Lis papers Saturday. . Beatty & Co tok tive loads of corn to Urich Thursday....Geo Price's children have the la grippe.... Hen- ry Randall bought Mr. Elliott's hogs at a fair price (10c per pound) seems to me....A card from Adas | McNew says he is very well pleased [at Forest Grove, Oregon, but may | return to Bates.... Rev T S Moshier bas quite a sick child, Dr. Warford in attendance....Mrs Stuckey is | still quite poorly....The Harmony ‘school is not so well attended now; | the pupils home “gripping”. . Frank | Allison and family have all ben | wrestling with the grippe....Miss | Mamie Kenney is instructing Mag- | gie Cole in instrumental music. ... | August Hermann thinks he will | more to the farm bougut of Mr. Al- tlison, about the 10th of February. . | What has become of Gov. Snort? If he is the priyate secretary of Choate \let him report Misses Beattys, Greer and Maggie Cole took dinner | Friday at Mre Hoover's, it bein Mre H's birthday....S P Ray and family of Urich, spent a night with us... Ben Cruce, prospector, found |a fine vein of coal at Mr Knorp’s. | ....Any one wanting to buy a good (farm mare, or a team of small horses |give usa call....What about our j township officers? Let’s begin to | figure on them....Why not forma | stock company of our interested cit- |izens and sink a shaft for that coal. We hear of quite a sick child at Robt. Hills.... Will Stapleton has bought a farm from James Barker. Jack. Parties desiring to borrow money on real estate for long or short time cau be accommodated at very low «> per Cent | '2 8 field by Farmer Carl, who lives | cent discount He gave his name as Thomas Verlin CLAYTON’S MYSTERY SOLVED. | The Unknown Young Woman Tarrs} Out to be a Topeka Man's Wite. Special to K.€ Times Nevada, Mo, Jan. 30.—Last Wed- nesday a beautiful young woman} about 18 years old, a stranger, made | her appearance at Clayton, a small} hamlet in this county, on the Mis- souri, Kansas & Texas railroad. Later in the evening of the same day | she was found lying on a pile of hay | seven miles from Clayton. She could | give no account of herself, not eyen remembering her name. She wes taken in charge and kindly cared for till Saturday, when a man, who said he saw in the Times dispatches an} account of her condition, arrived at Clayton and claimed her as his wife. and Topeka, Kan., as his residence. Gis story was that his wife had sud- denly become demented and left her FARMER OF BATES Cash Capital. D. N. THOMPSON ................. J OSIER . noe E K Dr. J, EVERINGHAM T. W. SILVERS S BANK COUNTY, $50,000.00 + css: President Vice-President 2d Vice-President - -. Cashier Secretary Attorney Receives Deposits subject to check, Lones Money, issues Drafts and transacts a general Bauking business. Solicited. Garner wishes to purchase a good second hand breaking plow... .Peo- home while he was away. She had _ | been gone a week. The woman re- hear of the appointment of Wm M fused to recognize him and at first refused to go with him. Finally she consented reluctantly and they left on the next train. To day a man giving his name as W. J. Stone and Guthrie, Ok, as hie residence arrived here in quest of the same woman. He says that his Honestly, Cid } niece, a teacher in the public schools at LeRoy, Kan., had been drugged and abducted on December 24th by 4S}a young Englishman named J. O. Knoll and that be believed the money young woman at Clayton was his niece, whom Knoll had deserted upon finding that she had been more powerfully affected by the drug than he had intended. The Times at once queried its To peka correspondent on the above item and received the following re- ply: Topeka, Kan, Jan. 30.—Thomas Veilin used to keep a restaurant on Fourth street near the Santa Fe de- pot. Heis now running on the Santa Fe road, probably as an en- gineer. He has an insane wife. but where she is could not be learned. Johnstown and Sprace Twp Items. Some of the Jobnstown weather prophets have prophesied that win ter was over; how about Thursday, gents?.... Prof W H Morris of Ap- pletou City was in town Sunday night getting up asinging class.... Walt McCown bas bought a bicycle and says he is going to ride it to the city of Montrose....R J Starke re- turned home from Texas Tuesday and reports a nice trip and Texas booming. ... Walt McComb bas mov ed back to Spruce township.... The coal fever is still raging in Bal- lard vicinity; what's the matter with Johnstown....Walt Dudney has a good road cart to trade for a good dog....Windleton is hauling logs to the saw mill to-day....Walt Mc- Cown and Frank Wolfe will soon have the wheelman suits... .Mr Mar- tin’s family and Will Howard have moved te our town.... We are sorry to hear of the sickness of little Anna Lusk....We would like to know if Jim Bradley succeeded in renting a farm and cow....Everything in Spruce is quiet now the u. 1. Bros have their war paint off....Ben Ire- land is feeding a nice bunch of e:t- tle....Sidney Grabam and the Gov- ernor is thinking of going into busi ness at Jobnstown, if the weather keeps favorable. Gov Ssorr. | Virginia Items. Literary and wusica! ente:tain- ment and box supper at Graud View | school house Saturday night, Febru-| ary 4, for the benefit of the library} ....The other evening as the mail| rates of interest. Loans made so. pulied in Alfred Jackson in a spirit | borrower ean pay any partat any |of fun threw an oyster can at the car- time avd stop interest. Money on /?*° Bz Glove King lim in the hand ready. No delay. Interest pay- e once a year, 2 Ba Subscribe family paper in rthe Thies, the best the county. Missovrr Statre!* ; Week ona barbed wire fene but apparently Mr jman kad aged last | -+ rant | ple of western Bates will be glad to Stephena as timber inspector of New Mexico....Mr Burk of Kansas was in the neighborhood the other day looking for work mules. Tom Marsball,of LaCygne, Kas, was here the same day and bought twelve head of unbroken mules of WT Cowan....Amos Loekridge is talk- ing of going to Oklahoma....C H Morrison still persists in trying to collect taxes. .S S Cowan of Walker, Vernon county, was in the neighbor- hood last week looking after his farm and visiting old friends... . Virgil Jenkins has returned from the south and talks of going into the manufae turing business with A J Park.... Mrs Mose Martin died at her home} in Dakota on Jan. 9, of heart dis ease. Mrs Martin was one of Bates | old settlers and lived in the first | house built on this prairie. They moved from here in the spring of 1883....Billy Bateman has a five male hog for sale....R I Judy, C W Wolfe, C A Wallace, Wm Mack- elsay, Lutker Judy, Clate Wolfe and Marion Fermielinger are feediug cat- tle for the spring market...,.The price of farm land has \aised lately; | we seo no reason for it unless it is faith in the Cleveland administration ...Born to the wife of H F Fee- back, a 11 pound girl... . The social at Mr Kelly's last week was a grand success....Noah Bright of Worland | 1s over on a visit to friends....G W Park and Jas Crook was efter a wolf | last Wednesday. NELs. To Setect a Horse. The Rural World gives the follow- ing points to select a horse by: A horse that has breadth and full- | ness between the ears and eyes will | not act mean or hurt a-youe. The the ears thin and small and point forward, the face straight square muzzle and large nostrils. be well cut under the jaw with jaw- bone broad and wide apart under the throttle. The back short and | panious | him but in vain, and a party of men | are now trying to recover the body. | The young mau was a general favor- eye should be full and a hazel color ; lath, with | The under side of the head should ; thenortheast quarter of section Your patronage respectfully Oldest Couple im Missours. Nevade, Mo, Jan. 30.—There alighted from the southbound M. K. & T. passenger train to-day perhaps: the oldest married couple in Mis- souri. They were Mr. and Mre G. W. Quick of Appleton City and were on their way to Rich Hill with their son, W. H. Quick, their home with all its contents at Appleton City having been destroyed by fire last Friday. The old gentleman was born in Albemarle county, Vir- ginia, in 1794, and has voted for every nominee of the democratic | party for president, his first vote being cast for James Monroe, the fifth president of the Umted States. He came to Missouri in his youth aud was married on his 21st birth- day. She was born in Bowling Green, Ky., ninety-six years ago and came to Missouri with her parents when she was only 2 years of age. Botb Mr. and Mrs. Quick have been mem- bers of the Methodist Episcopal south nearly sixty years. His mind is failing him, but both the old peo- ple seem to be remarkably well pre- served. Broke Through the Ice and Drowned. Jefferson City, Jan. 29—A dis- tressing accident occurred here this afternoon. James Davison, a bright lad of 17 years and a son of Dr. & C. Davison, an old and esteemed physician of thie city, was skating on the river when he broke through the ice and was drowned. His com- endeavored t> save ite with all who knew him, and h‘s | gtief-stricken parents bave universal sympathy. Trustee's Sale. Whereas JC welliverand Jannie Welliver h wife by their deed of trust dated J = 1:90, and recorded in the record- er’s office within snd fer Bates county, Mis suri. in book 92 at page 272 conveyed to the undersigned trustee. the following deseribed real estate lying and being situate in Bater county, Missouri to-wit: The east half of the northwest quarter o* ven |11? and the northeast quarter of the so: = quarter of the pertheast uarter of seater q' (11) all ip township forty-one (41) eleven range thirty (30), except one and one-eight! acres in the soutneast corner used fer 06: bouee, contsini. g in all twenty-eight and - eigth (28 1-8) acrcs more or less which convey. straight and square rump, high witb- | ere, shoulders set well back, and | broad, but not deep into the chest; | fore feet short, hind legs pretty straight, fetlccks low down. pastern | jomt short, with a round mulieh | foot. There are all kinds of horses, but the animal that has all thece points is almost sure to be sightly, graceful, good natured and service- | able. ance was madein trust, to secure ment or defeulthas been made in the ment of More than one yesr’s acerued interest rane Rote, oa ae leg ler of said note. and pursusat conditions of said deed ottrast, I wilt prevent to sell the above described premises st puil!- verdue to the highest bidder for cash m the * east fromt door of the court house in the cit: of a county of Bates and state of Mis- sour!, on Friday, February 24th, 1898, between the hoare of nine o’clock im the fore- noon and five o'clock in the afternoon of thas day forthe purposes of satisfying said deb: Interest and coste F M. ALLEN, Trustee. oral Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U. S. Gov't Report. Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE