The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, August 24, 1893, Page 5

ss a Da se sad «fe CORSETS. | We are selling only well known ms | reliable makes, such as SHILLINGS, G. D. K. D. WARNERS, and will add Langdon and Batchellers celebrated Thompson's Glove Fitting Corsets Chicago Corset Waists, See | an ‘Nellie Childs is spending a | Week or so seeing the wonders at | the world’s fair. Mrs. Tilden H. Smith arrived in| |the city this week on a visit to her | |mother, Mrs. F. A. Walker. Miss Mary and Master Philip Par- | kinson left Monday to spend two weeks at the world’s fair. | Henry Alice are vi of Thomas Orr, Rich Hill. \ Quite a nice time was had at the | law u party at Prof. MeMartins resi- | | dence Tuesday eyening. If gold is the only money in this} | country why is it that currency | |Worth a premium over gold in the] Balls, Misses and Childs Waists. { McKIBBENS. rae ae MeKibbe nis yisiting in| Ft. Scott. BUTTER \ WEEKLY TIMES LOCAL ITEMS Miss Edith Barnes is visiting at | TD. Rafter’s. Dr. Frizell waa quite sick Friday. | Miss Ella Meek is visiting her C. A. Coats of Rockwall, Texas, is | brother Ed Meek, in Sedalia. | visiting C. R. Radford. The colored school house at Clin- Chas. Dixon who has_ been ton was burned the other day. quite | sick is able to be about again. W. F. Duvall and wife are spend- Prairie hay is selling at timothy at $4.50 and $5 per ton. Mr. and Mrs. G. B. Hickman left! for Monegaw Springs to spend a | week. | BF Holloway of Austin, and Mrs. L. B. Strode of Dana, were licensed | to marry Thursday. C. A. Young and H. H. Reynolds, of Kansas City, came down Friday to take a hunt. Ten teachers attending the insti tute failed to receive Too bad. certificates. | The newspapers, Judge DeArmond is booked for a | speech in congress on the question Friday. both great and small, are silver lined. Well, that is silver | the all absurbing question now. Steps are being taken by the | authorities of Chicago, for the relief | of the unemployed of that city. John Trimble who has been spend- ing the past two weeks at Wasington City has returned. | W. A. Keel, manager of the News J. M. McKibben left Sunday for | Afton, Indian Territory,spent Satur- the east to buy goods. He expects | day i in the city, visiting relatives and to be gone about three weeks, | friends. Miss Lizzie Ross left Monday for | Since the banks in the eastern Thayer, Mo, to spend a couple of | ; Cities have refused to accept drafts weeks visiting her sister, Mrs. L. | | the post office money order business Sackett. has greatly increased. \ Harry Robinson, superintendent | Boys stick to your father and the of the water works, says he is kept | farm. Its an independent and happy very busy putting in hydrants for! life, and no fears need be enter- different persons. tained of losing your job. “Capt. J. W. Hannah, the genial | The vote on the silver question proprietor, of the Palace hotel has | will be taken in thehouse Monday and placed two new billard tables in the | Wé hope to see the matter settled bar room of his hotel. | | amicably and for the best interest of z | the country. The southwest Missouri confer- ee. ence of the M. E. church, south, will | Hon. W. C. Peary of Fort Scott meet at Boonville Sept. 20. Bishop | has been appointed U. S. District Hapgood is to preside. | Attorney for Kansas. He held the : ._ | place umder Cleveland's former ad- Trade Saturday was quite fair | Be : i : | ministration. with our merchrnts. There was a| good crowd in townand asa general | Senator Sherman declares that rule farmers were feeling pretty | congress is not indifferent to the good, | needs of the country, but is honestly Robt. Hurt, Chas. | divided on the question of the best Hagedorn went north Tuesday | | ieee; Co Ue pce morning chicken hunting. They | spent the day in and around the mounds. Endres and C. | Secretary of State Lesueur is after the bond investment companies. In his opinion they are swindling con- iti t | cerns and he doubts their right to The contracted condition of cur- | legal exigtenee in)Misaouri: rency spoilt the tight rope perform- | i ; ance on North Main street Saturday Chas. E roctor and family and Dr. morning. $5 was demanded and} Risley and family left Monday for 40c. raised. | Monegaw Springs to spend a week _ lor so. While there Mr. Proctor We understand some of the But-| | will visit his brother at Roscoe,whom ler teachers voted to take the insti- |), yas not seen for thirty years. tute to Rich Hill. I'be school board | : ought to have their photographs in | Senator John Sherman: ‘Young Parenat cine: ;man there is no money in politics, i fl ._| believe me.” ‘hen you will kindly The institute being held in this ; explain how you managed to save city for the past four weeks, closed | } about $3,000,000 in ten years on a Friday evening, and the pretty | salary of $8,000 a year.—Chicago school marms took their departure | Dispatch. for their homes. | Chas. H. Billings, salesman for Its not long-winded speeches the | | Simon Disseau, of New York, had} west wants on the silver question; | $39, WU0O orth Loli dimnondsmatoles its votes. Vote right is the best | tom him in St. Louis Thursday. It guarantee of a congressman's faith. li is said to be the most extensive rob- ful stewartship. | bery of the kind that has ever taken The people of Sedalia ought to | place in this country. pull off their coats in aid of the Ba-| q, professional card of Dr. A. E. z00. That paper has done too much | | Lyle will be found in this issue. for Sedalia for her good citizens to | | The doctor has opened out an office allow it to go to the wall. | over the Boston store at the south Benjamin Harrigon’s boom for | west cormer of the square. Residence 1896 has withered. His grip on the | | on South Main street. Calls prompt- | army of office holders is gone and iy answered day or night. there is not one left to do him hom- | Bea in a back ree James Bryan, of Vernon county, | age. nis a back number. ‘has lived under three governments, A telephone is being erected from | and resided in Missouri all the time. Kansas City to Clinton, also from | He is 87 years old. He was born in $4 and | ing this week at the world’s fair. ' Sedalia to Nevada. The telephone St. Charles county, when it was un- is a convenient arrangement and we | der the Spanish government, then it would like to see aline established | passed to France and next to the from Kansas City to Butler. United States. east? State Treasurer Lon V. Stephens has let the contri sand dollar residence in Jefferson City. The Nevada Mail of Thursday | said the grasshoppers had taken pos- session of the town and the streets and sidewalks were literaily covered | with the pest. The Bazoo printing office and ma- terial is advertised for sa’e, under deed of trust, at Sedalia September 19th. Franz Bernhardt and wife will leave Sunday for Chicago to spend a week or ten days looking at the fair. The balloon ascensions at the lake Saturday and Sunday evenings were a success and was witnessed large crowd. At Beloit, Kan., Monday, Will Ste- vens, an escaped prisoner, was shot and instantly killed by the sheriff for resisting arrest. Edward Brenan, a New Yorker, went over the niagara falls Sunday and was drowned. The boat he was in capsized. by a pleasure The Missouri Cumberland Presby- terian Sunday school assembly at Pertle Springs, Warrensburg, largely attended Sunday. was It was planned last week to march about 50,000 of unemployed work- men into Washington City. A move of this kind would not solve the money or labor question. The thirty-nine thousand dollars worth of diamonds stolen from trav- eling salesman Billings, in St. Louis aday or so ago, were returned through the post office Saturday to their owner. Dan Walker returned home Fri- day evening from his visit to the world’s fair. He was accompanied home by his brother, Alex Walker and wife of Columbus. Ohio, who will remain a few days with relatives and friends Miss Mary Walker took her de-| parture for St. Louis Saturday even- ing to spenda month in the trim- ming department of alarge millinery establishment, when she will return to Pleasant Hill where she has a} position in a store. The Butler bavd furnished music for the Rich Hill fair yesterday and} today. These were the two most} interesting days of the fair and this! noted band made some sweet music which was complimented on sides. Geo. Newberry, in town Friday, | informed us that his sister, Mrs. A.| L. Gilmore, was very sick at the home of his father, Capt. J. B. New- berry, and for a time Thursday her | life was despaired of, but the doc- tors succeeded in relieving her and Friday she was considered some better. The vote to comprmoise the bonds of St. Clair county will be taken the 29th. The Democrat of Osceola is fighting the compromise and predicts ten votes to one against the proposi- tion. It may be best for the people to vote against compromising their bonded trouble but we hardly think so. plan. We learn from the mail carrier |that the post office at Mulbery was entered Wednesday night of last | week by a thief or thieves, and the money drawer robbed of $5 or $6 in ehange. Nothing in the store was touched so far as the proprietor, Mr. Stilwell, could discover. The store was entered by prying off the loek on the side door. \92 y ct for a ten thou | all} Cass county adopted the right} scarmatetnbamaadteinaneniontnmmnannaenay Misses Maggie Arnold, Lou Chea-| tham and Jesse Evans, left Monday. 'to spend a week at the World’s fair | The Trxes wishes the young ladies a} | pleasant time. A vicious pup belonging to Peter | fe in Osage township, Vernon | county, bit five persons the other y. The dog i was captured and r and soon sigus of being mad Mrs. Bini of the Ketterman| neighborhood, Vernon county, aged | baptized into th | i | | show-} j ars, Christia day. Was n church at Tucker lake Sun-| Better late than neyer. W. H. Warnock, hes purchased the interest of John Silvers, in ab-/} stracting and loan business and he and Mr. Clardy will contiune to con- duct the business at the old stand on the west side of the square. | The coal miners strike in three states, Missouri Arkansas and Indian Territory, has been declared off and the miners went back to Kansas alone now holds nut and it is expected the strike in that state will be settled this week. work yesterday. On account of an accident which happened to Dr. Cox a week or so ago by which his front leg was badly cut with the cork of a shoe on his hind foot, T. K. Lisle will be unable to exhibit his stallion at the Rich Hill fair this year as he had contem- plated. If seve-ty-one columus of adver- tisements in Sundays Globe Demo- crat is any criterion to judge by neither the stringency nor dry weather is having any effect on the competing merchants of St. Lou- is, or else each is trying to outdo the other in the way of securing trade. money As a last resort the fellows who live by agitation have sprung the powder business, the company doe- tor and one or two other side issues in their attempt to array the working miners against their employers. Why didn’t they complete their list of grievances in the first place —Rich Hill Review. Judge Fix, wife and daughter, Liddie, and G. Lear, left Monday for the World’s Fair. Mr. Fix and fam- ily will continue their journey to Indiana, where they will visit old- time friends. They expect to be gone three or four weeks. We wish them a pleasant trip and a safe re- turn.—Rockville Retlex. N. L. Livingston, editor of the Foster ‘limes, called Friday. He was on the look out for a printer to take charge of his paper. Mr. Liv- ingston seems to be an all-purpose man at Foster, and just about runs the town. He is editor, school teach- er and justice, and an all round, whole souled, good fellow. Pull our latch string again. Dr. T.C. Boulware received his commission Saturday from Mr. Lochren. appointing him a member of the board of pension examiners for this county He was required to take and return to Washington the customary oath, and a3 soon as this is received by the department | books of instruction and papers per. | taining to the office will be sent him jand he will be commissioned to as- | sume the full duties of the office of pension examiner for Bates county. | Drs. Lee and Hulet will be his asso- ciates on the board. A disreputable woman named Sis Foster and her three little children | were drowned in the Missouri river near Bonnott’s mill Friday evening The woman had been driven from {town to town and when she made her appearance in Osage City the people of that town gave her a ticket to leave in short order. She then employed a man with a skiff to take her to the mouth of the river. The party started and in at-} tempting to land at the mill the| skiff was sucked under a government | barge and that was the last of the woman and her children. A Battle for Blood. Is what Hood’s Sarsaparilla vigor- | ously fights, and it is always victor-| ious in expelling all the foul taints and giving the vital fluid the quality | and quanity of perfect health. It} cures scrofula, salt rheum, boils and | all other troubles caused by impure blood. | ONLY for yeu to buy will po Just think! C What more could you ask? too late. a’ PANIC PRICES ON HATS HERE. asso eu o C. A. Russell and R. O Longfel- low passed through the city Tues- day from Lamar to Lee Summit, | making the trip on bicycles. Miss Kate Turner, of Columbia, | has been selected as Queen of Beauty” “Missouri's | to represent the ONE WEEK MORE se Men's fine suits f& y end by September Ist. ice of 300 men’s Be wise and come in before Remember you get re This sa? or 80 Litttle. tine sv sacks or cutaways 33.13 percent less than regular price it's lar dollar values for 67cts Se MEN'S $1.50 & $1.25 WORSTED PANTS FOR of Kansas City, J s1boo LU T. T. Wemott, who has been visiting his son, At- thur, for the past six weeks,returned | home yesterday, accompanied by bis | little grandson, Theodore, who will apend a month in the city with his | grandparents. state at the Confederate reunion to| Sig Wetzel, the man who killed be held at Birmingham, Ala. in Charley Looman in this town a few October. Miss Turner is a niece of | years since, has returned home from Gov.Stone. J.M. Lewisof St. Louis, | his service at the prison. Although by appointment of the governor, | the bulk of evidence was in Wetzel’s Gasconade |. made the appointment. | time the | The boys in blue had a gay at Camp Jarris, last week, jand sham battle between the Johnnies | under Maj. McLain, and Yankees under Adjutant Lody, was a grand sight and afforded much pleasure to | all present. There were about five thousand people present, and many attended from Nevada, Rich Hill and Butler. The large assemblage was addressed by Judge Burton, Wednesday evening. New York are doing formulate some plan their to best to furnish of that city, meetings are beiag held and ways and means are being | discussed whereby necessary im- provements for the city can be made and in this way work ean be furnish- | ed to thousands: One or two mem- bers advanced socialistic ideas but they were promptly sat upov. The majority of speakers counseled | obedience to the laws and confidence | in the government. Marshall Wolfe, informed us that | the picnic at Passaic was a success | in every particular. A big crowd and an abundance of everything good to eat was had. Many of the old | veterans of the north part of the| county were there and aside from | the picnic took occasion to express | themselves on the silver question | and to heartily endorse the course of | Senators Vest and Cockrell congressmen DeArmond, Bland and | Dockery and the rest of the Missouri | congressmen who stand firm for the | white metal. | Jas. DeArmond, who was consid ed with spasms Thureday morning | and for nearly twenty seven hours his life hung in the balance. The/ Spasms came on about every two minutes in spite of the efforts of | Dr. Boulware, assisted by Dr. Ever- | ingham who did everything in their | | power to relieve him. Late Thurs-| |day evening it was deemed advisable | tn notify his father by telegraph and | the Judge took the first train, arriv- | ing home Saturday evening. The | doctors, however, succeeded in re-| lieving their patient Friday night and by the time the Judge arrived James was much better and consid- | ' ered out of danger. The Judge ree! mained in the city until Sunday levening, when he returned to Wash- ington City to resume his congres- jsional duties. Friday evening he/| Hood's Pills cure all liver ills. 25¢. | Sent by mail on receipt of price by C.I. Hood & Co. Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass. will deliver a speech in congress on | the silver question, taking the side | of free and unlimited coinage. i favor, on the score that | Lsoman in self-defense, | prisonwent. | 2 rule for good behavior. The heads of the trades unions in { work for the unemployed thousands | ° and | ‘ killed both men were drinking at the time and Wetz- he jel was sentenced to two years im- He was released after doing eighteen months time on the He has come to his home county to redeem himself and his experience should be a lesson to our young men. We | hope Sig has profited also and that he will become a good citizen.—Rich Hill Review. Nearly 400 Suits on Assessment. Carthage Mo, Aug. 21.—The merchants of this county have been sued for damages on account of fail- ing to make proper assessment re- turns on their stocks of merchandise. Prosecuting Attorney James, under instructions of the county court, has | commenoed suit against nearly 400. It is claimed that by reason of this undervaluatiou the county over $10,000 anually. Rumor loses has \it that some merchants whose stock are valued at $25,000 to $30,000 | make return on assessment list of less than $2,000. The merchants of this ‘city will organize to fight the suits. Much excitement over the matter noticeable. is ered improving fast, was again seiz- | COL. C. W. DEAN. SUNSTRUCK IN BATTLE! DR. MILES MEDICAL CO., Erxnart, e Restorative Nervine Ixp—I must a and rele and Liver Pills have done me "Fou TEARS X RAVE SOT FELT As The ataction pone pe yee — ‘feats was a sunstroke received in battie before Port Hudson, Louisiana, June roccrd 193. = to the time of = e Dr. ” Remedies I =a & coD- — vdinractg in if my e past four be permanent. Several ZTHOU USANDS welloft aes Yeon ew. . DEAN, National Military Home, Da: of my — Merv- Sess Duliness, Habit. Contaias wo cpiates or dereteanatoa Sold on s Positive Guarantee. On. MILES’ PILLS, 50 Dosrs25Cre,