The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, November 23, 1893, Page 1

Weekly Cin VOL. XVI ae Missouri State Bank BUTLER, MISSOURI, THURSDAY NOVEMBER OF BUTLER, MO. CAPITAL, Transacts a general banking business. mers, merchants and the public generally, promising a safe depository for all funds committed to our charge. We are prepared to extend liberal ac- commodation in the way of loans to our customers. to loan on real estate at lowest rates, allowing borrowers to pay part or all at eny time and stop interest. We solicit the accounts DIRECTORS. Dr. T. C, Boul e rae, pokes ot John Deerwester JR Jenkins Booker Powell Hu Piggott C RB Ra.iford Oscar Reeder Geo L Smith Frauk M Voris HC Wyatt RG West Wm E Walton $110,000. of far- Funds always on hand STARTLING PARTICULARS ABOUT FARM MORTGAGES. A Revelation Made by the Official Census Keturns for 33 States The Result of a Comprehensive study by Heibe Returns en from his exhaustive Articie the Fortheoming Issue oftae Aiwerican Agricuiturist for Dee ab “Ninet th, of our farms ure mortgaged fur al they ure worth” The -t teme often tha: among alle it las been made 60 the ,eceral impressicn ses of people is that itie reseuis .bo Nothing coul.i be ‘uth: r f.o.u the real truth. But not uatil tha census of farms, fuels. ‘Lan CLOAKS. ¥ 1893. Will commence Thursday Nov 16. NO. 3 CLOAKS. . THE LEADERS, e & Adair’s , | Great Cloak Sale 150 Nice New Stylish OTHER $TOCKHOLDERS. homes and mortgages was taken in Now is your time Cloaks must be sold regardless of cost. Be Besiett Frank Deorwester Robert McCracken Da We huoker 1890, was it possible to get at the A ae ; Way ; Pua trown "Som vane Av Owen ME Comer trath on this subject. These returns| J -adies, to buy cloaks. We don’t want to carry the goods ‘ r A Dr J Everingham John Pharis a tf = 2 = i : sg s % bi bs A Carnthers C&R Freeman Charles Pharis Wm Walls are now sufficiently compiled to war-) = ver to next season, and we must have the money out of ‘Robert Clark Remust bee i, Waterke. Max Welnen panty cues icllowing samenhog 5 Stale: | Ne 1 : : HobertCiark | Srmuel Levy i, W Starke Max Welne natal them. e will sell them at a price that you can buy them JR Davis Dr W D Hannah John H Sallens “s ATT AO * Butler Grain Depot i | DIED. LELIA—RHODA.--Daughters of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Hall,in Summit town- ship. Lelia died Noy. 14th, Rhoda | Nov. 18th, 1898. No lovelier children | ever graced a hearthstone; to know them was only to love them. The sympathy of the entire community oes out to this broken home; only those who have passed through such sorrows can realize how great is their loss. Weep not for your little ones Dear father and mother, ‘They have only gone before, You'll never hear their foot steps on the stair, But what joy when you meet ‘Those little ones over yonder And hear those little feet Climbing up the golden stairs. And to think of that heavenly hearth stone, Where there'll be no vacant chair. Weep not for them dear sisters, Or wish then back again But prepare to meet them over there Where your joys will all be complete, For He who reigns supreme above Knows that those we fondly love Cannot always stay on earth. A place He has prepared for them Free from Sorrow, pain or care In that land which isso fair. {A FRIEND. “Virginia Items. Win J Cuzick wants to buy a milk cow. Mr Powel has bought a fine pair of seldings from Ben Watkins. Mr Nunn lost.the best horse he had; it was sick only an hour. Miss Ella Hensley and T A Wright were united in marriage at the resi- dence of Mr Shackleford Sunday Noy. 19th. We extend congratulations Township board met at this place and settled all their bills: Harry Feebeck has moved to the farm of Wm McElroy, where he will farm next year. Wm Huffman has returned from Nedalia, where he has beenattending business college. He has raised a hase ball nine, all he lacks is the um- pire. On and after Jan. will be conducted Ist, my business under different j systems. Dr Mitchell reports the child of Mrs Steve Adams, whose life was de- spaired of at one time, as slowly re- covering. Horses and mules have quit dying in this seetion. Mrs Amos Lockridge, of Mulberry, is recovering nicely from a seige of typhoid fever. Dudley and Ben Porter traded Both claim they made $25 horses. each; quite a profit on one horse trade. N. M. NeSTLERODE. When Baby was sick, we cave her Castorim When she was # Cnild, she cried for Castoria. When she became Mias, she clung to Castoria When she had Childrea, she gave them Castors Insane From Grief. Nevada, Mo., Nov. for the crime. Mollie E. Ehrhardt and she is years of age. Her brother, No. 3. The first report concerning the murder was that on the night of the 7th inst. the old gentleman, Louis Ehrhardt, had been killed by rob- bers and the house burglarized. The old man was found dead with a bul- let wound in his stomach. Suspicion however, rested against the two sous on accout of some property inter- ests, and they were’ subsequently arrested and placed under bonds of $3,000 each to await the action, of The officials at the the grand jury. asylum report the patient as rather quiet to day. Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U. S. Gov’t Report. Baking Powder Successors to Bryavt Bros. & McDaniel, Butler, Mo., are now ready and prepared to buy WHEAT, CORN, OATS, FLA, and all other Seeds and Graiue, Castor Beans, ke , for which the ighest market price in cash will be paid. this firm at Butler depot. Also Bring your grain to keep a supply of FRESH FLOUR, MEAL AND MILL FECD For sale at lowest prices or taken in'exchauge. Call and see us. Superintendent. 17.—There arrived in this city last night from Cooper county a young woman has become a raving maniac from grief caused by the murder of her father followed by the arrest of her two brothers, alleged to be responsible The woman is Miss 22 Louis Ehrhardt, accompanied her to asylum Thres quarters of all the farms in incuubrauce. Only one-fourtb of the total uumber of farme in the Uuited States are mortgaged. Or, t> express it more specifically, out of every hundred American farms,more than 70 ure fully paid for and less than 30 are mortgaged. The average mortgage represents only one-third the value of the farm upon which it is secured. The total amount, of farm mort gages in the whole country is hardly one-tenth the total value of a!] our farus. Tu 1880, nearly ove fifth of the mortgage iudebtedness rested on farms; but ia 1890, facm mortgaz 6 represented ouly one seventh of the country's total indebteduess on rel estate. 47 mortgage, American farms in 1890, owned their farms ‘ree of 20 owned but with incumbrauce and worke 1. Of those who cultivated their onn farms, 70 per cent owned without had mortgages. pied by teuants, less than ten p.r cred. Four-fifths of the amount of debt oa farms and homes was incurred for ths commendabl+ purpose of baying and improving the property cent were incum of farms and homes were mortgaged for the sam The total real mortgage debt that existed in the United States in 1880 is estimated at 24 bil- lions of dollars, equally divided be ‘tween lots tracts. Iu 1890 the total amouut of such in- ‘eumbrance had more than doubled, | but only 34 per ceat of if was on jacres and 66 per cent on urbaa prop erty. | The total farms were about 525 of dollars in 1880, and ten years later was about millions, fof 350 millions of dollars ia the de- cade. During these ten pu rpose. estate and acre mortgages millions years mortgage, this would readily account for the increase in the total debt on | farme. H Mortgages on other acre tracts than farms proper were in 1880 jabout 1163 millions of dollars, or an jiperease of 438 millions during the CAccele. } The mortgages on lots, that is, lou city and town property, amount- jed to 1259 millions cf dollars at the lopening of the ninth decade, but in | 1899 were estimated at nearly £000} | millious, or an increase of over 2700 | millions during the ten years. The total wortgage indebteduees increase of 3,500 millions. These figures look large, but show that the total indebtedness on all the United States are owned free cf | Out of every hundred families ox | 32 hired the fara they lived ov aad | incumbrance and only 30 per cout | Of the farms oecu- | anda like proportion of the numbers) __ 549) of $2040, and it appears | aver two thirds of our four avd aj op on actual} an increase; vo less! than 600,000 new farms were created | at-the west and south. If only one | half of them carried the average size | regardless of the ha 4.50 Beautiful Gray Mixed Jacket w: 5 00 Serge, full sleeve, now 7.50 Hop Sacking with three capes, 8.00 A Perfect Beauty, full sleeve 7.50 Black Beaver, extra full Aall these goods are of the latest Childrens Shoes a pate: tages. | real estate in the Usited States is jonly about $92 perecapita. Add to this the per capita amount represent ed by the public debt of the United States ($14.63), ef states and terri 2.27) } tcories ($3.56), and of counties jthat the total public debt avd all ita. Tn other words, in June, 1899, the }sum of $112 from each man, woman and childia the United States would have paid all the mortgages in the state and county debts. In Frarce, ‘the national debt alone exceeds $116 |per capita, England's national debt i 90 a head, while the pub lic debts in the Australian colonies are $300 for each inhabitant jis neacly are good reaso |that mortgages in England, France. | Germany and Australia vastly exceed the Aniericau average of $92 per capita. jare based, were prepared for the | American Agriculturalist by George | K. Holmes special agent in charge | of the divisioz: of farms, homes and_ mortgages of the eleventh census, | jand are given in full in the Decem- | | ber number of that magazine, in con- | inection with Mr. Myricks article. | | Another interesting fact is that the. jnumber of families is practically | one to a farm in most states but for | 22 states these farm families com-! | prise 35 per cent of the total number | , of families. In this group of states 1 wrong direction. The article con- cludes with the following state- ments. Certain it is that enough has been $3.50 Beautiful Gray Jacket, full sleeve you everything we advertise. There : s for believing also | The official tigures for 33 states, | upon which the foregoing statements | Pitcher’s Castoria. | only oue fourth of the farms were} tin June, 1890, is estimated to have occupied by tenauts in 1886. where- | | been some 6,000 millions of dollars |#$ OW nearly one third of the farm | | as against 2,500 millions in 1880, an families are tenants—a grin in the; rd times. Below we the prices we are making on them: 2 75' 8.00 English cork screw full sleeye give you some of 6 ith cape 3 25; 12.50 Fine Diagonal, full sleeve 10 ® 400° 12.50 Fine Tan Melton, extra quality 10 now 6 00; And many others too numrrous to mention. 6 00 Also Childrens and Misses Cloaks and Jackets 6 00° from $1 00 to $10 00. styles and colors, and can give you Don't forget. firit door south of Farmers’s Bank. the most perfect fit in the cheap- est garment. Be sure to see them before buying. - We will save you 25 ptr cent on a wrap. We mean business. We don’t advertise for fun; nor merely to get the people in our house and then tell them we are out of the goods advertised, but can give them someting better for more money, but we will show And now in conclusion Don’t Forget our Dress Goods. | Don't forget our Dress Trimmings. Don't torget our Ladies Underwear. Don't forget our Ladies and Don’t forget our Mens ard Boys Boots and Shoes. Don’t forget our Overalle, Duck Coats and Shirts. Don't forget our Mens Work Gloves. Don’t forget our Blankets from $1.25 to $5.00 Don’t forget our Wool Hosiery. Don't forget the prices on these Cloaks. Don't forget they mast go regardless of prices. Don't forget that we are directly connected with one of the largest wholesale aud manfacturiag houses in the west, and are the only firm than can offer you such advan- LANE & ADATR. | set forth herein—.most of it not for | | the first time—to demonstrate that | the facts about farm mortgages | | have been grossly distorted and « 6 'aggerated. The indications now are | that the fisal fizures will show that half millions of farms are owned free i real estate mortgages in the United | of debt and that all the mortgages | Marg: | States amouut to only $112 per cap | on actual farms in the whole United | Farre States to-day do not exceed the value | of one year’s hay crop. | ©Tho whole truth will be known when the census is completed, but | | enough is row done to indicate that ; | above conclusions in amount rather ‘than in proportion. A revulsion in | publie sentiment favorable to agri- ‘culture should follow a discussion of | these facts.” Pitcher’s Castoria. Children Cry for | Pitcher’s Castoria. Children Cry for Children Cry for Fatal Dueltn Ohio. Napoleon, O., Nov. 20.—Near this place Saturday Charles Davis aud Leonard Forsythe, aged 22 and 22 years respectively, fought with swords, and later as they were brok- used their jack knives. They were rivals for the hand of Miss aret Farrell,daughter of Squire li. Both were terribly slash ed up and were unconscious when fonnd. Forsythe, in addition to a number of hacks and cute, was rua through the lower part of the lett lung There is som* hopes for his country and also all the national | the final result will differ from the | rival's recovery. Davis says the: met by agreement | in the woods at 5 o'clock and fought , by lantern light;that they thrust and parried and the fight had progress ed for a quarter of an hour when he | disarmed Forsythe by breaking his 'sword. He begged Eorsythe to de sist, but the latter was so desperate that he pulled out bis jack knife and rushed at Davis with fury. “I could _ have killed him easily,” said Davie. “bat did nct care to take an unfair advantage of him. He could noi ‘reach me at all with his knife, but assaults were so serious that I was compelled in self defense to ran him. ‘through with my blade.” FARMER S BANK OF BATES COUNTY, ‘Cash Capital. 50,000.00 COUNTY DEPOSTORY OF BATES CO. D N.°THOMPSON --President are BENNETT Viee- Presiden E. D. KIPP...... Bee Pea oti Cashict DIRECTORS. : 3, Kiersey Jenn E. Shutt, - J. he es geen ESBS, RJ. Harley, John stele H.M Gailey. J.K Roler, E. D. kipp. °*% J. EVERINGHAM: Secretary : Receives Deposits subject to check, Lones Money, issues Drafts and So! transacts a general Banking business. Your patronage respectfully