The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, August 16, 1894, Page 5

Last Chance. Only Two Weeks More. Our cut price sale will positively end Sept. Ist. Until that time we will give you choice of any summer suit) in our store for only $12 None reserved—they all go. In the lot you'll tind many regular $22.50 and $20 values, but they go with others at $12. Cheaper goods in proportion. ny) Boys and childrens suits at lowest prices ever known. B. E. Lusk is a new subscriber to the booming Tres. BUTUER WEEKLY TIMES LOCAL ITEMS | Mrs. Sarah Ogle renews for her subscription, for which she has our @ | Mr. Conard. Ag | poses at Ft. Scott, By} on the $100 A | 000 A Fasiny Surrey ror saLe:—Good as new. A bargain. J. M. Vaveuy, B3-tf. Butler Mo. Ben Atley renews for the Times. A. L. Weatherwax pays up ahead for his paper. Rich Hill has an A. P. A. organiz- er. What next. Allen Kennedy is a new subscriber | to the booming Times. The thermometer in this city Sunday. A. L. McBride is on the sick list | He was taken down Friday. The Sunday school folks are hav- ing a big picnic in Passaic to-day. J.C. Clark and family have gona | to Mouegaw Springs to spend a week. W. E. Moshier, of Ballard neigh | borhood, a solid friend to the Tres, | renews. Jim Moseley, died at Holly Springs, day aged 105 years. a Virginia darkey | Mass., Sun- The dry weather has affected the | grape crop and the yield will not be | as large as anticipated. The Clinton Democrat says fully seven thousand people attended the fair at that place Friday. J. H. Sisson left Friday for Lone Jack, and will attend the annual pice nic at that place the 16th. Eli Henderson, Butler's efficient street commissioner, is new sub- | scriber to the booming Trurs. Peter Kaune, living in Summit township, threshed over $200 worth of seed from forty acres of timothy | this season. Mrs. Ida Wilburn and daughter, of Moundville, Mo., who have been in the city visiting friends returned | home Friday. Joe Meyer, Butler's popular cloth- ing merchant, went to St. Louis, registered 108 | | thanks. Mrs. H. A. Garner will accept the thanks of the Times for a renewal of | her subscription. O. D. Austin and daughter, Nel- lie have gone to Alton, Ills, to |spend a few days visiting relatives rand friends Morelan Bros. prominent merch- ants of Urich, Mo., will accept the thanks of the Times for a renewal of | their subscription. For a wonder the Nevada papers are not claiming as a former citizen, | J. W. Dean the bucket shop man at Omaha, who failed the other day for $28,000. Your attention is called to the advertisement of Deacon Bres., & 'Co., one of the largest grocery and implement establishments in the county. The committees are hard at work | soliciting for the Odd Fellows home. | So ifthe Butler people want to se- | cure this enterprise now is the time | to say so by making your donation. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday | were gala days in Butler, the reunion |brought many strangers to the city and they all had a nice time. It will be an advertisement for tho | town. | Friend Carpenter spent Tuesday in Kansas City inspecting the pro- duce market and making purchases | | of fruits for the Butler trade. He will have some gvod things down this week. | Geo. Powell, the Kansas champ- | ion trick bicycler, sliced 43 seconds from the record Friday by riding a half mile backward in two minutes. | Fred Rowe of Chicago held the championship at 2:43. The Review says no trace of Her- man Dietzman has yet been found. | The missing man left Houston, Tex- | as the latter part of June, saying to | his wife he would be back by July | 4th. He had with him about $700. ity | The Masonic fraternity of this ci | chartered atrain Saturday evening! land a large delegation accompanied lby the band went over to Foster }to assist ia conferring ‘new members, after which a banquet | was given and degrees on a grand good time | was had | Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Abell and baby of Nevada, spent Sunday in \the city visiting Mr. Abell’s father and sisters. Mr. Abell is of the leading clothing merchants of and he itor to this office is a welec Theto tal tax levy for city pur Kansas, is $4 Last year it was $4 The valuation has de rensed = $200,- Butler business men can con- gratulate themselves they in business in Ft. Scott. are not The Warrensburg Journal-Demo crat says, “Elijah Young of Fayette ville estimates the value of his pres- ent apple crop on eight acres of ground, 400 trees, at $2,000. The same orchard has heretofore netted him as much as $1,400 in a single year, when apples were au ordinary price.” The Trstes office printed cards this week annovncing the marriage of Laura Sims Allen, to Mr. Ben C. Broocks, of Texas. The ceremony will take place Tuesday evening, September 4th, at the residence of the bride's parents, Dr. and Mrs W. H. Allen, of Rich Hill. Jas. Whitsett, carpenter, informs us that he is building a nine room residence for John Graham, Ballard, also has the contract to build a six room dwelling for Mr. Helner, near Virginia. Mr. Whitsett says the prospects are good for quite a building boom in the country this fall. near County school commissioner Thur- man has been selected principal of the Rich Hill public schools. Prof. Thurman has been fitting himself at college for the purpose of securing a position of this kind and the Trves is glad to see his talent as a teacher is being appreciated in the county in which he resides. The Times acknowledges a_pleas- ant visit from J. W. Spears, of Spruce township, accompanied by his two sons. Mr. Spears is one of the solid citizens and demecrats of Bates county,a genial gentlemen and good farmer. He reported the crops looking well in his section and the farmer busy threshing. Roy Proctor, son of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Proctor, who has been under going treatment in Kansas City by an electric doctor for the past month, came home the other day for a rest One of his legs has been badly afflict ed for several years, and we under- stand he improving treatment he is receiving. is Misses Ella and Kate Keller, were seriously hurt by the acc‘deatal up- setting of a vehicle in which they were seated Thursday last, while on their way to the picnic grounds. Miss Kate had an arm dislocated and Miss Ella was pretty badly hurt about the head. ‘he wounds the young ladies received though pain- ful were not serious and both will be all right in a few days. In the past two weeks upwards of fifty or sixty families from Nebraska jhave passed through Butler looking up new homes We have talked to several of the emigrants and they tell us hundreds are leaving Nebraska on account of the drouth and uncer tainty of crops one year with anoth- er. In hunting homes we under- stand several families ‘have located about Foster. Not a word in the Union last week lyoxey, LITTL E oR MeCI H Received on call deposi Check and deposit boo ». Checks a banks rec i drafts BOYS SUIT SALE. tive busin - ed. Look over names ¢ r directors, and give us a call. Buys a good strong knee pant suit, same that were PARMER’S Bank, alee = 2 ee } $1, $1.25 and $150 his is cheaper than to make Ju } them Out sizes; if you need any, buy now sper g | | Springs | Mr and Mrs. Peter Lane and Ji bn} We unders ch Hill have avother ps , the Bates Coun |ty Popa to be edited by Andrew ’) Hackett and Jonn D. Burner. The) A “| nerve that it takes to tackle an un A lot of men and boys engaged in | | dertaking of this kind deserves aa game of base ball on the prairie better fate nine miles south of De Kalb, Texas, a . Saturday, J. N. Beacon, president of the = : ion er under a | Farmers and Merchants bank at > . struck the tree Watoonga, Oklahoma, committed se . 5 crowd were killed outright and a aro moeraey | tnoptaie: bed number of others were injured and 2h RETR it is thought some ofZthem will die. | that his coutidexce had been betray- ed and the sou bad hopelessly for malar wrecked the bank and that both Whether were criminally guilty. Rather than stand the diagrace he chose to end amy other injurious drug enters into his life. the of this remedy. | . Warranted to cure fever and ague. Three | one month is a pretty good showing Judge J. D. Parkinson came down for Cass county. The first who rests City Saturday and under the charge are Clarence Smith | spent a couple of days in town with Winfrey Henry, The Judge is looking mep, who outraged the person of a/ Well and says he enjoys city life. girl named Chifley, under 14 years | His daughter Miss Mary will ofage. They were put under bond ia the Butler schools this year. of $5,000 each The Cw. of Foster, Dr. Farrow and he g over the other day attending the re- sum of $10,000 F rom the amount Mr. of the bonds required the cas Smading is operating in coal and in- pear to be aggravated tended to leave a bid with the clerk ‘for furnishing the court house and jail. He reported the crops all right about Foster aleo that several took larg ak large oak Lightning antidote | ud all malarial diseases, nerated by ither quinine, Ayers Ague Cure is an swamp or sewer arsenic, nor composition men arrested for rape in from Kansas and two ycung ‘old friends. third man is Smading, was gave bond in the union and called on the Times ‘Ss ap- The following Butler teachers who attended the institute were given certificates: Margaret Abell, Hattie i shelter from a show- | und seven of the! teach | a me nic sold at $2.50, | Adair are in St. Joseph buying their ag |} vada, and does an extensive business Fllstock ck ood : : Seman ali stock of goods. only af jin his line i A rote ' Charlie Cameron of Co. B. in the ai ge en si (800° | akirmish at the pienie grounds Fri- subscriber, Bert EES 1 PUES day, had bi s face an powder Buyaleene dlepané: Bove Suits ine mnpleror |northwest of town, called the other|) 0 oq a ten ipanperea by! Deter icine ah ear fr Seg aes is Hi L y Le) i e¢ day and renewed. The Times has few mreuiatcl u double breasted, all silk sewed, a perfeet premature | better frien nh the cor than eae anderstat i see M’KIBBENS. Mrs. J. R. Jenkins and daughter, Mabel, who have been spending sev- eral weeks at Colordo Springs, have returned home. They report an improvement in health and a most excellent time. Jo H. Bunce, at one time Mayor | of Louisville, Ky., and for | years a member of the city council has turned up as a member of the | Kelly army and is among the crowd of tramps about Washington. His two sons were dissipated and one j} cost him all he had. The other is | serving a term in the Colorado peni- tentiary. Bunce at one time was | quite well off. He went to California j about ten years ago and loseing his money joined the Kelly army as a last resort. maby A Good Citizen Gone. Died at his home in this city, Monday morning at 3:30 o'clock, of paralysis, G. W. Cowley, aged 66 | years. Funeral services took place at the family residence at 3:30 p. m., | Tuesday, conducted by Rev. J. W. | Sage, of West Point twp., when the |remains were followed to their last | resting place in Oak Hill cemetery | by a large number of relatives and under the | about the election in Alabama and | Tennesse. When a thing hurts Atki-/ son has a way of letting it alone. Lots | Badgely, C. M. Barclay, Edith Bart- ley, Emma Betz, Mamie Butler, Jas. S. Combs, Dora P. DeAtley, Carrie Freeman, Jessie Hannie, Carrie Har- | mon, P. H. Hill, Ola Humphrey, Anna Lyle, Malissa Madding,Quincy Mitchell, Benj Parker, Lou Powell, F. C. Smith, Mary E. Smith, Ida, Sherman, Annie Shane, Fannie Showalter, Arthur Steele, Lillie Wil- lison and Jessie White. Elmer C. Sattley, late cashier of the Kansas City Safe Deposit and Savings Bank, on trial at Indepen- dence, Mo, for receiving deposits ( after he knew the bank was insolvent, was found guilty by the jury and his | punishment was fixed at four years imprisonment. Friday the judge! had the prisoner brought into court | and passed sentence on him. There remains yet some twenty indict-| ments against him and by the time| |Sattley pays the debt of his miss | deeds he will be a pretty old man. Judge J. L. Porter, of Spruce township, called on the Tres the other day and renewed his subscrip tion and also that of his daughter, Mrs. Edith Murray, who is now teaching school at Longmont, Col The Judge is among the oldest sub | scribers on our books, and for a number of years has been taking two or three copies of the paper. While | here he paid Stewart Atcheson, dem | ocratic eandidate for circuit clerk, | a handsome compliment by saying he was one of the best men in that section of the county, and his popu- larity with the people would win him a number of republican and > populist votes. | Carmon, day reporter on the U. ‘ces and now that success is in reach \it is not only a priviledge but the Baptist denomination and his daily families from Nebraska had located 5 friends. in the vicinity. The taking off of Mr. Cowley was Mr. very sudden and unexpected both Francis of the western part of the} to his family and the community. county, an interesting war relic. It | He was in his usual health Sunday was the Logg Book, kept by J. C. morning up to about 10 o'clock, S.| when he sat down at the table to Flag. The book contained minute | partake of his meal. He had only | particulara of the blockade and seige | heen at the table a minute or 80 of Charleston harbor from May 1861! when he complained of his head to May 31st, 1863. Last week we were shown by |hurting and got up and went into | the sitting room to lay down. Noth- tich Hill Fair. ing was thought of the matter and The gates of the Rich Hill Fair | he remained on the couch until will open to the public Tuesday | labout 2 o'clock in the afternoon, August 21st. The fair will continue | when he said to some of the family, four days closing Friday. It has by | “I want to go to my room.” Just | its liberal and generous management | then he was seized with a stroke of pes in the past outgrown the corporate | ralysis, became unconscious and re- limits of Rich Hill and the Tiwes | mained so until his death. A messen | this year proposes to claim it as a| ger was dispatched for Dr. Boulware county institution aud as its mouth | who responded promptly, but the piece for this side of the river to ex- | patient's condition was beyond | tend the people of north, east and | medical skill, as he was dying when west Bates a cordial invitation to be| | the Doctor arrived. This was the present and Jend their presence and | second stroke of paralysis he had | aid in building up this needed enter- | had, the first being in February prise for Bates county. The good last. people of Rich Hill and south ofthe | The deceased was bornin Tennes- river have taken great pride in its see and came to Bates county in infant industry from the start. 1868. He leaves a wife and six They have labored hard and indus- children, three boys and three girls, triously against adverse circumstan- all grown. Mr. Cow!ey was a member of the duty of the good citizens of every | walk and cunvergation was a suffiei- nook and corner of this county to ent guarantee of his faith in the join hands and with one supreme holy religion he espoused. effort roll back the clouds of disa- He was a high minded, honorable pointment and make the fair what it gentleman, honest in all hie dealings, ought to be and must be. a county/a frend to the needy, respected by | festival. Ho! for the fair. All|/the comtusity, and in hie death ‘aboard and don’t forget your family. | this city md county loses one of its ' Take them too. ' beat citizens. | Have Just Saturday evening,on business,return- | ing Tuesday morning. Miss Kate Beatty, afflicted with consumption, died at the home of her-sister, Mrs. Clinton Wheaton, | three miles east of town, Saturday. See Duvall & Percival before mak- ing a farm loan. 36 4t Dr. Morris and wife, T. J. Day and family and Mr. Percival and | family left Monday for Monegaw of times in his zeal to keep his read- | ers in ignorance of important events | transpiring throughout the county | | Springs to spend a week camping | out and enjoying themeelves. They took with them Col. Dan Crouch and wife colored, to run the kitchen de- partment. he misses some niighty good read- ing. However, railroad commissioner Hendrickson, is keeping its readers chuck full of “railroad legislation, | ficticious capital and enormous prof- its.” DEACON BROS & CO. Received A Car Load of Bright New BAIN WAGONS. Tne Best Painted, the Best Material, the Best Workmanship and the best WAGON ON EARTH. DEACON BROS. & CO.