The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, August 23, 1894, Page 5

Do you Know that we sell re- liable footwear for less money than any other house in town --quality considered. We re- commend and guarantee our $1.50, $2, $2.50 and $3 lines- made in allstyles and the best shoes money. Trya in Bates Co. for the pair. See our boys $1.25 dress shoe Only one week more to buy any summer suit in our store for only $12.75. fie og NE CAN Pea ea 7 r Mens a Bors BSE. UTFITTERS Lee cc a EE BUTCER WEEKLY TIMES! LOCAL ITEMS | | Corn is king. And they smiled at Mr. Ritten- house when he asked pay for the electric light. Mies Mazie Themas, of Rich Hill, is spending a few days in the coun- Will the Kansas City Journal sup- port the ticket nominated at Enxcel- sior Springs, and swallow the plat- |form adopted? If it does, then that paper is made up of deceit and is not worthy of belief. Tne Christian Ecdeavor society of jat the Christian Church in this city | Saturday, Sept. lst and 2d. an interesting programe is being ar | ranged for the occasion. if the populist candidate will jtake our advice be will steer clear of |chattel mortgages, bills of sale and putting up cash in advance thie year. this county will hold a convention! Quite Experience is a dear school, there- | MONEY, LITTLE OR MUCH. | Received on call deposit. Check and deposit book fur- | , and give us a call. FARMER'S BANK, { Butler, Mo. foods before receiving this we arem ‘ : hem. The populist senators voted with ~_— | the republicans to shelve free sugar barb wire, coal and iron. The pop- juliet is strictly honest ‘tili be gets jthere then he begins to hedge for fear he will get there no more. | Peffer dropped into the trust vault early in the action. Goods, underwear: ort auce quickly dt the same time we Col. Ed S. Vance, of St. Louis, fore, the papers should be drawn! | with conditions. | At Dexter, Mo. Friday, Mrs.) Wesley Gladden, went to ber neigh-| bor J. R. Cunningham, and asked to | be protected from the abuse of her, }drunken husband. Cunningham de- | fended her with his shot gun and| Gladden was killed. Rev. F. W. Sneed, pastor of the | Southern Presbyterian church at Columbia, has been called by the Webster Grove Presbyterian church | at St. Louis. The salary 1s $2,000 a! year and free use of a fine pargouage. It’s safe to say he will go. | Mrs. Peter Lane and John Adair, who have been away buying goods for their store, are home again and | their new fall stock is being receiv- ed and a general invitation is extend | ed all to come and inspect the new | goods. | W. B. Tyler, our esteemed farmer friend of Summit townsbip, present- ed yeeditor with a luscious water melon of magnificent proportions. Mr. Tyler owns one of the best farms in the county and is a model farmer. At the farm of Aaron Mitchell, a few wiles northeast of Greentield, Dade county, Friday last a difficulty try visiting Miss Quincy Mitchell. The friends of Mrs. John Van- Rich Hill fair this week. George Newberry gave us @ pleas- | ant call Monday. Frank Teeter, of Arapaho Nebras- ka, renews for another. A new telephone line is being put in by the water company. Miss Sallie Arnold bas returned from her visit in Independence. Wantep—A good girl to do gen- eral bouse work. Mrs. Siras Levy J. L. Cloud will accept our thanks for a renewal ef his subscription. The Times good friend S. M. Tal- bott of Rich Hill renews for another year. The big crops in Bates ought to loosen up a good many mortgages this year. Lots of buyers wanting corn, and they are willing to take it standing in the field. Arthur Wemott and little son are spending a few days in Kansas City visiting his parents. Miss Cosby and Ollie Brown who have been visiting at Eldorado Springs have returned home. The Butler people, who we men- tioned last week as being at Mone- gaw Springs, have returned. W. A. Simpson and Bertha Short, of Virginia, will accept our thanks for renewals of their subscription. The finance committee of the senate have made favorable reports on the four supplemental tariff bills. A good many congressmen have left Washington. Judge DeArmond will remain until the gavel falls for adjournment. The republicans in the senate had a splendid chance to give the people free sugar, but they voted solid against the proposition. Farmers who contemplate ship- ping hogs inte the county to feed should be careful that they are sound and free from disease. We understand seyeral gentlemen from Nebraska are in this county Congge 2 hay and oats to ship to destitute farmers of their | “state. See Duvall & Percival before mak- ing a farm loan. 36 4t ae ee Camp, will be glad to learn that she has about recovered from her severe spell of sickness. i ' ! Bradstreet & Dunn’s weekly re- ports show a marked improvement }in business of the country since the { passage of the tariff bill. Fifty cents an inch for the merch- ant and nine cents for the town, is the way the Record measures space. Rats! Aus, we're ashamed of you. Miss Madeline Pollard ot Breck- inridge notoriety has decided to go on the stage. She will make her pro- fessional debut in Chicago in Octo- ber. The Latter Day Saints who have been having a revival and picnic at Boulware Springs, south of town, for the past week or so, closed last week. The Mail says the large corn crop in Vernon county this year is at- tracting feeders from other states, who are bringing their cattle to that county to feed. | Wm. E. Walton bas gone to Colo- | rado Springs to spend a week or so recreating. His wife, who has been at the Springs for the past month, | will return with him. Our young friend Ross H. Conard living near Passaic, son of our es- teemed friend A. A. Conard, of Adrain, called and had his name en- rolled for the booming Trurs. The band room is next to the Tiues office, and we have discovered | some of the boys have an immense | amount of leisure time to toot their horns to the annoyance of this office. TheHoliness people are holding a big camp meeting at Nevada. The Mail says there are acres of tents about 3,000 people, and 29 family | tents are stretched for visitors. Many bodily ills result from ha- bitual constipation, and a fine con- stitution may be weakened and ruined by simple neglect. There is no medicine for regulating the bow- els and restoring natural action to Pills. and the audience canvas will house! | pew life and vigor to every function | occurred between Emmet Haynes and Virgil and Dick Courtney. In defending himself Haynes used a neck yoke of a wagon striking and killing Virgil Courtney. Misses Carrie and Mamie Smith, two charming young ladies of Kan- sas City, are visiting the family of Mr. S. H. Smiser, this week. These young ladies in company with Misses Ada Smniser, Anna, Ida and Cora Whitsitt, made the Times oflicea very pleasant call, Friday last. Miss Mary Walker will leave Sat urday for Chicago, where she will enter a large millinery establishment and spend a couple of months in the} trimming department. Then she re turns to Pleasant Hil! to take charge of the trimming department of a millinery store at that place. F. M. Harris, of Lone Oak, called and had his paper changed to Butler. He complained of not receiving his paper regular at I.one Oak postoffice. The Ties is delivered at the differ- ent post offices in this county on time, dnd we will have to insist on the prompt delivery of the paper to the person to whom it is addressed. | Nevada will hold a city election Saturday to vote $10,000 in bonds The city has four $1,000 bonds} about due, the floating debt aggre- gate $3,000 besides judgments to Mre. Harriet Scott, $200; Miss Moore, $5,000; and Church claim is $500. Joseph Balls, colored, aged 114 years,died at Emporia, Kansas,Satur- day. He was boro in South Caro lina in the year 1780. He gained his freedom by following Sherman's army north. If he held George Washington's horse or blacked his boots it was not related. Lamar Democrat: As an illustra tion of the extent of the craze popre lism may lead a aan into it may be mentioned that Senator Allen, of Ne- braska, has introduced a bill to ap propriate $50,000,000, to be divided | among the states for distribution to the deserving poor. A Grand Feature Of Hood's Sarsaparilla is that while it purifies the blood and sends it} coursing through the veins full of | richness and health, it also imparts | | of the body. Hence the expression so often heard: “Hood's Sarsaparilla | made a new person of me.” It over-| comes that tired feeling so common | now. | Hood's Pills are purely vegetable, the digestive organs equal to Ayer's| perfectly harmless, always reliable and beneficial. and one of Uncle Sam's clerks on the main line of the Mo I road, spent Saturday shaking hands F 8s ¢ rau- the city with friends. He id the Tires a pleasant visit and apped jokes with the local editor who has known him from boyhood ng extreme’y low Prices thathave moved piles of wash | nished free. Checks and drafts | | on her banks received or} ea - Every acecommoda- | | Ton consistent with conserva- | - ;, | ae teruorsipirpiigeckerg Ve areanxious to close out all our summer 1 ok OVer names of our our main stock. Todo prices on mgs. ete, at a lively rate thelast week or so:‘and will move the bal- will heep up with the times inhaving al! thenew things which are being continually preduced in our lines. M’KIBBENS. The Col. is looking well and com = a plains that his job pays him about The democratic state committee $1,200 a year. proposes to open the state campaign at Warrensburg September 6th, and 7th—the occasion of the demoerat- ic press convention. The speakers announced to be present are Gov. Stone, Champ Clark, “Silver Dick” Bland, and Congressman D. A. De- Armond. The meeting will certain- ly be a red letter day for Warrens- burg, and itis expected that several thousand people will be present. The ive Radford thinks the animal was | 8 ‘rates. In passing near the hitch rack around the court house-yard Satur- day evening Chas. Radford was se- verely kicked by a blind horse, the | lick struck him on the hand and hip bone. Dr. Renick said that had the kick been received three inches high? er it would certainly have killed bim. The blind horse was being annoyed by the other horses nipping him and Mr. mistaken in the object of his anger. railroads will Our good friend Carter Wallace, of Charlotte township, gave us a the other day. He Miss Maggie Summers, who hag been spending the past two or three, months in the city visiting her grand pleasant call parent Mr r Zl her departure Monday morning for | tract of land to his farm. 5 His flax Amerilla Texas, where she will spend | ¥@S good but the continued dry the wiater teaching in the high | Weather had damaged 8 part of his school of that place. She expects | corn crop. Mr. Wallace is a splendid to stop at Nevada and visit afew armer, drives fat horses, keeps a daya with her Uncle J. J. Abell, and well filled larder and you FOuEE hear also a day or so with her aunt Sliss | him complaining of heard times or Lyde Abell, at Witchita, Kansas. pares the administration for not The Tres wishes her a safe and | making it rain or furnishing the pleasant journey to Texas. | money to gather his crops. The Union criticises the Tres be- cause it advertises the big crops in this county. Allright, standing can- Butler Academy has been fortu- nate in securing the service of Mr. W. M. Higgins, as teacher for tne excursion | Avellisand etandiestook | said he had added another 80 acre) coming year in the place of Mr. | Schleicher, who has been compelled | by circumstances to resign his posi- didate Atkeson, what you wanted was drouth,chinch bugs and famine, and thereby you hoped to ride into tion here Mr. Higgins comes to | office on empty stomaches, empty Butler well recommended. He is | gravaries, abuse of the administra- a graduate of Yale, in the class of | tion, and general calamity howl. The 93, where he took epecial honors in | Tiaes is glad the Bates county far- German. He has been teaching the | mer has been favored this season,and past year in the Uniyersity School | sends the good news over the world. in Kansas City. His work here will | Mrs. Lyde Henry, livi surely be successful. Bee nae vot areeaue | Iowa City, Iowa, arrived in Butler W. P. Wagoner, a fraud life insur | the other day, accompanied by her ance agent who was in Butler some | two sons, Herry and Karl, who have time ago and buncoed several of our | grown to be handsome young men business men, has been run down \ since leaving this city. Mrs. Henry and captured at Oshkosh, Wisconsin. | reports she has been enjoying good He was indicted by the recent grand | health in Iowa. She said the drouth jury and Sunday Sheriff Colyer left jin her section of the state had liter. for Jefferson City to secure the | ally burnt up all vegetation, and the necessary papers to bring him back. | country did not look more desolate H L. Tucker is one of the men he | in December. Mrs. Henry own con- fleeced and no stone has been left | siderable property in and about But- unturned by that gentleman to catch | ler, and will again make this her the scoundrel and bring him to jus | home. tice. The thieves had better let Mr. | Phe action of Rich Hill lodge I. Tucker alone, he is worse than a! : : : ee Louisiana blood hound when riled | UO. en Coane Bee in securing the Odd Fellows orphay home, is not received by the Odd Fellows of this town in a friendly I. F. Elliagton, of Pleasant Gap township, called Saturday, and he | was certainly the happiest man that | spirit or as an act of brotherly love. has darkened the Tives office door There are different theories advanced in acoon’sage. We first thought | for the action of Rich Hill lodge, the hilarity was caused from the | the one most generally accepted be- pessage of tariff billora new convert ng jealousy of the county seat. to the democratic party in his town- Anyhow, the boys up here are not ship. But not this, it was the arri- | feeling good over the matter and val ofa 10 pound daughter at his they are not refraining from express- home the 12th. Mre. Donnohue, ing themselves in plain English. On who has been visiting her sister Mrs. behalf of the fraternity of this Ellington and other relatives, for the | county the Tires is sorry that Rich past two weeks came to town with | Hill Odd Fellows did not see it to him and took the evening train fer | their advantage to support their ber home in Kansas City. ‘own county to secure the home. P. E. Emery, of Lawrence, Kansas, spent Monday in the city looking after business interests. Mr. Emery isan enterprising man and he has done much for Butler in the way of building fine dwellings and business houses. J. M. Clark, the Ties’ esteemed farmer friend from Nyhart neighbor- hood, called Saturday and renewed. He reports his crop good this year and was pleased with the price he was getting for his oats and flax “crops and the outlook for corn. He said he had just received a letter from his brother-in-law E A. Tel- ford, who lives in McPherson coun- ty, Kansas, and he complained that | 37 acres of corn on his place would not make 37 bushels. His wheat | and oats crops were failures, grass |had dried up and he and his family | would return to Missouri to live in | two weeks. He had enough of Kan- | sas and hot winds. | It may be a democrtic (?) scheme |as charged by the Union, that the | republicans have put their ticket in | the field, but that doesn’t lessen the | calumny with which one of the pop- | ulist candidates has covered himeelf | by offering to “trade off '—in cther | words he offered to sacrifice other | men on his ticket for the sake of a | few votes for himself. The man who | will stab a friend in the dark is cer- | tainly more contemptible than a cur | and is entitled to no respect or con- | sideration at the hands of his friends. “And the end is not yet.”—Rich Hill Tribune. cium light, the voters up this way would like to have the name of the | individual offering to “trade off.” In jthe last campaign it was chattel mortgages, bills of sale and cash. Office first is what the average pop- ulist candidate wants, then the cash in it. after that what time he bas to spare will be given to yelling for principle. i | Let the Tribune turn on the cale | } One night last week Dick Pearson, a farmer living near Rieh Hill, who grows a big water melon patch, be- ing annoyed by night prowlers who carried off his melons and destreyed | his vines, concluded to lay in wait with his shot gun and welcome visi- tors. At the usual hour of attacking a patch Farnest Dyers and two jother young men by the name of Foster and Ulrich, from Rich Hill, put in their appearance and began to sample the luscious fruit, when Mr. Pearson leveled his battery and let fly a load of fine shot which took effect in the hip and lege of young | Dyer, two more loads in quick suc- cession were sent after the fleeing forms of the other two but the shot failed to catch them. The Rich Hill papers say Dyer is badly wounded and may die. Also that the action of Mr. Pearson in using his gun is both condemned and sustained by the community. DEACON BROS & CO. Have Just Received A Car Load of Bright New BAIN WAGONS. Tae Best Painted, the Best Material, the Best Workmanship and the best WAGON ON EARTH. DEACON BROS. & CO.