The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, April 4, 1895, Page 1

VOL. XVII. BUTLER, MISSOURI, THURSDAY APRIL 4, 1895. FARMERS BANK OF BATES COUNTY, Cash Capital. COUNTY DEPOSTORY OF BATES CO." | OSCAR REEDER ...... R. J. HURLEY... E. A. BENNETT ove E. D. KIPP.......... Receives Deposits subject to chec transacts a general Bankine busin Solicited. DIRECTORS, D. N. Thompson, Geo W Kiersey, John Steele M. G, Wilcox, Osear Reeder, J, J. McKee, E. D. Kipp. Virginia Items. (‘*We heard ’em say it and noted it down, The things that happened about the town, So don’t blame us if true or not, We always give you the best we've got.) That gray horse goes to the black- sminith’s often. At the sociable near Virginia last week six couples present, oranges and peanuts had to ‘‘git J. W. Park wil! commence work on his barn north of Virginia, this week. It is 82x45. Grandmother Holloway is the old est woman in our township. She was born in Jefferson Co., Tennessee, December 13, 1809; was married in Monroe Co., Tenn., in 1832, moved to Missouri the same year, sixty-three years ago, and settled near Harrison- ville. In 1835 the territory was or- ganized into a county called Van Buren and in 1849 it was changed to Cass Co. Van Buren declared against slavery and Cass in favor of slavery. Her husband died at the close of the war, She is stout and works every day. She is the only one living of the little band that left Tennessee sixty-three years ago. She was eighty- tive years old last December. John Comiford has been quite sick with the measles, Misses Mary and Katie Durrett spent a few days with their grand- parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. B. Hickman, at Butler. Miss Yula ‘Tye closed her school at Virginia, last Friday. Mrs. John Huffman is on the sick list. John Nanee, the Virginia carpen ter, is at work on a large storage building in east Virginia. A. J. Gillespie, of Kansas City, is buying all the cattle and hogs in this section, and paying good prices. Charley Wolf sold his hogs and cattle to a Kansas City man. The cattle and hogs are getting cleaned up around here at good round prices, Populist or no Populist. Nelse Nestlerode passed through Virginia last Sabbath afternoon on his way to Butler to attend Probate Court on Monday morning, as coun- sel were to argue the case then Cart Wallace says he will plant 60 acres of corn this week if the weather is fair. Mrs. R. F. Judy is at Kansas City visiting her two daughters, who are attending school there. Harve Dudly lost a good horse last Saturday night. Ezra Park, who has been living in Kansas for several years, came back Jast week and expects to spend the summer in Bates county. There are two cases of measles in | the neighborhood at present, and some are hiding yet from them, Mrs. G. W. Park and Mrs. H. H. Mesher, of Butler, will start the last of next week on a visit to Caldwell Co., having relatives in Hamilton, near Kidder and Cameron. The school at Nestlerode school house will close next Friday with a big dinner, There will be nothing at night. The Johu Hensley farm, north of | the road from John Durrett, bought by the land agent. Omer Drysdale is his house this week. As to the election the Pops carried the day and do not seem to all be sad-faced. 1 expect they want the whole earth but the Prohibitions want a small corner to rest was Deepwater Items. Nickell, living two miles east hich t him somewhere between 12 and 15 hundred dollars. He had a fine job of painting done by J E Prewitt, of Spruce, who for lout and vote the Democratic ticket. | thos¢ going to paint { s nicely housed in his uew ! $50,000.00. oe seeees President lst \Vice-President 2d Vice-President scnsscccccos GUMEEE ck, Lones Money, issues Drafts and ess. Your patronage respectfully Joun Ey, Shatt, R. J. Hurley | Clark Wix, E. A. Bennett, Jas. M. McKibben, H. M. Gailey, J. EVERINGHAM. Secretary the present is painting carriages and buggies. Miss Pearl Thompson's clothes caught fire while she was burning trash off the rd, but luckily her mother was nearand put the fire out. {She only got a few burns on the hands and face. Mr Kelley of Cass county, is feed- ing 142 head of cattle and 223 head of hogs in Spruce, on the Jand of Mr Oneal. He reports them doing well. Old Father Betz, living 1} miles | north of Spruce, is in very feeble health. He has been afflicted with | asthma for several years, | The south Methodist church of Johnstown, has been nicely ceiled and is now in condition for service. Squire W _H Gates, of Henry coun- ty, who had his leg broken not long since, is reported as doing nicely. Wheatin this section is looking better since the snow and rains. Farmers are about through sowing oatsand are making arrangements to sow flax soon. Frank Covey, son of John Covey, living in Deepwater, Henry county, departed this life March 26th. 1895, of consumption. He had kept his bed some four months previous to his death. Srxcu. Prairie City Items. Oat sowing is about over. A large crop of flax is being sown {in this neighborhood. The election in this township re- | sulted in the election of three demo- | Mr. and Mrs. E. Shrum, of Schell City, passed through town Saturday | en route for Rich Hill. | Quite a lot of the Nebraska suffer- ers, who wintered in this section, have returned. Wim Woods has moved in his new house near Papinville. | Drep:—Near Prairie City, March | 30th, daughter of Mr. August Brau- | ner, of measles, aged about 18 years. The cheese factory is being remod- | eled and machinery is being altered. John Wheaner is managing the carpentering and Jas. Meys of Rock- ville, has been employed to arrange the machinery. | Dr. Thompson, who has been con- | fined to his bed for some time, is up and around. | JD Hornbuckle’s family are all | down with the measles; six are all] there in bed, while some of the rest | | dre on the lift. The Sehell City bridge across the | Osage, is reported as being in a dan- gerous condition. F. Sundirwirth is building a new residence on his farm for his son, | Julius. | Another wedding is reported to | take place. Harry. Culver Items. | Everything quiet on Central Ave., | W.S. Ray, and glad to know he! nvalescent since the defeat of the . L. party in Shawnee. j is as it was two years since save J. Creath for collector. D crats and the balance are republicans. | , The ticket |“ } I rnf y the right hand 1 s shown. Our ar as follows: Mayor Fred ©. t : Ray; city attor ph I - at thoug eand G ze Hutt have since the election commenced his se Jas fond term of sol here. He is con- sidered A No. 1. while we, in Eastern Bates, lost seve . Butler gained, as they moved to town. JACK. Ballard Items. We had a nice rainh e Saturday rs are busy plowing. Ed Young, our blacksmith is kept! pretty busy late Mrs. Emina Johnsouand Miss Mary | Miller were in te Unele Billy Gr week, Ira Fowler ishuntinga horse trade. n, Saturday. Our new grist mill Is about com- pleted Farmers are about through sowing |} oats. Rk. D. Beatty and wife, of Jolns- town, spent Sunday at Ira Fowlers. Mrs. W: B. Cole visited her parents at Clinton last week. Will and Reck Cole went to Urick, Friday with a load of produce for W. B. Morlan. Ray MeFarland was in Ballard Sunday evening. Will Cole sold a fine Jersey cow and calf to Charley Hill for $65. Preaching at Walnut Grove the first and third Sundays in each mouth by Rev. Walkup. The Women’s Missionary Society meets at Walnut Grove, the last Wednesday in each month. Misses Gerty Asbury and Anna Winegardner were delegates to Clin- ton from Walnut Christian Endeavor. Mr. Chandler is putting up a house for his brother-in-law, Mr. Lawson of Clinton. Misses Ollie and Addie Kiersey were in for their mail, Saturday. Jim Cole and wife visited his moth- er, Mrs. C. D. Cole, Saturday. Mrs. Will Calvert was the guest of Mrs. W. B. Morlan, Sunday evening. School commences this week with Miss Mary Miller for teacher. GUESS WHO. Nyhart Items. John Hougland ‘and Shally, our vil- lage store keeper, took a flying trip to Butler a day or twoago. The democrats got there. We vote em straight; that’s the way to do OVS. Butler has two dailies, and they are making it hot for each other. Will Smith working for John Hoagland thi és Will Dark y improving. Lottie Dunean got the prize at the show the other night; it couldn’t have } been given to a better one. Ed Frederick was down the other night. Herbert Steele got him a new road wag Look out girls Gus Berry and Harry Shepherd were in our midst, Sunday Sunday was a bad day but the singing wasa success Bard was in our town a few days ago. here will be preach g here next Sunday. GEN GRADY. The republicans and populists of age township combined against srats and the Times takes dem | pleasure in recording the handsome | ic ticket over x is dem- victory of th the combi the vote ar ocratic ticket jorities for majorities for t TRUSTE! W. T. Jot S. B. Cole Johnson's majority FOR CLERK AND ASSESSOR 153 153 John N. Langdon 7 A. C, Sampson $19 Langdon’s majority 108 FOR TOWNSHIP COLLECTOR, Almost all are busy, some sowing D ay eS 403 | oats and others plowing for flax. ‘Broaddus majority 130 Lornie Kiersey, democratic candi- pap eels ; date for collector was defeated by | janes Sheppard 497 jonly one vote. We are sorry to hear} Thomas Cheeseman 134 of his defeat, as he is a young man of Shepp: A 63 sterling worth. . | FOR JUSTE PEACE AND Mr. Givens purchased a new outtit MEMBERS OF TOWNSHIP BOARD of farm tools. icc we Secu y shaped ' x, . 1 5 is 19 Frank Hendrix expects to put out |f Soe ciey Hes = oe ss 8 MeGennis’ majo 9s fessrs. Elliott, Stover and Ray | w= _. Fletcher 501 Be Che have new plows to turn) j) yo Kennett 390 the soil this spring. i’ pic * Bs 4 Pha 2 ¥ Fletcher's majority 111 Carl Decker is feeding a load of| Fletcher smaiorty og cattle. . | J.J. Francisco 482 Lewis Decker bought a lot of fine |" }j. alexander 434 calves at ans ‘it a *. = >. . . a calves at Kansas City Franciseo’s majority 48 Miss Emma Bolin appreciates aday {of rest now and then, even if it is | election day. Unele Billy Griggs was able to be oyal ABSOLUTELY PURE Not Many People are Without Work. The recent s al strikes by wagers, ox f effectually emagogic our people are jor want of em ands of id to be in a state of nd the fact that ed to con- for their labor.—New York Sun. = Was in town last | On machinery. NO 20 FARMERS | WILL SAVE YOU MONEY! POOOOOSO ONL OOOSHOORA I handle one of the latest improv- ed and best lines of farm implements that ever ‘came to Butler, all fully guaranteed, and if not found as represented money refunded. | call your ‘attention to the Is i as the lowest. BULLETS FLEW | ‘In the Oregon Express Hold Up | Near Wheatland.—Sheriif | Bogard and one Robber | Shot Dead. | Sacramento, Cal , March 30.—The !north-bound Oregon express, which lleft here at 11 last night, was held jup near Wheatland | of here by two u a. sked men at 1:45 n. Sheriff Bogard of Tehama County | who was on the train, and one of ' the robbers, were killed. in the bat- |tle which ensued in one of the | coaches. The robbers, some little time after they had stopped the train, came on | the seeond coach with the fireman jahead of them, and a sack made out | of one leg of a pair of old overalls. | The passengers were told to put | their money and other valuables in | the sack. The bandits had robbed the first coach and were eulering the second when Sheriff Bogard, who had gone down the rnad on business, and jwho was coming in the other end of the car, fired and killed one of the robbers. Before the robber fell, he shot | twice, both shots taking effect in the fireman's baek and leg. As Bogard turned partly around to get a shot at the othor robber he received bis death wound, before he ‘had time to fire the third time The robber turned, after killing Bogard, immediately leaving the car. The robbers first entered the ex press car, bat as the safe had a time ck they were unable to secure apy so they proceeded to the ard had boarded tue train ai i had taken a sleeper. awakened by the bis when he encountered the bandits. The dead robber was attiredin a _bicyle suit and carried a satchel, in 30 miles north | simple, all steel, and in fact the King of all planters. \different kinds of Cultivators, Walking Plows, and the lightest running sulky plows on earth; the ball-bearing disc harrows,champ- ion and plano binders and mowers, Avery Gorn King Planter, I earry WAGONS, BUGGIES, SURREYS HARDWARE, &e. I will sell you wagons from $46 up; cultivators from $13.50 up; walking plows at rock bottom prices. I also call your special at- tention to my high grade buggies manufactured by the Enterprise Carriage Mfg. Co., of Miamisburg, Ohio. They are fiirst-class in ever particular and I will sell you a $75 buggy for $65; road wagons from $30 up; hardware as low all on JH. ROST, Butler Mo. East Side Square. the pistols, two of which were on! him. The dead robber is not known. The fireman, A. Nethercott, was seriously wounded, having received two wounds in different parts of the body, The colored porter in the tourist sleeper, just beyond the day coach, became aware that the robbery was_ in progress, and knowing that Sher iff Bogard was in a berth, cslled him. Bogard, armed with his heavy re volver, started for the door to north He crossed the platform between the sleeper and the day coach and as he entered the latter at the rear door the robbers came in at the nerth. The Sheriff stepped to one side and fired. His bullet dropped one of the men, but the second fail ed to reach its target. One of the robbers must have seen Bogard enter, and running alongside of the car, entered and shot the Sheriff from the rear. The fatal wound is in the main right ar tery, in the back, just below the | kidneys. The robber, after Bogard fell, ask- ed: “Are you killed, Bill?” evidently knowing the Sheriff or mistaking him for some one else with whom he bad acquaintance. Merwin. ‘i This little town, though young in years, seems to be a healthy infant. The houses all look new and clean, and many new dwellings are under contract A new two-story brick ’ building bas just been completed for a hotel, and our former fellow towns- man. Jesse Nave will have charge of it. Mr. George T. Williams laid out an addition to the town on the east side last week, and already ove or two residences are going up on it, one a fine brick by Jas. Crawford. He has also sold three tracts of jand in the vicinity lately at good prices, room iusi? i eharge of the u-w bank express , themselves as very well satisfied ; ands, even partially, | which were a pair of overalls, and | with the amount of business done! proves that there ise good market/|in which there were two improvised / go far, although the bank is only a | given foressh. {pockets made of toweling to hold | few weeks old. Svurveror. St. Joseph, Mo, March 31 —Liz- zie and Lauia Cook, two good look- ing girls 9 aud 11 years of age, were furnished transportation to day to | Kansas City by Mayor Shepherd. They had walked from Omaha to this city, their parents, who had re- moved from Omaha to Kansas City some time previous, having left them at Omaha, telling them that they would send for them as soon as they could raise the money. The girls waited three weeks, and not hearing from them started out; they told their story and given assistance. Auburn, I], March The little town of Auburn, in Sangamoz Coun ty, was visited at 2:30 this morning by four robbers, who entered the State Bank and cracked the sefe with dynamite. The charge was so heavy that the safe was completely wrecked, and the contents were strewn everywhere. The robbers secured about $1,600 in money, and succeeded in getting away without being captured. The explosion aroused the citizens, but too late to effect their capture, al- though they were seen flying from town in a covered wagon. af PUBLIC SALE. Of Fine Jersey Cows, Bulls Calves, also Hogs, St Mares and Farming Im plements. and ion 1 will sell at pabtic ¢ at my Stock Barns in mencing st} o’clocks & Wednesday, April 10, 1895. And continuing from day to day unt thing is sold towing deseri and propert: head of Po | dersey Mile: 1 with calf their side. -$ end y Calves, four . | Years old. Two J Pini tere Four Jersey B cent interest. i pyemee with spprov