The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, May 9, 1895, Page 1

VOL. XVII. BUTLER, OF BUTLER, MO. CAPITAL, Transacts a general banking busir mers, merchants and the public gener all funds committed to our charge. commodation in the way of loans to ot to loan on real estate at lowest rates, allowing borrowers to pay part orall) We at ony time and stop interest. ness, (DIRECTORS. Or. T. C. Boulware CH Dutcher John Deerwester JR Jenkins Booker Powell H If Piggott © R Radford TJ Wright Geo L Smith Frank M Voris OTHER STOCKHOLDERS, E Bartlett’ Margaret Bryner; Lulu Brown Hurley Lumber Co Frank Deerwester ‘Dr J Everingham F Robert McCracken A McCracken M V Owen Dr WRT John Pharis Wm W Trigg G 4 Caruthers © & E Freeman: Charles Pharie Wm Walls H_4 Cheif GB Hickman JKR G P Wyatt JM Courtney} D B Heath JW Reisner Dr NL Whipple Robert Clar Semuel Levy L_B Starke Max Weiner CP &8 LColeman CH Morrison’ TR Davis Dr W D Hannah d Clem Slay back John H Sullene. nS Nyhart Items. | We are very thankful for the good rains we have had the past few days. Corn is looking fine, also -oats and the wheat crop will be immense if the bugs are only destroyed. | Clark, the blacksmith, is having | lots of work to do; he is an extra j good smith. Say, you can hear Ed Frederick singing every day about what good | times we are going to have when we get a populist president. I don’t know what better times we would want, wheat, corn and oats all good prices, stock has been very high this year to what it generally is. Henry Taylor, of near Butler, was in our village Ll teat prospecting for coal; better wait ’till next winter. Manning Daniels got through planting corn Friday. We were misinformed about King going to build a new store room in this village; it was Herbert Steele. He will get the foundation down this week. church Large crowd at Sunday night. ‘ Mr. Dickson traded horses with Shally last week; [believe D. got the best of it. Clark is contemplating handling threshing machines this year. We wish him sue Wonder why Shally tied one of his | horses out in the road last Wednes- | day night? Charles Whetstone is 100 acres of corn, pretty for one man to look after. Perry Most was in this vicinity a day or two this week. \ Will Smith has been Butler, putting out | large crop | visiting in GEN. GRADY. | Prairie City Items. : The main topie of conversation among the farmers are bugs. Some wheat is turning yellow and seems to be dying in spots. j If the fruit is not molested by some insect we will certainly reap a boun- | tiful harvest. | Corn looks very thrifty yxrowing fine. A. S. Kemper was surprised on his birthday, May 3rd, oncoming plowing at noon to tind h thronged with relrtives and f and a table spread with all the good things that a hungry plowman could | ask for had been prepared by Mrs. | Kemper. The afternoon was spent with music, games, ete. The Indian show at Papinville, this week,is drawing quite a crowd. | Owing to the rain last Saturday, | the cleaning up of the Prairie City | cemetery was a failure, Another | meeting will be called soon by the | and is house | ends, | committee. HARRY. | Summit Items. Some nice showers lately, which make things look lovely. Corn planting is about over, at) least, the bulk of it is in the ground Summit furnished one of Butler's justices a bad case of assault with in- | tent to kill, last week, so we are! informed. : We noticed our old time friend, Hick Ray, on the streets in Butler | Saturday. He is anunwavering dem- | ocrat and is in favor of free silver. | . He is, at present, attending the state normal at Warrensburg. | What does that stir mean among | the township committeemen? Won- der if the chairman willcall a meet- ing? Just as well do it, as an expre sion Will come on the question which seems to be agitating the minds of | the people now more than any other and just as well have it, as we might | rest better afterwards. It will pot! down any more in the west is the | people, generally, are left free from) in from ; *¢ certain party leaders to act on their own judgment. We hear of war and rumors of war, but if those at the head of affairs will say the word, the American people will buek “Old Johnny B.'s” troops off the American continent in as good shape as it was ever done. We hear of some fields of wheat being plowed up on account of so many bugs. It would have been the part of wisdom to have left off sow- ing that grain last fall. The few pieces of corn that is up show a good stand. The weather the past week could not have been better for securing a good stand all round. A large acreage has been planted the last ten days. The band boys only meet every Saturday night at present, very busy time, you know, and the boys are all industrious. Your scribe has nearly finished planting corn, and will proceed to cultivating that which is up and ready to work. Never since we've been farming—and that has been our life occupation—have we been through planting as early as the 3d day of May. A very large area of flax has been planted in flax and oats and the acre- age of corn will be larger than ever. Most all the large pastures have been plowed and planted to corn and oth- er grain. ‘There seems to be an over south for Walter Decker. Wal- how un- feel by NIX. it. Don’t you remember pleasant you was made to that oversight one evening. Reepwater Items. SL Coleman purchased of Mr M Meyers 40 acres of land adjoining his north 80, paying the sum also 80 acres near by known as the Dillon place, price paid $1,700. Albert Young took cattle to pasture Monday. ‘Township 8. 8. convention held at | | Spruce the 4th Sunday in April at 2 o'clock, to elect township officers for the ensuing year. The following of- ficers were elected for the ensuing year: President, Van Kretzinger; otar Miss Frankie treasurer, Miss Olive Simpson. There was a surprise party at Dick Rei , last week, given in honor of his wife’s birthday. W LJackson and wife have returned from Cedar County Miss Grace Thornburg visited Ely Girove girls last week, Fishing is the order among small boys. Sunday school at Elm Grove every Sunday at 3p. m. Everybody invited. Gieo Porter went to Montrose last week and purchased a new set of harness, he must be going to famn of the day | on a larger scale. Rev. Shrtun, of Schell City, visited friends and relatives in east Deep- water last week. Judge Porter has sold 40 acres of land to Sam Spears for $1,300. Sam Cheatham has his kitchen about completed. Miss Willie Mosheir has been visit- summer | ing at her uncle’s this week in east Deepwater, The singing school at Mr. Thomp-/ son’s last Sunday night was largely attended by the young folks. Preaching at the South Methodist chureh the 3d Sunday in the month by Rey. Johnson, of Johnstown. Mesirs. Sam and Bert Gilland have a new buggy. What is the matter with the Bal- lard boys; several of them were seen in Johnstown Sunday. John Reigus and Geo Porter went to Appleton City last Saturday on) business. Mr E F Smith and family left last Tuesday for lowa, where they will ABSOLUTELY PURE - $110,000. We solicit the accounts of far- attraction ter hitch your horse and don’t forget | of $1,200; | his 2-year-old ; Ludwick; |} MISSOURI, THURSDAY MAY 9, 1895. ex Weekly Times. 9: 25 NO reside in the future. Miss Minnie Talmage City, was the of Wiiker Sunday guest Virginia Items. noted and say it ally, promising a safe de wy for! Une We are prepared to extend liberal ae- et ities! ir customers. Funds ays on hand | So dou ti ame usift & salways¢ e've The rain urday afternoon glad- dened the hearts of the farmers. { Elmer Simpson, of Trading Post, | was in Virginia last Sabbath; he re-| ports lively times in Kansas. Plenty | ood fish to eat. | There willbe a meeting of 8. | workers next Sunday at the Christian ,church, at 4p. m. for the purpose of | making arrangements to canvass the jtownship. Asa Culver will address | the meeting. | | Mr Reede, living one mile north-| j west of John Woods a fine | }imalte hog came to his a week ago last Saturday. | Mrs Mike Molony spent a couple of | days in Butler last week. | W T Cowan and Jno Durret start- | ed to Jackson county, Mo., Monday of this week, to look for farms; they went across the country in their own conveyance. Ha 1 of Nebraska, madea two-days’ visit to friends last week. Fred Heckadon had a cow killed by lightning last Friday. The ani- mal was 15 yards from Mr. H. who wasin the stable, and the shock stunned him, Meeting at Nestlerode school house stillin progress. Much good has been done. Mrs Josie Park, of Yankton, 8. D., isathome with her parents fora short time ‘till her better— comes. Grant Park, from near Englewood and his sister Mrs Dr Risinger, of Winfield, Kan., who were called here to attend the funeral of their brother Ezra Park, will remain two weeks. Mr Walker passed through Vir- inia last Friday with a large drove f cattle taking them to pasture. NELS’ CLERK. | & oO MANY STRICKEN DEAD. | Stark Desolation Marks the Wake | of the lowa Cyclone. LONG LIST OF ‘VHE KILLED. | | ee Forty Farm Houses Are Swept From | Rarth by the ‘Lornado. | | | }EOUR SCHOOLS ARE WRECKED. } Tee | Are Blown | Children and Teachers j Long Distances,—Victims Lodged in Trees. Sioux City, la., May 4—A torna-| do swept through a thickly settled | district near Sioux Center xbout 4} ocluck yesterday afternoon, killing | at least twenty three persons, many | jot the children, in three school! | houses which were swept away, fatal: | | ly injuring at least ten other persons | and badly hurting thirty more. At} least forty farm houses were also; |destroyed. The death list may be| greatly increased by reports from} | outlying sections | | ‘Tne tornado formed about three miles northeast over a district about | fourteen wiles long. It first struck the grouad southwest of Sioux Cen ter, and from there to Perkins not a | building in its path was left stand | ing. The latter part of its course | took the form of an elongated letter |S” crossing the railroad track twice and for two miles it seems to have |gone straight up the track of the |railway. ‘Chose who saw it at Per- | kins believed it rose or was dissipat-| ed at that poiat. The four school houses, where school was in session, were entirely | | Wiped from the face of the earth, |nota vestige being left except a few rocks to mark where they stood. | The children and teachers were ca |ried from a quarter to a half mile, / | where they were found, some dead and others badly mangled. At the schoo! house where George! | Marsden was teaching not a vestige of the building remains, and Mars- den was found some distance away in a field, together with two scholars. Two little girls of John Koster, belonging to the same school, were found chnging together where they had been d into a wire lead, fence, ven covered w d, and are expected to die Both le ° of CG. H- Haggie, belong to the same school, were broken and they were internal- A PICNIC AT LANE & ADAIR’S The Season Has Now Come For Us To Open Fire On High Pnices. DOWN, DOWN THEY COME While it is a fact that goods are advancing rapidly in the market, we had this in view and bought large quantities of Spring Goods before the advance, which we will continue®to sell at hard time prices. We dont want the earth, We Only Want Such Portions Of Your Trade As We Merit Every day people come into our house who tell us that they have paid more for this or that article than we sell them for; then if we can save you money why not buy your goods of us. YOU BELONG TO NO ONE, BUY WHERE YOU CAN DO THE BEST Look at a few, only, of many low prices we are making, see if they have advanced—NOT ONE CENT Good Dress Ginghams Solid colored Turkey red calicoes Indigo blue calico solid colored Lawrence L L muslin 1 yd wide bleached muslin Hope bleached muslin, soft tinish Lonsdale or Fruit of the Loom Best a. c. a feather tickings Best colored tickings Fine zephyr ginghams The best best dress ginghams Fine bleached table linen 5e Solid colored red table linen 256 De Good all linen towel crash Sic Se OVERALL, SHIRTS AND SHOES. 5e See our overall at 50c 5e See our extra heavy at 65e The And the Very Best at Tie Sie See our custom made shirt Rit lie See our heavy work shirts 50 15e See our white shirt at be 10c See our $1.50 white shirt at $1.00 S#e Ask to see our undewear at 25e 3be And the Very Best at 50c SHOES! We will save you 20 per cent On every Pait you buy of us, lsee f On this line of goods we can and will save you money if you will only give us a chance. ; yourself. You can sell your produce to eny of the many reliable grocery houses in the town and they will give you an order to Lane & Adair’s Store, which we will take in exchange for goods same as cash. ly destroyed. Haggie escaped with- out any material injuries, but his eldest daughter was found lodged in a tree where she had been hoisted by the storm, and 0 seriously injur- }ed that death is expected momenta- rily, while two grown sons who had come from the field at the approach of the storm were injured, one seri- ously and the other fatally. At another school house near by | Annie Marsden, teacher, was killed with several pupils,while cther little ones are missing and may have been killed. At the third school house the teacher escaped, but three children | are reported to have been killed and | seven injared. ' Many of the children at all of the | schools were carried from a quarter | to half a ‘mile by the wind. Wires ‘were completely stripped | from the poles and some poles were twisted from the ground. Horses, cattle and vehicles were hurled through the air like chaff and the country for three quarters of a mile wide by fifteen miles long is entirely wrecked. The description of the Haggie property and school could be repeated at nearly every farm. The tornado was followed by a |furious wind and rain storm which ‘lasted all night. Numerous victims were found lodged in trees where they had been hurled by the storm Where had | stood tine residencas could be found |nothing but a cellar hole and in some cases a few twisted timbers, while strewn all over the ground were portions of the buildings and | furniture, bearing not the least sem- | blance of their orginal form and use- less exept for kindling. Fields of sprouting grain are now bare, trees uprooted and all is desolation along the path of the cyclone. IN ILLINOIS. Jacksonv Iii, May 4.—This section was treated to storm this HURRICANE ae rents and blew a barri- cane, doing great damage. Two men were driving under some trees | | when one fell on them and crushed | jly injured. Haggie’s house, just|the yehicle to atoms, injuring the west of the school house, was entire-/! occupants. B i i uildings were unroof- | * as large as hazel nuts Come ard £e3 us. LANE & ADAIR. ed and much property destroyed. CLOUD BURST AT SIOUX FALLS, Sioux Falls, N. D., May 4.—Be- ‘and vicinity last night. Many small sides the cyclone which did consid- | erable damage at West Sioux Falls and vicinity, there was a regular cloud burst twenty miles north, and an immense rise in the river is look- ed for. The Sioux at Dell Rapids is running over the Milwaukee tracks, and Skunk creek is also high and flooding farms in its course. AT WEST SIOUX FALLS. Sioux Falls, 8S. D., May 4. fierce wind storm struck West | Hill to Cornland. Falis yesterday afternoon, wrecking | the irou bridge, a resort and the carriage works and doing much oth- er damage. No one was badly hurt. CHURCHES AND HOMES DEMOLISHED. Webster, D., May 4.—The northern portion of Spink county was swept by a tornado last night. The greatest damage so far reported was at Ashton, where the opera house was blown down, the Cougre- gational church demolished aud many houses and barns destroyed. Farm houses outbuildings, granaries and barns for miles east were blown away. No lives were lost so far as known. S. FREIGHT CARS BLOWN OVER. Madrid, Ia., May 4.—A terrific rain and wind storm passed over this section of the State. Hail fell in large quantities, the stones being A dozen freight cars on a siding of the Mil waukee road were blown out on the main track,where they were four the switching crew in time toa a wreck with the Eastern pass train. SIOUX CENTER ASES F Mayor Fletcher bas received the following dispacther: Sioux Certer, Ia, May 4—Can your people help our cycloxe suffer. ers? Money, clothing or household goods. Forty Ww to-night tu takeac: THE VIND AT 8 St. Joseph, Mo., May +4.—aA fierce wind and rain storm visited th:s city | buildings were destroyed, including the home of Patrick McGinty, in in which he and his daughter were injured. In the country farms sul- fered considerably. Serious Runaway. Rich Hill Review Henry Gong and Wm. Chand were on their way home from Rick When at a point between the Judge Robinson's house and the cemetery, just west of Rich Hill, their team, a pair of mules, became fractious and, throwing them from the wagon, ran away and were not arrested in their mad career till Shobe had been reached. The men were brought back to town and taken to Dr. Hulett’s office, where their injuries were cared for. Mr. Gong, who is a man of per- haps 60 years of age, had a thumb broken, also some badly lacerated wounds in the palm and back of his hands, besides a badly bruised shoulder and back. Mr. Chandler's injuries were confined chiefly to the back andtoa general shaking up He was so badly affected by the shock that he could scarcely speak He is a man of perhaps 40 years of lage. Dr. Hulett bad eearcely gotten through with these men when the young son of of Mr. Wolfe came in to bave Lis arm bandaged, which was broken about two weeks ago while trying to break a colt, but is now doing nicely. Silver Dick Bland wants the Mis- sour: democrats to hoida s con yention Administrators N Notice is hereby given, that letters of administrationonthe estate of R. P Sheppard, deceased, were granted to the audersigned on the 6th day of May, 1895, by the probate court of Bates county, Missouri. persons having claims agai. estate are required to exh llowance totheadmin sar after th SAlC them f« This ¢fh day of 3 ANA A. SHE Admi PA