The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, May 23, 1895, Page 1

The Butler Weekly Times. VOL. XVII. Missouri State Bank: OF BUTLER, MO. $110,000. . f cts a general banking business. f We mers, merchants and the public generally, promising a safe depository for all funds committed to our charge. commodation in the way of loans to our customers. solicit the accounts of far- Funds always on hand to loan on real estate at lowest rates, allowing borrowers to pay part or al at ony time and stop interest. {OIREcTORs. Booker Powell H Hf Piggott © R Radford TJ Wright Geo L Smith OTHER STOCKHOLDERS, D A DeArmond Dr W D Hannah John Evans Robert McCracken Dr J Everingham A McCracken Edith Everingham John Pharis C & E Freeman JK Rosier G B Hickman JW Reisner DB Heath L B Starke Semuel Levy Clem Slayback C If Morrison Jobn H Suallens er Swartzendruber Or. T. C, Boulware CH Duteher John Deerwester JR Jenkins Frank M Voris Wyat Wm EW Falton Bartlett garet Bryner rown Lumber Co helf lurtney Clark P & 8 L Coleman R Davis Frank! Deerwester Dr W E Tucker W B Tyler M E Turner Wm W Trigg Wm Walis GP Wyatt Dr NL Whipple Max Weiner RG West est market price for butter, eggs and chickens, corner Broadway and Grand ave, Nyhart, Mo. Clark says he is getting lots of work todo. Boys, patronize a good man when you know i I wasin Butler a few days ago, called on our circuit clerk, found out Calamity Atkeson was going to have one case in first term of court. He is flying. Shally isable to be about again; buy a threshing machine of Shally & Hoagland and save money. GEN. New Home Items. Weather cool enough for winter clothing. We are not suffering for rain, but could stand more. Mr Loss Kimes is here from Ver- non county. He reports farmers all discouraged it has not rained enough | to weta man coatless this spring. Most of the farmers are plowing up the wheat and pasturing the oats; the corn, he says, is at a stand-still and has a yellow cast Mirtte Pine, of Walker, Mo., has a small interest in a sheep ranch. One day while Mr Pine was passing his best girl was in the midst of the flock with a cow bell. She succeeded in stampeding the sheep. Mirtle give the ladies of Vernon county lessons on handling sheep. Mrs Hiram Dudley, of Virginia, ac- companied by her two little children, was in our town over Saturday night. Friend Elmer Garner, of Virginia, was with us Sunday. Mr Boyer, an Amsterdam officer, was here on a bicycle, in pursuit of Texas Harry Hicks to secure a rifle he had borrowed and had never re- turned. Mr B. followed him to Pres- cott, Kansas, thenceto New Home, and finally caught him at Ladue, Henry county, where he delivered up the gun with but little resistance. Mr Burnett of Foster, spent the day at Mr L W Jones, Saturday. My news of New Home will here- after be sent off on Monday instead GRADY. Summit Items. Did we hear some one say that we are having cool weather? Yes, and with a little more mositure with it, and the prospective crop of chinch bugs are beyound harm. Some few farmers are not quite through planting, but we think broom corn is about all there is to plant now, and any time in June is a good season for planting that crop. It is most excellent weather for cultivating the young corn and all are availing themselves of the oppor- tunity. Wonder what the attraction at Butler, Sunday evenings, for Mellie Parker and Bert Stanton? We hope the gates about the north part of town have strong hinges as it’s the time of year farmer boys parents can’t stand an accident. Wonder of Tuesday; those helping me will what Bert meant when we heard him ease send them in to me before the | 88@Y ing “Vm 50 lonely now, but bye jail goes out Monday morning. | and bye, ete li ; C Bopp says he has 110 acres of | | The - at the Chapel is moving orn in and 80 acres of wheat, 50 along nicely as usual in the absence of oats, all are looking fine. { of the superintendent, with our as- t Allen has a turkey gobbler | tee superintendent, Mrs. Lydia bon the allotted number of} Potts. | Bee J ehis time to come off will be} hider G. W. Webb's day at the xt Thursday Chapel is the 3rd Sunday of each ‘Wonder why Jim Coontz laid uny] month. He is an enthusiastic worker der Jim McKethen’s thorn trees all) #04 old snoozers .don't find much afternoon Sunday, in front of P y’s.| time for sleep when the Elder is JT Taylor, for convenience he is around. He's no compromiser with known as chicken Taylor, has quit | Sin and it’s train. the chicken business and is now go-| _W. H. Caldwell has been, the past ing into the pumpkin business and | vee looking see Vernon and will hereafter be known as pumpkin | St. Clair counties with a view to Taylor. locating some time in the future. He © Bopp sold 500 bushels of wheat at | found nothing to suit, and on his she per bu. way home left a bid on a farm in L have 5 white ducksstrayed away. | Bates, which he concluded was better | | of Butler, sayshe is going to reap = g : Sabbath of he gyain this year with a new cham- Pointer, He says they are the est on earth. 4 Allie Crigler says he pays the high- ‘A M Smith’s sister returned to her | than leaving the best county in the home at Ft. Scott, Tuesday morning. | State. F Frank Robb has a new buggy | Mr. John Lawson is hard to catch srse; he and Miss Eliza McKethen | 0” farming. He has broke, pulveriz- d Frank were trying it’s driving hae planted 160 acres of tough sod Aalities Sunday afternoon. this season, and put in his other N. M. Nestii ERODE. crops, oats, flax, ete., with only the eat — help of his two little boys. Who says Ny 't Items. they’ve done better or even as well? The natives along Deepwater creek Warren Avers bas out about 100/ are very much alarmed about strange acres of corn, 60 acres of flax and 50 | sounds heard recently, and it seems acres of oats, a large crop for two | they have failed to tell from whence teams. | it comes or what it sounds like, but Anybody wanting a driving horse | it more resembles the shock of an or good road w agon eall on or ad- | earthquake with it’s accompanying dress Wm Smith, Nyhart, office over | noise. Now if they will call around postoftice. : .., | at the residence on the south end of WH Heinlein, in company with | Mr, Henley’s farm, some day at noon Harry Pugh was in our village Tues- | or late in the evening, they can solve day on business. the mystery. Bert knows, but he T wonder whr,¢ made C harlie Shv- | won't tell. NIx. lenberger’s Lorse scare just as he i passed Cowsi if penning ibaa ae ‘Virginia Items. s inking of buyin ‘ a direchiag weastane this oe g| | (‘We heard ‘em say it and noted it abe picture of the realestate agent \ down, who Mad the run-away a short time | The things that happened about the ago, can De seen atany time hanging town, A on left of postoftice window. | So don't blame usiftrue or not, Ed Fredrick is thinking some of | We always give you the best we've going to [Kansas for his health. got.’ Will Anpold was in our little village eee : = = se he week. Miss Baldwin, of Kansas, is visiting rand wife, of near Butler, her cousin Miss Ella Durst. ough our village Tuesday | Miss Lottie Burnham, of Mulberry, “ \ visited Miss ley Jenkins. Mr. and M Pettys, visited W. F. Cowans, last week. ley Jenkins f spent af | } ‘week. est Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Lat i.S. Gov’t Report , Royal Baking ABSOLUTELY PURE We are prepared to extend liberal = ew days at) ; Mr. Cowan’s in Homer township last BUTLER, MISSOURI, THURSDAY Ed Goble’s family have measles. Chinch bugs are the talk and will eave but a few fields to harvest. Miss Lola Owen, of Butler, was in Virginia, Tnesde >is teaching f the young ladies. ; Fady is hauling corn to his mt west of our city, a fine lot of cattle ne. around o afternoon for} It looks like boom. | ‘ i | one e The farmer il y came in Saturda r mail and to trade. the roup of fine pictures are to be rin O Drysdale’s show case. s blasting the rock business was | | ie Ae MeKiroy shipped a car load ti iN last week f-aac Park and daughters flying trip to Butler, last {made a | Thursday. Mat Hinson in our city last hunting sweet potato and cab- | bage plants and telling the boys some of his big jokes. He said he wasa | straight Democrat. W. W. Park’s buggy team is jing a new set of harness. | ‘Che Times should have said last | week that H. H. Flesher could tell you about hardware, sugar and tea and not Hupp. Mr. and Mrs. William Widders, Eldorado, are visiting old neighbors. The pound and_ pie party at Mr. Graves’, on the Widders’ place, last was grand. The young men furnish each a pound of candy or any other eatable, and the young ladies each furnish a pie. The names of the young ladies were written on slips of paper and placed in a box to be drawn by the boys, who were each to eat with the young lady whose name they drew. A number of the Virginia young folks attended the supper at Amoret, Saturday night. Jobn Nance, the Virginia carpen- ter, repaired the church last week. ‘here will be an object lecture at the Christian church Tuesday night, May 28th by Rev. Reed. His little 8-year-old son will recite several pieces. The lecture is free, but there will be a hat collection at the close. There will be an ice cream and strawberry festival at the Christian church, Friday night, May 24th. Milburn Jackson, of Denver, Colo., came home to visit his parents, Mr. and Mrs, Alfred Jackson. W. T. Cowan and John Durrett re- turned home Saturday night, after an absence of about two weeks in Jackson, Ray, Caldwell, Carroll, Johnson and Henry counties. They stopped at Kingston, Caldwell Co., but did not like that section. Cliff Jackson and Omer Drysdale each bought a new buggy, last week. Dave Miller and wife, of Butler, isited Uncle Johnny Summers, last Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Bean, of Boa eaD | Kan., are visiting the family of C. Wolf. also James I, Wolf and ities Unkiphee, of the same place. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Jackson a dinner in honor of their son 2ist birthday, last Sanday. thirty people were present. The young folks say they enjoyed the social at Winfield Steel's, last Friday night. Rumors of a wedding in this town- ship thie week, are afloat. NELS’ was | wear- of relatives and gave Cliffs About CLERK. Foster ltems. Foster is booming, lots of trade in| town to-day. Forty wagons hauling corn to our new elevator, which is just cempleted. The busines men of Foster have} run the ‘‘joint” out of town, so the boys got drunk Saturday for the last time, we hope. H Robb’s saw and grist mill is run- ning in full blast | Chas Spencer | week. Mr Abe j child. Our merchants were all busy urday, so many farmers in town. Judge Henry spending a few weeks at Eldorado for the benefit of | his health. Mr and Mrs Gray randson, Sunday. Mr Scribner arrived home from | | Texas this morning. | Grandpa Lindsey says he will heave! | hew potatoes next week. | We hear there is to be in Foster soon. Look boss, for the circle saw W onde r what and Barton Briscoe went i for last Monday. | Preaching at the next Sunday by Rev Hill. Our booming town has a base ball club. | Foster can well be proud | churches and schools. The strawberry and ice creain fes- | tivalat the Christian church was well attended. Mrs Bodkins is improving slowly. Arthur Henry made a Burdett this Shetrone has a very sick Sat- visited thefr| a aetbins, out, section | will be there. | Bertha Short | to Bence | Miss Baptist church | Clark of Rich | of her | for the band boys. Dr. Langsford we day. Mr Huff and daughter, been visiting in Appleton turned home Sunday even Wonder who got left Sunday night Mrs Wills? SAMPLE. “Ballard items. is done planting corn, to Butler Mon- who have City, re- ing at Everybod sole & ss Linnie You | visiting her bro week. Ned Cole and sister, Mrs W B Mor- lan went to Urich Sunday. : Aaron Hart and.wife of Butler, -isited Judge Cole’s Sunday. flying trip/| » Kansas City last week on business | MAY 23, 1895. A PICNIC T LANE & ADATR'S The Season Has Now Come For Us To Open Fire On High Prices. OWN, DOWN THEY COME While it is a fact di goods are advancing rapidly in the market. we had this in view and bought large quantities of Spring Goods before the advance, a we will coptinue%to sell at hard time prices. We dont want the earth, We Only Want Such Portions 0 Your Trade As We Met, 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. és BELONG 10 NO ONE, BUY WHERE = CAN DO THE BEST Look at a few, only, of many low prices we are making, see if they have advanced—NOT ONE CENT Solid colored red table linen Good all linen towel crash OVERALL, SHIRTS AND SHOE See our overall at See our extra heavy at And the Very Best at See our custom made shirt See our heavy work shirts See our white shirt at See our $1.50 white shirt at Ask to see our undewear at And the Very Best at 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 finish 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 25¢ Sie 50¢ 65c T5e 35e 50c 75e $1.00 25e 50e¢ Ste lie lic 10c Sge 3oe On this line of goods we can and will save you money if you will only give us a chance. SHOES! We will save you 20 per cent On every Pait you buy of us, Try it and see for yourself. You can sell your produce to any 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. Come and see us. LANE & ADAIR. FARMER’S BANK OF BATES COUNTY, Mrs James Wilds, of Clinton, is vis- iting relatives and friends here. Criss Greer and family visited Ira | Fowler's Sunday. Bob Beatty and Rennie Maxey, of Johnstown, were in our burg Sunday i Miss Hattie Bell visited in Ballard | one evening last week. F Mrs W B Cole visited her parents | in Clinton last week. ree | Cash Capital. Childrens day at Fairview Dr $50,000.00. COUNTY DEPOSTORY OF BATES CO.! day in June. W BCole and family Warford’s Sunday. Misses Lutsinger and Ludwick o Spruce, was visiting the Misses Dong- | lass last week. Christian Endeavor meets at Wal- nut Grove Sunday evening. Earl Corwine has a horse with the | glanders. | The show is gone so is Jim Woods’ lantern. Dr Wolfe attended court at Clinton last week. Jim Cole spent a day ortwo in Bal- lard last week, while his wife visited in Cass county. Isaac Anderson and wife relatives in Ballard Sunday. Mrs E Warford and mother are vis- iting relatives in Clinton. See Monta Hunt Sunday eve, as he passed through town. es visited CA J. A. D. R REEDE HURL BENNETT KIPP.. - President “lat ‘Wice-President 2d Vice-President Cashier os R E. E. Receives Deposits subject to check, Lones Money, issues Drafts and transacts a general Banking business. Your patronage respectfully Solicited. DIRECTORS, D. N. Thomyeon, John Steele Oscar Reeder, Geo W Kierse M. G. Wi J.M John E. Shutt, Clark Wix, A. Bennett 5 Jas. M. bben H. M. Gailey, J. EVERINGHAM. Secretary R. J. Hurley visited MONEY TO LOAN. Shannon County Mo. Democrats. We have a large amount of money| Birch Tree, Mo., May 17.—In re- to loan at low rates of interest. Spouse to petitions, Chairman Nor- Notes are payable at our office. | ton, of the Democratic County Cen- Privilege given to pay at any time tral Committee, has issued a call for and money is ready as soon as | & Delegate Convention, to meet at papers are signed. Emivence, June 8, for the purpcse 92 4t. Drvary & Percrvar of ascertaining the views of the | Democrats of Shannon County on World's Columbian Exposition. | the money question. Delegates will Said that he suppos- | | Was of value to the world by illus- be elected June 1. ted Lis house needed a new roof, but | trating the improvements in the | mechanical arts and eminent physi cians will tell you that the progress |it was raining—and when it didn’t in medicinal agents, has been of rain. he didn't need it. equal importance, and as a strength ening laxative that Syrup of Figs is Dr. Tucker, the North Side Drug: | gar in advance of all others. TLETOER that be could no: put one on while, Awarded Highest —— Fair. Cat Them Down Still Lower than ever. I bave madea very large | | room—uew froat, higher ceiling and reduction on groceries, tinware, glass It’s a big job, and queensware, table knives, pocket : knives, table and tea spoons, willow | but had to Le done. as his trade de | ang wooden ware. can goods, in fact everything in my line except sugar and flour which are advancing every week but will sell them as low if not lower than the sietadeciee Tt will pay { you to i ith 5 t you will save { let Articles and Fine} [ion er vs wil our Womack’s Cash Grocery. North side square, 1° door east of H. L- TUCKER. so. State Bank, Butler. Mo. gist, is not exactly putting on a new! roof, but is re modeling his store other improvements manded it In addition to carrying a general BAKING Peowaryy stock of Drugs and Medicines. he is | now making 2 specialty of Toi Stationery.t Ladies’ ¥ : i