The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, July 4, 1895, Page 5

B EEE —— LOCAL ITEMS | Get your pictures framed at D. W. Devumuonns. | Jas Whitsitt, one of Butler's best carpenters, renews to 1896. Eli Henderson, Butler's compe- | tent street commissioner, renews | to 96. | Mrs. 8. J. McCoy left Sunday for | atwo months’ visit with relatives at Sheldon, Ill. County court convened Monday for the purpose of attending to) county business. John and Wm. McElroy, of Vir-| ginia, are new subscribers to the| booming Times | Judge Moulton, of Kansas City, | was attending court Tuesday, look- ing after a railroad case. | | Peaches and apples are plentiful in the Butler market. Fine peaches are selling at $1 per bushel. The factory of the Kansas City | paper box company burned Friday. Tke loss is estimated to be $20,000. Mrs. C. A. Emerson, of Amster- dam, is visiting her sister, Mrs. ‘I’. J. Day and other relatives in the city. Mrs. E. A Steel and two daugh- ters of Mound Valley, Kansas, are visiting at the residence of F. M. Steele. Mrs. Wm. E. Waiton left Tuesdsy morning for North Carolina. to spend a few weeks visiting her sister Mrs. Chandler. Judge Lay was called to Windsor, Henry county, Saturday by a tele gram informing him of the serious illness of his wife’s mother. The ladies of Sedalia had charge of the Sunday edition of the Capital, and it was a hummer. The paper was issued for the benefit of the hospital. Quarterly meeting of the M. E. charch south will ba held in this city Sunday. The presiding elder will be present and preach, morning and evening. Miss Marion Vaughan, who has been attending college at Liberty has returned home. Since the close of school she has been visiting a lady friend in Iowa. Dennis Thrall left’ for Eldorado Springs Saturday in answer to a message, notifying him of the sick- ness of his wife, who was at the springs for her health. Judge Orr, a prominent attorney for the Kaneas City, Pittsburg and Gulf railroad, was in the city looking after the interests of his road ina personal damage suit. Henry F. Mudd, one of the sub stantial farmers and citizens of Burdett neighborhood an@ a stal- wart friend tothe booming Tires b called and renewed for “96 W. H. Furbee, cashier of the Far- mers’ & Mechanics Rank, Rich Hill, has resigned his position to accept a similar position at his old home Monnington, West Virginia. Lorenzo Bateman, now living im California, one of the Trwes’ oldest and best subscribers renews, and his many friends in this county will he glad to learn he is well and prosper- ing. Miss Antonia Gill, of Lone Jack, daughter of Rev. Gill formerly pas- of the M. E. church south, of this city, who has been visiting the Misses Smith and James, bas return home. John Classen, better known as the “Wild Dutchman,” is in town to spend the 4th. He lives in the In- dian Territory, but expects to re- turn to this county in the fall. John is a great rustler and a big farmer. Harper Bateman, one of our best and punctual subscribers and farmer friends of the neighborhood of Vir- ginia, called Monday and renewed. He reports lots of rain in that sec- tion and crops up with the best. The continued wet weather is in- terfering eeriouely with the farmers in repping their small grain and if a | change dees not come soon there | will be great loss in cats and flax. “The wheat cut and shecked is also suffering for want of sunshine and “ary weather. UTVER WEEKLY TIMES| ithe buisness of circuit court this| Norris and Mrs. Ella Mee have open- Judge Lay will probably wind up week. E. W. Smizer, of Cynthiana, Ken- |tucky, arrived Tuesday on a month’s | visit to relatives. Alex Lamb's little daughter Alice had the misfortune to break her collar bone by falling, Friday. Rev. William Stephens will accept the thanks of the editor fora boquet of beautiful flowers. about the 10th, to take action in re- gard to calling a state convention. Yes, we are having plenty of rain Friday and Saturday came straight, gentlemen, and was what the old timer would call a regular root scaker. Miss Luella Frizell, a teacher in the Kansas City schools, who has been spending a month with her mother, left Tuesday for Denver to attend the Teachers National Con- vention. Gus Benert has returned to But- ler, and is arranging to start a restaurant in the brick building on the southwest corner of the square, formerly occupied by the Goose saloon. The lecture of Wm. E. Walton at the C. P. church, Monday night, “Seme Elements of Success,” is highly complimented by those who heard it and many think the lecture the best of the course. Prince Bismarck is seriously sick and is unable to partake of food. His family has been summoned to his bedside. The ex chancellor is in his 8lst year and it is thought he can not survive the present attack The Bates county Sunday School convention will meet at Rich Hill, Friday and Saturday. A lengtby programme has been arranged for the occasion and a splendid and profitable time is anticipated. It is expected to lay the handsome marble corner stone of the new com- mercial college kuilding on July 4th. Hon. D. A. DeArmond will be re- quested to deliver an address upon that occasion.—Clinton Democrat. They say the bloomer has come to stay, if so, Butler young ladies must not be behind in the style and fashions. We keep up with the procession in everything eise and our girls should not be behind the band wagon in the bloomer fad. Henry Couchman, of Elkhart, a member of good standing on the roll books of the booming Times, a big farmer and a pleasant gentleman, called Friday, paid up arrearages and renewed for another year. May prosperity crown his efforts and his shadow never grow less. Dirty hog lots and filthy alleys in this town ought to be cleaned up- If a citizen of this town wants to fatten a herd of hogs he ought to move to the country. Refusing to do this he ought to be prosecuted for maintaining a nuisance. The marshal can find such a place not a thousand miles from the C. P. church. The many friends of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Farr will regret to learn of their misfortune in the loss of their infant boy. It died at the home of Dr. and Mrs. Patton, grandparente, over in Kansas. The child had the whooping cough and a couple of weeks ago Mrs. Farr took it over to her father and mother where it would receive treatment from the doctor. A young lady riding her wheel in bloomers at Nevada, created quite as much excitement as Barnum’s cir- cus As she glided along the street. says the Post, wicked men looked, bad boys laughed, women sneered and those who failed to see her are cussing their luck. Her costume was an elegant dark blue skirt and cap to match, light shirt waist, dark hose and white slippers. A. O. Welton’s grocery store was entered by a sneak thief Friday | | | | Accouple of Iadies, Mrs. Hattie |ed a grocery store on North Main | street. Conventions were held in Shelby, | Harrison, Lafayette and Franklin | counties, this week and resolutions | were passed endorsed the unlimited lcoinage of silver and requesting chairman Maftitt to call a state con- vention Col. Harry Moore, owner of the | Chairman Maffitt says be expects Street railway at Nevada, is making | to convenue the state committee on | #frangements substitute motor | for horse power in running the cars. to | Nevada is getting to bea real live | | town and is aiming to keep up with jin these parts. The down pour of the band wagon in improvements. | Blood-purifiers, though gradual, }are radical in their effect. Ayer’s cine only and not a stimulant. excit- }ant or beverage. Immediate results may not always follow it’s use; but after a reasonable time, permanent benefit is certain to be realized. Jas. H. Harman, one of the stal- wart and successful farmers and democrats living east of town, was in the city Saturday and is elated over the prospects for big crops. He said he had 100 acres of the finest corn he ever saw grow out of the ground His are fields clear of from now on to gather 80 bushels to the acre. Mrs. Edith Murray, who has been visiting her parents, Judge and Mrs. J. L. Porter, near Johnstown, for the past month, returned to her home at Longmont, Colorado, Mon- day. Mrs. Murray has been teaching in the public schools of that place for several years, and while here received netice from the school board of her re-election for another year. meets at Denver this week hastened her departure. The Tives wishes her a pleasant trip and safe arrival. The Judge called Monday and the Times will keep her posted as to local events in Bates. Remember the lecture of Gen. John B. Gordon, the “Last days of the Confederacy,” at the opera house, July 16th. To avoid a rush in the country an opportunity to reserye good seats for the lecture, manager of the opera house has de cided to open the ticket office at Van Hall’s drug store to day, where tickets ean be secured from day to day up to the date of the lecture the 16th. Now if you desire to hear this distinguished lecturer and learn lion, go and hear Gen Gordon, a soldier, who stood next to Lee in importance in military service on the southern side. The lecturer is sow representing the state of Georgia in the U. S. Senate, and is one of the most polished orators in public life, and it will pay you to go and hear him. Of course the soldier element from all over the county will want to hear him and for this reason, it is important that you se- cure yeur seats early !f you want a good one as the opera house will be jammed and packed on the night of the lecture. Goto Van Hall’s drug store and get your ticket and secure your seat. Sarsaparilla is intended as a medi- | weeds and expects with no bad luck | Her desire to attend the! National Teachers Association which | for tickets and to give persons living | the true history of the great rebel. | A four room house, near the! public square, for sale at a big bar- gain. Exy Henpersos. 33 2t D. O. Deacon left for St. Louis, Friday to buy a stock of hardware. He expects to be absent a week or ten days. He says he will give the public some prices when he gets back that for quality of goods and cheapness has never been heard of in this town before Jefferson City. Mo, June 29.— Governor Stone issued a proclama tion to-day offering a reward of $200 for the apprehension of the unknown | person or persons who on January 23, murdered Daniel H. Stone in Clay county. This reward stands good for two years. | San Francisco had the biggest | | fire on record for the past dozen/ | years, Thursday of last week. The | fire originated in a box factory and! | over two millicns of dollars worth of | | property was destroyed and hun-! | dreds of people, mostly poor families, were turned out of doors. The fire swept blocks of buildings and the| fire department was almost power- | less to prevent the devastation. | Uncle Geo. Alspaugh, who has! been to Eldorado Springs for his | | health for the past two months re turned heme Friday for a short visit ‘to his family, when he will go back | ‘again. His many friends will be glad to learn that his health has ‘been greatly improved. He was! greatly aftli¢ted with rheumatism, | and the disease seems to have about left him and he rejoices that he car now get about without the aid ofa | cane and appears to be as nimble avd suple asin days of yore The | Times hopes to see him continue to | improve. R. G. West and wife who a few | weeks ago took a trip to California, | with expectations of remaining in that state for an indefinite time, in | case the climate agreed with Mrs. West, whose health they went to benefit, surprised their many friends |by returning Sunday. Mr. West says on arriving in California, they | | were not long in discovering that | they had made a mistake they }eoncluded to retrace their steps. For the present they will liye in | Butler. Mr. W. reports times very; | hard in that portion of California he visited. Laboring men have no work to do and in driving about the coun- try he saw numerous farm houses vacant and the land idle. This was |the result of the farmers having | failed to meet their obligations and | their land had been taken from them by mortgage. On the whole he was not impressed with the golden state and concluded to return to the land of big corn and plenty. We have | plenty ofroom in Bates for such | good citizens and all will rejoice to know they have returned to stay. | “In Your Blood — Is the cause of that tired, languid feeling which afilicts you at this season. The blood is impure and has become thin and poor. why you have no strength, no appe- tite, cannot sleep Purify your blood with Hood's Sarsaparilla, which will give you an appetite, tone your stomach, and invigorate your nerves. That is Hood's Pills are easy to take, easy ‘in action and sure in effect. 25c. Big Time Here the 4th, CLEAR OUT ODD SUITS AND ODD PANTS AT Prices you can appreciate. Some xtr values in MENS AND YOUTHS SUITS Call and see, mabe just what you can use, McKIBBENS. There Is No Doubt About Our Shoes Being The Best And For The Least Money. It will pay you to see the quality of the goods at these prices: Ladies fine low shoes Black or tan kid at 75c, 85e, $1.00, $1.25 and $1.50. Mens fine light dress shoes tan or black at $1.50, $1.75, $2.00 and $2.50. Best Values Ever Offered. MAX WEINER. bs Rich Hill seems to be trying to| The Hodgen Medical Society will gain some notoriety as a suicidal and | meet at Adrian the 11th. Prominent killing town. Down there ata home | physicians will be present and inter- of bad repute two of the women in- | esting papers read. mates attempted reformation by the! a poison route and at the same den! Miss Mary Gaines a very wealthy two young men, Henry Hill and Tom ,Y0U8& lady of Henry county, disap- Gross, local toughs, engaged in a| pointed her intended lover Walter combat, when Hill drew his razor | Fewell, by eloping with Ira Wherry, and carved Gross in several places. | £02 of Clinton Jiyeryman Monday Both young men left the town and | of last week. Miss Gaines was un- no arrests followed, and the people | 2¢r age and the young couple went do not care if neither ever returns. | 0 Kansas where the marriage law is The doctors saved the lives of the | ™0re liberal. The bride is reputed | to be worth in her own right more | than $60,008. Kansas City has taken one step in | x : the right direction toward the ire | The trial of Ben Fee, for killing crease of her population to the 560,- | Al Heath, which consumed three 009 mark. The police commission-| 4@y8 of the court's time last week, two women. the Sunday closing of all saloons in the city, and the saloon keeper re- fusing to comply with the order forfeits his license. The order went into effect last Sunday and so far as drinks were concerned the town was dry. In this respect it appears that Gov. Stone made a wise move in re- vising the board of commissioners, and the board in the selection of a new chief and the reorganization of the police force. Due respects for the Sabbath is a splendid argument |in favor of immigration. Brother Walters, of the Review, | \is wasting valuable amunition in ers have issued stringent orders for | was given to the jury Friday evening at 7 o'clock and Saturday evening, | there being no show to reach a ver- 'dict, the jury was discharged. |On the final wind up it is said ten | stood for acquittal and two held out |for murder in the second degree. | There was great public interest in the trial throughout and Friday }to hear the arguments of attorn- /eys, the court room was not sufi- cient to admit the spectaters that desired admittance. There were | upwards of one hundred and fifty witnesses and the case was a long and tedious one. The lawyers on | both sides, Messrs. Holcomb and |Graves & Clark for the state and Slashing Low Prices in = | puffing into notoriety the little popu-| W. O. Jackson, Boxley & Horn, and list paper of his town. It’s a clever! Walter Brannum, of Clinton, for the ltrick in Andy to have the Review | defense, contested every point and hi Veet Cline | yur night, by way of the back door. | We sell Nothing was missed but a couple of than any House bexes of cigars. An attempt was, made to pry open the cash drawer| with a pail, built in this the thief| S RAW HATS failed, had be succeeded nothing eaters |, ene would have been gained as the draw. | er contained no money. The rob- COoOsT. bery leoks like the work nner you better Goods for less money in Bates County. JOE MEYER, THE CLOTHIER. people would #ot know there was such a paper in existence. There was a time when the boomiag Truzs would engage in personal contro- versies, but that day bas passed, as notice his Populist, otherwise the | we saw the folly of allowing contem- | poraries with no circulation to use| both the state and defense tried the case for all there wasinit. While the arguments made by the attorn- |eys were all good and highly com- |plimented by the audience, the | principal speeches for and against were made by W. W. Graves fer the state and W. O. Jackson for our space for advertising purposes. | the defense. Both of these gentle- | We do not intend to be drawnintoa| men had given the case much | personal controyersy, what we are | attention and the arguments made aiming at is to make the Tras worth | have not been equaled in the court | two bundred cents on the dollar and | room in many a duy. At least this a welcome visitor to every home in | is the general opinion ef those who Bates county, and our increasing | were fortunate to gain admission. circulation goes to prove our efforts |The case will have to go to trial are appreciated. again at the February term.