The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, July 11, 1895, Page 5

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Come in and get one, some of them reduced 33 1-3 per cent, oe 2 © 2 © eo oo eK oe 0 o ee eo is x ee Mexs a Bors Qutritvers gue et kt c+ er ce ee oe oe eo ¢ VY. ee oe ee oe oe + BUTVER WEEKLY TIMES LOCAL ITEMS Get your pictures framed at D. W. Davummonps. A slight earthquake was felt in Butler Sunday evening. ) More than the usual chapter of cidents took place on the 4th in different parts of the country. Farmers tell us the continued wet weather has disposed of the chinch bugs; not one is tobe found. V. B. Vandyke, has taken charge of the lake and invites the public to come down and take a boat ride. W. R. Thomas,aged 77 years, died at his home in Lone Oak township Saturday. The funeral was held Sunday afternoon. From the reports from different ‘towns in the state the celebrations n the 4th were the largest ever id in the state. The fourteenth anniversary of the discovery of Eldorado Springs will be celebrated by a two days’ picnic, at the springs July 19 and 20. United in marriage on July 3d 1895, Mr. John W. Scaggs and Mise } Clara Little, both of Linn county, | ‘Kansas, by Wm. M. Dalton, judge ‘ef probate. Jas. Wilson, of Farmington, Mo., aged 19 years, suicided the other jay because his sweetheazt disap- pointed him. Pretty good way te ipite the girl. €3. W. Risley and daughter who fave spending a couple of weeks in visiting his brother Dr. Risley, retarned to their home; in Kansas City. Elmer Gardner, of Virginia,called Monday and renewed his Mother's subscription. J. J. Holt and wife, of St. Louis, are visiting hig sister Mrs. F. M. Kinney and other relatives in the | county. x | Prof. Allison left Tuesday morn- ing for Kaneas to attend the funeral of his father-in-law who passed away | Monday. The law taxing insurance com- panies twe per cent on their gross receipts will bring into the state | treasury from the business of 1894 $215,230. Rev. J. F. Watkins is; spending jthis week at Clinton, Osceola and Blairstown attending to matters ) pertaining to his church and the in. tereste of Home Missions. S. A. Field, who killed his wife and child and himself, near Mead- ville, a few days ago, left a note stating that his “diabolical wicked- ees was too black for the punish- ment of hell.” The professional tramp lecturer is abroad in the land organizing silver ledges. It’s about time for them<to , | put in an appearance in thie county to look after the dear farmer. Hands on your pocket book. Drs. Fulkerson, Hull and Harper have gone to Pertle Springs, War- rensburg to attend the state dental association. Dr. Fulkereon was ac- companied by his wife and baby who will visit relatives and friends. Miss. Susanna Robinson of Sprague, a lady with most excellent judgment and good taste, has her name enrolled for the booming Tnaxs this week, and we hope to make her & permanent friend of the paper. Don’t fail to attend the Gordon | Gen. Gordon will lecture at the lecture Tuesday night next week. | Opera House Tuesday/night. E. T. Steele and wife of Riehards, spent the 4th in Butler, visiting rel- atives and triends. Secure your tickets for the Gor-! don lecture Tuesday night. A. A. Miller, a substantial friend and reliable subscriber, will accept our thanks for renewal of his paper to '96. Frank Thompson of Lexington, Mo., a former citizen of this place is visiting relatives in the city. Frank holds a position on the Mo. Pacific railroad. It is now said that the negro man who killed his wife at Nevada a few days ago, and who has been captured and jailed, is reported to be five times a murderer. The funeral of the two-year old child of Mr. and Mrs. George Gerby took place Saturday morning. It's death was caused from whooping cough and measels. The good people of Amoret and neighborhood want a grist mill, it is a good location fora mill and some enterprising fellow could make his pack right there as the people would give him a good support. public square, for gain. The city council has ordered an election to be held August Ist, to elect a Mayor, Councilman for the 4th ward and Police Judge. Here isa chance for some good citizen to show his patriotism. The citizens of Eldorado Springs have voted bonds on the town to build a new court house. The vote was virtually unanimous. They had better raised the money by subscrip- tion. Those bonds will rise up to haunt their children. The many friends of Mrs. Peter Lane will be glad to learn that she has about reeovered from her severe sick spell of more than a week’s du- ration. Mrs. Lane will take a lay off from the store for a few weeke to rest and recuperate. A call has issued for a convention of Missouri editors at Sedalia July 16th. To be eligible to mombership the editor must be a demecrat and favor the free coinage of silver at 16 to 1. Here is a chance for some of the Bates county editors to show their faith by their works. A coal miner named Richard Dud- ley, while sitting on the platform of the depot at Panama, Mo., asleep, about 2 o'clock Saturday morning was struck on the head by the pilot of the passenger train and knocked about thirty feet. When picked up his brains were oozing out of a frac- ture in his skull. He was about thirty years of age and unmarried hi J. W, Poffenbarger and wife of Jacksonville, Ills., arrived in Butler last week to make this city their future home. Mrs. P. isa sister of Mrs. Joe Meyer. Mr. Poffenbarger has accepted a position as head salesman in the popular clothing establishment of Mr. Meyer. He is an experienced man at the business and with his affable and suave man- ner no doubt will prove a valuable assistant to Mr. Meyer. The Tiues | welcomes this most excellent family to our city. A four room hogse, near the je at a big bar- \Bty Henpenson. 33 2t. i Herbert, the little son of Arthur Wemott, who has been visiting his grandparents in Kansas City, return- ed home yesterday evening. J. P. Edwards and wife have re turned from their summer's trip to New Mexico and Arizona. Henry Arnold and wife, who went with them for Mrs. Arneld’s health, have located for the present at Albuquer- que, and the many friends of Mrs. A. will be glad to learn she is im- proving in health. Mr. Edwards was not favorably impressed with the country which he visited and states that he would not give a good 160 acre farm in Bates county for all that country for farming pur- poses. The rain on the 4th and 5th seems to have been general and severe and from almost every section comes the news of terrible floods, water spoute, cyclones and devastation of property and loss of life. In Illinois the down pour seems to have been unprece- dented and there ports from different connties in the State tell a woeful tale of the destruction by the storm to the growing corn crops. The corn being laid level with the ground and in many instances half drawn out of the ground. The rain how- ever was a blessing to the farmers as the ground was very dry and the heat was wilting and badly damag- ing the crops. Charlie McFarland the little son of Mr. and Mrs. C. B. McFarland was considerably bruised about the face and shoulders Monday after- noon, by jumping from the back of @ runaway pony he was riding. The pony passed up the street on the west side of the square at full speed and probably could have been stop- ped by @ crowd of men in front of the post office had they known that the pony was unmanageble. Charlie is a good horesman for a boy of his years, but in this case he was riding a strange horse and evidently be- came rattled or he would have stuck to the saddle. J. T. Williams penned fifty two head of tine hogs at the depot on the 4th, for shipment to Kansas City. When he left the pens the hogs were all right, returning in the afternoon to load them She found twenty six of them had succumbed to the heat and were lying about the lot dead. In penning the hogs Mr. Williams failed to open a gate which lead tothe water troughs and this oversight cost him about $250. Fer acouple of hours in the middle of the afternoon the heat was very op- pressive, the hogs were large and fat, and being unable to get to wat- er they died from thirst. Mr. Wil- liams says he had friends at his home for dinner and in entertain- ing them remained at hcme longer than he intended and attributes his loss to neglect on his part. His many friends throughout the coun- ty. and especially among the stock men, will be sorry to learn of bis misfortune. SHOES ? = BETTER NOT BUY TILL YOU SEE THE BIGGEST SHOE STOCK IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI FINE SHOES STYLISH SHOES - EASY SHOES : All kinds of shoes - AT PRICES WHICH ARE JUST SIMPLY UNMATCHABLE ANYWHERE YOU MAY GO. MAX WEINER. “Fame” aa Uncle deal laik any udder Eben, “am ERM kin’ ob advertisin’. Tain’ no use ter a man onless he had de right kin’ ob goods ter back it up wid.*— Washington Star. Our advertisement has appeared in this paper for many years and we always have just back up our statements. exactly what we advertise to We desire to dispose of all summer wash goods, t6 do this quickly we have divided them into two lots an them on sperate tables for con laced venience. ON ONE TABLE YOU WILL find 124, 15, 20, 25 cent goods 10. ON ANOTHER TABLE YOU WILL find 74. 84, 10 cent goods. 7 5 Cts, Yard We advise you to take a look early as they will not last long. McKIBBENS. The Tiss extends a special wel- | come to Mr. and Mrs. George New- berry, who have decided to become | residents of our city and to that end | are moving their household effects to town to-day. Mr. Newberry comes to Butler for the purpose of | accepting a position in the Farmer’s Bank as book keeper, and as George is one of the most popular, honora- ble and upright young man in the; county, this bank is to be congratu- lated on securing his services. He takes the place of Mr. Emerson, who resigns to attend schcol. The ehange will take place about the first of August. | | The resignation of mayor Hick- man has been accepted by the city council. The next thing in order now is the election of a man to the place, and it stands the business in- terests of this town well in hand to select a man to fill the mayor's chair worthy of the important position. The town is getting in bad shape, and without a level head will go from bad to worse. It is evident the business men by this time are begining to appreciate the situation and mistakes of last city’s election will not be repeated. In the mean- time it is to be huped the councilmen have profited by the mistakes they made in cutting off a portion of the source of revenue,and in future they will be guided by business princi- ples and not act on prejudice and from selfish motives. A SAD ACCIDENT. The home of our fellow citizen J. S. Arbuckle, of Shawnee township, was made sad on the evening of the 4th, by the sudden death by light- ning, of his son Frank, aged 16 years. In company with his brother the young man had attended the cele- bration at Adrian, and the storm coming up the two started for home horseback. Out from town a little ways the approaching storm caused the boys to separate, one going to Adrian the other on home. Reach- ing home Frank took shelter from the hard rain in the corn crib and while in the crib was struck by a bolt of lightning and instantly killed. The marks on the body of the de- ceased indicated that the bolt enter- ed the open door of the crib and struck him in the breast and then passed down his body going out atthe feet. There was also a make on the back opposite the one in the breast. The brother who returned to Adrian also came near losing his life by drowning in the attempt to cross a creek which hed been swollen by the hard rain. Mr. Arbuckle, the father of the deceased, is one of Bates county's best citizens and most prosperous farmers and in this affliction of the family the Tres with their many friends extends siacerest sympa- thies. Did You Ever Think That you cannot be well unless you have pure, rich blood? If you ure weak, tired, languid and all run dewn, it is beeause your blood is impoverished and lacks vitality. These troubles may be overcome by Hood's Sarsaparilia because Hood's Sereaparilla makes pure, rich blood. It is, in truth the great blood puri- | w. fier. Hood's Pills cure liver ilis, consti- pation, biltiousnese, jaundice, sick headache, indigestion. The Adrian Journal intimates that some people in that town acted very | naughty during the celebration of the 4th. Nothing of that kind oc- curred in Butler. Everybody kept sober and orderly and there was no disturbance of any kind. Only one arrest appears on the Police Judge books. That's the way to conduct a celebration. Uncle John S. Ehart, our good friend and subscriber at Nybart,pre- sented the Timzs Monday with a mammoth leaf from a pie plant grown in his garden. The leaf is three feet long by two feet and ten inches in width, and is the largest one we ever saw. Uncle John not only grows big pieplant leaves,but he raises corn as well, and was awarded by the 4th of July committee an eight day clock for the finest speci- men on exhibition at the celebration. The atalk that carried off the prize measured 14 feet 11 inches. Mr. O. P. Wilson and Miss Mary E. Whipple were quietly married at the home of the bride’s father, Dr. N.L. Whipple, of Pleasant Gap, Mo., on July 1st, 1895, Rev. J. A. Smith of the Baptist church officiat- ing. Mr. Wilson is an active, ener- getic young business man with bright prospects .before him. He is at present cashier of the Savings Bank at Montrose, Mo. The bride is one of the most lovely and ac! complished young ladies of Bates county. They have many friends who wish them a large share of suc- cess and happiness. Miss Whipple was recently elected to teach in the Butler public schools and this ac- counts for her declination of the po- sition. The Rich Hill Review tells of a fatal accident which befell Wm. Rankin in the switch yards of the Mo. Pacific railroad at that place the night of the 4th. The unfortu- nate young man was about 25 years of age and lived at Worland. Of the accident the Review says: “Not much is known for certain about how the awful affair happened, but the suppesition is. that Rankin, who is a coal miner, arrived in the city on the 10:25 train from the north, that he had probably been celebrating a little and that some time in the night he sought shelter from the rain by crawling under some freight cars that were standing on a side- track. It is further inferred that he went to sleep while under one of these, and that while asleep the ead accident occurred as above stated. The car wheels passed over his right leg at the ankle, mutilating the in- jured member so badly that it had to be amputated. Dr. Allen was first summoned about 4 o'clock, and bound up the man’s limb and essed the pain as much as possible, then fixed upon 9 o'clock for the operas tion of amputation, which was per- formed by himself and Dr. Hulett at the Merchant’s Hotel.” Rankit. died soon after the operas tion. had been performed. REAL ESTA‘TE. Tecetve attention. mira siwaye reads) Call sod wish, MILLHOEN & BEESON.