The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, September 5, 1895, Page 1

Che But , VOL. XVII. Missouri State Bank OF BUTLER, MO. CAPITAL, - . . =. . $110,000. Tay Transacts a general banking business, We solicit the accounts of far- | mers, merchants and the publie generally, promising a safe depository for all funds committed to our charge. 4 commodation in the way of loans to our customers. to loan on real estate at lowest rates at eny time and stop interest. Funds always on hand , allowing borrowers to pay part or ull DIREcTORsS. Or. 'T. C. Boulware Booker Powell Frank M Vortis CH Datcher HH Piggow HC Wyatt John Deerwester C R Radford ‘RG West JR Jenkins TS Wright Wm E Walton Geo L Smith | OTHER STOCKHOLDERS, | E Bartlett D A DeArmond Dr W D Hannah Dr W E Tucker John Evans Dr J Everingham Edith Everingham argaret Bryner Lulu Brown Hurley Lumber Co Robert McCracken A McCracken John Pharis W B Tyler E Turner Wm W Trigg HEB Chelt C & E Freeman JK Rosier Wm Walle J Courtney G B Hickman JW Reisner GP Wyatt | Robert Clark D B Heath L B Starke Dr NL Whipple CP &8 LColeman Semuel Levy Clem Slayback Max Weiner R JR Davis CH Morrison John H Sullens RG West _ Frank Deerwester Peter Swartzendruber Virginia Items. [If we give you the happenings of of our town At the ratio of 16 to 1, we must note them down, And when you through Don’t you blame us if false or true.”’] John Cope and wife, of New Home, attended the funeral of Mary Cope Tuesday of last week. Andrew Simpson has built an addi- tion to his barn. Mary Cope the little 3-year-old daughter of Sherd and Bertha Cope, died Tuesday morning of last week, after an illness of one week. Rev T P Reed preached the funeral. Miss Icy Jenkins reports a good time during her visit of nearly three weeks at Austin, where she visited the family of Rev Baker who preach- ed on this circuit three years. She says the young people are sociable and treat visitors with great kindness. Miss Etna Gardner, who has been staying with her sister in Butler a few days, returned home last week. Dr Boulware, of Butler, was cailed as counsel with Dr Brooks at MrTay- lor’s last Sunday. mr T wasa very sick man. O™m Drysdale received goods last week. Mrs Smith and children, of Butler, visited the family of Joe T Whinnery Saturday. A little boy arrived at the home of Mr and Mrs Merritt Gordon on the 24th. mother and child getting along nicely. Grandpa Whinnery feels quite poorly, but Grandmother is able to be up yet. Uncle Robert Clark was out to see his son-in-law, Mr Taylor, Sunday. Quite a number of our people at- tended the reunion at Butler. NRLs’ CLERK. Nyhart Items. Mann Daniels and wife, of Foster, passed through this town Sunday, en route to their father’s. Boys, if you want water melons Sam Winston says ask for them and | you can have all you want. | The foundation of the new shop is about completed. Mat Adams and Charles Cox took in the reunion last week. There are some land buyers from have read them his new “A precious one from us has gone, A voice we loved is stilled, A place is vacant in our home, hich can never be filled. God in his wisdom has recalled The boon his love had given, And though the body moulders here, The soul is safe in Heaven.” The surprise dinner at Geo Thomp- son’s last Sunday, which was gotten up in honor of Mrs T’s sister, Mrs Mollie Bradberry of K C, wasa grand success, Mrs B had made the remark that she thought, it nice to have birthday dinners and as Sunday was her birthday, the neighbors brought well filled baskets fora dinner. The > guests present were © A Wallace and wife, James Cuzick and wife, Joe Whinnery and wife, Peter Denning and wife, Omer Drysdale and wife, barber ; B F Jenkinsand wife, J W McFadden | Nebraska here and they feel well — and wife, Albert Pilgrim and wife, | pleased with old Bates. —~ » GW Park and wife, Mrs Jack Berry | Tom MeElroy and Herbert Steele F and Mother Craig. | attended church at New Hope Sun- Of 8 Miss Melvia Gardner, of Amoret, | dav eve. J visited Miss Jessie Hensley last week. | Henry Johnson bought and shipped f Mr Lickliter, the Amoret black-}5 car loads of hogs inthe last two smith, was in our city Monday. { weeks, y= Geo Jenkins left last Friday for( School commenced at this place ) Sedalia to attend school. : Monday morning. Wallace, Roland was On time last! Ed Holt, of Butler, was in town » Sunday night, both should be of the ] and gave usa pleasant call same height. | Messrs Sweetler and Leek are yoing Miss Minnie Herald spentlast week | to start out for Kansas soon for their with her sister in Butler. | health. Thomas Huffman left last week for | Messrs Johnson and Spooner left * lowa to visit his Unele. Monday for the southern part of the >» Wm Widders and wife, of Eldorado | State to purchase cattle. Springs, were atending the campilast| Mart Nvhart and J M Hoagland week and will visit relatives and | threshed their wheat Friday. » neighbors a few days. |} Dan Merrill took a trip to Foster W W Park’s team, hitched to a plow, | on the hand ear Sunday. ran off last week and the plowshare | Albert Crigler has returned from cut the hame-string of one of the | the south, where he went in search horses so that it had to be killed. He | of cattle. He found the price of cat- had gone a short distance from his | tle high and that of hogs low. team to pull some weeds, when they | Warren Ayers is doing some road got frightened. work, which has been badly needed. Ed Dudley went to K C last week, | Os Frederick is buying mules and where he will work for a short time. | horses, Miss Ula Tye and sister, of Amster-| Mat Adams is building a new porch. dam, were in Virginia Sabbath. Henry is running the ice wagon for Dick Wolfe went to Amsterdam to | J M Hoagland. see friends Sabbath afternoon. | Ike Malone is fixing to sow wheat. Ben Biggs went to Hume Saturday Preston Dark and wife were in our to visit his father and brother. ; midst Sunday eve. Miss Fannie McDonnell, of Austin, Charles Shulenberger, of this place, is visiting Miss ley Jenkins. x has gone to Nebraska to attend Dr Brooks was called to see Miss | s¢hool one year. Annie Judy, who was very sick fora | We are 16 to 1 in this township—16 few days. mud holes to 1 dry spot. I think that P m Famuliner brought home a lot | js close enough. of fine feeders from Kansas City last | Logston and Sweetler are putting week, weight 97@, cost $3.10 per cwt. | out about 120 acres of wheat this fall. Some of our ladies took a carriage | M Daniels, of Fester, has purchased and went to Mother Jorneys and took | a gne team of Mr Maloney., her to their home to tell their for- HENRY SKYROCK. tunes. There were good things in store for some of them. One of the ladies would be married before long to a merchant, who is good looking and a widower and his wife died paring Sk ll visited relatives rl phy males Foster is taking a very substantial DUVALL & PERCIVAL. | BUTLER,QMISSOURI. ’ | Foster Items. Our public schools open next Mon- day and a large attendance is expect- ed this term with N. L. Livingston as } principal. FARM LOANS. Money to loan on farms at reduced rates of interest. Your Notes are Payable at our Office and you findjthem here when due. Wetgive yousprivilegeftofpayatfany,time. - Money ready as soontas papers are signed. 33-¢£. We are prepared to extend liberal ac-!' BUTLER, MISSOURI, THURSDAY nm and dwe. me Vacant AM Henry's niece, Miss R 1 of Kansas City, v are very scarce, hasbeen ich |} us st display ch for best infant’s work and dress and skirt. Dr Langsford’s team got day night, and left the Drto fan the 31 |amud for about three miles. M Hume understand, AE 3 and is under Perkin cure jrown went to Nevada via business trip. NkrLs’ CLERK No, 2, New Home Items. in 1 died Wednesday ning, Aug , of tumor of the rach, after an illness of 100 days. was 68 years old. Rev Wm. Em She | Miller conducted the funeral services | = a 1 the remains were laid to re the Woodfin cemetery, followed large number of friends. Boys, A M Smith has no girls now. One is teaching at Side Hill sehool and the other is going to school at the Hill, and i think he can rest bet- ter at nights now and even the dogs will sleep and keep their noise to themselves. Miss Lou Smith has bought & new buggy and she was breaking it to work single Sunday eve. Jas G McKethen also rides in a new | spring wagon. Dr J W Crabtree, the promising | young physician of Johnstown, spent a few days visiting with Uncle Ben Jennings’ family. Must be a serious case on hand, governor. The Dr will leave for K C in October to finish his profession. J R Weden is putting the boys through in working the roads, and says maybe they will not be so keen for him to get the office next time. Mr W is a good overseer. Well, my kin folks came to ree me Saturday and Sunday. The party consisted of Mr J W Cordell, wife and little Jessie, from Austin; Mr John Hedger and family, of near Virginia and Mrs A J Brown and little 2-year- old Lizzie, of Kerney, Clay Co. Their visit was short and sweet. Come again good people. Mr O Powell, of Virgil City, passed through our town en route for Vir- ginia, where he has some threshing to do. H Robb, wife and twe children, of Foster, spent a few hoursin ourtown Sunday. There were two men here from South Dakota Saturday night looking for land to locate about 100 families on, as they say there is a colony of Hollanders and Russians that want to settle in S D and those people want to know where they can find homes before they sell. Aunt Mag Welch is moving to Fos- ter this week. Dan Israel will oceupy Mrs W’s property and our new mer- chant, Mr L R Shalley, of Nyhart, will move in the house vacated by Mr Israel. Jas Thomas brought out a new wagon fromthe Hill Monday of last week. John Ramsey visited in Co the latter part of last week. Glen Miller and Leslie Stee! started to college at Sprague Sept Mr and Mrs Jones visite Effie Swarrens Sunday. N.M. NESTLERODE, ‘a Aunt Whipped for Slandering a Young Lady. A gentleman who came down from Rockville yesterday says quite an excitement was occasioned at that village by the white capping of J. C. Baer for making slanderous statements about a young lady resi- dent there. Baer had skipped the town, so with a suit of the report went, clothes belonging to another man. He was followed and captured at Schell City. Rockviile the charge against him was dismissed upon his paying for the garments and he was discharged. But his troubles were not yet over. Before he could get out of town some irate citizens caught him and administered a severe flaggelation with cowhides because of slanderous utterances it. was alleged he had made against the character of a young lady living in that town.— Nevada Mail. Awarded Highest Honors——World’« Fair. MOST PERFECT MADE. A pure Grape Cream of Tartar Powder. Free om Ammonia, Alum or any other adulierant. 4C YEARS THE STANDARD. of needie | loose Fri Vernon} When taken back to SEPTEMBER 5, 1895. ys Leading Ls Our Motto Alwa FIRST TO SHOW NEW GOODS, WE HAVE A Solid Car Load of New Fall Goods in, House Packed From Floor to Ceillng Jam Full and at such low prices that the sharpest competition can not touch them. All of our goods were bought long before there were any advance in prices, and there will be No Advance on Our Goods This Fall We show the finest and cheapest line of dress goods in Butler, the largest and best The best line of custom made boots and shoes and on this line alone we will save you 35 per cent assorted line of cloaks capes and wraps, the largest line of blankets. there is NO ADVANGE ON BOOT AND SHOES WITH US Call in and see us, remember we have the best lighted room in the city and you can see what you buy. LANE & ADATR. li Uncie Sam Permit it- She Cure’ Him of Poker. New York Herald: Let me tell you how I cured Osy of poker play- ing,” said the garrulous little joker Wi Steers Fed for the Market. Houston, Tex., Sept. 1.—A Texas ttle firm has received reports from allover Texas and the Indian Ter- ‘ § : | ritory of the number of steers now tapping the piazza steps with her | being fed for the market. The total daintily shod foot. number reported ranged from 100 phorically thrown up their hands to; “Jt was shortly after marriage | to 10,000 by individuals and the to- the Yexas authorities. Gov. Cul-| that poker habit developed, and_ ta! is 199,025 head. berson settled the matter by telling night after night 1 was left alone the Dallas County Sheriff to shoot if | until unearthly hours. One night I necessary. The thugs do not fancy | facing Winchesters with Texans be-| hind them and have concluded that | Texas soil is not suitable for prize| rings. Post Dispatch | | ca The gratifying news comes from | Texas that the managers of the Cor- | bett-Fitzsimmons fight have meta- Released After Many Years, Denyer Col., Aug. 31.—Henry J. lay awake counting the clock strike | Tyson, who, in July, 1889, was sen- one, two, three, and no Osyin sight. | tenced to death for killing John “This thing has got to stop, I) King in May of that year, was to- said. Inthe bureau drawer was a day released from custody after one roll of prepared mustard plaster. I of the most remarkable legal wars As the first newspaper to make § cut offa big square, moistened it|eyer waged for a condemed man. vigorous protest against the propo- | and laid it under the sheet on Osy’s | Both men lived in Omaha, whence sition to bring Texas into discredit | side of the bed. King and Mrs. Tyson eloped to by making it the rendezvous of| «If he hasn't been drinking tco| Denver. Tyson followed and killed prize-fighters and blacklegs, the | much,’ I reasoned, ‘he will discover | King. Post-Dispatch applauds the vigor of | it and the joke will be on me. If] He was convicted of murder and the Texas authorities and congratu- | he has imbibed too freely, he will’ twice sentenced to be hanged, twice lates the Texas people. The con-| roll into bed and fall asleep.’ tried for sanity, and for ices years clugion of the affair is honorable to! “Ata quarter of four his royal! he lay in solitary confinement in the the State and will enhance its repu-| highness appeared, much the worse | cell for the condemned at the Canon tation among decent people every-/ for the night's game. He was scon City penitentiary, having been de- ae fast asleep, while I waited, delighted | clared insane. To-day Judge Butler But the fight against puggism is | t the success of the ruse until con. accepted a plea of involuntary ;man- E : | science began to prick. slaughter, and sentenced Tyson to not yet closed. It is announced that | “The next morning I was awaken- ©ne day's imprisonment. the prize-fighters and their gang will | 94 by a piteous cry, ‘O, my back,my | oie Ei Bath iscts slip into Indian Territory and hold | back! I neyer had such a pain. | parle, hs the slugging match there. What| How in the d—l did I get it” j ave the United States authorities “Poor Osy pranced about like an > O. BH. Barber Shop, Baths hot or cold, clean linen and right treat- | to say to this proposition’ Is Indian EE a back was one | Territory to be made the convenient = <'pig he play poker again?” t ean linen : lresort of the prizering fraternity open ig otra ves bide equare,ire 29tf BROOKS & EHART “No,” said the little joker. ‘Not | now that the states are closed against for two weeks.” |them? Are the Indians to be taught | the ways of civilization by sluggers, | |toughs and blackguards? 1 | Indian Territory is bad enough |now. Itis the last refuge of des-, | peradoes, and if it is to be turned |into a resort of pugs we would just | jas well quit trying to civilize the In-) dians and fence off the Territory as | a dumping place for the scum of the country. | | Highest of all in Leavening Powe Royal — Latest U.S. Govw’t Report Baking g