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‘Wininaialaverarnetes e = = : ES | e - Pee a Gur possibilities for buying enables us to give values otherwise impossible. Our goods are all new, We have the goods, we bave the coure abi Other merchants bargain dollar BS) properly bought, perfect in taste, correct in style and sterling in quality, all merchants aim to make at sold by us for 90 cents. _ We are differ ore piogressiye, our aim is high. W e would least 25 per cent. and in most instances from 35 to 40 per cent. on all they sell. We don’t expect one | rather bave your trade for all time to c y de ow; satisiy yourself of this ie. at cent while building up our business on a solid basis. Therefore we will make a great chang ie | examining the goods © ed, other the extraordina a <i Ali merchants advertise their gocds at what they deem the lowest possible price: we will sell j ving for the sma Ra ts carried in stock by us for 10 per cent. less than the price advertised by any other house, in ion gua I Ps) i i Bring in the advertisement of anybody, we will sell the same article to you 10 cents cheaper 1 you possibly ask an a t ‘wi dollar's worth you buy, never mind how cheap they are offered, we will sell 10 cents cheaper a # a Q Next to Dea . is SB SSS SS SS SS AS SUGGS sues T. Hulen, one of our best citizens, 1 You don’t know what inducements | renews his subscription for ‘96. ! we are offering until you see our! Scarlet fever in a mild form is| line of infants and childrens shoee. 8 | Max Weryer. a aaa A word or two about our new winter boots—it will be well for you to know. Our boots at $2.00 are made from good stock, all solid, number one wearers, and boots that are usualy sold for $2.50. Our boots at $2.50 are the best ones sold at that price. They're made from selected kip leather, all hand work, and they are as near waterproof as boots can be made. Just as geod as those that are sold at $3 to $3.50. Our $3.00 boots are made from selected heavy old fashioned oak tanned calf skin, all hand work, soft and and easy, and just the thing for those that want a light servicable boot. No shoemaker can make better goods. You will certainly profit by seeing these boots. MAX WEINER. YOUR House will need paint- ing this fall. Don't wait until it is too late- Come and see us about it now. J. A. TRIMBLE DRUGGIST Two doors north of post-office. BUTLER - - - - - MISSOURI. Coat. For Satr.—Good screened coal for sale at bank at 6 cents per bushel. Bank five miles southeast of Spruce. R. A. Batcneror. Dr. Kimberlin, Eye, Ear, Nose, | Throat, Catarrh. Butler, Oct. 25. Artificial eyes and ear drums. D. H. McKee, a handsome and cultured young gentleman of Wash- | ington, Iowa, is visiting relatives in the city and county. Dr. Kimberlin, Eye, Ear, Throat and Nose Specialist will visit Butler, Oct. 25. 47 2 Mrs. Sarah Huston, of Independ- ence, Mo., is visiting her brother, T. C. Copeland and niece, Mrs. McAn- ally, and will make quite an extend- ed visit. Joseph Callister, a Johnson coun- ty farmer, had his arm crushed off in a hay press. He put his hand on which he had a glove in the press to remoye some obstruction and the glove caught on the press and the arma was crushed to the elbow. An unknown woman with three children is prowling about the woods near St. Joseph. It is be- lieved the woman is crazy. The children are kept alive by food given them by farmers, but the mother re- fuses to eat. One of the children stated that they were deserted by their father while traveling in a cove ered wagon. They sleep in the road without covering. A slimate must be delightful when blossoms, young and ripening fruit appear on the same tree. Our good friend W. M. Sethman, from his fine farm in West Boone township, sent us apple blussoms, as beautiful as the cheek of a pretty girl, and fra grant as a magnolia bloom, with young fruit as large as partridge eggs and a delicious, large, red, ripe apple all picked from the same tree. Bates county beats the world. Dr. Kimberlin, Eye, Ear, Nose, Throat, Catarrh. Butler, Oct. 25. Artificial Eye and Ear drums. | Miss Mary Lotspeich spent Mon- day in Kansas City. M. V. Carroll, editor of the Com- mooer at Springfield, Mo, was in town Tuesday. Dr. Kimberlin, Eye, Ear, Throat and Nose Specialist will visit But- ler, Oct. 25. Prof. Geo. Bartley, teaching school just over the line in Vernon county, Saturday and Sunday in the city and gave the Tres a call. Be sure and see our line of Boys {and Girls best wearing school shoes we will make it an object for you. Max WEIxeEr. A long row of cherry trees along the road side about a mile north of town are out in flull bloom. It is quite » novel sight at this season of | citizen they kidnapped while carry- purchased a 100 acre farm near Hol- | the year. In five heats at Lexington, Ky., | last week, Joe Patchin crowned him- self king of pacing stallions in de- feating Robert J. and John R. Gen- try. Time 2:08, 2:54, 2:64, 2:94, 2:08 Miss Lena Kratvogel, of Carrolton Friday. The entire town has been in a fever of excitement since the oc currence and every effort is being made to capture the guilty culprit. Richard P. Saint, an old soldier, living alone at Blairstown, Henry county, was found dead in bed a few daysago. The deceased had been wounded during the war by the bursting of a bomb shell and drew | pension of $24 a month. He had been living the life of a hermit since his residence in Blairstown. John Jones, a Clinton gambler, | attempted suicide the other day by the poison route. Two doctors with the aid of stomach pumps kept him from passing over the divide. Get- ting on his pins again he went to town and proceeded to fill his tank with bug juice. The next time the doctors ought to be late getting to bis home. Chas. Denney, who has almost blind for years, was rendered sightiess Saturday, by taking a slight cold which settled in his eyes. Mr. Denney has hundreds of friends who will be sorry to learn of his terrible misfortune. He was affect- jed in a like manner several years ago, while driving a wagon, but after a time regained his sight suf- ficient to be able to get about and it is to be ho; that his present con- prevailing in Nevada. Catherine Murphey of Cornland, | isa new subscriber to the Trves! | this week. | ; A good hotel on the northwest | |corner of the square would be the | | best paying investment in Butler. Special excursion to St. Louis| jleaves Butler Friday about noon | land returning leayes St. Louis about 10 a. m. Sunday 20th, all for €3 for | the round trip. Everybody going. | J.C. Hale and wife are visiting their daughter in Colorada and will} be absent until the first of Novem- ber. Mr. Hale expects to bring | home with him from the mountains a couple of deer. | Probate Court settlement docket | for the November term is published in thisissue. Administrators having | business before this court should read it over carefully and govern themselves accordingly. Wesley Arnold left for Kansas City Monday to enter the Western Dental College, and complete his | second yeaas course. Wesley is one of Butler’s brightest young men and we predict will head his class. Judge Jas.Gibson,of Kansas City, writes a Lamar friend that he will be a candidate fer Governor. There is no better or purer man in the state than Judge Gibson. Dr. Kimberlin, oculist. Sore br weak eyes, or catarrh, throat or nose, see Dr. Kimberlin, Butler, Mc. Oct. 25. Sedalia is coming up with her guarantee, capital removal bond, which has reached $600,000. Ai lit- tle harder pull and they will get there. Mrs. Caroline Harrisona wealthy | widow vf Vernon county, has been sued by E. W. Clark. of Nevada, for breach of promise. Mr. Clark wants $5,000 a very small amount indeed for wounded feelings and lacerated heart. When a hog dies of cholera, it should be buried three feet under the ground. The Legislature, at its last session, passed a law making a failure to comply with this require ment punishable by $100 fine. This should be. It is unlawful to drag a deceased hog ever the highways.— | Ex. A Nebraska mover named C. ©. field of R. W. Shields and was given { 25 days in jail Mr Shields said he, had lost not less than 50 bushels of | | tired of being robbed. | | The cable announces that the} | French have captured the capital of | | Madegascar and that they are now) bed Thursday night and in her sleep, hatless and shoeless, walked to Nevada, arriving there about 1 corn by movers this fall and he was o'clock at night. Her husband miss- ing her started in pursuit and found her at Joel Smith’s. With the ex- esption of her feet being very sore, | the lady was all right next morning, fact is not generally known, but it | PERS OSS PERL PL PSR RE RI TLS ELEN PSS PS PS LPL SE PRN PS RA PR RT RRL PES PS RST UN RE ER ESR PRR RUS FARMERS BANK OF BATES co. Accounts solicted Depositors offered | Every facility Consistent With safe Banking. lat vice Pree, | NN vice Pres. | \ | A girl had a proposal of marriage and aeked a week to think over it. She interviewed several married ladies of her acquaintance as to their | domestic experience. One who used \to be a belle had three children, was married. Another whose hus- band was a promising young man at the time she married, was support- ling him. A third didn’t dare say her life her own when her husband , | was around and the fourth was di |verced. After visiting and hearing | their woes, the heroine of this story | went home got a pen, ink and paper /and wrote an answer to the young | man. You may think it was refusing | in full possession of the island. The | 5X she had no recollection of HT but it wasn’t. She accepted him and next news in that connection should | | be of the release of the American , ing out their schemes of conquest.— } N. Y. World. she got to town. G. D. Arnold informs us that he den, Johnson county, and will shert- said she would be ready in a month. | —Ex. Russia's Law Teas Frontier. Berlin, Oct. 13.—The Social dis- | ly take possession of the same. This order wich is prevalent on the Rus- | On Wednesday, Oct. 30tb,1895, L. | is another family the Tiwes regrets sian frontier of Armenia is indicated | N. Kennedy will sell at public sale | to see leave Bates county, and in| by adviees received to-day from St. jat his farm adjoining Nevada, Mo., | China hogs, all ages and both sexes. ' our loss Johnson county will gain a {100 head of thoroughbred Poland | tip-top man, and a simon pure, rock | ports, i j levying tribute by force in the, ribbed democrat. The best wishes Petersburg. According to these re the Kurdish chief Nabii is | These hogs are of the test blood | of the Tres anda host of frieuds| Russian district of Ervan, where he Mo., was outraged by a negro boy! kaown to the breed and if interested | will follow them to their new home. is seizing cattle, murdering men, | in fine hogs it will pay you to be at} | this sale. Write him for catalogue. | BR. L. Graves returned Monday evening from St. Louis, where he | had been the past week attending | | the meeting of the national saddler j |and harness association and taking | \im the fair, parks and seeing the | sights in general. He complains of |having the best time of his life. The association, he said, was wined, | | dined and toasted to the queen's | | taste. | The great Southern Plantation | | evening in their Afro-American jubi | jlee Minstrels In the afternoon they will give a matinee. This troupe Singers, the Memphis students, will | | appear at the Opera house Saturday | McBride, Hutchinson & Stark have started a bran new democratic paper at Clinton, whick is filled brim full of choice reading matter and attractive advertisements. These young men are up to date newspaper men and the Tribune, the new birth, will shake up the dry bones in and about Clinton, and will cause the Democrat and Eye to shed their ceats and get on a hustle. The editor of the Reflex, one of | Bates county’s sprightly local pa reported four new handsome stone | business houses just completed and the fifth in the course of erection, ; and the merchants of the little city ' will start upon it’s tour of the coun- \try from Butler. It is composed wholly of artiste and actors of ex- been | perience and the Times predicts for | it = successful season. The G. R. Smith post G. A R., at Sedalia, passed resolutions de | nouneing Colonel Grover post, War- | Fensburg, for drawing the color line | when visited by Sergant Clay Shaw | Post, composed of colored ex sold- | jiers of Sedalia. The colored ex-sold- | | iers were informed that they had not been invited to attend the Warrens- burg re-union. | doing a thriying business. Good | for Rockville. The Tres in the past two months has printed nine briefs for Graves | | Christian and Moslem alike, and |earrying off women and children. | His latest reported exploit was to ) burn down a hamlet of eighteen { houses, killing thirty two men and |abducting fifteen women and forty children. A force of gendarmes was |went in pursuit of him, but when | they overtook him they were defeat- jed and obliged to flee. A strong {force of troops was then sent after | him, but they were not successful in | overtaking him. Can't put any more value in a pair pers published in the wide swake | ef jeans pants than we put in the in the penitentiary, burned one day and thriving little city of Rockville, | Bucxexix Brzscuzs. If any one can last week. called on the Tuses Saturday. He | show us how to spend money mak- ufacturing building within the walle jing them better we'll pay them well for it. We've done our best to make them perfect in fit, wear and finish. | We'd do more if we knew bow. | Di Scrtae naNraer | Mulberry Items. | Our sehool begun last Monday with | Mr Bennett as teacher. | Born to the wife of Tom Purdy, a 7-poand girl. Miss May Henderson spent Satur- & Clark, one for Smith & Thurman | day night with her sister, Mrs | and one for T. W. Silvers, ef Spring- \field. Also a short time ago we eompleted a brief for Gen. B. G Boone, of Clinton, in the case of the state vs. Boone Good, which made 400 pages. Two of the briefs we | printed for Graves & Clark averaged 175 pages each. The Tres beats them all when its comes to printing | briefs. | Bensley. | Mr TuH and family have moved to | Vernon Co, where they expect to make their future home. Loo Kimes says some thief has | found his corn crib, and corn only 15 cents a bushel. Mrs Rosa Gordon has been vistting her father, Jo Young, the t week. Mr Slade is very sick with asthma. The protracted meeting at Spy Mound school house has closed. There is lots cf sickness but no diphtheria, ‘ Nexs’ CLzRK No 4. eee a ead Mrs. Blake Smith, living with her | did all of her own work, hadn’t been | Ryan, was arrested in Nevada Sat-| husband on Governor Stone's farm, to a theater or out riding since she | 8th. The meetings will be held at urday for stealing corn from the | ten miles east of Nevada, got out of Casa Capital and Surples SHON | Dr. Kimberlin, Oculist. Sore or weak eyee, or catarrh, throat or nose, see Dr. Kimberlin, Butler, Mo. ‘Oct. 25. The state convention of the W. C. T. U. will convene in this city Nov. | 5th, and remain in session until the | the opera house. Mrs. W. W. Cook will superintend the decorating of ‘the room. It ie expected that Mre. ‘Clara B. Hoffinan, national presi- dent, and Miss Willard will be pres- ‘ent. This will be the most import- ant meeting of the W. C. T. U. ever held in the county, and it is hoped a large attendance will be present. Henry Tilso», of New Home j township, one of the Tres very best friends and oldest subscribers, called Saturday and renewed for 96. He has just recovered from a severe siege of typhoid fever, being bed fast for ‘thirty-three days, consequently he was looking quite thin in flesh and was very weak. Henry said among his misfortunes during hie sickness was the loss of old Ceilam, the noted | chestnut sorrel horse who laid down and died the 7th inst. Ceilam was - 27 years of age and in his younger ~ |days gained a wide reputation | throughout this section as a racer, | and in those days was known by al- | most every man, woman and child jin the county. About four years jago thie famous horse was badly | burt and since then has been gradu- ally going down and literally staryed |to death surrounded by plenty. |Ceilam has hundreds of friends in the county, who will be sorry to hear of his demiee. The Strous harness and Saddlery It was the largest man- of the penitentiary and the loss is jsaid to be about $150,000. The | building was four stories bigh and | 200 feet long. The firecrginated in ~ the Saddlery department and it is : supposed was caused from spontan. ious combustion. Zera Raburn su- perintendent of the dining roome of | the penitentiary was in the city Sate urday. He said the fire did quick work owing to the inflammable con- | tents of the building and in three ‘quarters of an hour the structure was leveled with the ground. Six | streams of water played on the fire | but the beat was so intense it did | little or no good. The convicts cone ducted themselves in an o: manner and hundreds of them di noble werk in fighting the fire.