The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, January 23, 1896, Page 5

ra (pee PSs LY TWO WEEKS LONGER AT COST FOR CASH, ALL MENS, BOYS AND CHILDRENS SUITS. @ AT COST FOR CASH, ; ALL MENS BOYS AND CHILDRENS OVERCOATS a ae a ee AT COST FOR CASH, ALL MENS, BOYS AND CHILDRENS ODD PANTS. AT COST FOR CASH, ALL UNDERWEAR AND FURNISHING GOODS AT COST FOR CASH EVERY ARTICLE IN THE HOUSE. JAUARY 31st IS THE LAST DAY JOE MEYER, The Clothier See en ain atin dillin didn in in anne 66688860 BUTUER WEEKLY TIMES | ———— ene ITEMS R. L Graves went to Foster Sat urday to install the officers of Foster , lodge I. O. O. F. Messrs. Clark snd Tygard have Wanrep a Fars.—In an for | purchased the Morris business house nice residence in Butler. Will . on the west side of the square. tgage. Equity must be pee. oc ene Poin 7-tf I.N. Mains and R. R. Deacon $8,000. Box 336, Butler. meee. - have returned from Kansas City, where they attended the implement dealers association. Max Weiner is invoicing his large stock of boots and shoes. Alarge portion of our merchants ue through invoicing. Agood deal of plowing for spring is going on in the country. Mrs. Capt. Walley, of Kansas City, is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Wal- Arnold. What has become of our Cornland correspondent. Hope he escaped drowing in the deluge. T. T. Wemott, of Kansas City, is in the city visiting his son Arthur and family, and looking after some private businese. The recent overflows of the river in this section thoroughly tested the durability of the bridges. Bates county bridges stood the strain al) right. Our good subscriber A. Jackson, of Rockville called Tuesday and re- newed. Said he had to have the We are sorry to learn that J. D. Power, one of Butler's best citizens, Col. Ed Brown says everything is’ now arranged and that within a weekfor ten days he will be ready to throw dirt on the Eldorado railroad. The road will be built to Nevada. The street commissioner had a gang of tramps at work on the streets several days last week. That is right, nail every one thut strikes the town and put him to work. The Butler Academy Band assist ed by come of the best seria talent of the city at the opera house Thurs- day evening Feby. ne 3th. Twenty- five per cent of proceeds will be giv-, en tothe relief committee for the poor. Walter Woods, one of the live and energetic real estate and insurance | men of Adrian, and one of the coun-| ty’s best democrats and citizens, | spent Saturday at the hub on busi-| ness and shaking hands with his| many friends. Cleland B. McAfee, of Parkville, Mo., college, will be in Butler Feby. 24th, to deliver an address to the; Sunday School Union. The lecture | men 1n the state A spark from a miner’s cap ex- ploded a box of caps and a keg of giant powder in the West Virginia; mine at Webb City the other day} | months for his wounded ankle, burt will be a treat to our people as Mr. | McAfee is one of the most talented | PY the treatment, and his general Butler is pists well soeeieed with mumps. | A mischievous boy threw a store) Saturday morning and broke one of | the large plate glass windows in the | front of Max Weiner's store build.) ing. The glass is worth 50 or 860, W. O. Williams of Rockville, took | his little 8 year old daughter to Ne-| vada to havea tumor removed from her face. The operation was a suc- | cess and the child is getting along | all right. | Judge G. D. Burgess, of the su-| court, has decided the law passed by the last general | assembly closing barber shops on| | Sunday to be unconstitutional. The | Judge holds that if one line of busi- ness be closed others should be preme Our friend F. M. Voris, who has been taking treatment in Kansas City, for the past three or four about a year ago by falling trees, has returned home. While he still has to support himself with a cratch he feels that he has been benefited health is much improved. Ed. A. Holt received a telegram Saturday from L. S Richardson, of La Cygne, Kan., that his daughter, | Miss May Richardson, had died the | and J. Stafford blown eternity miner was badly injured was into Judge Lay, holding court at Clin- ton, settled the Cedar county court Eldorado Springs by deciding in favor of the latter town. The case will be appealed to the supreme court ky the citizens of Stockton. Ayer’s Pills are constantly al- vancing in the estimation of those who use them. They improve the appetite, promote digestion, restore healthy action, and regulate every function. They are pleasant to take, gentle in their operation, and power- ful ia subduing disease. Saturday night just after a south is on the sick list. Fire in the Midland hotel, Kansas City on the night of the 16th caused spanic among the 500 guests. About Feby., lat, J. B. Paget will pea up an exclusive seed store on [ibe east side of the square. The ladies of the M. E. church Yeouth gave w lunch supper in the Wade building Tuesday night. The beat way to fight the repub. licans in this state is for the demo- (tata to organize in every county. Ties to keep posted on the devil- ment going on atthe hub. The final destination of England’s flying squadron will be the same as that of the lamented McGinty if it has been sent out with an offensive purpose toward the United States.— Globe Democrat. Mrs. J. W. Brummitt, a Rich Hill lady, took a shot at an intruder who attempted to gain an entrance into her home Friday night. The lady's husband was ‘away from home baling hay east of this city. A special lot of letter, bill and note heads, also statements and en- velops at the Trums office at reduced rates. Try us and we will give you tbe cheapest and neatest printing you ever had. The safe inthe M. K. & T., rail- Jim McClure, the man reported | road depot at Calhoun, Henry Co. inthe Tives last week as having Wes blown by burglars Saturday ep poison because of family trou-| night. The thieves and robbers seem ble, died. {to be taking their spite out on the bc s s ki . | railway trainmen and agents. Aliterary society was organized | : 2 the Tripp school house last Fri-| A few days ago a section gang day night. It will meet every Tues | run onto a lone foot pad holding up Peay night. | anold man near Milo But when ] | the boys stopped their car and went to the old man’s assistance the rob ber held them off with his pistol. Sedalia people have perfected their pitol removal bond which they will present the governor in a few days. Prof. Swift, of Rochester, New York, the well known astronomer ‘Pil be at the opera house the 27th | d 28th. The colored people of Nevada de- | etred they had organized to mob PWright, in case he had been released by the jury. The tramps are macademizing the streets of Rich Hill. Butler could do the same thing by putting them to work. Also there are a lot of loafers in the jail that might be made to earn their board on the rock pile. 4) Miss May Crawford has accepted f* Position in the office of her broth- *, W. M. Crawford, Bates county's “Polar county clerk, Gov. Stone has offered $300 for wich of the train robbers that held tp Conductor Trickett’s train at Nassau last week. After this month the initiation fee into the Royal Tribe of Joseph order will be increased $5. This is a splendid insuranee order and those contemplating joining the order had better take advantage of the oppor- | tunity. ( The entertainment given at the) Pera house Tuesday night fur the benefit of the poor was atreat and BMeht to be repeated. Mr.and Mrs. W. W. Cook are : 2 ; A married couple sat down the Peking their household goods this! other night to a game of cards. She: Week preparatory to shipping them «What are you going to play for?” Kansas City, their future home. He: “Anything you like.” She: “Let us play for a new jacket, Old man Lease says the papers il people say some pretty hard, Bes about Mary Ellen, but her pmnk account k keeps on swelling just pe same. of it, and if I lose you shall.” | Joe Haskins, we understand, is ing up a new store building just ; the street from the Laskey reat Lone Oak. He will open #8 general stock of goods. =, over, causing a wreck. slight. dear. If! you lose I shall have the choosing} A freight train beaded for this} place broke in two at Ovid between | this city and Rich Hill Friday night | and two or three cars were turned} No one was | hurt, and the delay of thetrain was bound passenger train had left the Clinton depot, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Waugh, an aged couple living near the track, found a baby boy three weeks old lying in their front yard. It 18 supposed a passenger on the train put the babe where it was found. W. S. Mudd, of Adrian, one of the Times’ best friends, gave us a sub- stantial call Saturday. He inform- ed us that his brother-inJaw T. H MeNeil, an attorney of Kansas City, has received the appointment of deputy coroner of Kansas City. The office pays $100 per month Allen Dobyns, a Saline county on his farm aud a like amount life insurance. family the home place free of debt. So Friday he committed suicide by shooting himself through the head. | Jobn E. Prather, 550 Forest ave, Kansas City, Sunday morning by jumping into a cistern in the rear of his home. years of age and leaves a five children, all girls. took his life were the cause of his ings. his under clothing. Awarded RICES BAKING POWDER MOST PERFECT MADE. A pure Grape Cream of Tartar Powder. from A y | in an instant, and avother | house contest between Stockton and | farmer aged 60 years had a mortgage | He desired to leave his | Te was 41} lieving him of his watch aud money made the brakeman disrobeard took Free mmonia, Alum or any other adulterant, | cathartic with every one who tries jligious life, to again restore bimself | Backac 40 YEARS THE STANDARD. ‘oa 25c. 'to manhood and respect. \ |day before. Miss May was a lovely girl, eighteen years of age. She was jattending school in Kansas City, |Mo. Mr. Richardson owns a large farm in West Point township. Mrs. N. B. McFarland, who has been an invalid for the past eight or |nine years, was taken suddenly and seriously sick Friday last and for two or three days her life hung in the balance. Monday night her life hundred people in St. Louis Sunday | was almost despaired of and the and during his sermon criticised the We have about fifty Jackets about two dozen pairs of ets left. You know we say they are bargains, are bargains sure enough. when they And genuine bar- gains at the prices we are clear- ing them up at. Come and we say these are see them. McKIBBENS. Conductor Robt. G. Trickett, robbed and shot in the face by high- waymen holding up his train at Nassau one night last week, is at his home in this city nursing a very sore face. The bullet struck him near the nose and lodged in the jaw- bone. A couple of doctors at Neva- da extracted the ball, which was badly flattened. Mr. Triekett was on the streets Saturday, and he is of the opinion that the wound he re- ceived was accidental. Mr. ‘T'rickett’s | many friends in this city are glad he | | escaped as well as he did. TheConey Times, at Indepen- dence, Kansas, which has been one of the principal organs of the populist party in the state, has changed hands and will henceforth he run as a straight out republican paper. In this selling out business, Kansas has the better of Missouri as there is not a populist paper in the state worth buying to change its po litics, Florida Militia Not Called Ont, Washington, D. C., Jan. 20.—A flat denial is given at the War de- partment to the report from Florida that the department had requested the Governor of the State to put {the Florida troops in readiness to take the field at a moment’s notice. Sam Jones preached to fifteen ed with her almost the entire night. She is some better at this time. patrons of the school. renewing their Jackson, J. W. C. J. Pahbiman, Eva Willis, Wm. Dixon. names added to our list. | charity concert at the opera house. ;Of course Mr. | Troms a fraternal call and Buchanan and Miss | Sisson. The prize was awarded Mis |Lucy Bachelor. All read the sam |article, and the contest wae a spirited Highest — Fair, one from start to finish, and Miss | Bachelor has a right to feel proud | of: ber victory in carrying off th beautiful prize. Catarrh in the Head Is due to impure blood and cannot with lecal #pplicatio ns Hood's Sarsaparilla bas cured bun because it be cured dreds of cases of catarrh purities the blocd and in this wa removes the cause of the disease. It; also builds up the system and pre vents attacks of pneumonia. diph- theria and typhoid fever. Hood's Pills become the favorit family physician Dr. Christy remain- leading political parties fer not in- Miss Mary E. Miller, ef Altona, an accomplished young lady and one ” of Bates county's most popular and successful teachers, gave the Ties ® pleasant call Saturday for the pur- pose of renewing their subscziption. Miss Miller is teaching the Griggs school in Shawnee township this winter and her managementis giving | cian of Nashyille, Barton county,has the very best of satisfaction to the| deserted his wife and The Times is pleased te record dinner and when she returned found the names of the following subscrib-|® note on the table from the doctor ers who called and settled this week, subscriptions: A. Miller, Mrs. M. C. “| Wayland, M.S. White, W. S. Mudd, John Willis, Mrs, C. Willis, J. C. Wonders, G. D. Bowling, Charles H.S. Williams, Mrs. A. D. Bennett and Frank Speece are new J.C. Oldham, the handsome and|entitled “Home Seekers Guide to talented local editor of the Rich Hill daily Tribune, spent Tuesday after- |noon at the hub taking in the sights jand incidently the supper given by the South Methodist ladies and the | The reading contest at the ME. jchurch south Friday night, given We learn through railroad circles|under the auspices of the Epworth that another brakeman was held up) at Pleasant Hill Monday night. It is said the brakeman when approch-| some beok entitled, “The Circuit o ed by the robber was coupling cars. | The highwayman marcbed bim up the track about a wile and ‘after re- League, drew a crowded house. The contestants for the prize, a hand the Globe,” were Misses Maggie i Arnold, Luna Dalton, Johnnie Shutt, | Bessie Tucker and Lucy Bachelor |The judges were Messrs Denton Mamie | years for forgery, is now engaged in In the first place. it is said that the President has no constitutional or lawful authority to make such a request and in the next place there is no emergency that would justify the calling out of the 1,200 men who make up the Florida militia. cluding temperance reform in their platforms, and said of his ewn poli- itics: A man asked me the other day, “Are you a demoerat?” “No sir.” “Are you a republican?” “No sir.” “Are youa populist?” I said, “Are you a fool?’ He said, Mr. Jones, what are you?” I said, “I am | a gentleman; ever been one?” Killed By Vicious Sehool Boys. Mo., Jan. 20.—Henry a prominent physi- | Foust, a teacher of Prairie View school, five miles west of here, died Saturday night from injuries receiv- ed from Arthur Bishop and Earl Dunnington, two 16-year-old boys. Young Bishop had been punished for bad conduct, and his father, be- coming angered on account of it, gave his son a knife, telling him to use it in case the teacher made any attempt to punish him again. The next day the teacher endeavored tc whip the boy and the latter tried to carry out his father’s instructions, but the knife was knocked from his hand by the teacher. At this junc- ture another boy, Earl Dunnington, interfered and together with young Bishop kicked and beat Foust into jinsensibility. Foust was carried to | his boarding place, where he lay for | thirty six hours unconscious. The two boys have not been arrested. ‘OLEEP&REST For Skin Tortured BABIES Drexel, Dr. Highfill, child. His wife went out from home to take stating that he had gone for good and she would never see him again. No reason can be given for his strange action as he was enjoying a good practice and had no trouble with his family. A couple of enterprising strangers worked our city and succeeded in getting outa smal! book filled with advertisements. The little book is Prosperity.” Of all the humbugs that has struck the town in a cen- tury (the clock included) the little book takes the cake. Instead of passing laws to protect the un- sophisticated the legislature had Oldham gave the| better be doing something for the | The Daily wife and) Tribune isa first class local paper He left a jfor the town of Rich Hill and en- note saying two desolute women! |joys goods support and has a large| come and we are glad Rich Hill has | downfall and | circulation. asked forgiveness of his short-com- up to date town man. Butler is not | the only town being fleeced by these | strangers, they take them as they) not got the laugh on us. We asked | one of the canvassers how they man- aged to work the business men on | | 2 such a scheme. He said, “It takes, And Tired astranger to do it, and we don’t | MOTHERS ive th bination | propose to give the combinati nae f away. | Application of Charlie Streit, formerly bueiness | manager of the Sedalia Gazette, but recently released from the peniten- | tiary where he served a term of two | Giticura A warm bath with CUTICURA SOAP, and a single application of CUTICURA, the great Skin Cure, will afford instant relief, permit rest and sleep, and point to a speedy, economical, and permanent cure of the most distressing of itching, burn- ing, bleeding,scaly, and crusted skin and scalp diseases, after physicians, hospitals, and all other methods fail. CutTicurA WorKS WONDERS, and its cures of torturing, figuring, humiliating humors are the most wonderful ever recorded. s|evangelical work in Kansas City, | | e and is preaching to large congrega-— | tions. He claims he was converted | in jail while waiting his trial by being | visited by a christian organization of | e!ladies. Streit went to Sedalia with | 225,000 He claims up to that time he had never went about saloons or played acard. He fell in with high | life young mep, and was persuaded to the card table, gambling followed and goon bis money took its depar- ture, then he committed forgery and the next thing he kvew he found himself in jail acd wound up his career in the penitentiary. He has now gone to preaching and hopes by sacrifice, good conduct and a re-) Sf NT RELIEE ‘in a single rat ePlaster e