The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, February 20, 1896, Page 1

en =s- &F #S=-So SB = FP = ay - oF s&s & ASE? ui $ D y » 4 | |FARM LOANS. utler WO chip . € yoL. XVIII. OF BUTLER, MO. QAFITAL, - + + = + qransacts a general banking business, We solicit the accounts of fa merchants and the public generally, promising a safe depository f¢ ii funds committed to our charge. We are prepared to extend liberal a odation in the way of loans to our customers. Funds always on iar jo loan on real estate at lowest rates, allowing borrowers to pay part or stony time and stop interest, DIREUTORs. . Boulware Booker Powell Frank M Voris 94.7. € HH Piggott HC Wyatt “ z S Walt 18 Jenkins Geo L Smith sei ir OTHER 'S'TOCKHOLDERS, Bartlett >eArmond Dr W D Hannah sogaret Bryner John Evans Robert McCracken y tals Brown Dr J Everingham A McCracken E Turner fforley Lumber Co Edith Everingham John Pharis Wm W Trigg aBCchelf C & E Freeman JK Rosier Wm Walls } Oourtney GB Hickman JW Reisner GP Wyatt Clark DB Heath L B Starke Dr NL Whipple jleman Semuel Levy Clem Slayback Max Weiner ithae CH Morrison John fH Sailens. RG West Ink ‘Deerweater Peter Swartzendruber ——— zr = = nit ie oe ee here on Wednesday last. John moving to Metz, Vernon county. Lewis Jones is having a henner built; J G@ MecKethen is doing tk work, Yes, Mr Shally try business, bu Summit Items. The mud dries fast these sunshiny days. Hope to see them continued. Sure Raybourn was elected presi- dent of the literary society, with Mrs sec’y. en ohn Seelinger put his cattle onfeed last fall he was feeding 5c cattle; now John holds his head down and says nothing. 5 Harvey Rhine says he will move when the mud settles. Wish it would, ght uck; not that we want to get of he says he can beat Shally’s load $ ring in full blast. ing. We will know where get fried chicken. r Khine. JF Weiner is trimming up his orhard and says he does not need mexpert at the business. Grover Jr. was trimming hedge lst week, and came to the literary badly lacerated in the hands and face by the hedge and his heart by finding a lost pocket book witha large number of pretty pictures in it. Teo bad, Grover, to let such little things overcome you. etatandance at preaching Sun- day notwithstanding the bad roads, itbeing Elder G@ W Webb's regular intment. E Parker was visiting at Rich Hill three or four days last week. Look out, Charlie! retaliation is in orderand we've heard several say they had it laid up for you for the way you scared them last Friday earn money to buy him a horse. Aunt Mag Welch, of Foster, visite L W Jones Sunday. The county office seekers commenced hand-shaking. T W Maddox, of Butler, is visitin his grand-daughter, Miss Lula Shall Quite a number of our young pe well supplied with valentines. Misses Lottie Burks and Dale Ste accompanied by Messrs Stanley Fu night. Martin Douglass and D were in New Home on business Mo day. home Friday and returned Monda aie tissaid Mr Holland hasembarked in the poultry business, but it’s a mistake, as the setting of goose eggs he received from the north pole failed tohatch and Mr Holland concluded to drop the undertaking as risky and cut cupons another year. What's the matter with Mr Fisk? He and Mrs Fisk were not at preach- ing Sunday, which makes us all think something has gone wrong. Jas Allison is going to work for John Seelinger this year and if the climate agrees with him will remain re permanently. Bert Stanton talks of locating in insas City soon. We understand an expert has dis- ‘overed that the dead hog found by MrCrouch had jaw bones that did hotmateh. How is it, Mr Crouch? JC Phillips and wife visited at B F Glovers Sunday. While the populist press is com- mending our congressman, DeAr- mond’s course and speeches in con- Stes. did it ever occur to the minds étany that if he is, and we hope will be, our next nominee to succeed him- wif, that those same papers or edi- tors will bend every energy in their Power to defeat him? ‘Ihat’s just .What they will do, and claiming at the same time he is the man, true and ed, they are looking for, but when he is found will put up one who hap- pens to drop in the favor of certain ers of that party regardiess of the advantages to be derived by sing vik ae has proven true to usts, well qualifie ovroke 5 ; tothe harness, “It he should call | West Main street was alive em down and let them know that | Comic valentines last Frida No encomiums were desired from that | Rey TJ May is holding protract fource, except they expected to sup- | meeting at the Fairview Presbyteri Port him in the event of his being in church, . q race again for the important po- Owen Couchiman lost a fine sadc sition he now occupies or any other, | horse one day last week. Twould make him votes. 7 | ‘The social at Mr M Grover largely attended and all r i: ing a good time. The o {the evening were Misse } million and Minnie Grider School closed at Mot y ch | Friday; all the visit« irgil Trowbridge was out looking | had a pleasant time. a carpenter. Look out, girls, | The question for de irgil will soon have his house done, | view last Saturday 1 ‘olk Taylor wants to buy a 14-inch | solved, that Steam is Plow, | mankind than EF John Ramsey of near Foster, mov- | Cumpton, ALW two loads of his effects through ley Johnson. ‘ewe DUVALL & PERCIVAL BUTLER, Miss Lottie Burks, attended chure at Foster Sunday evening. Miss Nettie Berry departed fro this place Tuesday morning for Ca fornia where she intends her future home. The party at Mr grand success and enjoyed by all. Home people would rather go to I ter, Sprague or Rich Hill their work done than to give shop built. Elmer Butcher is able to be o again, but cannot use his hand. The party at Clarence Morris’s w enjoyed by all. Littlefield was a draw on account Niller’s age. Al Butcher and Wm Miller rented a farm near Lamar. ha mill with Jim MeKethen. JQ A Cope is on the sick list. N. M. NESTLERODE. Elkhart Items. Mrs F M Nafus is still on the si list. ruary 18. Will Christoleer has moved into } new residence. John Romine is putting up a hot {in Elkhart. John is just what takes to start a town ter. New Home Items PY Morse and daughter went to Rich Hill Weduesday. MISSOCRI. Money to loan on farms at reduced rates of i:terest. .Your Notes are Payable at our Office and you find them here when due. . We give you privilege to pay at any time. ; ready as 800n as papers are signed 33-tf. fissouri State Bank $110,000. still in the poul- m MecKethen says he has not hauled the largest load, Polk Taylor’s harness shop is run- Mrs MeKethen has two hens hatch- to goto Wade Morris is chopping wood to have ple attended the valentine party at lo Sprague Friday night and all were geson and Frank Johnson attended literary at Fairview church Saturday L Clark I. R Shally accompanied D L Clark Mr Caldwell and grand-daughter, to make Richards wasa lam sorry to say that the New to have feet of ground to have a blacksmith The horse swap between Miller and Frank Robb of Foster, comes down Sundays and taikathreshing and saw School will close at Lone Star Feb- a good carpen- with} Marshal's was 2port hav non last} BUTLER, MISSOURI, THURSDAY FEBRUARY 20, 1896. Joe Ba ler. im, George and John Heck- ision in favor of negative. mid town is break- , and fixing for busi- rank Wyatt 1 3d and has been r y day sinee. I ml away back. un plowing Feb ng dirt alm nk is a hu MoLiik GAzoo 1 rs coe r Virginia tems. or | “In writing news for the TIMES this things we see or hear, ‘tT them wrong or mixed, ids forgive us for this is | l tons of hay 2 . Cusick has 200 | bu oats for sale. | John Durrett was on the sick list |. The valentine social a Icey Jen- 'kins’ on EF night la Was a | grand suc After som had | been spent in various am ments @ |lap supper was served, after which ay |tine, won by Miss Daisy Denning. Misses Mary and Ella Durest furnish- ed excellent music and all expressed themselves as having enjoyed the} i Those present were: Misses ye, Maggie Nickell, Annie is| Judy, Sadie Whinnery, Maud Hack- | ett, Daisy and Minnie Denning, Mary! ry |and Ella Durest, Ida Cowan, Clemma | ye|Jackson, Me s. John Comiford} Chas Cope, Willie Durest, Chas Cow- an, J J Wolfe, Joe Whinnery Gordon Wallace, Ed Dudley, Master Volney McFadden and John Allen. On the evening of Feb. 14, Mr and Mrs Perry Henderson gave, at their home miles east of Virginia, an} elegant affairin the way of an oys- ter suppe The early part of the evening was spent in social games. At 10.30 the guests repaired to the dining room .d| Where all enjoyed anexcellent repast on the members of the mollusk tribe. At a late hour, after expressing their gratitude to the host and hostess, all ig | took their departure. The following y.| Were present: Misses Florence and o-| Minnie Bean, Della and Josie Hol- way, Myrtie and May Woody, ma Jackson, Viola Harris, Mattie Huffman, Josie Simpson. Dollie el} Pierce, Ella Jones, Anna Famuliner, r-|Mamie Neal and May Henderson. Messrs. John Harper, Wo J Cusick, } Earl Holloway, Thos and John Huff- man, John Nance, Mort Jackson, | Lo, Fred and Chas Simpson; Oscar n-| Har Pet YRouke, Ed Famuliner, ‘Tom| McElroy, Joe and Mack Orear, Ly- y.|man Hensley, Herbert Steele and} +,| Emmett Bu Cliff Jackson and | sh | wife, Fred Heckadon and wife, Chas | Hensley and wife. m Charley and Sylvester Bish ji-| traded their land in northwestern Kansas for land 4 miles south of Gar- nett, Kansas, James Walker shipped 5 two loads of hogs to Kansas City Wed- s nesday of last week. {old customers for their liberal pat | »s- Miss Lizzie Biggs of Hume, was | | visiting relatives around Virginia last 29] week. : Virgil Jenkins built anice cow shed ut Jas Dark will read the Virginia items in the booming TimMEs for a) year. as Allie Owen of Nebraska, visited George Crooks Tuesday night. of Miss Yula Tye of Amsterdam, v ited her many friends around Vir- ginia last week. Mr Head was called to Mexico ky the death of his father-in-law. John Slavens died in Denver, Colo- rado, Feb. ist. He formerly lived in this township, but went west on ac- count of poor healt. | The iron and lumber is being put on the ground to finish the bridge at John Jackson’s. John Orourick was out early last |Saturday morning saying that he believed that the women would take the reins of this government into their hands at an early day. It isa girl. Miss Mamie Sisson closed school at the Peter Crook house last Thursday with songs and declamations, which all enjoyed. J W Park’s best young horse got bad! ona wire fence Monday ed} ¢ Esewien, a prosperous yor an f this township, adds ve +] ek ris |} ise | - her it farmer of his name to the TIMES list. lle} HJ Wiilixms of Adrian, agent for the woven wi om the farmers last week. CW Wolfe and wife visited their json James at Burlington, Kan., last week. Mr W bought an 80 acre farm | while there iM I eA on’s ended th y night e hoys report a int Carmel ch h caught it no damage done. aughter is on the sick > day you will be m me back my bow of twine. you sometimes think, d me back my bow of } If you are some other girl’s fellow Send me back my bow of yellow What Fire can do in Orchards, n, Kan., Feb. 15.—A dam- iroad, now on trial here, is attracting [very generel attention from horti- was the contest fora beautiful valen- | ‘cheaper than any other house in | credit house, who makes bad debts | W E Thornburgh, Jno Neal, | Mo, 1 will present to my customers : a life size portrait, like exmple shown }seeking public recognition, but nev- | have |60c for cost car | last week. | school } against the Missouri Paeific| place. This is merely a WOMACK’S Cash - Grocery - Reopened I have resumed business at my old jatand, one door east of Mo State | Bank on north side the square, with la full line of staple and fancy gro- | ceries, queensware, tinware, wooden ware, nails, salt, garden and field seed &c. Will have in to daya ear | which I paid| Spot Cash for and took the discount, | | | load of new goods, Batler. I do not intend to keep any books in my house at all. solutely and positively not sell any goods on credit, intend to pay the and adds to the price of their goods their loss whict, if you trade with them, you will have to pay the loss | Is not this good logic? time to give you prices this week. Will say that you can buy goods cheaper of me aud save more money than any other house in the city. In order to get myself before the people, I will give free of charge the following premium. Crayon & Copying Co., Kansas City, in my store, of any photo you bring me, by purchasing $10 worth of goods from my stere and paying of material. You are! not required to buy a frame from us in order to get ycur picture. Come ‘early and get a ticket Thax ng my ronage and extending a cordial invi tation to them as well as to continue to trade with me. | Ir main yours respectfully W. 6. WOMACK, jculturists throughout the West, many of whom have been called as witnesses. The suit is known as {the Parker Orchard case. The plaintiffs charge that aspark from a Missouri Pacitic engine, with a de- \fective fire box, originated a fire, which spread to the orchard, des | troying 957 ten year old apple trees, valued at $20 each; 934 four year old japple trees, valued at $5 each; 153 | Russian mulberry trees, valued at $5 each; 172 rods of hedge, yalued at} | $1 arod; aod 23} | valued at $235 jamounts to § jan attorney's fee of new ones | | | acres of cloyer, jremedy, Syrup of Figs. Manufae tured by California Fig Syrup Com | pany. 500 is prayed Mich,, |for- The ablest counsel obtainable | The entire damage | vers without unpleasant after ¢ 5,207, besides which | use the delightful liquid laxative Farmers’ Bank CASH CAPITAL 7} AND SURPLUS $55,000.00 D. N. THOMPSON, E i A. BENNETT, . D. KEPP, Cashi J. EVERINGHAM, S President Vice Pres. All Free. \ Those who have used,Dr, King’s Call on We notice that a number of our Ihave not|republican exchanges are devoting considerable space to announcing “Hon. Allen Dorman” democratic candidate for congress from the sixth Missouri district. The young girls who are continually in Herald is in receipt of a bundle of the Having | press of the Henry County Republi-| The intelligent physician will know | taken the agency for the Burton/can, urging favorable mention of the! that it is some derangement of the of Clinton, as Dorman literature, from the poet politician for congress. Allen Dorman is one of those unfortupates | receiying it, and never fails to run: for office whenever occasion presents | itself. skort life and will soon be numbered among the many goue before. It is certainly too bad that reputable | newspapers and respectable citizens would, uader the guise of friendship lend their aid to the preten of furthering the political amb His boom is destined to a tions of an irresponsible man only | to enjoy a good laugh at his expense. | The transactions of Judas are held | up ss something awful. He be- | trayed his master for thirty pieces of silver, and received his reward | while those who are encouraging | Dorman are not only causing him to i spend his money for nothing but are | showing the world to what depths men will descend in order to out a practical joke. It should cease. | —Appleton City Heraid. carry The Modern Way Commends itself to the well inform- ed, to do pleasantly aud effectually what was formerly done in the crudest manner aud disagreeable as well. To cleanse the system and break up colds, headaches, and fe- ence called | bas been employed. and 100 wit-| The Jury has scene jMesses hre present | been conveyed to th in a special car, and the engine Nevada, Mo., The esti- evidence. red in jand mation f well known fruit growers, miped as jwho been ex H orchard, 1,000 per before the fire, at $800 to§ acre, and after the fir burned Twenty-three acres were over. of the wit- | Elopea With Four Women. Liberty, Mo., Feb. 15 | Taylor has run away | Vicinity Herman C jand three dat | i j | —Edward ast with zhters wagon aud har {Cobb were a! rken. The family ¢ {from South Dakota three months sons are with him. jago. Taylor ig a single man and he leame to Smithville from Kansas | City. Cobbis on the bunt for The g wife and daughters lare 12, 14 and 16 Bates county democracy appears) ‘to be easting around for a candidate mau who will be a 2 strength. 2 as an ornament to | their ticket, they would do we! ae) ee jtry and induce Capt. Ni |Homer township to j suggestion from ou | dam Breeze. to the state legislature. If they want the best, and a well {10 o'clock to-night, when | Roblfing was returned to his room, Will Fight the Coflin Trust. English, Ind., Feb. 15.—A case which places me in shape to sell | New Discovery know its value, and | Will likely be aired in the courts of those who have not, have now the this or Perry county which will go opportunity to try it Free. Will ab.| the advertised Druggist and get a truat. | Trial Bottle, Free. Send your name coffin was a farmer named Klutinger, and address to H. E. Bucklen & Co, Chicago, and get a sample box of price was charged because be was spot cash for my goods and discount | Dr. King’s New Life Pills Free, as notin a position to refuse compli- every bill, by so doing will enabie| Well as a copy of Guide to Health | ance, he took the coflin on credit, me to sell goods cheaper than any er Household Instructor, Free. All . . |of which is guaranteed to do you reasonable profit on the merchants good and cost you nothing at drug investment and declares that he can store. to proye the workings of the coffin The person who bought the that an exorbitant who declared but now refuses to pay more than a prove that the merchant is charging him 200 per cent profit and that the merchant has acknowledged this, but declares the trust compels him todo so, and if be refuses the agency will be taken away from him. Who does not know women and tears? Who always see the dark side? 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St. Louis, Mo., Feb. 16.—About Henry in the third story of the building at ‘that the corner of Olive end Third | streets,occupied by H. F. Sherman’s pritivg cffice, he stumbled over the deal body of his brother, John, stretched out on the stairs. He waa shot through the head In his room lay the dead body of Miss Barbara Kossel, a pretty German girl, about 17 years old. She was dead. A pool of blood froma woundin her bre re slencbed in the story of were lovers lev reled. From the had t Miss Kossel’s pped him She then evid retired to the room and made an ¢ to her own life. Nobody thote, but the tragedy cou t occurred long before the lies were found, as both were still warm ABSOLUTELY PURE 4 [ | t } }