The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, April 2, 1896, Page 1

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XVIII. petween. d solid plow shoe worth ‘Hood congress (Hub gore) plow Hyige lace shoe, pointed toe —— LARGE worth $1 50 for $1 25 fine dress shoe, congress worth $1 50 for $1 25 worth $2 00 for $1 50 | 7 roo cong. square toe worth $2 50 for $2 00 | custom made calf warranted worth $3 00 for $2 50 BUTLER, MISSOURI, THURSDAY APRIL 2 Shoes at Hard Tim TGlose your eyes to quality and the world is full of cheap things, but with your eyes wide open the real good things is few and far Now we have some REAL good things we wish to call the wide awake buyers attention to this week in order to reduce our hoe stock which we find is to large for our room, we wilt make some pvices that will interes $1 25 for $1 00 L1Lor ~———__ A... | VATil1l Close Out at 50 PAIRS | Lavies solid oxford point toe worth $1 25 for $ -!- Hand Sewed Light Calf Congress -:- — WORTH $4.00 AND $4.50—— $3.00 | Fine tan, sold last season at | Black extra quality pointed toe worth 2 | Fine black oxfordjight stitching worth 2 | Ladies fine kid button shoes worth 1 | Fine patent tip opera or pointed toe * | Fine hand sewed shoe formerly worth 2 50 for LINE OF CHILDRENS AND MISSES SLIPPERS AT A BARGAIN IF WE HAVE YOUR SIZE, ALSO A LINE O - MENS STORM PROOF SHOE, THE ONLY WATER PROOF SHOE KNOWN TO THE TRADE -:- The “Vamp” or upper portion of the Shoe has a middle lining of light weight Oiled Silk Canvas, which is Absolutely Water Proof. The bottom consist of: filling which is non obsorbent and elastic, waking a comfortable cushion and easy tread for the foot. 3. A double sheet of chemically treated rubber, which will prevent any dampness striking through the bottom cfShoe. 4. A solid first grade sole leather slip sole. 5. An extra quality solid sole leather out stole. Making all together the most perfect Combination Damp Exclader ever put on the bottom ofa shoe. This F CHILDRENS SHOES , 1896. e Prices, 1 00 1Lor 1 75 for 1 50 00 for 1 65 50 for 2 00 35 for 1 00 2 00 for 1 50 200 Clese Out I —SOLD AT $3.00, $3. A solid sole leather inner sole. NO 20 t people who want shoes. S595 PAIRS && Ladies Fine French Kid Plain Toes 2% 50 AND $4.00— at $2.00 8 to 2. SEE THESE SPECIALS BEFORE YOU BUY 2. A ground leather shoe is not a heavy and clumsy “Brogan” which is usually offered for an article of this kind, it isa Medium Weight Dress Shoe which is made up in the latest styles and can be worn for any purpose, winter or or summer. ———— TOOK A DAEDLY DOSE, ‘Vurs. Lena Mack, of Humnasville, Kills Herself by Morphine. Humansville, Mo., March 25 — Lena Mack, aged 19, commit dwuicide here yesterday morning taking an overdose of morphine, about 5 o'clock. Her rash deed was caused by . Her maiden name was Lena (Okey, and her father is a resident of mansville. Clint Mack, a young p who wus raised here, seduced »it is said, under promise of Aurriage. Her father, to avert fur- ber errors, placed her in the Home ‘Adlthe Good Shepherd, in Kansas Ts Tat summer while the girl was in institution, she learned that fsck was in Kansas {City. She in- eed him to come and see her and ally by threats of prosecution he induced to marry her. Mack immediately returned to Homansville and his wife after a few wfollowed him. He refused to with her, and during the fall she 4 ought a criminal proceeding Perinst him for wife abandonment. ck immediately fled to Oklahoma. out this time a child was born to Mack. Mack commenced proceedings for orce against his wife in an Okila- oma court the other day, and upon ming of this the woman became and despondent. Late Mon- night she took a large dose of phine from which her death re- Born in 1795. Lexingtou, Mo. March 8.—Mrs. cy Cooper, the oldest woman in fayette county, died at her home Dover last night. Mrs. Cooper born in Amelia county, Virginia August 8, 1795.She was married William Cooper in 1813, moved this county in 1828, and settled t Dover and resided there until 0, when she moved to Dover and t the remainder of her life at tesidence of her daughter. Her husband died in 1838. She the mother of 10 children, three whom are still living—Mrs. Anna now residing in Jackson Itty,and Mrs. Mary Barly and Adeline Stark of this county. Mecooper has lived under the ad istration of every president of United States She has 35 dchildren and 47 great grand- - Watter’s Friends Retaliate. d settlement near Columbia, he Blackjack district of Okla- the negroes are greatly in d over the refusal of the French A BUTLER, ARM LOANS. government to pay an indemnity to Waller. When they learned that Waller was still in prison an indig- nation meeting was held and retalia- tory measures decided upon. A French settler named Pierre Boulet, who had not renounced allegiance to the French governinent, was taken from his claim and imprisoned ina cave. The negroes declare that they will not release their prisoner or dis- close his whereatouts until France accedes to Waller’s demands. TAYLORS MUST HANG. Meeks Family Murderers Sentenced to Die April 30. + Carrollton, Mo, March 31 — The attorneys for the State in the Taylor case received a telegram from Jefferson City about 9 o'clock this morning, anouncing that the State Supreme court had affirmed the con- victions for murder in the first de- gree of William P. and George E. Taylor, th notorious murderers of the Meeks family,and had sentenced the brothers to be hanged April 30. The people generally were not surprised, for nine tenths of them were expecting the decision to be affirmed. The news spread all over ing else has been talked of during the day. Two of the attorneys for the de- fense conveyed the news to the pris- oners at the jail. As was the case all through the trial, George Taylor took the matter in quiet manner,but Bill looked as though the last hope was gone and that he was ready to and his deputy were neither in town and the guards at the jail refused to enter. next step taken in this hard fought shita, Kan., March 27.—In the matter. One thing is sure, the city inside of an hour, and noth- | do something desperate. The sheriff \ | little we make on hardware that we | | effort has been made to save them | | by their attorneys and friend’. The | sheriff will put on an extra guard as soon as he returns. | Reports from Milan say that Sul liy: | the decision. | Pierce has received several requests | by wire for tickets to the hanging. DUVALL & PERCIVAL MISSOORL an county people are jubilant over Prosecuting Attorney WILLIAMS — Cash Grocery We can now say to the people of Bates County that we have the best flour ever sold in the county. It is Washburn Crosby's high patent flour, made at Minneapolis, Minne- sota; it makes sweet, rich, fine fla- vored bread; we have sold 300 sacks of it, and we tell you the touth when we say that 200 peonle that have bought this flour from us have come back to our store, praising it to the skies. We not only tell you of this | flour fro hat o t + : faa mien eae cemrene eeal Gih pure green Rio coffee,fancy 1 but from onr own experience; we are using it ourselves and we pronounce it the best flour we ever used, it | makeg rich, fine flavored flakey bread and the beauty of is, if you buy | 1000 sacks every ore will be the! it is made from that hard | is the finest we have ever seen. pearly wheat, raised in Minnesota, | same. and another beauty about it is, it | | only costs you $1.10 per sack, less | than some are asking for the second grade flour. Beware that you are not led aatray by some competitors, | tlt may tell you this flour is not | good, because they are affaid, when you have used this flour once, you will have no other. We have kept very quiet on this fiour, until we positively knew its merit, we know it now, and cannot say too much for it. We have known of it for the last 25 years, Lut this is the first of it that was ever brought to Butler. Don’t fail to try it; every sack is warranted. We want to call your attention | again that we havea big stock of | barb wire, painted and galvanized, | smooth wire, all sizes, all size poul- | try netting, single and deuble trees, hoes, rakes, axes, saws,hedge knives, to allow anybody but the attorneys | post muauls, trace chains, clevices, and a thousand other things in the Since the first excitement quieted | bardware line; and we are selling down speculation is as to what the lots of them, in fact, we are selling five times the amount we expected we would sell in so short a time case would be. The prevailing opin | since we have been handling it, but ion now is that the case will goto|the right prices will sell most any lthe United States Supreme court, | thin although the defendants’ attorneys are slow to express an opinion in the the | Taylors will not be hung until every | ge, and we never have thought of asking the regular hardware price for anything. We consider what are just that much ahead. If you, don’t think you can buy anything in | the hardware line cheap of us, just come inand see once. We handle only the best quality of everything. We tell you now, 80 you can write | it down in your memorandum book, that we have now on bands, a large stock of screen doors, from the ry over one door, se So please pose tu © w what we mean creen doors, we have to wk of goods we have - bouse. You can al vthing you want ato haven't go lay to the finest; aud we don’t ° in mind, when you ctart out | small price. The material used in these shoes is of the best and the workmanship is meant to be perfect and as sueb, every pair is (Warranted.) | We haye a large stock of North- ern seed potatoes, seed sweet pota- toes, aud bulk garden seeds; don’t | fail to come to us if you want barb g | Wire, we will sell it cheaper than any one will offer it to you Our (groceries are cheaper now than we ! have ever scld them before; it makes ) no difference what others advertise, or what prices you see displayed in front of their stores, come to our CASH CAPITAL store and you will tind them. still cheaper, unless an inferior quality You can buy} of goods are quoted. 1 pkg Lion cottee 1 pkg Arbuckle coffee i pkg X X X X coffee $ 1 pkg Ankora coffee with spoon 1 th good Rio coffee 1 th Java blend coffea 4 tb pure Mexican coffee,fancy 1 34 tb golden Rio coffee 1 tbh Broken Java 34 tb fancy Afaican coffee q 1 1 ‘Tne African Java we offer you now 1 bbl finest salt (new and dry) $1 100 ib Jersey Cream flour 100 tb Royal Crown flour + bu sack meal 6 tb Dwight soda 3 tb finest tea siftings 34 tb California prunes 3 tb fancy Cal. peaches, 1 good garden hoe 1 good garden rake 4 boxes Greenock lye 14 boxes Greenwich lye 20 boxes matches 3 doz clothes pins 1 gal hoaey drip syrup i: 2 1 bu north’n early rose potatoes lbu “* “Ohio “ No 8 copper bottom wash boil’rs No 8 solid copper wash boi 10 th Scotch oat flakes 12 tb pearl hominy 6 tb Carylina rice 8 ib soup beans 6 tb Michigan navy beans 6 bars Fairbanks Brown so: 6 bars Old country soap 6 bars Clariette soap 18 ib fiae gran sugar | 4 cans fresb sweet corn 3 cans fine tomatoes, 1 broom 1 good broom 1 fine broom 1 economy clothes wringer 1 square washing machine 1 patent barrel churn | Nails from 6 penny up Smooth wire all sizes ~ pay more than we do. iuantages in yuch as apy . in eash, want any goods you take t out at tra Te price, or an dry goods at trade price. Yours truly, WILLIAMS BRC rs and butter, besides Irs 2 ap Call at our store and examine the “inside” of this wonderful shoe. Farmers: Bank Gig AAD AND SURPLUS $55,000.00 18 18 D. N. THOMPSON, President. 18) E. A. BENNETT, Vice Pres. 1s! E. D. KIPP, Cashier. 20) J. EVERINGHAM, Secretary. 25 GO} 00 | 15) New Home Items. | tended the Convention at Butler 00 F¥Wade Morris has acres of corn. ;. Richard Allen and family visited at | LW Jones’ last Sunday. planted about 10 | 20; RL Shalley took a load of poultry 95! and eggs to Butler last week that 29 | brought him $55. | 99} , 4 little three-year-old son of Mrs 5-| Morris wandered away from home) 25 last Thursday and got lost. He went 25|to J G McRethen’s, and Mrs Me. took | 25 him home. They had all turned out 25 | to hunt the boy. 30) Mrs Lew Jones is very sick with an j Se attack of la grippe. 25 | Mrs Brogan has been visiting her! 25 father, J Littlefield the last few days. 00; There is some complaint of oats 95 | hot growing on account of bad seed. 05! Remember the school meeting on | the first Tuesday in April, as there is 40! a trustee to elect and some other im- 45/| portant business. 55, There is a good crop of candidates 85| in the field. Guess we will have to | learn to smoke. | 15) Bill Smith has got a cook. | 25| AE Beaty, chief of police of Rich | 25) Hill, was in cur midst Monday. Mr | 25 B. handed us his card announcing 25 the fact that he is a candidate for | 25 sheriff, subject to the action of the 25 democratic convention. j JIM. 25 a | 25 00 25 Reynard tems. i John Gilbreath soid 80 head of fine | hogs last Wednesday. | 25; Geo L Brown returned to Chicago | 15 | last Wednesday. 20) work of teaching. 25! Kenneth Peeler was shaking hands | -) with his many friends on the Prairie | 85) Sunday. He will resume his 285! Mrs Annie Gilbreath was on the) 3 00 / sick list last week. C4! The Brush Colles | kinds of produce, please don’t for- | get that, and we dont let any ove You huve; bringing us for one if order Friday, with anex musical program. 03 i There was a large Remember we pay cash for alllattendance and all report a pleasant time. Fouxp—On the streets of Reynard, an elegant hair ornament, Any one giving fuli description of property ean have same by calling on DB Williams of Reynard. Rev Lampton, pastor of the ¢ ch, has been ca T We ¢ we Fresh ABSOLUTE last Saturday. They also heard Webster Davis, of K C speak. Matrix BowMAN. T. W. LEC. For all repairs, or parts of Buggies, Surries, road wagons, farm wagons, phactuns &c, poles, shafts, neckyokes, wheels, dashes, cushions, top. I sell the best Buggy Paint on Earth. We reset tires and DO NOT RUIN THE WHEELS. Will furnish you a buggy HIGH OR LOW GRADE for very few dollars. Iam thankful to all who have patronized me and hope you will centinne to do so, and if you have never tried me, came are convinced that this is the right place Administrator's Notice. Notice is hereby given, that letter of administration on the estate of John O’ Dea, deceased, were granted to the undersigned on the 16th day of ) March 1896, by the probate court of Bates county, Missouri. All persons having claims against said estate are required to exhibit them for allowance to the execu- tor within one year after the date of said letters, or they may be precludea from any benefit of said estate; and if such claims be pot exhibited within two years from the date of this pub- | Geataon, they shall be forever barred. This 16th day of March, 1896. Joun H. O'DEA, Administrator. FRESH BULK GARDEN SEEDS Nothing pays you more important than 18-4t en to buy seeds thet er and True to Name practi i hay IGS BY PURE