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eekly a fol. XVIII. fissouri, State $110,000. sacts a general banking business. We s merchants and the public generally, promising a safe depository for committed to our charge. We are prepared to extend liberal ac- modation in the way of loans to our customers. on real estate at lowest rates, allowing borrowers to pay part or all Bank soy time and stop interest. DIRE: Booker Powell HH Piggott © R Radford TJ Wright Geo L Smith D A DeArmon? C H Morrison P. i TORS, Frank M Voris JM Chriaty RG West Wm E Walton OTHER S’/COCKHOLDERS,§ Dr W D Hannah Dr W E Tucker John Evans Robert McCracken WB Tyler DrJ Everinsham A McCracken E Turner Edith Everingham John Pharis Wm W Trigg C &E Freeman JK Rosier Wm Walls GB Hickman J W Reisner G P Wyatt D B Heath L B Starke Dr N L Whipple Semuel Levy Cc Slayback Max Weiner nn Ft Sullene, RG West eter Swartzendruber J M Christy Golden Wedding. hington Park and wife, living ve iewtnia, celebrated their fiftieth ding anniversary Thursday of week. Jefferson Park was pres- tat their marriage 50 vears ago at this 50th anniversary. He as married to Miss Martha Da Highland county, Virginia. The de warried in Hampshire cour inginia, by Rev Smith, an old neigh- ot, They left Virginia in the fall 1857, staid in Crawford county, bio, the winter of ‘57, and in tt ng of ‘3 started in a wagon fc tes county, Mo., where they have edsince, with the exception of a ort time during the war they lived a Sugar Creek in Kansas, where his wther died. Their ages are 74 and years respectively. They have echildren living and one dead. he children were all present: J W, iss Rachel, W Wand family, Mrs feo Ruble and husband, M Rev They have Vu Pyle and husband. irapichildren, W W Park, Mrs le, 1; Mrs Ruble, 1. The children dea present to each of $25. Many the invited guests were not pres- it some on account of distanee, oth- on account of urgent demand to Hlant corn, Others present were Rev albreath aud wife, Rev Corkell and rife, Rev Carpenter of Independ- nce, Mo., former pastor at Virginia, pt H P Nickelland wife, Mr Leach ad wife, Mrs D R Brade Jefferson k, wife and daughter, Miss Lydia, jwac Park and wife, Mrs A Jo Park, fhe afternoon was spent in social indness in permitting them to live wagood old age. ‘he table was ell loaded with good things to eat tis said one Kentuckian said he vould not want any more to eat for week, Atalate hour the happy lks left for their homes with best ishes for the future health and hap- piness of the aged couple. e A FRIEND. Virginia Items The ground has been too wet to iow corn around our burg. John Harper and Miss Florence Bean were quietly married at Butler | jue day last week. John is a whole- wuled fellow, and set up the cigars | id anything else wanted by the holesale. | {i Gipsy Cap, our horse jockey, has noved his oflice to Eldorado Springs, | but will be in our midst frequently fo change horses. | Fat hogs are werth 32.80 per hun- | ied weight. | Geo Roback and Charley Herrill | traded horses Monday, and before | the sun set in the west Mr H made | puother trade. Unele John Jackson is building anew house. John O'Rourke has friends from a distance visiting him this week. | A Herrill had a good bay work | ware stray from him the first of last | reek, | \ et SF = S: ee 2 Dr Lamb has gone to look up anew Seaton. ‘| DUVALL & FARM OANS . 10:25. alk, song and thanks to Giod for his | : 2B S8Cook has a wagon for sale or | 1 le. ¢ § Jas Oldham has gone off to hunt | Jim and Geo Crook have bought J 1 : ; Wacres of fir 1 from their fath- } Mt, Uncle Peter, t 000, have a good new John Deere , i g . “ced cultivator to sell or trade. . SA spring trip. ; amt Betty Dudley is yet: working ¢ p 8 Geo Crooks. | Hy, rs Jessie Pierce was at Butler , Plonday. j Mrs H H Garner and son, Elmer, were at Butler Monday. John and Annie Hensley have moved to Amoret, where Mr H is in the butcher business, John Huffman has 10-wire fence put up. John Hussey and the Oldham boys were on the Miami creek fishing the first of the week and report bad luck. N. M. NESTLERODE. 100 rods of Programme For the District S S Conventon of Homer & Charlotte Townships. To be Held at the Christian Church, in Virginia, Mo. SATURDAY, MAY 30, 1896. 10:00 a. m—Devotional exercises. 10:15—-Opening remarks by Pres. Song by Virginia ChristianS 8. What benefit ought to be de- rived from the S$ sechool—Wm Crawford. Discussion. 11:00—Relation of the ehurch to the SS school.—Rev Williams. Discussion. Song by Va. M ESS say—Miss Lillian Hill. Song. Dinner. 1:30 p m—Song by Mulberry 85. Re- port of SSehools. Song by the Amoret SS. 11:45 2:00—How can the influence of the 8 S be strengthened?—J J Wolfe Discussion, Song by Miami Center 8 8. 2:30—Paper on primary work -Mrs Gailey. 00— Why are not more yor in the S S—Rev Galbrai Discussion. Song by View SS. Preparation of Sunday school lesson—Willie Hardinger. Dis- cussion, Ree. by Emma Vermillion Miscellaneous discussion. Song Adjournment. Grand 3220 3:40, SPECIFIC FOR SCROFULA. “Sinee childhood, I have been ‘ted with scrofulous boils and s, Which caused me terrible ing. Physicians were unable to Lelp me, and I oniy grew worse under their care. At length, 1 began to take AYER’S Z ‘rousing a dozen bottles Was completely cured, so that [have not had a boil or pimple on any part of ny body for the last twelve years. I can cordially recommend Aver’s Sarsa- r ood-purifier REINITART, Myersville, Texas. A THE ONLY WORLD'S FAIR Sarsaparilla Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral cures Conghs and Colds PERCIVAL BUTLER,QMISSOUBRI. Money to loan on farms at reduced rates of interest. J J } ‘ and 1 find t here when , We give you privilege to F ) Fa 800DsAspapers are signe l. Your Notesi/are »Payable|}{!at|[our]| {Office Money, readyfas 3e-tf. Funds always on hand | ‘ | subgerve | we have never Catholics Wil Unite to Sec re Their Civil Rights. ing ie:te: Baucus idence M weal pa ‘ press themselves | io: on the] 1 ra 6) ecduus which j LL igiou underlie cur con: titution. | litical parties of the ecouutry, and each individual is left entirely to his own con-cierce We are proud to say that in the jong history of the government oi the United States the great Catholic church has never used or perverted its acknowledged power by seeking to make politics its own «advancement. | Moreover, it is our pron. boast that interfered witha the civil and political rights of any who differ from us in religion We de- mand the same rights ourselves and nothing more; and will be content with nothing less. “Not only is it the duty of all par- ties distinctly to set their faces against the false and un-American principles thrust forward of late, but much as I would regret the en- tire ideniiiication of any religious body, ss such, with any political party, I am convineed that the mem bers of a religious body whose rights, civil and religious, are attack- ed, will naturally and unanimously espouse the cause of the party which has the courage openly to avow the principles of civil and religious lib- erty, according to the constitution. Patience isa virtue But it is not the only virtue. When pushed too far it may degenerate into pusila- nimity. Yours faithfully. Janes Carprnar Ginn INS, JOUN R. TANNER, What a Chicago Republican Paper Thinks ot the Republican Can- didate for Gevernor. nl in th Chicago Timee- Herald. } . « « * + * . Ths fact that he has rece nomination of the Spring! vention neither extenuates nor atones for Mr. Tanner's notorious short- comings. His nomination was as certain when we felt called upon te expose those shortcomings as it was when the Springfield Convention met. The conditions were such as to preclude the possibility of his de- feat, but it was none the less the duty of an independent public jour- nal to raise a cry of warning duty was fearlessly discharged, but we were as frank in predicting his nomination as in pointing out his demerits as a candidate and the dis- grace which the nomination would bring upon the State. We opposed Mr. Tanner before ed the | 2is nomination and oppose him now because his private and public career has not been such as to qualify him for the high office to which he aspires His illiteracy is notorious. He can neither speak, spell nor write the English language. That, kow- ever, is the least of his shortcomings. By the employment of a good secre- ield Con-| This, a BUTLER, MISSOURI, THURSDAY MAY 21, 1896. to indor<¢ lacy so unworthy on the gr th has received the indorsement of a State Conven- weight with the | | Tanner of a year ago, and as such -, Md, May 17, 1896,—| We repeat, with all the emphasis of | y Deur Sir—| Which words are capable, that his| nomination was discreditable to the Republican party and cifensive to good citizenship of every shade of pos On. The intimation has been made that to condone Mr. Tanner's offenses and modify its views of his candi- dacy as the price of his support of McKinley for President. been disposed to make such a trade the way was open long ago. There has been no time within the lust six months when the opposition of the Illinois machine to Gor Kinley’s nomination m been silenced by the Times Herald's advocacy of Tanner’s nomination for Governor. Nor was there any mo- ment when the proposition would | not have been as indignantly spurn. | ad as it was in the beginning. If the idea was iutolerable when the issue of the St. Louis Convention was in doubt, it is even mure out of the question now that the nomina- tion uf MeKinley is assured and when the machine has been broken by the people in their wrath After the publication of these few remarks we trust that there will be no further doubt where the Times Herald stands as to the candidacy of John R. Tanner. The Official Convention of the Sedaha Convention is Issued. Jefferson City, Mo., May 18 —J. W Zavely, secretary of the Deme- craiie State central committee, to- day issued the official ca!l for the Democratic State nominating con- vention to be held in this city Au- gust 5, 1896. “For the nomination of a Demo cratic candidate for Governor, Lieu tenant-Governor, Secretary of State, State Auditor, Attorney General, State Treasurer, Railrord and Ware house Commissioner and Judge of the Supreme Court; for the » a tion of candidate for Pre electors and for the selection of a State central committee. which delegates are to be elected to Jefferson City convention is one for 500 or fraction of 250 or more votes cast in each representative district St. Louis andin each ward in St. Louis for the Democratic electors in 1892. The manner and method of selecting delegates are to be de- in the several counties of the State. Bates county will be entitled to sentation give above. TWO BIG HERDS OF THEM. phants Ever Shown Together, The manage it of the con dated Adam Forepaugh and Sells Brothers’ America’s Greatest Shov which are booked for Bvytler, on Fri- day, June 5, go upon the broad guage principle that they can't give their patrons too much of a good thing, and carry that purpose to a literall elephantine climax. Each of these famous exhibiti includes a big tary and a typewriter they can be measurably overcome. He is a pro- |fessional office seeker He is a ma- | chine politician wedded to the prac {tice of the most unscrupulous of | machine methods for the perversion of public opinion. His associations |from early life has been dissolute, jand in saying this we do nct refer {to that most painful incident of his sa veil. He bomowed jcbarity ca money from the Demccratic State} | Treaser 2 to make such a loan iwasa i offense. A year lago he adjourned the State L -yisle fture to avert an boodling and excused j for by the c pt | the investigation proceeded t closures would b- such as t \the Republicars to lose the {in which ke« | publican cand en OL ptib: jea Ub etion ife over whicb, by common consent} ~ and quadril §-| pitions, cause | \herd of the bigg and littlest per- \forming elephants every speci {from Asia, Afric cies, manner most co: houid be borne i trating |and comical way , apparently impossible to = creatur | the schoc | gaaduate | of elepha jly predigious | military maneuve i balancing, ¢ tT recumbent =, alde | nivais, rac musi | bouts, dude | ous aerobati al living pyrar ° 1 stan r Me j| t have | The basis of representation upon} , CEBSORSSSCKO@@e@CE i: tion. No such consideration has any | N ; } 7 A } ( ; ‘@) 4 : Times-Herald. A) OD S Washington, D. C., May 18 —In | pomination for Governor may be = reply to sume questions addressed |Co®’ Of whitewash, but it cannot) §&% through the Key. Dr. Stagord at} change the spots of a leopard or the! 2 Wasbingiun, D C., to Cardinal Gib-| $kin of the Ethiopian. The Johu R- | ae |bous, ih Catainal sent the follow-; Tanner of today is the John R.| licit the accounts of far-! Catholics are devoted to both po | the Times Herald might be disposed | | i If we had | | i | of the State outside of the city of | termined by the county committees | : ; | six votes unfler the basis of repre- And the Mestand Best Trained Ele-} U ¢ x 4 © O Y xX & X¢, Pa “as LOWER PRICES = so ‘ 58 LANE & ADAIR’S We have just ey y oa recelved our second shipment of nice new summer goods 4 ¢ and as the season advances and the x yee styles change we find it necessary to lower the price ofa great many goods, bought early in order to close them out before fall goods arrive. WE ARE ALWAYS UP WITH THE STYLES AND DOWN WITH OURPRICES TO SUIT THE TIMES 31 inch Diwity worth 15¢ now................. 10 32 inch Organdies worth 20c now.............. 164 eB 27 inch Agra linens worth lic now............. 124 re 27 inch Dotted Swiss worth 25c now............ 2 , uN 32 inch Percals for Ladies waist................ lo 3} inch fine French Percale SEE OUR LADIES S1 SLIPPERS : des Bs “aN Best indigo blue calico. . CECB SES SUV V7 UV pea al One ore oy Caren Cai Good dress ginghams.... Lawrence L L muslin. Yard wide bleached Good toweling crash..... : ges ray 22 Good shirting calicoes muslin. s 0 s 4 > a) BY SEE OUR LADIES NEW STYLE TAN SLIPPERS. ae Best AsO Atiching. © foc acco eee x0 15 Goodibine Denis... . os nce ose eee 10 Goodie cottonade. ... 3.50. h at eee eae 15 Good table linen... .... 2-4-2... ss. 2-- ae 25 1 pair of fine lace curtains. ... 1 00 12 good quilt batts... 1 69 === ae ee Si ee re e4 SEE OUR MENS FINE SHOES $125 & Wadies Vests... 2.22. aco. -worth 15e¢e for $0 10 WUMMMCE COLSOL,. 012-6. 55250 ole 65e for 50 Ladies shirt waist........ ss 60c for 50 Sak anthises (ican csee ete ee ce “ 35e for 25 Line of ladies 40¢ black hose................ Fine line of white goods Sic to............. Beautiful line of lace 24c to............ "WE WILL SAVE YOU 20 PER CENT ON SHUES We sell the best 5¢c overall. We sell the best 50c shirt. We sell the best 25c undershirt. We sell the best 15c suspender. We sell the best 50c cottonade pant. OOOO: s » U NZe bk pe HE We sell the best 5vc laundered shirt. We sell the best 59¢ unlaundered * 3¢ It WTill Pay You to Inves- BY < i. ele “ wz 4 tigate This Shoe Business 25 We invite all to call and examine our goods wad get our prices. You can “a ; sell your produce to any Or- in town and they will give you an which we will accept same as eash for goods. LANE & A e s) Pp | ome ia