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| i ck yy Sen nsacts a general banking busin s committed to our charge. yy time and stop interest. .C. Boulware Booker Powell odation in the way of loans to our ct n on real estate at lowest rates, allov fissouri State OF BUTLER, MO. ess, tomers, g borroy DIREcTORsS. Chr RGW Wm E vers er HH Piggott J Deerwester C R Radford ‘Jenkins TJ Wright 2 Geo L Smith OTHER S'TOCKHOLDERS, t DA DeArmon? Dr W D Hannah Bryner John Ev Robert McCrackea Brown Dr J Everingham A McCra Lumber Co Edith Everinzham John Phar BChel C & E Freeman JK Ro GB Hickman DB Heath Semuel Levy CH Morrison rtnoy pt Clark ‘8 LColeman ester B Starke oF m Slayba clk hn H Sulle Peter Swartzendraber Virginia Items. iting news for the 'Tinrs this | a", il be things we see and hear, dif we get them wrong or mixed ends forgive us for this is 96. John Drysdale of Foster visited rdaughter Mrs Ed Globe and other tives here last wee Dent and wife living east of rand his brother and wife of ms Ohio, stayed over Monday ht with C W Wolfe Mr Dent of bio is acquainted with C W Wolfe's | aad R M Harpers folks in Ohio. ater Duton, of Fort Scott, is visiting her parents Mra and ra Vermillion. Isaac Park was confined to her last week with rheumatisn, a days lost. TI Wolte of Burlington, Kan., visi- his father and mother for a few they had anice cream supper orhim last Saturday night, quitea mber of relatives and friends were . MrGeo Ruble and wife, er Judy and wife, William Mce- mand family, Andrew Simpson REHarper and wife, John Harper wife, and Thad Harper, Misses Cowan, Josie Simpson, Lillie ill, and Clate Wolfe and family, a od time reporte Grand Ma Craig returned home om the Nation Tuesday of last kK. Tra Gardner has left home, when heard from, he was at Wiilow Springs, Kan. Ed Dabney, of Foster, was in Vir- Tuesday of lust week. s8 Luli Cowan and Miss Leda | lace who had been visiting the nily of Sam Cowan at Walker! ion Vernon, Co., returned home week, rs Jolin Biggs of epee Mrs Geo visited last Hume, Thompson of young folks of} Her took dinner at Mr Walker's Sabbath, they also ped at ePark and got all t peaches could ent, the rlic ae Was a spl ndid ‘looking y, the names of the parties are Sry sdale, Chas Huff, Milton r, Walter’ Watkins, Will Smith na and Kannie MceCuan Eldridge and Miss Grace ngton Park's } Sunday fire broke fof the family were 0 barn burned out while at Sunday JW and his mother were at » the barn built last fall bushels inthe crib, about 150 that bot damaged, 2 sets of harness Murned,a spring wagon, about mof hay. J W had a wire tcher destroyed worth $14, his ssand anumber of tools, his; Was about $300, no insurance was MBthere were about 450 | were out the first time this summer. The Dist Clerk of the take, contracted with Miss Dalton winter school ye Mrs A J Park is picking and ship- ing plums this week. The farmers the last week hard against the weeds and their corn field, most of them accomplished their object, the most | on} j tuff, the barn and corn, hay and | how it caught BUTLER, MISSOURI, THURSDAY JULY Bank $110,000. We solicit the accounts of far- merchants. and the public. generally, promising a safe depository for We are prepared to extend liberal ac-| Cat of } Funds alway to on hand 1 ay I Dr NL Whipple Max Weiner RG West fire, spring wagon were insured, J MChristy Unele Billy and Grandma Drysdale bug, says it is a mis 300 Ibs of fish. day. attended the x Ire of the big con went to Kar ; from home. John fr } Jay lengthy discus after ALL & PERCIVAL, | BUTLER, MO- ARM USCA Ns. Beds four notes are ind them here w Keto pay any time ‘Q8 papers are signed. We give | ey resdy | Sate he was several de went to Peora stayed 2 Dr L A McFadden he reports the was in our city ‘ that every body coinage will vote nec eTLO Jackson rom a wagon sometime sroving slowly. | successful one is Mr Martin low wet ground but he stayed with them and conquered. The Christian Sunday School elect- ed officers Sabbath to serve one year. Superintendent B F Biggs, a Mrs Alice McFadden, organist Miss | Mattie Cuzick, assistant Clema Jack- son, secretary Miss Rosa Garner, as- sistant P M Jenkins and choir Mrs Girtrude Walker. The fishing party Saturday caught Dr Mitchell who left f April returned home last Tuesday he } having a good prac nan of the town, € nd East) spent 10 days among the medic al and Kansas and home. like he had a good time while | now, they are a very poor | corn planter runs, | Mrs Clark fell Saturday morning and | dislocated her hip, Dr Porter of Fos | er attended the case and she is ing along nicely. | the meadows, |} Some have cut oats, others while corn riding Monday for Crook Dist have not for the they fought grass in have he had sistant Virgina is a great place to argue 16 to 1, an old populist thinks if the democrats adopt 16 to 1 at Chicago that wants free democratic, as they will be the largest silver party in the field, he thinks who wants 16 to 1 and just who wants to build up a new party so that they can be leaders, he think wise to have a populist party inde- pendent party and a ae attering there vote on nié tol. H P Nickel is puting up this week he has a it will show sit looks un- John all his hay large amount of i ght and wife of near Butler ited his father and mother onSun- y Chieago in al school 7 weeks, in Streeter, then nights with also Alder- few St. | rust has damaged them. J 1 Wolfe and WT ion on the free silver, preaching quite a New Home Tienis. The wheat is all eut and a great | | portionin the stack, but still get | the order of the day. Mrs Sue Morris had quilting Satur- day. JL Cape has the measels. Lottie Burks is visiting relatives in! No idea} Dr days number the are in plowing is of land, his niece Ina accompaned him home on a visit to relatives she has never seen, Miss Lue Shally has | been very sick, but is up and around again. Old man James, known as the old tramp that had his headquarters in | the timber north eas l wheat as soon planting corn. school as | silver Dick Biand and DeArmond, it | he has aci mtshad her souéh hed planting corn. a few waiting to come he 'dollars with hi for his corn | plow. | Not often do we h {the reaper and ferat the time. | life in the far west. i | to get big enc lhum the click of the plant- ear the But such Is GaIM. | Phi FUR ClICAGL, | i The Kansas ‘“‘corn train that” sent to St. Louis for been attached for debt, and now lies on a side track in that city, the pro- prietors being undecided what to do with it, says the Windsor Review. Col. Mike Doherty of near Wind- sor, the citizen of four counties, and one cf the largest cattle feeders in the state, suggests that we get up a cattle train for Dick Bland and send it Chicago. He says, “Cattle sre better than corn any day and we've got lots of them to draw from. He stands ready te do his part and will go “ half the train load if necessary,” and he guarantees the stock won't go begging when it gets there, either. was to Here’s an idea. twenty cars of big to the city by the July. if there are any other the Sixth or Seventh want t¢ Missouri steers lake the places in distriets that let from them at once.—Neva o get in on this a Mail. held The day eonvention sere on Mon- Was largely |report of th by the in this issue. tion to Judg His vi ose proceedings handed in ary eppears elsewhere secre gress, with th candidate for Pr the Republican p aistee m is sectional, the party, scope and narrow and stent with e Republican its | past record of tl and unamerican | purpose “—N in nas myrmidons. They came cloth- aT ed in aiid sacks but went away Clinton. et alt e Corn looks weil since the dry spell. | ood suits and rattling the We had a good rain Friday night | rin their pockets. The | after two weeks of dry Weather. John Cope is painting his house. S Rob and Sunday. Henry Littlefield is hauling corn to Rich Hill. Hume, went ported. For the benefit some of the neigh-| Pacifie fr bors, T have heard from D Israel he! is well and hoeng cotton, and to wife from A wagon offyoung folks from near} Saturday night toa dance a good time is re- Nyhart he likesi in Arkansas, crops look tine, Uncle Ben ee has been his | jing the : vi 1 T Botkins, as ie loan on farms st reduced rates of has been traveling in the west ane sayable at our oflice | south, stopped eff “here for a few days % before returning home, his in Iowa where he owns a large trac home _ Vernon} Co., visiting at his fathers Saturday |minagers of the g. c. p. deariy love the ricger—ou convention and elec | tion days —Industrial Leader. Walter Ray a | were arrested at | The cen be had stolen s Mike Doherty Suggests a Praia toad | | for “Silver Dich” Bland. | Let’s send about} he gets through | Kaneas City Star >from Lamar where ; of | i | of | ito 1, I think many us hear! attended, and thej (GOVERNOR FRANCIS’ VIEWS. | | He Says the Republican Platform of here has de- | parted from his favorite haunts. No) ove knows where he has gone. Charly Briscoe wants to thrash his } 1 The house is receiving a ic. The early flax is not very promis- | jing. JQ A Copesays he will vote for E | tuink tue democrats | have jand for a high tariff and the people | are not for free silver?” McKinley has | There was po opposi- 1on the ec ommercial value of silver or | cused of idleness this week. jhas obtained a monopoly of the | audi | manufacture and in a year has rais- jyeors ago, Will Defeat the Party. The People Against Gold Monometal- lism and High Tariff. Ex Governor David R. Francis | came to Kansas City this morning on a business trip. He spent most of at 2 day in the office of Attorney | oe i omas Rt Mforroy. When asked, rb 2 reporter for the Star what he | thought of the chances of democrat ¢ success this fall he said: “The chances are very will geod. 1 carry the! i country, particularly the west.’ | “Why?” “Partly because ticket and platform is ay \ 2 republican | They | \ monomet allism | | tk declared don’t want them.” “Will the Chicago platform be| satisfactory to the democrats who} “What the Chicago platform will be remains to be seen. I don’t think it is entirely settied whether it wiil be for bi metallism or silver mono metaliism. Iconsider that 16 tol is silver monometallism. That is where Mr. Bland and I differed in the convention in the auditorium here two years ago. He does not consider 16 to1 silver monometal- lism.” “Whom wiil the democrats nomi-: nate for president?” “Bland stands the best chance now. I think his chances for the nomination are’very good.” “Ifthe Chicago convention de- clares for free silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 without regard to what other nations do, will many democrats re- fuse to vote the ticket?” “If the platform is out a: 1 t d out 16 democrats will vote the republican ticket, or stay | et home cn election day. Ifit de claves for bimetallism or free coinage | on a readjusted basis—that is, based ordance with an! “As o doubt or Missouri, | about the s ost The Nail Trust Again. The Nail Trust could not be ac prices. very frank want, but is there any thing they do not want? If so, let us give it to! them.—K. C. Times feud. | Mrs | ‘to MeC 1896. 4] Surplus E We Want Your Business. 3 Wall Paper, Paints, Oils, Glass, Carpets, Rugs, Curtains & Mattings } So We would be pleased to have yo utheast Cor. Square. ad S526 FARMERS BANK BUTLER, MO. Capital Stock $50,000 00 yoo home price $2 or $3 instead of only $1 per keg higher than its The nail monopolists are in stating ee what they Woman Shot Dead By «a Marshal. Paducah. Ky., June um. result of excitement acquitted on trial as being contribu {tory to her death. 25.—Mre. Lem John was killed this afternoon at Kuttawa, Ky, by Marshal McCal The tragedy grew out of a Eight mouths ago McCallum arrested Mrs. Berryman, mother of @& man jsee him. When he oe aeet : only "| from behind a >i pistol leveled at him. | killing the woman instantly. uuch excitement. wante Mrs. Johns, for resisting bim in the discharge of his duty, and she fell | dead in jail from heart disease as a “eCallum was | This afternoon Jchns hid herself in the ceme- tery and cent word by her own child Jallum that lto came she rose rravestone with a § McCalluin Judge Weeks Declines. Si quickly drew his pistol end fired, There’ | | Judge J. M. Weeks, of Carthage, For it) who was the candidate for the state | tor on the republican ticket four and who had bees an ied the price of nails 200 per cent | nounce: d as a candidate this year,has of | our people of and his surgical men, he also attended a part} E t eh vention, from there he | course in congress approved | ssas City and Olatha by the democratic vot No man-/ The Dr looks| * Bs away 1ent was needed to secure his} it was given freely and} who was thrown! ago is im- Democrat. | Bright and wife of near Butler | = Set BPN Se Bonday. County Treesurer J. 1B Conk Oats cuting is the order of busin dee ' Stafford cor ty, Kansas aRnGanCed crop the}. . / ina card through the press Friday | Cowan had a/that he voted for every republican | dent from Lincoln | listened to them, a number of ladies|in 1864 to Har n, in 1892, bu ut| United S > gate ay g e United Siates. had to Stand at the gate till the ¥ $0t | that he cannot vote for McKinley | tate through, The question is not settled z ands of pounds are bat yet. on 2a gold basis tform. Mr. | 5 ; Z A i AARON. | Cook says: cial plank of | ped to Germany, then reimvorted t south to the republican national con-| yention were choice picking for Han- | y ,are already paying |has done a cor |and 238 per cent. At the same time | derable foreign bus-| pounds the 4 iness. Thousands of country, an This interfer 2© trust, but s as i Trust| \ nation. | come out in a public letter of decli Judge Weeks saye: “The issue is drawn on the finan- he negative side. sold below the} proper deliberation and carefal in some-/ vestigation that I makes | coinage of silver favor I has the been go |cial question for the coming presi- abroad every month and are sold in| | dential campsignu, and as the ques- Germany $1 per keg cheaper than in | tion is, shall we have a single gold Io fact, thous-, standard permanently established in ught and ship-|this government, I find myself on It is not without free a re- t on its foreign ship-| ee frox u my earliest interest in 1d a tremendous profit on| public afi id I have believed e trade it is making m hens | that party would continue to repre na scant as fast asany other trust | Sent the m 2 people on all | except the Standard Oil. | questions of terest, but the is as however, It The Nail Trust, greedy as any of them. tisfied with its but now deman ‘tures of nail x ;more machines clue to the trust, | and though the rail machine manu | | facturers have rebelled, it is expect-| ed that the trust will gain its end by giving them a share of its profit. | will bave| kers to quit | people | 8a profits, a that ithe « man ot aa 8 The consumer, therefore, ‘to legitimate bus pay sail machine ma e: The their nails than ‘| | worth of merch ha | foreignere, and the “| fe ssed, told where a of the an increase i | plunder could ibe found and impli-j that the nal 8 ng cated several other in the! foreigner, but what it wants is aj K | stealing. jis that will it to i s | believe action of the is not! St. Louis bas co | party was p to mgs aa of the the east by ard” plark doctrine Highest of 2il in > interest ot controiled by « of Royal ABSOLUTELY PURE rn BN. THOMPSON, Pres, EL OAL BENNETT, x E, D. KIPP, Cash G. W. Newberry ) q Aesistan & G. Pratt Wyatt oo LECTORS. 0) DR. J. EV Poe JNO. E. SHU W.G WIL COX raitupen the good people of Butler a ty and show them a fine line of 4 Q \ ¢ i and would like to figure on your work. 3 Sparks, Griffith Co. $ Cites A AD MINERS BURIED ALIVE. | i { i | Wilkesbarre, Pa , June 28.—While ninety miners were at work in the Red Asch vein of the Twin shaft at Pittston about 3 oclock this morniog, the roof caved in and it is | believed ail of the men perished. | About forty of the imprisoned men ‘were English speaking miners, the others foreigners. ilow To Dress For A Photograph. 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