The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, August 6, 1896, Page 1

gAPITAL, , merchants and the public funds committed to our charge, geny time and stop interest, Booker Powell HH Piggott © R Radford TJS Wright Geo L Smith .T. C. Boulware gj Dutcher Deerwester 78 Jenkins D A DeArmond John Evans Dr J Everi pBartletc gargsret Bryner Jala Brown Transacts a general banking business, zenerally, promi We are prepared to extend liber odation in the way of loans to our ¢ on realestate at lowest rates, allo OF BUTLER, MO. $110,060. We solicit the accounts of ga safe depository tomers. Funds always 1g borrowers to pay part ore DIRECTORS, Frank M Voris OTHER STOCKHOLDERS, Dr W D Hannah (urley Lamber Co Edith E “mn John Pharis Wm W Trigg Chelf C& E Freeman JK Rosier Wm Walis at yu Courtney GB Hickman JW Reisner GP Wyatt ge pohert Clark DB Heath L B Stark Dr NL Whipple he gPp&S LColeman Semuel Levy Clem SI Max Weiacr TB Davis © H Morrison Tohn H RG West Trank Deerwester ruber J MChristy _— tia Items. Virgit Inwriting news for the Tims this ear, It will be things we see and hear, if we get them wrong or mixed | If Friends forgive us for this is "6. 1e Mr Nelson and wife of Amsterdam, | vr fA were in Virginia Thursday of last ° week making arrangements for his “ Plind niece, Kies Ida Glover, to give - gmusical entertainment at the Chris- tlanchurch Thursday night . Henry Febeck and wife visited rel- ttives at Welda, Kansas, last week. Win Hardinger, the assessor, was ground among our people last week taking their sworn statements as to their wealth before free coinage of r takes effect. Mrs Annie Aensley, of Ainoret, was in our city Thursday of last week. Rev Reed of Worland, stai night with Aaron. He soliciting money to build a church in his town. Geo Thompson lost two yearling steers last week. John Biggs of Hume, visited the families of Ben Biggs and George Thompson last week. James Crooks lost a large hog Fri- day; heat supposed to be the cause | ofits death. Mrs Anna Williams of near Trading Post, Kan., and her sister, Miss Lula Schlichman of Mulberry, visited Mrs DC Wolfe, Saturday. Clifton Jackson, Morton Jenkins, Sherd and Charlie Cope left Tuesday | ina wagon for the ‘Territory to look up a location, but did not find any- thing that suited them. They passed | through Pittsburg, Baxter Springs | and Galena, Kansas, and the corn) was very poor in that section, but it | was fine in the Territory. Miss Mattie Cusick, who has been | visiting relatives in Henry county, | returned home last week accompan- | led by her grandpa, who is 74 years old and has scarcely a gray hair on his head. Mrs John McElroy is improving; she rides out ¢ y day. is received aw letter fea Brown, t week stating that father, i Brown, was ver k. He was one of the tirst sett! of Bates county; has been living in Christian county about 14 years. TJ Wheeler has been on the the past few days. Grandma Craig is visiting among her old friends. She is 74 years old and says she can do more work ina day than either of her daughters. She says she enjoys spending half a day gathering berries for it reminds her of her old Kentucky home. Miss Sadie Whinnery returned home | weeks’ sick t with friends at Drexel. last week. OM Drysdule, wife and son, Fred, DUVALL & PERCIVAL. 4 BUTLER, MO FARM BOANS. Money to loan on farms at reduced rates of interest. Your notes are payable at our oflice and you findthem here when due. We give you privilege to pay any time, Money ready Qs econ as papers aregsigued, sate t week after a pleasant two | Mrs Sadie Pattison of Amsterdam, | visited Mrs Joe Whinnery a few days | visited relatives at Foster Sunday. W A McElroy and wife are visitin; relatives at Drexel this week. Dr Mitchell has sold his property to Dr Lamb, of Trading Post, Kan. Dr Mitchell will leave about the 15th for Peoria, Ill., where he will reside. JS Pierce of Butler, and Mr Stew- ard of Nevada, adjusting agent for the Continental Ins Co. came out Saturday to adjust the loss of Wash- ington Park’s barn, which burned down some time ago. Milton Flesher, of Butler, came out Sunday on his bicycle and called on hie friends. John McElroy lost a good work horse last week from heat. The political sentiment at Virginia is not much changed from last week. Some of the populists that had come out of the republican party still think Bryan a large pill to swallow; there are some people that have trouble in swallowing pills, but finally get them down. Little Freddie Drysdale ap- pears to be the most unstrung at the way things were worked. His ma had promised him a populist cap after the convention at St. Louis. He thinks it a poor show for a cap now. His grandma has promised him a pro- | hibition cap. John Nance, who is working for W J Bard, started to Amoret on the running gears of the wagon, the lines not being long enough he had to sit on the front bolster and the pin came out of the coupling pole and it | flew up and hit the horses and let him down behind the horses. He soon stopped them, but one foot was badly hurt. Dr Mitchell informs us that Pres- ton Cooper was overcome by heat | last week, and it will be some time do much} before he will be able to work, Mrs N M Nestlerode wants to know why she does not get the chair that the largest woman was to have in | Butler the 4th. W ' MeBride and family of Par- ker, Kan., camped in our city Mon- day night en ronte for Eldorado Spring the benefit of Mrs Me-| Hsride with, Her ts corn in his nei, srhoed good. Thos Catron, going home from Butler last Saturday his team got frightened and threw him out of the wagon, and his head was jammed up and his leg hurt. Part of the wagon was just east of the Miami bridge the other part half mile south of the Steele farm. The wedding Sabbath evening was a quiet affair. CH Morrison is not only proud over the way the populists are talk- ing in favcr of DeArmond but, also over his late Bryan grandson. MrsA J Park has one hundred aeres of bottom land for sale at one dollar per acre. { Ruff Sellers says ulist. itis a Bryan pop- AARON. Grasshoppers in Nebraska. Omaha, Neb., July 31.—Fer the past three days clouds of grassbop pers have been passing over Nebras- | ka eastward bound. In seme places they are reported to have been 80 numerous as to have perceptibly ar- rested the lays. ‘hey have crossed the Missouri river in swarms, but show no tendency to settle. They have done no damage to crop in the State, end are believed to have sun's come from Colorado. Hasthe Right R “Resolved, That we sre opposed to the constitutional endment ducing the icol age of chile from six to 8, believing i 4 v developme: | public senti amendment.” The above resoiution was p by the Bates county Tastiiute. resolution has the the Truss takes much pleasure in endorsing the action of the teachers. Itis to be hoped the voters of this county will cast their ballot against | the adoption of the amendment to ;& man. on 0 right ring and! JONN CLARK RIDPATH LUS WHY SEIS FOR BRYAN tagoand Ersiwe Repub] Vi patioges with Laborers, ant net Tdiers, nupoiis, Di, Aug 2—Dr. a Chas Rigpath ell known lar, historitu and writer, who se ected by the ir District as ? Co. gress at their SOURI, THURSDAY AUGUST 6, 1896. other coin, whether of gold or silver has been altered time and again, the silver unit never. The silver dollar was the dollar of the law and the contract. It isto this day the dollar of the law and the contract. To the silver unit all the rest, both gold and sil | ver, have been conformed from our | first statute of 1792 to that ill starred date when the conspiracy against ,our old constitutional order first | declared itself. The gold eagle ot ‘the original statute and that of all | subsequent statutes was not made (to be ten dollars, but to be of the | value of ten dollars. The half eagle i merit iin zZ 29, wag! Was Lot made to be five dollars but visited at Lis bume in Greencastle | of the value of five dollars. The | | yesterday und usked for aa expres-| quarter eagle was of the value of} sion upon bis nominaiion and the | two and one-balf dollars aud the jmonetary question. He said: “In j double eagle was of the value of| jregard to my nueminatiou “fer Con jgress, I strove in every way I could |to avoid that and prevent Wy per }sousl affairs and some public duties jshat lie abead seemed to preclude the propriety or possibility of my being a candidate for any office. I never sought office in my life and never expect to do go for the reason that it seems to me clear that the people have the absolute right of iniative in suck matters. I have always contended that the people should have the initiative in choos- ing those who should become their servants in office. The political life is not at all in my profession, though Ihave a profound interest in the public welfare. I have always sym- pathized with the people—by which I mean the great masses of our fel- low beings engaged in the hard task of making a living. I sympathize with the laborer and do not with the idler. According to my way of thinking our government bas been steadily drifting away from the people and getting into the power of interests. The circle of government has narrowed and narrowed till it appears to me the highest absurdity to callit any longer a government ‘of the people, for the people, and by the people’ special see the process completely re.ersed. I want to sce the restored to the people. I believe precisely what Webster and Theodore Parker and I wact to goyernment Lincoln declared, viz.: That our re- 2 is, or ought to be, a governs people he peop'e, for the How cau there be any barm in such a doctrine? In the vame cf common sepse, has it come to pass that patriotic citizens in the United the right of the people themselves? to Baa it come govern to self constituted master who shall tell | }us whet is good for us and how we jshall obtsin it? Are we Ives, but must be led jrather as with astring and fed oa | porridge as with a ito lead ours | Among the metbods as it jto me by which the government is to be recovered by the people is, | w stands! \ frst of a s the atter n i the restoration of our currency. We want our currency system put back precisely where it was under the statute and c ution for the firet 1 years of our existence as Our statutory bimetallic system of |currency was taken from us in 1873 by a processywhich I do not care to ebaracterize in fitting terms Now we propose to have it back again. The restoration of our silver money s place it held before the ing is the . and eg gto triumph ght of day under the 2 people in to triumph. in the Cle of light and tr | The silver « the unit of money | the United States. llar to | this hour has neyer been altered by the fraction of agra in the quantity ‘of pure metal composing it. Every |States of American cannot advocate! this! |that we have sure enough a lot of! Americans | ;a lot of younglings who are unable! seerns | a nation. | {twenty dollars Even the gold dol-; lar of 1859, marvelous to relate, was | not a dollar, but was made to be of; the value of a dollar. The subsid-| izry coins were all fractions of the! dollar was of silver only. | Not a single dictionary or ency-| clopedia in the English language before the year 1875 ever defined dollar in any term other than silver. In that year the administrators of the estate of Noah Webster, deceas ed, cut the plates of our standard| lexicon and inserted a new definition that had become necessary in order to throw a penumbra of rationality around the international gold con- Bpiracy. The way to obviate the further disastrous effects of this internation- al gold conspiracy is to stop it. We want the system of bimetailism restored in this country. Bimetal lism means the option of the debtor |to pay in either of two statutory oins according to his own conven- ience and according to the contract | This option freely granted, the com |mercial parity of the two money | metals will be speedily reached, nor jcan such parity ever be seriously | disturbed as long ag the uuimpeded joption of the debtor to pay in the Lone metal or the other shall be con leeded by law and the terms of the leontract. The present commercial | disparity of the two metals has been | produced by the pernicious legisla | tion which began 23 years ago and |waich bas not yet satisfied itself! | with the monstrous results that have flamed therefrom What do we propose to accom-|} plish by free coinege’ to do just this thing, viz: to break the corner on gold and reduce the exaggerated purchasing power of ithat metal to its normal standard. Be assured there will be no further jtalk of a 50 cent dollar when the commercial parity of the two metals shell be reached. Every well inform ed person must know that the dis- parity of the two uncoined metals is but the index of the extent to which gold bas been bulled in the markets of the world) It is not an index of the extent to which silver has declined iu its purchasing power in Taw the markets of the world, for raw silver has not declined in its pur jehasing power as compared with) the age of other commodities in d market place of whole globe. Noman shall say the contrary and speak the truth. This! great questiéu is hot upou us. It can be kept back no longer. Itisa tremendous economic questicn that ought to be decided in the court of right, reason and of fact. Da Sp reclaim the right of transacting their business, and in particular of paying their deots according to a standard huudred cents to the more My judg- is that the American people in of ull opposition are going to nit worth a aud lar weither ol that they will not acce able programae faci if not ia w henceforth tran and in |debts with a cornered goid dollar | worth almost two for one.” ‘ the | FARMERS BANK BUTLER. MO. Capital Stock S850.000.0 Surplus Pana We Want Your Busines | | | | | | STONE TO NOTIFY BRYAN Missouri’s Governor Will Tell the Can- | didate of His Nomination. Jefferson City, Mo., August 3.— Governor W. J. Stone of Missourj is a proud man this evening, for he will be the man who will inform, William J. Bryan of the fact that he has been nominated by the Dem ocratic party for the office of presi- | dent of the United States. Senator | Stephens White, of Culifornia, this | afternoon telegraphed Governor | Stone that he would not be able to be in New York city upon August 11 to notify Mr. Bryan of his nom. | ination according to the plans of the Democratic national committee, and asking him if he would not act in his stead. Governor Stone at once answered that he would. The noti | fication wili take place at Madison | Square garden on the evening of | August 1l,and it will mark the} formal opening of the campaign. | Governor Stone will leave Jefferson | City as soon as the nomination for Governor is made, and it is probable that as soon as Mr. Bryan hears of the change of programme he will | |invite Governor Stone to accompany | Mr Bland and himself on their trip jto New York. “My speech will not be 100g one,” said Mr. Stone to a Times cor- respondent this evening. “I do ;not expect that what I say will take a |an do the talking. and what he will oui puper. We propose | gay will be our creed for the cam- | |paign Bryan will make great | speech. He will show the men of |New York what kind of 1: a n we have in the west.” Governor Stone is undoubtedly ‘greatly pleased with the honor | which has been tendered him. His | friends have been saying ever since ithe Chicago convention that jsbould bave been to put | Bland in nomiuation. and Stone will | undoubtedly make a great effort to | prove to New York that while Bry- | an may be pre eminentiy the orator of the West, there are others. he ehosen | SHIPPING CORN TO MEXICO, ,;A Big Continet nud) More Must Fol- iow, San Antouio, Tex, Aug. 1—Re+- ports received bere from poiuts in Mexico state that contracts have al- ready been made for over 500 car loads of corn to be shipped from the United States to sections of Mexico where there is a shortage of the grain supply and a famine ia threatens Nearly al of this corn will come from Texas and Kansas. | Other heavy contracts will be placed for corn within the next few weeks: S5.000000 _ OFFICE D. N. THOMPSON E. A, BENNECT E, D. KIPP, Cashier DIR Ss. ICTORS a DR. J. EVERINGHAM. ‘NO. KE. SHUTT, W.G, WILCOX, iJ. MeKER CLARK WIX M.GAILEY, JRO, STEELE, JAS. M. McRIBBEN, Some Suggestions to Men. Don't leave your wife to stay at home alone every evening. Don't, when you have a pretty domestic, be a dunce and muke love to her. Don't think that your wife never needs anew dress if your salary is small. Don't think when you have won a wife that all there is for you to do is to eat and sleep at home. Doa't tramp all over the house with muddy boots on. leaving the tracks for your wife to sweep up. Don’t blame your wife if she does go through your pockets looking for a hole. You may be glad she did some day. Don’t make your wife cook hot dougheuts for you when she is not feeling well, even if you are fond of them. Don't think that you wife bas no feelings, and that she wouldn't ap- preciate a box of candy or roses. Don’t when you have company— nor at any other time—say that the food before you is improperly cook- ed or the supply is insaflicient.—Ex. Amoret Items. Mrs John Lyle was cailed to Drexe! this week owing to the illness of Mrs Will Lyle. Mrs Mel Campbell was visiting the family of Hugh Gailey several days. Frank Hammon’s sister and her ‘two little girls, of Chicago, are here \ for a short stay. | Mrs lM Stephenson’s daughter- in-law, Mrs imshaw, will arrive from Denver this week. Josie and [ra will accompany their mame home, Virginia's base ball team was over and played withthe Amoret Maroons Saturday; they were badly beaten. The score was 47 to 2. Mrs F M Kennett is able now to go out driving. Miss Jennie Brown returned Friday from Batler, whe he has been at- tending the institute. Judge DV Brown was over to see his + Mrs Cal Brown. L sister-in-law and son, of Kansas ( isited in Amoret last week, Mr Lockridge and son, of Kansas City, have brought their tent down and are now camping out for a while on his farm east of town, and enjoy ing themselves hunting and fishing Miss Shepard, of Kansas City, i ng Miss Lizzie Brooks. Mr Clark, harness maker, expecting I this week. Misses Li 1 Meda Cu- zieck, two Virgini took the train for Ht family of John Biggs Mrs Gushurst, whe in K C visiting for some time Is expected home is we JWH to Butler Thursday. Jennie Pickard » Butler toi wope, « be having al Aw been and Amoret, while. seeins to place Satur- » the motion ERK, Virginia is the birthplace of seven presiderts: OL will furnish the next one cur and Illinois en eee eee