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goL. XVIII. BUTLER, MISSOURI, THURSDAY s Missouri State Ban OF BUTLER, MO. BGA, 2 ee ee SURPLUS FUND - 2 Receives Deposits, Loans money, Issues Drafts and does a general Banking business. i 000.00 i 2,590.00 1 i { 1 | | i We solicit the accounts of Farmers, Merchants andthe public generally promising « | “safe Depository for all funds committed to our charge. {sberal accommodation in the way of loans to our customers. or. T. C. Boulware Booker Powell Geo L Smith HH Piggott John Deerweator C RB Radford JR Jenkins TJ Wright years, J. R. JENKINS, Cashier. , We are prepared to extend Frank M Voris JM Christy RG West Wm E Walton Thanking the public for their confidence and liberal patronage during the past Ufteen we solicit a continuance of the same promising honest and conservative man- sgement, with strict attention always to the wants of our customers. Wa. E WALTON, President. Virginia Items. fn writing news for the Timks this yea", It will be things we see and hear, And if we get them wrong or mixed Friends forgive us for this is °96. Miss Adams of Butler, wes in Vir- ia Tuesday of last week. irs Emma Ross and three children @Pratt, Kansas, arrived at her fath- Peter Denning’s Wednesday night ‘gflast week. She will visit her par- eats and friends for a few weeks and | qunty, Ill., where they will make their future home. -WJPark had a horse killed by ae last week. in Hickman of Butler, was out : 5 : diti Frid Butler Sabbath eens cxpedition Prida, Farris speak in the Methodist church, Geo Ruble and church at Mulberry Sabbath. Uncle William Duvall and son, rd, of Butler, was in our city faturday. They were wanting to buv PJ Heckadon of the Hill, Sundied with his parents. Wm Porter made a flying trip to Pittsburg, Kansas, last week. F James Drysdale and wife of But- ler, visited his father, Uncle Billy le, Sunday. | Steve Cook, who has been sick for fome time, is not much better at this mating. JM Vaughan and J M Campbell, of Butler, were out to hear Faris Sat- anday night. | Rev Galbreath came out Saturday foattend the prohibition meeting at night; He put upat Geo Jenkins’ and | one. ‘ter he had unhitched his horses he ‘went to pull the buggy out of the Way and stepped in a hole and} ed |i nkle and it was so pair that he could not gotohear Faris | Mrs Axton is dangerously sick. The Mount Carme! base ball nine aad the Virginia second nine played | j lay. The score stood 7 to4in fayor of Virginia. Mrs James Cuzick is on the sick is week. ul } Mra Joe Whinnery was taken sick #88 last Sunday. | John Furgeson is able to be around | in. | The old school Baptist held their | } Msociation last Friday Saturday and Sanday, in the grove at the Concord house; a large number of peo- Were in attendance. @P Farris, the prohibition candi- e for governor, spoke at Mt. Car- | mel Friday night, at Amsterdam Sat- | y at 2p. m., rginia Saturday htand Mulberry Sunday forenoon, > Jonah and the Fish. ilton Flesher of Buller. was in E inia Sabbath afternoon. dirs Isaac Park’s hand is not get- much better. | le majority are still talking Bry- Maround Virginia; the coming week Wewill have some McKinley talk Shether they will be able to change pee ee | | | ' | | i UVALL & PERCIVAL, BUTLER, MO- ARM BroaANS. toloan on farms at reduced rates of | | j find them here when due. lege to pay any time, Money, read; ‘@8 papers are signed. ‘4 str =) relativ weeks. ‘ P M Famuliner and fam foin her husband in Champagne | Miss Rosa Garner, went to Ft then 5 E Friday to visit Mrs Carrie Hender- son. any votes time will only tell th 3 ‘There was a Bryan silver club organ- ized at Virginia last Friday night; a few of the populistsdidn’t join bat will come round election. There will be a large amount of wheat sown around here this year. Mrs H C Morrison went to Kansas City Monday, where she will spend a few days, and then go to her old ! home in Illinois, where she will visit sand old friends for a few y and rott, Vane Walker inoved into the J W McFadden hoge last week. J W Park and Dick Wolfe went to afternoon to hear family attended Miss Mamie McDonnell of Austin, returned to her home afteta short ins, it with her friend, Miss Icy Jenk- Mrs Johnson and son, of Ottawa, Kan., visited the family of Joe I’ Whinnery last week. Sheis a very old lady; is aneunt of Mr Whinnery. She has lived and this is her first. vis in Kansas since 1860 to Missouri. There was a good supply of hogs in the Virginia stock yards fonday. Uncle Washington Park has receiv- ed his insurance money on his barn that burned down last spring, and is now hauling lumber to build a new AARON, Now Home Items. BP Caldwell and daughter, Mrs Win Bell, are visiting in Clinton. We have just completed ,the best bridge in the township, one mile north of here. NM Nestlerode was in our midst | Saturday. R L Shalley started to Butler with a load of chickens this week and on the way he upset, killing 18 head and damaging his wagon considerably. Inele Joe Littlefield, a staunch re- publican, says he is for free silverand Bryan, A daughter of Warren Littlefield is} very sick with typhoid fever. Dr Hulett, of R H, is tending on her. Mrand Mrs Trip are visiting the latter’s mother, Grandma Cope, who is in very poor health. Clarence Swarenge and wife have returned to their home in Tex. They were accompanied by Clarence’s sis- ter and Mark Thomas. Henry Littlefield is home from KC. Uncle Jno Swarenge is having 120 acres of wheat sown. Joe Woods, of Okla, is visiting his | parents here. Merrel Jasper has moved to Ills. Mrs Jones visited Mrs Thursday. Frank Morse visited at Adrian last|ly necessary. If Sedalia carries out | week. Mchethen Chas Brogan is teaming in K C. Mr Clark, eur blacksmith, talks of returning to Neb. soon. Conrad Bopp and E Lewis have a | lawsuit before Esq Roland at Foster. The party at Sam MeCowan’s Sat | night was well attended and enjoyed. | P Y Morse went to R H Saturday. Mrs Warren Littlefield’s nephew, | from Ills, is ting her. Mrs Bert Smith is at Eldorado for | the benefit of her health. JIM. Ballard Items. Miss Mary Miller has bid adieu to rence, Kan. Mrs Sam \ing his brother-in-law, | and family. Unele Johnnie Evans and wife at- Your notes are payable at our oilice | tended the old Baptist association at We sive | Bethel church, ten miles west of Passaic. | her many friends and is now in Texas, where she willtake charge of a school. Ned Cole and sisters, Miss Maggie jand Mrs Moreland, | from a trip to Monegaw Springs. Harvey Clark, candidate for Prose- |euting Attorney on the deimocratic ticket,spoke at Ballard and organized a Bryan Free Silver club. Mr Atwater has traded his farm} | near Ballard for a farm in Dallas Co. George Teeter and family and I F Crow will start this week for Law- have returned George willstudy phar- macy and Frank attend a law school. McFarland has taken charge of the winter schoo! at Fair-| says: view, which commenced Monday. Sam Haze has bought an interest in| a restaurant in Buffalo, Dallas Co. Dick Graham and family are visit- Ed Hooper | deriy, who is billed to speak for Mec j the work IP IS SAVAGE, ‘ aXe 5) . Journal Makes anu Attack on Vey eriy, u, D. C., Sept. ¥ vy ashing - ve Y 10 —A tains a savage attack on T. V. Pow- Kiuicy in New York this evening. A letter from Powderly to Seere- tary General Hayes in 1888 is repro- duced in which Powderly then wrote among other thines = «“ n the} Republican party.” Z HAS HE FLOPPED In the same letter he scored trusts, banks and the gold adyccates and proclaimed hunself uvelterably for| free silyer as being iu the interest of gman The large beudiines over the let | ter uod accompanying comments charge that Powderly changed front after he had an interview last week with “Cannibal Hanna,” as the pa per calls McKinley's manager Fifteen thousand copies of the! Journal will be distributed among |; the workmgmen tonight in and around New York Hall, in which Powderly will speak. of the same edition will be seni. to other cities at once. GETTING HOT The Journal editorial goes for McKinley and the whole Republican | ‘ party. The tight is getting hot,and | ¢ it is reported that Republican man- agers are taking steps to bring in- fluence to bear against the Knights of Labor organ so that its utterances will be leas vicious. Storer. UNPLEASANT. < ‘NY *) A Gold Paper’s Canvass—Silver is Pre- | } dominant in Iinois - New York, Sept. 10—The Wall Street Journal announces that it has received private advices from a vari ety of sources which are “much more favorable to Bryan than is pleasant to adntit.” “One these reports,” the paper goes on toeay, “came from Illinois, where inquiry covering quite a large section found free silver predomin- ant. Arguments with silver men, including some business men of prominence, brought the statement that things were as bad as they could be now and a change might} be for the better. | “Reports from Michigan, Minne- sota and Wisconsin indicate strong > we Se what extended inquiry, and caused misgivings in circles that have been quite hopeful.” The Capital Question. The question as to whether the capital should be removed to Sedalia| y, is of vast importance to the people of Missouri. As it is to come before the individual voter, every citizen in the state should study it carefully before rendering his decision. As it | St. funds necessary to the erection of complete capitol building, without | any cost to the state. change must be made in the presext | co state buildings—their condition | 4), makes remodeling, atleast, absolute- her pledges faithfully,which she will, | old ones at Jefferson City. Again, | y; the present buildings are not in eeping with the advancement o our state. Itis ashame that Mis | souri, the pride of the central states, | 4 ; with her sister states. a great point in her favor. — these things into consideration, and | | Howard County Advertiser. Out For Bryan upon which he stands. The editor, w | power ot Europe and worship at the| shrine of Wall street. PEEKAH. BS ENTS SZ BNIB INO SE BL SGA ALS NOS WACK ROIS SSIS x % K. of 4. . 1 < | special edition of the Journal of the' %& Kigbis of Labor issued today con | 3% DKK Prices ‘The Lawes Eighty five thousand extra copies i COTTON FLANN a : x @: 4 ev SO Y y e i * silver sentiment among the republi- Bs We make a specialty of SCHOOL SHOES. can farmers. This information was|ZS_ : Rema ee Ss : : on the result of a very careful and some | 35 ; SSSR SESS REESE UNION OF POPULIST AND DEMO- | CRATIC ELECTORS AGREED ON stands, Sedalia proposes to raise the | Party State Committee at the St. snomhern otahe AGRO and to alt It is an admitted fact that some | crats and Populist in Missouri in ac- | railway employees to join McKinley mittee was practically agreed to. a new eet of buildings can be erected {consist of Messrs. A. Rozelle of j railroad moloch, but the attack in more cheaply than we cun repair the} Tarkio, chairman; A. Leonard of | the democratic platform on govern- vil f vi should have a capital which places , the U her at such disadvantageous contrast 0 report | Again Sedalia is more centrally ths 23 |located, and her accessibility scores | the following Taking ed the sincere promises of the city of | this committee A Sedalia, the Advertiser believes that | committeemen o: it would be a breach of policy on the |in Missouri. wo part of the voters of Missouri to re- | the action of the fuse the removal of the capita!.— | tion of the party pominees of such | quested to resign their positions as | ~ \eandidates or committeemen. and in | since The Ohio Farmer is a Republican | the event of their failure to do so | : | paper, but it refuses to support Ma-| that this committee, in the interest | — S jor McKinley and the gold platform | of harmony and party success, use| “I am utterly tired of seeing | remove such persens from their of- | this country bow down to the money | ficial positions. I believe that | claiming allegiance to the party and | the free and unlimited coinage of| refusing to support the policy of the | | silver will help the agricultural class- | party, as expressed by its national | les, and that being 60, I will do all in, and State conventions, be consider- my power to educate them along the! ed enemies to our cause and un- |tines that are for their best interest.” | worthy of support. ABSOLUTELY PURE ‘ SPTEMBER 17, 1896. SLES ANN AANA $2 NE >. NS. ENS ZNSE OF NOP 7: Q okt ISICON Pe eN NEO Oe See SOs) MAMMOTH STOCK OF ~ FALL GOODS NOW COMPLETE and ready for inspection. ; In dress goods we surpass all in quality, style and quantity. i We show the largest stock of Dress Goods in Butler, 50 foot of shelving packed solid with the most stylish fabricks produced, Lic: Seen In Bates uVus ‘SeANMETS 4 -.--::.-tw * SY exe 0, x es x 150 pair of White and colored blankets all grades from the cheap cotton 60e pair to the finest all wool. We have an immense line both White d aud colored and at prices that defy competition. See them before you buy. — ee OAS AND CAPES = = =. | i We don’t hesitate to say we have the largest and finest line in Butler and much cheaper than they were last vear. We handle the celebrated Bezfeld cloak of Chicago and every garment is warranted. ‘BOOTS AND SHOES We lead the procession with the lowest prices we have ever made. Times is hard, money scarce and hard to get. We want to do the business even ata maller profit than we have eyer done before. In order to do so we will DIVIDE OUR PROFIT with you. Come in and buy your fall bills and we will save you money. LANE & ADAIR, FOR BRYAN Silver the Best in the Long Run - | | Jefferson City, Sept. 14 —C. W. A. RLU. Urges Railway Employees to! Bonynge. well known in Missouri, : 5 who formerly lived in the state of , California, but who now resides in ployees Denounced. London, and is recognized as a man ly Dropped. | Terre Haute, Ind., Sept. 10.—The of great wealth, writes state treasur- caked cs | er Lon V. Stephens as follows: “Gold | directors of the American Railway ; P 2 e of the People’ see - F | bug as Iam,in the end JI believe ao ie eb 2S) Umbn bere nares an address to'all that the triumph of the silver cause will be the best for America, and the ny Officer, Comuntteeman or Paper) Vote.—Alleged Coercion of Kim- Opposing Union Will Be Prompt- i Louis Republic. James Hotel yesterday afternoon a/ raitway employees in the United , selfishness of the capitalists in the j union of electors between the Dem = States, denouncing ths coercion of east has brought it upon them- selves.” rdance with the proposition of | sound money clubs and calling on e Democratic State Central Com- all wage earners to vote for Eryan. Vhe address declares that it is uot The Conference Committee will free silver alone that has enraged | Eldorado Springs, Aug. 20t convention honored Bates C by placing its representativ various important ¢ i by electing our presiden of the district for the coming She was sent to Austin to re hat corps, and w oon go to Hill to organize a corps there. The reports from all corps gi surance that live, energetic w are at the head who realize ti cessity of relief work in this distr: andthroughont all Missouri. E: Home __ Last regular session of the Womer Relief Corps was full of interest by the reports of the returned delegates from the districts convention held at h. The Corps ob arshatl and J. B. Dives of Liberty- | ment by injunction. Resolution was passed in- The election of McKinley, the cir- man Rozelle to cali Culer saye. would meau the perpetu- g ation of government by injunction, the supremacy of the corporations |and the helpless subjection of em- oyees. The democratic platfo mended. In conclusion t | says: Ye. ructing Ch e committe together as soon a ouference Committee is ready When the business partaining to! pl 6 union ov electors was concluded | ing resolution was adopt- furnishing of its mar Resolved, ‘Ihat it isthe senseof| “ Ve pledge our united and un- Everything given mt = that candidates or W@vering support to Wiliam J. geod condition as soldiers use. An brary is wanted, als horses and everything nm good home. It is expected ". home will be opened and de not later than Octob: already at work the home. the People’s party | Bryan, aud appeal to ail railway em ese ployees and all workingmen to join refuse to indorse| 5 buki National Conven- | with us in rebuking corporate tyran- acd support the | ?Y- 5 : & oes be re | Judge Caldweil’s designation of Bryan's nomination as the greatest Lincoln is heartily concurred ice LYBARGER. Press Correspondent. Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U.S. Gov't Keport Royal Bakins =~. Powder hatever authority they possess to. Be it also Resolved, That all newspapers | i aren amr morta ae