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¥a) lpg aN GAEANE “3 1 4 r a EA A er a NET eT : “ a 8 | e | . ‘ 1 | J ‘ | e OF BUTLER, MO. d ME oaPITAL - == = = = = = = 885,000.00 af SURPLUS FUND Re ee ge nee ei ie id - it re Receives Deposits, Loans money, Ieeues Drafts and does a general Banking basiness id We solicit the accounts of Farmers, Merchants andthe public generally promising a arf safe Depository for all funds committed to our charge. We ate prepared to extend vem liberal accommodation in the way of loans to our customer-. or. T. C. Boulware Booker Powell Frank M Voria Geo L Smith HH Piggott JM Chriaty Jobn Deerwester C R Radford RG Weet JR Jenkins TJ Wright Wm E Walton Thanking the public for their confidence and liberal patronage during the past fifteen years, sgement, with strict attention always to the wants of our customers. H J. R. JENKINS, Wau. E WALTON, Cashier. President. we solicit a continuance of the same promising honest and conservative man- Virginia sions. tract, then he jumped Aaron for on finest talker that has been here this season, pleasant and did not abuse any orcall bad names and did not appear to be in a fight with anyone, nor did he offer any old man a judge Saturday. Mrs OM Dry sdale visited friends ht miles north of Johnstown Sat- inay and Sunda ler, visited her sister, Miss Mary er, last Sunday. e Free Methodists are holding a ing at the Nestlerode school Miss Blahche, went to K C Monday. Rare of Mulberry, visited rs Campbell’s school at Virgini last Wednesday, pias AARON, Mrs WJ Bard was on the sick list set week, The Timus should have said John er had ‘‘coal” for sale, not corn. (ass Cope went to K C last week. Mrs A W Simpson is on the sick \ Deepwater Items. H P Callahan, who has been sick, is now convalescent. Mrs Milburn Jackson returned to home in Denver, last Thursday ra pleasant visit of two months hher husband’s parents, Mr and Alfred Jacks esdames H He sher and J U e iqemne”, of Butler, visited Mrs O M dale one day last week. COU Dr Brooks of Amoret, is tending on 18 Wr Cook, wife and daughter Blanche oare sick with the fever. Prank Zinnand MissSarah O!dham eunited in marriage Sabbath eve the home of the bride’s parents at clock, Rev Coulter officiating. 090M Drysdale and J W McFadden ot t@ K C Tuesday. st week the expounders of law ein our midst two nights. The wblicans Thursday night, AJ ith and Mr Fisher of Adrian, Mr ith told us what he thought about f, and that the Wilson tariff had d the country and he would ethe criminals brought be- im; 1 suppose he meant whisky ; also Mr Fisher, the boy orator, young Methodist preacher, fol- ed him with declamation of bom- t; he told how the democrats got cir brains Lag swallowing populists, said something about parity and iage; we do not understand ether he wished to convey the ta that he represented the gold larand it would take 16 girls te equal, After meeting was over ron handed out some prohibition he read the heading of the church, Johnstown, the 2nd Sunday in each month,at 11amand at night. W L Kash sold a bunch of steers to Mr Holland last week. The Latter Day Saints are holding a protracted meeting in the school house at Johnstown this week. All those wanting cane made up call at W H Shelton’s sorghum mill, 1} miles south of Johnstown. Sunday school at the south Meth- odist church, Johnstown, every Sun- day at3pm._ Everybody invited. While in Johnstown don’t forget to cal] on the new milliners, Mrs Albine and Miss White. The wheat crop here looks very promising, Quite a good acreage was sown. F The Elm Grove schoo! is progress- ing nicely under the care of Mrs Me- Coun. A crowd of Johnstown people at- tended church at White Oak Sunday, and report a splendid sermon. Rosr. 1 SALMON IS GONE. The Marshfistd Bankor Sippased to be in Mexico. : Springfield, Mo., Oct. 3.—A for- feiture was taken on the bonds of E. W. Salmon fer bis appearanca at the Webster County Cireuit Court to the amount of $58,000, as fellows: One $56,900 bond, signed by E. W. Salmon as principal and G. Y Sal-! mon and Salmon & Salmon as secur- ities, und four bonds of $2,000 each, j signed by E. W. Salmon as principal end G. Y. Salmon aud W. F. Carter | as securities. E. W. Salmon is supposed to have fled and has probably gone to Mexi- co, as the last time he was heard ot he was in Texas and going south. He left Clinton on Saturday night, September 17, and claimed that be was going to Marshfield to court. The cace against G ¥. Salmon was continued until next term of court. | E. W. Salmon left Clinton after borrowing $350 from his widowed sister, ostensibly for Marshtield, but | as yet has failed to show up. It is| SUVALL 83IPERCI IVAL, | bas net been apprehended, he is no | doubt now sefely in Mexico. bondsmen are making every effort to prebend him, but it is not known BUTLER, MO- r4aRn TOans. toloan on farms reduced rates of | | ap Your notes are payable at our office find them here when due We give 4 BUY WOoOR SHOES lowest prices,as com- parison will show, we Miss Nettie Yeoman, of Spruce, is | of whisky if he called to t “A 7 ‘ s1t7 jsiting the fainily of her uncle, T 8 Harper is having Be sadition am 3 position to r Crooks. * built to his barn. Cee! Jno Bosma and two children of | W A McElroy, wife and daughter, Zlv e the stron gest guarantee of satisfac- tion, being the oldest shoe house, doing the Rev Bogue will preach at the M E doing it on our capital. See what we are selling in the way of and g2 00. Washington Post. | give Cleveland first place for the His} here whether they have been suc-; BUTLER, MISSOURI, THURSDAY OCTOBER 8, 1896. and own largest hae: mens serviceable winter boots at $1.50 Max Weiner. Oo ts Doubtfal. “I beiteve taat Obio cau fairly be classed as a doubtful state,” said Mr. E. B. Lilley, city editor of the Cleve- land Plain Dealer, “at the Raleigh. “In every nook and corner of it there is astrong sentiment for free silver, and the feeling shows no sign of weakening. In Cleveland there is a Bryan organization numbering fully 20,000, and there is a free silver re- publican club with a large member- ship. In the list of republican bolt- ters areseveral of the most respected and intelligent men in the communi- ty, men of the highest standing, who have been life long republicans. “OF all cities in the Unien I would amount of publie interest taken in the discussion of the dominant issue. Hundreds of men gather nightly in the streets and parks to debate over linger till long past midnight. seen little groups still arguing at 4 a.m. The workingmen of our city are strongly inclined to Bryan. The great strike of organized labor against the Brown Machine company the strike that Mark Hanna under took to settle, but which didn’t stay settled, has operated in favor ef the democrats. Coercion and intimida- tion wiil not be lacking to drive the —— | reported that he was seen in Spring- | But a good many of them while ap- | field and later in Texas, and if he | parently submitting to the dictation of their bosses, secretely resent their | | RIGHT | Lovomoiive Boiler | tive No. 858, | passenger so badly that he commit-| gold and silver, and often the crowds | Ive} wage earners to McKinley s eupport DIE ON YHE SANTA FE. ! Explodes, Wreck- | ing a Fast Passenger Train. | Topeka, Kav., Oct. 4 —Locomo | attached to Santa Fe} eisi bound passenger train No. 2,! exploded while running at full speed F FA R M E R § at 4:38 o'clock this morning near the | BUTLER. MO. village of Petersou, thirty one miles | west of this city, instantly killing Eagineer G. Strunk, _ Fireman O. H. Hollister and feur tramps, injuring | two other tramps and frightened a} Capital Stock $50.060,00 ted suicide by shooting himself} Soa tee esncl = 2;000,00 through the head with a revolver. Mrs. Edvua B. Maxwell, residing at 1225 East Eighth street, Kansas City, Mo., cut her arm severely by} breaking a window pane with her} fist in an attempt to escape from al Pullman sleeper. She was the only | passenger ipjured,although the train | was heavily loaded. C L. Shireman We Want Your Business. D. N. THOMPSON, Pres. k A. BENNET?, V . Pres. E. DL KIPP, Cashier! G. W. Newberry ) _ (As Sistants. G. Pratt Wyatt DIRECTORS. watch to a passenger. If he had any papers he threw them away. SUICIDE FOLLOWS THE ACCIDEST before buying, He stood around where the men were digging in the wreck for dead bodies and cried and acted strangely but finally resumed his seat in the car and became quiet. Suddenly he drew a revolver, and placing the muzzle againat his left temple, fired. He tumbled into the isle dead, with- out uttering a word. Engineer Struuk and Fireman Hollister resided in Topeka. Struok 50 years old, and had been running on the Santa Fe for twenty years. He leaves a family. Hollister was 30 years old, single, aud had been firing on the Santa Fe for ten years. boots at cost. Remember the place, East side of square. DRYSDALE We ask you to inspect our goods and get our prices we carry Childrens foot wear in both heavy and fine grades, and our prices will be found as low as the lowest. Come in and examine our Men’s $1.50 and § We have a emali line of bats which we will close out first door north cf Deacon's on te 2 _ | voeating sobriety. Inthe morni Ante <5 Ou, of Kansas City a helper in theex.| = ye writing news for the Timms this} When they passed Aaron’s oaeee Me whet e reason dic ta- press car, was considerably bruised q yea", Smith invited us q i y « z 5: : ? Wit will be things we seeand hear, | we caine ie WdtiRg: Soe nen tes and you'll buy by falling boxes. The man who kill TO WE LRE RS re; dif we get them wrong or mixed | being a very liberal fellow, anda ed himself was a stranger. He was = ws Friends forgive us for this is ’96. Methodist preacher, agreed’ to fur-| them here. Ther e’s 5 al] | well dressed and had plenty of 28 Mrs W W Park has been quite sick | nish a judge of good whisky. Friday ° Bon ang ne ad Dickey OU MOE: O F B ) TS te a AS) NS! pra few days; Dr Christy of Butler, | night Mr Harvey of Oklahoma, talk- k Tees * ey. His ticket read from Los - 3¢ O I s AN D Ss H¢ YES wat waiting on her. |ed to the free silver club, told the t he reasonin the world Angeles to Chicag re: Dave rows of Butler, was in our eee people rah about the money f 1 4 roy “. t ey id th Hehe 3 Saturday question how the treasury wa: k- ¢ y oC / etrain men said that he haa & ns ‘: 5 8g wR Hen Comiford has rented 50 acres | ed, had@ his gold dollarand jomieenen Say mame AG, W eve been drinking dea! the tri ! eS ee ee IS land of Mrs A J Park for 1897. back ones and emptied the treasury. 1} = : b] mee See ge ste you will likely buy them where you think you 83 Washington Park’s barn is com-) Quite a number swallowed the dose the shoes, weve the He was greatly excited after the can get the beet goods for the least mo y which a3 d. without grease. Mr Ha Z = ee iis Pees" * Greet A SY Alex Clark of Mulberry, wasin Vir- £ tvey is fhe accident, and gave his money and is perfectly right. are ‘ers, Womens and 62 C0 heavy & KEASLING, Their mangled remains were brought here this afternoon. The ill feted passenger train was unber the charge of Conductor Edward B. Sill of Kansas City. It was about thirty minutes late. A short stop was made at Osage City for water, and then the engineer pulled out for a fast run to Topeka. Ina few win- uies the whistle soucded for Peter- sun, three miles from Osage City. Almost immediately the explosion occured. The locomotive went to pieces. Engineer Strunk was hurled into the air and he fell forty feet from tke track. Fireman Hollister was hurl ed downward and crushed beneath the tender. The front part of the locomotive | was thrown into a coal chute and it| tore a hole in the ground ten feet deep. The force of#the explosion : : lensed the express and AER cars I. Filley has made a deal with he from the track and damaged them | 4 re A. whstaby he/hopes £0 Salve considerably, and the heavy stee! | ithe entire membership of the secret rails were twisted es if they haa /oFder in line for Robt. E. Lewis, Henk ame of tin. Poo explosion |*"* republican candidate for gover- | was heard for miles areund, and the nor. It —— woe = = Focents came runuing from evry | Be deal Filley bas promised the | direction,many of them half dressed. | jorder a goodly portion of the state | Patronage in both Kaneas City and | The Mhinley Mortgage. | St. Louis, and has given positive jassurance that Lewis as governor | will ignore Irish republicans The deal has been hanging fire for and has a mortgage upon all his pos sessions, managed his campaign for the nomination. It is not uncommon in business affairs for the creditors is the first time a Presidential candi- date has fallen into the hands of a receivership and is being iors off for the interest of the creditors cf} lwhom the receiver bimeelf is the’ largest and most rapacious. Perhaps Mr. McKinley is not @ willing party to this errangenteHts Perhaps Hanna is running him vith out bis consent. If that be true, then so weak a man is certainly un-' | worthy of any exaited public trust —Post Dispatch, Seeks Filley’s “Seeks Filley’s Ald. St. Lonis, Mo, Oct. 5.—Chauncey | A Post-Dispatch cartoon bas set! out strongly and clearly. in more of! justice to the people than mercy to : % s z the man, the relation Mr. McKinley joe time, but to day it was assert holds toward Mark Hanna. McKin led that the compact bad been made ley is represented as lying on a bed jand that candidate Lewie, wio was : in the city Sunday, had agreed to mortgaged to Hanva, who is repre- ithe terms drawn up by Filley aud | sented as the doctor admivisterivg | the secret order. The Irish repub- the gold cure from a bottle labeled | and there is no doubt will lose 5,000 or 6,000 votes from: that source alone of an insolvent concern to run it in | state committee will meet Phursday- the interest of their claime, but this |It will remove Sheridan Webster, 'the nominee for state auditor. \ licans in the city are deeply incensed that Lewis The popalist iD. W. . W. Drummond: Floor oil cloth, linoleum, stove ruga and metal rug binding at “W. Drummond’s. Get your window glass, paint er’s supplies, carpete, wall pa- per and shades at D. W. Drum mond'’s. Pictures, picture frames eat. moulding at D. W. Drummosd’s Paper banging, signs, Louse and all kinds of decoratfvo.paint- ing neatly executed at very reas onable prices by D. W. Drum- mond. LOOMS OOS ME OOLEDOOEIOS T. W. LECC. rts of Buggies, Surrice, ps, phactons ‘ke, poles. js, dashes, cushions, For all repairs, or road wagons, farm shafts, neckyokes, Iseli the beet Paint on ‘Earth. We reset tires and DO NOT RUIN THE WHEELS. Will furnish you a buggy HIGH OR LOW GRADE for very few doliars. Iam thankful to all wie have patronized me and hope you will continue to do 80, and if yon have never tried me. come = be convinced that this is the right place top. suggy “Gold Standard.” Underneath the} cartoon is this statement and ques- | tion: “It's a bitfer dose, but what: ean a poor candidate do whe is) mortgaged to the Doctor?” This is the firet time in the history | } attempt and will vote for Bryan. With topay;any time, Money mean Mitepent ss aigaet a in locating him or not. carry Ohio.” i to control their suffrage hands off and every man left to yote | the Presidency has chosen his largest as he willed McKinley would not te our politica that a candidate for, Royal al Ls 2s hie political manager. | Hanns, who paid McKinley's debt Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U Report Baki Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE