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ww (Sw Y u gOL. XIX. emernoenenare ae Missouri State Bank OF BUTLER, MO. CAPITAL bh fA ives Deposits, Loans money, Iseues Drafts and does a general Banking business. | We tave in our store now one car ——= — Hrceticit the accounts of Farmers, Merchants and the public generally promising ® | igad of ; 5 safe Depository for all fande committed to our charge. Weare prepared to extend oad of ne northern early Obo [iberal accommodation in the way of loans to our customer-. 4 os a EV E RY DI ES J or. T.C. Boulware Booner Powell Frank M Voris iS ese potatovs are fine| LA AC _K E I $ Geo L Smit! iggott JM Christy uali e seed: q John Deerweater © RB Radford RG West Ca Ue seed; get your po | JR Jenkine TJ Wright Wm E Walton tatoes now for wiuter use end spring EV RY ADI ES : anking the public for their confidence and liberal patronage during the past fifteen : : E I A : aeeeking tec feit a continuance of the same promising honest paaleoniery slveuaane planting. We are seling this car of ’ cs J. R. JENKINS, Cashier. Virginia Items. fa writing news for the Tims this yea", It will be things we see and hear, if we get them wrong or mixed Friends forgive us for this is ’96. WJ Park, Stott & Co., have their pilllocated on Ku arenow sowing to the full capacity ofthe mill; any one wanting lumber rilldo well to give them a call. Elder Claypool of Appleton City, hed Sabbath and night at the Christian church. There were but four at work at the mave yard last Friday. What wrong? should we not have the yard Gas well as the yard around our houses, The next call that is made letallcome who have an interest in the yard which will be soon. Ben Esty and Walker Gardner of Kansas, arrived at the latter’s broth- , Wm Gardner's Monday night of last week. Wm Voght had some of his hay baled and hauled to Amsterdam last week. Friend Carpenter and Shafer of Butler, was in Virginia Sunday. RT Judy sold 30 head of mules last week. Ernest Bean and Howard Light of Pendleton, Oregon, arrived at Vir- nia Tuesday. Mr Bean will visit arents, Mrand Mrs Dave Bean. Mr Light will visit his sister, Mrs Amos Lockridge a few days and then tosee his parents in the Indian tritory. | Frank Shaunty’s team broke loose from the hiteh rack at Virginia, Thursday and ran about one- half mile. Nodamage to the team or wagon. John Rogers and wife and her sis- ter, Mrs John Hamilton of Welda, +} Kan., visited their father, Mrs James M ement, with strict attention always to the wants of our customers. ea ET, CRN IEE EATON 2 RANA REEL ET abb’s creek and ‘ is | where our friends are laid, fixed up} Pilgrim Sunday, who has been quite | GiUTLER, MISSOURI, THURSDAY DECEMBER 38, 1896. No 3 FISK BROS. FISK BROS, FISK BROS, & CO, a A nn No BiG CLOAK SALE. i | $55,000.00 2,500.00 potatoes at thirty c-uts per bushel in five, teu or twenty busbel lots. The same rade of potetoes usually sell in spring of the year from $1 to $1.50 per bushel We also have on band two car loads of flour One car from uerth, the Minneapolis herd wheat, the finest hurd wheat fluur ia the werld. and our other car of ecoft winter wheat from Cherckee, Kansas. We bought this flour before flour advance ed and can sel! from thirty to forty cents cheaper on the hundred than campaign, he tried to evade the ques- a ——— tion, but said if they expected to haye on hands Power Bros. flour, elect their ticket it was time the of-| Queen of Butler and the Royal, and be the dominant issue? he said if|at the same price that it will cost if the democrats met first 1t would] We have just received a fine line of Aaron. | ware af the latest pattern; decorated lamps that we are selling from 30¢ Hall complete up as bieh as $5. If you d| want a fancy lamp, we bave them, and if you want a cheap one, we have them. We bought our lamps v _. | this year—wo have not had them on One of our three weddings which tae we thonght we were going to report, hands for two or three years like we understand, has been put off until] most of the stores have, and they lossy cmt y aie two have netli ought them when they cost three G B Nichols is suffering with a se- times what they do now We carry bap cs a but is some bet-| a1) binds of Christmas presents, fun Mr and Mrs Meekins and daughter, |ey mugs, faucy cups and saucers, Miss Dottie, of Rockville, spent Suu-}tryit dishes, glass sete, knives and forke, water sets, children’s cups day with James Hudson and family in Pleasant | and saucers and a heavy I sel plain EVERY MISSES JACKET Wa E. WALTON, President. f ; There has been a rumor going the rounds, that the populists are now making a secret campaign for the spring election, and it is reported by good authority thet Chas Hensley is talked of asa candidate for consta- ble. The IES reporter called on Mr Hensley, and when asked as to the report, he said he had not not thought of being a candidate for anv office, as he expected to farm and he would rather live on his farm than in a big city like Virginia, as he would have to if he was elected. When the reporter asked Mr Hensley if the populists were making a secret and SCHOOL CLOAK will be sold at exactly cost. Now is the greatest chance of the season for those who have not bought,to procure one of the lebrated Beifeld Cloaks 3 at cost. = | | | | { | Remember they are tbe best fitting, as well as the finest and most stlylish line of Cloaks Manufactured in the United States. It has been our custom to treat the people of Bates and surrounding counties to a DECEMBER CLOAK SALE &T ACTUAL COST each year. This will possitively eclipse all previcus eales in Quality, Style and Price, We now have all sizes, come in while you can get a fit, they will not last long at the price. | | irie Items. Mrand Mrs King and W E Sundayed with Andy Jackson an wife. Born, to the wife of Mr Colton, Friday night, a fine ten pound boy. Mother and child doing well. on our beautiful prairie. CC Wilson Sundayed Gap with friends. 3 ‘ Clair ¢ : od decorated queensware. sick but issome better at this writing. Ed Hook, of St Clare COUN Wes | oe i ee . a : aia err on the prairie last week. We receive to day 5 bbl. of fine. Hezekiah Williams’ little daughter We will have a leap year party to y , Carrie, was on the sick list last week. Sita rect week P3 I = pure sugar eandy from St. Louis, of Mrs © A Wallace is on the sick list. | V7 e TP enon the wide-awake| with Tone aitethet we ned yf Walter Wallace says he thinks it is |}, 5 raiser, thinks he has run in our ening coloring 10 te nent wea ae - him a settlo Sonn an Hite correspondent, but dear Andy, you ordered special for our Christmas a nas made arrangements wil “11 YT : ; aa r P I} Aaron to select for him a fit compan- eat HES HS ee atifacaileapent trade. The candy we are selling at }} ion for that purpose. Sunday AaEnatpeatiC mily spent/§8ig por pound, it is fine, come in -§ MrsG W Park received a large pats and look at it. ale “ At the request their teacher, Prof. WOODOOHOOOOOOO?S e Be heh ee Neer from MOET O F Tally, six ofthe McDavitt school| We take al! kinds of produce in FOX POOMGSOVIOOLISOOOON h g, whoisinthe Territory with) udents wrote compositions on b for all kinds of Christm ator Disks 1 little said physiology which were sent by the exenenEe ora pone eee | See ae } about diptheria CSA ile oid | teacher to the state normal school to govds. We paid the most of last} Nevada, Mo., Nov 26.—The Ver-| openly in the race for speaker, and | Crazed By Politics. Q} ita week ago are about Well again ee a a oe week 18e per dozen for exes; do not|nou cosnty grand jury yesterday | that be is now marshalling hisforces; Guthrie, Ok, Dec. 1 —Judge W. Bren Or pene cu ee that | also the grade they received. sell your egga end chickens uotil) brought in un indictment against for the fight. He will make the L Cund.ff, one of the most promi- J those large enough to hunt rabbits, | CLIMAX. |you get our prices. We get prices; Mason Saith for murder in the first | race as the administration candidate | nent lawyers of uid. was taken to . thowed a pretty good hand. | | Deepwater Items every morning from Kansas City| degree. Just six weeks ago the dead and as the candidate of the high! the Norman insane asylum today. He Ben Biggs on the sick list Saturday | pws : = he | bod tM Virginia Smith, th = z i et HS pes and Sunday, Amanzar Hensley is} Grandma Wilker left Monday for a and Chicago, and will give you the; body-of Mrs. Virginia smith, the protection wing. This statement is crazy over politics. Candiff is a Ss] improving slowly. f | week's visit to her daughter, Mrs Jno | highest prices every day in the week aged wife of the accused, was found | from the friends of Speaker Reed is | personal fri nd of W. J Bryan, and randma Witherspoon is not ex-| Allison, who lives in Cedar Co. for game, turkeys, chickene, ducks, | !Y28 on the floor of the kitchen of | taken as the forerunner of & greai| nominated Bryan for Congress the J Dected to live. Apoe Rev Scoof preached at Elm Grove 2 a *\ their home 15 miles southeast of this | contest between the administratio: | first time Ten days ago be return 1. eenry cones 8 little boy was | school house last Saturday night and | geese, apples, butter and eggs. city. She had been beaten to death | high protection wing and uuti sic-; ed from Nebraska, having stumped en sick Monday. will continue to preach there every SU : ; ‘i a sie oe pte atid . re Miss Daisy Park, who has been vis- | Saturday night ensre tlic 4th Sunday SUGAR. with an iron bar. Smith eas - | Kinley moderate protectionists. that State for the silver candidate al iting relatives and friends in Butler} jn each month for one year. Every- SUGAR. first to giye notice to neighbors of | Jt ig elaimed for General Grosven-\ His condition is dangerous. ‘ en days, returned home Mon-| body should come out and hear him. the tradgedy. He was =o with | or that he will receive the enthusias SS . The singi t W H Shelton’s last i a d, br p H : . ap piits Jennie Gordon, of the Indian SundAT salen ERTRs iaeeetey eyenaad 20% best granulated sugar = $1 00 pea ea a |}tic support of the Administration Cold in the North. a erritory, is visiting her parents, Mrj py all the young people and all re- 10% best granulated sugar 50 a4 h f St. Louis eae | Congressmen and that Speakor Reed St. Paul, Nov 29 —Human beings and Mrs Joe Whinnery. port splendid singing. 21%b light brown sugar 1 00 | moved here from ouis county | will have the hardest contest in his have been frozen to death, cattle Volney McFadden and Fred Drys-| Mr Tire, of Maysburg, and Miss s | several years ago and at that time | reign as “Czar ~ have been stampeded, buried and dale were on the sick list Monday. Belle Simpson, of Johnstown, were FLOUR. | was well to do financially. | 2 : "1 : % =a united in the *holy bonds of ‘matri- : | eee eee ‘BL ee oe emotbered in the snowdrifte, traine mony last Wednesday at 10 a. m., FLOUR. Beinn dae Bante Elecationary and Oratorical Contest. delayed. wires are down and the Recktavey omciatiog: Ee ee $ 95! a sunk es There will be a State Elocutiovary | November storm record broken by a Everett Oliver and family were the wie Bee 95 | Pelleville, Kan., Dee 1 —Burglars | and Oratorical contest held in But blizzard that holds the northwest DUVALL & PERC BUTLER,7MO- ev toloan on farms at reduced rat Test Your notes are payable at our of you find them bere when due We gi Privilege to pay any time. eon as papers ure signet, IVAL, | the bouse of Luther FARM ELROANS. Money bia a 50tb sack Pillsbury flour 50%b sack hard wheat, standard elocution for ora (ler Christmas mght for ard the evening following 90 entered the National bank of Belle i ° _|Ville Jat night and blew off the guests of Mr Offils’ Sunday. The Sunday School at Johnstown is progressing nicely. locked iu its chilly grasp. How mavy bhumau beings have | Rennie Maxey, of Johnstown, left grade flour 15] heavy front door with dynamite, but | tory. A-priza of $25 will be paid been sacrificed, cannot be told until last week for Amsterdam to study 50ib sack high grade flour 1 20) 2 = fe | fer elocution and $30 for oratory. the snow drifts clear away, a month telegraphy. Rosk. se | failed to get into the money sal@ any Academy or High Schoo! in the bLence Men are missing everywhere < os MEAT. | containing the bank’s money. | state will be allowed a representative in the heart of thestorm. Some aro Austin Items. Quite a sum of money was taken, | for each. In addition to the High known to b+ dead,and many missing, MEAT. | schools and Academies, we have con with chances very much against | belonging to private parties, also a A Baptist preacher delivered a fine O04) diamond belonging to M. C. Hub sermon here Sunday. Frank and Mrs Mollie Blair attend- ‘ cluded toadmit representatives from | six echoole of Bates county, regard 1ib dry salt meat them being alive. | ed church here Sunday. 5 1 breakfast bacon oF bard, valued at $350 A horse, har- | joag of grade, and those schools re Huntiogton, W. Va. Nov: 25 — | WS Metcalf took a trip to Forrake | 1} California hams 07 | nees and buggy were stolen probably | porting first will bs admitted tothe The County Clerk of Lincoln county Monday. J W Cordell received a letter from | his sonin Garrison, Texas, wanting | him to come out and be night watch, Country lard in 507 cans per pound | contest. The program is about ready ‘and will soon be filled and those _wishing to enter the contest must bas issued a license to Clinton Spear and Loyd Haan to marry the same girl They been rivals for |by the same gang, and taken a short OT! distance from town and abandoned. The horse has slready been recov hava | that he could get $30 a month. COFFEE. | eee eenaaa| Soasibla not Jatec fal : fais ; Fate | OW H Cordell and W S Metcalf went | lered. A gabg, presumably the same, = por s possible, not later pia oer eee 4 pongo — to church at Archie Sunday. COFFEE. H énaitie + UE y awaited by friends. Chloe Scraggs |breke into Whan's store, 20! depot in Talmo, this county. also ot. J. W. Richarpsox, /a young blond, is the girl in ques- Cor. Sec, Butler, Mo. ‘ tion. A man was found down near the Bates and C line almost frozen to death Saturd: Arbuckles coffee, per pound Lion coffee per pound 20) tast nig XXXAX coffee, per pound 20) ~ Spoon cotive, per pound 20! Pare celebrated 25ct Mocha aa | Washington, D. C., Nov. 30.—The Java is our leader. This coffee!,. Bk Head asks will equal avy 30 cent coffee that is | friends - pee weigh en on the market: it is very strong and; here made the announcement to-day fine flavor, come and try it, and do|tiat they have discovered a scheme r speaker of the new not forget that we are selling the/to defeat b finest potatoes on the market ati poise, It ig claimed by them that thirty cents per bushel. | General c Ge eecEGRE. FISK BROS. & CO. | McKinley's lightning calculator. is| LERK No. 8. Five Barned to Death. Perry, N. ¥., Nov. 30.—A_ defect- fre in Greeuman, ‘a farmer living near bere. The ex- ' tire family of five persons, consisting ori of Greenman, his wife and three ce | children, were burned into an unrec- ognizable condition. Hope to Defeat Reed. o Highest of all in Leavening Powez.— Lates' U.S. Gov’t Report | Baki Powder ABSOLUTELY FU | | | | | jive stove-pipe started a ve | i