The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, December 24, 1896, Page 1

CAPITAL SURPLUS FUND years, agemen J. R. JENKINS, Cashier. Virginia Items. In writing news for the Times this SC yea, It will be things we see and hear, And if we get them wrong or mixed Friends forgive us for this is ’96. Revs Galbreath of the M E church and Blair of the Cumberland church have been holding a meeting at Mt. Carmel for the past two weeks. 14 have been added to the church. The only thing keeping our town from sending a company of men to Cuba is, they all want to be captain. > Dick Craig of Tula, 1 T is visiting relatives here for a few days. ' Several of the young Americans got on their fighting harness last week at school east and north of Vir ginia; some received slight flesh wounds, but not of a serious nature. Amos Lockridge’s little girl has been on the sick list for several days. | It is not a very good place for ped- dlers round Virginia unless they be- have themselves; there was one taken last week before an officer. The Virginia literary was not very well attended last Friday night. At alate hour President Morrison took the gavel and called the house to or- der, and by the way the gavel sound- ed it was an easy matter to tell that the president was quite nervous. Ev- ery eye seemed to be fixed on the president, but when the secretary read the program for the evening it was learned that the president was to tell the future of populism. After amoment of silence some one said the future of populism was democrat Missouri State Bank OF BUTLER, MO. FISK BROS. & CO. Receives Deposits, loans money, Issues Drafts and does a general Banking busines:. solicit the accounts of Farmers, Merchants andthe public generally prom) i safe Depository for all funds committed to our charge. Weare prepared to extend | ! iiberal accommodation in the way of loans to our customers. bs ur T. C. Boulware Booker Powell Frank M Voris r Geo L Smith H H Piggott JM Christy | John Deerwester C R Radford RG West 1 JR Jenkins TJ Wright Wm E Waiton | Thanking the public for their confidence and liberal patronage during the past fifteen we solicit a continuance of the same promising honest and conservative man- it, with strict attention always to the wants of our customers. victory; as soon as order was restored the president asked if there was any unfinished business before the society & young man with a imustache arose and said, Mr President there is an important question staring the mem- bers of this society in the face and the same question stared the voters in the face last fall, that finance question. Master Walton Morrison declaimed a piece entitled, ‘The Vil- lage Blacksmith,” Prof Harper made a short talk on the beauties of sugar; select reading by Wm Cuzick. Charley and Joe Huck of Osawot- amie, Kan., are visiting old friends here for a few days; they are on their way to Rich Hill. Pery Mane of Orchard, Kan., took dinner in our town Saturday. Mike Orear and his father have rented the Washington Park farm and moved there last week. The singing schools at Miami and Virginia are well attended. " ‘J The dance at Mr Stuekey's Friday | night was well attended. r Christy of Butler, was called Tuesday of last week to see Alton Park’s little boy, who had a sore throat. The Endeavor was weil attended Sabbath night. Next Sabbath night is the time to elect officers for the next three months. The spelling school at Hotwater last Friday night was a success; Misses Clara Dugan and Gertie Manger were the chawpion spellers. Uncle John Bassett and_ wife visit- Hiram at Foster last ed their son week. Wm Cuzick is on the sick urday and Sunday. list Sat- BUTLER.“MO- FARM UOCANS:. Mone imterest and you find them here when due you privilege to pay any time, Money read 4s Boon Ss papers are signed, ester BUTLER, MISSOURI, THURSDAY DECEMBER 24, 1896. 355,000.00 2,500.00 nga Wa. E. WALTON, President. Shered Cope and wife visited rela- tives at New Home Sunday. The ladies that were at Aunt Lucy Maloney’s quilting last Wednesday report a splendid time especially those that took their knitting. Those present were Mesdames Thompson, Denning, Jenkins, McFadden, Lamb, Cowan, Bard, Carpenter, Liston, Whinnery, Berry, Gerdon, Cuzick, Flemming ang Miss Ida Cowan. Miss Minnie Herrell is spending a week in Butler. Carrol Mann of Butler, spent Sat- urday and Sunday with Lee Brown- ing. Aunt Bettie Dudley is visiting her son, Bob, at Joptin and will stop at Eldorado to see her sister, Mrs Hutchinson. Mrs Jasper Pierce went to Amster- dam Sunday afternoon to take the train for Kansas City, where she will visit relatives during holidays. Charley says he likes to make drives to Amsterdam Sunday after- noon. Aaron stayed all night with Jeffer- son Park; he is failing very fast. He has been sick a long time, his limbs and body have commenced swelling again, and he cannot lie in his bed— has to sit up; he has spells that he ean hardly get his breath. His phys- ical strength is failing fast, but his mind is active and he loves to talk. Some of our young people have been attending the literary at Con- cord they report it a good one; it meets every Wednesday night. ; Miss Mary Orourke ison the sick ist. Mrs F M Nash, who has _ been sick for some time, died Sunday. She will be buried near St. Joreph, Mo. A short time ago we received a let- ter from DrJ J Mitchell formerly of Virginia; we were glad to learn that the doctor had found a place that suited him. He was born in Logan county, Ohio, 1845, served in the army of the Potomac in 1865. At the close of the war he moved to Con- cord, Muskingdom county, where he received a limited college course at the Muskingdom college, in 1876 after the death of his father and mother and an only brother, and following the advice of Greeley, he came west and located in Bates county, Mo. Soon after he came west he contract- ed the granulated sore eyes which caused him much suffering for about fifteen years; with all drawbacks he continued to teach school in Bates, Cass county, and Johnson county, Kansas. In that way he earned enough to get his medical education. In 1883 he locatedin Vinton, practic- ed there ’till 1887, when he located in Virginia and practiced here uutil the summer of 96. In 1889 he married Miss Effie Orear, daughter of W D Orear. During the nine years of his ractice he bought a good farm, ad- joining the town, which he now owns. He made a success financially and a large practice. We believe we are safe in saying he has less marks in the grave yard than any one that practiced the same length of time. The Dr was a liberal supporter of the ehurch and Sabbath school and all charitable objects. We hope he will meet with like success in his new home. The doctor has over 100 head of fine hogs on his farm being fed by B F Jenkins, which will soon be ready for market. According to the ember days or what the Dutch say about them, we will have but little northwest or east wind for the next two months. Last FISK BROS. FISK BROS. We bave in our store now one ae load of fire northern early Obio potatoes. These potatoes are fine) quality and pure seed; get your po tatoes vow for winter use and spring We are selling this car of potatoes at thirty cents per bushel in five, ten or bushel Icts. The same grade of pctatces usually sell ia epring of the year from $1 to $1.50 per bushel. We also have on hand two car loads of flour. One car from nortb, the Minneapolis hard wheat, the finest bard wheat flour in the world, and our other car of soft wiuter wheat from Cherokee, Kansas. We bought this flour before flour advane ed and can sell from thirty to forty cents cheaper on the bundred than apy other store in Butler. We also have on hands Power Bros. flour, Qveen of Butler and the Royal, and will sell in five hundred pound lots at the eame price that it will cost you st the mill. We have just received a fine line of Christmas goods, decorated queens ware of the latest pattern; decorated lamps that we are selling from 30c¢ complete up as high as $5. If you want a fancy lamp, we have them, and if you want a cheap one, we have them. We bought our lamps this year—we have not had them on hands for two or three years hke most of the stores bave, and they bought them when they cost three times what they donow. We carry all kinds of Christmas presents, fan- cy mugs, fancy cups and saucers, fruit dishes, glass sets, knives and forks, water sets, children’s cups and saucers and a heavy line of plain and decorated queensware. We receive to-day 5 bbl. of fine, pure sugar candy from St. Louis, with no coloring in it, that we had ordered special for our Christmas trade. The candy we are selling at Gc per pound is fine, come in and look at it. We take all kinds of produce in exchange for all kinds of Christmas goods. We paid the most of last week 182 per dozea for eggs; do not sell your eggs and chickens until you get our prices. We get prices every morning from Kansas City and Chicago, and will give you the highest prices every day in the week for game, turkeys, chickens, ducke, geese, apples, butter and eggs. SUGAR. SUGAR. planting. twenty HAND OF DEATH fuvited and Cama to Liiian Caiioun Turner, Kanms City, Mo. Dec 19.—Mrs. | Lilhan Calhoun Turner, daughter of. a Dallas, Texas, divine, who took a} dose of arsenic Thursday because her husband, with whom she had | eloped, ill treated her, died at the) City Hospitel at an early hour this | morning from the eff-cts of the poi | FARMERS BANK |gon. The following is Mre. Turner's | BUT LER; MO. last letter to her husband: ' Bozr:—Last night you said you| | liked Mr. Burke better than I, so go! to bim I beg you, and he will tell) Capital Stock §50,000.0 you I am innocent of any wrong you! accuse me of. Let him clear my | good name in your eyes. You can! believe him, for he speaks the truth. | You may never see me again on this | earth, but I wish you all the bappi | ness in this world, and may you} reach the other. | You very well know the pain I am in, and will suff-r both physically aul mentally, and remember at all times when you are going through life that you have wrecked a young life and sent a young girl to hell Remember too, that 1 was cast out alone, without one penny to eat on without a friend to turn to, and what looms up before me is—poverty, shame and disgrace But J have locked at them all, and rather than that I prefer death When this reaches you I will be dead Goto Mra. Simmons, 312 East Twelfth street. and get my trunk, send it to my mother, and say to her that I was driven by you to my death. Sinee Ihave been your wife I bave|y oman Higgioson wholesale gro been true and Joyal. Not an untrue cery house, and become deepondent thopght bas entered my Dene eon by reason of injuries received recent- have been my life, my all. Atall ly. He leaves a wife and two chil times and in all my troubles I hav+ clung to youalways. I have enuffer ed poverty with you, and in return I get my heart crushed and my life forever ruined Send my clothes to my mother. God bless the little angel, and tell little sister to take warning from me. May God bless and protect the band that was raised to strike a young life out of exist ence. Good by forever, and may prosperity and happiness ever betide you is the last long wish of Lillian P. S.—For Brother Kelly’s birth day, he had his arm cut off; for mine, death. They Will Frankfort, Ky, Dee 21.—Sheriff Plummer of Newport has been in consultation to day with Governor Bradley. The latter indicated that he would fix the same day for the execution of both Jackson and Wall- ing The final mandates of the court have not yet reached the Governor, by hundreds, pleadirg for mercy for Pearl Bryan’s murderers. Wichita, Kan, Dec. 21 —Thomas Carmichael, 34 years of age, com mitted suicide here Sunday. He went to the hay loft in his stable, laid down and eent a bullet through his bead He was a clerk in the dren. This makes thirteen suicides committed here during the past year, and all of them save one were committed on Suaday. Bride Surprised. Cincinnati, O, Dec. 15 —A start- ling experience is related by Emma Howard in a petition for divorce about to be filed here. She is a comely white woman, 22 years old, pleasing of face and form. Her maiden name was Emma Coff, and she worked asa domestic in some very fashionsble and respectable West End families. By accident she met Charles Howard, a negro porter jin a saloon, a diminutive man, and as repulsive looking as she is deli- cate and polished. The girl by sone unaccountable freak fell in love with Howard. It was a case “of beauty and the beast.” They were married last Thankegiving but next day she left bim. The strangest pari of the story is to be told. She had made a startling discovery. had wedded proved to be a woman. END OF A HUTCHINSON FEUD. Reno County Farmer Commits Murder in Settling old Scores. Hutchinson, Kan, Dec. 21—A neighborhood quarrel in Ninnescah townsbip in this county, resulted in ithe probable death of a highly re spected citizen yesterday. John Guy and a farm+r named Burch and his two sons badan old feud andj | yesterday the Burch men stopped Guy as he wac passing their farm, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday were ember days. The Virginia schooicloses Wednes- week. AARON, Handreds Agree to gote War, Gathrie, OX , Dee 20 —Five hun DUVALL & PERCIVAL, toloan on farms at reduced rates ct Your notes are payable at our office We give dred Cuban sympathizers met last night at the United States District | eourt room, in this city, and held a widly enthusiastic meeting. Reso- lutions were passed scoring Spain snd Weyler, and asking {the Presi-| lent to take such ation as would ac- vord with the feelings of the Ameri- ean people, and thet the United} States extend a protectorate over the island. sent to Delegate Flynn and the Cu = jucta. Four hundred patriots, Coxey’s Oklabome army, under Gen eral Twamiley, signed the ro¥s, vol urteering to go to Cuba if favorable | action was tsken by this country. day of this week till Monday of next} The resoultions were 211b best granulatedsugar $1 00 104th best granulated sugar 50 221b light brown sugar 1 00 FLOUR. FLOUR. 50ib sack Nevada flour S$ 95 | 501 sack hard wheat, standard | grade flour 115 | 501 sack high grade flour 1 20 2 MEAT. MEAT. jab dry salt meat of | 1b breakfast bacon 1fb California hams | Country lard in 50% cans per 7 07 | pound 07 | COFFEE. COFFEE. | Arbuckles coffee, per pound 20 Lion coffee per pound 20 XXXX coffee, per pound 20 Spoon coffee, per pound 20 | Pure celebrated 25¢ Mocha and | Java is our leader. This coffee will | equal any 30 cent coffee that is on ithe market: it is very strong and| including the Oklahoma branch of | fine flavor, come and try it, and do; inot forget that we are selling the cold by | set af at an advance of 525.000. n |finest potatoes on the mark | thirty cents per bushel. FISK BROS. & C9. t land wanted to “fight it. out.” Guy | went to the house of Frank Tucker, la farmer, and asked him to go back ! | with tim and cee that there was fair | applies for a separation. | play in the settlement of the trou cre \bie. Tucker consented, and a fight white. Frightfal Murder. Surplus Fund 85,000.00 We Want Your Business. | “Hang Together.” | but he is already receiving letters | The husband whom che ; She is the fourth woman go deceived | by Howard, two of whom were) His efforts to induce her to |return availed nothing and she now NO 6 - OFFICERS. ee rey D, N THOMPSON, Pres. E A BENNETTS, V, Pres. E. D. KIPP, Cashier. G. W. Newberry ) s Assistants. G. Pratt Wyatt ‘ 0 DIRECTORS. a . K CLARK W vIX H M GAITLEY J¥O STEELE. JAS M McKIBBEN. Holiday Excursions. | On account of the Christmas ac} | New Years holidays the Mo. Pac. 8 | Co. will sell round trip tickets. to a‘ jlocal points within two hundred miles distance at rate of one and one third fare for the round trip. Tick+ will be on sale Dee. 24th, 25th, aid 31st, 1896 and January Ist, 1897 ant will be limited for return until Jar. 4th, 1897. Home seekers, round trip tickets will be placed on sale to variow pointsin the northwest, west and southwest, on the following dat Jan. Sth, and 19th. Feb’y 2nd ani 16th, March 2nd and 16th. April th and 20th, and May 4th and 18th, 1995. For rates limit of tickets &c., apply t& W. C. Burrus, Ticket Ag’t, Butler, Mn Austin Items. irandpa Shields is very low at tht) writing. There is a protracted meeting go- ing on at the M Ecchurch this wewly Mrs Robert Woods is some bettss, There are lots of mover wagons 7% the road this winter? wonder whes they all go. The tax collector is on the rone® for this year. The Baptist people are going. t& have a Christmas tree Friday. Mr Chris Koeger, a conductor or the Missouri Pacific railroad, died 3 Kansas City Friday, and was buried by the masons, of which order bs wasamember. He carried wlife ia surance of $5,000. Jas Hays was in Austin Saturday buying hogs. Joe Searight shipped two car lea: of hogs to Kansas City this week. Mr Rigen will start north in ® fey days with a load of hickory nuts, Jack Taley of Archie, working o> the section here, had his hend badly mashed the other day. Mrs Level was out for the first t ise | since she was burt. Wm Silvers is moving his-sava mis north of Austin. Mr Moshier of Passaie, 1s hold \a protracted meeting at Calmaz 1 lie week. The Odd Fellows celebrated the# 36th anniversary Saturday evealny | with and oyster supper. NELS’ CLERK No. 8. 1 | incest Siocon y Ne eee Le | Round Prairie Items Miss Dixie Ooley made a trip t-. | Harwood and surrounding compan lity the first of the week. | “Mrs Hall and son, Elma, were fr Scheil City Saturday. Miss Olive McGee, of Rockville, | will spend Christinas in Kansas City. Mrs Terry was iu Vernon county the first of the week. Some of our young folks attendeZ lyceum at Elm Grove school hous and report a fine time. Mrs Health, who has been suffering: with pneumonia is some better at this writing. Prof Tally, who is teaching # very successful term of school here, wii ‘give a week's vacation and spend | i nap ac me gs Christmas at hix home in Henry Ca& ensued between Guy and one ct the | Chillicothe. Ohio, Dec. 18.—At | Frank Nclan and Miss Minnie bbey | Burch boys. The old man Burch Bethel, in this county, two marred | y united in marriage Dee 15, 18% " | women, named Moon and She aitempted to help bis son in the at- ‘tack and Tucker prevented bim. | While ke was thus engaged the lyounger Burch | body and lodging in his right lung. | Tacker is dying and the mur2erer, | has not yet been placed uvder ar | | Fest, although officers ba ; pursuit of him all day. Threats of short time. and the mother caunot |lynching are indulged in by the ex-/ recover. Mre. Shell escaped | cited neighbors. { ~ = | Says Bryan Contract’s Sold. | Raliegb, N.C, Dee 17 —Alexar-' | der Comstock, manager of the Me | | Bee Bryan lecture combination said/ to day that the contract with Mr.; Bryan for fifty lectures at $1,000 ay |night had been cold by Mr McBee! Mr. Mc | Bee refused to either confirm or deny the story. The purchasers are gaid te be an Atlanta syndicate. &BSOL' got \into a quarrel over a triviel matter / | yesterday, which resulted in the stepped behind Shell woman throwing a bucket of 07| Tucker and fired a revolver at bim, latrong Ive water into the face of |the ball passing through Tucker's yrs Moon and her infant daughter. | Both bad their eyes burned out, and {their heads and faces were also ter- ve been in|ribly burned. The baby died in a) s Jessie MeDavitt was on the sick list last week. The supper which was to have been given at Mr Stephenson’s has been changed to the church Dee 36; ster and peaches will be served at t a dish, the proceeds to be used to gt new stoves, Quite a number of our farizers use butchered their ineat. Misses Hattie and Metta Nichols gave a ‘popcorn social” at thair ress dence Friday even The youm; folks enjoved the affair, pronouaaiagy 2 CLIMAZ. Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U.S. Gov't Report oyal VEZ ort Baking Powder