The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, January 28, 1897, Page 8

TO THE FARMERS OF BATES COUNTY. Since adopting our present plan of buying 10 large quantities aod car loud lots, direct from the manufac turer tor SPOT CASH, thereby saving freight aud y Cash diecuunt, a6 Wel as the middie wan or j bbers profit, we fiud that we are going to be enabled to 4 wake you a closer price ou all kinds of merchandise in ou: line for the present year than we bad at first Q : thought possible Mavufacturers of all kinds are ex § | tremely anxious to sell their products for cash these bard times and are willing to make large concessions in order to turn their goods avd wares iuto money With in our 15 years experience 18 busin-ss we have never before bought goods so cheap We think that man ufacturers and wholesalers as well as ourselves are thorougbly convinced tbat at the present low price of all kinds of farm products it is absolutely neccessary that business of all kinds be conducted on the very closest possible living margin. -QUR IDEA IS TO DOUBLE OUR TRADE : witbout increasing our +¢ xpense,divide our protit with you.save freight, cash dixcount avd the midcle man’s protit.all of which we propose to give those who trade with us this year the bene tit of. Our immense stock consists of GROCERIES, HARDWARE, STOVES, TINW«RE, GLASS AND QUEENS- WARE ALL KINDS OF FARM MACHINERY, TOP BUGGIES. CARRI- AGES, SUKREYS, ROAD WAGONS PHAETONS, SPKING WAGONS, FARM WAGONS, ALL KIND3 OF FIELD AND GARDEN SEED, BARB WIRE, SALT, NAILS, HARNESS OF ALL KINUOS BOTH DOUBLE AND SINGLE, FLOUR, FEED, COAL, PUMP3, WIND MILLS, ALL KINDS OF MACHINE OILS. WINDOW GLASS, RUPE, WAGON WOODWURK, AND ALL KINDS OF BUILDERS HARDWARE, We also bave a first ciuss tiu shop where all kiuds of work in that line is done In fact almost avytbing you can call for will be fouad in our store. Iv will certainly be to your interest to trade with us this year x8 our um qualed facilities for buying in large quantites for SPOT CASH place us ina position to sell you anything in our live for lees ARPA Aa [—) — co —= ——| — r=) — (=e) =<) — — cD — fat) _... fates! cs co = — cD — cD Woe are certainly in a position to meet all honocable and legi timate competitinn aud will nut be underspld by anyone in Bates County Our arrangement for handling your Butter, Eggs, Poultry aud all kinds of country produce is complete. We have plenty of room and can wait on you promptly, we will always pay you the highest market price in cash. trade or order. When in need of anvthing in our line be sure to call on us and examine our stock and get our prices as we'll take pleas- ure in showing you goods and n«ming you prices, even if you do not want to buy anything. Remember we will not be un- ) deraold by anyone in Bat+s County. When you come to town ) make our store your headquarters as we always have a good ; comfortable fire and plenty of room for you. | BENNETT-WHEELER MERC. CO. Lowest Price Store in Butler. BUTTER WEEKLY TIMES| 70 Cure « Goldin One Day — ; Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tab- lets. All druggists refund th LOCAL ITEMS iit fails to cure. 350. stb RRR. GRRARAPPRARGPGOPA>D: « RRRRARARRRRG Good 80 acre farm for sale or ex a change, J A.Srvers. 35-tf.| The speech of Mr. Johnson, Re | publican member of Congress from California, who made terrible on slaught on the character and Teputa tion of Mr W. R. Hearst, of the San pee eee j Francisco Examiner and also of the Haxrpwoop Lumser.—Orders leftat| New York Journal, seems to have Bennett Wheeler Merc. Co.’s for all| _.. 3 kinds of hardwood lumber will have stirred up abornet’s nest. Mr. Ma guire,a Democratic member from prompt attention. z 1 tf. Caaries Simwoss. | California, went for Mr Johnson and Soins Out ihe Waman | bandled him without gloves. Ma guire made the charge, in a speech in the house, that Jobnson, when a Arkansas state senate has passed a! . 4 ike y citizen of Syrucuse, New York, had bill introduced by Senator Witt, pro | been convicted of forgery, and went viding that hereafter none but qual- | to Calfornia with a reputation bad- ified voters shall bold any pesition ly smirched. Johnson made a reply within the gift of the Arkansas leg in which he admitted the charge. but islature The army of women who said he had lived down his Southern besiege the members at every session indiscretion and bad built up a fam to encaresroles for clerkships is ily aud a reputation at Sacramento responsible for the action of the that avy man would be proud ot senate. The pot should never cll the kettle black, and Mr. Johnson should not bave assailed Mr. Hearst, whose rep- It Aids in the Detection of Unwholesome | Utation is, beyond reproach.—Clinton Food. Democrat. Dame] Webster in the famous | White trial in Salem, Mass, years | ago declared that “murder will out ” This maxim bas been found applica ble to many other things besides | murder Housewives know it to be | true when there is alum in baking | powder. A bitterness in the bread at once betrays the alum’s presence. It can’t conceal its true nature. The alum bitterness “will out,” and be | cause it will. physicians, who under stand the harmful effect of alum on the system, are at a loss to know army. He moved to Kansas in 1865, why people continue to buy baking | and in IS76 began farming in that powders containing it. All baking | vers Peg ta erecues Window glass, roofing and build ing papers, picture frames, carpets, shades, wallpaper, paints, etc., at D. W Drummonds. 4-tf. Shutting Ont the Women, Little Rock, Ark., Jan. 22.—The BITTER TASTE. Peiffer Beaten. Topeka, Kan., Jan. 20.—The pop- ulist caucus to-night on the eleventh ballot nominated former Congress man William A. Harris for United States Senator to succeed Wm. A Peffer. William A. Harris was a member of the Ferty third Congress He was boro in Virginia in 1841, and was graduated at the Columbian College in Washington in 1859 He stent ad- powders sold for twenty five cents a pound and less contain alum There is surely no economy in using these cheap ia Olden srlocked powa & pure cream GOuds G1 Us being mors in the long run. Z aeh act fora ti | finally injure the system. 1 ; served three years in the Confederate | Prevent sickness and save doctors’ | bills at this season by keeping your | blood rich and pure with Hood's | Sarsaparilla How about the condition of the poor in this city? Is the eommit tee to see to their wants, doing its! duty. Conductor Rodman of the Chicago | & Alton railroad, sbot Thos. Diilard j jn the face at Slater, Saturday. The shooting was over a trivial matter. | Williams Bros- have just received acar load of hard wheat flour and also a car Joad of the celebrated | Pleasantos, Kas, flour. Goto them | if you want good flour ata cheap! price. Wesley Smith and Christopher | Yeager, both eslored, exchanged | nine shots with pistols at each other on the public square, at Bowling Green, Mo, Suuday without eftect The following ladies entertained | at their homes in this city last week, Mrs. S E. Childs, Mra. J B Adair, Mrs N A. Wade and Mrs. J. R. Jevkins Attention is called to the dental card of Dr. M_ E. Bryan, who bas opened an office in the front rooms over T L Petty’s store on the} southwest corner of the equare. The doctor comes to this city from Pleasant Hill where he has been practicing for the past year or so- He stands high in the profession, bears the best of recommeudations aud the Times has no hestitancy in introducing him to the citizens of Butl+r and Bates county as a young man worthy of their confidence and patronage W. W. Graves went to Jefferson City Monday for the purpose of appearing before the supreme court. to argue the case of Mrs. Piercy Wheeler, who claims to have been elected County Clerk of St Clair county, at the last election The present clerk, Mr. F. P. Hostetter, bolds the office by appointment from the Governor, and claims his com mission is good until the next gener election. The democrats and popu lists of St. Clair county made no nomination for the office on account of the commission held by Hostetter, hence the election of Mrs. Wheeler on the republican ticket. ‘tothe degree of AB Those com | Butler Academy on the List, | Prof. J. M. White, representing | the State Univeesity, was in the city | yesterday inspecting the Academy, with a view to ascertaining the char | acter of the various courses of in-| structions there He mad» a rigid | inspection of the work and a close} examination of the course of study! and expressed bimselfas well pleased i with the «fficency of the work done, | and ree mmends that the Academy | be placed in articulation with the University in three courses Thos+| whoare graduated trom the Acad | ¢my inthe Ciassies! course will he} admitted to the University, looking | ; pleting the Latin Seientitie Sil be} admitted to the University in the! BS and B. L courses Thia is certainly a good recom- mendation for the Academy and young men and women who dere taking a collegiate course will find it! cheaper .to prepare for the| same at the Academy than some much preparatory department of a college. | Thurman a Candidate. da reply to an inquiry from the Review, Prof. Joho Thurman admit-j ted this morning that he would be a candidate for reelection to tbe of \ fice of school commissioner of Bates | county. There are no doubt other good men in different parts of tke county, who will be aspirants for the | position, and without one word spo ken disparagingly of these, we be lieve we may safely assert that there is no better man for the place in Bates county than Prof. Thurman. The county never had a better com missioner, more uniformly courteous | and «#ffsble, more conscientious and thorough more just and honorable Mr. Thurman is a democrat to the core. but does not mix his politics with hie school work He will have the hearty support of the south end of the county, as well as of the peo ple in otLer sections, who consider the good of the county schools par- amount to the personal advancement of particular friends.—Rich Hill Re- view Fuax srep ror sate.—I have 175 jthe ice Monday and Tuesday and |FISK BROS. & oe RICES CREAM : BAKING — Liety Body Read tite POWDER Ady, it Will Sop MOST PERFECT MADE. um or any other adulterant | You Money, m of Tartar Powder. Free 40 Years the Standard. ——0——__. Awarded Highest Honors—Workd’s Fair. FISK BROS. & ¢9 j FISK BROS, & cg —— 0—_. Thos. W. Silvers. J. A. Silvers. Silvers & Silvers, — ATTORNEYS AT LAW— BUTLER, - - - - - - MO. Will practice in all the courts. Any package cofice per pound $0.53) 12 ibs northern hand Picked navy beans The freeza has brought a crop of One good red cedar bucket ice five inches thick, A L. Fox, peyeals mene per pound one of our city ice men begun har- Early Ohio northern seed Po: vesting his crop ou the Jake yest+r- pero eeen posal day. He had men at work flooding Ove good galvanized iron wash tub sre : One large sack meal hoped to get about fix inch ice. Ouoratialligack Geni Has Gone to Bleed for Cuba. Two tbs Battle Ax tobacco Nevada, Mo., Jan. 25 —W. W.|One ib good emoking tobaceo Blake, for several years the village|10 bars wash soap for blacksmith at New Metz, this county, | 10 bare world beater, the best went to Kansas City last week and| soap ever sold in Butler failed to return. Today his wife| One set of good knives and received a letter from bim dated at| forks Memphis, Tenn, stating that he|Oue pound of pure taffy candy would not return. One gal. of pure sugar drip The letter contained the deed to syrup the Blake homestead, a very pretty | One gal of sorghum little place at New Metz It is|Que gal. pure cider vinegar thought by many who knew him|One choice broom best that Blake has gone to Cuba to] Six cans good cura join the insurgent forees He once| One pound baking powder before left his family just as unex-| Que quart bottle blueing pectedly and was gone for two! Que lamp complete years. Any size rope per pound Why euffer with Coughs, Colds|00e good fire shovel and LaGrippe when Laxative Bromo| Six bars Grandpa's wonder Quinine will cure you in one day. soap Does not produce the ringing in the |; ds Li head like Sulphate of Quinine Put —— 5 oe -_— 1 up in tablets convenient for taking. i Siacelasenbss coh Guaranteed to cure, or money re-| 1% tbs granulated sugar RASSsers bushels good seed for sale at 70cts per bushel. Five miles southeast Diep —At Tipton, Mo, Jan. 2lst, 1897, Mrs. Walter Comstock, aged 26 years. Death was due to child birth acd blood poisonivg. The de ceased was the daughter of Mr. E N Jones of this city, and had many friends here who will be sorry to learn of her untimely death. About nine years ago the deceased was rendered totally blind from the effects of a severe cpell of sickaeas She attended the ecbool for the blind at St Louis and graduated with honors from that institution Tt was at this school she formed the acquristance of Mr. Comstock, also a student of the school, and Sept. 6. 1895, they were united in marriage A week previous to her death she appeared to be regaining her eve sight, as she could Cistiuguish ob jects several fect away. She was a faithful member cf the Cumberland Presbyterian choreb, baviny been converted in St. Louis under the preaching of the noted revivalist. Sam Jones. The family in this eity were notified by telegraph of the serious sickness of Mrs. Comstock | Henderson and Bert Cisusch, her Gees took the first train for Tip ; ton, but arrived about half hour too jlate to see their sister alive. jfuneral and interment took place at sympathy to the bereaved family in this city Almost every man America has ome digestive trouble. Wien men meet, the greeting usually is “Ww how’ sno stom- tr bowel and M-sdames Leonard Barber, Ely| of Butler. J.L. Herrern 10 31° Blood Humors Whether itching, burning, bleeding, scaly, crusted, pimply, or blotchy, whether simpie, scrofulous, or hereditary, from infancy toace, speedily cured by warm baths with CUTICURA Soap, gentle anointings with CcTicura (oint- ment), the great skin cure, and mild doses of CuTicvRA RESOLVENT, greatest of blood purifiers and humor cures. (uticura Tseold um pnede the world. Porrsr Dato anpCaex. Corp., Sole Props., Boston. = > * How to Cure Every Blood Humor,” free. FACE HUMORS intrcutea'byGtsicess Soar, OFFICIAL STATEMENT OF THE ——OF BUTLER—— jat Butler, state of Missouri, at the | close of business on the 2Ist day | of January, 1897. } RESOURCES. Loans and discounts undoubtediy | “good on personal or collateral e- The, | Tipton. The Tintes exteuds siucerest | i £5. e1rity.. Siduie tase nee s+. $102,285 97 | Loans and discounts undonbteily | “good on real estate security .. 000 ,0 | Overdratts by solvent customers 313.23 | United States bonds on hand 008,000 00 i Other bonis and stocks at their pres- ent eseh marxet price. - 0 680 OO al estate al present cash market alue 5S urpiture and fixtures | Due from other banks good on sight | draft = | Cheeks and other cash items | National hai notes, leg: tencer j a} 3 S$ notes and gold and | silver certificates ; Gold coin | Siiver coin Total soot LIABILITIES. Capital stock paid in Surplus tunds on hard Deposits subject to draft at banks and bankers | Deposite subject to draft at sight by | individuals and o*hera | Deposits subject to drafts at given i dates Bills payable and bills rediscounted | | Total | STATE OF MISSOURI, } i © y of Rates $ to mE s3 J wricut ¢ B. POWELL § Missouri State Bank: funded. Price, 25 Cents. For sale|Oue gal. Hemtz kraut by W. H. McClement. 33-6m | Oue good lantern Eight Thousand Kamtlies Starying. | 22 800d coffee mill Chicago, Ill, Jan. 23 —Chicago One bbl fine eteamed’ealt nev- has 8,000 families starving to death.|_°* gets hard 1 It has 40,000 people begging for SOR etna cups & sega bread, huddled into single rooms ——— pistes ‘ and freezing in the blizzard. One 5 gal galvanized iron oil Philip W. Ayers, Secretary of the cansiEo better made Bureau of Aegociated Charities, is One 1-gal oil can ‘ responsible for these terrible figures. Five gallons best oil He reports that dest tution is not One pound good powder confined to those who usually receive 34 pounds shot aid. It bas come to him that there} “@P8 Per pox are actual deaths from lack of the Six bores sardine scantiest of necessitier, and that the Sixiboxeeiaris ange doctors in all the poor sections of One gal cond’ pickles : the city were daily signi tifi- 100 pounds bran 6 y were y signing cer cates of death on grounds of lack of Two pounds good cheese food. One sack Graham flour a An emergency meeting, held yes- De bon! ane Bs ; terday, resolved to raise $100,000 at We are selling decorated qi thas | once to relieve the situation Mayor warojsodifancy lamps Swift was engaged to issue a starya they ever were sold belore: BVRRERKA LSS BSevrsurw7 tion proclamation, asking money and | FLOUR. men to come to relief. FLOUR. Col. W P. Rend said that Chicago Z FLOUR. veust get rid of her false pride and the world that horrible tale of Look at the price. Centurian 00f starvation. jleader, better flour than Pillsbary nanan and Washburn we have cut per seck 66 $115. : Saved My Life” | Melrose _ patent we baveet e per sack, $1 20. | A VETORAN’S STory. | Baker's Cherokee Mills (straight) | patent, every sack guaranteed, have cut per sack, $1.10 Low grade per sack | Wealso handle Queen of Be e jand Royal and sell at mill pri _ | We sell just what we adver vo |the best goods we can buy, and ‘ct [give you the highest price for | kinds of produce and guarantee, | correct weight- .s | FRESH BREAD EVERY yl FISK BROS, & C Subscribing for Metropolitan P: viad | The coming year will be ero H et at 'o. thos. with big news events and bi | : ‘ rz lings, the details of whicb evel linterested in national and jaffairs will want to read i Western r ewspaper P i ae e : “2 | months.