The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, March 4, 1897, Page 1

8 S i have there, | already beginning to feel their | | portance in the financial world. | | George Scott returned to Kansas | | City last Sunday. | OF BUTLER, MO. QAPITAL - - é . SURPLUS FUND . i n “ iyes Deposits, Loans money, Izsues Drafts and does a gencral Pefolicit the accounts of Farmers, Merchants and the publi fe Depository for all funds committed to our charge. i iiberal accommodation in the way of loans to our customers. | $55,000.00 2,500.00 We are prepa ~ or T.C. Boulware Booker Powell Frank M Vorie Geo L Smith H H Piggott JM Christy * John Deerwester C R Radford RG West i JR Jenkins TS Wright Wm E Walton qoaoking the public for their confidence and liberal patronage during the past fifteen seement, with strict attention always to the J, B. JENKINS, Cashier. Virginia Items. ind friends if you wish the Virginia news ) nother year, on what he I ie Awe you lie he Towns goes to friends in other states that setup ’till eleven, torad what happens you and what other folks do in 1397. Miss icy Jenkins, who has been | siting friends at Austin for two} eks, returned home Thursday, Irs Mattie Spooner is on the oes for you, tell him all sick | Dan Smith and son, Henry, are *Bigging adrain to Dr Mitchell’s cel- | 4 ' Alarge amount of corn changed jands around Virginia last week. fhe price paid ranged from 15¢ to per bushel. ¥r Arnold, the Schooley agent, was inthe neighborhood of Virginia last looking after their land inter- \ | | | ett, Perry Henderson has built a} Widge over between his house and arn, \ Orville Brown, the reviva! singer visited friends around Virginia last wek. Heinforms us that he sang for Rey White during the month of January, who held a revival meeting awtLiberty street, Kansas City, and two weeks for Rev Moore at Okley, where there were 40 conversions; ad week before last Rev Robinson wtAmorett. Mr. Brown is smooth haved, but was too well known to passas WJ Bryan. BF Jenkins is buying hogs to feed. JW Nance commenced work on Peter Denning’s barn last week. The democrats held their township #nvention in McFadden’s hall last taturday afternoon. The following Mmed persons were elected delegates tothe county convention to nominate acounty school commisioner: T A McElroy, J M Henson and W J (wick. ‘he following ticket was dominated, For trustee, J W McFad- den; justice of the peace, W T Cow- mand BF Biggs; or, CA Wallace; collector, W J Cuzick; con- fable, Thos McElroy; road over- #ers, dist No. 1 Sam Dobbins, No. 2 » 3 TA Wright, No. 4 & ick gave a supper to a school class Thursday ght of last week, ose presonte were: wan, May Henderson, Baan, d e and Lillie Henson, Viola fifris, Sadie Whinnery, Leda Wal- we, Mattie Huffman, Clemma Jack- bs Mary Rape; Messrs. Dick Wolfe, Walter Wallace, Jno Allen, Joe Whin- ety, Chas Hensley, Oscar Harris, Wm Mwick Kd Thornburg, Lyman Hen- wy, Ed Dudley, Arthur Rape; =n Wallace and wife, Charles ley and wife. twas sad news to John Hoag- 9 atd’s many pelenge ee Virginia r of his sudden death. Joe T Whinnery is able to be out Main after a severe attack of the Misses Ida ‘3 Liston has rented his farm is ing to move to Louisburg, Kan. og Washington Park ison the sick we solicit a continuance of the same promiekng honest and conservai | take | |day night that her sister-in-law in Wright, Win Durest, C A Wallace, | few hours old and a dear old mother, }seven brothers at her home. | Minnie | ve man- Wants of our customers. Wm. E. WALTON, President. cAI CN AT ARI A OEIC SI PANE A ERS in Amsterdam a couple of days the past week. The democrats put out good men for their township ticket last Satur- day. In listening to what the people had to say about men that had been leading the populists for years and fighting the democratic and republi- can names from appearing on a dem- ocratic ticket many could not take in the situation, many people do not into consideration that the world is moving, and the dear people in it are working to keepup with the movements of the world. Geo Zinn, who has been living in the Indian Territory for a number of years moved back to Bates county, last week. He will move on his farm in a few weeks. Lee Browning has been very sick the past week with pneumonia. Dr Robinson of Amsterdam, is attending her. Miss Sadie Whinnery will leave for the Indian Territory on Friday where she expects to teach school. TS Harper closed asuccessful term of school at the Nestlerode school on Friday last. Geo Pilgrim’s father-in-law, Mr Wilt, left Monday visit friends in I. @. Hensley Cowan Commission Co, reports more stock at the Virginia stock yards Saturday than for some- time; Mr Cowan is the buyer and Hensley seller. Rev Galbreath preached Sabbath night at the M E church; it was his last appointment for the year. Mrs G@ W Park received news Fri- New York was buried on the 22d of February. DIKp, Thursday 18, 1897, Mrs Pau- line E Deaton, (nee Asher) wife of Roe Deaton of Nyhart, Mo. The subject of this sketch was much loved by all who knew her. She leaves a sorrowful husband, asona and many loved friends to mourn their loss; trusting our loss is her Eternal gain. Her every day life was characterized by love to all; hatred to none. She was amiable, loving and very kind. The writer has been acquainted with the subject of this sketch for 17 years | and ean truthfully say I never heard }her speak one harmful or unkind | word; have been with her in her own \ home and other homes, but she was always the same. She seemed to | love to do that which was right; she | would suffer wrong rather than ever say anothing for fear she might do wrong. She was {baptized the sum- mer of ’95, | believe, and tried to lead a better life. The last time she was at my house I asked her if she pray- edand she said she did, and her trust v in God, and she meant to {ever trust in Him. Herhusband said he firmly believes she was a true Christain. dying bed said ‘‘She prayed the Lord It is good to The funeral away. Jesus, February 19, 1897. sorrowing friends and relatives gath- ered to pay their last tribute of re- spect to her sleeping dust. Her face portrayed a peaceful smile, Since death has done her work, And heaven seems to beem the while Upon her face we look. God has taken from our number, One we loved so dearly here Peaceful be thy silent slumber, We would speak with falling tear. We must say that she has left us, And this loss we sorely feel. But we give her up to Jesus Who does all our sorrow heal. E1iza C. WITHERSPOON. John Heckadon of Rich Hill, visit- ed his parents one day last week. He was one of the parties that were held up by the Orr Bros. and was tending their trial at Butler last week. AARON, | Hame Items. Rev Pierce of Jasper City, who has ter, are visiting in Abiline, Kan. _ Miss Callie Adams in company with Dr Chastian went up to Kansas City, VALL & PE BUTLER,-MO- vtoloan on farms at reduced rates of %. Your notes sre payable at onr oflice | W a fer We give | country, it will I lege to pay any time, Money ready | or Galena both in quality and quanti- Miyou find them here when due &s papers ave signet, CIVAL, »ilast week. Frank brings flattering Thursday. < | Frank Legarden of Yellville, Ark., | was visiting his brothers of this place ling inthe public schools The watchers around her to put her to sleep so that she would | never wake,” and shortly she passed = fali asleep in was conducted at the residence of Mr Roe Deaton, | A large crowd of PL been assisting Rev Potter in the pro-| ‘tracted meeting, returned home | Wednesday. Mrs V V Morgan and little daugh-| ty of ore produced. The boys, who! money invested ; are | im-| ! s Alpha Clifford, who is teach- of Adrian, ted with home folks last week. post office scramble grows re interesting RL 1and Pat Dorsey are | M inn appears to | the people and} Mr Dorsey is! n the fact that! k Kerens were school May the best man w »of the werk of the -re were nineteen in- dictment ed against the grog- shop keepers of our little town. All ood people here unite in commend- ing the work of the grand jury, and our prosecuting attorney. May they continue to punish all law breakers until we shall at least have done with the pseudo-drug store, which is worse than the worst of saloons. It not only selis whisky, but teaches the people to ignore the laws of our state, which it breaks daily. The protracted meeting at the M E church under the direction of Rev Potter, closed Friday night. The case of the city of Hume vs. Walter McCormick charged with drunkenness and the use of profane and indecent language, came up in| the mayor’s court Tuesday. Jerry Culbertson appeared for the city and Judge Templeton for the defense. The jury returned a verdict of guilty and assessed a fine of $5. The pris- oner tried the speed of our city mar- shal, Pat Powers, by watching for his opportunity and making a bee- line for Kansas. Pat Powers, with his 250 pounds averdupois succeeded in overhauling him about one mile west of town, and brought him back in the hoodlum wagon. Died,—On Thursday the 25th inst. of inflammation of the bowels, Ches- ter, oldest son of Daniel and Ellen Biser. Deceased was in his fifteenth year and was a model of youthful manliness. The funeral services were Haime got ast grand jury f} of last week to|/eonducted at the Christian church} 1 pail jelly (best grade) by Elder Phil Starke. The whole community sympathize with Mr and Mrs Biser in this, their sad bereave- ment. The large concourse of people who attended the funeral was but a tribute to the goodness of the boy and a mark of the esteem in which he was held by all. J W Scott is erecting a building on his lot at the northeast corner of the square. We learnit will be cut up into offices and occupied by our doc- tors and lawyers. Joseph Smith, our efficient demo- cratic township committeeman, was circulating among the boys Thursday evening. The citizens of Hume and vicinity are proud of their public schools this year. The pupils are all interested in their studies and are making good progress. The patrons are to be congratulated on the selection of such an efficient corps of instructors. The democrats of Howard town- ship met in convention in Hume Sat- urday for the purpose of nominating township officers, the county convention, whieh will nominate a school commis- sioner. The township ticket nom- inated isas follows: Trustee, R B White; collector, Joseph Smith; as- sessor, J A Ricks; constable, G E Titsworth; justices of the peace, V V Morgan and W A Williams; road overseers, Tom Hutchinson, y Miller and David Herndon. The fol- lowing delegates were elected to the county convention: Homer Brand, J D Ricks, L Bell, E DeJarnett, HC Vansant, F L Martin, R B White, G E Titsworth and Charles Senior. The delegates are favorable to A Borron for commissioner. I. T. Mizer. Elkhart Items. Schoo! closed at Lone Star Friday. Wyatt has returned from Texas, where he has been spending the winter. Lone Star Sunday. quite a success. The crowded so that standing at a premium. jlast week. day night. The grip has got this neighborhood. Miss Wilson received the prize for being the most popular lady at the show at Silverdale Saturday night. Ed Bowman, who has been spend- ing the winter in southern Missouri, has retuned to Elkhart. We understand that Mr @tis Sum- mers and Miss Ellen Marshali are to be married at Butler this week. quite a holdi jlast week. Mr Page's brother, 85 years of age, is here from the east on a vi MOLLIE Gazoo. | | 200 Men Sinin. and delegates to} ew Home Items. Everybody and their wife has the grip. L W Jones bas purchased the Epbland property at Foster, and will move there this fall. Grandma Cope is in very poor | health thie winter. ; | IN Botkins, who bas been very sick, ig reported better. : Frank Robb is building a new house. Parson Miller is driving posts now. Charley Patton has moved to New | Home. i Mr Badget has n:oved to the Tro-| bridge property | Unele Joe Littlefield received a) letter from his son, Tripp, of Ark ,! stating that their little child had burned te death | Nearly all of New Home township | wants to be road overseer. | Jim Vaughan is building a two | room house on his father’s old place. | Bob Shelton has sold his barber} shop and is going to Port Artbur,} Texas Jim. DROPPED DEAD | ferring elective franchise on women, | Sedalis Sentinel. Excuse Me, | Mean the Bottom | the question to be submitted in the} rr SEPP POOLS ODMH IT HOD ODS OOD POHO OOS OODOD HOOD TORII S: se : | : | Establi a paid up capital of FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS, its business reial lines and within ments of the FARMERS BANK Butler, Mo., offers its services to the state ba public in general, believing it can be made mutually agreeable and profit- able. PIO OCDE OOOO CO OD OOD HHO OOIODOOO OOD Respectfully, FE. D. KIPP, Casier. a Equal Suffrage in Washington. Olympia, Wash, Feb. 26.—The enate passed Hill's bill for am! Chaplain Prottsman Celebrates His Ch mendment to the constitution cou- Birthday. siete A SOLID DEMOCRAT. Friday was the 80th anniversary Has Dropped Out of Prices |next general election in 1898. Asa{of the birth of Rev. Dr. Wm. M. ON CROCERIES. Must Do Business, PRICES TALK—THINK OF IT! 12 tb finest granulated sugar $ 50 1 tb Batttle Ax tobacco 20 4 cans Greenwich lye 25 1 can Greenwich lye 07 3 cans California peaches 25 4 tb evaporated peaches 25 35 1 pail syrup (best grade) 33 1 package cotfee, any kind, 14 Morning Glory coffee reduced from 30¢ to, 24¢ per pound; eyerybody knows this famous brand Java Blend coffee per lb. 7 Original African Java cotfee reduced from 30c to 24c per pound. Come Quick and Get It. Best Gunpowder tea reduced from 50c to 28¢ per pound. 50c Imperial tea now Will have in a few days the finest uncolored Japan tea for 29¢ that ever struck Butler; you are now pay ing 75¢ for the same tea, rot less than 50c at any store 1 th Star tobacco 27 40| 8 bars silk soap 25 15} 05 Pure cider vinegar, per gal Lilly gloss starch per ib Lamp chimney. each 13 fb hand picked navy beans 13 ib rolled ont meal 1 ib can Womack brand baking powder 10 bill of similar purport bas already | passed the house, Will Do Business! |eason to believe this bill will be! pody: | fastest half mile, 1:06}, at Holton, | | stylieh and a beauty. | Horse Show Monthly. | Prottsman, the venerable chaplain of : i | the Missouri House, and the follow- there is every ing resolution was adopted by that agreed to by the house without) serious opposition. Whereas, to day, the nineteenth day of February, 1897, is the 80th — birthday of our beloved and respect- Frank Campbell, trainer for T. K. | ed sec Rev. W. M. Proteciaee; Lisle & Co., Butler, Missouri, has in | therefore, training the following: Dr. Cox 2:20; Be it resolved, that the congratu- ona half mile track, by Domineer ee AP ey — Shi — "A i ‘ tended to him, with the hope that 2:13, dam Necklace by BAC he may be spared for ae more Wilkes, and a full sister to Seaside | years of usefulness and labor in the 2:16}. He is a show horse inevery divine cause of the Master. sense of the word, and will havea Dr. Prottsman, being introduced national reputation before the close! by the speaker said: Nie ere Mr Srraker —I desire to express ot the present year ‘> OY the gratitude of my heart to the Dr. Cox, three year old,record 2:23. | embers of the House for the good Frank says she is fast as a_ bullet. 1 and wishes so kindly expressed Lizzie K, by Dr. Cox, coming three, it the above resolution. year old, she as a two year old, |) Boneiacore years as indeed a lofty ious The Beaceher” ik of bi | mount on the journey of human life, ome he Bearcher ous ob 21s put it is alsoe yery lonely one. | . Most devoutly thankful te you and Kansas, last summer; she is large, | this House and my Heavenly Father, Dr. Cox is | who has ceen fit to prolong my life, the only six year old stallion in the | please allow me to say, in_ my inter- z ae dof course with you, 1 have not tried to state of Missouri with a record of |i itience legislation, and have knowa 2:20, anda colt in the list—The! neither republican, democrat, mid- dle of the road Populist or any other 2 = : Jeers | political party, but have sought only New Kink in the Color Line. to look after your bealth, peace and Neosho, Feb. 26.—The senior class prosperity. of the Columbus, Kansas, public, On the eubj-ot of the science 2 hool of- Of politics, political economy and schivol hasiustnoned thepestool ou other kindred subjects, I stand four ficial ae eas citys tojallow Jet ea } equare on the broad Americo-Jeffer- bring their grades and come to Neo- | gonian platform of “life”, liberty and {sho and graduate with the class of | pursuit of office. ‘97 of the Neosho public schools. Joliet, Ill. ae en cacti | The cause for this singular request | was filed in the Recorder's office of is that a negro isa member of the Will county to day, sent by Rueseil 25 24 2 3-ib cans apricots Golden drip syrup per gal 4 Ib best crisp crackers Columbus class and the white pupils Sage, of New York. - : |do not want to graduate with him. The amount is for $50 and is | Th hi b 2 dall against the homestead of Elizas | The negro, however, has rejected all soo. who. with his wife, lives in | Corn meal per sack 10| proposals of a separate graduation the village of Channahane. The Wire nails per ib 02g day or payment of his expenses to note is due May 15, 1897, and drawe Rope any size per ib 07 Talk about otber merchants knock ing me out on prices, they can not eutter. Yes, and by the way, they G per cent interest. Elizas Sage is a brother of the millionaire, Ruesell. He is an old man and very poor. In his extremi- No action ‘ty he applied to Russell Sage tor | this place to graduate with the col- ored class here,and eays if the white pupils graduate they must do so with him in their midst. | A large crowd attended church at The exhibition at Lone Star was house was room was ee Several of ourcitizens were moving Literary closed at Silverdale Mon- n| bars Ark soap 25c; stoneware 6c per | Will Robbins moved to Cass county | has yet been taken. Negro Lynched, Nashville, Tenn , Feb. 26.—Serious trouble is threatened at Loddy, Tenn, over the lynching of Charley Brown, a negro miner, in that place last night. The negro miners, who are numerous about Loddy,are vow ing vengeance on the lynchera, and i are not payizg you enough for your Butter, Eggs, Chickens, etc. I AM) paying 9c for eggs, 5¢ for chichens, | 10c to 12c for butter. SEE ME be | fore you sell your produce. O, yee! liked to forgot Barrel Salt, | per barrel $1, very best grade at | Dry salt meat 4$c¢ per pound; 10) jgal.; FLOUR, the staff of life, 5¢/ less on sack than any other merchant in Butler. Worlds of new Northern | a nal aseault on Miss Lillie Waiker, an | ee ee, waeenet, See ag year-old white girl of respectable for 3c eacb; loz more bulk seedj| : p = parentage. Being pursued by of | than any other one for 5c. | i a Th a flocki t \ficers he took refugeina barn, As "is oie a tines Seared Deputy John Sadler was climbing = Sig gg ‘into the barn Brown shot him, in- i it on you as soon as sible.) ,. .. E will wait on you rite \flicting a fatal wound. Brown was | Pe vergenge mai = ws ‘soon afterwards captured and 2 mob > geese Se dd ea ‘took him from the hands of the of-) |direct from Red River, Minnesota, | ficers and lynched him. MadriJ, Feb. 26.—The Govern a sudden uprising occurred in Man |itla, Philippine Islands. \ reports of the zing fields of Marion jeounty, Ark., where } small capital in zine mines. some of our! shave money invested | Legarden thinks that | streets. hen a railroad is built through that! ¢naliy victorious. outclass either Joplin Ss istorm. Fig 200 rebels were left in the streete. ment bas received information that | est- Insurgents | them. attacked the quarters of the Spanish | i ’ Carabineers and carried them by |€2gs and fifty th ng then bergan in the j chickens, so briag Tne Spanish troops were {8° The corpses of! | which I will sell as low as the low- Sel ae i See me before you buy if you| Padacab, Ky., Feb. 26—Louis| |want pure seed, I have surely got Thomas, a negro, of Moscow, this | | | State, became angry at his neigh-; *D pors over a watch trade and began a | eeneral war of exterminat Be- three WANTED—Tez Yours Truly W. G. WOMACK. were fatally wounded. man is in a serious condi i the $50, giving a mortgage on his home. Paducah, Ky, Feb. 26 —Witbio a | few days’ time threecbildren of Nate Hale, a merchant of Murray, Ky., have met violent and_ horrible | deaths. His daughter, Florence, wae | burned to death; William swallowed ‘the alcohol from his bieycle lamp, | while drank, and expired in fearful = es slp agony. Now another son, Bennett, \a collision with the whites is appre- | has gone to hia grave by suicide, |bended. Brown attempted a crimi-| He shot bimeelf in the head. pr rin cone ea manne ASEAN SSAA ERA RDN OYA rn a a Absolutely Pure. T ite grest leo tfainese. Aesures & m and all formsofadal ‘on esminon te theebesp braade. FEAL BAKING POWDER CO. ¥. F- >