The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, March 18, 1897, Page 1

he Bu Weekly mes. oy. XIX. BUTLER, MISSOURI, THURSDAY MARCH 18, 1897. 7 fissouri State Bank OF BUTLER, MO. MME 6 8 es $55,060.00 254 SURPLUS FUND 2,500.00 ives Deposite, Loans money, Ieaues Drafts and does a general Banking business. ‘solicit the accounts of Farmers, Merchants andthe public generally promising a Depository for all funds committed to our charge. We @: prepared to extend ral accommodation in the way of loans to our customers. ‘or. T.C. Boulware Booker Powell Geo L Smith HH Piggott Deerweater C BR Radford RG West “7B Jenkins TJ Wright Wm E Walton ing the public for their confidence and liberal patronage during the past fifteen a continuance of the same promieing honest and conservative man- ict attention always to the wants of our customers. Py. R. JENKINS, Wm. E. WALTON, 3 Cashier. President. Frank M Voris JM Christy ship met in convention Saturday and nominated the following township ticket: Trustee, Dr Standish; Collec- f : tor, George MeLaughlin; Assessor, A nGasaway hea & passenger On| Gwinn; Justices of the Peace, J L puth-bound P &Gtrain Sunday.) McConnell, T M Bobbitt; Constable, pk Covert and Mr Wyatt spent | John Strait. No better men than y in Kansas City. y these can be found in the township Gwinn and wife, of near Adrian, ! and it is a pity to have them slaugh- 1 eenaey vd their son, R 1.| tered, as they are sure to be. in, 0! nls place. bi ZE Debbie aud Minnie Bell, of eigen Home township, visited friends - eae town this week. Virginia Items. ML Norman, of Denver, Col.,| _. 3 ; 4 pending a few days with old Kind een if you wish the Virginia news dsin this vicinity. another year, ; H Senior made a flying trip to | °° Soda eae Wada for you, tell him all " & ; Oh! tharedas ‘the goth inst, J | TBO THE* 085 to friends in other states that a6 : A , set up ’till eleven, pore, who lives a few miles south | 7, poaq what happens you and what other folks m. Mr a abet ole ecees do in 1897. tern, loour, but forthe] | siy orarven tom of ood tnothy His bereaved family have hay for sale. Enquire of O M Drys- Hume News. Thorpe shipped two cars of and two of hogs this week. Hoagland’s property March 23rd. Henry Francis, of Mulberry, was in he has rented his farm for ’97 and that he sold his fine imported sorrel horse Saturday to Mr Corlett, near Mount Carmel. Since Mchinley has taken his seat feoalat V i elling at 6e. and Miss Mabel y were married at the Farm- ers Hotel, in Batler, Saturday March }13th, by J C Mencience. After the rremouy they returned to the home| he bride's parents, niles south-! west of Burler near the fripp school honse, where there was a bountiful dinner in waiting. The bride and jer i » way to the table. There were about 20 present. The following presents were received: set of dishes, Mr and Mrs Schooley; rug, Mr and Airs Smith; set of glassware, John and Irene Sparks; table cloth, Clarence Schooley; towel, Thomas Schooley; sauce dishes, Della Sparks; glass set, Tacy and Pres Price; silver dollar, Rollen Smith; set of glass dishes, Mr and Mrs Neal; glass fruit dish, Katie Foster; tooth pick holder, Ida Williams; cracker dish, Frank and Nellie McElroy; glass tumblers, Blanch Price. The afternoon was spent in pleasant conversation and music. Late in the afternoon the guests departed for their homes, wishing the eouple ahappg life. Sab- bath Mr and Mrs Williams gave them a dinner, which was enjoyed by many of the young people of the neighbor- | hood. Aaron wishes them well and if he had been there to help eat the good things, would have wished them long life. Early Monday morning Chairman W_W Park was seen mounted on his spirited sorrel, headed for the rural districts of Charlotte. We do not know what is up. Maybe he has Mark Hanna hid in a hollow tree on the banks of the Miami. Look out, Populists, Democrats, Prohibition- ists, something is going to happen. ; dale, Virginia, Mo. peethy of enor aie mating: Geo Haverfield has moved south of Amoret. E Mills moved into the T'S Harper house, near the river. Bexton, who lived on the Jake Cowgill farm, moved to Kansas City last week. House and one to five acres of good land to rent to right man. Enquire of C H Morrison. : Everybody remember the township feases and incidentally advertising stent medicine. Nhe claims to per- some marvellous cures and will doubt find plenty of victims. Potter is attending conference ada this week. new time card on the P & G is convenient for our townspeople. nship election approaches and ppointed politicians are begining a a election day, March 30th. eee es which they carry Thos Wright is a jolly good natured as fellow, and if a populist would boss , atthe enliter wag Alrgh ye tne pails highways in Dist No 4 for 7, e next two years. ee oa GR ee Mae L F Jones, of Arkansas, is visiting i Barton, Rev Potter, of the M E Hel BEORbers SC Jones. He wants to iati 2 ;, | locate here. Mi rourh fic iesy ben pikelr "We think that. it is foolish talk Sesh its crooked places | 14+ bother about eS . ae x a etat Mr Helmer and family attende eith colatives te Meson church at Butler last Sabbath. y dr Davidson, better known here as John Fleming, north of Virginia, ; has sold his farm. hot tomule Englishman, was ar- ners : d here Saturday by rg United Mrs Garner, one mile and a half airihal and tekento Kansas meee of Virginia, has a coal bank to ; ; Ps rent. id hong liad stggaay Miss Mary Rape told us last Sab- Much Aiterast qaAKan iy outlocal bath that her mother had been con- ite” in the comin Conbett : fined to her bed for five months. She mons fight Opintons are divided, | ¥** thrown from ip eee a uajority vac orin ei therkinericati ’ | seven months ago last Sabbath. > Mr Bobbett, of rite Sanaa talk> The middle-of-the-road Populists Politics on aiirueireets Saturday held. their coeeeee conven on a feasrs W C Foster, C E Horton, “A Virginia last Saturday. C H Morrison FI Hy tin, Dr Standish called the convention together, and } Rae, attsudod ‘Circuit Gourt | 75 made chairman of the ineeting. AAROK, Aaron Items. Mrs Estes Smith is reported sick with inflammatory rheumatism. M V Owen sold to Shirts & Leea nice lot of fat cows this week. John Douglas is sick with the grip. J L Shaw transacted business in Urich Saturday. Luin Page is moving on the Frank Page farm, west of Aaron. F M Staley’s sale on the Sth inst was well attended; horses and hogs sold extremely well. J A Morgan went to Kansas City Friday. James Harris has a very sick child. Mrs Pement and family will go to Moberly, Mo., this week to join her husband, who went to that place three weeks ago. Notices are posted announcing a Republican convention at Maysburg March 20, for the purpose of nomi- nating a township ticket. The Re- publican brethren must have taken new courage, as this is the first time in 15 years that they have offereda straight Republican ticket. We pro- pose to hit them so hard on the 30th that it will take them 15 more years to again get on their pegs. Esq. W. I. Yates went to Creighton Saturday. Stayton & Bro., go to Clinton this week to replenish their grocery stock. FELIX. Hang Together. our city Monday. He informs us that | Troops Called Out. | London, March 10.—It is stated here that secret orders have been received for the First Army Corps. | including the York and Lancaster | Regiment, the Essex Regiment aud Established eigt the Suffolk Regiment, for service in| ght year’s ago. With NO 18 the Mediteranean, if required. Beltrade, Seryia, March 10.—The entire army reserve and both classes | of the militia have been called out in| detachments. The reason given is, that they are to undergo a week's | maneuvere. Russia bas offered to lend the Ser. | vian Government 120,000 magazine | rifles. The Government bas not ac- cepted, as the military authorities | desire to secure rifles of the latest | pattern. | WILLIAMS CASH GROCERY. We want to thank the people of Butler and Bates county for the! large trade they are giving us. We} also want to thank them for waiting | so patiently until we can wait op them, all this we appreciate, and there is no one that strives harder to please the people and make the low- est prices possible than we do. We are now arranging our store to make it more handy and more room, so we can accommodate our trade in better shape. The people know that we make the prices, and that some others follow on a few things, be cause they have to, and we will con- tinue to make the prices as long as the people stay by us, as they have in the past. While our trade is double now what it ever has been, 80 are we gelling on half the profit. We do not make prices one day and change them the next day, as some do. Another thing the people have learned, that you buy goods as cheap from us when you bring us your produce as though you brought the cash, which you know some don't 0. We have more goods in our line to select from than any two stores in Butler, and we are daily adding dif- ferent lines to our stock; and do you notice when we add something new! to our stock, how quickly the price drops. You could not buy the shoe- makers stand and three lasts for less than 75c; we bought them and put the price 35c. Same way with our axes, barb wire, chicken netting and hundreds of other things which we | a paid up capital of FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS, conducting its business along strictly commercial lines and within the rigid requirements of the = law, the FARMERS BANK Butler, Mo., offers state banki services to the public in general, believing it can be tnade mutually agreeable and profit- able. Respectfully, E. D. KIPP, Casuier. POPP OLODOIIOODO OOD FOV OGD: MISSISSIPPI 1S ON A TEAR. River Reaches the Highest Point in th Weather Bureau's History. Memphis, Tenn., March 14.—To Mississippi night the come We bave been having unusually ©) year river reached the highest mark since the a time. establishment of the weather bureau. | The guage registers 35.7 feet, and) the water is still creeping up. The | good steady rain. | high water since the firet of the The January rise was due to | an unusually heavy rain throughout | Iowa, Missouri and Arkansas. The | water fell in February. has | there will be no rise again for quite I think As to the danger of melting snow I have never found that melting ‘snow caused as much trouble as We have not had river reached its highest record on | any more snow during the winter March 14 17, 1890, when the guage | than in the last three years, and we marked 35.6 feet. News has reached Memphis of the | since 1892 breaking of the levee Saturday at} ac | have had no high water to speak of The melting snow does not come wn until June, sometimes later, Marion, Ark., and the consequent | and often its effect is not noticeable inundation of that little city and all | at all. the surrounding waters had swept over the country; for miles around as far as the eye! can reach. In the town of Marion water is about three feet deep and the inhab- country. i line.” Last year, for instance, our The | high water water was in August, andit did not reach the danger New Home Items. Grandma Cope is feeling better | than she has for some time. Bart Briscoe wrs kicked in the itants are not lingering to take a | mouth by a horse and some of his last look at their household goods, | teeth knocked out. but are leaving summarily; although | the houses at this point were not| considered to be in imminent dan-j | handles. ger of being transformed into rafts. | for saie. ed. At President's island a is destroyed Much destruction of stock is report- + Uncle Thomas Livengood attended the Populist convention Saturday. Seth Cope is in the swim for ar Conrad Popp has a team of mules mecKethen & Taylor did some car- enter work for J Vaughn last week. | They also finished a house for Frank | day. except twenty-five | horses, and at Athen and Chicken | hammer farm. islands the destruction of stock has | been equally great. C. C. Bryan left to day on a special | | Foster. i athe ll the stock which | Joe Lowery house. bay rae sid . . ther | Somebody's dogs killed two hogs is yet alive at these and other inun-! for JQ A Cope. dated localities. The inhabitants | ll the stock | Robb, which he will move into Tues- Shandeler will move to the Swick- Sam Doke goes back to Foster. Jim Steel has rented some of the The ferry boat ! Coal Company's land, northeast of Bart Briscoe has moved into the Geo mMeGiloflin is buying fat hogs. Ed Henley has moved to Kansas. The chairman appointed the follow- lis week. | ing committee on business: Jas Crook, RF Harper and C W Wolfe. While the committee was out, Mr Coulter made a speech on the Omaha plat- form; he had no knowledge of the Memphis one that had been presented | a few weeksago. The vote for assessor was, Wm Hardinger, 24;S G Adams, * | 16; for collector: SG Adams, 33; Jas Crook, 7; for trustee: R F Harper, 31; Jas Crook, 3; O M Drysdale, 8; justice of the peace, Car Dudley ; Jas Crook’s motion that they be nominated by acclamation carried; constable: Chas Hensley, 6; Albert Pilgrim, 38. Next was road overseers and delegates to County Convention to nominate a school commissioner. Thus ended the convention. Next the Republicans will hold their convention Thursday of this week, and then the Prohibi- tionist, the one hated above all EM Dickinson and Joe Gregg were fitmesses in the MeCombs-oster case Batler ‘Thursday. Rev Waggoner filled the pulpit in ME church south Sunday. §ol Moore resigned his position as man last week and the Mayor pointed J K Dickinson in his plac he Kansas City excursions during days of the past week were well nized by people from this vicin- These excursions were given in ebration of the opening of the P& road isfair to become one of the most It City directly witha P water harbor and gives Western mers a higher market for their dad to Shrevesport. ‘This portant railroads in the U 8. Qnects Kau oducts. The Republicans of Frankfort. Ky., March 15 —Gov. | bave lately added to our stock. We! Bradley announced this morning | §T¢ still selling everything at same that he would not interfer in the case | Price we advertised them last time, of Alonzo Walling, one of the con- except a few things which we have demned murderers of Pearl Bryan, cut still lower. and with his companion in crime, Don’t forget that we carry almost Seott Jackson, he will be hanged on/® full line of hardware, barb wire, Saturday. chickea netting, nails, staple, axes, ALL HOPE I8 GONE. hatchete, hammers, bolts, hinges, lexandria Ky, March 15.—‘For |88¥ file, door locks, screws, monkey God so loved the world that he gave wrenches, braces, hasps and stapies, | his only begotten son,” was the text butts, stay chains, spring bolts, pad of Pastor Lee's sermon to Jackson |!ocks, auger bitts, snaps, punches, and Walling in the Alexandria Jail | hame staple, pinches, hog rings and yesterday afternoon. ringers, copper rivets, single and there have betaken themselves to| improyised rafts. Bae ae ; - Z | NM Nestlerode was in our midst In the neighborhood of Mound | Friday night. He and his family ex- City the houses are also afloat, and | pect to start for Illinois about the 1 | 20th, to spend the summer. the people have abandoned them and | Aunt Effie Swarengeisin very poor also taken to rafts. There are nu-| health. merous arrivals of refugees from | ose Weods has moved to James awike aughn’s old place. the overflowed district. Across the A Mr Shoemaker has moved to Mrs 2 = .| Rhoads’ farm. river a large force of Ba a Wes | mr Hamilton was sowing oats Sat- ed day and night, frying to save the | urday on the Steel farm. filling-in under th trestle from bee | Dosha Steel and J Davis were mar- z | ried Sunday. ing washed away by the flood. The Populist and Democrats met at The river has remained stationary our school house Saturday. The ‘ ence | meeting was called to order and in at Cairo, indicating that the crest the absence of the chairman, Mr Mc- has certainly been reached at that; Coy was elected temporary chairman . - | and A Shelton secretary. Thedemo- point during the present rise. | erats propose to fuse and give the The State Line Coal Co. will be run | by Bill Mace in the future. others. MO LTEEG DUVALL &{PERCIVAL,, | Mr Frits has his slat_muil in the same | BUTLER,IMO- John Will Watkins, who spent the winter with his brothers, Frank and Ben, as soon as he arrived at his home in Watseka, sent money to Aaron for the booming TIMEs. He did not wait till he got home to con- sult with the rest of the family. Miss Venia Babbitt, of Odessa,came with her father as faras Butler on his way to Conference. She spent the time visiting her little friend, Willy Ruble. It is thought by some that some of the Populist candidates smell a little of gold dust, or did at the fall election. Little Miner Pyle, of Carterville, Mo, spent conference time with his grandparents, Mr and Mrs Washing- ton Park. y Uncle Peter Crooks wishes his name announced as independent candidate for Justice of the Peace. It used to be old men for counsel and young men for war, but things are changed. Jas Crooks has built a new house on the Jacob Hines land. He also has some bur oak posts on the said farm for sale. O M Drysdale went to KC Monday. Geo Roback’s hogs are dying, sup- posed to be cholera. | John Hussey spent last week at Amoret. WJ Park has a lot of lumber and | yard. He is prepared to saw slats fer | garden and hog fence; the mull is toloan on farms at reduced rates of | South of Charley ep iin seme feat. Your notes are payable at our office | Creek. you find them here when dune. We give lege to pay an: ‘8 papers ane A large number of our farmers are ae poner <eey talking of attending the sale of John The mothers of the murderers and Jackson's sister, Mrs. Post of Green castle, Ind , were present. That Jackson has lost all hope was | evidenced Saturday night, when he wrote anumber of farewell letters to friends and relatives. In all these letters he said he was spending his} last hours on earth. The belief that Jackson will make; a confession is gaining ground here | This belief is based on a story that Jackson egain renewed his pledge to! Walling to save him. | Alexandria was overrun Sunday. but none of the visitors were allow-| ed to see the prisoners. Death Will Elect Hunter. Fravkfort, Ky., March 14 —The} sudden death of State Senator John double trees, thumb latches, strap At Helena the river was 43.5 feet pops half of the township offices, the | best goods, everything warranted to/| |in bulk, the cleanest and brightest | hingee, hoes, rakes, forks, potato forks, cast mauls, scoops, spades. shovels, buck saws, screen doors, screen wire, in fact, five hundred ar- high, a rise of five tenths of a foot, promise you now we will make you the lowest prices you ever heard of in the hardware line. Just come in and price them. We keep only the | danger line of 41 feet. to rise slowly at pointe below Vicks- | burg. | St. Louis, Mo. March 14.—As| a oe and | there exists considerable apprehen- | POR ES us en |sion of disastrous floods ia the Will make special prices this week | Mississippi valley this spring, Dr. | 7% Nee ee on cee |Frankenfield, government weather, Ne eee pate = one) xseursmeny of | observer of St. Louis, was interview. | | May's Northern grown garden seed | i |ed concerning the probabilities. He | said: | seed we ever saw, we would not he) “[ can see no real cause for ap- afraid to warrant every seed to | prehension this year unless there | pops to select the first Roe ; | nominated for trustee, A G Wilson; and 65 feet above the danger line. | assessor, L Exline; justice ot se At Vicksburg a riee of six-tenths of | peace and member of the board, ‘cl he has i = a foct in the past twenty-four hours | for tax collector, soe ee ticle in the hardware line, and we = . | justice ef the peace, Woods; justice bas brought the Per to a height of i aaa member of board,J A Patterson; 39.5 feet, which is very near the| road overseer district No 3, Robert The river) Goo0drun; No 5, J H Cope. I did not | get the names of the other overseers. They The democrats nominated Jim. | P. Saylers at his mountain home was} grow, we also have about 2 cars of! i 1 pentose Se | Northern seed potytoes, Red River/ poseaseu ae Salver dens. /8t0ck from Minnesota, the finest po-! pene degieare = galpers seems & dem: | tatoes for this climate that could be. ocrat, and ec 7a the ahi | planted here, and will make the low- | seers fee = = ace a oi lest possible price oa them. We) | Oe wea hn eet peo | make prices on your produce so high | scien for Uaied States Senator. ee =. = ri inal G¥er| =<? [ Us. ours Tru will be elected whenever the joint f ballot is had. WILLIAMS BROS. j i j | northwest for rain now. I can’t see should be a spell of heavy rain along the Platte and throughout the up- per Missouri valley. A good, steady | downpour would be apt to send the: Miseouri booming, and st. Louisa; would get the fall benefit of the | Absolutely Pure. rising waters. Itis too cold in the; F i Celebrated for its great iesvenizg strength and bealtfainess. Assures the fcod against slum and all forms of edul teration common to the how present conditions could result : ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO. 5. ¥- in a heavy rainfall for seme time to