The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, April 8, 1897, Page 5

4 Mons Nobby Suits S10. and $12. Worsted Cheviot in broken plaids— in all the late colors—faced to arm- holes—wide satin piping—ali the “insides” neceseary for honest wear, thie season's latest novelties and _ made to sell from $2 to $3 more. We recommend these suits very strongly. Buy one and you may have the feeling of being absolutely correct” in your drese, notwith- standing the low price. Boys Nobby plaids $4.25, $6 and $9. OUR SHOE SALES STILL BOOMING aa There must ke some truth in our claim that we are celling footwear at smaller profit than shce stores can afford to do. The ladies should not fail tosee our $1.50 and $2 lines. They are worth half dollar more. PEE ep Thorough bred white Plymouth| The lecture course will be closed Rocks exclusively; egge 50c per 15.| April 15th by Geo. R. Wendling, Mim. Mrs. E. F. Craprrer, the orator. Butler, Mo. | a Harris Lisle, who has been attend- Peach trees are in bloom. ing a business college in Kansas City The Free Prees put on a patent for several months, has returned inside last wevk. home. Geo. R. Wendling at Butler opera) Squire Allen Wright, of Vernon house April 15th. i ‘ j | county, was in the city Friday greet- Abig strike of union werkmen in | ing old friends. He also took alittle Geveland, Obio, is threatened. | trip out in old Summit to visit bis | many old friends The shade trees about town will) beout in leaf in enother week. | We take our hat off to Summit | The democrats made a gallant fight f We learn as we goto press that) in the township election and victory AE. Beatty, candidate for marskal| perchod on their bavner all along Rich Hill, was defeated. | the line when thera was no fusion. A.J. Wyer, one of Butler best} Labor unions at Kansas City are farpenters and most substantial and | preparing to boycot all merctants Weful citizens, renews. who keep open after 6:30 o’clock of : evenings and on Sundays. They Rata vaniis arse ought also to include the Saloons. Times wishes him a pleasaut tip and safe return. 4 The Tres’ esteemed friend and | ' one of the oldest and best subserib | Friend Carpanter couldn't get ers 02 our kooks, C. B. Slayback, of | ong without the booming Tins, | Spruce township, will accept thanks tolike the sensible fellow he is, ca'l- for renewing. | fan bad his name enrolled. The democrats recaptured West | | One of the handsomest lines of Boone township in the election last) fillinery ever on exhibition in But | week making @ clean sweep Ys =| has been opened at the store of big ea: — poen rem Mies 5 vy averaged 72, the democratic ticke Harper & VanCamp: 113. The populist have held this | Elder. B. E. Dawsoa, cf the Chris- | towoship for the past six years. tian church, went over to Merwin, Aatorday and dedicated the new } thruch at that place. McFarland Bros. have just recieved a large invoice of men’s and ladies’ saddles. Come and see them, from The big republican convention, | 50 to 75 to select from. They are tel in St. Louis has been taken | all the iatest style, prices are the down. Tho hall was damaged by a| lowest. We carry more saddles than | ‘Wind storm last week. all the other houses in the county. The Tiss’ good friend, George | The new pension board, Doctors aker of Peru, will accept our best Boulware, Everingbam and Reoick Wishes for his future prosperity, and | met and reorganized. Dr. Boulware thanks for a renewal of bis subscrip- | was made president and Dr. Ever " ham secretary. The board meets Wednesday in Dr. Boulware’s Wm. Hunter, who killed his wife | rnc Oe ™ Lamar a short time ago, on aplea ———— | of marder in the second degree was Truth in a Nutshell. | f alife sentence in the peniten | Impure blood is the naturel result | i of close confinement in house, school | The rainy weather has delayed the | FCO™ Of shop. ; | farmers ee sowing oats, and it is| Blood is purified by Hood's Sar-j : ble that a great deal cf the saparilla, and all the disagreeable re | prepared for cats will be plant- sults of impure blood disappear with | in corn. 3 | the use of this medicine. ; | Tf you wish to feel well. keep your | The Wendling lecture is the talk | blood pure with Hood’s Sarseparilla. | the town this week, and the | : = a house is sure to be crowd: Hoods Pills are the best family | Mto hear this distinguished and | cathartic and liver medicine. Gentle, Roted orator. reliable, sure. | strang man on their hands in Jack | buggy for Dr. Everinogham. ' doors. \ County court met Monday as a board of equalization. eleganteign placed over the side. Capt. J.C. Martin, cashier of the | rae The ie eae building facing | bank at Merwin,was in the city Mon peace pang is one of the hand-| day on business and meeting a host | o oy: of friends. The Captain reports his | bank doing weil and his health good. | jj The Times returns thanks to him for 2 renewal of his subscription. The funeral of Mrs. Ben Vermil- | on, of Charlotte township, aged 25 | | years, took place Saturday, the re | mains being laid to rest in the! It is now claimei the discovery | cemetery near ber late home. Death | has been inade that the negro can be | 788 caused from child birth and bed ae “formed into a white man by) ote electricity. Now if some yankee will | Je wi ; invent a machine to ie the kink | p, Ba ~ ag ee a out of bis hair, the poor white trash Gann Sea hen peepee | — a to take a back seat | stock and have put it up for conven | : | ience in Se packets, also Extra Early | The Times extends congratulations | E*Pre®8 Cabbage seed. Deacox to W. S. Mudd, who made the trip | Bros & Co. all right for trustee of Deer Creek | : township, at the township election | _— _Wileon, ® Eroceryee on last week. Wish we could say good | ae Pipe UE GN Oe ae Ce Dist aimpecalin Give bora ing! ap | res = goods last week to parties | can’t, for the resson that the repub ne eres ee Rane eat ats | persons also bought Isaac Fowler's | cig |stock. The goods were boxed andj The Free Prees failed to even | moved to Eldorado mention that a township election | : was held in Butler last week. The | The Ties has no better friend or | Press may haye had a reasoa for —_ than J. E. Snodgrass, one of | dodging after reading the vote in (he substantial young farmers cf} the Ties, but a newspaper chould | Spruce township, and we tender him | publish all the news good or bad our thanks and best wishes for pres-| perity, all of which he justly deserves | For the third time within a morth | and will receive, as h» never allows | Montrose will hold an election to | his subcription to get behind. there-| vote bonds to build a school house. | fore he called and renewed. \ The proposition carried the first | 1 time by 16 votes, but the election | As adyertised, the city collector | was not legal and the second hitch | sold on the streets Friday tbe fol- | it was defented, now they propose | lowing property: two Jersey cows, to try for the third time. |belenging to R. G Hartweil, a, a | phaeton for H. C. Wyatt. also one| The Ft. Scott officers have a! for John Atkeson, and a horse and) 318 | Turner, the eclf confessed thiet. He! property was sold to satisfy a sal had stolen everything he cou'd get | the city for taxes. These centlemen, | his hands on from a dictionary to @ | as we understand the situation, claim } | church organ Turner claims hej; the tax under which the sale was | VanCamp. was indicted and out on bond in Al-! made to be illegal, and allowed their | abawa for assault with intent to kill. | property to be sold in order to test | The ladies Md Soe ote | Southern Methodist church will give; We understand the city is tbreat a free entertainment next Friday | ened with another sidewalk accident | evening, at the church, consisting of | guit for damages. | : a | If suit is brought music, recitations, ete. Each lady | the city should fight the case te tha | who has made her assesement for | 7 ee 6 |court of last resort. There should | repairing the church will tell how | never be any comprice on the part of | she made the monsy. Allthe mem |town and persons bringing suit bersand triends of the church are | for damages Pala be are is un | cordially invited. | derstand that they will have live. | Joe Renick and the two Lamb boys | interesting, never retreating law suit who started south over land last week jon their hands so far as the city is their destination as mapped out | concerned. One compromise encour being Port Arthur,Texas, sowed their ages a dozen suits. The Tire crop of oats at Nevada and Joe took favors fighting toa finish and we the train for home. The other boys | have & city attorney capable of brought the team back. It didn’t | coping with the best. take them long to get their satisfac- tion of seeing the world. Robert, the sixteen-year old son | rot of G@ W. Hopkins, of Clear Creek = oar township, Vernon county, says the | $ CUT RATE Nevada Mail, met with a very serious | } aes accident the other day. The young | > MILLINERY man started out on a hunt and when “r 5 he attempted to shoot a blackbird, STORE——++ Ps his gun burated near the lock. Jacer- ating the hand so badly it had to be 9nd DOOR SOUTH OF POSTOFFICE taken off at the wrist. | Dr. Jefferson D. Goddard, of Kan- | Bright, pretty, daintly trimmed millniery at sas shot and killed Fred J. Jackson | Friday. The murder was committed in Mrs Jackson's rooms at the Wood- land hotel. Dr. Goodard was map- | ager of a drug etore owned by Mrs. y=! t-1 50c on the $1 Everything goes at half price. so do not delay, as the pretticet always goes first. q Jackson; There were no witnesses to the killing and the Dr. c'aims self defense. It is eaid jealousy on the part of Jackson prompted the | quarrel and fight which lead to the | killng. i A merchent at Springfield con-| cluded to test the virtues of adver- | tising He used but one line and put | that line in the most inconspicuous | place inthe paper. The advertise | Miss Mattie Warnock has charge of the trim- micg which insures you the very best work. Tho Walton Trust Co., has had nl jerable citizens, residing a couple of \- LADIES VESTS —— AND—-— -:- UNION SUITS -:- The celebrated Chicago Waist and other well known make of corsets. A splendid line of ~~ GARPETA MATTINGS WINDOW SHADES LAGE CURTAINS. Figure with us and save money. McKIBBENS. Ladies, if you want to see some-} thing nice and nobby in the milli Henry Dunlap, one of our enter- prising young farmers, residing nery line, call at Misses Harper & south of town, called and had his 20-3t. | name enrolled for the booming Grandlgiher GAA. Piste, one of Tiwes. He, too, bas our best wishes the county's most esteemed and ven dori prosperity: Never was a more popular official miles west of town, gave the Trwrsa ‘inducted into office in Bates county sleasant call Saturday and had his|than Andy B. Owen, who took name enrolled on cur subseription | charge of the Treasurer's office on books. Father Pierce is a native of | April let. He came fresh from the Tennessee and came to this county | people, a Bates county boy to the before the war. A short time ago | manor born, bas lived all his life in he celebrated his 87th birthday at her borders, was married to one of the residence of hisson, J. S Pierce, \ her fairest aud most amiable daugh- in this city. He is still hale and ters and is raising an interesting hearty, and for a man of his years | family. Being a young man, in the gets about remarkably well. Bates | very prime of life, he will devote to or any other county in this state has | Bates county his best energies, and no better citizen or Christian gentle | will make an offic al that the people, manu than Father Pierce aud the irrespective of party, will be proud Tives hopes to see him continue to jof. Such a man isa strength and enjoy good health. }honor to any party that promotes Sherift Mudd, stopped the auction Lae en'e of the jewelry in progress at the | Baker jewelry store in the Endres budding Friday night, by placing | the auctioneer T. L Mulinix under arrest, on a warrant by prosecuting attorney Clark for selling without a license. Baker claimed the sale was made under mortgage. On the other hand the authorities claimed he was | shipping goods im from a Kaneas | City house and disposing of them. The auctioneer when confronted with the evidence plead guilty and paid his fine and skipped out on the first train. The auction sales of foreign wares is an imposition on the home merchant who does a legitimate bus- | iness and does his share in the sup-| port of the town inrenting buildings | } and paying taxes, and they deserye | the fu'lest protection of the law. | ! A pair of large fine bay horses at- i> tached to a wegon Icaded heavily | ¢ with sacks of shelled corn, created | ? considerable excitement Monday | $ about noon by coming onto the| ¢ square at full speed. They bad | started at the corn crib of Mr. Fisk | ion Ohio streat where the wagoa had | ‘been loaded. At the old grange} SHOES, mont read that on acertaia day he; would cell catico at one cent a yard. | In a short time efter the doors were | opened the room was so crowded | § ith people the clerks could not | wait cn them and he had to close the | LULA HORNER, Manager. 058 RPRFRFFARPAOHOOOE PPP tevesecscoese » secsesenonenr 5 coveseceressl 5 Tosesoreeses) A FEW OF THE MANY BARGAINS WE OFFER IN SPRING CLOTHING hraAROALA Childrens Knee Pants Suits 75c, $1, $1.50 $2. Boys Long Pants Suits $2, $2.50 $3. $4, $5. Mens all Wool Suits $4, $5, $6, $7, 88. Ee eS OUR BLACK CLAY ALL WOOL WORSTED SACK AND FROCK SUITS FOR $7 OO They Have no Equal JOE MEYER, THE CLOTHIER. Extra Heavy Cotten Socks 4 pr. for 25c. YOU GET FIT, : store on the south east corner of the | § | equare they left the street and took | } ithe side walk paseiug under the, ‘awnings breaking but one post. | | Passing off the sidewalk they were | junder such beadway they could not) | make the turn in the street and ran | \straight into the double doors of |the Starr blackemith shop, where; §, ithey were halted. Strange to sey | 4 4 > STYLE ; | the wagon was unbarmed and with DURABILITY 8 the exception of one sack of corn | “ ] which fell out on McKissicks scales | 4 on th2 south side of the square the | > COMFORT lcad remained in tack. Oue horse, | ¢ 1 ‘ $ 4 however, was seriously if not fatally | \hart, the skull over the left eye being | We are showing | bedley broken by coming in contect | 3 with the door jamoftheshcp. The | an elegant line avima! was bleeding at the mouth | profusely when driven away. j of STATE BOARD OF EQUALIZATION. | % SPRING AND ear ; SUMMER SHOES. The Valuation of Real and Personal Property All the newshapes of Bates County Raised 10 Per Cent. and styles either @ 2 § | Judge W. T. Kemper called Tues- 8 | day and informed us that the county ‘ tan or black. Prices no high- ; $ 3 5 conrt, sitting es a board of eqasliza- | % er than the infer- _ hed received notice Monday ~ from the state boerd of equalization, ior offerings of others. |eitting at Jefferson City, that the \poard hed raised the assessmert of | Bates county on all real and personal ‘property 10 per cent. The Judge said the above communication some- what surprised the court, and it is highly probable that when the etate ‘board of appeals meets the county will send a representative down ‘to appear before that body on behalf } jot the county. | 1h SMARTIES EEE ROSIN BOLERO DEST NINE AT LITE SE