The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, July 22, 1897, Page 5

Buys any $10.00 Suit Clay Worsteds excepted. We are determined to move as many suits as possible therefore willing t> swap dollars with you until then. Remember, every Summer Child’s—goes at special pric Special Bargains in Negligee Shirts, Underwe Men's $1 and $1.25 White ored Duck Vests Cut to 50c. § Special Bargains Bin Shoes. Ladies’ $1 50 shoe cut to $1 00. 75c and $1.00 Miss2s’ Oxfords cut to 50c. Men’s $2 00 Dongola shoes cut to $1.35. Men’s $5.00 Patent Leather shoes cut to $5.50. $1 35 youth’s colored shoe aE Many lines of men’s $4 shoes cut to $2.50 and $2.75 Just what you want may ba in these. before moving, and are Suit—Men’s Boys’ and e to close ar, Etc. and Col- | : | s cut to $1.00. Mens 8 Bors QUIFITYERS 4 9019900 oro # Saturday was pay day with the at Rich Hill. Butler is well represented at El- Dorado Springs this week. | Washington news says the tariff will be past by the Jast of this Mrs. A. Yates, of London, Ohic, pin the city visiting her nephew, D. Yates Freight business on the Missouri fic ia better. The wheat and fax crop is being moved. E The removal of J. U. Bruner from 4th ward will necessitate a spe- election for alderman of that | The farmers have had splendid eather for harvesting and the small in and hay have been saved in ood share fine rein fell in this city Sunday ing. There was not as much ler as was needed, but what was welcome. | J. M. Douglass, of this city, has aeed the Geo. VanDyke prop t Rich Hill, and will move bis ily to that city. County Clerk W. M. Crawford bas d his fine single driving horse to sRobert McCowan, deputy county of Vernon county. ix Treasurer, Oscar Reeder, met quite a painful accident last by falling from a hay wagon @will probably be laid up for sev- days. \ lichael Donohue, a miner, was n the Brown & Hughes mine ich Hil!, Saturday, by falling He leaves a wife and four | n. re. J. M. Tucker, of Helena, | Sntana, who hae been in the city iF several weeks visiting her parents | .and Mrs. John Mills, bas re- d home. The Tives’ substantial friend and good subscriber, A. A. Miller, called Monday and renewed. Misses Sallie Arnold and Reggie Roseer ore spending a month at Manitou Springe, Colorado. George A Miller and Miss Lela London, were uvited in marriage by Squire Hemstreet Mouday moro ing. Farmers of Vernon county com- plain that their flax crop is not turning out well. They attribute the cause to tco much rain while the flax was in blocm Mr. John and Miss Lina Bridev, who have been visiting their sister, Mre. A R Keeser and other friends, returned to their home at Kansas City, Saturday. Mrs Jane L. Little, and son Tat, of Cemp Po'nt, Ille., who has been spending the summer with her son, Joa, aed family of this city, return- ed home Monday. Notorious Stella Mortia was arrest ed Saturday night for disturbing the peace of Mra. Byer. This wo- man ought to be made leave town and never return. The little baby boy left by Mra. Comstock, the blind daughter of E. N. Jones, who died at Tipton, Mo. some time ago, and which was adopted by Mrs. Leonard Barber of this city, followed its mother to the better world Sunday night. Mr. and Mrs. Robt. Delancy’s little sop, four or five years of age, we understand is quite sick with dropsy. A short time ago the little fellow had a bad attack of scarlet fever and it is supposed his present sickness is the result of that disease. The flambeau club, forty strong, left for E!Dorado Springs Monday. The boys were engaged for two nights, Tuesday and Wednesday, to give a grand pyrotechnic display. The boys are well drilled and they | will paint the town all the hues of a the prospect for a magnificent | Merop never looked better, the ra tell us. Plowing is over fall that is needed now to insure ® crop is good, soaking rains. rainbow. Butler will lose a valuable citizen when J. U. Bruner takes his depar- ture. Since bis residence in our city} he has been an uncompromising and | M. L. Green is a new eubseriber | te the booming Tres. That esteemed friend and pioneer | subscriber, Uncle Fred Cobb, re- news. } Mise Sirena Morris, one cf the} Tres’ very bes: lady friends and} patrons, called and renewed. Atkeson has taken the cremps' again about the county court and} finances. Atkeson, all know, is a great financier for other peopie. He knows the lick it is done with, when | it comes to giving advice. | H. H. Nichols, of this city, receiv-| ed word Monday of the appointment of ns son, Johr, as postmaster at Kiowa, Kaneas. The Times is glad to bear of the good iuck of the Butler boy. If Bates county had had the blood bounds the murderer of Dr. Lock- wood would have been caught, also the sillian that burned the barn and cremated the horses, and the harness thieves that broke jail would have been captured. Miss Mary B Davis of Lexington, Ky, while attending the recent Christian Endeavor coavention held in San Francisco, run across her old Kentucky sweetheart, Geo C Ring. whom she had not seen in six years, and the meeting was celebrated by a wedding in short order. Through her attorney, W. W. Graves, Mis3 Bertha Miller has filed a suit for breach of promise against Wm. A. Badgley, placiog her dam- age at $10,000. Miss Miller is the daughter of Geo. W. Miller, residing four miles south of this city. Mr. Badgley a young farmer and resides two miles south of town. Both are well known inButler. John Summers an old resident of this county died euddevly at his home in West Point township, Fri- day. When death struck him he was lying on a bed fanning himself. The deceased was 78 years of age. Previous to and the day of his death he was in his usual health and the suddenness of his taking off was a severe shock to the family. Chas. I. Holly, a prominent young attorney of Macon, Mo., was arrest- ed Friday on a warrant issued by Joho Jones, charging him with stealing a deed to a house and lot in Macon. Holly claims the deed was given him to present to one I. J. Tuttle, grantee. Holly isa prom inent populist and in 1894 made the race for prosecuting attorney of Ma. con county. A little streak of prosperity or good luck, just as you like, bas struck some of the citizens of east ern Bates in the pension line Eliz- abeth Stubblefield, of Johnstown, gets $8 per month to date trom last December. Geo. Bourland, Spruce, $6 per month to date from last Oc tober. Wm. G. Compton, Spruce, an increase from $6 to $10 to date from last September. We see from the Nevada Post that hog cholera is doing its deadly work in portions of Vernon county. In Coal township, H. E. Manzer, has lost 125 head in the last two weeks. The Pettibone boys ia the same neighborhood have lest 58 head about all they bad, also Mike Shivley lost 20. The wheat crop in the same township is very light Mr. Shivley threshed 200 acres which only averaged about five buehels to the acre. The cost and hardships had better ba counted before starting to the Alaeka gold fields to get rich. The latest news from that desolate coun- try is that corn meal is selling for a dollar a pound and fiour $100.00 a sack. Wages are high and so is everything else, and the weather is cold enough to freeze the horns off amuley cow. The fellow that is not Icaded for a hard tussel for life had better stay with his mama. Prof. L. B. Allison was most agreeably and pleasantly surprised a few evenings ago by the arrival of his sister, Mrs. B. C. Barlow, of Fredonia, New York. The Profes- gor hed been kept in ignorance of the intended visit of his sister, and you can only surmise his gratifica- tion at beng awakened froma sound sleep at a late hour in the night to find his sister, whom he had not met for 22 years, knocking for ad- mittance at the door of his resi- dence. Uncle Adam Brixner, one of the county's oldest residents and most respected German citizens, who bas been seriously sick for the past three or four months, is slightly on the improve Hebas been @ sufferer for almost a year, first beiog afflict ed with asthma, getting ridof this dicease he was seized with a bad case of dropsy from which diseass/ he now suffers. Mr. Brixner owns, a fine farm of 200 acres five miles/ jon legal business. { led from a business trip to St. Louis. | Fifty chairs for sale cheap at the M. E. Church, South. . Attorneys W. W. Graves and T. W. Silvers were at Nevada, Monday, Mrs Rhoda Reeder, of Mingo township, is visiting her daughter, | Mrs. A. B Owen. | Capt. F. J. Tygard, presideat of | the Bates County Bank, has return-} We now have a little leisure time, | and if any of our patrons wish to| call and drop a dollar or two in the} till, we will find time to fill out | receipts Senator J. B. Newberry gave the Trves @ very pleasant call Saturday and renewed Senator Newberry recides on his fine farm in Deepwat- er township, end reported every thing in the farming line in his sec- tion up to date and th> prospects for corn flattering. Mexico, Mo, July 19 —The state veterinerian has visited this county and reports the diseaso which has been killing young calves to be au thrax fever Ove farmer, J. H. Canada, has lost eighteen head with tbe disease, and more are likely to die. So far sll affected have died They usually live only a few days. Precaution is being taken to keep the fever from spreading. One of the special features of the entertainnents beng held at Arte sian Park, Clintos, this season, will be bicycle derby day, Wednesday, August 4th. The prizes to b> given amount to $250. Wheelmen from St Lous, Kansas City, Sedalia, Springfield and other ponts will take part in the races. Ample ar- raugements to take care of the big crowd that will attend have been made. Kansas has been spoken of all along as the “soldier state.” It is Missouri, however, that turns up with 47,754 United States pensiozers, as against 36,577 in Kansas. Mie- souri receives $6,222,796 pension money, a8 against $5,481,769 for Kansis To sum up io round num- bers, Missouri has 10,000 more pen- sioners than Kansss and receives nearly a million dollars more money. ~-Kaneas City Star. Rich Hill sent up two more pris overs to serve jail sentences last week John and Joe Reeder are their namee, and they were convicted of disturbing the peace. It appears thie is a very trifling matter to send a couple of boys to jai', when it would have been so much more profitable to Rich Hill, the county and the boys tc have introduced them to a good, healthy rock pile on the streets Dr. Richmond Cornwall, of Kansas City, who while visiting his perents in St Louis last week killed his brother in defense of his father’s life, was discharged at his prelimi- nary hearing Saturday. Dr. Cornwall had goae to St. Louis to visit bis father, and on entering the house found father and son fighting. Her- bert was in the act of striking his father with a hammer when the doctcr entered the door, and he drew his pistol and shot him. To complete the job the doctor secured the hammer und beat his brother's brains out. Rich Hill Review 19 —J. R. Holes was not more than half as irritable to day as ke usually is on Monday moraings. Somehow the impre3- sion was obtained that John R. was distributing boquets at Butler yes- terday. Reckon’ Joe Graves got sleep enough to do him till next Sunday. It's real mean io Hales to send Joe to bed in the day time by usurping the only Sunday girl be bad.” It is still meaner in the Rich Hill boys to come all the way to Butler to borrow clothes to go eee their girls. Joe says he is Lot running & second hand out fitting establish- meot, and is getting a little weary of putting bis Rich Hill friends in presentable attire when calling on the Butler girls. There was a large congregation at tbe M. E church, south, in attend- ance at the funeral of Mrs. Mary C Morgan, and the pastor, Rev. Caton, preached a most touching sermon in memory of the departed, who wasa faithful member of bis chureb. Mre. Morgan died Sunday night at the residence of her daugnter, Mrs. Chae. Holcomb, at Tcronto, Kansas. The deceased was the nother of our} fellow citizen, Walker Morgan. | About a yesr ago while living with | her son in this city, she was pros- | trated with a severe peralytic stroke | and for some time ber life was de-} spaired of. Recoveriog sofficiently, | she coaciuded to make her daughter. ! Mrs Ho'comb. » vitiv with bopes that the change might benefit he~ However. sbe never fully reeovers ad aud ber death wa+ due to paralveis BIG REDUCT OF PRICES O : DO YO Crash Suit, Neck Tie, Work Shirt, | | : | Give us a Call. Summer Suit, ION N .. CLOTHING... ee We are making big cuts in our Men's, Boys’ and Children’s Clothing to make room for our Fall stock. -0 LU NEED Nice Pant, Straw Hat, Underwear? We Can Save You Money, McKIBBEN’S, Clothing Department. ) anes ee = RRR R RL GLARED AARP REPRRPPS m= RAR poe THAT make a Goop Hanrngss, of the best MATERIAL coxstRuction and able these factors together. Harness =«.. | : | 000 000000 0OPOOOSOLO OD | i OBSERVE The merits of a Harness are not always apparent by an exterior inspeciion. It requires something more than good looks to but by the combination with the best ideas in workmanship in putting We produce a line of Saddlery Goods, At once beautiful in finish and style, tbat are not equalled by avy in Bates county. Samples and a foll assortment of everything kept in a First Class Harness Shop on display in our store, on east side square Butler, Mo. The Low Priced place for all kinds of Saddlery Equipment. 4 cciiiaaiaial R. L. GRAVES aad ee Mies Anna Quisenbury, 21 years of age, who has been making her home with her sister, Mra. A. Mou- dy, of Adrian, was brought to But- ler, Saturday, the county court being called in extra session to ine quire into her mental condition. She was adjudged insane and Sunday morning Sheriff Mudd took ber to the asylum at Nevada. The father of the youvg lady, H.C. Quisenbury formerly reeided in this county, neat Adrian, but for the past two years he has Jived on a farm in Kansas, and besides passing on the easity of the girl, the court had to settle the matter of residence. DBfr. Qaisen- bury testified that he bad lived in this county for a number of years previous to his daughter losing her rind. Tbat he moved to Kan sia two years ego. His daughter kept house for him, and that while living with him some eighteen months ago, she showed symptoms of insanity, and he sent her to her sister at Adrian. Miss Quieenbury is a pretty young Jady anda gradu- ate of the Adrian public schools. eee A Bad Mishap. John Woody, one of our most prominent and prosperous farmers residing eight miles west of town, met with a very bad accident the other day and from the effects of bis injuries will ba Isid up fur some weeks Mr. Woody was harvesting and fell from his wagon, breaking bis collar bone in two places. For two or three days he complained of acerious pain io his breast and it was thought that be was inter- nally injured, bat Dr Boulware, who is attending bim, informs us that he is much better now and with patience and no farsher mishap be will be able to get about again ina short time. eae toe A Point to Kemember. If you wish to purify your blood you should take a medicise which cures blocd diseases. The recc rd of area by Hood's Sarsaparilla proves that this ia the best med'cine for the ad ever produced Hood's } Sarsspar'la cares the most stubborn } Last week the Trues contained the following notice: «Fred Pulliam, s young man who has been teaching short band in tne city for several weeks, has pulled hie freight suddenly. The town has lost nothing.’’ We are io receipt of a letter from Mr. Pulliam st Kansas City, in which he takes exceptions to the above. There bad been some rumors afloat in regard to the manner of his leave-teking, but on investigation we learn there is nothing detrimen- tal to the young man’s character or standing, and we cheerfully so state, as we have no desire or intention of doing bim an injury. Changed her Mind. Mrs. J. M. Gauf, who had ker hus- band arrested, tried and convicted in Justice J. B Crook's court in Homer townsbip, on a warrant charging him with assault with in- tent to kill and who for the offense was sent to jail the 14th day of June, repented almost the next day of the act she bad committed of separating man and wife, and since that time has been persistent in her endeavors for the release of her husband. Fi- nally, the other day she appealed to Judge Boxley for aid, and the kind hearted attorney after listening to her tale of woe, consented to sssist her. So Friday he instituted habeas corpus proceediags before the pro- bate court and Gauf was released. Buys a Man's Serviceabie Shoe. Bays a man’s dark chocolate shoe in the new Coin toe, and right up to date. $2.00 Bays the best fine shoe for substantial friend to the booming | southeast of Butler upon which he b Trves, and we are sorry to see him | has resided continuously for thirty jasd the nirmit e+ go. But he batters his condition | one years. Asa neighbor and good | bsiog TT yenrs financially we understand, having | citizen the county bas no better peas deyoted +o 5 accepted a lucrative position in the | mav, and bis many friends would be|tions, a trae Chri land department of the K. C, Pitts- she has gone wit burg & Gulf railroad. reap her reward in The wife avd children of W. W. | on, in West Butler, are report- | be in a destitute condi- | The husband and father, | Ghnson, is serving & jail sentence | fliving in adultery with one Carrie | dwin. | ladies that has ever been coldin Bates county for the price—button or lace. ; Drysdale & Keasling. ad eases and it ia the medicise for you | to tuke if your blood is impure. | | | ian woman and| Hood's Pills are the best after- é hout a doubt to/dioner pill: assist digestion, cure | im full, i pelad to. 88° = So that better world.| headache. 25 cents. | health.