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Te eh the BO hae ae. ee ee * She was accompar ied by her mother. School opens will be wanting | the least money We car ew shoes. guarantee the you are in habit ladies’ footwear " from $1.00 to $ prices they are ial attention to elsewhere. pair. ‘School Shoes! serviceable footw ar and we can janthemum Sbow will be given at) ape Rae 4 | Mrs. Cy Walker's Friday evening. | pl . ( lowe ] than | Cream aud Cake 10 ccnts All in-| of paying. Why vited. not see us on your next pairé Ladies’ Shoes! We confine our purchases in Bates county. kid or kangaroo calf. all solid and the usnal $2 grade Jet quarter or a half on your next Mra. Freeman Davis was thrown | ono Rev. Dr. Jones, pastor of the M. | | jured. g ‘haan He has been absent for the| | past month or six weeks, and spent) }most of his time in New Jersey. A boy named Henderson, while} fooling with a pistol at Chilbhowee, | Johnson county, accidentally shot} Jimmy Edwards, 14 yeara of age, m {the cheek. shortly, and you to know where will buy the best ry a line of strong, Ic3 cream social to benetit Chrys-| The ladies cf the First Presbyte rian Church wiil give aa ice cream | social at Mrs Cy Walker's, Friday |< evening, cream and cake 10 cents. The proceeds to go the Chrisinthe- mum show. | The chrysanthemum show wil! re ceive the proceeds from the ice cream social at Mrs. Cy Walker's, Friday evening. Cream and cake 10c. Come everyone and help along this annual event Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Meyeis, of Helena, Ark ,are in tha city on a yisit to their daughter and son-in-law Mr. and Mrs. Silas Levy. They will re turn home Friday. Mr. Meyers one of Helena’s most prominent and wealthy citizens. on to grades selling 2.00, but at those without an equal We call espec- our $1.50 grade, They are ia Our ycung friend Harley L. Couchman, of Elkhart township, has been employed to teach the Enter prise schoo! near Montress. He is a first-class young man and teacher and the Tres feels sure he will give satisfaction to the patrons. us save you a Thieves have been depredating about Hume. A few nights ago the barn of Bert Wayts was enter ed and two sets of new haraess tak en. Onthe same nighta span of horses was stolen from G. A. Cor- bin’s farm anda bran new wagen rom David Raed. A. J. Satterlee, one of the leading citizens and business men of Adrian, died Saturday after a protracted ill ness. The funeral took place Sun day and was conducted by the Masons, of which order he was a Mrs. Chas. Fulkerson is visiting | her mother Mrs. Cheatham. Mrs. W. C. Burrus of Rich Hill is visiting friends iu the city. i\ The Butler public schools opesed | \, Monday with « full attendance. | p _A.D. Davis, a true blue Republi oan, has taken charge cf the post office at Merwin. Mrs. Wm. Meyeis, of Milor, Mo, died feom the effects of a honey bee | sting in the forehead. Make no arrangements for the 25th > a8 you wi!l want to attend tha Old Settlers picvic in Butler. Miss Jobnnie Sbutt bas gone to Warrensburg to atterd the sormal. The farmers sre busy cutting Gorn. The crop will bs» much bet ter than snticipated a short time | ago. Uncle Kit Harris is spending a vacation with his son Ove Harrie, | County Clerk of Co. Kay, at New- kirk, Okla. The old settlers picnic will be held in the public square in Butler. We look for a crowd of from 6,000 to 10,000 people. Five boys have been placed der arrest at Kirksville, charged with assaulting Maud Wocd, a 15 year-old gil, August 18 ur- 23. M. Cox, Adrian’s new postmaste’, took charge of the office Wedneeday of last week. He moved the office to Wyatt's new brick. The ex-Confederate reunicn and | pievic in this city will be well at-| tended. The o'd soldiers will ecme | from every corner of the county. | Tn the 2:22 pace at the Neveda . fair, Belle C, D. A. Colyer’s mare, took second money. The puncture ofatire inthe third beat defeated | her fcr first. i Tleva, the little black mare recent- ly purchased over in Kansas by D. A. Colyer, won the three - pace at the Nevada Fair. Dr. Cox} won three straight heatsin a made! Up race. | weeks, 18 out agaio. | ths union army. 11900 you will find him beck at the very scarce. } | justice meted out minute | | 50 cents. member in good standing. A num- ber of the Masons of this city attend- ed. Constable Ed Dalton, who has been quits sick for the past four George Cave’s Gaughter is serv ing a sentence of seven days in jail for cutting Henry Yancy in the side with a knife. She made a vicious cut at Yancy and slit his coat in the back from the shoulders down. The knife made a slight fleeh wound. Had the woman been a little closer she might have seriously injured the “doctor.” Both varties are colored. Dr. Dawson, pastor of the Chris- tian church, who has been quite sick for the past two weeks, isimproving. Jobn Thompson died at Adrian the 2od inst. He was 55 years of age and during the war served in A stiong flow of gas has been struck on the farm cf ex Sheriff Dunham, in Johnson county, at a dept of 185 feet. When set on fire it shoots up 35 feet. Alva Kenagy, the 15-year old son of J. H. Kenagy, foreman of the Warrensburg and Pertle Springs steam laundry, was shot and kil'ed Monday by the accidental discharge of a pistol in the hands of Walter Evans, the 10-year old son of J. R. Evans. proprieter of the laundry. The two boys were flaying with the pistol. The republican papers are all re- | lieved of a great burden and an im- mense amount of brain werk. Their editorials are all furnished now from republican headquarters. It is absus time the city authori ties are taking steps to rid the town cf the disreputabls women who walk the streetz. We are informed by acity cflizial that a gang of these women met ia the street at the rear Cas3 Mil's the ousted postmaster at Foster, has gone to pounding iron and ehoeing horses again. In old stand handing out mail again from her buggy Monday by a run-|himeelf from other people's potato away horse and quite seriously in-| patches had better look out or he; will be arrested for stealing. £. church of this city, has returned | |house and hotel | Tueeday jengine room of the Cairo Manufac | turing and Lumber Co.’s plant. The | itown i is@ scene of desolation from | | one end to tke other. j amount to more than $100,000. | while passing from one coach to the| | other | the Iowa line. | ba takes to the circuit court. The ae a he ee belping| ¢ 4 | Fire destroyed every business in Cairo. W. Va., i The fire started in tho| Seng ae, Wil be with us and will display R. R. Achert, aged 70 years, and | for forty years passenger conductor | and the oldest eonductor ia years | ‘and service on the Wabash railroad | was thrown from bistrain by a tramp | | Tuesday and died in a short time | | from the injuries received in the fall. | | He was pushed from the platform | A ARR enn eee OF ST. SATURDAY, SEP The accident occured near | | O. M. Lukenbi'l gave his note of | taken by an expert cutter. bor | hold gcods. LGukenbill failed to} pay the borrowed money when due and Edwards took charge of the goods. Lukenbill then claimed that Edwards took usury and replevied the goods. Alaw suit in Squire LaFollett’s court resulted Tuesday, end Edwards won. The case will Lu kenbill was represented by W. O Jackson and Silvers & Silvers; Ed- wards by Graves & Clark and M. S. | Horo C. B. Taggart and Mise Amelia Griffio, of Greer county, Oklahoma, eloped and were married Saturday. The father of the young lady, R. S. Griffin, was opposed to the marriage and when the young couple attended church Sunday morning the father of the bride lay in wait at the door and asthe young couple emerged from the church he shot Taggard dead and then turned the weapon on himeelf end within five minutes the bride of eighteen hours was both a widow and an crphan. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Bracken have returned from Kingfisher, Oklahoma where they spent a few weeks visit- ing relatives. Mr. Bracken said ow- ing to the big wheat and cotton crops in that section, times were lively in Kingfisher, and the farmers gererally were prosperous fer this season, but it was the first crop of any ccnsequence raised there in sev- eral years. As a general rule said Mr. Bracken, the farmers are selling a PARA I eee POOCOOOOOS | “t OUR 009000000007 Are Wearers! And a'l the world knows that a School Shoa. something fearful. stand the racket. Here, if ever, dressy in appearance, will, at the stand ths tough and rough and tu RE One Day Only... 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RARRRRR APA RR RPGR APP PRG a Hf He wearer is what is wanted in a it pays you to get shoes that same time and above all, with- mble knocking about the school See us a small quantity of their crops and the balance is being stored away for fear of a short crop or failure next year. Mr. Bracken has a poor opin ion of tbat section as a farming country. Board of Health Takes Action. By request the Beard of Health of the city viewed the basement rooms of the West School building, | oceupied by the first snd second grades as to theic sanitary condition | and the following report of their ac- | tion was laid before the Board of | Education at its meeting Friday night: The board cf health of the city of Butler having examined the base- ment rooms ia the Wesé school building with a view of determining their sanitary condition, beg leave to report as follows: We ficd both cf | said rooms poorly ventilated, with | poor light, especially the north} room, the light being s> dim and | badly diffused in the latter as t» ke very injurious to the eyes from cone | Albert Jones, aged 20 years, is in jail at Mexico, Mo., for the murder of his sister, aged 28 years, et New Hartford, Mo., last Saturday The only eye witness to the tragedy is a young lady who was visiting the dead girl. She says Miss Jones was before the mirror fixiog ber hair when the brother came in and accused her of tellirg tales about him, which ske denied. “You are a demned liar,” exclaimed the young man, a3 he drew bis pistol and fired, with the muzzie almost in her face. The ball struck her square in the MOREA EELS Gs SEO! ber) tinusl strain which finally results in | | head and she fell dead at bis feet. | Astigmatism and permanent iojury | According to Mr Fairchilds state | to ie eye. 180,000 gallons} Tne beating of said by greatly ex | pipes from over head isstead of in ceeds the daily amount ever before| the lower portion of rocms isa fea- | consumed. Mr. Fairchild: has|ture that should not be overlooked, ment Butler is usi of water daily, roows which as of yore. of the calaboose a day cr two ago and a free fight took place. They are getting to be a notorious nui- sauce about townand cught to be made leave the city. The echool board bas made arrang- ments for two more rooms at the Academy building. The necessary repairs are now being made on the rooms end in a week or two they will be made ready for occupancy. Mrs. Fanpy Billings was visiting]; her parents Mr.and Mrs. W. B. Ty- ler ore day last week and left Thurs day for Lareville, Kan. at which place che has been promoted to sta tion agent. Mrs.B is a charming little lady and is becoming an ex- pert teleprapher, and his the confi dence cf ber employers, which she richly merits. Owing to the excessive dry weath- er and heat of the past three or four weeks the pastures have dried up, wells in both town and country are giving cut, the ereeks have about dried up and stock water is getting Tom Clark, charged with attempt- ed assault on a young girlat Mes-! Rey Cayton and family wil leave ico, Texas, was indicted and sen-! inext week for Sedalia, where they tenced to 99 years in the penitenti-| yi] spend a week visiting relatives lary fifty five hours sfter the crime | presious to attending the meeting was committed. That was speedy! jot the annual conference. Sunday | Rev Cayton will preach bis last ser- The Corbett-Fitzsimmons contest | mon to his congregation in this city will be at the Opera house Sept 22. | for the covference year. This will This will be shown by Edison's Iat-| ead hfs second year of ministerial est invention, veriscope, and will be work ia this city. produced ia 14 rounds and life size/at this place he has won the esteem and exactly ag it took place at Car. | of all and our citizens as well as his son City last Mareb. | bi m returned for another year. i During his stay | Prices 25 and | flock and they would be glad to see} charge of the pumping station and|as a great amount of heat upon the ought to ktow whet he is talking about. The water company says the increase ia the consmuption is caused by the violation of the ordi- nance as to habitual use of the water ing troughs. Well and cistern wat- er is getting scarce ia Batler, owing to the long drouth, and cn this ac- counta great many people have been forced to go to the troughs to keep children. For the above reasons we condemn as unfit for oc- cupancy for school pu-poses the north room in said basement. The south room migbt be used with much less risk t> health than could the north room which should not be used under any circumstances. with their stock. O. F. Rexicx. —— =a —— F. R. Jones. $00 -ECoeoenoes 20900CRDEHES T. C. Bociware. ey Board of Health, city of Butler, | Sept. 3, 1897. ‘4 ARE SHOES GOING UP? $ Ten question that is asked al- most every day We bought our Boots and Shoes last April and May, without any advance, end we expect to sell them’ to our customers the same way. You will save money on your Fall and Winter footwear by buying them bere. Drysdale & Keasling. | eae wens 204 be coal» | perate man robbed Seggelk’s saloon to-day at the point of a shotzun. hot several citizens congregated | small and no one was burt recicus'y. i'The constable and ssveral citize Winche 3 © oo) O48 969199008 dev woaosonvosonssosenaooeen Gee |road wagoa, ‘not only ia the bug | line but a'so in Groceries and Hard- head with coid fee! cannot help but; be a dangerous condition in which | Alexandria, Mo., Sept. 4—A des. | ee ) endeavoring to escap2 ia a boat! lon the river bank. but the shot was! DEACON BROS. &CO |) Heavy and Shelf Hardware, Cutlery and Guns, Tinware & Stoves, Field and Garden Seeds, Buggies, Wag- ons and Farm Machinery, Wag- on wood work,' Iron, Steel, Nails, Salt, Barb wire, Buggy Paints, Machine Oils, Groceries and Farm Produce If you think of buying a buggy, spring wagon, farm wagon, sulky plow, harrow, corn sheller, or any cther goods ia our line, don’t fail to see our new fall |stock. Our carriage repository just shines with new buggies. You will say a3 5000 as you enter the room | that we have the most elegant line you ever eaw. All new styles and up to date in quality, style and fin- ‘ish, and the prices will surprise you. | Never before have we eold such | good buggies at such low priczs, we | feel like returning thanks to the pub | lie for the trade given us last week, gy and wagon ware. The Bain wagon as usual is out- selling all competitior, it has be- come so well known as the best and lightest running wagoa ip the mare ket, that ite big sale is no surprise tous. The Kentucky wagon is alco holdiog its own ‘n great shape. The GOOD ENOUGH SULKY PLOW has out sold any other sulky plow made, ten to one in Butler and all other leading towns. It is the lightest running sulky plow made, | and has the highest lift, and is the | | most easily handled. | Webhave jast received another ‘large invoice of Chase & Sanborn’s fine Boston coffees. They cost you | no more than inferior coffee and you | get full value every time. We carry a heayy stock of drill stee!. blasting powder, giant powder, ase. loaded shale, eorn knives, ap- ple parers, copper kettles, wagoa y wood work, tire bolts ere, andin fact @ fall of seasonable goods. “DEACON BROS. & CO. j Low price Hardware and Grocer Co.