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Announces to the public, that the demand of borrowers is lig of idle money. vited to call. This Bank loans does a general banking business. and awple Capital, it solicits public. J. R. JENKINS, Cashier. Virginia Items. ) Kind friends if you wish the Virginia news | another year, Ge read what happens you and what other folk: cage Tye aaa ps | Morton Jenkins went to Nebraska | tt week to husk corn. J W Park went to Kansas City last week to market a car load of hogs. Dr Lockwood and wife of Butler, were in Virginia Wednesday of last week. Lewis Garner had two horses die Jast Thursday. HC Wilson and son have moved Persons wishing to sell notes or to borrow money, are in- its deposits are large, while ht. Result. a large amount money, receives deposite, and With the business of the general large experience Wm. E. WALTON, President. time was reported quite poorly last Sundsy. Debating society at the Pleasant Hill school house Friday night. in his district. Mrs Clifton Jackson, who has been visiting relatives in Jackson county for some time, has returned home. CA Morrison says everything is quiet in his neighborhood. James Sacer was in Virginia with aload of poultry Monday and re- ports his neighbors as getting .along nicely. Anos Lockridge’s sale Monday was DEMYCRATIC WAVE Swept Over the Country Tues- Tammany ‘Vigers Are Again on op in New York. Kestucky Redeemed V:rsiniw, Kan- sasand ebraska Stay in Line. | MARK HANNA PROBABLY DEFEATED. Specia! to Buttes Wexkiy Times Kan-.» Ciuy, Nov 3, 11:33 a m.— Ohi very close parties. Wall probably require of ficiel count in many piaces K C. Times. Hanna's Defeat Claimed. tee claimed the election of their state ticket by from 8,000 to 10,000 plurality, aud a majority of the legislature on joint baliot for senator. Kentucky Democratic. Louisville, Ky., Nov. 2 —Returus from all over the state show large democratic gains. Shackelford, the silver democratic candidate for clerk FARMERS’ BANK, Ciaimed by both]; BOTLER, MISSOURI, THURSDAY NOVEMBER 4, 1897. Missouri State Bank OF BUTLER, MO. OF BATES COUNTY, BUTLER, MO. : Meibenewayounenta ses’ ere Roadmaster T’A wright, “who was! Co\umbus, Ohio, Nov. 2.—At 10 Casu Caprrar, - - - $50,000 00, The Tixs goes to friends in other states tha ected by the populists last spring, | o’eigg; : a : : set up till eleve: s doing excellent work on the road o'clock the democratic state commit Surpius Funps, - - - 6,000 00, D N. THOMPSON, President. E. A. BENNETT, Vice-President. E. D. KIPP, Cashier. G. W. NEWBERRY, Asst. Cashier. G. P. WYATT, Aest, Cashier, DIRECTORS. JOH Pres. McKibben Mere Co. STEFLE. Retired Farmer. } 4 2 | well attended and everything sold | of the court of appeale, is estimated nse : : th MeF : Bek : dStock Keleer. = M. .COX, Farmer and Stock Raiser. oe Sine Gree hall WE welts Mr Lockridge and family will] to have a plurality of nearly 30,000. Physician oe a 1M. GalLE ‘Gapitaliat. aa IW Park was elected president | ,°"¥° punaredey forthe tidian tent. Bailey, the republican candidate, is | McKEE Peay Soak aston E xe BEN) tT Vice-President, Z and Mrs John McFadden vice-presi- dent of the Christian Endeavor soci- ha ts Virginia. hos McElroy is digging a well. tory, where they expect to make their future home. AARON, second snd Hindman, the gold dem ocrat, is far behind. Two hundred precincts in the]! state give Shackelford (silver dem.) JS. D.N. THOMPSON, President, Farmer and Fine Stock Raiser. Pres. Owned and controlled by over ninety stockhulders seventy of whom are leading and wealthy farmers from d ferent parts of Bennett-Wheeler Merc, Co. J1 Wolfe, who has been visiting Hume Items. his parents for several days, return- ed to hishomeat Burlington, Kan., the county. Among the remaining stockholders are a number of tne largest merchants and capitaliste in Butler. We cash or place to your eredit all drafts or checks on any bank in this or 18,487, Bailey (rep) 15,042 Hind-|, man (gold dem ) 1,179 The returns || James Irwin spent Thursday in last Thursday. Mrs Jane Miller, who came here Rich Hill. David Falor bought a car load oj ‘sbout eight weeks ago to help care for her grandmother, Mrs Dodsworth returned to her home at Cedar Rap- ids, lowa, last week. Her sister, Mel- 4 via, went with her and expects to © ttay for some time. rs Henry Gardner returned home of last week from Pryer ik, i T. She had been called some time ago on account of “the illness of her sister, Miss Dema. was accompanied home by. her “sister, Mrs Vince Comiford. Mr Lamb of Butler, painted the M Echurch last week. Mr Helmer has just finished a new andy for some of the Butler ‘boys, ifthere are not two girls pres- ent one can take the mistress of the se. John O’Rourke and wife of Butler, yisited Chas Hensley and wife Sun- y afternoon. : irs J W McFadden and Mrs OM Drysdale stopped over night with Ira Jury near Merwin, Friday night. John Sherrick and family who have been visiting Steven Drysdale in Morgan county, Mo., returned _ home last week. Alton Park was at Clinton and El- dorado Springs last week. Roadmaster Durst has been having _ the boys working the roads at a live- ly rate the last two weeks. | Virgil Jenkins’ new blacksmith _ shop is nearing completion. Steve Cook is done husking corn. » Ed Dudley informs us that he is -kept busy gathering up the poultry that is ready for market. Ed is a rustler and is able to handle ail the r muy there is to be marketed this : all. Elder Wood of Foster, preached at the Christian church Sabbath and atnight. He came to hold a pro- tracted meeting, as the Methodists ehad announced a meeting at the , Sametime, Elder wood gave way. Rev wright is preaching tor the M E.sthis week. Quarterly meeting the second Sabbath in November. Mr Allen Cassity, who has been staying at Joe whinnery’s for some- corn from Kansas City this week. The stockholders of the Hume Creamery met Saturday afternoon and elected new officers. J Wesley Badgett was elected president and Walter Hibler secretary. J J Messinger and F P Covert spent Tuesday hunting and fishing near Worland. Result: 2 frogs, 1 snake and a barrel of mosquitoes. The Edna Paige Comedy Co gave an exhibition at the Opera House Wednesday night which was pro- nounced a fraud byall who attended. Born—Tuesday morning to Mr and Mrs Sanders, near Walker Creek, north of town, a fine baby boy. Born—Wednesday morning to Mr and Mrs D B Herndon a bouncing baby girl. Several farmers in this vicinity have liost horses recently from what ap- peared to be a disease caused by eating the smut and dust contained inthe corn. A dozen ormore horses have died from it. Elder McGee, of Nevada, will begin a protracted meeting at the Christian church Monday next. Hume has a new Racket store in the building recently located by PH Powers. The coal mining industry is becom- ing quite an important one in this vicinity The Kansas City Coal and Ice Co are operating a mine on Uncle “Billy”? Thurman’s farm, west of town, and are loading eight to ten carsa day. Frank Simmons is oper- ating the WC Foster mine, and Mr Beatty, of Rich Hill, the Joe Manlove mine, each loading two or three cars a day. Added to this there are numerous farmers operating small pits and shipping no small amount of j coal, Married on Sunday eve, the 24th inst, at the residence of the bride’s father, Walter Caywood, of Windsor, Mo, to Miss Cora Messinger, of this place, Rev Father Scanlansaying the ceremony. The wedding was a quiet affair, only the relatives of the con- tracting parties being present. The bride is the daughter of J J Messinger and is most highly esteemed by all her acquaintances. She possesses a lovable disposition, being modest and unpretentious, finding more happi- ness in giving pleasure to those around her than in makinga brilliant display of dress and tinery The groom is a prominent young business man of Windsor, whither the happy couple left Monday morning to make their future home. A Mutual Admiration Society is the show heavy democratic gains. Vhe chairman of the repubtican|} committee concedes the defeat of Mayor Todd (rep ) by Charles Weuv-| | er (dem.) but claims gros3 frauds were perpetrated in reaching this | end. Louisville, Ky., Nov. 2.--One hun- dred and twenty tbree precincts counted give the whole democratic ticket 5,000 majority. THREE KILLED IN KENTUCKY. Mount Vernon, Ky, Nov. 2.—A number of tough characters created a disturbance at the Crooked creek precinct in this county this after- noon. Sheriff Mullins attempted to re- store order when a general shooting affray took place between the sheriff and his deputies and the disturbere and three of the latter were killed. The dead are: Henry Landford, Jno. Lawrence and Charles Payne. Fusion Wins in Nebraska. Lincoln, Neb., Nov. 2.—Returns up to 10 o'clock show beyond a doubt the election of the fusion silver state ticket by at least 15,000 plurality, probably more. There seems to have been a decided fallirg off io the republican vote, while the fusionists show about the sawe strength as last year. At fusion headquarters the election of Sulli van (fusion) for judge of supreme court is claimed by 20,000 plurality, and newspaper reports covfirm the claim. Omaha, Neb-, Noy. 2.—Fotry pre- ciacts outside of Douglas county give Post 4,163; Sullivan 3,568 Same precincts last year gave McCall 4.- 405, Holcomb 3,932. Net republican gain 222. New York in Line. To the Editor of the Kansas City Times. New York, Nov 2—Democrats elect their entire city and county ticket by pluralities ranging from 35,000 to 60,000, also their State ticket. Parker, d+mocratic candi | date for Court of Appeals, is elected by at least 4,000 The Legislature the city surroun: ways prepared to loan to responsible parties We favite all parties to make our office headgarters when a Deposit ing towne free of charge, recelves deposita and . Writing material and reading matter tree. and check book furnished free. Your account is welcomed whether large or small. are al- (dem.) is elected governor by a large majority. The returns do not. indicate the election of a single republican or populist to the legislature The Dispatch says that Tyler's majority in the state will be 56.000 and that the legislature will be t bree fourths democratic. The domocrats have swept Vir gina from 59,000 to 60.000 for governor. Passaic Items. The goal of life is happiness; the wav of duty well done. a We appreciated the many compli- ments passed upon ourletterin week- before-last’s issue by our friends. Especially so, coming as they did upon the heels of ascathing criticism from our superior—friend, the editor. It is with forbodings of evil that we see so many farms passing from ourtrue and long tried neighbors | and citizens, to those of strangers. It may be Scully and it may seem hard and everything face.” those we know not of.” BLADDER TROUBLES, be the} Standard Oil Co., who can tell? Only hold out, my brother; and if times | ¥ against | just the same. you; remember that “‘Behind a frown- ing Providence, oft hides a smiling And that ‘‘it’s better to en- dure the ills we have than to fly to John A Elgin and wife are taking a week’s recreation by visiting his relatives in Pettis and Saline coun- ties. Mr Elgin is one of our most es- | teemed aud well-to-do citizens, own- ‘ing one of the best and neatest kept farms to be found in the county, and we feel sure that he will enjoy a re- laxation from his business cares for a ‘while. His wife’s sister, Mrs Keavis, | of Oklahoma, has been paying them , | a visit recently. So Karl Decker ‘‘awoke one morn- | ing and found himself fauous.” Karl lives just seven miles east of Passaic, |} and it isa common occurrence to see | | him on the streets of our peacefal | | village. The art of rescuing an old | cow or sheep from the hands of some | | covetous and tyrannical farmer and | delivering them into the care of their well known friends of the Kansas | City stock yards is well known by Karl, but no one thought for a_mo- store a fair maiden prisoner back to friends and liberty. Hurrah for Karl Decker, long may he wave. By the that it was another Karl Decker, but we have a man here by that name, There is some talk of Uncie | Eichler sueing Uncle Pat Reed for ; damages caused by the cockleburs ! former’s place. | jury we will be infor sticking Uncle | Pat, as we live further up the creek ) and who knows but what the pesky | things may wash on up to place. | fhe Baptist brethren com- | ment that this quiet drover had the | | “sand in his craw” to goand face the | | bloody Spanish in their den, and re- | way, there may be a bare possibility | _ 4 ; So away with you democrat tricksters Louis | | washing up the creek and taking the | If we can get on the! and will be glad to take any kind of bird eggs and duck eggs off of your hands, and deliver them on his cun- tract topackers. Shrewd Johnnie. From the way our genialold repub- lican friend, EG Lockard, has been putting on avoirdupois here of late, we suspicion he has been struck somewhere in ‘‘mid-ships” by a wave of Dingley bill. prosperity; at any rate he is ‘‘too big for his pants” and it keeps Mrs. Lockard busy putting in “gores” so that they won’t have . the same fate as the famous ‘Dicks ‘hat band.” No doubt his grandchii- dren in commemorating the fact wii} corrupt ‘‘My Grandfather's Clock” into something lik this: My grandfather's pants were too small for his waist, So he hid behind the door, | While his good housewife in urgent haste Was inserting a roomy gore. They too, had fallen short in length, As if cut in the dark of the moon, And the daylight between boot-top and bottom of pants, Showed he'd ‘‘pulledthem a year too soon.” I We'll bet no more on chance, | But take a sure thing, like the good | old times | When our dads wore ‘‘gores” in their i pants. Warrensburg, Mo., Oct. 28.—A week ago Arthur Rollins shot Joba | Bryant in the mouth, the ball lod: iug above the jugular vein. Bryent | died to-day frow the effects of the lates on the streets of Hume. Fond| Wil! remain republican by adimin-} The bladder was created for one pur- : shot. Rollins bas bee sted and 4 wear . aS 1 cream Lage 1¢ rotract eetin >ac- Shot. Rollins bas been arrested an 2 hearts, wounded by Cupid’s darts, |ished msjority.—The Journal. pose, namely a receptacle for the urine, see eeu lye benbes = ng at F will be beldfoc the: grand: ines 4 may gaze into love-lit eyes and speak «nd as such it is not liable to any form | S@l¢ nex) bunGay. Ss Brn Ese grand j - CA ve one of Billy Conklin is putting the fini-h- Bryant claim+d that Rollins ran 4 of disease except by two ways. |. ‘ the first is frem impertect action of | '9& touches on his new house. : the kidneys. The second way is tor care | It is reported that George Hardin jess local treatment of other diseases. | has some kind of ailment i untoa the thousand little nothings that tells} so much to the love-sick man or maid. Old bachelors no longer debarred. Estimated vote, with on fifth of iiss pareiatte be ear See away with bis wife, and he demanded her returo, he ' ol ns shot bin. . -231,000 Rev Puckett, of Sweet Springs, : H er in hi 2 W. ot t Mo., spent Sunday with friends in . -152,000 SAMPLE SENT FREE. Gemeeae eis, aiflictice would | Revalmakesthe food pare, , this place. : PREY oe nic ee oe 100,000} Unhealthy urine from unhealthy kid | pe terrible. wholesome and delicious. 3 JH Reynold, of Worland, is mov-| Georoe ooo... cece ee ee ees 16,000 ause ot bladder trou-; Jas Tathwell will have ch ing his family back to Hume. Ed Morton and Joe Williams, who the new telephone office. Allen Kennedy bas sold getting $27.75 per acre f< ea 79,000 Fy we ER EStait iosns ~ Pei ; i SS have been doing some building in | | Van Wyck’s plurality 1 ones City, returned home since ey Detroit Democratic. \ Was a good place and s i res ri si *...| Detroit, Mich., Nov. 2—W ten ne tT ' prought more mon We ho | LM Hodges, charged with the se-| the | Sieging pain in passing + heel continue bis stay i duction of the 14-year-old daughter | precincts yet to be reported {of Henry Thorp, was brought back/ election of Mayer Maybury (dem ) ‘from Wellington, Kansas, this week. | jg assured with a plurality of about | He will have his preliminary trial in| 9 999 e | Rich Hill Weduesday. See i ES ing use of liquor, as we are loth to part ¢ such a good ci Ed Feeback, Cass ¢ brother of W L Feeback of t - ) was down a few days ago au | the latter's fine farin of SQacres three {miles west of town, and will shortly move tothe same. We welcome him to our midst. ; and extraordir *s Swamp R | Quite a number of our people at-| Thompson jem.) is elected — tended the Dr. Willtits lecture at Rich ; urer by about £000; Schmidt (rep.) | Hill Friday night. Those present | candidate for city clerk, is re-elected | were: Mesdames Noeland McConnell; | by upward of 2,000. Lemkie (rep yi Baking POWDER POW AL BARS POWDER On MEW PORE you needa medicine you should have DUVALL & PERCIVAL es Mamie Wallace, Norma Terry rs, < 2 Ysi ; ie the best, At drug: j seats Be BUTLER, M0- | Neville Covert, Eloise Terry, Virgie | Wor cut for justice of the peace by | °°" “Sun. You may A = ple} Our enterprising friend, John FaRmuaoawnw nd Lela Jones, Mary Wood, Anna | 1,500 votes. Nine republican and |x :tie and pamphlet, both sent free by | Wright, has contracted his batter SS - | East; Messrs Noel, McConnell, C Hinine democratic aldermen were|mail, Mention The 3cTLER WEEKLY | and eggs till spring as follows: but- lomev to loan on fa: at reduced rates‘of Trss, andsend your address te Dr. | ter l3ets a pound, eggs Sects a dozen. Senior, Lyle McConnell, Engene Cox, d. Will Thurman, Clarence Wood and — jesse Toler. All report a splendid time. tI. T. Mizer. Your notes are payable at ~ amd you find them here whee dus We ee yOu privilege to pay any time. &Money=ready Seugron se papers are sizuet, Nik ingh 5. ¥.;| Of course this was before egzs went Nepiva Remocatic eee sted sea wane ccnhice up. But John says there was noth- Richmond, Va., Nov. 2.—Tyler| the genuineness ofthis offer. \ing said aboutthe size of the eggs, |