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Presidents and sevd ES. Carrithers, secretary. furnish the exhibits. i i Pee ee ae ee ee a a a Ladies Kangaroo H Calf Shoe, $1.25, so This season we are showing a woman’s shoe of genuine kangaroo calf and as solid an inner sole and counter as were ever put in any shoe for only $1.25. This is shoe and will wear and wear. a heavy every You'll find Only three dozen day ye eee no better elsewhere for $1.50 and no more at the price. @ Boys Kip Boots All Solid Strap Top, $1.50, Here’s another strong bid for your shoe trade. Boys’ kip boots, all solid, tap sole, saddle seam, russet top with strap, the usual $2.00 boot for only $1.50. The best line of men’s $2 hats ever shown in Butler. Compare them with the usual $2.50 grade. All styles and latest colors. OUTFITTERS RUTLE R WEEKLY TT 3$| I 0. 0. F. pienic at Rich Hill Ks | October 5th LOCAL ITEMS P. M. Lane, a prominent farmer |of Deep Water, favors us with a | renewal. Tres telephone number 37. | The republicans will find tke New corn is selling on the streets | democrats still alive in November, at 20c per bushel | when the brush is ehaken. We believe every democrat in | Bates county will come up to the aid of his party ticket in November. | The recent raiosbave made faly | pasturage good Congressman DeArmond speaks at ElDorads Springs to-day. | LL E. Deaton, section foreman cn |the Mo. Pac., located at Foster, To have a live town the merchants must have ginger in their veius | favored us substantially the last of | the week. { Street faire are the fad now. Next | year Butler ought to fall into line | and have one. Our line of Groceries is more com- plete than eyer. As we buy for casb, | we are enabled to sell at prices that The circuic court docket for the | | will astonish you, come and see us. be| Fraxx Swita & Soy. The Times is glad to state that Will Powell is improving fast. He was able to be out last Sunday and | made his home in Summit township \a@ visit. November term prems-s uainteres ing. Sam Walls and Frauk Jeter went to Humansyille, Polk ceunty, last week on business. to The people should take advantage of this fine weather, the day of the | blizzard is not far off This is a good time to organize democratic clubs in every school district in the county The fight before the Hawthorne Club, New York, between Corbett and McCoy has be-n declared off Butler is not the only real live, Progressive town in the state with out street lamps fame fix The good roads em township should ap, out r vice the »ames to The Rich Hill band wiil play in the parades during carnival week in Kansas City. Th Pliment to the be is a nice com We wish to still remind you that We are exclusive agents for the cele brated Superior Cook Stoves and Tanges. Franz Sxitn & Sox. In a street fair the merchants Offer the premiums and the farmers Batler must have a street fair next year. | | Bya liberal use of printers ink ‘the business men can make Butler of the state. | men make a live town. M. & N. Evans havereceived their | stock a fall and winter Millinery. This stock is complete, the styles }are correct and the prices reasona- | ble. 46-2 Judge Graves, who was up at- Carthage isin the | tending the Board of Appeale, took/).+ when the various prizes would | ithe noon train Tuesday for home 10 each | He reported his wife, who has been | gramme for the entertainment of the | } : : : $ $ 3 ; ; aes | dangerously sick for some time, as | improving and able to sit up John Williams, a negro who} ' seriously stabbed Sherman Dunn and outraged Mrs. Mollie Shelton, was taken trom the jail at Mountain | City, Tennessee,and bung by a mob Monday morning. Mrs. W. C. Bewley and children and Mis. J. B. Batchelor visited the femily of their brother, J. D. Allen,, the first of the week. Mrs. Bewley | and children were on their way to! | Webb City, where Rev. Bewley was | assigned by the conference. | the best trading point in this section | A live set of business) We enroll the following new sub | scribers this week: A. M. Crigler, A. J. Hake, J. North, Henry J. en! J. F. Doubenmier, G. W. Borland, | Mrs. Ella Hukel; Mary E Robinson, | W. M. Ensley, T. H. Shields, Frank | Potter, R. L. Clark, Kate M. Stark. | | George L. Smith is building a) |large and modern livery barn cn the site of the one burned several | | months ago on Ohio street. Work | jon the barn is being pushed by a} dozen workmen and Mr. Smith | | hopes to occupy his new stable by | jthe last of the week | Mies Russell, the greatest frottage | | brood msre on record, the property of A. J. Alexander, owner of the | Woodburn stock farm, Versailles, Kentucky, is dead. She was aged 33 years, was sired by Pilot, je, out of Sallie Russell, and dam of Maud S., once queen of the trotting turf. | On account of the heavy rains last Thursday it was deemed advisable by the management to postpone the Old Settlers picnic to next Saturday, Octeber let, at which time, barring providential hindrance, as the old fashioned folks put it, an immense crowd is expected Rev Davidson. the new pastor of the South Methodist ehurch preach- ed his initiatory sermon Sunday. For the past two years he has been located in Kaneas City. He isan able minister and the flock at this place are well pleased with their new pastor i The depot question at Rich Hill remains unsolved. A car load of material at the station was taken away Saturday, and the citizens are at aloss to know what the railroad company intends to do in the prem- In the meantime the agent continues to do business in a box car. ises. The 3:00 minute race at the Ne- vada fair was won by Warren Cox in 2:32. The purse was for $200 Jack Adams drove Cox in the lead from start to finish and the horse men carried him on their shoulders from his sulky to the scales. Cox ia owned by D. A Colyer of this city. In the circuit court at Clinton last week a merchant by the name of Ben Adler, plead guilty to the charge of mixing corn meal with Col. Boughan, aged 76 years, one | |of Vernon county's oldest and most | hovored citizens, the river. bas passed over | the late war be enlisted in the cause of the confederacy and became lieu tenant colonel of the Vernon county batallion. Upon the reorganization of bie Command, it was joined to Hunter's regiment, later to | Price’s army. In 1872 he was elected county clerk of Vernon county. and Rev. Jarvis, for the past year | pastor of South Methodist Church of this city, has severed bis connection with this denomination at the annual meeting of conference at Lexington, Mo, and has gone over to the Presbyterian church Sunday last he preached a trial ser- mou for that denomination at Webb the City. Rev. Jervis is an ioteresting | preacher and was well liked in this city, and it was quite a surprise to many to learn that he had decided to change his church affiliations We would like to keep our new gas engine running day and night on job printing. Our engine saves an immeneose amount of labor and, therefore, we can afford to do your job work, such as letter heads, en- | velopes, note and bill heads, state- ments etc, cheaper than anybody. Try us once. Satisfaction guaranteed as well as the quality of material | used Anyhow, before you contract your work let us give you prices and save you money. The good roads convention to be heldin Butler on October 22nd is the most important meeting effect- ing the farmers of Bates county which has been held in years Come to the convention and have a voice in tbe proceeding. Speakers of state reputation who have made the ques- tion a study will be present and give you the benefit of their viewe. Learn the plans proposed, then you can support or oppose them judgment dictates as your Last Sunday at Joplin an old lady, 70 years of age, named Green, was fatally injured while trying to stop a fight between ber two sons. A feud of long stand had existed be tween the brothers which culminated in the fight, when ove struck at the other with an ax, and the mother wheat flour and selling the adultera- ted flour es pure weat product. Judge Lay fined him $75 for the offense, which Mr. Adler paid to gether with $20 costs Atkeson has again captured the populist nomination for circuit judge. and at last accounts was beg- ging the republicans to endorse him. Atkeson is a middle of-the roader—in a pig’s eye. He wants office and be- lieves himself competent to fill the chair of a circuit judge. Yes, he would make a daisy. Deputy circuit clerk, Jesse Taylor, was busy Monday evening issuing fee bills against the Mo Pacific rail- road for costs incurred in the justice court by the railroad company in sixty odd cases brought against the company by the prosecuting attor- ney for failure of the engineers to whiste at crossings. The bills will be placed in the hands of the Sheriff and if not settled promptly that officer will proceed to execute the warrants by levying on railroad property—probab'y a freight engine | Jn spite of the unfavorable weather last Thursday, a large crowd was in |attendance at the Old Settlers meet- jing Judge DeArmond delivered a very appropriate and eloquent ad- drese, which met a hearty response. President J. B. Newberry then |etated thet the meeting would be j adjourned over to Saturday, Octeber be awarded and the spleniid pro- old settlers would be cerried out. Wm. Morrison, Jr., who put in |last week with Judge DcArmond in rushed between them in time to receive the blow. Her head was cut open and it is reported she can not recover. The Green boys are both wealthy and influential citizens. Both men were arrested and placed in in jail. For Colds Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral is the standard remedy. It is now put up in half-size bottles. HALF SIZE—HALF PRICE. He was a Mexican war | g |veteran and at the breaking out of | a 13 i is the exquisitely prettily shaped footwear that are showing in our new fall winter stock dren's tine shoes made, d beauty ne eee ee finished and A SHOE TO ADMIRE we and of ladies and chil They are well able and comfortable, aod are the perfection of style and Our prices are as attract. APP LDAP AP A PDP APPA ye as our shoes Wieelkibbens. Our popular freight man Geo E. Fox favors us with a renewal J. P. Thurman, democratic nee for circuit clerk, spent Saturday | jin the city. Mr cipal of the public schools at Rich Hill for several terms, commissioner of the county for two | terms and is well and favorably known all over the county He isa stalwart free silver democrat and his qualifiications to fill the office he | seeks is not brought into the ques- tion He will receive the solid vote of the party. nomi Thurman was prin- | was school There is a suspicion in the minds |of some people that Atkeson never sent any notice to Dade county of | the late congressional! convention of the Peopless party at Appleton. |The party organ there says no notice was received. It was the duty af P HH. notify the Dade county people, but he intrusted it to W. O. Atkeson. Dade county is one of the strongest conservative Holeomb to populist counties in the district and it was not represented in any way. —Eldorado Free Press The new election law is force, and when you go te vote next now ip November the judges will give you instead of the big ballot formerly used, one ballot for each political party baying a ticket in the field. Io this state there will probably be democratic, republican, populist and prohibition tickets in the field, so the judges will give you four ballots when you go to vote. You will then retire into the booth, examine your | ballots, pick out the one you want to vote, fold it up and deliver it to the judges You willalso be required te fold up the tickets you do not vote and hand them back to the judges. Under this syatem of voting you will have no need of a pencil | unless you want to ecratch your ticket. Salt Rheum is Gone. “J suffered from salt rheum, which | appeared on my hands and caused ‘intense itching | hands would break and fester. After | jn four bottles of Hood’s Sarsa- parilla I was cured and I have never | i troubled with salt rheum since.’ oo S. S. Dunn, Hughes, Mo. | Hood's Pills are the only pills to! | take with Hood’s Sarsaparilla. j eure to get Hood's. The skin on my! | William Shaw, 16 years | while stealing a ride fell under the | wheels of a Chicago and Great Wes- tern passenger train at Ravenwood, Hie arm was aged Mo., and was instantly killed. head, both legs and on: cut off. P. K. Wilson, our popular nomi- nee for Recorder, made us a plene- ant call while in the city attending the old settlers picnic. He is feeling DO uneasiness by the assaults being made on him by the Free Press, and says that bis record is open to in- spection and defies any one to pro- duce one instance where he ever failed or refused to pay an honest debt Neither he nor his friends ever considered the war judgment to which tbat paper as an honestly contracted debt and con- sequently he refused and will con- sinue to refuse to pay it. He says thet be was wounded much more seriously than the man who obtained refers the judgment and yet that court would not consider his c!aims for an instant. Greatly Gratitied jwith our trade. The people of this county seem to appre- ciate a good thing when they Our CLOSE CASH system is a winner. see it. We are able to show you a very large line of FURNITURE, STOVES jand Tinware at prices that can not be duplicated in any town in southwest Missouri. We invite your careful at- tention to our goods and prices. Yours Respectfully, \CULVER& CAMPBELL, HUSTLERS FOR TRADE. Be} RE YOU COINC TO BUY this county, reports good meetings and much enthusiasm among the} | democrats. William says the Judgeis | making strong and telling speeches. | He says there is no disaffection in} party ranks that be can learn of, and| we add by way of parenthesis that| if there was he would find it out.| There will be no scratching sl every candidate on the democratic \ticket will be elected by the old-time | majorities. A WINTER SUIT OR OVERCOAT. If you are, don’t fail to look at our line of Men’s, Boys, and Childrens Suits and Overcoats. Give usa Look Before you Buy itwill be Money in yur Pocket See our Great $5. rele) Cassimere Suits all colors. —_= our all wool ininnscal Suits at $6.00. See the new shades all wool Suits « louble ask you $10 and $12. We: showing broad satin piping. extra fine finisl houses si and S15. oe Ls 6020 A, « 0. this suit is a s offer at $4.50 worth $6.50. is It is a little early tot Ove ts. are terest , ant t let you know we have ther ] Just s ‘ f 5 36.00. 7.00 and $8.00. Come to see us ‘5 Our Childrens Veste Suit : JOR MEYER. At $1.25 are Nicely Braded. THE CLOTHIER. WOOOOMOIOGOONOOGOOOOOOPOOCLIOOOIOON OOK § . il