The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, August 3, 1899, Page 5

if & Monday. { McKIBBENS, 15 and 12 1-2 cent 1 McKIBBENS, ' A of the prices now + i} BOOTS AND SHOES 4 BY | DRYSDALE & KEASLING. ;. oS moeamnennooceneneant WTLER WEEKLY TIMES| LOCAL ITEMS Tres telephone number 37. | t Insure your property with Frank Allen. 19 tf. Work on the electric street car line at Nevada is being pushed rapidly. Alovers quarrel caused Miss Kitty | Morgan, of Webb City, to commit micide by the morphine route | Mieses Lila Steel and Ella Meek | who have been enjoying themselves | at Eldorado Springs the past week, have returned. | It looked like cireus day in Butler | Saturday The old town was chuck full of country folks and the merch ants had a good trade. Our venerable friend and excellent | subscriber, Uncle Fred Cobb, called | Monday right on time and renewed gis his custom year by year. | H. H. Nichols and wife and party | * of young folks have returned from | Monegaw Springs, where they spent | More than a week very pleasantly. | Rev. John R. Atwill, of Kaneas | ) City, will bold services at St. Mark's | Episcopal church next Sunday, Aug. tth, morning and evening, at tbe usual hours. A man should have the privilege | of voting as his eonseience dictates, and hie ballet should be held sacred by the person or persens to whom it is entrusted. . The band concert in the court yard Friday night was a delightful affair, | ing of the church for this conference and large a crowd of our citizens | year. congregated to listen to the sweet | music. PARADIS ASS PRS SOS Aen North Side of the Square. CLEANING UP SALE WASH DRESS GOODS. 8 1-5 and 7 1-2 cent lawns at 5 cents. i They are selling fast. } All clothing at COST. North Side of the Square, | TARE ADVANTAG | deal better off | Presiding Elder Rev. T. M. Cobb, | The Adrian people are treating | the teachers attending the institute | very nice. |_ “Two heads are better than one.” | If the one you haveis dull and heavy ;you need Hood's Sarsaparilla. It | will give you prompt relief. | | W.T. Marsh and family, of Rich| | Hill, are making arrangements to! jmove to Joplin where Mr. Marsh| | will engage in the confeetionery bus-| | iness. | awns at 10 cents. Adrian gets the institute for the) jnext year. The vote on the location | | was taken Tuesday evening and _re- | sulted as follows: Adrian, 72; But-/| jler, 22; Rich Hill 11, and Merwin 5 |} Hurrah for Adrian RRAARRAR ARRARRAR AAAARRARRRRARA wd | We see frem the Review that the| ™ meee |clegant country residence of A F.| | Weedon, south of Sprague, was de | | Stroyed by fire Friday. ‘Phe build- ing was nearly new. Most of the} contents were saved. | J. B. Adair, A. H. Culver and w. | E. Wells, members of the new Cash | Department Store to be opened in| the Emery block en or about the! 19th, left for St. Louis and Chicago} markets yesterday to buy their im- mense stock of goods y being made on Mrs. Blanche Snyder, tke lady who lost her pocketbook containing her ticket, trunk check and money, as she boarded the train at Nevada one day last week for her home in} Kansas City, and whom Sherif} Mudd assisted by loaning her the necessary funds to take her home,| returned him the amount borrowed | the next day by postal note. i The pastors of the different | churches at Holden, Mo, presented a petition to the directers of the Holden Fair Association, signed by about 100 prominent citizens, asking them to prohibit all forms of gam-} bling within the fair grounds this| year. As yet the directors have not taken action in the matter. The| fair will be held August 15, 16, 17 and 18. G. W. Park and wife, of Virginie, were in the city Saturday evening. They were on their way to the neighborhood of Passaic, where they spent the Sabbath visiting relatives Mr. Park is the Times’ valued Vir- ginia correspondent, and no country paper in the State has a better or more faithful local editor of happea ings in the neighborhood in which he lives W. T. Murphy, brakeman on the Mo Pacific railroad, met with a painful accident at Pleasan: Hill. In attempting to uncouple the engine from the pilot, the bar slipped and the engine backed into the car, catching his left arm and breaking it at the wrist. The flesh was cut, allowing the bones to protrude through the skin POOR In an altereation among four men in the Empire saleon Rick Hill Sat- urday night, Burt McNeil was badly cut with a knife. The Times has few more punctual subscriber than Lewis Deffenbaugh and returns thanks for a renewal of his subseription. Lieutenant Ben Wade who is in the field recruiting for the Thirty. second regiment of volunters will be in Rich Hill August 10th and remain four days. Now is your chance, boys, if you wish to join the army and go to the Philippines Just for a change, we would like to see some improvement in trade in the city. It may be that this dull spell is the calm just ahead of the storm of trade that will visit Butler as soon as the hay, flax, oat and wheat crops are marketed. From appearanees the Uncle Tom's Cabin show, which put up tent on North Main street, Saturday and then paraded the streets with band, proved a flat failure in draw- ingacrowd. Uncle Tom’s Cabin shows have about lost their charm The handsome residencs of Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Edwards in the nortb- | west part of the city, was the scene | of a gay secial party Wedneeday eve- ning of last week. The party was! in Butler. The 12 year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Smith, ef this city, who died Friday of last week, was buried | given by Mra. Edwards in honor of near Pleasant Gap The little fellow|her niece, Miss Julia Conger, a) had been greatly afflicted for many charming young lady of Springfield, years and as there was no cure for Mo, who is paying her aunt a visit. hig ailments, no doubt he isa great| Refreshments were served and the young folks spent the evening in a most pleasant manner. W. K. Elliott, ef Foster, informs us that H. H Heaviey and W. A. of Nevada, was in the eity and preached at the South Methodist eburch Monday and Tuesday nights. Tuesday night after services the Elder held the last quarterly meet- Mr. Heavley’s farm near Foster, have struck both lead and ziac. The shaft is down only about 20 or 30 feet and the prospect so far is flat- tering. Mr. Elliott also said the W.M. Wright, a traveling sales-| Rich Hill Coal Ce., would soon be- Epbland, who are sinking a shaft on! te Be Sure About The Fvod When an article or preparation is offered for food, prudent consumers will satisfy themselves from an official source as to its purity and wholesomeness. Was there ever so high and decisive a test of the baking powders as that by the Government Chemists at the World’s Columbian CHICAGO. Vice Consul General Bennett, Accompanied by his brother, our fellow towneman, FE. A. Bennett, the Timzs was honored Tuesday by a General to Siam. The distinguished gentleman was on his way to Texas and stopped off for a few days visit with his brother and family. General Bennett isa civil engimeer by profession, is 33 years of age, un married and has resided in Siam a number of years speaks the Siamese language fluently. His appointment us Vice Consul General to Siam was brought about by his thorough knowledge of the country, ita resources, etc., and by recommendation of United States Minister Hamilton King, to whom be had lent valuable assistance. He went to Siam to practics his profession, and ameng the big enterprises in which he has been en gaged was the building of the first and | railroad in Siam, known as the Corat road, and putting in thw electrie light plant ia the city of Bangkok. Tnis work is ail done by the govern- ment. He has also been engaged in railroad work in Peru, and did the emgineering for the road recently completed which crosses the Andes mountains. His visit to tbe United States is for the purpose of extending trade relations betweea the two countries, and in this direction he has been quite successful The inhabitants ef Siem, said Gen. Bennett, are docile aud very indo lent. As to the clim4te, the ther- mometer rarely ever gets below 80 except about three months ia the year, when it is slightly cooler, but |man for the Bilman Todd grecery|gin the erection of twenty houses a frost has never been known. The The Coates hotel of thirty-five! firm of Leavenworth, was found | just northeast of Foster, and at the | principal products ef the country tooms, Mra. R. L. MoDonald’s milli- nery store and residence of Mrs. E. A. Crisman were destroyed by fire at Sturgeon, Mo., Saturday. William Randolpb, 18 years old, Tesiding near Clarksburg, Ind, shot his stepfather, Wesley. Beckover, Saturday and then fired a bullet into his own brain and died instantly. The miners at Pittsburg Kas, are holding mass mestings for the purpose of discussing plans to ceal Prevent the importation of any more | Regroes into the county by coal ope | Tators. The school board has ordered the three echool rooms used at the Aeademy last year by the public | Bcheeis vacated. The seats, stoves, etc, have been ordered moved to the west building. ‘dead in his reom at a hotel in | Hutchinson, Kan., at 6 o’elock Sun-| miners to work getting out coal om | day evening. He went tu his room \their leased land This ought to give lin perfect health and a few hours) Foster a little boom | later was found dead | Tom A New York paper publishes a) buggy stolen from the hitch rack at| concensus of opinion from populist | the public square iu Nevada Friday}. umber of eubstantial The horse} pone up, chairmen in the various states, in| night abou 8:30 o’cleck. same time put a large force of|are riee snd tropical fruits. | The city of Bangkok bas a popu jlation ef about 30,000 inbabitants | The city has au electric Jizght plant, but no sewersge wor waterworks. Sheply had bis horse and|The buildings are principal'y con wood ard bamboo, jalthouge in the past few years quite brieks bave sbipped |etructed of the brick being | which a mejority express the beliefjand buggy were taken while Mr. | from Chira that the ravk and file of the party| Shipley was attending a meeting cf! | will support Bryan f.r the presiden | the Modern Woodmen lodge The cy in case he is again a candidate. — thief, a young man who gave his} Industrial Leader. {name as Dixons, was captured tbe }next morning at LaDue, Henry Co Mr. and Mrs. J. G Cuzick, of near) Hy caid be was from Iols, Kansas, Virginia, bave issued cards announc-} ..4 was on his way to Clinton. He ing the marriage of their daughter,| ~., taken back to Nevada by the Mies Mattie L to Prof. Benjamin E. officers, and the horse and buggy! In} Parker. The ceremony will take)... returned to the owner place at the residence of the bride's lthe past few weeks several animals | parents Wednesday, the 9th inst, at have been stolen from the hitch rack | high noon. \at the court yard in Nevada. / General Bennett satd he came to this country via Burz Ca Europe and New York. San Fravcises. Henolu thus making * compiet= the earth. He will lear about the 15th ef this mocti expects to get home by the lat of October The General left vesterday for Ft. Worth. Texas, to visit bis brother in that city, and also te investigate a | brick plant, which he is operating, | with a view of engaging in the brick | business iz Bangkok. PRICE BAKING POWDER C call from L. E. Bennett, Vice Consul | Fair > A home for aged and infirm Bap- tist preachers of Missouri has been | opened at Liberty, Mo. } Lewis J. Swarnes and Miss Mary S Titsworth were married in this city Saturday J. K. Deffenbaugh, foreman of the Semi-Weekly Herald, published at Clarinda, Iowa, is visiting his father J. K Deffenbaugh When the recruiting officers get through and the war im the Philip pines is over then won't we by so happy. W.K Elliot, of Foster, called Monday while in the city. He said he bad sold his home in Foster and he and his wife would leave this week for Topeka, Kas, to visit rela- tives also that he expected to take a trip west and weuld probably find aloeation forafuturehome He is an excelent citizen, a good democrat and the Tiwes wishes him weil After the lapse of several months “Jack the Ripper” has got in his work at Nevadaagain. Friday night this dastardly scoundrel went to the Polgreve livery barn in Nevada, and deliverately disemboweled a fise driving mere belonging to Jay Rhinebert The mare was dead when found and her entrails lay seattered over tke fleor. Bill Freed who has just been released from jail | where he had served a sentence fer mutilating Jobm Oswald's mare, was suspeeted and placed under arrest. The officers found him in bed. The clothes that be wore were bloody acd a bat foucd in the stall where the mare was killed belonged to bim. Thr Mail savs Freed is not more than half witted and bas an insati- able mania whieh nobody with ordi- mary instinet cam explain ten difficult i * reason why it is best to take Hood's Sareaparilla first shows itself—in ligestion, or 1 of poor > weak stomach or disordered liver or kidneys. This great medi- cine regulates the whole system. It never disappoints. tisease when Hood's Pills are the favorite family | cathartic. i ‘ The tests then made by the official experts showed that Dr. Price’s Cream Baking Powder was the purest, strong- est, most healthful of baking powders, and a diploma and medal were awarded accordingly. Surely such testimony must establish the use of Dr. Price’s Cream Baking Pow- der in every home where pure food and economy are appreciated. It is a fact that no other article manufactured in the United States gives such usiversal satisfaction as yeast foam. Other kinds of yeast may be good some of the time but Yeast Foam is good all of the time, and you take no chance of losing your flour when you use Yeast Foam aecording to directions printed on every 5c package. The Ties was complimented by a call yesterday from Mr. and Mrs. H. Ray, of Shawnee township. Mr. Ray bad just returned from a trip to Santa Barbara, California, where he had spent three weeks visiting bis two sons and two daughters. He reports having had a most pleasant visit and eaw many novel sights. He said the city bad the finest streets be ever saw, and it looked to him as though everybody owned fa pair of 3-minute horses. While in the office he renewed the subscription of his daughter, Mrs. J. M. Frazer. WE ARE CLOSING OUT ALL OUR nag 2d Hand Stoves and Furniture 110 Heating Stoves. We a also placed on sale 110 second hand heating stoves If are intending te ry eati stove Fyou can save big f buv- Culver & Campbell