The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, March 29, 1900, Page 5

4 Clothing. af 190 aT We are showing a full line of this justly celebrated line this season, We have tried all the best makes of clothing and can truthfully say that the “High Ars” tit better and give more general satisfaction than any tailors and hold their shape much other. They are made by better than the usual ready to weal clothing. We are showing all the latest styles, some with double- breasted vests. SILK VESTS. Double breasted fancy vests vre very dressy. We show very hand- some lines at $2 and $3. Mens a Bors UIT ENE YE: 5 TIMES (TEMS BUTLER WEEALY LOCAL Times’ Telephone .No. 37. Our men’s $2.50 shoes are some- thingextra, American Clothing House Selz*‘Farm Hand” plow shoes $1.25 at American Clothing House. If you want an excellent: mayor, a splendid marshal and good aldermen vote the democratic ticket next Tues- ' day. Mr. Geo. Wheaton has charge of ourshoe department, American Cloth- ing House. T. G. Williams has his paper chang- Satan Ballard to Culver. All pull together next Tuesday and the democratic city ticket will come under the wire with a round hundred Two cases of small pox are report- et : majority. ed to exist at ElDorado Sprin “Ill weeds grow apace.’ Impurities in your blood will also grow unless you promptly expel them by taking Hood’sSarsaparilla. If the weather continues favorable corn planting will begin this week. Some of our farmers have planted | oats and others are hard at it this | mnie . week. | W.C. Powell, a prominent and suc- | cessful farmer and influential citizen Afull line of men’s regular 50c¢ | of Summit township, favored us pleas- work shirts at 38c, American Clothing antly and renew House. Tue TIMEs was pleased to receive a call from its good friend John O'Dea, of Mound township. He is a sub- | stantial citizen and like his father, as good a democrat as lives. The new Jersey courts have held ; that church subscriptions made on Sunday are binding. Our hat stock is the largest in But- ler. All late New York styles, Ameri- | a date Our good friend G. W. Daniel made ean Clothing House }usa pleasant call and renewed, as has been his annualeustom for many Ed Williams for mayor was a good selection. Elect him’ next Tuesday | Ye2"s- He is one of our most thrifty by a rousing majority. * | farmers and a genial gentleman tee | Cd. vad sitet dud Butler showed her unanimity « ie ae en é < = court house. Out of a totalof thrift y young farmer of Shawnee, } favored us pleasantly and renewed. | votes there were but four votes aginst the proposition The four See our line of pure linen collars at | who voted No may be honest. but! at 10c, all styles, American Clothing | they were certainly misguided in House their judgment. The republicans ought to come out Charles A. Nafus, ab t young like men and give the democrats a | square fight. They should not take shelter behind a citizens ticket. farmer of Pleasant Gap township, made us a pleasant call while in the city Monday. His name has been mentioned asa probable candidate for representative. He says he hasn’t fully gained his own consent to run. J.E. Butler, formerly a citizen of this county, now of Garden City. Kansas, has THE Times sent to his | address. | Our young friend W. G. Cope. of the Virginia neighborhood, left for} Kansas City this week. He will prob- | ably spend the summer and fall tra:- | eling. John 8S. Smith, editor of the Sun, has been nominated by the democrats of ElDorado Springs, for that town. Itis safe to say Smith will make the city of ElDo- rado the best and most progressi mayor the town has ever had if e ed, and he ought to be elected Thos. L. Harper and Col. J. N.} Sharp announce for representative Tur Ties will make personal men- | tion of each of these gentlemen at _ another time. Mrs. Tilley Braden of Rich Hill, | adjudged insane was taken to the} Nevada asylum by Sheriff Mudd. Mr. Braden is employed in the smelt- ets at Rich Hill. . Governor L. V. Stephens has par- ened William Rogers, sent to the itentiary from Vernon county % years ago to serve a term of ten : s for robbery. Robert, the S-year-old son of Geo. Mull, while playing alone at the mill dam near Marshall, Mo., the other day fellin the creek and drowned. The aceident was discovered about half hour after by his hat floating on the water near the dam. Wantep—A competent party to take charge of our school furniture and supply business in this county. Good pay to the right party. Per- manent work. Address Educational Supply Co.,408to 412 Mfgrs Ex- change Building, Kansas City. 1t* Charles Pitsford, a popular young | man of the neighborhood, favored us | with arenewal and had his paper} changed to Hamilton, Col., for which place he left Sunday, with his brother George. who lives there but has been visiting relatives and friends here for several weeks. The republican national conven- tion will meet in Philadelphia June 19, the populist national convention in Sioux Falls, 8. D., May 9, the mid- dle-of-the-road populists will meet in Cincinnati on the same day, the pro- hibitionists in Chicago June 27, and | the silver republican and democratic liational conventions will be held in | Kansas City July 4. Messers. James Sheeley. F. M. Sheeley and Chas Clardy left a few | days sinee for Webster City Lowa, to- reather with their live stock and iold goods. Their wives and h rtha Magarrell left this morn- ing. } three families of excel- lent people will make their homes at the above named place hereafter, ; successors, the purchasers of healey ranche, will take their s here.—Rich Hill Review. visited Captain Johnson, a brave soldier of the Cuban war, at his home in Butler last Sunday. He looks well and in almost perfect health, but nearly helpless. He ys he is going back to the hospital about the first of May. with the hope of being cured, or at least being ben- is efited. We do hope he will be benefited so he can at least get around.— “Gabe” in R. H. Review Two miners, Pete Peretto. an Ital- ian, and Seraphim Koeheteart. a Bel- gian, working the Rich Hill Coal Co.'s mine No. 15, were killed by falling slate Wednesday night. Several other miners were also hurt more or less. The men t just sounded the roof and deemed it perfectly safe and a force had been put to work clean- ing up and preparing to timber the roof when the mass of slate fell, kill- ing the two men named. Tue TIMES’ esteemed friend H. H. of Altona, was in the city Mon- and informed us that he had Te week or so at the bedside of bis sister Mrs. M. E. Glover, who was dangerously ill with pneumonia. When I left her Thursday morning of last week, said Mr. Wyse, she appeared very much better. and when Larrived at Adrian Friday morning | was greatly shock- ed on being handed a telegram as I stepped from the train informing’ me of her death J.B. Hays, the fine stock breeder of eastern Bates, favored us with a pleasant call Monday. He owns 8 cows and 5 bulls, registered Here- fords, 2 of the bulls he will offer for sale. On last Tuesday he sold a ten months old bull for one hundred dol- lars. He went to Kansas City last week and purchased four Hereford cows and one bull calf. He says he bought a 2-vear-old Hereford heifer three years ago for $120. During the three vears he sold $225 worth of calves from her and she is now with calf. Who says dealing in fine stock doesn't pay when properly handled. When they cannot suppress an edi- tor in the Sunflower State, they send him to jail and confiscate his plant or assassinate him. Editor Pool Grinstead was sent to jail and his printing oftice contiscated to pay the court costs, and two attempts have been made on the life of Editor Frank W. Elliott, from the latter of which he is now laid up with serious wounds. Freedom of the press is not one of the privileges of citizenship in the great state of Kansas. Grinstead, however, has started another paper which he edits in jail, and Elliott pro- poses to resume the tripod as soon as his wounds heal.—Nevada Post. eall attention to the of G. W. Clardy of Mt. Pleasant township. as a candi- date for representative. Mr. Clardy is an old citizen, tirst coming to our county in 1873. He has been a prom- inent and influential citizen of our city and county for many years and at all times an effective worker in the democratic party, He was twice elected mayor of Butler on that ticket, the second time by the largest majority ever given any candidate for that office. He has been a prom- inent real estate agent for a number of years and knows the values of | property and the needs of Bates county, as well ag any man within her borders. He is well qualified for the oftice to which he aspires and if nominated and elected would make a representative second to none the county ever had. Mrs. Bell. a deranged woman, was placed in jail Monday evening to await the action of the court before whom she will be tried as to her san- itv. The lady resides in Rich Hill We wish to announcement and was brought up by Deputy Sher nn iff Me. Mrs. Bell badly off and is giving sheriff Mudd a great deal of trouble since her incarceration in jail. She hes torn all her clothing loffexcept a skirt buttoned around her waist. She refuses to eat or sleep and the past two ni has paced her cell singing all night long Tuesday morning Sheriff Mudd went into her cell and attempted to quiet her, first by persuasion and then by threats. but his efforts were a failure as the woman met him with a tirade of abuse. If she is adjudged insane and sent to the asylum that will be two patients from Rich Hill this week. is We have the nobby and correct goods at popular prices. Come and be convinced. M. & N. Evans. J. D. Allen traded his residence 3 rty on Ohio street for Mrs. T. -Childs’ property on “Quality Hill.” Store News. We want RICH HILL SCARE. you to : ~ 2 get acquainted The city election will be held next with our new sp in the north part of town is progress ing very satisfactorily. The excava- tion for the basement was completed last week and Monday, T. J. Day, who has the contraet for building the foundation walls, put a force of ma sons to work. It is hoped. with fa- vorable weather, to have these walls completed in a week or so. Mr. Gus Opel of this city and Miss Annette Foster of Springtield, IIL. were united in marriage at the dence of Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Lucking. Saturday evening, the ceremony being performed by Rev. Divinua, of the Cumberland Presbyterian church Mr. Opel, the groom, is here closing out the Max Weiner stock of resi- goods. James Simpson, formerly of New Home township. has his paper changed from Independence to Kan- sas City. He holds a_ responsible position ina large wholesale hard- ware store in that city. Among other things he writes: ‘How do your McKinley farmers like the prices cn wire and nails? We are selling barb- ed wire for $4.50 wholesale and wire These same Tuesday and it is the duty of all nournew “pring stock. It is more Six Cases of Small Pox Re- | good democrats toturn out and vote apiete and thecolorings andstyles the straight ticket, from top to bot- 87 More beautiful than ever. Take ported There. tom. a glance through our per Mrs. A. Welch, who has been spend- Riripes are the) leading feature . ing the winter with her daughter, | ¥¢ Show dozens of n, some wide, | 5¢vea Blocks of That City Quaran Mrs. Sells at Deep Water. Mo., re- Some narrow, sor ht, | tined This Morning turned to Butler uesday and will all good washa the | Nevada Post, 2th make her home here this summer. prices are t Dr. All i © tT Hen told tie e tram to Lewis Deffenbuugzh, a number one | zephyr gingh Yiday.” said Judge WoW. Graves, of harness maker and a whole-souled | are dainty ar ft that 1 sae Na young gentleman, was over from | shades of pink. t re si sss ‘osteron Monday and favored us| _) gis 3 veloped cases of small pox Rich with a pleasant call and renewed. | which are so ised ¥. For) Hill, He stated furtier that 2 y good, du ga wes W se l blocks. all “i at adel _ For the past two years Mr. Kelley | thines wh e% t ‘ has made this town an efficient offi-| e ae hate sti arantined cer and, knowing this fact, we have | af Se, 12 Is In! this me ne no doubt that the voters of this city | ™mustir eetings Ww v Dr. A . R Hill physician will reelect him by an increased ma-| immense stock OLD PRICES. | who had chat . aot aunt jority. | Ifyou want to be sure of getting | pox cases = runt and aie F. H. Crowell received a our hosi zg Topsy + len reepie f Mayor the last of the week informir ¥ me es We ve at ta wee Har whic of the serious illness of his mothe lallt Lee ia uehitaptie a en her home in Boston, Mass. Mr. and | cieets. pol ta ie . poll ‘ Mrs. Crowell and little daughter)... |. oes : | es Gertrude left the same evening for] 0UF seat 25¢ is t | Dead in the Road that place. ei osiery i misses” | Josey ey 24 —With Deputy sheriff D. D. MeCann spent | 0°" © -? : two childret er, one of several days last w in Rich Hillj te 1 1. You patronize | them calling on t and assisting in inv ig the stock of |Our notion depar sf | other crowing in happiness, igno- goods of T. Bellomy, levied on by|the GOOD KINDof * ~ jrant e sorrow that had befallen Sheriff Mudd, under execution in aeaeee ld John W. Wi well yb favor of C. A. Bird. The goods, con- 3 ; epee Dastgr ces ene ne eer sisting of book and notions, will be sechuta ae gy shee a yay aes d sold Friday, April 6th. ipe, the values by the road. She ha lend about eee two hours Putnam Fadeless Dye. Brown, is eed Tiacs Wester centile 1); <ten Jicmiae the fastest known dye stuff to light ee This i neighbor, half a imile from her own and washing ever used in package | te year to talk about carpets | house, to spe the afternoon. She dyes and is very strong, one package | and m igs, and wearein a posi-fearried with her their 6-months-old pra a ene brown on ee tion to talk to you rizht about them, | baby and the Abe ee ‘ years pounds of goods Oe per package a ae iE dacastram ares accompanied them. They re Sold by H. L. Tucker. : : a ise siete a ceuiiee 5 ot bape : ned ta) 5 e'clock, when they sigue 7 ae Ce en oe ted home. Mr. Wheeler becom Jesse Bunch, a younginan 19 years }eountry, and remember we guaran- larmed, started after his family of age, son of George Bunch, a well 7, ‘ to-do farmer and coal miner, residing tee the Jowest prices. The lace ‘cur re near Mound City, Kan., committed | tins and draperies are beautiful this Boy Buried While Alived. suicide Sunday. He shot himself in}season and we show lots of them Philadelphia, P Mash 94.—At the mouth with a pistol and died in-]|]We have the curtain rods, shade Mr li oT gin’ Ne Hage ctieding re stantly. Nocause is known for the P j cist ser pie age) Pi : ~ if Bice , hangers, window shades and the/here, made the startling discovery oe Sane rash) prices are low. Then aboutelothing.|that a boy had — been — buried You might just as well save afew a tee undertaker “hee perry nitty pamela . i. : : ing bodies of the members of the Work on the new school building | donars on that as we are eelling it at| J tnitser family, who lived at Mullica hats are cost Our spring New shirts and in, come neck- Now if you want GOOD SHOES we have them, not an Hill about twenty-five vears ago, for final burial in this city. One coffin contained the skeleton of a boy, and its condition bore evidences of an awful struggle after the supposedly and see them. ties, choive things old dried up pair in them, all new] dead body had been buried. The and fresh stuff and at low prices,| bones of the | were drawn up and work and quality quaranteed. the arms w extende ross the face. The glass of the casket which You will tind our store full of good : id been above the boy's head was things on both floors and all at such], . roken. The position of the body reasonable prices that you will be] and the condition of the coffin” indi pleased. cated that the vietim of a horrible mistake bad died in terrible agony , North Side . McKIBBEN’S, @siur —— ~ ‘Ipportunity is the Cream of Time.’ Joe T. Smith, genial, whole-souled, Now is youropportunity. There is no time when the system is so much in need of a good medicine like Hood's = . | Sarsaparil and no time when it is in the county favorably and well, is]... guseeptible to the benefits to be a candidate for sheriff. He was born] derived from such a medicine. By within sight of the county seat, of| purifying, enriching and vitalizing s the blood and toning up the system : Hood's Sarsaparilla starts you right ents pioneers who helped to develop | sop a whole year of health. the garden spot we now claim h« free-hearted, kind and accommodat- ing Joe, known to nearly every man of good old southern stock, his par we. his father a brave Confederate soldier | Constipation is cured by Hood's Pills. nai!s for $4 65 per keg. nails sold in 1897 for $2 at $2.15. The pipe you set your stove up with last winter cost 20 cents per joint; in 1897 thesame pipe who laid down his life for the cause he cherished. Joe, the eldest, left an orphan atan early age to care for and family of 70 and wire JIM’S SPECIALS the widow helpless sold two joints Yor 25 cents. It takes} -hildren, and how well. faithfully and just three times as much farm pro-|Jovingly he did it, the God-fearing, You Know Him duce to buy these things as it did patient, long-suffering old mother, three years ago. I wish I was in old Bates to vote for the court house. Bates is one of the best counties in the state and certainly deserves a now on a pain-racked bed at his humble little cottage, watched over lay and night by a loving son and his devoted wife, can bear testimony. Saturday, March 31. good court house.” That he has hac struggle against | One day only the profit is yours om So adversity, all know who have watched | , 04. as follows A LUCKY ESCAPE. his course. Prosperity has at times |7— ia os smiled upon him, at which time he |>5¥éar prunes worth Sige at $ 05 never forgot a friend and the needy The Platform Gave Way and Mrs. Nix j never turned empty handed from his Bulk Garden Seeds. ; door. That he met adversity brave-| p = = ee - . oas and beans worth 15c a pt lv Dropped to the Bottom of the Well. ly and honestly, paying his’ obliga ens ri ‘ apace P Ps Mrs. Nix, wife of Van Nix, janitor] tions to the last farthing and start- Any package seet thas ath, a of the west public school building. re-|ing life anew is equally true. He is Joe Bowers tobacco worth eth .24 siding in West Butler, made a mar-|as brave and courageous as a lion. | Rex soap 2 velous escape from death or very se-| When but a boy, it desperate and| Long bar brown soap worth 5e 2% rious injury Monday morning. At]|dangerous criminals were to be ap Lone Star flour worth 90 at s} the time of the accident Mrs. Nix was | prehended, the officers would hunt itaviicwer four worthiobeat ad up Joe Smith, upon whom they knew y to thedeath. He has worker all his life ived any office at the He only asked drawing water from the well when the plank platform gave way and she was precipitated to the bottom,a distance of eight feet. Mrs Nix is a very fleshy woman, weighing over The above goods are warrantedeto refunded. they could re! ts been a democr: and never rev hands of his party give satisfaction or mone Fine seed potatoes cheap, the best 200 pounds and the fact that she es-} once for the office he now seeks and line of fresh Gnd salt meats etc., Im eaped with only a very badly sprain-} made a very cre litable race. He i the city, buy all kinds of produce ed ankle, is certainly a mystery.| qualified in every respect, would Fortunately Mr. Nix and son Willie] make a strong candidate an an effi- Saturday, March 3ist were at home at the time and imme-| cient and very popular officer it dee Priest are the eee diately went to her assistance. a ee | is the day rie t k 3 The well is about 4 feet across, 8 No New Court House. | Happy is the man who saves money JIM’S is the place, he's First door east ouri State Bank when he ez feet deep, walled with rock and con- | Merwin Mirror. tained 2 feet of water. It was cov- ered over witha plank platform which gave way without a moment’s warn- ing. leader in the race. of M Bates county will continue to pay | rent for its county officers and leave its recoriis exposed to danger a while longer. The proposition failed to re-} ceive the necessary two-thirds vote. but a good majority of the votescast were in favor of the levy. Rich Hill haa been shown that a majority of} the voters are in favor of erecting a} Monday, in orderthat thedinkydinks|new court house on the site of } in the internal revenue offices might/the old one. and that he | personally inspect them and satisfy | votes of two-thirds of the qu slified } themselves that they had been prop-| voters for county seat removalis out | erly stamped. It looks like some in-| of the question. Those who opposed | ternal revenue collectors wouldn't be-| the levy in order to prevent a4 BUY HERE. Before buying you are cor- ly invited to call and ex- amine my stock of WALL PAPER. » of paper Our Glorious War Tax. James A. Curtright, Deputy County Clerk, took about $75,000 worth of school fund mortgages to St. Louis LAARAANAH RAR RARAR largest li lieve the maker of the universe on! erease in taxes. will realize that 5 ney = oath and would take the last acorn| were acting in direct opposition to ste up-to-de eaigens that stood between a blind sow and their interests, for a new court he ee starvation if they could turn it into| will be built sooner or later, and err idiot rw every day's delay and every election will add expense and. consequen heavier increase of taxes w sary. We are proud of West Boone town- ship, for nearly four-fifths of the votes cast were for the levy. the administration’s war fund. Ar-| rogance, impudence and oppression are the natural undergroth cf a gov- ernment that wages wars of conquest for the benifit of the few and forces the common people to foot the bill. —Parisi Mo.) Appeal. J. F. LUD ill be new WICK,