The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, July 4, 1901, Page 5

— e Tomes” Telephone No. 37. —— eS etree J.S. Pierce, west side of square, pen wantingfarminsurance. 9-tf County court is in session. Bottom hay is selling at 35 perton jp Butler. The thermometer stood at 102 gturday in this city. at the { Foot ball and horse racing jpke park to-day. ' Some fields of corn is tasseling out | sithout a shoot on the stalk. It has just been cloudy enough the past week to be aggrevating. The thermometer stood 102 in the shade Monday and 104 on Tuesday. The Red Fork oil well in the Indian Jerritory spouts a stream of oil 60 feet in air. Something has been wrong with the weather clerk the past month in these parts. Mrs. Monroe Morrel, of Hume, pembers us with a remittance for pnewal. re- Our highly esteemed friend W. B. Welch favored us with a pleasant call snd renewal. Emery Cox has his paper changed fom Butler to Iola, Kansas, where be has moved. Hill, has Joe and Homer Spencer, of Rich is string of horses at St. pas entered them in the races. 30,- lands The Post says there are over "0 acres of Vernon county eased by oil prospectors. J. E. Dowell has purchased the nterest of his partner, L. R. Purkey, nthe Adrian Journal. The well and ponds are giving out ind stock water is getting to be nite an item with many farmers. Rev. J. W. McGee, Rev. Divinia, will arrive harge of his pulpit to-morrow successor to to take A pocket-book containing a pack- we of Simmons Liver Regulator was eft at this office for the owner. The contractors on the new court jouse began the concrete for the oundation Tuesday morning. When the rain does condescend to ome, we would rather have it in a rentle form, a regular root soker. Dr. Samuel K. Crawford, mayor of ‘edalia, who suffered a severe stroke f paralysis last week, died Sunday. The iron, steel and tin workers rent on a strike Monday. Thirty- ix thousand workmen are involved. The demand the past week on the ig ice plant at Butler which runs ight and day, has been greater than he supply. The farmers are making an effort oget rid of their surplus stock on ecount of the dry weather and scar ity of feed. J. H. Rogers, a thrifty farmer and enial gentleman of western Bates emembers us substantially while in he city last week. Wantep—Competent girl for gen- ral house work in small family, call tN. B. McFarland’s residence or feFarland Bros. What about a town clock in the ourt house tower. It would be a onvenient arrangement for the far- ers as well as town people. Ewers White, a farmer in Oklaho- 1a, is getting lis crop this year from fifty acres of and netted him $40 per acre. rich raising potatoes. As cane is a fine substitute for hay nd corn every farmer ought to raise fewacres this year. Cane planted owfarmers tell us will mature all ight. Eleven young men who took shel- tfrom astorm Monday, in a little ine fined shanty under the North hore pier Chicago, were killed by a olt of lizhtuing. In the counties in Kansas the far- erswent right ahead with their atvesting Sunday. The wheat was fad ripe and the binders were kept Inning to save it. Jas. R. Walton, a prominent far- er of Coal township, Vernon coun- ¥, Was kicked in the left side just ov- tthe heart by a horse Friday last nd seriously hurt. Minneapolis, Minn., was visited by terrific storm Fridayevening. One ffson was killed and several injured dd considerable damage was done ithe city by the wind. The admission fee to the ball game ad racing matinee to-day, July 4th, a8 been changed from 50e and 25e 02 and 15 cents. See advertise nt in another column. day with appropriate ceremony. George Thompson, our esteemed jrepublican friend, from Virginia neighborhood, favored us with a pleasant call and had his dates set ahead. Judge Boxley left yesterday for Kansas City on a business and pleas ure trip. He expects to be home Fri- Prof. W. H. Morris, and family for sometime, returned home to Monday. Sedalia Judge Wofford overruled a motion lin the Lulu ease at Kansas City S for a new tri: Kennedy iturday, and sentenced the woman to ten years in the penitentiary. If Mark Batescounty now and say prosperity Hanna was to come to some good republican farmer would land a base ball bat 1inst his head in less than two minutes Mrs. W. A. Downey and daughter Kittie, of Amoret, left Friday for Lexington, Hl., on an extended visit to relatives and friends. THe Times wishes them a pleasant trip and safe return. Rev. James N. Crutcher, pastor at the Compton Heights Christian church, St. Louis, set a new example Sunday morning by appearing in his pulpit in his shirt sleeves. A good rain and farmers will sow enough cane to winter their stock. Cane sells for $5 a ton and at the price certainly must be good feed for cattle and horses. will raise three to four tons. An acre of ground Mr. and Mrs. D. N. Thompson have gone to Siloam Springs, Arkansas, to spend several weeks. Mr. Thomp- son has been in poor health for seve- ral weeks and the trip is made in hope that he may be benefitted. Six miles east of Holden, Johnson county, sparks from a passing en- gine set fire to and burned 65 acres of wheat for J. ©. Dauss, and forty acres for Geo. The wheat would have averaged thirty bushels to the acre. Goodwin. The big hotel at Amoret came near being destroyed by fire a few ago. It is thought the fire probably started from a fire cracker. Guests at the hotel discovered the blaze just in time to save the building and per- days haps the business part of the town as well. A. P. Grimes, a respected farmer living near Greenwood, Mo., fellfrom a load of hay the other day and broke his neck. He was standing up- right the hay when the horses moved up, the old gentleman lost his balance and fell to the ground alight- ing on his head with the above re- on sult. Our young friend D. H. Warford, of north Bates, favored us pleasant ly. He is one of the most substan- tial young farmers in the county and it is always a pleasure to meet him. The Wariord family is a very promi- and THE them nent one in Bates county Times is proud to number among its best friends. Prof. A. C. Gwinn, ed by the board of education princi pal of high school, has tendered his resignation and the board at a call same Monday recently elected meeting acted on the night releasing him from the con- tract. Prof. Gwinn, we understand, has received a better ofier financial- ly at Greenfield, Dade county. A tornado struck La Crosse, Wis.. Friday, doing thousands of dollars damage. The entire roof of the Ho- tel Boyeott, a four building, was torn off and carried half a block. The new Norwegian hospital, in course of construction, was wrecked and residences in large numbers were badly damaged. story Our old friend and punctual sub- scriber, W. A. Downey, living near Amoret, remembers us asis his annu- aleustom. He is becoming quitea capitalist aud promoter, being a director in the Bates county oil and mineralcompany. He isa fine man and we hope when oilisstruck he will be in on the ground floor. Rey. and Mrs. 8S. T. Di St. Joseph, their former home Tuesday, Rev. Divinia having sever- ed his relations with this congrega- tion and retired from the pulpit on account of throat troubles. an able preacher, an effetive worker, aclever gentleman and his friends here very much regret his loss. He MEE go to Colorado with the hope of | deriving benefit from that climate. The corner stone of the new Ohio| Street M. E. church will be laid to-! day. | Mrs. L. M. Morris and Goldie Rod- | gers, who have been visiting her son, inia left for | | on} He is!) Corn is selling at 50cents a bushel. Hug the shade and keep as cool | as you can is the order of the day If this weather continues the insti- tute at *Adrian will time have a warm Forty cents a gallon is the price | asked for cherries in this market. By the time you pay McKinley prices }for sugar and 40 cents a gallon for jcherries you have pretty dear pre- serves. | The Nevada Herald reports the j death from hydrophobia, inthat city of Beulah Harding. the little seven- | year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs Ora Harding. The child was bitten on May Ist by a Newfoundland pup. | } The Cass Courty Democrat says! that C. F. Gilbert, of Archie. lost three of his premium Berkshire hogs week from overheated. last being | Two of these hogs would have weigh- | ed 1,7 pounds The three were} valued at $500 | Notwithstanding the hot dry} weather we are told the water melon vines are doing well and the crop of to be melons promises good. This is a piece of news that willmake very the average coon show his teeth. Guess Tue Tres will have to throw its tow line out for a shower of rain. When Tus Times fails to bring things through its advertising columns, there is something radically somewhere. can depend upon it wrong you The Cannon—Weiner Elevator Co. has established down-town offices in Ross Hotel building, second west from corner, where they invite door customers. They are now making a call for flax, grain, hay and seeds. See their ad. in another column. The Northside ball team did up the South side team in great shape. The game was played at the lake park Tuesday afternoon and resulted, 24 to 10. The South side is not satis- fied and will give the bo¥s another go ata future date. who lives 4 miles Mo., dogs Sunday Har south of Versailles, on Jones, heard a dis turbance his night and on going out to locate the found a rattlesnake among trouble huge lying in bed with a pup while the mother was standing barking at it. The snake was shot and killed but not until after it had bitten the pup. According to the Ft. Seott Tribune Prof. G. Stockmeyer predicts that there will be terrific thunder storms and heavy rains the 5th and 11th of July and the same will occur in some locations on the 13th of July. He says that the hot weather during June is caused by the reflection from the planet Jupiter; that the reflection from Jupiter will continue until the Ist of August. Judge Miller, living south of town, Tuesday morn- load of poultry. The and he said was in the city early ing with a drouth has scared him, he was going to make a general clean up of all surplus stock, etc., on his The Judge is perhaps as well county to place. fixed as any farmer in the stand a siege of a year and he ought his the little just not to lose head, because weather is a against him now. Contracts for the complete light plant were let by the city council for $17.320, divided as follows: Plant to J. 8. Tritle, of St. Louis for $15,- 180; power house to C. E. Robinson for $2,140. The contract calls for a 150 horse power Ideal compound engine; two 50 K. W. Westinghouse dynamos, and 150 horse power water tube boiler, of the Babcock & Wilcox type: the plant to be ofthe three wire system. The work is to begin in 30 days and completed in four months. The apple crop in this county has been seriously damaged by the drouth. Nearly all the fruit has dropped from the trees. The peaches have also begun to drop and a few more days of intense heat of the past two weeks will destroy this crop which was very promising. Biack- berries have simply dry up on the vines and a total failure of what promised to be the largest crop in many years has disappeared. The | grapes are suffering and it is feared | | this crop will be a failure. The Rich Hill Review reports the two Frankenfield boys, Leeand John. fas being badly hurt by falling slate} while at work in Wises’ Mine near} |Panama, Tuesday morning. The} younger of the two boys, Lee, had The other is not The boys were cut about the face. badly hurt. brought to Rich Hill, Allen attended to their injuries. | so eeagrs us that he vy fcommodate a congregation befitting jour city jhad the | tian both legs fractured and was badly | Lotspeich on Tuesday at 10 o'clock |; |and the remains interred in Oak Hill/ bereaved relatives | Mrs. I. N. Seen and twochildren, Irene and Charley couple of months visit with relatives at Coldwater, Michigan The strawberry crop from the farm at the Fulton asylum will reach 10,- 000° quarts this yeur. Last year they amounted 7.000 quarts A box of berries, some of the fruit being as large as hens Gov. Dockery last week-—Ex 1 set o' stuble « by @ passing west part of town Sa caus nsiderable ex the prompt : stack of hay or ed Congressman ire the LOth where he inst with a friends will take a stean for Manila. He expects to also visit China and Japan. He will return about the | The trip is taken | for pleasure and sight seeing first of November B. R. Lewis, a salesman employed | by the Emery, Bird, Thayer dry} goods company, Kansas City, tried | to commit suicide by shooting him | self Monday. He refused to state] why he attempted to take his life. | Lewis is 24 years ofageand his home| isat Topeka, Kansas. The sition is a love affair caused the suppo- act. Danger signs have been the court yard keep out. The contractor who is su- perintending the work said that some badly hurt or he derrick re Was not put up in warning people to one was going to killed by erowding about and men at work, if the some means devised to keep them out } of the way, during the building. get the progress of J. R. Davis and wife spent the day, last Sunday, at the hospitable home of Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Park, Tue Times faithful correspondent at Virginia id we don’t know when nor where we ever spent a day more pleasantly or sat down to a_ better dinner. As viewed from the road the corn in the fields appeared to be standing the drouth remarkably well. The oats, flax and hay crop was almost a failure and the pastures had entirely up Mr. Park and son James were hauling hay for winter use from the bottoms burned The Farmers Bank of Bates coun- ty, one of the strongest financial in- stitutions in this section of thestate, publishesits official statement in this issue of THe Times. It bank to be in a healthy and prosper- ous condition, with plenty of money meet all legitimate de- mands. The officers of this bank are able financiers and look carefully af- ter the their patrons. They are courteous. clever and ac- commodating and when they geta customer they keep him. shows the on hand to interests of Through the courtesy of Rev. W F. Jones, pastor of the M. E. congre- gation of this city, of this | issue of THE Times will he placed in alittle copper box, together with other relics and deposited in the cor- of the magnificent brick and stone chureh one copy her stone j ected being ere ata cost of over seven thousand dollars, on Ohio street. When next that copy is read it will be by another gen- or fire or the work of the elements the build- before its that its re- eration, unless by accident destroyed We trust ing should be natural decay pose will not be disturbed uutil the building is torn down to make room edifice to ac- for a larger and finer a city population of 500,006 Catherine Morgan departed 1901. Shehad been years and always t Mrs. this lite July Ist, for sufferings She was born 1s46, quite an invalid with christian bore fortitude. see October 6, this state when young. was married to G. W. Mor, 1869, to which union seven children were born. four of whom survive her, viz Mrs. Fisher. Misses Myrtle and May and Arthur Morgan. Mrs.Morgan has been a resident of for ars and respect of her with the here in Tennes- to and came gan in Lewis over thirty ye and esteem neighbors. She united Christian church at up and an early age and to loving bas always lived its tenets. She wasa kind and raised her children to walk inthe Funeral ser- mother paths they should go. vices were conducted from the Chri ehurch by the pastor. Elder cemetery. The She} and Dr. W. H.| have the sympathy of theentirecom-| munity. | left last week fora ie oa eS SSN cele eS STG SNe) McKibbens. -_ Wash Dress Goods To Clean up Stock. —_ — These goods are all this on’s woods, up: te-date in style and were former prices, up quickly. 35¢ and * 20e¢ and lic 12 1-2 >and 10¢ & 1-5¢ and 71 5c wash goods elegant cut prices to clear our o0c¢ wash goods for 5c wash goods wash goods wash goods 7 1-2 2c wash goods 5e ic McKIBBENS. ORDERS taken from any grocery store same as cash. “as- values at We make the stock 25e 19¢ : Union Services. The churches of this city will unite during the summer in Sab bath ments have been me mth ss Arrange- made to hold these evening services services on the lawn south and east of the First Presbyterian church The first of these meetings will be held on the evening of July 7th at 8:00 p. m., at which the Rev. M. W Barcafer, of the Baptist church, will preach. Arthur Henry Insane. Arthur Henry, now living at ElDo- rado Springs, and leader of the band in that city, gone violently in- sane and two men are required to guard him constanty Ne- vada Post. He im one of the members of his band has says the ines has injured him and he wants to kill him. Arthur is the son of the late Judge E. A. Hen- ry, formerly cou elerk of Bates sed in Butler and e who will deeply He is asylum county. He wasr has many friends regret to learn o' iis malady ida now confined in the Nevs None to Care for this Maniac. Mo t to the penitentiary for Joseph and and became Sedalia, June 29.—Charles Blessing ten years James Gossage in insane in prison, will next week unless Pettis county con- sents to care for him at the Nevada asylum. Blessing railroader when he did the shooting, aud after he became insane the coum ty refused to pay for his keeping at for shooting 1888, be released here was a ramp” | | SODA FOUNTAIN EXPLODED | Killed E. M. King a Prominent Merch- the asylum. Suit was brought against the county and the asylum officials lost. Warden Wooldridge | was here to-day and notified the | county court that Blessing’ ssentence had expired and he would be turned over to the authorities here Monday Edward J. Walsh, a capitalist of St. Louis and pres of the Missis- I ; reome Mat- expired in and son were with him were on their way to Hot Spri Va., for health. he having 1 suffering from a siege of the | injured his clerk, ant of Appleton City. accident Appleton City, which of E. M. King, a prominent merchant, and seriously Ray Pulliam. Mr. King was recharging a soda foun- On July Ist a deplorable happened at resulted in the death tain tank with gas, when it exploded with terrible force. A large piece of the tank struck Mr. King in the low- er part of the abdomen and the thighs, horribly mangling the parte, picked up his busi- on He was conscious when and gave directions about ness. He died that afternoon at 2 o'clock. Roy Pulliam was thrown to the ground and had his leg badly injured. Edward M. King was born in Ohio in 1846. Came to Missouri in 1868, and engaged in business in Hudson, Bates which thriving village. When the M. K. & T, railroad was built he moved his stock to Appleton City and built the county, was then a first business house in that town. He served thattown at one time as mayor and was a prominent, pro- gressive citizen and very popular in that section Still in Business. While considerably broken down with rheumatism, I am still able to write insurance and look after thein- terests of my customers throughout the county. No policy will be allow- ed to lapse for lack of attention, and! respectfully solicit new business with the promise that it will receive my careful attention. tespectfaliy J.35. Pierce. S5tt | Disfigured Skin $ and decaying bones. f all that, bes In only cathartic to ta acdiiadintiiiede:..