The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, July 11, 1901, Page 5

GOOG SCOS SCOOSOOCOBSES™ $ Midsummer Clearing Sale. y } Owing to the continued dry weather, we ( will offer all men’s fancy check and stripe + worsted and cassimere suits at GREAT { REDUCTION. & Men’s $18.00 suits $13 50 & Men’s 15.00 suits 11.00 1 Men’s 12.50 suits 9.00 1g Men’s 10.00 suits 7.50 Men’s_ 8. suits 6. These prices for cash only. Now is the time to buy a nice nobby smut HBOS SLOSS FFOO HWSO OSE at wholesale prices. We still have a few of those child’s wash suits left. $1 suits at 5Oc. 5oc suits at 35c. 25c suits at 15c. STRAW HATS AT COST. . Still in Business. Mrs. Mae Doug changed from Butler to Fowler, Col. sshas her paper While consideravly broken down with rheumatism, I am still able to | grite insurance and look after thein- | terests of my customers throughout thecounty. No policy will be allow- ad to lapse for lick of attention, andI respectfully solicit new business with the promise that it will receive my careful attention. Respectfully, J.S. Pierce The health of the community this warm dry spell has been exceptional- there has been ly good. In the city little or no sickness Has the city council consulted the Free Press editor in the selection of a superintendent in the construction 3tt ; of the light plant buildings? The Adrian Journal reports Will Tues’ Telephone No. 37. | Haggard, formerly of this county, is}. - z pele fos : ‘jailed for horse stealing. in a critical condition at Blue Mound, | “ pce z 5 | stolen a horse from Kansas, by being overcome by heat. | The ice men have raised the price to% ofa cent a pound. Monegaw Springs are well patron- ized this hot weather T.C. Robinson changed to Lyous, Kansas. Oilhas been struck on the Mathews farm two miles southeast of Eldora- orders his paper | doSprings. in digging a well for stock water. Ed. Holt, we understand, iseutting the second crop of bottom hay. and superintended work of macad- . | . | amiziny: Pine street to the cemetery The date of the fair at Harrison- | ase ne street to the Ce er} ville is set for August 12, 14, 15 and | 16. gate, will complete his work to-day. Mrs. T. W. Arnold left on the noon train Monday for Santa Rosa, Cal. to visit her father, Dr. J. W. Lowry} She will be absent several we We: Walton left for to spend the heated Mr. and Mrs Denver, Col.. term. The official reports to the bureau The discovery was made } Mr. Edrington, who has had charge } | women in the To get rain ¢ lenty of it guess - : ‘ : Bi ass ene o s of vital statistics of deaths from! atler will have to get up another peat in greater New York for the gs street fair. week ending July 6th, * % one thousand deaths. Aunion meeting of the churches at of Rippletown, John G. Carver, Mo., accompanied by Sara Ann and Mexico has been arranged to offer prayer for rain. Maggie Bowman, who have been in | Butler visiting their unele, Dr. G. F. | Ripple, left for their home Monday The thermometer in front of J. A. Trimble’s drug store registered 108 at 1 o'clock p. m. Tuesday. | | morning. A number of our young people are | : P Hog cholera’ has ‘broken out talking of going over to Monegaw to | aa Secale among the swine north of Nevada. | g. | Itbegins to look like old Bates, the | | greatest producing county 1 the | state, spend a week or so rusticatir The Post says Frank Callaway has lost 70 head and his hogs are still dying, while his neighbors are suffer- will have to go abroad for | ing in proportion. corn this season. | Almost all the surplus stock has Pierce Hackett was in town Tues- | been shipped out of the county on day and treated himself to a new | account of the protracted drought. buggy, one of McFarland Bros, | searcity of pasture and the discour- high grades. | aging outlook for a corn crop. The excessive heat does not effect | Notwithstanding the drought has the work on the court house founda tion. Work on the building goes right along. works, it said there is a sufficient amount at the pumping station to last the town until September and The Clinton Democrat i ee : of the fact that it is definitely settled }itwill certainly rain before that tin that Clinton is to railroad ures us Our old friend E. N. Jones, foru erly of this city, now of G get the Colorado A. M. Wileox, a | 58: remembers us with a remittance prosperous farmer and influential cit- | jzen of our county, will accept our thanks for renewal. Our young friend Mr. Jones’ many friends ad to for renewal. here will be = pering. t ow he is pros- foot t nei 1 | 3 . foot up nearly | an extended visit to Mr Edwardsville, His. | yeen a severe strain on the water-| 2r has sold his! the Pleasant Hill Times, to Roy T. Cloud, who willcon- } Ww. M newspaper su plant, ret tinue to Times the out once a week with neatness and dispatch at | by telephone the old stand ; pure hased t One hundred farmers near son City have connected t Thatisar nt and saves trouble of visiting Henry T Misses Sallie and Agnes Arnold I tt = took their sparture for Colorado ty Springs Monday noon or {eee 7 ; Al : - } papers rood spa pe trip of a month’s duration Tue ie @ 28 g , | man é 1¢ liberal pat Times wishes them an = enjoyat en oftha s ( | dige pu a re : : } or water in 2 s Mrs. Clifford Hatet : fattest baby in the : - = was 11 i he surface w we pounds } % pounds ers SeORee iD This is s i us f this tov shi wr at = ~ = t favored us pleasantly and time wl issoscar \ ‘ He came to Bates county Journal t ska : i vear 1 | Obse ing 1 F »rosperec A negro jumped off the Memphis | t MeKibben Mercantile store. or fiver, between Liberal and Lamar,| at a time, are enjoying the 3 Friday, while it was running at ful jity of the firm in a o € speed and was instantly killed. His|days, without inte neck being broken. It is not known | salary This is certainly a gra | ; ne what caused him to jump. Dr. J. T ing of the state dental asso Sedalia this week The companied by his wife, left Saturday Hull is attendin a meet- tion in doetor, ac- and stopped off at Warrensburg to spend a few days with relatives The contractors have begun on the foundation for theelectric light plant building. It is to be hoped the smoke from the plant will go northeast and not prove a nuisance and annoy- ance to the business houses Sprinkling the streets has been dis- continued for the present. The con- tinned drouth and the heavy draft on the supply of water at the pump ing station at the river has caused to the water company use precau jsmall about this big | buildings and beautifying t | In granting act of the firm and is, 0} iated b, andefficient clerks highly apr cept the profiits on tl Dr. Christy a short timeagogr ed the boys the privil in hislake south of town cost the doctor considerable mone the cautione } ns boys privi bathe he damaging his pro them says the doctor, privilege granted them and now have abused the} warns them to keep out Not yn- tent with bathing they damaged his property by cutting tl benches throwing mud on the boat house and killing the voung ducks woe which had been raised at the lake = 3. preece , propri oe ee The fourth in en tleareiy American Clothing House, left Mon-| qyiet, As no celebration was ad Cal., to see his wife, who is sojourning in that climate for the benefit of herhealth. | He expects to be absent tember H.E remembers us with a renewal and have host of friends in this They day noon for Los Angeles until Sep- Percival, of Burlington, Vt., Mr. his estimable family | ity and | were prominent Percival county and | | influential citizens of our county for a number of years The business portion of the town] of Polo, near Kingston, Mo., was almost completely wiped out by fire | on the 4th. About 14 business houses and a few residences were burned The fire originated in a dental office, but the cause is not} known | Jim Varner and his father, James Varner, were captured at Clinton and Frank Johnson near Pettis and also a horse from Mr. Cox, near Green Ridge, Montrose, Henry tounty. Varner’s wife has made a full confession of h husband's horse stealing Mrs. B. Milligan of the best world one our sanctum and renewed. Sheis ar English lady and has traveled mut h, in hey lived and the visiting most of the Euro coun- T tries, including Palestine in New Zealand, Australia United States. They have a fine c farm in Summit and are well fixed M.Vo Wax daughter, Linda, returned homefrom Nix’s broth his bright little and er Samuel Nix, at That was Mr. Nix’s old home, where he was born and raised, and wh he had not visited for thirty years | | | They had| county, | \the Michigan aver | complimented | tised, however, no one disappointment. In ball bet wee id there was a Butler Smelt zers, game nine the could claim Kansas City h lays claim to being the best nine in the state outside the lez tablished a custom fort treating them all As the Butler boys beat them, the score standing 9 t iake our t We hope it will not stiff necked. Some very had the Butler L Park track, mostly local horses It was ou ike is announced that Rey. S season of uike, why they just M »0Ns rood racing and Brown, former pastor of the Baptist arch, this city, 1d now pastor of Kansas City, and editor Word an Way, the official organ ehureh in Missouri and Kansas Wednesday last Baptist church. of the Baptist t for Hamptonville, North Carolina, where his father, the tev. G. W. Brown, is dying. The Rey. S. M_ Brown is a son-in-law of Dr ringham, of this city. He hed in Missouri twenty-five d has made in that time twenty-three trips to North Carolina land this will make his 24th trip to estate of his nativity during his residence in Missouri. Throug! >courtesy of Mayorand Mrs. Duyall. ye editor and wife hada | most de in their new and return ¢ e pevening From a field on his father’s old farm \ he cut a buneh of wheat and brought | to THE Times office. The measured 45 inches with fi of head well filled out. st ve inches Se Dr.G. Y. senior member of the banking firm of Salmon & Sal- mon, at Clinton, celebrated his 74th birthday at Sedalia Friday. Dr Salmon was born in South Carolina and came to Missouri, wher only 13 years of age He has been a resident of Clinton for the past 54 He still enjoys good health years. and is quite a Last week we published the fir statement of the Farmers Ba cial nk at Foster, which made a most excellent wing. Its cashier, W. id, is one of the successful young business me strong s officers are W sident Jno. H. as wealthy and influential citizens p was | li cramp coi j and enjeyins nselves Lee Johnson, one of our promi \farmers living northwest of t about three mi made a | carriage to Adr f We of the were that Adrian had house tc ily starte took fire soonf ry body seer serious mistake Tuesday evening an one which came life. He was suffering from pains the bordered stomach, which and rs, concluded t knowles having of drug of pepper ful fb room had chang instead of mint, ur costing him his Wo ocr roe he fooler ee ea orale ae )aoe of July ducted by Grand Master E McKibbens. Reduced Prices ON ash Dress Goors To Clean up Stock. —__ These goods are all this seas- ons Loos is, up to-date in stvle and were elegant values at We make the stock former prices. cut prices to clear our up quickly. 50¢ wash e@oods for De 3D5e and 25c wash goods 19¢ 2Oc and 15¢ wash goods 12 1-2¢ 12 1- 7 1-2¢ and 10e¢ wash goods 8 1-3e and 7 1-2e wash goods Be 5e wash goods McKIBBENS. ORDERS taken from any grocery store same as ¢ I Missouri Idd Fellows home, located at Lib Mo.. was dedicated on the 4th The ceremonies were attend- The new building of the Laying of the Corner Stofie The corner stone for the new seven- rty, thousand dollar Methodist church on Ohio street was laid on the morning of the by the court house cont rs of the orderfrom over 1 OF See fourth. The stone, presented was of Carthage lime stone, highly pol- The ceremonies were con M. Alex- There are fifty- he state ractors, er, of Paris, Mo ul ished and suitably engraved by T.J. nmates at the home, of these 29) Hay In a receptacle cut out ‘in the children and 22 aged persons. Genter was placed a copper box in The new building was ere¢ ted to re- | which was deposited a copy eat oft one which was burned @ | the five Butler papers, the anu is said to be the most | p4)] the names of the contributors best arranged struc ompl ew church, a picture of the come oe kind in th t - DUAteS, rch, a letter from the pastor, land the Odd Fellows of Missouri may F. Jones, a roster of the city | well feel proud of it he t ersand a souvenir coin of the ) Das Bn Aer eey< sd. Pena Pan-American Exposition Song }and out and the site is | forthree years from Harri one of the service and prayer were held at the building The walls brick and is believed vutiful und site Adjournment was ~ of stone and taken to the Christian church where Wiens Se beams | pyr W. A. Quayle delivered a splen- the floors are laid of lid address replete with pith and re are | ove t In taking the ch and appro- ; Jones for CIRCUIT COLRT NOTES great geal weather bee Ww h ma yossible to secure this on the court) tine chur for our city business has 4 ee M nda segs . ry Notice is by given to the land- 9 t rs 0 listrict No. one, of nut township, Bates county, Mo. a meet f said land-owners wil] be held at the office of the secre- Mo., commencing at 20’clock senite d and was sen a jail tary in Foster, 17th, 1901 iff Ma Saturday, Aug. from Kansas, bad some horses peor n to levee said district. IN| follow him off and forgot to return Plans, specifications and estimates on | them to proper owner. He also plead | of work contemplated will be submit j guilty and was sentenced to three | ted at said meeting jyears. He served a tweive yearaser- Done by order of Board of Trustees json county, Ka : day of Jul 1901 Lewis STaken, F W. A. Evsiann, See’y Four Missourians Successful a niente ae eR RI <TH