The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, August 1, 1901, Page 8

} | = bi rj j ; THE MISSOURI STATE BANK. of Butier, Missouri. Capital $55,000.00. Surplus and Undivided Profits, $6,700.00. We are admirably equipped for the transaction of all branches of Banking business; have at all times an Abundance of Cash so that we can Loan Money and Buy Notes on the most liberal terms. OUR DEPOSITORS are provided with check books free of charge and every courtesy in our power is extended them. OUR FIRE PROOF VAULT is offered to our customers as a safe depository for their private papers free of rent. : j This bank is organized under the banking laws of Missouri and is frequently examined by State Bank Examiners, has é forty-seven stockholders, thirty-nine of them live in Bates county, is managed carefully and solicits the patronage of the public. We want you for a customer. Wm. E. Warton, President. J. BR. JENKINS, Cashier. —DIRECTORS.— Charles R. Redford, Wm. F. Walton, aoc. Boulware,” T. J. Wright, J.B. Jenkins, 0 Frank M. Voris, CH. Dateher. Booker Powell, LOW INTERESTiRATES. | The Third Amendment having been declared unconstitutional by our Supreme Court the WALTON TRUST COMPANY, will now loan money on Real Estate in Bates, Vernon and Barton counties. Missouri, at lower rates of interest than ever before offered. We have a large amount of idle money in Bank at Butler ready for loans. There will be no delay on our part. If you want a loan be sure to come and get our rates, terms, ete. We have a complete and reliable abstract of title to each acre of land and town lot in Bates county showing every transfer or encumbrance from the time land was bought of the United States down to this date, FRANK ALLEN, Secretary, WM. E. WALTON, President. Bre Cea, Notice. Still in Business. Notice is hereby given to the land owners of Levee trict No. one, of Walnut township, Bates county, Mo., that a meeting of said land owners will be held at the office of the secre- tary in Foster, Mo., Saturday, Aug. 17th, 1901, commencing at 2 o'clock p- m., for the purpose of voting on a proposition to levee said district. Plans, specifications and estimates of work contemplated will be submit- While considerably broken down with rheumatism, I am still able to write insurance and look after the in- terests of my customers throughout the county. No policy will be allow- ed to lapse for lack of attention, and I respectfully solicit new business with the promise that it will receive mny careful attention. Respectfully, B5tf J.S. Pierce | ted at said meeting. Done by order | of board of trustees this 6th day of Miss Winifred Davis, of Thayer, | July, 1901. Lewis Sraker, Pres’t. Mo., is visiting Miss Alpha Broaddus. 86-4 W A. EpHLann, See’y. Elder Scott left with hisfamily last week for Pontiac, Hlinois, where he takes charge of a church. W. E. Wells, a Butler boy, was the the Sam Marshall, a prominent farmer of the Burdett neighborhood, was in town Saturday and to a reporter Aneel said that while drilling 2 well on his jfarm oil and gas were ata depth of 110 feet. He was elated One day last week a farmer had a) over the dis: overy and thinks it will wagon load of small pigs in town peddling them out at 25¢ a piece winner of a chance farm in ElDorado. Good for Wiley. struck prove a profitable source of revenue | to him another scrap of The extreme heat of the past month | evidence which goes to show that the as well as the drought has been bro- | hidden wealth of this country should For all of which everybody | be developed. No can doubt that oil is here in paying quantities. —Adrian Journal. This is ken. one feels thankful. The farmers who virtually gave their stock away through fright of the drought, may yet be sorry of! their hasty action. The people of Bates county are de- pending on their county court to see that the terms and specifications of | this house proposition are complied with. The court will be held responsible for any defects. The tinker’s dam ; who the superintendent is, or who the contractors. What they want is court A fourth of a crop of corn in Ba county would surprise the natives, but some of the farmers contend that Sen cask it people do not care a All kinds of mill feed at the Eleva- tor—bran, shorts, corn and wheat! their money’s worth—and they are chops. Come and see us and get depending on the county court to prices. see that they get it. The Review be- CANNON-WEINER ELevatTor Co. lieves the court WiLL see to it, hence is not worrying about the matter in the least.—Rich Hill Review. Next there will be general clamor of the farmers for cattle and hogs and from appearances now the prices Dr. W. E. Shelton, of Appieton will range high enough to suit all} City, in company with Senator who buy. | Jno. B. Newberry. was a pleasant The farmers will improve the op-} caller on Wednesday. Dr. Shelton is portunity to plant cane and other | an applicant before the Nevada Asy- seeds now, and itis hoped that plenty | !um Board for the position of assist- will yet be raised to tide the stock | @0t physician in that Institution. through the winter. Dr. Shelton has been in the active H. J. Waters, director of the Mis- practice of medicine for many years souri Agricultural Experiment Sta- 3 : tion, advises the farmers to sow at} = rhe aban andienious a oe once cowpeas, sorghum, kaffir corn, | aie Lae ee need sone ae millet, Brown Dourha, a plant elose- semanas line of his aspirations and ly related to sorghum and kaffir | [8 tastes and inclinations tend in that direction The Doctor has al- | corn; and for fall pasturage rape, | s | Ways been an active, influential demo- | turnips, rye and wheat. Le erat, and has never asked anything Our esteemed and popular farmer | at the hands of his party. We think friend C. H. Radford, of the Ballard | him worthy and competent and neighborhood, favored us Monday. | would be glad to see him get the ap- He said that while the corn is badly | pointment injured it will make some corn and plenty of fodder. He reports splen- did showers in his neighborhood. and has established a fine profession- On Monday, July 29th. the draw- | ing forthe homes in the new territory was begun. Five hundred names were drawn, 250 in each district. In the Lawton district James R. Woods. of Weatherford, Okla.. drew No. 1 and Miss Mattie H. Beal, of Wichita. Kan.. No. 2. In El Reno A Missouri exchange says that dancing is said to make girls’ feet | large, ice cream produces freckles, | hanging on the front gate brings on consumption, chewing gum distorts the mouth, playing the piano de- | stroys the beauty of the hands, while washing dishes causes chaps to come | —and propose. Dist. Ste- No. 1, and Leonard Lamb, Augusta. Okla., No. 2. These claims are esti- mated worth all the way from fifteen Puring the rain storm Monday | to thirty i lars. Miss evening the tower onthe M. E.church | Beal isa telephone nd reports at Rich Hill, was struck by lightning | say very deserving. has a wid- and badly splintered. R. A. Bailey, Owed mether depe on her for agent for the Mo. Pacitie Railway, | Support. county fared very Was under the tower at the time and | well on the first day, Jno. N. Kisner. was knocked from his feet by the | of Butler. and Harlin H. Harshaw, of force of the bolt, but not hurt, Spruce, getting good numbers.” thousand do gir She a Bates phen A. Holcomb, Paul Valley, 1 T., | | Tue Times regrets to learn thatits | good farmer friend C. McKenna, liv- | ing south of town. is on the sick list jagain, and hopes for his early and complete recovery. | Ex-Gov. Wm. J. Stone, in an open jletter to the Boonville Advertiser, denies that a political combine exists | between himself and Governor Dock- jery for their mutual advantage. He saysthat if he is a candidate he would want the governor's help, but tine hasn't any assurances at this that he would get it 2 little Holden girl's Following non boys ‘Boys are men | | | | | } ' composit hat hav and girls are ladies by and by Men mude before Wt looked at Adam, he said to Well, | think I can do id then he made Eve. ot big as ti ‘ir papas, that women will be were you women. God himself. better if Ltry God jagain, z |liked Eve so much better than Adam jthat there have been more women |than men ever since. Boys are a trouble. They wear out everythin, | but soap. If I had my half of the boys in the world would be girls, the My papa is so nice that | think he must have been a little girl when he was a way, and would be dolls rest little boy James Dun, the young soldier be- longing to the First Regiment, who was drummed out of camp Tuesd for appropriating Fryer & Hutchins” beer delivery wagon, was immediate- ay ly arrested by Chief of Police Moore! on a state warrant charging him with malicious mischief. He before Justice Poage, who fined him Not be- ing able to liquidate he was sent to jail for five days. The officer had a! also for Carter, the other member of the same regiment. who} the but the latter was not dismissed from ! was arraigned warrant was charged with same offense, the service as was originally intended | and the officer failed to get service on | him.--Nevada Post Speaking of M. V. Carrell’s retire- ment as chief of the Labor Bureau | the Jefferson City Press says his connection with the State Labor | Bureau as chief clerk, he hasenlarged and improved the character of its “Since | service to such an extent that the} publications of the Missouri Labor | Bureau now rank among the very | best in the United States and many of the statistical forms and schedules constructed by Mr Carroll have been adopted and are now being used by the Bureau of other States. While acting as chief clerk under Commissioners Rozelle and Rixey, did most of the work in the prepar: Labor + nuel reports and maps issued during thistime. The matter in the current the shipments year’s map. showin made during 1900, was prepared un- der his supervision and is now in press One of the fiercest and most de. structive fires that has visited this | vicinity for several years, occurred at the Peter Alexander farm eight miles | due northeast of this city Sunday | The fire xander was discovered by | ae about 11. o'clock. when the blaze was comparatively small. up the corner of one of the barns in which tons of hay This reached, the fire spread rapidly and surely, and before it died down | had consumed property to the value | of $6,000—Mr. Alexander estimates. | He carried about $2,000 insurance. | The property destroyed consisted of| five buildings, viz: The cow house} 35x18 feet in size: the main barn, | 60x60; mule shed, 70x100: old barn, | 40x48; granary It these buildings were 3,000 bushels of corn, | all the farming machinery, a fine bull, | ja number of hogs and chickens and | other property, besides the hay pre-| viously mentioned.—Pleasant Hill} | Times. | At that time it was leaping Was stored GO | Missouri Boy Drowns While Bathing. | ; Palmyra. Mo., July 29.—Alonzo| | Davis. a Young man, 20 years ofage. | wss drowned while bathing in the! | Mississippi river. six miles east of j this city Saturday night. He ; With several companions when sud- | jdenly he took the cramps and was| drowned before they could render as-| | was! sistance. The body was recovered | and brought to this city, where the funeral will be held. Young Davie’ home was at Mountain View, Mo. ECONOMY | CREAM SEPARATOR. | ataiogue. ete. ECONOMY SUPPLY CO.. 555 Main St. Wansas City. %o a ‘at half past 4 o'ck {arrived in Virginia at 7 | planted five weeks ago. tion and publication of the four an-! | money changer, who, in turn, placed jeally all the bank notes were recov- | prices before selling. |overbid in cash. | Duh eae Informatien for Teachers. The institute law makesit the duty of every teaches to attend the insti tute in hiscounty unless attending summer school at the time. The Bates County Institute begins Aug. 12, and will continue 10 days, closing on Thursday Aug. 22. follow- ed by examination for two days: Aug. 23 and 24. Let every teacher make an effort OFFICERS. N. THOMPSON, President BENNETT, Vice Pres. . KIPP, Cashier. - NEWBERRY, DIRECTORS Ass’t Cashier to attend at least a part of the time, as the work will be different in many ——— rE, respects from what it was under the GAILEY old law Respectfully, y H. O. Maxey 2 School Commissioner We heard it and jotted it down What happened in and out of town The I big rair Frank county weople are rejoicing over the Monday night moving to Barton Some of townsmen attended ik. 8 our rowr H.E.P law suit betwe = and Alton Park, held at Butler day. ae is Will Durst. assessor is 2 ar have to pay tax on this dry y wr were at Kansas City last week Cowan an Mrs. Peter Crooks and son Gec UNDER STATE SUPERVISION, We beg to offer our services for a part or all of your account feeling that we can assure de- positors all the advantage aris- ing from experience, prudence and vigilence. Faimers path Se ee PERCIVAL, FARM LOANS. od her daughter Mrs. J. H. Cope} > Menday of last Pyle and f few week. | Money to Loan on Rates of Interest mily of Rich] Rev. W. T Hill, are spending a Cor lays with | his father-in-law, Washington Park Every body is sowing turnips Miner Pyle left Rich Hill Saturday k ona bike ——— ToS CTC C UST C TN TSS TT and Miss Ida Flesher of Butler, spent ae a | BAD LUCK AT WELL. last week with her uncles. aunts and | cousins | Sean Eee The Virginia base ballteam played| pye peril Fast yoo Feet Below the two match games Saturday after- noon, one with Mulberry team in Surface. which they came out victors, but the] Amoret Beacon, Elkhart team took the victory away The big machine at the oil well has from them stopped. The drill bit is fast in the Report has it that Will Heckadon, | hole 460 feet down of Virginia and Miss Nettie Yeoman The bit is a steel rod 36 feet long marriad at Butler|/and weighs 1600 pounds and the drillers think they cannot recover it, so they must secure another drill and of Spruce were last week commenced Monday Heavy rain about 5 o'clock and continued until] start a new hole. This will meana night. Grass is beginning to show!loss to them of about six hundred its head again. The rain last Fri-| dollars. The drill bit is worth about $150 and they are drilling by con- lf they aban- day afternoon brought corn to the top of the ground that had been Aaron fin- tract at $1 per foot don this hole they will re for the 460 feet they have drilled. The Bates County Oil and Mineral the mishap ive nopay ished replanting Monday, hoping to This sown get fodder in return for labor re will be cane Should the week tI sugar Co. will lose nothing by but they hate to lose such a promis- and kaffir corn planted rains continue a few weeks longer |ing well as this promised to be. the fields will look green. AAKON. ATLANTA, Ga., Nov. 19, 1900 Astounded the Editor We have handled Dr. Moffett’s = . 4 Teething (Teething Powders) ever Editor 8 A Brown, of Bennetts-| Since its first introduction to the ville. S.C. was once immensely sur- public and trade as a proprietary prised. “Through long suffering} medicine, and our trade in it has from Dyspepsia,” he writes, “my wife steadily increased from year to year was greatly run down. She had no strength or vigor and suffered great distress from her stomach, but she tried Electric Bitters which helped her at once, and, after using four bottles, she entirely well, can eat anything. i grand tonic, and its gentle laxative qualities are splendid for torpid liver For Indigestion, Loss of Appetite, Stomach and Liver troubles it’s a positive, guaranteed cure. Only 50¢ at H. L. Tucker's drug store until our orders now amount to two or three hundred per year, which is a tery strong evidence of its merit and the satisfaction it is giving tothe mothers of the country, for they say that nothing so effectually counteracts the effects of the sum- mers hot sun or overcomes so quick ly the troubles incident to teething Tur Lamar & Rankin Droe Co 38-2t Wholesale Druggist gross It's Race Trouble in Arkansas. July 29.—News Leake township. arty of white Camden. Ark. reached here from Nevada county. tl men sent word to I they would night. Curiosity Caught Thieves. Tacoma. Wash., July 29.—A wo- man’s curiosity has led to the arrest of the men who robbed the Shanghai bank at Singapore and the recovery of $200,000 in bank stolen. The thieves were Chinese tellers who had been employed at the bank for 25 years. A small part of the booty deposited with a Singapore gler, a ne- gro, that whip him last word that some of them killed if they came attempt to nates would The party went out, and the re- port is that Seigler and his son shot into them killing Lewis brother of state senator Haynie, and Hop Halton, a brother of John Hal- ton, a prominent merchant at Steph- was a portion of it with another money changer. The wife of the latter talk- ed freely on the subject, causing an investigation, which gave the officers the first clew. Arrests followed and the whole story came out. Practi- ens. There are some 400 and 30 white people in this township, and it is said that racial troubles ha been brewing for sometime. At last reports parties of white people had negroes ered. Carpenter & Shafer M’f'g Co. We} left for the scene of the trouble from want poultry andegg. We can pay} Waldo and Stephens and the negro’s top prices at all times. Get our| house was still surrounded We will not be yes Yours for business. May Become International. CARPENTER & SHAFER M'F’G ( °-} Denver, Col., July 28.—William | Radclifie, owner of the lease on the | Grand Mesa lakes in Delta county, Only 50 Cents to make your baby strong and ~ well. A fifty cent bottle of partment. This interna- tional aspect to the recent shooting gives an 9 © joftwo men by a deputy game war- | 4 Scott S Emulsion | den, the burning of "Ra hotel 3 will change a sickly baby to™ | and the threatened lynching / 2 plump, romping child. g |self by a mob of Delta county citi- < Only one cent a day, think ~ | *™5-_ 7 = of iz. Radclffe claime to be a subject of Se King Edward, and has appealed to nent te protect his life | his gove Real has? and received | get Haynie, | bas been summoned to Washington | {for consultation with the state de-/ Estate at Lowest ne and get our rates 4 ERCIVAL. 1B. Devan | i : RRARRAAR RRA RRR RR ceiicesaebnaabidisiaiea a Might be Worse. ‘There have been times of greater ‘ment in the state than we are now having,” remarked a promi- nent Vernon county farmer In 1875, farmers drawing rations in Cass county in order to live. Upto July 1, there was nota green thing in the county. This was the grasshopper year. The good people of lowa, Illinois and Indiana shipped in car load after car load of strange as it may sound now; that fall in Cass county at 10 cents a bushel. So we came out all right after that fall were so plentiful there was no sale for them We will pull through all Nevada Post. disceour I saw provisions and corn sold ables whatever right yet. They Struck It Rich It was a grand thing for this com- munity that such an enterprising firm as H. L. Tucker secured the Agency for Dr. King’s New Discovery for Consumption, the wonderful remedy that has startled the world by its marvelous cures. The furorof enthusiasm over it has boomed their business, as the demand for it is im- mense. They give free trial bottles tosufferers, and positively guarantee it to cure Coughs, Colds, Bronchitis, Asthma, Croup, and all Throat and Lung Troubles. A trial proves its merit. Price 50c and $1.00. Tariff Lifted. Washington, July 25.—To-day the president issued his proclamation et tablishing free trade between the United States and Porto Rico decl: & the organization of a civil / government. The proclamation was issued to- day in commemoration of the anni- versary of the planting of the Amer- ican tlag Quarreled Over Property. Dodge City, Kus., July 29.—E. Kirby, proprietor of the Park Hotel, to-day shot and killed his wife and himself, both dying in- | then shot | stantly. The wife was shot in the forehead, | Kirby in the throat. The cause a& | signed is a dispute over property. 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