The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, November 7, 1901, Page 5

It is a little early-to talk World’s Fair to the farmers at this time, but one thing should be borne in mind, and that is that Bates county wants to be wellrepresentedatthefair. We should have an exhibit of field and jorehard that will do credit to the | fifth county in the state ) SOOO OSSS ESET eeeeceee -g The Money You Save jm the eourse of a year will sur- The omission of the names of Gen- jeral Clark and his staff from the of- ficial mantal of Missouri, was clear- jly an unintentional oversight and |one which we have no doubt Secre- |tary of State Cook very much re- , | Stets. In loading some green oak posts on @ wagon Geo. N. Requa, of Lone| T.J. Spears, a substantial citizen Oak township, met with a painfulac- | of Spruce township, complimented us cident a few days ago, by letting one| Pleasantly and had his date set ef the posts drop on his left foot,|a@bead. The Spears, Uncle Jimmie mashing the big toe and bruising the , and four stalwart sens, is a strong instep. and influential family in East Bates Jobn A. Robinson and R. L. Bea- and Tue Times is glad to number man were initiated tntcy the myeien- them among its staunchest friends, j\Prise y you if you will buy your ‘CLOTHING | AND ies of Odd Fellowship in Bates lodge| Col. Wesley Badgett, democratic Monday night, and Frank Stucker|committeeman from Howard and SHOES was given the second degree. This township assessor, was in the city on = lodge is in a flourishing condition at| Monday and turned his books in to ! _OF THE— the present time. thecounty clerk completed. He made Tne TIMES a pleasaut call and enroll- ed for the ensuing year. Wesley is a mighty clever fellow and a strong man if his township, The Harrisonville Democrat says, it is believed by those in a position to know, that Scott & March, of Bel- ton, Cass county, have the biggest individual herd of thoroughbred Hereford cattle in the world. They began with a few imported cows about twenty years ago. ce ~ “AMERICAN,” The Only ONE PRICE HOUSE IN THE CLOTHING BUSINESS IN BUTLER. THE LINE OF WINTER —UNDERWEAR— We offer beats anvthing on the An Omaha paper makes thefollow- ing announcement: ‘The marriage of Miss Blanche Lowe, daughter of the late General W. W. Lowe, and Lieutenant Benjamin R. Wade, of the Tenth Infantry, stationed at Fort Crook, is anneunced to occur in No- vember.” The Democrat of Nov. 4th says: “Very recently we were officially in- formed that the wedding would take place to-day, and the happy couple would go on a brief wedding trip.” Tue Times extends to its young friend Lieut. Wade and his bride hearty congratulations, A. L, Gilmore, the gentlemanlyand efficient assessor of Deep Water township, completed his books and turned them over __to the county clerk on Monday. He made Tue Times a pleasant call, Art. is an active young democrat and popular in his township. Thomas Carver, aged 90 years, died at his home in Cedar county, 7 miles west of Stockton, on the 30th. The Stockton Journal says he was the oldest man in the county, and the pioneer resident of that section of the state, having resided on the farm where he died fer 60 years. The six-year-old son of W. R. Will- iamslivingin Henry county met with a severe accident the other day. In changing some horses and cattle from one pasture to anether, the little fel- low’s mother who held a babe in her arms had him open a gate and as one of the horses passed through kicked the boy in the face, fracturing the skull over the left eye some two 4 hi for 25¢ a garment market Robbers broke into Lee Hawkins’ store at Pleasant Hilland stole a lot of watches, chains, bracelets, rings, revolvers, etc. Some of the goods were found in Kansas City where the for the price, The best line of Our line of work thieves had disposed of them, The}inches in length. The membrane of shoes Hats, stealing was done by two negroes,|the brain was broken, and some of i oe one of whom was captured in Sedalia] the brain showed through the frae- are the = pac CES | | | Shir ts, and confessed. ture. Doctors trephined the skull hy, st on ed A) ype yt® er || | |N eck- The contractor has about complet- een fellow rallied <g from ed the work of setting the poles forte operation, and it was thought the lw ear. 4 7 he would recover. the electric light plant. So far se good, but what has become of the machinery to run the light. Neither the engine or boiler for the plant has arrived and no one, not even the city-authorities, seem to know when it will be in running order. Market, Mans a Bors OQyrrirvers H. G. COOK, MANAGER. There are 120 civil cases pending in the November term of the Bates county circuit court. There are 25 divorce cases, 13 damage suits, 12 suits on notes, 11 appeals, 9 eject- ments, 8 attachments, and 8 parti- tion suits, 4 motions to retax costs, 4 suits on accounts, 4 suits to quiet title, 2 suits for maintainance and 28 others. There are 58 cases on the criminal docket, 1 for sity 6 assault with intent to kill, 2 rape, 2 seduction, 7 liquor, 2 grand larceny and 17 for other violations of law. Mrs. Marsh, whose husband was killed by an engine at Humein March last, and who brought suit against the Kansas City Southern railroad for damages in the sum of $5,000, was given judgment in the circuit court at Nevada for $4,500, The case was appealed by the railroad Times’ Telephone No. 37. We carry the stock. We lead in quality. We are lowest in price. Don’t miss the American Clothing House. New Topsy hosiery at McKibbens. Walk-over shoes fit the feet and | wear. American Clothing House. The road overseers have been doing Wantep—Good girl for general Bouse good work ob # i housework Mrs, H. G. Cook. | PULP ROCeETSosSSssssoe GOOD GOODS At the Lowest Prices, We do not offer for. sale any trashy goods er quote any trashy catch penny prices. But only strictly reliable goods at the lowest possible guise McKIBBENS. — Cloaks and C ‘apes $10, $15,00, $12.50, down to $1,00, Splendid Values. Dress Skirts $8.50, $7.50 $6.00, $5.00, $4.00, $ to $1.00 Fur Collarettes and Scarfs. $15.00, $14.00, $12.00, $10.00, $9.00, $8.50 $7.50, down to 50c. A Beautiful Line. Lace Curtains New styles for fall, at $7.00, $6, $5, $4.50, $4 $3.50, $3, down to T5cents a pair. Carpetings and Mattings. At the lowest prices, Dress Goods Choice new things in new shades, Klack Dress Goods. Beautiful weaves and qualities Special values at $1 a yard. Black Silk. $1.50, $1.25, $1, The, New Lot of Extra Linings. tS The. OI $9.00, $8.50, $7.50 " 3.00 down Guaranteed, 50e. New lot of Outing cloths 10¢, 8&¢ Topsy Hosiery. Full line of this celebrated brand. Special school hose at 15¢e. See our $2 and $2.50 shoes, We guarantee every pair of shoes we sell : : Underwear. Special values at 50¢ and 25. We show something new continually. Come and see us, Court-wit-hegin-its-session—\ ove 42 and has cases set uponthe 7th of De- cember. Estis Smith, of Mingo township, was in town Tuesday to interview thecounty court in assisting the peo- ple of his section in improving the road in grand river bottom, whichin bad weather is rendered almost im- passible to travel. The citizens of the neighborhood want to spend $200 in making the necessary grade of the _bottom—and_by—private sub- scription raised $100 of the amount and the county court will be asked foran appropriation of equal sum. With the $200 -it-is-hoped the road cau be put in faircondition Estis Smith was appointed commissioner to look after the work on the road which insures that every nickle of money will be expended judicious- ly. There was a pathetic scene in the court room at Nevada, Friday night when the jury brought in a verdict assessing Hiram C. Bates’ punish- ment at three years imprisonment in the penitentiary for feloniously shooting his neighbor Jas. Ferguson. When the verdict was announced the three little children, two sons anda daughter, of the condemued man, ran to their old father and throwing their arms about his neck wept bit- terly. The scene was so pathetic it breught tears to the eyes of all pres- ent in the court room. The shoot- ing occurred on the morning of Sep- tember 14th, and according to the ‘idencewas malicious and without provocation. Furgeson was pastur- ing his horses on a vacant lot. A rain came up suddenly and he. took refuge in a vacant house which be- longed to Bates. A few minutes later Bates appeared with hisshotgun and as Furgeson was leaving the build- ing shot and eng wounded Did you ever see our bilt well shoes? Judge Graves is in Clinton holding Wits Atnorican loads. , court this week, disposing of some New dress goods at McKibbens. The grand encampment of the I. 0. 0. F. for Missouri will meet in Nevada November 19th for a three days’ ses- sion. All the grand officers and about 40 delegates will be present. The Leavenworth degree staff said to be the finest in the United States will be in attendance and exemplify the work, Will Smith, Pratt Wyatt and W. G. Shaffer, who had been spending a couple of weeks-hunting and-fishing in St. Clair and Cedar counties, re- turned home Saturday evening. The boys had poor lick in getting big game, but found plenty of quail, rab- bite and birds. Fishing was] excel- lent and their table was kept well supplied. Aheavy frost Monday morning and the thermometer down to freez- ing. New table linens at MeKibbens. W. B. Tyler was in town yesterday with a load of fat hogs. He was of- fered five cents per pound. Consult the advertising columns of Tue Times before making your pur- chasers. Mrs. John Endres and daughter Miss Clara, left Wednesday morning for Topeka, Kan., fora month’s visit with relatives The Kansas City World now has _an opportunity to fall off the fence on the democratic side. New skirtings at McKibbens. ._ Geo. B, Newberry, assistant cashier ofthe Farmers Bank, took a busi- ners trip to Arkansas last week. Eruest Crater, a window washer of Wichita, Kansas, has fallen heir to 7.000 acres of cotton land in Ala- bama, valued at $35,000. Our old friend Frank Cuddeback, a substantial fariner and most excel- lent citizen of Summit, favored us with a renewal. Mesdames J. B. and R. A. Batcheler, of Deep Water township, spent Sat- urday and Sunday as guests of Mrs. V. L. Johnson. The satisfaction store. The Amer- ican Clothing House. iN The walls of the court house have been completed to second or court room floor.. The next story will be fourteen feet high. The steel joists ordered months ago for the second floor have not yet arrived and on this account work on the building has been suspended until their arriv- al which which will probably be a week or ten days. J. B. Adair, manager of the Butler Ih Department Store, was in St. is the first of the week buying New cloaks at McKibbens. E. Franklin, a prominent young democrat of Howard township, fa- vored us pleasantly while in the city Monday. The your money back store. The American Clothing Co. Before coming to Butler to do your trading look over the advertisements in Tae Times. It will pay you, asthe business man who advertises always has bargains to offer. The fire company was called out about 5 o’clock Sunday morning to stop a blaze at the Caigrice restau- rant on North Main street. The fire started in a bed room on the second floor and some bedding was burned. Itis not known how the fire originat- ed, but the prompt action of the fire company saved a block of buildings. - THe Times office bas just complet eda brief for T. W. Silvers containing 165 pages in the case. of R. H. Duke etal, plaintiffs, (respondents) against W. H. H. Duke, et al, defendants, (respondents) and the Boston-Kan- sas City Cattle Co., defendants, (ap- pellants.) Mr. Silvers represents the Boston-Kansas City Cattle Loan Co. A young man from St. Louis was in town Tuesday and selected a va- cant store room on the west side of the square in which he will open a first-class restaurant. The Mirror says the engine and pumps for use in the oil wells at Mer- win have arrived and have been taken to the wells. _ The best line of shirts in Bates ponaty at “The American.” ——nrdodging out of the way of & ght train, near Adrian, the other a Mr. Mills caught his toe, fell broke his nose. Stiff hats—latest shapes at Ameri- p Clothing: House. Rev. Hicks, the weather prophet, prexenta mance era blizzards Monday evening two strangers out northwest of Nevada buying hay were chased « half mile by a man with a big knife in his hand who at- tacked them as they passed by. Mrs. P. J. Cowgill, of Aaron, visit- ed her mother, Mrs. Morris, in Butler the first of the week. Together they complimented our office on Monday, and Mrs. ©. ordered Tae Times to her address. We are glad to see our good friend J. S. Brown out again. He ms tracted siege of typhoid feve: a ot weeks duration, is consid- erably emaciated and very weak, but is on a fair way to fully recover. f D rack of the mouth. the Auto-Stetéon for fall at can Clothing House. City Cattle and Loan Co. by H. G. Cherry. serve out his sentence. F are call yesterday from Mrs. E. G. Lock- cellent family was enrolled on our subserition books. ‘Times sent to her son Emory J. at democrats of Rich Hill. club has been formed aud resolutions adapted endorsing the Admiral as a e dential nomination in 1904. That _of age, is an aod old soldier, is broken down in health | iso add Admiral Dewey’s name for and it is thought will hardly live to! yjco. {__MCKIBBEN'S, Miss Minnie McFarland, who has} Our city with its large number of been visiting her sister, Mrs. Huyser | elegant homes has many most excel- in Colorado Springs, for several | lent entertainers, but it is said (sub- weeks, returned home last week She | rosa), among our young folks, that reports having spent a very pleas-| an invitation to the handsome, com- ant summer and gained in health. — , modious and well appointed home of | Capt. and’ Mrs. J. D. Allen, of Tar esteemed lady friends, of Summit, | Trtes, ch ee = the > > , pri- graced our sanctum on Tuesday and | | acne of pleasure. ie idea was veri: renewed for their paper. Mr. and | | fied on Hallowe'en night—Thursday Mrs. Grant own a finestock farm and ! Hlast, when a large number of the among Bates..county’s best youth and beauty of our eity met at people . this hospitable home, with a single object in view—fun; and from one who was present we learn that the expectations were more than realized. It was perhaps, the jolliest crowd as- sembled in our city for months at least. [t was after midnight when the guests left for their homes, the general opinion being that it had been the most successful function of the season.—Bates Co. Record, Nov. 2nd, 1901. 4 | | | Mrs. Chas Grant, one of THe Times | Joseph Smith, of Sprague, a prom- inent democrat in that section and whose name was strongly urged for a county office last election, was in thé city Monday. He said his town- ship has always been for Stone in all his aspirations and is still for him. ©. L. Frost, former postmaster at Odessa, Mo., was fined $25 and costs in the federal court for being short in his accounts while postmaster. ‘The charge was based upon a technicality and the defendant's character was good, the court let him off lightly as possible. N. E. Bates Teachers’ Institute, The teachers of northeast Bates county held a very pleasant and profitable institute at Olive School House ov Saturday, November 2nd, 1901. A very interesting program had been arranged, consisting of readings, recitations and lectures, which were well received Much local interest had been worked up and the tenchers of that section did them- selves proud. Professors Maxey and Etter of the county commission were present and assisted in the exercises, Sixteen of Bates county's foremost tearhers were in attendance and participated. The good people of that neighborhood prepared them a sumputousfeast at noon It wasde- cided to hold the next meeting at y.on the 14th of Nov’ Tue Times was complimented by a ard, of near Passaic, and with much pleasure the name of this most ex- A short time ago Mrs. Lockard called and had THe Bozen, Kansas. The first gun for Schley for presi- ent in 1904 has been fired by the A Schley andidate for.the democratic presi- The day has come, the saddest of the year—tax-paying time. Schley and Dewey would make a big team.