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VOL. XXIV. ‘ Hammer and Knife. Mt. Sterling, Ky., July 5.—J. 8. | Fassett, a@ prominent farmer and € s short horn cattle breeder, attempted suicide to-day aud is not expected to jlive. He took three grains of mor- HOT WEATH FR G00 DS. phine and procuring a dirk and ham- mer went to an orchard on his place Perfection Oil Stoves manufactured by Standard Oil Co, |") Placing the Kalle dyeines bis , “4 : breast, drove it into his body with ‘perfectly safe, costs less to ran than gasoline, wickléss, blue thehammer. When he was found, he flame, no trouble. gave asa reason for his attempted suicide that lie was growing old and 2 Burners, - $8.00. 3 Burners, - 10.00. his children needed his money, so he thought it best to put himself out of the way Our New Triumph Gasoline stove is a sure enough win- ner, only seven inches high it is more convenient than a tall- er one, when placed on a table. Everybody pleased with it. | tizestion ery out ior hel» by Dyspep- ] Bu rner jas $ | : 7 5 prt g oak sour ene 2 Burners - 3.50 orders. Such troubles call for 4 Burners - 4.50 gg use of Dr, King’s New Life ills. They are gentle, thorough and guaranteed to eure, 25e at H. L. Tucker's drug store, SLOAN’S ROUND OVEN. The only successful Gasoline or Oil Stove Oven in the market over $50.00 sold} Constable Ly neh took a nigger in h 4 E ranted to give satisfaction custody for breaking in a house, east the secon year. : veryone warran se give ON. | of Adrian, last Thursday and steal- Lightning and Blizzard Ice Cream freezers all have cedar Need More Help, Often the over-taxed organs of scesnilandaneielsa Ballard Items. ing some jewelry, and then took him buckets, beware of pine freezers, they won’t last. You will| to Butler the same evening, find our prices right. Tom Murray has most of his tools a 9 ready for your blacksmith, WATER COOLERS from 2 to 10 gallons. Jim Scott, of Oklahoma, is visiting see our all ash anti-Bentwood churns. relatives near Ballard. The ball match between Ballard Call and The score stood 24 to 24. Tue ice cream supper at Keirsey’s last Tuesday was quite a success. F.M. Fort, T. D. Emkree, J. B. Hays and others attended the meet- ing of the Masons at Johnstown Sut- urday night. D. Last Week’s items. One of the saddest oceurrenves on record of the community was the death of little Cecil Noble on last Tuesday morning of lock jaw, aged years, 8 months and 11 days. She Jumped on a nail Thursday, and seemed to be getting along all right, 7 gallons = 5.50 1O gallons ‘ 6.00 D. M. Sechler Buggies, Road Wagons, Surries &e., a special shipment made to suit the popular wants of this trade in price and quality. Buford & George Oak Tanned Light and Heavy Har- ness, Kentucky Wagons. Good Enough Sulkv Plow Best on Earth. Groceries, Hardware, Queensware, Guns and Ammuni- tion. when last Monday she complained of Bring us vour Butter and Eggs in Exchange for Goods. @ pain in her jawe, and grew worse, until death came to her relief, She was the oldest daughter of J. C. ‘ Noble. She wasa bright girl, loved i i by all her playmates, and for aehild Pe BUTLER, MO. just in the glory of childhood to be / so suddenly plucked from earth, her §ist Birthday Anniversary. FOURTEEN MEN BORE COPFIN. grief-stricken parents certainly have our sympathies. Funeral services were conducted at the Walnut Grove church by the pastor. After services the rewains were taken to the ceme- tery for burial, attended by a hirge Mexico, Mo., July 7.—Funeral serv concourse of sorrowing friends and ices over the remains of Thomas relatives. ie Board, the largest man in this sec- C.C. Sacket and wife visited at J. tion of Missouri, were conducted |B: Barker's Sunday. | from the late residence in this city Miss Allie Cole visited Mrs. Hays this morning. Members of the fam-| !@st week. ; ily-to-day- announced. the exact} Phelix Hendrickson returned from weight of Mr. Board to_have_been| Oklahoma last week. = Plenty of rain and everything Sunday, June 29th, was the 81st anniversary of the birth of Uncle Lewis Haggard. To emphasize the event a number of his neighbors and relatives prepared a great surprise for him by going to his home on Monday and spending the day. Dur- ing the morning hours he was away from home and did not return until toward noon, when he did he found _ his _home-aimost-completely taken by the invading guests. It was a ~~ most agreeable surprise to him, and , 497 pounds a few days before he was . ore an enjoyable occasion-to all present. | taken sick. growing nicely. ; Uncle Lewis is one of the oldland| A spécial casket was ordered, in Welearn of the death of Thos. Hill, marks in this community and is | which the remains were buried, and who formerly resided near Ballard, highly respected. While he has | it was necessary to carry the corpse living near Rockville at the time of grown old in years, yet he is young | from the house to the yard to place _ death. He was found with his in spirit. A sumptous dinner was| it in the coffin. To remove the body rains ells out on Monday evening. served and those present including | from the house it was found neces-| Nobody knows whether it was acc:- the host, had their appetites with | sary to take out the casing from a| dental on intentional. them.—Adrian Journal. ; double window. It required the serv- Ballard will have a telephone con- 4 r ices of fourteen men to perform this|2ection soon. Dz task, aud the ca&ket and body to- Spring Humors Funeral of the Largest Man of Central Missouri. gether weighed nearly a thousand pounds. which could carry such an enormous troubles,—pimples, boils and other coffin, and a baggage truck, nicely eruptions, besides loss of uppetite, draped in black, was used to convey | that tired feeling, fits of biliousness, the remains to the cemetery, where indigestion and licadache. it required the services, of all who] The sooner one gets rid of them the could get hold of thecoftin to remove | better, and the way to get rid of them it to the grave side and Idwer it. and to build up the system that has suffered from them isto take Hood's Sarsaparilia and Pills Saves a Woman’s Life. ‘| To have given up would have _}meant death for Mrs. Lois Y | shown by unequalled, radical and yor speak. All doctors and remedies fail- | manent cures of ; ed till TF Dr. King’s New Discov-' gefofula Passaic Breezes. | Cruce, Williams & Co., begun baling hay last Thursday for Packer & Zim- mer. They have about 100 acres to ; mow and bale. Hotel Tathwell sare looks nice in her new cout of white, with a dandy, | new poreh in front. | | J.D. Tathwell received his first jload of new wheat last Thursday | from Combs Bros. of Shawnee, ©. M. Decker shipped aload of hogs | to K. C, one night last week: also Os! Kendricks shipped a load from But. | ler, on whieh they will make a few) dollars, H. Hamburg and Geo, McCandlass stacked the former's wheat iast week. Quite a number from here and nearby met “in surprise” at George Hardin's, it being Mrs. H.'s birth- day, and spent a most delightiul day. h “Ye typo” got us somewhat mixed such work, from the condition of your roads a cries for something to eat Correct, my friend from the north, | hushed for awhile. boss and you fellows to work, is|Saturday night from an injury re- | Financial Strength. a attention is directed to the names of 4 the following well-known business men who compose our Board of Directors: Duvall, Choate, McKibben, Tyler Wik, Gailey, Bennett, Heinlein McBride, McKee, Kipp. In addition to above we have a strony body ot stockholders whose standing and responsibil ity give increased strength to the institution Famesp anh ; 2 ha TART he, ay south of town Monday evening. | N. B. MeFarhind is Mr. MeDonald, of ElDorado, ae much better, She Was) has many sympatizing friends in our Long-Templar business last | With us Monday night, leaving for | week. - our old home ¢Balard) Tuesday Cal Robinson has been working on machinery of late. He is at howe to | family for those fine potatoes, as the P.& Z,. had two sets of single har- j hess, one new and one old, stolen R. M. Wilcox has the thanks of our 1 from their barn on the night of the | 4th. A liberal reward for informa- Will be | tion as to their whereabouts, } Rev. Scott will be here Saturday Packer hada $100 horse to die | night, Sunday morning and night There was no hearse in the city | Come to most people and cause many j- |from Odessa Monday, where she had | ather ladies, drove down Bryan aye, the week from Kansas on a visit and | of our school house, the old one hav- | to Jook after her farm interests here,| ing been condemned. He has an eye we suppose. friend from Nab’s creek and Her-| to Kansas City one day lust weex. man are stacking their wheat. in good repair—new floor, doors, ete. ceived two weeks before, J.C. Noble and family of Ballard what is needed, Jobn Deerwester and son Alva week, R. M. Wilcox has his lawn in fine shape. He has a beautiful home. denly one day last week. folks near Everett, Cass county, last | being convalescent. week, Our drug man was herefrom Chica- go a few days ago, we made and or- der preparatory to the much expected cigars. We will smoke another time. be ready for the coming, armed and the Culver boys. equipped for business, even north and east of us, The past year has been one of discouragement and O'Dea umpired the game Saturday. | 33 Gus Herman ann family from near aur blues for all classes, even the doctor, he . 4 but for all that we have concluded | Culver, Visited their uncle E. P. to stay at Passaic and battle for the | Mosier and family one day last week, right believing at last we will be re- James Keeton from west of the warded by our right doings and creek brought Tathwell some wheat. attention to business. Quite a good attendance at 8.8. ie oe last Sunday. Miss Luella Lotspeich ishome from i : Marshall, where she visited her grandma and other relatives. Syloines Lockard & Co., are thresh- ing. Their first job was 100 acres of Hill, HH. Wilcox’s team did not like rye. They haye a new machine, we! the firecracker racket the 4th, hence | hear. his buggy was badly wrecked. For- L. (. Eichler aud son repaired their} tunately none of the ladies were in- fence last week on the 40 aeres in| jured. The small boy and the fire Elkhart township. E cracker maketh a noise on the Ith Ice cream for a few friends at Join | @uite a lot of land is changing Krimin’s ‘last Friday night. Pat hands inthis as well as other sec- mnisses all the good things, it seems, | {ORs of the county. Most of them Work plenty and hands scarce, | See! to be Towa buyers. seems to be the complaint. — It’s Our township board met at the wheat, hay and corn all to be cared | Office of Al Shafer Saturday morn for at once Unele Bruce Radcliff and family doe Kennedy, of the firm of Alex-| celebrated at home the 4th by eat- ander & Kennedy, General Store, | ing ice cream and other good things. Elkhart, was here one evening Just | Cal Robinsou rebuilt a cart for week They are doing a good busi-{Albert Jenkins last week. Albert ing gentlemen. winter torun to and from the Weaver Fulse drove to thecity Saturday eve. | will teach a number one school. Charley Moore wusin after another} Born, to the wife of Chas. Larkins, load of feed last Saturday. From | on the 6th, a 9-th girl. Mrs. L. is a the prospects, the farmers will, this | daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Cal Robin- fall, be hauling in grain instead of | son. out, ay they have been the present} Thos. Hendrix, of near Culver, was year. in to the early morning train to meet P. & Z. shipped out a car of baled| his brother, who came in from the hay Saturday, ouly a beginning for | Territory. them, Geo, Hermann and children, John J.B. Lotspeich and wife ure visit-| Nigley aud children of near Culver, ing relatives at Nevada this week. drove up Sunday forrepairs. Nigley Chas. Conkliu sure plowed the corn| & Stover and Hermann Bros each Cal Robinson wade a dandy good | are running threshing machine out: | Wagou frame fora Mr. Morris, living | fits in the Culver country and ad- northeast of here. Cal works in wood] joining neighborhoods. as well as iron. Why not organize a vand here? J.D. Maddy was repairing culverts} We have one man who can toot a Saturday. “| horn, and a number of boys who can Dr. Christy was called out to see |learn. What say you, boys? Work May Young lust Monday. it up. Mrs. Alice Zimmer returned home| C. B. McFarland, wife and two been on a visit to home folks, » Mrs. Feeback came in the first of for the west Sunday evening. Jake Maddy put in a bridge south to business (good roads) of late. j Zwallen Bros., assisted by their} Carl Decker made a business trip Cal Robinson drove to Butler Sun. | see his son-in-law, Claud Thos. Zimmer has the school house feon who is quite sick.’ Fi Sincerely hope that this week’s The Culver and cornfield teams fall sickness, which will be quite dif-|Played a, game here Saturday eve, ferent from the past year, We will with a score of 27 to 12 in favor of Cleveland Crabtree came up on the train to see the boys play ball. John | Curses and lessens ambition; beauty, vigor Mrs. Alice Zimmer is attending the | summer normal and institue in Rich | Mesdames Davis, Tathwell and|8chool house, where we are sure he) Come out and hear him, J. B. Lotspeich and sons are mak- ; / | ing hay while the sun shines, Par, were here with hogs one day last | have our sympathy in their sad be- : Teavement in the loss of their little} There is no longer an excuse for daughter Cecil, who died quite sud-| anyone to endure the torture inflict- ed by piles when Tabler'’s Buckeye Pile Ointment will cure them, a renie- dy so moderate th price and so effee- tive. Price, 50 cents in bottles. Shake, Lonnie, and it’s a girl, | Tubes, 75 cents.—H. L. Tucker, Don’t trust Frank #atrick with our ; Women as Well as Men Are Made Miserable by Kidney Trouble. Kidney trouble preys upon the mind, dis and cheerfulness soon disappear when the kid- neys are out of order or diseased k y trouble has become so prevalent } that itis not uncommon j for achild to be born ? afflicted with - ——— ates too | urine scalds the flesh or if, 1 teaches an age when it s control the passage, it is y bed-wetting, depend the difficulty is kidne step should be tov these important or, Swamp-Root is soo: by druggists, in fifty cent and one la from suffe ed, & Co.. Binghamt mention this paper. PLANT TREES. ness; both are clever, accommodat-| Will put it on the road this fall and | There is no crop mnore profitabl | or easy to cultivate than fruit. trees 1 am agent for the celebrated STAR NURSERIES, at Lees Summit and can take your orders for all of the best: varivt of j Apple, Peach, Pear, Plum ete. Also ) for small fruits such as st rawhberries, Gooseberries, Currants, Grapes. ets The stock is guaranteed true to name j and hardy. Persons wanting trees will get just | what they order anu they will get it fresh as the nurseries are but a short | distance from this place. }Callat Residence west Ft. Scott st. J I. DUNN, Butler, Mo References:—Mo. State Bank, Bates County Bank and Farmers Bank eee ) FRISCO Do not overlook the First Speciat Sate ot , Town Lots in nine different towns in the Creek Nation, along the line of (Frisco System, per- fect titles guaranteed by the government. Sale begins July 7th, continuing until July 26th. Round trip tickets at Single Fare, good going on date of sale of tickets, only, will be sold on July 6th, good to return until July Is, and on July 17, good to return until July 27, 1002. There is Money to be made, and made quickly, by attending these sales. For farther information apply to any passenger repre- sentative of the Frisco System. - JAS, DONOHUE, J.B. Lotspeich. began cutting his| paper will bring the news that Mrs. Asa’t Gen'l Pass'r Agt. = Kansas City. Mo,