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‘NEW THING’ FOR FALL AND WINTER IN MENS WEAR Is always to be found early in the season at the old reliable : AMERICAN. § CLOTHING HOUSE, ; ; e Our stock this season consists of HIGHER GRADE SUITS Than you have seen before in Butler. We show many very pretty patterns from $5 to $10, but our ‘long suit’’ this year is $10, $12.50. $15, $18 AND $20. you need only to see our line to be convinced that it pays to trade with a one priced house, . a endl AMERICAN REN || BUY $5 = | SHOES cLoTHes ALOTHING. E| BUY | STORE. WALK~ Mixs @ Bors Qurnrrers | OVERS. ONE PRICE TO ALL. Times’ Telephone No. 37. | Local capital will build ‘a million ; es —..—- | dollar hotel in Kansas City. Remember the sale on coffee at | Judge Sullens cume over Saturday Jim’s C. G. this week and next. ' evening and returned home Monday Our old friend James Smith has | morning. THe Times to follow him to his new | Farmers are bringing new corn to home at Jefferson City. town. It is hard enough to shell A good cofiee for 10c th at Jim's and sells for 5c per bushel. C.G. | The republican state committee re- The folks over at Clinton are ex-| pudiated the Kerens deal with the * peeting a big time at their Burgoo | Meriwether or public ownership par- feast, Sept. 30, to Oct. 4. | ty of St. Louis. It isnot the cheapest. But is the | A.W. Wemott has been elected a best. 1 mean White Loaf flour. | delegate to a meeting of the state James A. Hatfield, near Linneus, | deputies of the M. ae A. to mest at Mo., raised 215 bushels of onions on | Jefferson City on Sept. 16th, 1902. half an acre of ground. Hon. Jas. A. Reed, mayor of Kan- The largest assortment of meat at | sasCity, and one of the best speakers a low price at Jim’s Clean Grocery. | in the state, made a rousing demo- cratic speech at Rich Hill yesterday evening. J. J, Robinson an esteemed young farmer, was a pleasant caller and had his name enrolledfor Tue Tures.| T. K. Lisle, our very courteous | nominee for county recorder, came down Monday to see the folks and march with the boys inlabor parade’ Our old friend W. P. Sevier, one of | yfp, Lisle is leading his ticket.—Rich Bates county’s best citizens, favors | }j]] Enterprise. with a renewal, an annual custom many years. Ask your grocer for White Loaf flour. Silas Lingenfellow, living near Fos- one ter, by accident was thrown in front the Butler Baptist Association | (¢ the knife of a one-horse corn cut- will hold its annual meeting at) ¢,, which he was using and badly Adrian, beginning Sept. 17 and con-| },45¢, theblade cutting the flesh to the tinuing three days. bone in one of his legs. Orsie Buckles, assisting in baling} p. 4p, Lyle was called to Pom- hay near Adrian, accidentally got ona, Kan, last week to see T. C. his foot caught in the press and was Robinson, who was seriously ill at pretty badly hurt. that place. He was threatened with Our highly esteemed old friend E | appendicitis. Dr. Lyle reports him P. Mosier, a prosperous farmer of | much improved anc out of danger. Mound township, favored us pleas- 4 heavy overcoat left at the Tuttle antly and renewed. feed barn back of Mo. State bank on The churches at Kansas City are | or about the day of the city election getting together. The First and | last spring isin my possession, and Second Presbyterian churches in that | the owner can have it by calling and city were merged Sunday. describing same. J. M. Courtney. 'S. B. McFarland orders Taz Times | A hunting party composed of Maj. his address at Avalon, Sarita Cat-| J. M. Courtney, Capt. John Stanley, falina Island, California. He was a | Gen. H.C. Clark and Col. Frank Mab- ‘former citizen of this county. bott scoured the prairies northeast be of town Monday and bagged! one B.F. Richards has disposed of his chicken, Gen. Clark killing that. sewing machine agency, and is back ; ‘with the furniture department at the| The republicans are planning for a |. Butler Cash Department Store, big rally at Righ Hill next Saturday. Bete aeey anees To draw a crowd . Kerens, ’ Mite, Chester Lyun, of Kaases Cir. tional committeman, and Thos. J. has been spending the past Akins, chairman of the state com- Q mittee, with a list oflesser lights, are oe penne angen ey advertised to be present. Adrian Speaking. Hon. D. A’ DeArmond will open the }county campaign at Adrian on next jSaturday, September 13th, at 2 o'clock p.m. All the county Demo- cratic nominees will be present and assist in the meeting. Judge DeAr- }mond is much. in demand through- out the state and bjs’ time in this county will necessarily be limited He is in prime condition, and it will pay all who possibly can to hear him next Saturday. The Bates county democrats will begin to shake thé brush pretty soon now, Those candidates on the republican | ticket who are going over thecounty | telling how many democrats are po- ing to vote for them will be badly fooled on election day. } Mr. and Mrs, H. A. Willhite, of} Mingo township, gave Tie Times a pleasant call Tuesday, and Mr, Will- hite had his name enrolled on our subscription list. E. B. Condra, aged 67 years, died at his home in Rieh Hill Saturday night. Several years ago thedeceas- ed was postmaster at Cornland, and also run a little store, A town is built by the activity of its citizens and ousiness men, and | push and energy of the business man will draw trade to Butler, To reach the people place Your advertisement in Tue Times, A couple footpads in St. Louis Fri- day night invited C. W. Parker into an alley and at the point of arevoly- er relieved him of a gold watch worth $125, a diamond stud valued at $75 and $155 in cash, The republicans will have theircon- fidence of carrying Missouri badly county candidates who are going about telling how many democrats are going to support them, Judge Graves adjourned court Mondey evening and left for Clinton, where he opened the regular Septein- ber term of circuit court for Henry county Tuesday morning. The Judge will probably be absent about three weeks, No democrat will find fault or fail to stand by the nominees of his par- ty. The democrats of Bates have hamed an excellent ticket, and the party in November will show a solid front and a majority of a thousand to twelve hundred, Our friend Jerry Culbertson, can- didate for re-nonimation to the prose- cuting attorney's office of Cass coun- ty, was defeated by his opponent, BD, C. Barnett, at the primary election held Aug. 30 by 96 votes, The vote on. S. senator stood, Stone, 2,216; Wallace, 749 The Democrat is agitating the question of building a new court house at Osceola, Of the old court house the Democratsays: “The pres- ent structure besides being an eye- sore, is really dangerous to life, and Judge Graves is liable at any time to order its vacation by the eounty officers.”” Miss Dovie Alexander, the accom- plished daughter of Col. W. W. Alex- ander, of Kansas City, who has been spending a month with the family of her cousin, Mrs. Geo. W. Tucker, has returned home. Miss Alexauder was delighted with her visit aud carried home pleasant recollections of Butler and friends made. An attempt tg burn the Catholie chureh at Warsaw, Mo., was made a fewdays ago. A quantity of coal oil had been strewn over the carpet onthe main auditorium and vesti- bules and ignited. The odor attract- ed the attention of a passerby and the flames were extinguished before serious damage was done. . The postoffice safe at LaDue, Hen- ry Co., was blown by burglars one night last week and about $35 stolen. The home of E T. Montgomery was also entered at Clinton supposedly by the same thieves, and $17 or $18 in money was: taken, besides a gold watch and other jewelry. Two tramps were arrested, one of them had on his person six silver dollars and a $5 bill in each stocking. Down by Nyhart lives one of the candidates for a county office. Heis the people's choice for Circuit Clerk and his signature reads Jno. A. Pat- terson. Mr. Patterson is an able man, a worthy citizen, a gentleman and wants the office which he seeks. Everybody in Walnut and New Home townships know him, and when the evidence of his popularity at home where he is best known, will be re- RLLPLLLS LLLP LLL LL LLL LLLP LLLP LLL LPO POLLS 2 : SCH ‘ 4 Special Cood ‘i 4 © School Sh | a Ws i School Shoes, : Mf i A Splendid Lines Guaranted to give Satisfaction: \ ‘he Lowest Priced House for Good Goods 8 Mi Come and See us: f i | & i C ei | } (01 a ab a i aE AE AE ADD GD GD ABD A MIS GAD HI I A MOT DD AG AO We aie aio adi aie ain adn ade adn ado alo ad a The Democratic Central Committee met at the court house on last Sat- urday, a majority of the townships being represented, Chairman T. D, Embree presided, Matters apper taining to party management were discussed and acted upon. Most of thee i Ys - confidential reports from — every township, the party was shown to be in splendid condition throughout the county. Thecommittee was well pleased with the showing, Jim Franklin, with three or four pals, is under arrest at El Reno, Oklahoma, charged with highway robbery, [tis also reported that Franklin was convicted and sentenc- ed to the penitentiary for life. James Byford, residing northwest of Butler, was in El Reno, the day Franklin and his pals were arrested. Frank- lin gained a notorious reputation in this city asa thief and all round bad man and his arrest in Oklwioma for robbery causes no surprise John F. Guy brought suit against the Kansas City, Port Scott & Gulf railroad for personal damages, which was tried in our cireuit court Thursday and Friday of last week, and a verdict was 1 of Mr. Guy for ¢ dered in favor 150, The case was brought to Bates on change of venue from Kansus City. Geo, W. Wright, of Kansas City, ard Smith & Denton and W. O. Jackson, of this city, rep- resented the defendant, while Attor- ney Black, of Kansas City. and H.C, Clark, of this city, represented the railway company. Uncle Emanuel Nestlerode was in town Tuesday. He recently return- ed from a trip into Nebraska, where he had been spending several weeks with relatives. He thinks oflocating out inthat country and engage in raising cattle. The corn crop from here toas far into Nebraska as I traveled, said Mr. Nestlerode, is sim- ply immense. Fruit, especially ap- ples, are fine. Parts of Nebraska ‘s not adapted to agriculture but it is an excellent stock country. jring ceremony was performed The Captain Holly P. Nickell was in to see us Monday. He was on his way | to attend the ex-confederate state en- campment at St. Joseph, now in ses- sion. He informs us that the follow- ing parties have sold their farms in his neighborhood the past week, for | prices ranging from $30 to $45 per acre: H. P. Nickell, 360 acres; Jolin Bratton, 240 acres; Adam Hellmer, | 160; T. Gilbert, 80; W. T. Cowan, 260; W. Vogt, 100; Ben Pickett, 80; — Moore, 120; —— Kendall, 160} acres. Most of the purchasers are | from Iowa, and a large per cent of} them are democrats. 4 While visiting at Adrain, we drop- ped into the real estate office of our triend John Herrell, Mrs. Herrell | has been very sick for several weeks, but is improving and we are glad to chronicle that fact. John isthesame jolly, good humored man, full of life and energy and seemed just as glad to see us as he did when he was ask- the nomination for the office of County Clerk. By the way, we anti- cipate that John will be elected by a big majority, and the people could the plum to a_more worthy man. He is pe ocean and careful and will keep the books and business of the county in first-class eee Foster Times. | delphia, New York and all the prinei- Topsy OOL HOSIERY 3 oe ae YWalue. Made to Stand Hard Wear. rs ab Kae Ma Ka Sa . —— Sorry to learn that cholera has broken out among the hogs in differ- Gun Boat Sunk hs : Cape Haytien, Hayti, Sept. 7.- ent neighborhoods inthe county The wanbont Crates sFlerrot, whieh W. F. Hill left for Kansas City ves.) Was in the service in the Firminist P ANB party, has been sunk at the entrance terday, accompanied by his wife and : : ofthe harbor of Gonaives by the Ger- little daughter to spend afew days. man gunboat Panther, The erew of Mr. Hill will combine business ot aie Wo pleasureand buy his stock ofholiday went down He expects this yearto place woods Coal. on sale the finest and most up-to- ; : sec Mh hk Always outat Hunt's bank, date line of Christmas goods ever seen in Butler, Santa Claus will dwell at his store in all his glory and VACCINATING CATTLE:—This with his entire output of pretty matter should not be put oft, as due west of Appleton City, *35-2m trinkets for all black leg is now among cattle in some parts of the eountry. Use the PA. Bruce, popular democratic latest improv und safest method, nominee tor judge of the north dis.) “Black hogoids ~~ Thjectors” Tavs triet, together without his estimable teen reduced to 81.00, See us before you buy Gove & Hess, wife and pretty little daughter: Miss the Drnggists, North Side stjuare. Ina, were pleasant callers while in dnt Butler, Mo the city last week. Mr. Bruce tis) a practical farmer of large experience HILL'S CASH STORE The place where you always get BARGAINS. It is almost time to buy heavy tinderwear. and has been very suceessiul. He is aman of sound judgement, possessed of many excellent quatities, is a very companionable man, and will make 4 most excellent and popular judge. Last Friday we were at Butler and visited the Court: House for the tire t timesince it has been occupied by the officers, Among the pleasant faces that we met was that of A.B. Lud- wick, clerk of the Cireuit Court and candidate for county attorney onthe Democratic ticket. Mr. Ludwick is one of those conscientious kind of Indications — for winter? Buy Early, Buy of us, save money. Children’s — fleece-lined pants and vests, de. men or would fot do a mean thing for men or money, just the kind of man to fill a responsible office like County Attorney early and our people re- gardless of party are glad his name is on the ticket —Poster Times Sevier--Goerner Miss Lucile Sevier and George Frederick Goerner) were united in marriage in parlor €, Hotel, Kansas City, on Tuesday even- ing of last week. Rev. Sam M. Brown, of Ivanhoe Baptist church of that city, was the officiating clergy- Baltimore Ladies’ fine fleece-lined vests, silk tape and pearl buttons, pants to match 25 cents. Men's fleece-lined shirts and drawers, only 25c. man, Decorations were — palms, smilax and astors, The beautiful We positively have the best line of Underwear ever brought to Butler, We do not wait until the end of the season to make low prices. Our prices are the LoWEsT ALL the time. Canton tlannel gloves 5¢ a pair.» Leather tipped gloves, 10e a pair. Heavy canton mittens dc a pair. Heavy leather gloves and mittens at 1-3rd less than ordinarily sold for. Still chopping prices on Tinware, Glassware and Notions. HILL'S GASH STORE. ring used was made from gold dug by the bride’s grandfather, Judge | John P. Lilly, of Livingston, Mont., from his mine, the St. Julien, near Chico, Mont., in 1864, and given to the bride's mother on her 18th birtl= day. The wedding march from “Lohengrin” was played by Miss Myrtle Harmon, and after the cere- | mony, Miss Stell Harmon sang the | ballad, “With You.” } A wedding supper in courses wits served in a private dining room, which was decorated with white as- tors and American beauty roses. They will visit Washington, Phila- flannel pal cities and places of interest in the east and go west to the Pacifiecoast, before settling down in their home in Denver. | Miss Lucile is the only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Sevier, honor- able and worthy citizens of Summit township. She is a pretty, vivacious and highly cultured young lady and hasa host of friends in Batescounty, who join with Tae Ties in best wishes for their happiness and pros- perity. The groom is a prosperous cattleman of Denver, Col.