The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, April 2, 1903, Page 5

SPECIAL SALE! $533:00 Shoes For $2.35 Nobby Line of New Spring Suits. The Place to Trade STORE. THE GOOD 3 CLOTHES AMERICAN Clothing House. ONE LOW PRICE TO ALL, ~ HE GOOD SHOE STORE. Times’ Telephone No. 37. City election next Tuesday. Vote for Maxey. Mra -M; £. Dixon,-who has been visiting relatives in New Mineral, 8. Courtney, of Foster, remembers | Kansas, has returned home. us substatially. We have just made a lucky pur- J. A. Offill, at Dora, Ozark Co., | chase of chairs on which we can give is a new subseriber. | Special values. G, W. Dixon. Will Nix has secured a position | Francis M. Ball, of Savannah, with the Walton Trust Co, Mo., who recently purchased the P. T. W. Legg has been suffering for | Argenbright property, has moved his some time with rheumatism. Remember the school election next Tuesday and vote for Maxey. C. L. Harris, of Toronto, Kansas, orders THE Times to his address. Our highly esteemed old friend Uncle Clem Slayback remembers us with a renewal. A. Hellmer has his paper changed from Virginia to Olpe, Kansas, where he bas moved. De C. Mize was called to Marshall, Mo., to attend the funeral of Mrs. Bettie Hanison. ~ E. A. Slater, a pioneer business man of Rich Hill, aged 66 years, died Thursday of last week. Postmaster Welton has about re- covered from his sick spell and is able to be at the office again. Robert L. McDonald, who has been holding a clerkship in the senate at Jefferson City, is home again, : Henry Harrison, of Grand River, and Jas. C. Harrison, of Adrian, were in Butler on business last week. J.C. Crosswhite, who recently pur- chased a fine farm in the county, call- ed and enrolled for Tur Times. H. H. Morris has bis paper chang- ed from Butler to lola, Kan., to which place he moved his family this week, __ John Greenhalge, of Lone Oak township, has purchased Henry White’s residence in the south part of the city. Mrs. Emma Walker of Saratoga, Calif Wyoming, sends us renewal and ex- presses deep interest in her old friends in Bates county. Mrs. 8. W. Dooley, who has been dangerously ill for several days, is . reported better by Dr. Foster, the attending physician. who has taken position. family to Butler. Despondency brought on by illness caused E. H. Dulow, an aged citizen of Lamonte, Mo., to shoot himself through the heart Monday. Clyde McFarland came down from Kansas City to spend a few days with his parents Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Me- Farland, and many friends. Mrs. Carl M. Brosius, of Liberty, Me , wife ef the editor of Clay Coun- Democrat, is visiting her pasgets, Mr. and Mrs. Norfleet. Twenty thousand men and women in the textile mills at Lowell, Mass., went out on a strike Monday. They demand an increase of 10 per cent in wages. Our young friend J. H. Warder- man, son of Ed. Warderman, made us a pleasant call and had his name enrolled for THe Times for the com- ing year. Unele Kit Divers has secured an in- crease in his pension and now gets $30 per month. Uncle Kit’s many friends will rejoice with him in his good fortune. D. H. Kash called and renewed for his father, W. L. Kash, one of Bates county’s oldest citizen and a pros- perous and influential farmer of Spruce township. Ex-circuit clerk of St. Clair county, Ed. A. Hook, has his paper changed from Osceola to Appleton City, where he is engaged in the real estate and insurance business. E. W. Webster, of Los Angeles, ornia, has purchased the 1,000 acre ranch south of town of Dr. G.G. Green. The farm is better known as the Dickie ranch. Plowing has begun. Uncle John Daniels from south of town was in town Monday and said he saw four plows at one farm running one be- Howard Fleisher was in the city | hind the other. the other day and sold his residence on Fulton street to Henry White, Sam H. Brown lost his barn and four head of horses by firein the west part of Vernon county. Several sets Don’t risk anything to chance, | of harness and a lot of corn and hay _ Maxey might need your vote bad. | was also burned. Go to your schoolelection next Tues- day and vote forhim. opposition. Vote for him. cratic nominee for school ry: The greatest danger to the Demo- com- ner ig thoughtlessness and onfidence on the part of voters. degree of D. C. L.—Adrian Journal. BLP. Tharp, formerly merchandis- The Journal reports the marriage ing at Athol, now farming east of " , favored us with a renewal (has his paper changed to this tt —— Ex-Mayor G. W. Clardy, manager farm department Investor’s Broker- Prof. Maxey has made a very pop- | age Co., Kansas City, Mo., spentsev- ular and efficient school commiseion- | eral days in the city the ‘fret of the er. He has been renominated without | week with his family. Attorney A. J. Smith received word yesterday that he had received a dis- tinguished honor. The Nashville University conferred upon him the of Harry I. Templar and Mise Mary Pearl Garrison. The ceremony waa at the home of the bride’s parents in Adrian March 25th. Another car of furniture coming. G. W. Dixon, N. K. Fairbank, the millionaire packer and soap manufacturer of Chicago, died Saturday. The importance of school commis- sionershould not heoverlooked. Do not neglect or fail to vote. Vote at your school election next Tuesday for the best interest of your schools by voting for Maxey. Judge J. W. McFadden, of Virginia, was in the city Saturday on his way home from Kansas City, where he had been on a business trip. Dr. McAninch has sold his residence in the northeast part of town, and bought again a house of Miss Laura Moore in the northwest part of the city. Clinton is to have a new opera house. It will be built by Mr. Bix- man at a cost of $15,000. An ad- vanced sale of seats amounting to $4,000 has been made. The next best thing for Butler right now is a canning factory, and Car- penter & Shafer are the men to build it in conniction with their creamery and ice plant. Miss Penelope Brown, one of the best teachers in our schools, resigned Saturday. We understand she will study to become aprofessional nurse. Miss Jessie Ray, daughter of John Ray, was employed to fillout the un- expired term. In her line of business the hen is certainly energetic over in Miami county, Kansas. Last Saturday E. K. Thompson, manager of the Armour poultry house at Paola, tookin from the farmers 200 cases of eggs or 6,000 dozens. Mr. C. Frank Jackson of Butler, who has been here the past day or two on a collecting tour tor his firm was joined to-day by his cousin, Hon. Billy 0. Jackson, who is a coming candidate for member of the next state constitutional convention from this district.—Rich Hill Review. Robert L. Braden, of Homer, was & pleasant caller on Saturday. He informed us that his son, Robert M. Braden, and L. R. Wallace, son of Carter Wallace, are attending the Gem City Business College, at Quincy, Ills. The boys were schoolmates at Warrensburg for some time. Two of Butler’s citizens, John E. Shutt and A. B. Owen, as an invest- ment, have planted $20,000 in a four-story business house in Kansas City. The purchase is located on Delaware, between 6th and 7th streets, and isin the business center of the city and rents for $2,000 per year. Nut Gregor, the finestallion owned by Lafe Anderson of Vernon county; is dead. Several years ago, says the Mail, he made a splendid record on A big team of horses belonging to afarmer ran away in Warrensburg and failing to make the turn at the corner of Holden and Pihe streets went through the plate glass front in Montgomery’s drug store. William R. Messick, a well-known liveryman of Clinton is dead. His mind had beew affected from sick- ness and severa) months ago he was taken to the asylum at Nevada, where he died. Rev Jones writes that the confer- ence elected E. D. Kipp a member of the Board of Trustees of the perma- nent fund for the aid of retired preachers, widows and orphans of preachers, WHY NOT come to Aaron, Mo., to buy your spring millinery goode, where you can find the latest and most beautiful styles. You will find prices reasonable. We take produce same as cash, 22-16 Mrs, Anna B, Stayton, Miss Courtney Thomas, who has gained a great reputationas a singer spent Friday and Saturday with rel- atives and friends at Clinton. She has finished her engagement at New Orleans and will leave this country Aj ril 15 for Europe. Hume Commercial bank, capital stock $10,000, a new institution at Hume, will throw its doors open for business May Ist. The stockholders are Harpy L, Curtis, 8. R. Humphrey, W. B. Wayts, M. L. Beadles, F. N. Lightner, W. C. Foster and J. C. Biggs. Patrick O'Connor, for twenty-sev- en years one of the best known and most popular engineers on the Mis- souri Pacific railroad system, died of asthma at his home in Kansas City Friday. For several years his run has been from Kansas City to Joplin over the L, & 8. Uncle John Vancamp is moving his restaurant to the opera house block. -He has leased the two large rooms formerly occupied by the county officers and court room. The court room upstairs will be parti- tioned off into bedrooms. He hasa good location and his many friends hope to see him do well. Engineers for the Mo, Pacific rail- road were surveying through the east part of town the latter part of last week, The old grade of the de- funct Teabo and Neosho railroad was followed. No one appears to know what the surveying means un- less it be the institution to éhange the course of the Emporia to miss the steep grade of that road known as the Badgley hill just south of town. ' J.T. Butler died at his home, afew miles southwest of Butler, Monday night. He had been in bad health and his death was not unexpected. He was an old citizen of the county, and was highly regarded by all for his strict honesty and probity. The funeral services were held on Wednes- day morning, and- interment was made in Crescent Hillcemetery, He leaves a wife and family of grown children. The State Board of Agriculture has been requested to appoint five dele- gates from each county to attend the National and Inter-national Good Roads convention to be held in St. Louis from April 27th to May 2nd inclusive. Secretary Geo. B. Ellis has notified Presiding Judge John W. MeFadden of his appointment as one of the delegates from Bates coun- ty. We have not heard the names of the other delegates from this county. The Second regiment will go to St. Louis to participate in the dedica- tion of the World’s Fair. The regi- ment under command of Col. Harry Mitchell will leave for St. Louis April 28th, and will probably remain there three days.. The Second regiment will, with the Third and Fourth regi- ments, be Gov. Dockery’s escort in the parade. Co. B. of this city is spending considerable time at drill work in preparation for the event. M. E. Church conference, held at Marshall last week, returned Rev. W. F. Jones to this work for another year. Rev. Jones has not only suc- ceeded in building one of the finest modern church structures in this sec- tiomof the state, a pride to the city of Butler, but has built up one of the largest congregations in the city, and keepé the church finances in ex- cellent shape. He is a good preach- er and a practical and effective work- the track and at that time Mr. An-/er in the cause, His stewards, with derson refused $2,500 for him. Since} out solicitation, increased his salary that time his value has materially|from $1,000 to $1,100. His con- increased. Death was due to an|gregation and the citizens of Butler injury which caused him to be rup-|are to be congratulated on his re- tured. onl ee I eins seecriphln en consis ee Choice line of len Carpe ots AT Cut Prices AT McKIBBENS. $1.20 Velvets for 95c. 73c Ingrains for 60c. 65c Ingrains for 55c. 55c Ingrains for 50c. 50c Ingrains for 45c. Spring Mattings. Spring Linoleums. Spring Lace Curtains. Spring Portiers. Come and see us, Spring Shades, We guarantee the lowest prices for good goods. McKIGBEN}. HISSOOOOOOISOOO OVS OUIIOODO MET HORRIBLE DEATH. Mrs. Ed. A. Steffin’s Clothing Ignited from Prairie Fire. Little Four Year Old d Vainly to Help His Mother. Mrs. Ed. A. Steffin, living on tte old Caruthers farm, four miles south- east of Butler, on Monday afternoon took some water out to her hushand and his father, W. M. Steffin, who were sowing outs, & quarter of a mile from the house. Mr. Steftin set fire to a patch of prairie grass and told | his wife she might scatter it, and started on his trip across the field His attention was attracted to his | wife’s condition, after turning at the | ead of the row, a ha!f quarter away. He hastened to her assistance and | wherrhe reached her all her clothing was burned from her body except the shoes and stockings, her flesh being literally cooked. She bore up brave- | ly and was. able to walk to the house. In telling of the accident she said her clothings were ablaze before she real- izedit, and she was unable to tear off her dress, it being a new one, of | strong material. Her little fouryear old son was alone with her and the little hero tried in vain to assist his mother, and she was compelled to evade him, lest he too catch afire. Dr. Lyle was summoned with all possible dispatch, and dideverything possible to relieve her suffering, but she was in terrible agony until 3 o’clock Tuesday morning when death relieved her. Funeral services were conducted from the Christian church in this city by the pustor, Elder Williamson, and the remains were interred in Oak Hill cemetery. Miss Nellie Stevens was born in IIli- nois in 1872. She came with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Stevens, to Bates county in March, 1882. She was married to E. A. Steffin in 1893. To this marriage four chil- dren were born, three boys and one girl, thr oldest being now 9 and the youngest 4 years of age. She was a loving and dutiful wife and mother. The distracted hasband and mother- leas ones have the sincere sympathy { | Mrs. Joe T. Smith, who hns been visiting her parents in the far west, has returned home, The prettiest line of millinery and trimmings to be found in this city can be seen at ARGENBRIGHT SisTERS’. The spring opening at the Argen- bright Sisters, west side square, on last Saturday was well attended by the ladies, The display of fine milli- | nery was artistic and the effect very pretty. These young ladies keep up to date in their line aug enjoy alarge trade. While being initiated into the mys- teries of the Modern Woodmen of America, in a lodge room in Kansas City Friday night, George Biddick was robbed of his purse containing $40. Biddick claimed that while he *| was mounting the goat and carrying out the ritual of the organization | oue of hfs companions helped him- self to the contents of his purse. After the bandage had been removed | from Biddick’s eyes he discovered hig loss and made a protest. Walter | Lennon was arrested on suspicion. The Nevada District Conference of the M. E. Church, South, will not be held in Hume this spring as hereto- fore stated in these columns. Key. Hlouston states tiat it will be neces- sary Lo uuld 1b avout April 12th and the Hume church which is now un- dergoing repairs, will not be ready by thatdate. 1t is adisappointment to our people to lose these meet- ings. Why not hold it in one of the other church houses of Hume?—Tele- phone. We are in receipt of a letter from our old friend ‘I. J. Wilson, formerly of Foster, uow of Page, Kansas. He says he spent four months last fall and winter traveling through the west looking at the country, He was through Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, Utab, Oregon and Washing- ton. ‘The most desirable place to live he struck was Walia-Walla valley, but land is very high there, He said the best place for a poor man to get a farm was in northwest han- sas. He attests his continued inter- est in our county and people by re- hewing bis paper. We buy our Pianos and Organs for cash direct from the manufacturing company. This enables us to save of all in their great bereavement, | Tm #50 to $100 on Pianos, and The two grandmothers, Stetfins and Stevens, will take the two youngest, | P4! agirl and boy. The two oldest boys will remain with,the father. $15 to $20 on Urgens from the price id by the commission dealers, ‘Terms to suit purchaser. G. W. Dixon,