The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, June 4, 1903, Page 5

Shirts, Hats, OUR GUARANTEE IS 1 @ THE s Splendid Consist of not only High Grade Suits bat of the best line of Underwear and Shoes to be found in Bates County. YOUR MONEY BACK. AMERICAN comes Clothing Men and Boys Outfitters Clothes These are all necessary for the Well Dressed Man. You are cordially invited to give us a a share of your trade. SATISFACTION OR GOOD SHOE F House, on Tnoass’ Telephone No. 37. 1 We cut the price on Men's Under- wear. Hill's Cash Store. The Miami river was still in banks at last accounts. Mrs. M. J. Carry ofthiscity, favors us with a renewal. The state normal school at War- rensburg closed Tuesday. Strawhats cheaper than any place in town. Hill's Cash Store. Mrs. M. A. Hyde orders Toe Times to her address in Kansas City. Five or six electric fans have been placed im the Uhio street M. E. ehureb. Men’s Negligee Shirts, the 75c kind at 48e. Hill's Cash Store. Not more than a fourth of thecorn crop in Bates bas been planted, so farmers tell us. The state horticultural society holds its annual meeung at Pertle , Springs this week. : : Senator Vest has taken up his resi- ‘ dence at Sweet Springs, Mo., where he will spend thesummer. Business hes been very dull in But- ler the past week, owing to the con- tinuous and heavy rains. Mies Leona Flesber, daughter of H.H. Piesher, of Lamar, is in the city visiting relatives and friends. ¥ Mrs. Kate Taylor has been sentenc- ed to death im the electric crair for the murder of her husband in New York. We were cut off from Kansas City ____ by rail the iret of the week. The trains could ealy run to Independ- ence. C. G. Hunt and wile were guests of - pleasant call from Mr. Hunt. George Miers, jr, of Charlotte, Made usa pleasant call on Monday, and renewed for his father, Geo. W. tiers, at Cameron, West Va. position, as We cut the price on hate and caps andeellonly warranted goods. Hill’s Cash Store. Buy your shirting prints and mus- lins of us. We save you money on everything. Hill’s Cash Store. J. W. Ormers, fireman on the K. C. & A. fast mail train, fell from the en- gine four miles west of Odessa, Mo., Saturday evening and was instantly killed. E.C. Vandervoort, agent for the Mo. Pacific railway at this station, is taking a vacation of a couple of months, and will visit relatives in the east. The Rich Hill Review says the street rock pile and ball and chain attachment seems to have had the desired effect, and the hobos are giv- ing that town the go by. Mrs. T. C. Copeland, who has been spending several weeks in Rich Hill with her daughter, Mra. A. L. Me- Anally, returned home Monday, ac- companied by her daughter. Miss Nettie Kennedy, holding a position in the asylum at Nevadu, spent Sunday in the city with friends and left Monday for Pleasanton, Kansas, to visit her parents. J. G. Cuzick was in thecity the last of the week to meet hiason Roy, whe had been visiting his sister, Mra. Ben Parker, at Warrensburg. Mr. Cuzick called and favored us substantially. J.T, Baker, & prosperous farmer and substantial citizen of Pleasant Gap, was a pleasantcaller and favor- ed us with arenewal. Mr. Baker has about rerovered from asevere opera- tion for abscess of the liver. Prot. Thomas Lowry, at one time professor of mathematics in the state university, died at Huntsville, Mo., Friday. He was married six years ago, and leaves a fortune. The Adrian Journal says blood- less shooting scrape took place at or near Burdett a few days ago, the longer the chances are that thefar-| largely interested in the railway |pendence as they could not enter mer who has o surplus of old corn on hand and will hold {t he will ma -{in the river bottoms are ruined, and Jeremiah J. Hannigan, ex-member | of the honse of delegates, St. Louis, one of the boodlers, was found guilty of bribery in connection with the Suburban railway bill Friday, and sentenced to a term of five years in the penitentiary. Northern Missouri, says the dis- patches, isachain of lakes. Crops the farmers will suffer losses which extend into hundreds of dollars. Hun- dreds of farms are under water and theroads are impassable. Our old friend J. W. Brown, of Al- tona, was in the city on Decoration day and favored us pleasantly and had his dates set ahead. Mr. Brown was on the losing side in that great struggle, but always turns out to do honor to the brave dead of both sides. Tom Clark, of Nyhart, was bitten on Saturday by a dog owned by John P. Best, a neighbor. The dog was killed. Mr. Clark came to But- ler and the company mad stone, in possession of Mayor Hickman, was applied and stuck for some time. County court met Monday with Presiding Judge McFadden, and Judges Bruce and March present. ‘They will be in session most of the week. Tuesday was the day set apart to meet with the township as seesors. A large amount of routine business is being transacted. Tue Times regrets to report (. R. Radford on the sick list. Mr. Rad- ford attended the ex-confederate re- union held at New Orleans recently, and returning home was taken sick and for @ week or 80 was confined to his bed. He was on the streets Sat- urday, but was feeling badly, The Walton Trust Company con- story brick addition to the Missouri State bank building, extending it north to the lot line, thereby enlarg- ing their business rooms, which has become a necessity on account of in creased business. The upper story will be used for offices, Regarding Republican official bood- lers at Washington the Sedalia Dem- ocrat very aptly says: “About as corrupt a ring of boodlers as was everexposed in this country has been unearthed in the postal department. It is a long way to Washington, but the people will watch developments ” The suit of Wm. Steele against Drs. M. B. Taylor and G. R. Gordon for $10,000 damages, tried at Clin- ton last week, resulted in an acquit- al of the doctors. Steele claimed the above damages on the ground that the doctors improperly treated a dislocated thigh. The trial lasted three days. The Sontheest Missouri Drummers Association held its seventh annual meeting at Farmington last week and the members were royally enter- tained by the enterprising citizens of that live town. In honor of the event Col. Bob Yost issued a hand- somely bound and illustrated souv- enfr edition of his paper, the Pro- gress, which showed the proper spirit of enterprise. A frame residence in the south part of the city, owned and occupied by Luther Hurt, was destroyed by fire Monday night about 10 o’clock. The family had attended the showat the opera house, and on returning found the interior of their home in a blaze. The fire had gained good headway and with the building the centeste were burned. Misses Ada and Lou Buck came down from Kansas City Friday and spent Saturday and Sunday with friends in this city. While here they went out Saturday and visited the silent home of their beloved parents and sister in Oak Hill cemetery, and honored their memory by placing flowers on their graves. Reports from the Marias desCygne river are that the stream is attempt- ing to make 4 lake of the southern part of the county. The bottoms on either side of the river arecovered with water, and it is that the fence said pots along the track of the Mo. Pacific railroad in many places are out of sight, and the river shows no indication of falling. Oliver Duck, a prominent citizen of Vernon county, died at his home near Schell City, Friday, after a lin- gering illness from Bright’s disease. He was interested in banking and other enterprises and at the time of his death was president of the stock yards along the M. K.& T. and at one time owned a-fine hotel at Schell City. He was 72 years old, | iver. Judge Graves Sick at Clinton. | Judge Graves, who has been a very sick man at’ Clinton, where he was | holding court, is somewhat better as we go to press on Wednesday, but is still unable to talk or move himeelf in bed. He was taken sick ten days| ago with bronchial pneumonia and stomach trouble. His wife has been with him almost constantly, togeth- er with Charley Fulkerson, his offieial stenographer. Consequently he has had the very best of nursing. Prose- cuting attorney A. B. Ludwick was over to see him last week. The Judge's friends here have been very uneasy about him, and are hoping for his speedy recovery. It isthought, that unless complications should arise, he will be able to be brought home the last of this week. Judge Brown Stricken With Paralysis, Mrs. 1D V. Brown received a tele- gram Tuesday evening summoning her to West Rushville, Ohio. The telegram conveyed the sad news that the Judge, who is at West Rushville, attendinga reunion of the hundredth anniversary of the United Presbyte- rian church being held at that place, had been stricken with paralysis and was in a serious condition. Mrs. Brown, accompanied by her son, William, who chanced to be at home, on a visit from Kansas City, took the evening train for the above named place, Judge Brown is public administra- tor of this county and justice of the peace of Mt. Pleasant township. He went to West Rushville, Ohio, his former home, & week ago last Wed- nesday to deliver a lecture on the history of the first 60 years of the church which his grandfather found- ed, at the centennial celebration, he band « AD expecte be absent about three weeks. The news of his illness was received in this city with sincere regrets by all. i A warrant has been sworn out by Everett Crook against Maud Van Buskirk, George Miers and William Hughes, charging assault with a buggy whip, and the case will be brought before the present term of the circuit court which begins next Tuesday. Crook alleges that the parties above mentioned met him in the road and Hughes held his while Mirs Van Buskirk administere?! the corporal punishment, He charges that Miers held the horaes. It seems thit Crook wascharged with making some disparaging remarks about the young lady’s character, and she de- termined to take the law into her own hands. She was riding with Hughes when they met Crook in the road. Miers, who isa brother-in-law of the young lady, happened along atthe time. Miers, who came into town Monday to give bond for his appearance, said he did not partici- pate in the trouble, but caught and held Crook’s team tu keep them from runniug away. From what we can learn this trouble has been brewing for a long time and the buggy-whip- ping incident was the culmination. Huges, we learn, has run off to elude the legal process. Surely some good will come of these heavy rains. Road overseers will have before them object lessons of how big culverts should be. Nine of every ten culverts on public roads in Kansas are too small. L. 8. Paddock, one of our promi- nent stock shippers, was a pleasant caller on Tuesday and favored us with renewal. He was very much interested in the flood news as it effected Kansas City, his old home, and he left on the noon train that day to go to that city. B. F. Richards and his son, Master Benjamin, left Tuesday for Sinnett, Okla., to visit his brother, who owns 4 fine claim near that place which he won in the first race. Mr. Richards may conclude to locate in that coun- try if he is suited. It is just too bad after making big preparations for the occasion that our neighbors down at Rich Hill are having such dreadful weather for their street fair. Of course, the ex- treme condition of the roads and the rain will mar the pleasure of the occasion. No mail was received from the north in Butler up to four o’elock in the afternoon, Monday, and the Mo. Pacific refused to sell tickets or receive freight for Kansas City, during theday. It was understood that the trains from the south were all Kansas City on account of the over- flow of the track by the Missouri | McKibbens. 8 We want to reduce our stock of WASH DRESS 6000 : | | : \ 1.000 Yards of Beautiful Batistes Dots, Figures ete. This is the Batiste selling at 20c yard and is the best 20c we have been cloth in this country, we offer them at 19¢ vara Come and see them, McKibbens. Ny Se yy “SP ) RUSADE, | ~Chas. MecEnry, of Cedar Tipida, ee Iowa, has bought the old Gentry farm five miles northeast of Sedalia for $43,000 cash, Thefarm consists of something over 800 acres and is one of the bestimproved farms tn the state. Itis said to be the largest cash real estate deal ever made in Pettis county. City Marshal Callaway Friday dis- tributed placards warning persons not to spit on the sidewalks or in ublic places under penalty of a fine. This is in accordance with the new ordinance passed by the council. The placards met with a cordial reception among business men who heartily approve the council’s action and spoke warmly in praise of it, asking Marshal Callaway to enforce itstrictly. Thesidewalksare already in better condition as a result of the warning.—Clinton Democrat. An ordinance of this kind, properly enforced, would be hailed with delight by the business men and all good citizens interested in the bealth and cl anliness of the city, and especially by the ladies, who run the risk of | having their skirts soiled and ruined every time they walk along the streets. Nothing {s so loathsome, disgusting or unhealthy as pools of tobacco juice on white granitoid pavements where thoughtless tobac- co chewers have expectorated. Clean sidewalks are as essential as clean floors. No gentleman would think of coming into your home and spit- ting tobacco juice on the floor, and it is pure thoughtlessness when he thus defiles the sidewalks where ladies have topass. The city council ought to pass such an ordinance for Butler and the marshal see that it Is strict- ly enforced. Asmall cyclone passed through the county west of Rich Hill, Satur- day doing considerable damage. 5S. P. Wilson’s residence and barn two miles west of Sprague, is reported demolished, and the orchard on the place badly injured, Fences and tim- ber in the path of the storm suffered i as fur us Stotesbury and Richards, in Vernon county. Prof. J. M. Taylor was a pleasant caller and favored us with a renewal, He was retained by aunanimous vote of the board as superintendent of our public schools for another year. He said he is well satisfied with the pro- gress of the schools the past year. The teachers did their duties welland the students made very satisfactory aivancement, but very few failing to pass toa higher grade. There are now four years in the high school, anda young person has the rudi- ments ofan education that pagses the final examination. Butler has as good public schools as can be found in any town its size in the | state and we should all ‘be proud of them and uphold the teachers’ hands, At the election of officers of the I. 0.0. F. lodge Monday night, W. O. Atkeson was elected Noble Grand! and W. L. Herrell, Vice-Grand. Next Sunday night at 8 o’clock memorial | services of the order will be held at the Ohio street M. E. church. Mem- bers of the order who desire to attend these services are requested to meet at the lodge room at 7 o'clock and march tothe church house. OnMon- day night W. F. Maring, of Schell City, Past Grand Master and Past Grand Patriarch of the state, will be present at the lodge room and enter- tain the members. Mr. Maring is recognized as one of the brightest Odd Fellows in the state, and his presence In the lodge room will be a treat to the members who embrace the opportunity of being present. The three members of the county court, Judges McFadden, March and Bruce, as per previous arrangement, met with the clty council Monday night to discuss and exchange views ; in regard to the matter of joint sew- erage for the city and county build- ings, jailand court house. Talking the matter over it was finally decid- ed to invite the co-operation of a BIG SALE —OF— Dishes: Glassware THURSDAY, FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, and large imitation cut glass dishes go in this sale at IOC each, Worth double the money. civil engineer and at a future date . nog ee call a public meeting at the court Prices good ONLY for three house. This meeting will be open to days mentioned. the general public, and with the as- | sistance of an engineer it is hoped that some light may be thrown on the subject and the matter of expense of sewerage approximated that the court, council and people may gain an idea as to the cost and system to be adopted. HILL’S Cash Store.