The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, August 13, 1903, Page 8

Are arriving you to inspect ours before you buy. Our quality and price absolutely guaranteed. WE HAVE some bargains in Oxfords and Slippers. ONE FALL SHOES et Podfobarger & Edwards, oh 4 54554544444 4444454444 North Side Square, LLLLLL PLL LPP LPL PPPOE PPP PPP PPP? G. E, Cable ——DEALER IN——— FANCY AND STAPLE GROCERIES, HARDWARE, we ” ” ” ” ” 4 4” ” 4” ” Tinware, Gasoline Stoves, Cast i Cook Stoves and Steel Ranges. ” | Farm Implements, % ” ” ” ” ” 4” ” ” ” ” ” Farm Wagons, Buggies and the Prices are always right. Produce Wanted. Yours for Business, G.E. CABLE, Butler, Mo. % 4” Wrevererererrrrsrerreres it Farmers. Insure your property with the Prairie Farmers Mutual Fire Insur- ance Co. C. Hien, Sec’y, 27-3m Papinville, Mo. An all steel HAY PRESS for sale. New last year. Geo, I. Lyncu, 38-1m Five room house and four lots in East Butler, for sale or trade. A good bargain. Enquire of Mrs. M. V. Carroll, Butler. Edison Phonograph and records. Allthe latest songs, band and orches- tra selections, for sale by Henry Ful- kerson, at Gough & Hess. 89-4 Coal! Coal! Abundance of coal at Hunt’s bank in Hudson township. 41-tf Bert Allen has let the contract for & neat cottage on High street, just north of the Catholic church. T.H. Lynch, a prominent farmer near Ballard, was attending to Pro- bate business on Tuesday and favor- ed us substantially. Claud Pollock was arrested Tues- day night by Marshal Morris, and locked up charged With robbing Jim Hahn, a farmer, of $20 in cash. The three-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Moffitt, Galena, Kan., died the other day from eating the seed from a pod of jimson weed. Col. J. A. Trader, popular cigar broker, of Kansas City, was visiting his customers in Butler on Tuesday and favored us with a pleasant call. The Bates County Drainage Com mission will meet in Butler on Satur- day, August 22nd, 1903. Miss Myrtle Hartwell, who holds a position in St. Louis, is spending her vacation with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Hartwell. Mr. and Mrs. Duvall, Mr. and Mrs. Deacon, Mr. and Mrs. Crowell went to Nevada on Wednesday to visit the G. A. R. encampment. J. K. Norfleet received a telegram the first of the week of the death of Mrs. Norfleet’s brother, W. A. McClel- land, at Livingston, Mont. C. G. Hunt, of Hudson, favored us pleasantly while in the city on Tues- day attending a meeting of the World’s Fair commission of which he i3 a member. G. V. Boswell, a prominent mer- chant of Amsterdam, and member of the Bates County World’s Fair Com- mission, was in town Tuesday to at- tend the meeting and favored us with a pleasant call. Wesley Denton has accepted a posi- tion with the Mo. State Bank after September Ist. Wesley is an indus- trious, studious, painstakir g young man, courteous and obliging. He took @ couree in bookkeeping in Kan- sas City and has been employed in the Farmers Bank in this city. Bills are out announcing 4 Sunday School basket picnic at Good’s Grove, Amsterdam, on Thursday, August 20th. Prominent speakers will be present; two bands have been engagedfor the day. Allamusement features usually at such occasions will be there. All Sunday schools invited. A big time will be had. Rich Hill lost yesterday’s base ball game with Butler by a score of 16 to 6. The boys made it all right in the first few innings, but fell way behind toward the last end ofthe game. Un- der existing conditions the Rich Hill club was out-classed and have no kick coming. We'll show ’em later. —Review, 10th, Brown Walton tendered his resig- nation a6 assistant cashier of the Missouri State Bank, to take effect September 1st. He will go to Hobert, Oklahoma, and form a partnership with his uecle, J, W. Walton, in the loan and real estate business. Mr. Walton has been associated with the Walton Trust Company and Mo. State Bank fora number of yeara, is @ young man of exceptional business qualifications, courteous, accommo- dating and very popular. Our peo- the helpmate he has wo: need yer’s Hs. Vi bl Love cleared his parachute and fell . Vegetable; landed ple greatly regret to lose Mr. Walton! ‘The happy ‘couple left last night |p ntly laxative. ES Are C0. oe po i a ha So and his charming and talented wife. fr Butler to spend @ few days, after | Geax buds ate eed beh Tae Trtks together with their many Which they will be “at home” at Par. | Want your moustache or beard —— friends wioh them unbounded success Oe feces inks si midis brown or rich black? Use Badly Barned With Acid. and hope they wili flad their neweur- in wishing these wo! 0 NGH M's No ce roundings congenial. ple prospeetay aaa haps Peo BUCKI A ; YE Joplin, Mo., Aug. 10.—Noah Par- Miss Irene Elliott, a charming| young lady of Coffeeville, Kansas, is | visiting Mrs. T. W. Arnold. “Pope Pius X” What would Pope Pius the X do if he would visit Butler. He would come direct from the union station in west Butler, to BENNETT- WHEELER MERC. CO., on the northeast corner of the square, purchase one of their magnifi- | Twenty-one Were Injured. Nevada, Mo., August 11.—The northbound Katy fiyer was derailed seventeen miles north of Nevada at 11:30 o’clock last night. The wreck was caused by spreading rails. Two cars were splintered and three derail- ed. Twenty-one passengers were in- jured, three seriously. A special train was sent from here and the in- jured were taken to the company|= hospital at 6 o’clock this morning. A Pleasant Surprise. The home of Mr. ard Mrs. Henry Gough was the scene of a very pleas- ant surprise Saturday, Aug. 8th, it being the 64th mile stone of Mrs. Gough. About ten o’clock the neigh-| [Gj bors and friends began gathering, all | i bringing well filled baskets, and a| i number of handsome presente Soon the table was spread and surely the gusto with which the dinner waseaten proved, without a doubt, the culina- ry skill of the cooks. The day was spent is socal conversation and, with the beautiful sunset, the guests departed wishing Mre. Gough many more euch happy birthdays. But expressing regret that they are soon | fim to leave our midst, as soon they will | fr make their home in Butler, Those present were: Mrs. J. H.| = Thomas, Mrs. Alice Rogers and son, | § E. A. Gough and family, Mre, Laura Gough and family, G. H. Bryant and family, G. W. Miller and family, Mr. and Mrs. BB. Utley, Mre. Job Utley and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Caleb|[€ Burton, Mrs. M. E. Padley, Wm.| {© Padley and family, Mre. J. W. Ginn, Miss Carrie McCoy, A. G. Deems and family, Mrs. Geo. Baker. A NEIGHBOR. The annual reunion of the Grand Army of the Republic being held at Lake Park, Nevada, this week is well attended by the old veterans. Silas Levy, formerly a member of the Sam Levy & Co. Mercantile es- tablishment, arrived in town Mon- day for a week's visit with relatives and friends. The gates of the State Fair at Sedalia will be thrown open August 17th, and the fair will continue to the 22nd. The indications all point toa succeseful fair this year. The cut sand stone being used in the addition being built to the Mis- souri State Bank were obtained from @ quarry on Dr. Boulware’s land south of town. Mr. Walton pro- nounces the stone to be among the best ever found in the state. Charles Roberts, aged 28 years, committed suicide the other day near Sheridan, Indiana, by shooting him- eelf with a revolver. The act .was prompted by Mrs. Roberts, a brideof three days, leaving him. The wile claims that she consented to marry Roberts through fear, and that she did not love him. The storm Friday. night was more severe south of here than in Butler. At Nevada considerable damage was done shade trees and outbuilding, and the new Latter Day Sainte church {in course of erection was consider- ably damaged, one side of the build- ing being blown down, Our good friend Squire L. C. Eich- ler, living near Passaic, will accept our thanks and best wishes for a liberal donation of choice apples. It is the established rule of Squire Eichler and his estimable wife to once @ year remember the printer with something good off their farm, and we can assure them their token of friendship this year was highly ap- preciated. Fire was discovered in the big, new barn on the Lawrence Knorpp farm, four or five miles north of town, at 2:30 Sunday morning and in a very short time the building and all con- tents were a mass of ruins. Five head of work horses and the family buggy horse were destroyed, ulso 28 tons of new hay, a farm wagon, har- ness, oats and corn. Loss about $2,000, insurance $600 or $800. The barn was a practically new one and cost $750. The horees were valued atabout $700.—Pleasant Hill Times, Robert Stubblefield and several neighbors had fine sport the other night ina wolf chase in Summit town. ahip and succeeded in capturing one big fellow after an exciting chase of threeor four hours. Mr. Stubblefield owns @ fine pack of hounds, and nothing gives him more pleasure than a fox or wolf chase. In therounds after this wolf the dogs gave hima chase of about 15 miles before they brought him toa stand. ‘The wolf was completely fagged out.” said Mr Stubblefield, “and took shelter under acorn crib in a farmer’s barn lot, and when we punched him out, we had a fight royal for a few minutes.” cent vehicles, and drive out, view the land- scape o’er, purchase one of Bates county’s farms, then drive back to the Big Store and buy one of those Mitchell or Schuttler wagons load it with bale ties, which they handle in car lots, and make special prices in quantities. He would then do as nine tenths of the hay raisers in our county has done. Buy a light- ning Hay Press and make hay while the sun We sold several car loads of these famous hay presses last season and every one shines, gave entire satisfaction. Come and look them over. How about that new range or cook stove you promised your wife right after har- vest. We havea good stock of both and prices are right. Also have a few refrigera- tors left which we want to close out and will If make you a very low price. Bring in your produce and we will pay you the highest market price in cash or trade. OUR STOCK OF GROCERIES was never better and prices are very low. Don’t forget our Ballard Items. The B. Y. P. U. supper at Mr. Christie's was a succeas both socially and financially. Mies Cora Crow, of Okarche, 0. T., {s visiting home folke Mrs, J. S. Arbuckle lett Tuesday | (@ for Los Angeles, California, where} {t she will vieit her sons and other rela- tives. Edward Bradley will teach the Freeze Out school the coming year, and Alva Crow will teach at Fair Play. The Ballard ball team defeated the Spruce nine at Ballard Saturday al- ternoon. Rev. Cowan and daughter, Miss Bertha, visited the family of W. A. Vest Sunday. Mrs. J. C. Noble and children, of Hartwell, visited friends in this vicin- ity last week. Ed. Powell and wife, Claude Green and Miss Winn; of Summit, attended services at Fair View Sunday. Mr. and Mrs R. D. Reeder, of Mingo, visited at W. H. Warford’s Sunday. Walter and Alva Crow attended the bean dinner at Austin one day last week. Pansy. Gl = = (C) line of sulkies and gangs, namely, the Deere aS Bradley and New Idea, they are all winners. Are you going to build? If so get our prices on hardware. We also have the best equipped tin shop in southern Missouri, and can do anything in that line. Also experts on plumb- ing and steam heating. Have placed more furnaces and steam heating apparatus’s than the entire county combined. Thanking you for past favors, we remain, Yours truly, Bennett-Wheeler Merc. Co. TrEnre tp ptAeA7A SS SSasy ) MOSIER’S REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS, B: Wannanty Deeps, From August 5 to 12 inclusive, HL Curtis¢tal to Hume Commercial Bank pt lot | blk Little Ad, Hume, $2,578. : W T Johnson to R E Holloway lot 1 bik 3 Wil- liame Ad, Butler, $1,200, John M Warwick to J N Barrows und 1-2 int tract sec 19, Osage, $1. JA Hanley to Wm L F Linn lot 10 bik 37, Rich Hill, $300, AJ Walter to Calvin K Gwinn et al 80 A sec 14, Mound, $3,400. J AStoner to D A White 40 A sec 32, Osage, $1. John Lyle to W H Witherow tots 6,7, 8 and 9 lvanp 10 bik 16 and lots 6, 7 and 8 bik bs, Amoret, $300, Edith Haines to H T Trowbridge 20 A sec 15, E Boone, 8700. GT Marshall toH T Trowbridge 89 A sec 28, E Boone $2,400, HT Trowbridge toG@ T Marshall 80 A sec 15, E Boone, $3,200, J C Jett toS E Garrison 40 A sec4, W Point, 81,500. C H Rains toC H Dickinsheet lot 16 blk 11 W Side Ad, Butler, $400. Sam’1 Wade to J C Clark lots 18, 14 and 15 bik end lots] 3 and 4 bik I2 W Side Ad, Butler, $135. J C Clark to C H Dickinsheet lots 18, 14 and 15 bik 11 west side Ad to Butler $195, H L Cartis toO 0 Jones tots 1 to 7 bik 9 Reeses Ad to Hume $600, ¥ & M Say Ase’n to Josie K Doig 84 a sec 95 Lone Gak #2 100, ¥ E Ingham to G W Stith 40 a sec 20 Mt Plees- ant 82,00. J W Porch to Lucinda 8 Porch luts 2 and 8 blk 1 Harpar’s Ad sub Butler, $50, GASH GROCERY WHITE LOAF FLOU We have another car load of this ' excellent Flour on band. Try a sack and you will want another. We also have the Mayflower, an all hard wheat flour. A Spider Webb Party. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Ennis at their beautiful country home, about four miles northeast of Butler, on Tues- day evening, Aug. 11, entertained a large crowd of jolly youngsters in honor of Miss Irese Welch, of Butler, and Mies Hattie Grey, of St. Louis, two charming young ladies and de lightful entertainers The party was called ‘‘A Spider Webb Party,” it was entirely a new feature, and caused much excitement and fun. Dainty refreshments were served to which everyone did ample justice. We de- parted at a late hour regretting that Miss Grey had to return to St. Louis so soon, but thanking Mr.and Mrs. Ennis for their kind hospitality and hoping to be invited back soon, One Wuo Was Present, . is i de f A Nice Lot of Honey, ‘pis.is8 home product made trom Have Added a Line of Granite and Tinware, is complete. Come to our store for anything you need in that line and you will get fresh goods at the lowest prices. We are headquarters for Coffee, Teas, — Cigars, Tobaccos, fresh Cakes and Candies. g to our stock. Also machine oil. Our GROCERY STOCK We pay Highest Market Price for your Produce. [)] F. E. MOSIER, Jim’s Old Stand. A Sunday Marriage, Rich Hill Review. Miss Sallie Johnson, of Butler, and Waller E. Robinson, formerly of But- ler, but late of Parsons, Kansas, were united fn marriage at the home of the eet sees, _ Chas. Pearce, on it Walnut St., at 5 o'clock Sunday afternoon, Rev. C.C. James, iene ne Harrieon und 1-4 int lot of the Walnut St. M. E Church, offi. bees ciated. The affair was v quiet, only immediate relatives pm 4 friends The bride te the ls the youngest daughter of County Treasurer W. T. Sobeeen, anda former Rich Hill young lady, She has 6 large number of Tien a here who could only in highest : , His Parachute | an unknown n last night, who. Falls 1,000 Feet Before His Parachw preespernra rianalgy saves Works, destro’ i Chicago, Aug. 10.—George Love, a | arene GT Bumgardner tractsecs| balloonist, had a narrow escapefrom elebn Cate i Got ithe leton treet sec 32 Ho- | death in the burning of his balloon mer, tract aco 6 Walnum 3 620, near Gardner’s Park. Three thoue- Ds iver Pills and picnickers watched the man in his fight for life as he strove to cut free hie parachute from the burning That’s what you need; some-| and fast falling balloon. — Perinat ve Syed Ps - thing to cure your biliousness, After falling 1,000 feet and when re Ba young mania every way worthy ot and late your bowels. You/ stil! 1,000 fees above the ground. in. sons, of Webb City, was the victim of