The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, October 1, 1903, Page 5

Ae RE ENS EES ERE read W.S. Johnson, who sold his place| northwest of Butler recently, has} bought city property in Liberty, Mo. are the perfection in clothes making and they Fit Like Tailor Made You who have never worna ready made sult are MADARA R AA 2 6455823 especially urged to call and try on one of these celebrated coats. This week we have received NEW NOBBY SUITS, NEW SWELL OVERCOATS, NEW CRAVENETT RAINCOATS. We are headquarters for thecounty court about a bridge over Deep Water creek. renewal and has her paper changed from Butler to Horton, Vernon coun- ty, Mo., where she expects to spend and make the effort could in a few months make all roads lead to But- ler and the trade of this city double. caller on Monday. A delegation of citizens from a Water up Tuesday to consult wit Miss Mary Swift favors us witha winter. Our merchants if they would unite What is it? Glenn Miller, son of Elder W. B. Miller, of New Home, was a pleasant Mr. Miller is teaching his second term at the New Home school house. Our old friend DeWitt McDaniel was a pleasant caller on Saturday and favored us witha renewal. Mr McDaniel is a practical farmer and has made a decided success. Elder J. B. Lotspeich was visiting old friends in the city the first of the week. He is located in DeKalbcounty and is b peel er pgs Ba coun- try an ple. He says that count; is for Fok. ’ George D. McNeil, who, with Wm S. Mudd, is merchandising at Drexel, was in the city Friday on Probate business and favored us pleasantly. He was accompanied by his son, James McNeil, Both George McNeil and Billy Mudd have a large number of friends in Bates county. Eld. T A. Abbott, cor. sec’y of the Missouri Christian Missionary Socie- ty, will preach at the Christian Church next Sunday 10:45 a.m and at 7:30 in the evening will give a lec- ture on State Missions with stereop- ticon views. You are cordially in- vited. John R. Smith has resigned his osition with McKibben Mercantile ompany and will engage in the gro- cery business at La Harpe, Kan. McKIBBENS, CLOAKS. The new Prince Albert and Box Coats are here and are very handsome. They are priced from $5.00 to $2500. Our Cloaks are without question the most stylish made, the best fitting and the best values in the county. They are manu- factured in the | tt and best factory in the country and by union labor. We do not offer a single sweat shop gar- ment. We mark each garment in plain figures and sell —_ that way. You do not help pay for your neghbors cloak. Come and see them. E'urs. Our new Furs are in and are more beautiful than More satisfactory to you. ever. There are many of the beautiful fox scarfs in the lot which is a very stylish fur, and we have marked them VERY MODERATE in price for quick selling. Come and see them. We also show a line of infants cloaks 75c to $6.00 and childrens cloaks from to fit age 2 years up. bay" We take grocery orders same as cash, McKIBBENS. Lowest prices for good goods. i t c Miss Mary McGoftin, of Lexington, to his continued interest in our peo-| Mo,, is visiting her niece, Mrs. O. F. le by sending renewal for THE TIMES. | perio, is grandfather, uncle ‘Jakey’’ i Auctioneer. I want to cry your sales. Give me atrial. Satisfaction or no charges. Best of references furnished on appli- Good Clothes for Men and Boys AND OUR PRICES ARE LOW. AMERICAN CLOTHING HOUSE. "Mn and Boys Outfitters. THE CLOTHES STORE. One Low Times’ Telephone No. 37. Best oil opaque window shades only 19¢, Hill's Cash Store. Dwelling houses for rent in Butler re a searce commodity. y ™ New long sleeve ribbed corset cases just received. Hill’s Cash Store. Every business house on thesquare is occupied for the first time in sev- eral years. Beautiful line of all silk ribbons di- rect from the factory. Hill’s Cash Store. Judge Graves came home from Clinton to spend Sunday with his family. Mens cotton flannel mittens 5c. Hill’s Cash Store. 0.A. Heinlein made a flying trip to Kansas City Tuesday, returning the evening train. Childrens fleece lined vest and pants Seach worth 10c. Hill's Cash Store. Tom Keller and bride have arrived home from Terre Haute, Ind., and are keeping house on North Water street. Mens velvet fleeced underwear T5c a suit worth $1.00. Hill's Cash Store. Mrs. Walton left last week for Bos- ton to continue her vocal studies un- der Mra. Brown, the noted voice teacher. * Cotton batting at 5c, 8¥c, 10c and 12%e worth 6Yc, 10c, 12¢ and 15e. Hill’s Cash Store. - Miss Mabel Southern, of Independ- ence, visited the family of J. E. old and other relatives {ur & few the last of the week. Mens sweaters for 50c worth 75c. Hill’s Cash Store. D. D. Peeler announces that he has plenty of good coal at bis bank in Hodson township for 7 cents per bushel. 48-26 0. B. Pace and Warren White, two + and substantial citizens of Elkhart township, were pleasant allere on Tuesday apd favored us ‘ ntially. B..L. McElhenny and daugh- s Elsie, of Ballard, were trad- Butler on Tuesday. We ac- fe a pleasant call and a for Tar Truxs, fin ti— Wey — Celebrated iW 3 CLOTHES : | : Mr. Smithisa good business man with large experience, and we predict for him abundant success. The Bates County Convention of the Christian Church will be held at Passaic next Thursday and Friday, | September 8th and 9th, An Inter- esting program has been propared for the two days session. Entertain- ment will be furnished free to all at- tending the convention, Some frost has appeared but not enough to do harm to crops. Itis claimed by many that there will be no killing frost during the “light of the moon,” which will be until the middle of October when it is thought _ of the late corn will be matur- ed. Mt. Pleasant township’s new rock crusher has been put to work erack- ing stone, and soon you will see all the bad places in the roads put in de- cent traveling condition in this town- ship, and the citizens in general will be praising the township board for their businees tact in securing the machine. rice-to all. A good rain on Tuesday. All best calicoes 5c per yard. Hill’s Cash Store. Zib Williams is making a cut on buggies, carriages etc. Now is your time young man to get a fine buggy | at a cheap price. Mrs. Sam Levy, who had been vis- ing ber daughter. Mrs. H. A. Lederer, in New York, returned home last week. She was arcompanied by Julius Levy,a young nephew of Judge Levy. from Germany, who comes to accept a position in his uncle’s store. Heis a brother of Paul Levy, who met them in St. Louis. Mrs. C. T. Black was a pleasant caller on Tuesday. She is enjoying remarkably good health for her age. Our esteemed friend T. J. Wilson, formerly a prominent citizen of Fos- ter, now owning a fine farm near Colby, Kan., sends remittance for re- newal. Prof. Ives informs us that Doctor Matt.S. Hughes, of Kansas City, will deliver hia famous lecture “The Fine Art of Living,” before the county Sunday schoo] convention in Butler on Friday evening, October 16th. This lecture is considered very flne and as many of our people who can should hear it. - The newest things in all wool sweaters for little boys or girls. Hill’s Cash Stove. There will be a Sunday School Con- vention at Peru Sunday, Oct. 11, commencing at 10 o'clock, All Sun- day School workers in Lone Oak twp and Bates county invited. Wright and father J. A. Wright were ioneers of this county and owned and adjoining the corporation of Butler. Mr. Wright is in the mail service in Chicago. Dick Batchelor, who was in thecity T. Ring and Miss Laura Adame, prominent and popular young peo ple living east of Appleton City, io St. Clair county, were to be married on Wednesday evening, Sept. 30th, at 6:30 o'clock. The ceremony took place at the home of the bride's par- ents, Mr. and Mrs. William Adams. Here is a Pawnee county man’s confession at a revival meeting in Kansas. Me had been pressed to re pent, and finally got up and said: “Dear triends, I teel the spirit moving in me to talk and tell what a bad man I’ve been, but I can’t do it while the grand jury is in session.” “The Lord will forgive,’ shouted the preacher. “I guess that’s right,” said the penitent, “but he ain’t on the grand jury.” The Butler ball team made a ree- ord this season to be proud of. Out ofatotal of 42 games played, our boys won 30. They played fifteen of these games here and took a tour through southern Missouri and Kan- sas. The last game of the season was played here on Sunday after- noon, between the Butler and Mo. Pac: team of St Lonis, resulting ina vietory for the home team of 6 to 3. John C. Courtney, a prominent farmer, living near Cornland, in Lone Oak township, died at his home Sun- day afternoon, of consumption. Mr. Courtney was about 60 years old and had been attiieted with the dread disease for the past two years. He lost a son and daughter in the pa ‘armer and Stockman, for- merly the ‘Live Stock Indicator, has increased its clubbing rate “owing to the increase in the cost of white pa- per, as a result of trust conditions and exactions.’ We are therefore compelled to withdraw the clubbing offer of three papers with Tar Times for $1.25. Over in Henry county the county prisoners are being worked on the public roads by order of the county court. The Clinton Democrat says: “All the able-bodied men under jail sentence have been doing very prac- tical good roads work, working un- der the supervision of the road com- missioners and have pit several bad stretches of road near Clinton in tine sbape. ” We enroll the following new names on our subscription books this week: The Bank of Rockville, J. 8. Painter, J. W. Anderson, Logan‘Moore Lum- ad ag tt mage W. n nom, leyer ‘alker, Jno. Kleppinger, W. J. Marriott &Co., William Sharp. lese, A. J. Sunderwirth, K. Porter Midkiff, John T. Cofer, R. Steiner & Son, Commercial Hotel all at Rock- ville; C. T. Carson, Papinville; G. Durst, Prairie City. Farmers inform us that the corn has so far injurious frosts. That much of the late corn is matur- ed and'all will be out of danger in two weeks more. While there will not be a full crop of corn, farmers of Bates county will have monn run them and some to spare. H J. P. Edwards and A. 8. Milhorn have purchased the old Academy grounds from Mrs. Henry and con- template building a number of mod ern residences thereon, Ladies extra quality fleece lined vests and pants worth 35¢ our price only 25c. Hill’s Cash Store. Alex Cameron has purchased the west side barber shop of J. W. Hol- loway. Mr. Holloway has associat- ed with Mr. Richards in the second hand business on the south side square. Mr. Campbell, late of the Butler Cash Department Store, an excep- tionally good salesman snd clever and accommodating gentleman, has accepted @ position in the American Clothing Houee. Zid Williams must vacate one of his warehouses and is selling off part of his to make storage room. Now is the timefor thefarmer to save some money and buy what he will need for springs use, now at wholesale prices for the next ten days. A. Shobe favored us with a renewal on Tuesdry. Mr. Shobe is amember ot one of Bates county’s oldest fam- flies: His father, Johnson Shobe, an early settler entered land near But- grain turned out well and the weath- ler, where he raised a large family, |o was favorable for caving it. The allot whom are doing well, having hay crop has simply been immense, moved to different sections of the|the farmers of this courty ere in country. mighty comfortable circumetances, ew years with consumption. leaves a widow. an honesi, conscientious citizen and possessed the confidence and esteem of all his neighbors, Rey. E, T. Adams, the new pastor for the south Methodist, preached his first sermon on last Sunday. He isan eloquent speaker and made a very favorable impression with our people Rev. Dinwiddie was appoint- ed by the Sedalia conference to fill this place, but expressed a desire to be transferred to another conference. To accommodate that change Rev. Adams was transferred from Rich Hill to Butler; Rev. L. L. Pinnell was transferred from Sprague to Rich Hill; Rev. T. P. Wood was transfer- red from Appleton City to Sprague. A contract is usually considered binding on both parties. A teacher's contract with a board of education is an exception. It is binding on the board but not on the teacher. The wording would indicate that the teacher binds himself to the terms of the contract in yo ing it fully as much as the board binds iteelf. The reason that the teacher is not held by it is that he > — not — ally responsible. He can compel the Roos to keep its word, but he can disregard bis for an offer of three dollars increase elsewhere and the | P! board is helpless in preventing his leaving. In other respects teachers seem to betruthful and honest. But {t is a common practice among them to break contracts without the slightest remorse. One of the worst features of this practice is in the ex- ample which may lead children to attach only slight importance to contracts of all kinde. on Tuesday, informed us that Robert. | Mrs, Lawrence Pierpoint arrived | from her home in Grand Island, Neb., | to visit her parents, Mr, and Mrs, T W. Silvers, and many friends. Mrs. De C, Mize, accompanied by Miss Florence Willard, drove through to Springfield, where Mr. and Mrs: Mize will make their home. Miss Willard returned last week and re- port a very pleasant trip overland. Levi Pierce died at his rooms on the south side of the square Monday morning at one o'clock, after suffer- ing untold agonies from a wounded hand for more than a week. Hedied from the effects of lockjaw, which set in on Thursday. About the 15th of September he ran a rusty nail in his hand while working for Recorder T K. Lisle, at his barn. The wound re- tused to heal and caused him much suffering, finally resulting fatally. Levi Pierce was born in Little Rock, Ark., January 16, 1844. He came to Bates county in 1868, He was married to Miss Robinson, who died Sept. 18, 1882. He was the father of 5 children, 3 living, viz: Ed. Pierce, Mrs. Lizzie Harvey and Mre, Grace L. Showalter. He was amem- ber of the Christian Church. Funer- al services were conducted from the Christian Church by the pastor, Elder Williamson, assisted by Rey. Jones, Tuesday afternoon at 1 o'clock. In- terment was made at Ashley ceme- tery, southwest of Butler, where his wife was buried. The Lecture Course. The following are the dates and the attractions which the Executive Committee of the lecture course ar- ranged: Tet Nov. 23rd The W ‘agner-Amstary } { Mr. Courtney was} Co. a musical entertainment. Dee. 7th Hon. Geo. R. Wendling, subject: “The Imperial Book.” Jan. 14th, 1904, Mr. Frank KR. Roberson, sub- ject: “Imperial India.” Jan, 25th Miss Olof Krarer, subject: ‘Green- land or Life in the Frozen North.” Feb. 17th A. A Willits, D. D., subject: “Mental Dyspepsia.” March 22nd The Lulu Tyler Gates Co. & musical entertainment. Course tickets, including reserved seat, willeost two dollars. Subserip- tions may be made at the Farmers Bank. Five Bates County Cases Go to Vernon. Nevada Post, Papers in five cases to be tried here on & change of venue from Bates county, at the October term of the Vernon county circuit court, were re- ceived to-day by Circuit Clerk Huff, as follows: The State Bank vs. C. E. Garner and B. L, Exline. Plaintiff asks judg ment against defendant for $600 with 8 per cent interest. The Farmers and. Mechanics Bank ve. C. E. Garner and B. L. Exline on note for $375, given Sept. 17, 1902, and due ninety days after date. The laintiff asks judgment for the amount with 8 per cent interest. John B. Egger vs. Albertus Fry and Martin Lutber Fry, for $700, commissions in a real estate deal. Farmers and Manufacturers’ Bank vs. C. E. Garner and B. L. Exline on two missory notes for $126.55 and $50.67 respectively. The Bank of Rockville vs. A. T. Lowry for $1010. POPOOTPOODOO 009090006 OOV 6000000 00G IO 20D PHDODOL OF OOH OOPODSPPITOS POOP SOOO OD cation, | Rosaixs, Amorett, Mo. Call on or address, C. BE, 45-tt 000000000005 009009000000 C9 SPSSOOIIDY CO OS ORO OD TT COPOCRP IT, HHPOIPOTOPIE CPC OO PIII IE PONV POIPOI A _ Superior quality hair brush. Snaps on our Bargain Counter. Best 50c work gloves for. for { Best $2 mens hats TOM ssscesesssnsescvsensy $1.43 Big Sample line of Men and Boys Caps. Bho Caps: L08.......cesesessoeey BOc Caps f0F.........s.ssseeeee T5e Caps for... ee Seer Coal oil cans worth 15e in > aaisaiink sale (0c Extra large size vasaline regular 10¢ size only 5 Door locks the a. 25e kind on our bargain (0c | te | counter at........ the regular 25c sellers one of our barganins at........ Ladies black Mercerized skirts worth $125. You can 98 buy them of us at Ladies 8 rib umbrella. with paragon frame, congo handles and steele rod worth T5e Ale another good bargain at Ladies $1.25 umbreallas 8 rib faney handles, Mercerized cover, silk cord and tossel paragon frame, steel rod, extra swedge and patent ferruleasplen- did bargain only.............. 98¢ Mens umbrealls superior Mer- cerized serge, paragon frame, steel rod, extra swedge and ferrule real congo hand- BOD QOL. vrcsecsseeserosesosonsnons We have a'l of our umbrellas made especially for us and all with 8 ribs let us show them to you, you will see the advan- tage they have over 7 rib goods. Beautiful new glassware on our bargain counter. Opelesant, gold band, imitation of cut glaes, large handsome pieces worth double our price. Look them orer and se what youcan buy for only. a J & (0c Hill’s Cash Store.