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J.P, Edwards ordere Tae Trves| changedfrom EtPaso, Texas, to Red} lands, Califorria, where he and his wife have gone to spend the remain- OUR INVOICE SHOWS A FEW ODD SUITS | => QVERCOATS WHICH WE OFFER AT GREAT REDUCTION. der of the winter. We wish this ex- cellent couple a delightful e jjourn in | that salubricus climate and a snfe return home with the early spring | birds. The reception given by Mrs Buford | Duvall and Mrs C. E. Scott on last | Thareday afternoon, at the former's home on high street was the society event of the we k. The rooms were prettily decorated with cut flowers and vines. Dainty and de icious re- freshments were served H. D. Chambers, that bright and hustling young real estate man, rep resenting the tirm of Parish & Grover, of Adrian, was in Butler on Monday and favored us with a pleasant call. He was accompatied to Butler by his wife, who visited the Misses Cow- ley. 44jC} Popular Juke Allen, editor of Tar Burcer Times, who has been placed among the candidates for Secretary ©! State, is out in a strong editurial advocating Sam B. Cook foraste snd term. It looks like Mr. Cook will have no opposition, — Hannibal Jour nal. | TO CLEAN UP OUR STOCK OF OVERSHOES ' WE OFFER a ARCTICS John B Moore, of western Bates, was in Butler Monday to complete the details in connection with the sale of his farm near Amsterdam. He has purchased another farm in’ the same locality and wiil develop the gas prospects and if found in suffi cient quantities will utiliz> it in heat ing anu lighting his home. We ae knowledge a pleasnnt cail, Our old friend F.ed Boehen came in from Seneca, Mo, on Tuesday and closed a deal for a nive little farm in Pleasant Gap township, and paid the cash, He thinks of moving his fam- ily toitin the early spring and be- cominga citiz» Y ¥ i Tue Times welcomes him back anu eun congratulite the people of that locality on a quiring such splendid neighbors. Mrs. Boehen was «& Miss Gander, and thisis near her old home. B First Quality - - - $1.15 Second Quality - - 85 | AMERICAN CLOTHING HOUSE. Men and Boys Outfitters. One Low Price to all. THE GOOD SHOE STORE, General Tl, C. Clark and wife and Miss Norma Duy attended the mili tary reception and ball given by Governor Dovkery at the executive mansion on last Friday evening Mra Clark and Miss Day were of the receiving party. Among the beauti ful gowns described in the Kansas City Star was: “Mrs Clark, adainty Henry F. Kiersey, of Santa Bar | decollette own of white point d’esprit ‘ bara, Cal., formerely of this county, | overgreen silk, with corsage bouquet Mie aiosk collate, Bill’s Cash | otders Tue Times to his address. of violets and lilies of the valley.” Store. SESS ESasuns fal Times’ Telephone No. 37, Do not miss the great apecial sale now going on at Sam Levy & Co, C. H. and D. M. Radford, of Spruce : were pleasant callers on Monday, New goods arriving every day at) thy former favoring us with a renew- Hill’s Cash Store. al. They are prominent young Dem- J. R. Simpson was in the city from | cratic farmers, Deepwater on Saturday. W. T. Kemper resighed as police commissioner of Kansas City last week, to make the race for Mayor of that city, and Governor Dockery im mediately appointed D. J. Dean, manager of the Baltimore and Mid- land hotels, his successor. The polit- icians of Kansas City were greatly surprised at the appointment of Dean, but the governor assumes al! the responsibility, as he appointed him as his personal friends and did not require indorsements. Hume will have two rural routes aiter February 15th. 50 pieces of table linen are on special sale at Sam Levy & Co The Rich Hill Review says the fam Gloves and mittens at wholesale A. prices at Hill’s Cash Store. apie ily of Simon Loeb was quarantined on Rev. Meisler, of Independence, | Saturday by the city officials on the ittance for re-| score that Mr. Loeb’s little daughter nist sdacaieaihiaas had diphtheria. i ra ‘ Judge Graves returned home Tues- Fall line ot dieee, Hahinge [nat te: day. He will spend the balance of calved. Hill's Cash Store. the week in Butler and goes to Ful- Judge Sullens was over from Fost: | ton Monday to preside at the Butler on Saturday shaking hands with his | trial next week. numerous friends. C F. Jackson, who has been travel- ing for the Deering Harvester Co., has been promoted to assistant man- ager of their Kansas City house and wiil shortly move his family to that eity. Mr. Jackson is well and favor ably krfown to our people. He was deputy county clerk under Mr. Broad- dus during his first year in ottice and resigned to accept @ position with the Deering people. He is a worthy gentleman, and his many friends here will rejoice in his success, Eld. J. W. Rogers who has resided in this place for the last four or five years, has eccepted the pastorate of churches at Hume, Archie and Sprague. Heexpects to make his home at Hume and probably remove to that place about the first of April. Elder Rogers is an able and eloquent pulpit orator, and during his resi- dence here he and his fumily have made many friends who will regret their departure from our midst.— El Dorado Sun. Judge James B. Gantt, known per- sonally to nearly every citizen of our county, having served as our circuit judge for six years, was in Butler Friday and Saturday, in the in- terest of his candidacy for gov, ernor. He was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Jenkins. Tue Times, acknowledges # social call. ; Judge Gantt is serving his second tance| The Johnson county Star, in copy-| term on the Supreme bench, having a ing an afticle from the Holden Enter-| been nominated without opposition ‘Tux Tuces is like a weekly | prise on the gubernatorial situation | and has seven years yet to serve, He as it effects that county, adds: is one of the country’s ablest jurists, “Besides all this, Mr. Crow has to factor in the with heis one of | You can save from 25 to 50 per Blanket lined coats at less than | cent if you atteud that special sale wholesale cost. Hill’s Cash Store. | of Sam Levy & Co. Mrs. A. C. Sampson died at her) Mrs, C. E. Dimmett, Mrs. G. 8 home in Rich Hill on Saturday. Sho) Campbell and Miss Aggie McCracken was 36 years of age. delightfully entertained a select num- You can buy all kinds of goods in | ber of lady friends at a reception on our Red Ticket Sale at a big saving. | Tuesday afternoon. | Hill’s Cash Store. Never has there been such bargains ¥ Paul Walton, Democratic commit- —- pod at vo a sale in teeman from Lone Oak, was a pleas. | ‘lothing sama “es re ant caller on Saturday. y i _ | =“ Squire B. F. Jeter, of Butler, was ~ {You make a mistake if you dont)‘, town, Thursday, looking after ‘see how low first-class goods are 801d | some legal business. ’Squire’s How- at Sam Levy & Co. ard township friends have begun to want him for recorder two years The county campaign started early | hence, Jeter would do—Hume Tele- jn Johnson county. A long list of | phone. candidates appear in the county pa-| No yee in talking—goods are sold very cheap at the special sale at Sam Levy & Co. Mrs. Charles Endres has disposed of her restaurant to J. E. Searles, of Lamar. Mrs. Endres has been in business in Butler for a long term of years and is highly regarded by our people Her reason for retiring is the failing condition of her health. q Mr.and Mrs. Max Weiner celebrate heir marriage anniversary to-day adinner to a select party of riends. F Our young trend W. B. Welch of Su! was a pleasant caller on and favored us substan- fg tally competent to creditably fill ea eR ERLE & pore convention will ratify such election * | over for one week, to the'8th."* ‘* °** OOOO 9900 £c'9E SESE GOGO BPHOF GTCOSCOH S IHOE GOOD {Muslin Underwear: SAT, FE. 25¢ musiin underwear for 20¢ ae | ” “ Be S5c—* “ “ 29e We “ ‘ 33e 45c = ey 3Te 50c *“¢ ss ee 45e b5e * + $s 5Ue Tbe = 8s «4 sé 65e 4 00 “ 6 6 Oe 10 + “ “De 7 «| as s¢ $1.00 40 ae ee. be Sl Is | a *s oc fh 45-—_s B14 200% $1.69 50° “ ‘$2.00 $8.00 “ 89.50 BLANKETS REDUCED PRICES 65— 45 TO— 48 T5— 50 $1.00 75 125 98 139$1.19 1.501.235 175 145 00 5-85 Great Reductions in Prices ON CLOAKS AND FURS { McKIBBENS:: ODOVMS ON VSOOFS OOOO SPOOL OCIII9SS PENO VN IO eeccccscoosc 0000 £6 O5693 0086 SOOES ws OOUE Notice to Taxpayers. | The work at the New Home mineis | progressing finely. All the honses Thelew makes it “imperative on articles is summing upa list of the : ake y e . sg vate . k ght eyed, elivible , are filled, and ev erybody is at work. the collector to add two per cent as | bright eyed, eligible buds (boys) for They are loading two cars of conl | q penalty after February Ist’ Every | the girls to consider this leap year, perday. The air shaft is down forty | tax payer who is delinquent should | It finds that like Macbeth’s Ine of feet and they are pushing the work. | take due notice of _. “ ' phantom kings, that town’s list of ine are new anx- sf HILDS. marriageat yeme in- The people at the m Callastar tar Ub. Hisasant. | Arriaen ‘le young men seems in ious to secure a school house and « bavi nlhradiatrntnss nals | clined to “stretch out to the crack o° church Let the good work go on — Mrs. N. L. Whipple. {doom.” The Butler girls, we under- ‘ . | stand, have a list ic y Foster Times. Mrs. Nalley Whipple, wife of Dr_N. | avert eaoe were a Eg quite so long, but they are choice AN tis tail neue National) 1, Whipple, died at her home in| articles, very shy and, like most Guard Association held in Jefferson | Pleasant Gap, on Friday, January good things, hard to capture. The City Friday afternoon, General Clark | 22nd, 1904, of pneumonia. Funeral girls can count on Tue Times, it they was unauimously re-elected presi- gervices were conducted by Dr.Cham- Need any assistance in the final dent. He was also elected adelegate bliss, of Butler, on Sunday, in a very roundup. to attend the Inter-state National impressive manner, music was fur- Guard Association meeting to be/nished by the Morris family quar | held in St. Augustine, Fla. The Lamur Leader, in a series of PLEASE READ, : We have the largest harness and tette, of Butler, and the remains were gaddiery factory i southwest Mis- laid to rest in Rogers cemetery. {souri, We buy direct from the tan- Miss Nalley Wayland was married | nery and sell direct toconsumer. Keep to Dr. Whipple June 15, 1870. To | Your money at home. See large ad, this union four children were born, | Init McFantann Bros, two boys, Joseph and Nathantel, and twogirls, Mra. Mary Wilson and Mrs. | Daisy Gipson, all living in Bates | Squirm as they will, the ley ubli- cans cannot get around the fact that taxation in Missouri for general state purposes is 18 cents on the $100. In lowa it is 28 cents; in Iili- nois it is 40 cents and in Kanes 55 G fhe figures are official, and age Sr metite sagines them away | county. Mes. Whipple was a con- are worse than foulish. Democratic | 8i8tent member of the Baptist church, | Missouri is the best and most eco | was an exceptionally bright and nomically governed state in the! good woman, a loving and devoted | Union, and the people are not anx-| wife and mother, honored and loved ious to muke a change.—Usceola 1 Democrat. by all her neighbors. ns Mrs. I. N. Mains, Miss Alice Me- Henry county has been visited by | Lain, of Webb City, old friends, ac- a traveling “doctor” and many I bought my 1 bought my SHOES of SHOES at Others. HILL'S POPCTP PISO FOOOOSEOOBOE O00 000 WHERE DO YOU BUY YOUR. companied by Dr. and Mrs. Cham- credulous farmers, says the Demo-| iii, attended the funeral, which was ve been duped into signin, pana ah notes, a sealing rege largely attended by neighbors and sure ** sal +t. Tnese notes | friends. : ce Fan eg 7) the beads of | The Whipple and Wayland families innocent purchasers, This is an old | are among Bates county’s early set- form of fraud which the papers have | tlers, are prominent and highly re- exposed time without number. [| pected people, and a large circle of 1daNs like some people delight to be iriends mourn with the bereaved fam- humbugged by a slick tongued, well ily in the loss of wiie and mother. dressed stranger. Any old gamewill) (y> efficient and popular circuit | We want every man, wo- man and child in Bates county to know that we carry GOOD shoes, work clerk, John A. Patterson, has com- W. F. Keyeer, assistant secretary | pleted and had printed the court of the Missouri Bankers Association, | docket for the February term of cir- is in St. Louis attending the meeting | cuit court. It shows 249 cases of the council of administration of | docketed of which 25 are divorce that association. We learn that the | cases; 114 state cases, of which 1 is question will be decided at this meet-| murder in the first degree and 87 for ing ofelecting a permanentsecretary, | violating the liquor statutes—the with established headquarters. No| others are minor cases. The dates manin the state is better qualified to | are from Feb’y 8 to Feb’y 25th in- fill that position than Mr. Keyser, | clusive. This is one of the largest who has held the position of assist-| dockets before the court for some- ant under every secretary so far| time. Owing to Judge Graves being elected and has had charge of all the | called to preside at the trial of the Butler case at Fulton, which is dock- the council will confer upon him that | eted for next Monday, our court will honor, with the salary, and the next | cohvene on that date and adjourn We not only want you to know that we carry shoes but we want you to try our line, We will save you money and give you satisfaction with every pair. If you can buy shoes of us for one $1.00 that cost you $1.25 elewhere, why not do it. HILL’S CASH STORE.