The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, May 12, 1904, Page 5

TSS Sgeeasc t We ~ Invite Inspection | OF OUR eyes i H \| —OF— Mens and Bays «SUITS. The greatest line of high class 2 Clothing w Ever shown in the town of Butler. S $7.50, $10, $12.50 $15, $18, $20, and $22. We also show a very large variety of Dress Shirts, Hosiery, Underwear, Neckwear, Come to us for — for Man or Boy. | AMERICAN |: cLoTHes $ CLOTHING HOUSE. ¢ sor = STORE. Men and Boys Outfitters. % STORE. One Low Price to all. Times’ Telephone No. 37. MeKibhens. Bob Braden, of Homer, close Friday of next week. day. Men’s suits, all wool, made tO.) Phe new hotel in Butler is badly needed, and there should be no delay order, $13 00 up.—McKibbens. Inthe first big land battle the Japs | in its erection. made the Russians show their heels. broideries at McKibbens. Mre. C. A. Emerson, of Amsterdam, was visiting relatives in Butler the latter part of last week. Judge Booker Powell. New Jow shoes, fine qualities, at McKibbens. It ie gratifying to hear that the P : . county. ticket nomination gives general sat- isfaction to the party. Hon. James N. Sharp, Democratic Men’s good work shirts 50c at Me- nominee for Representative, was re- Kibbens. fe inthe city spending a few days with bis brother-in-law, Ed. Deboe. black or white—McKibbens. McKibbens. Choiee designs in new Jace curtains at MeKibbens. support Mr. Folk. ‘scaie, we Quarterly meeting of the M. E. The Democrats of St. Clair county will hold a delegate convention at Osceola Monday, May 16, which time delegates will be selected to represent the county at the different conven- * Church, South, will be held next Sun- ' @ay and Monday. The Presiding ‘Eider will be present. More new carpets at McKibbens. tions to be held. Spring Stock’ The best shirtings at McKibbens Paul Bengsch is giving opera houre| pointed to eell the remaining shares. Now silk, fisle and kid gloves at saloon building a new coat of paint. was a The public schools of this city will ' pioasant caller while in the city Mon- Mr. and Mrs. Jno. D. Powell came More beautiful new laces and em-| in from Chicago the last of the week on account of the illness of Mr. Powell’s mother, widow of the late The Foster Times says the Demo. cratic county ticket nominated last week is one of the best the Demo- erats have ever put out in. this ceiving congratulations of his friends} Governor Dockery appointed Coun- on the streets of Butler Saturday. | ty Clerk John F. Herrell and Wm. EF. Jeremiah Bowman, of Foster, Ohio, | We acknowledge a pleasant call. Folk captured ten counties with} .ounty to the National Good Roads - 55 delegates in Saturday’s prima-|Congrese, to be held in St. Louis, Lowest prices on India linone, | ries, Reed carried only one—Lafay- wb eee : ette—with eight delegates. Folk now Cal B. Robingon favored us with | has 285 delegates pledged to him. renewal for himieelf and for hissister,| The M., K. & T. railway is again Mrs. Emma Maddox at Chadwick, | abje to run trains over itsroads. A Mo. : score of men and two or three work New stocks and lace collars at} trains have been at work repairing the damage by the flood to the track. M.T. January, @ prominent at-| Clyde Wells, 15 years old, was torney of Nevada, epent Tuesday in | drowned in Grand river near Clinton Butler attending to business incircuit | by the capsizing of his boat. The court. boy made his home with his grand: mother, his parents being dead. . On account of an epidemic of small- pox the state board of health has 0. M. cso ppg quarantined the towns, Novingerand wae pleasant : taitis in rv Connellsville, in Adair county. No | MeBereaees fo vathe trains are allowed to stop at thc @ W. D. Lanier, who is serving his Mra, Pyle were among Butler's pio- county on the jury, was @ pleasant | poorejtizens and most highly respect- caller and favored us with a renewal. : Mr. Lanier is an old resident of Rock- > dee ville and a highly respected citizen of Seen ay Young equirrels will soon be ripe. Paint and blue grass lawns well} trimmed makea pretty town. Let the building boom strike Butler now. More houses for rentare badly needed. Our old friend George W. Moles, of Adrian, was a pleasant caller on Monday and favored us with re- newal. Heis serving on the petit jury. Our highly esteemed farmer friend E. E. Eggleson, of Charlotte, was a pleasant caller on Saturday and favored us. Mr. Eggleson was a delegate to the Democratic conven- tion last week and isstrongfor Folk. Col. H. C. Moore’s residence at Ne- vada was visited by burglars Sun- day night and jewelry to the value of about $200 was stolen. Among the jewelry taken was a gold watch, the property of Mrs, Brady, with her name engraved upou the case. Now isa good time to drag the roads and put them {n good shape, but we doubt if the farmer will let zo of his planter and plow handles long enough to act on the suggestion just at this critical time when his corn needs to be planted, a If 2S Ge! SSESISIS1 Dirt has been removed and work- men are now ready to begin laying the foundation stone for the new laundry building to be erected by Mark Graves opposite the Laclede hotel. The new laundry will be fitted with first-class machinery and runon the high pressure, The extremely wetspringis putting our farmers back. But they. are far in advance of last spring at this time, when but little ground was broken, Now about all the ground is broken and in good condition. A few days of dry, warm weather and work will be rushed. The Rev. H. A. Denton, pastor of the Christian church at Warrensburg, has given notice to his congregation Gj] | that he has accepted a call to the e Maryville, Mo., church. Mr. Denton SLSSSL SIA ALDASASI AA ALIA SISS AA AS SSeS SSsSbreegiarr tS) i has been pastor at Warrensburg for five years and his church has grown to one of the largest in the state under his pastorate. A company has been organized at Amaterdam to sink a shaft 500 feet deep on Ed Wilbur’s property where 8 light flow of gas has been struck At a meeting sixty shares of stock were offered for sale at $50 per share and all but 17 were taken. C. A. Emerson and H. 0. Maxey were ap- The Review says burglars entered the saloon of Steuck Bros, at Rich Hill Sunday night, blew the safe and secured something over $150.00. The home of Cyrus Harkins was also entered, but in gaining entrance to the house the thieves awakened Mr. through the house. John W. Baker, of Post Oak, John- son county, a few days ago captured a live beaver, ufter a fierce battle on color. Walton, President of the Missouri State Bank, as delegates from Bates commencing next Monday, May 16th. The governor could not have eelect- ed two more worthy or competent gentlemen for such an important mission. A developing company has been organized at Hume. W. B. Wayts is president; 8. L. Standish, vice-presi- dent; J.C. Biggs, secretary and S R. Humphrey, treasurer. The new company will lease land and go after gas, oilandcoal. Mr. Biggs states the company was organized to pur- sue the leasing of land, on the as- surance of the Standard Oil compa- ny to enter the field. The funeral of Mrs. John H. Pyle, who died at the family residence in this eity Sunday evening, took place from the First Presbyterian church Tuesday at 2:30 o’clock, the services being conducted by Rev. Jewell. In- terment was made in Oak Hill ceme- tery. Deceased had -been sick for eeveral weeks, and her death was due ,| tocomplication of diseases. Mr.and 29 two A gang of burglars visited the Mo, |! Walter Valentine, stepson of Frank Pacific railroad depot at Webb City | Potter, who has been sick with con- Friday night. They broke into the | sumption for sometime, died at his) The company at the World’s Fair baggage room first and opened sev- | homein West Butler yesterday morn- | in charge the “Creation,” a repro- eral trunks, They then paid their | ing nothing for their trouble. Mrs. D. D. McCann, wile of Butler’s | why Bates county should not come chief of police, wet with a very pain- under the wire in November with a fal and serious accident Monday | thousand or twelve hundred major- evening. While out attending to | ities for the ticket, national, state | some young chickens she tripped on | and county. a plank and broke her left leg at the ankle joint. The accident is sure to lay her up for several weeks. Butler Mr. and Mrs. R. P. Redfield arriv- ed on Saturday with the remains of little Ruth, thelr 5-year-old daughter, who died at their home in Daven- port, Iowa, of the measles, compli- cated by other ailments. Funeral services were conducted from the Presbyterian church Saturday after- noon at 4 o’clock by Rev. Jewell and interment made in Oak Hill cemetery. Little Ruth was a very attractive child, precocious and amiable. The| The Democratic party of Bates | burning fercely. The hay in thetwo bereaved parents havethe sympathy , county never nominated a ticket that barns had given the fire such a start of thiscommunity, wherethe mother, | gave more universal satisfaction that efforts to save them were futile, (Mias Ollie Brown,) was raised, and | among Democrats than the onenom- Mr. Redfield taught in our public | inated last week. A prominent Re- schools. A letter to Isaac Fowler from his brother ,now living in Washington, reports the death, about three weeks ago, of HugoSigmund. Mr. Sigmund formerly resided in Butler, and oper- ated a tailoring establisment and| W. F.. Keyser, secretary of the will be remembered by many of our| Bankers Association, has received older citizens. He went west about | notice fromthe Pinkerton agency of twenty years ago, locating finally at | the arrest of a noted embezzler, Roy North Yakima, Washington, where , Loughbom, at Portland, Oregon. he accumulated considerable proper- | Loughbom was a bookkeeper for the ty. The latter also spoke of Capt. | Interstate Oil Co., of Kansas City, Stephene, who for a long time lived | and forged indorsements of thatcom- and the fire was easily controlled. in Lone Oak township, and was | pany to a number of checks, defraud- Had the wind been blowing there is known asthe big potato raiser of | ing some members of the Missouri | °° telling what damage might have a families end leaves. large circle of | *tis county. Mr. Fowler said the | Bankers Association, that organiza. | esulted to nearby property. friends who. with {Captain is farming near Yakima, tion took the matter up andemploy-| The trees are all out in leaf, ard von still raising “taters” and doing | ed detectives to run him down with | the woods look green and pretty once BEAUTIFUL NEW WASH DRESS GOODS, 4 fortunate purchase enables us to ~~ offer you some extra good values in SUMMER WASH GOODS. oc, Se, 10¢e, 123¢. COME AND SEE THEM. (SL IASSALSA IA ASD LDDAD AA» WIA us us Lé IAA pd Butler Student Won. \ duction of Jerusalem, in which the respects to the ticket office, but got TI kick _ 1! Mosque of Omar, the chureh of the gags ee - ic ce t us year, ne Holy re } ulchre, the Garden of Gett- with a solid front there is no reason semane and Mount of Olives are | shown, offered as a prize to the gram- | mar student in the fifth, sixth, sev- jenth and eighth grades of every county in the state, a railroad ticket | and free admission to the exposition Strawberries are on the market, | ®0d “Creation”exhibit fortwo weeks, but the price of a box is a little out who should produce the best original of the financial reach of the ordinary | ¢88¥ on creation as recorded in first Why not organize a company at| individual. New potatoes are also | two books of Genesis. Miss Grace Butler and sink a gas well and light | on the market, but they at Sc per | D. Jewell, the bright little daughter Harkins, and they were frightened] this town with gas. It can be done. | pound are hardly in reach of the, of Rey. Stanley D. Jewell, pastor of away before they had time to go] You remember in sinking theartesian | average pocket book. Vegetables, | the Ist Presbyterian church of But- well on the Henry farm just north of | however, of all kinds, are plentiful|!er, has won the prize for Butes the city limits several years ago «# | and reasonably cheap for this season strong flow of gas was struck and | of the year. when lighted shot up 4 flame fifteen or Post Oak creek. He took the ani-| twenty feet high. The drill bit in mal to Warrensburg whereit attract- this well got fast and the drillers ed no little attention as itis the first | being unable to extricate it, drilling beaver ever seen in that section. It| Was stopped and the well abandoned. weighs forty pounds, has a tail nine| Butler ought to have as much enter- inches long and is dark brown in prise as the citizens of Hume and county, over a large number of on- | testants from this and other towns jin the county. She is a member of W. F. Keyser, secretary of the Mis-| the fifth grade in the north school, souri Bankers Association, informs | taught by Miss Eliza McGlasson, us that the 14th annual convention | Tue Times congratulates the little of that association will beheld atthe | miss and wishes her a pleasant and World’s Fair grounds, St. Louis, on | profitable trip to the fair. Kenneth the 24th, 25th and 26th of May. A | Baldwin, the other contestant from Ameterdum. Organize a company splendid programme has been ar-| Butler received a letter ofcommenda- sell stock, and let’s go after gas for rangedand a pleasant and profitable | tion and a ticket to “Creation.” time for the bankers of Missouri is | ——______.. — aamnes. Two Barns Burned. Sheriff Smith has appointed Joe | Whipple, son of Dr. Whipple, of Pleasant Gap township, deputy sher- iff. Mr. Whipple takes the place of D. D. McCann, recently elected chief of police of this city. He is aworthy The ecreeching of the fire whistle at the electric light plant and theclang- ing of the big fire bell called out the fire department at a quarter to 3 o'clock Tuesday morning. Onreach- . "¥\ing the scene the fire department young gentleman, an active and in-| found the big barn at the old John fluential Democrat, and will make | At;eson residence on South Main splendid deputy. Sheriff Smith is to street, now owned by J. A. Cobb be congratulated on his choice. and thatof W. 0. Atkeson adjoining, and the fire boys worked to hold the blaze in check and save adjacent publican said: “With Folk nomi-) property. The rear of Mr. Cobb’s nated for Governor and a county | residence which was near the barn ticket like the one the Democrata|was badly scorched by the heat. have just nominated, it looks to me | Fortunately there was no livestock in like a mighty poor year for Republi- | either of the barns, end the only loss cans in Missouri aud Bates county.” | in contents was hay and corn. In = the Cobb barn about 300 bushels of corn and @ considerable amount of hay was burned. Mr. Atkeson saved his buggy, but loet @ set of harness, How the fire started is not known, Fortunately the night was calm the above result. more.