The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, June 30, 1904, Page 5

Beautiful new fans at 25 and 48¢.| Mr. and Mrs. R. G Hartwell lett | Bates county’s delegation to the —Hill’s Cash Store. the Inst of the week for St. Louis to | state convention left for Joplin Tues- G. C. Moss has his paper changed | Visit their sons, Will and Dwight, | day. m Amoret to Colorado City, Col. | and see the World’s Fair for a few weeks. They will go to Michigan to visit before returning home. | Mr. and Mrs. Shafer and daughter | * Irene, returned from the fair Satur | ii day evening. | s Some especially good bargains in es shoes at Hill’s Cash Store. ” ‘ i isses Quincy and Josephine Mit- P| -The big 4th of July celebration will The honor of seconding the nomi- ' take fod in Butler next Monday, |°bell, accomplished daughters of Mr. | nation of Roosevelt at Chicago, was rain or shine. ood Mrs. G. W. Mitchell, of Durant, delegeced to a Marylaca negro an {LT abe over in Butler a few : engains in harvest gloves.—Hill’s days to ms ap d friends. They were| Mrs. Hollenbeck, living on the old . vee aor on their way to the World’s Fair. ee farm an Knob — nd] : lay repa’ amage ohnson county, Mo., was struck by | & done by lightning to the court house) Now that the Poss hotel on the lightning the other day, and instant-| Md dome last week. northwestcorner is a certainty it will! iy kitted, while standing in her yard. | [a ‘}be a nice thing to build up the + We acknowledge courtesies from J. burnt district on the southeast cor.| Quite a number of former Butlerites | i now living in Kansas City, took ad-|@ R. Rippey, secretary Missouri State| ner of the equare. This is avaluable Fair, Sedalia, Mo. corner and ought not to be allowed | Vautage of the excursion rates and Walking skirts on sale at McKib-| to lay idle. came down to our city Sunday and y . ‘ We acknowledge sem oe a day with friends or : Dr. and Mrs. T. W. Arnold left Sun-| renewal from H. E. Percival, Burling- day night for St. Louis to spend ajton, Vt. Mr. and Mrs. Percival have _ few days at the fair. many friends in this county, and | Mrs, Laura Lamb, formerly ot| they have a decided preference for Butler, now of Minier, Ills., sends re- Butler, where they made their home mittance for renewal. for 8o long. Ladies Shoes & Oxtords $1.50,| Hanley Clark, of Summit, has been worth $2.00.—Hill’s Cash Store. keeping a record of the rainfall and says there were 9X inches to June eee oe a ot POUR, Wale "ee, old then wean bil el a pleasant caller the last of the week and favored us with renewal. inches Friday night. He says the 2nd corn planted is doing well, that Judge J. D. Parkinson, of Kansas] broom corn is fine. City, came down and epent Sunday Harvest time {s now on, but forthe oh 4 ‘was c 2 es past few days the farmers have not len’s Shoes for $1.25. t in| been able to get in their flelds on ac-| above previous high water qnarks. town.—Hill’s Cash Store. count of the wet weather, and it is| The uk ina ar short time went H. G. Cook and wite have returned | feared the wheat, oats and flax crop | out — pee ont * over we = : from the World’s fair, and report] will be badly damaged. ground along She stream. Parties that crossed the cable bridge, south having had a pleasant time. The grand free Fourth of July cele- : of town, Saturday morning, said the | fay Our popular young friend Roy| bration to be held at the lake park, | Water was within six inches of the| ' lips, with Bennett-Wheeler Merc. | this city, will have an entertaining | oor. 00., favored us with a renewal. program for the day with a grand display of fireworks at night. The Psp a oF weather permitting, the 4th of July Dr. Murray, a prominent physician will be an enjoyable day to-all who of Holden, Mo., was badly hurt ina come to Butler. | Punaway accident the other day. The Adrian Journal reports the | Best bargainsin townin Mens Under-| death of Mrs E- R- Bates at her wear at 25 and 49c.-Hill’s Cash Store, | home, five miles east of Adrian, 16th inst. She was born in Peoria coun- ty, Ills., 1840, and came to Bates county in 1885, where she was mar ried to Mr. Bates in 1888. The Clinton Democrat says:| “Wolves are more numerous over the | Si county than for many years past. |i Seven miles west of Clinton they have | fa created havoc with poultry and young, pigs.” Dr. J. J. Kelley, 65 years of age * and one of the best known physicians | in Argentine, Kansas, suicided by a' hypodermic injection of morphine! 5 Sunday, because despondent over the | a death of his wife one year ago. The biggest rain of the year fell in Frida Ms Butler night according to Mound branch, which went three feet The Hebrew preacher in a debate | with John Dunn and the patent med-| & icine man with his coon jubilee|K singers on the northeast corner of | the equare Saturday evening, made|@ things pretty lively in Butler, and the way the crowd swayed_from-one to the other put usin mind of street fair times, | ‘The rain Saturday, Sunday and Monday caused a suspension of work on the ditches for the sewerage pipe. All roads will lend to the big 4th Major A. V. Adams, chief of com- ! of July celebration in Butler next missary; Major Frank Lynch, chiet Monday. Come and bring yourfam- quartermaster, and Lieutenant D.D. ilies. McCann, aid de camp to Gen. H. ©. Clark, were at Nevada Friday, Asnow storm raged throughout | awarding contracts for supplies for Montana Friday. The temperature} the camp of state troops to be held | dropped to 30 and 40 degrees above | at Nevada July 16 to 27, zero, The {nsurance companies have raised rates at Nevada out of all [reason and in many instances the insurance amounts to prohibition of | business, says the Mail. One big firm claims that if the rate is not] Kg reduced they will close out business and seek another field,as their profit will not justity them in paying $4.60 for insurance, i David Seeley, 80 years of age, fs County “School Superintendent under arrest at Kalamazoo, Michi- Some odd lots of 50c corsets for] Prof H. 0, Maxey met with a pain- McKIBBENS. Just as well Buy Good Goods SPECIAL SALE ON LACE CURTAINS.—See other advertisement for prices. el eS ot baas" ee eet ee ele bottle hehe ON SALE 25c Shirt Waist Suitings FOR I2 1=2C yard New Bastistes at 5c, 8\«, 10c, 124», 15¢. New Fancy Mohatrs, for Shirt waist suits. New Silk Shirt waist Suitings. . New Kid Belts, new shopping bags. New Lace Collars, new fans, new parasols, Stylish New Oxfords $1,00, $1.50, $2.00, $2.50, $3.00. Each pair guaranteed, BEAUTIFUL New Rugs Velvet Rugs $2.00 & Axmister Rugs 2.50 up 2.50 up : Room Size Rugs $8.50 up. Good Goods at Lowest Prices. NICKIBBENS, | { | | Smyrna Rugs gan, charged with bigamy, it being alleged that he has nine wives living, He has wives in Chicago, Cincinnati and Kalamazoo. Six years ago he married Lucy Kiliam, ef Kalamazoo, anda short time later was sent to the Michigan penitentiary for four 25c.—Hill’s Cash Store. ful aud serious accident in Kansag The State Democratic convention | “ity last week. He fell on a slippery to select 36 delegates to thenational| sidewalk and broke his leg, and is Democratic convention met in Joplin | !ald up in & hospttal in that city. He yesterday. delegated Prof. Ives to conduct the : - teachers’ examinations on Friday It just costs a person $5 to spit on d Saturday last. the sidewalks at Nevada. The ordi- pies iad pdioe nance prohibiting it wert into effect] THE Tites job office turned out Friday morning. one thousand streamers, printed in B 14 4 s catisuinoetae colors, for the big 4th in Butler, and | quale aa m be poli tor 50c; Henry Fulkerson and Otis Radford | $1.00 garments for 75c; $1 50 gar. | thoroughly billed the county. If the a : sare ments for $1.00.—Hill’s Cash Store. |day is favorable, the town won’t be| Friday night. With his two grand AN Two negroes are dead and a third | #ble to hold all the people, and the | 898 the old man had been to Green yi eer 1 ded <ul¢ | Old bird will scream in great shape. river fishing. Returning home one fs dangerously wounded as a resu of the grandsons dropped the lines. of a shooting scrape at Windsor, _ The firet car of new wheat received | p14 frightened the team and they _ Mo., Sunday night. in Kansas City from the crop of 1904 ranaway. The old gentleman at- a ag ey wg ie tempted to get out of the buggy and weighed 60% Pant ad pig eA: was struck by one of the wheels and " “| was thrown to the-ground—in-such & The “gd rg og oy pas = manner that his neck was broken. mous Rance ; . Noble county, Oklahoma, where 12,- 000 acres are sowed in wheat. On or about Sept. 1st, the Butler Cash ead Pye will be mov- ed to the east side of the square into Hard to head Kansas offfrom ad-| 110" two rooms now pe me by| west. The solid rock cliffeinto which vertising. At Abilene, Saturday it Nichole&Son and the bowling alley. these strange people have cut their {; claimed three inches of rain fell and | These are ¢ to of the beat store build. Seiten, dle niet and entone equ and w ut in 3 hundreds of fish fell in the streets. {ngs yg ‘a 4 p soni oe 7 sna Dlare admirably reproduced. J. A. We were complimented by @ call) quarters. An arch way will be cutin| Norton, formerly a Butler boy and from Mrs. J. W. Ennis, of Summit, | the partition wall of the buildings,| who worked for the Missouri State who favored us with a renewal, as|@nd both rooms will be thrown to-| Bank, now Secretary of the North ' has been her custom for many years, | #ether. American Invest. Co., is treasurer ; Joe Meyer, you have heard of himjand. part owner of this company. rod sais onda coe before, he is the clothier on the east | The Cliff Dwellers exhibit is worth runner, nice handles, 98p, side of the equare. As an up-to date | seeing. McKibbens. | merchant he has few —_ and no} Yale George McKissick, living superiors in this or any othersection | a nthwest of town about five miles For nice, generel pore 8 ofthestate. He has anclegantroom | was re city Monday and was bred horses, 3 and 4 years old; ns" |in which to do business and hiestock hes besold time or money, see Dave i boasting that he made the first ~ of goods is eurpassed by none, elther} shioment of wheat from this count Colyer, now at Gailey’s feed yard : ‘ P ‘ iy ” M in quality, quantity or style, and he to St. Louis thie year. Uncle George east of creamery, Butler, Mo. has never been accused of being un-| wwe g good farm and this year he The tiasons have completed their] gersoid, Joe Meyer is @ capital put in twenty-five acres of wheat on part of the work on the new steam | ¢4oq fe'low, and his clerks are ae | 41 extra good piece of bottom land, laundry building, and when the boys | .ommodating and active young men. | his wheat was above the averageand get moved over, they will havesplen- The old reliable firm of Sam Levy | he anticipated a good yield. Friday d. and commodious quarters. &Co. are ofivring special inducements | afternocn he took his reaper and put Mrs. E. A. Bennett and daughter, |i, pig advertisement in Tue Trwes|inahalf day cutting defore thestorm Mise Helen, left Tuesday on a Euro-| this week to buyers. The Judge has|came up. Saturday night the creek pean tour aud will be absont several] }.o, in business in this city for the months, While in London they will] jast twenty-eight years, and the ; magniticient trade he has built up is a testimonial of his integrity as a man aud reliability: as @ merchant. been married five times, ) ; ition. —Clinton D ti. dua, H. McAninch, 79 years o} age, exposition inton Democra' was accidentally killed in Nevada Wm. Bateman has his paper chang- edfrom Amoret to Seligman, Mo., where he has gone in hopes of bene- fit ting his health. We are slaughtering summer wash dress goods: 8c batistes for 5\:, 15 and 20c lawns for 10c, beautiful linons less than regular wholesale cost.—Hill’s Cash Store. Fair visitors this week. We are in receipt of courtesies from the Cliff Dwellers Concession at the World’s Fair. This exhibitcorrectly portrays the Cliff Dwellers of Colora- do, New Mexico and the great south- ment. City Tribune. cient R P.O. clerk. } it is a money saver. é attendance. The Democratic pariy stands on the platform, that “this is a shite man’s country and by white men it ought to be run.” A Texas giant was onthe north bound M., Kk. & T. Thursday night. years on a charge of bigamy. Inthe|He was only 16 years old, but was two years he has been free he has| 6 feet 74 inches tall With his mother and father he was going to see the The 4th of July committee is doing its best to give the people, old and young, a good show and a pleasant time. Everything, ballgameand all, will be free. So come along and see the sights and the fireworks at night. Dr. and Mra. J. T. Hull, Mr. and Mrs. I. N. Mains and W. 0. Jackson and family are among the St. Louis | Ouresteemed lady friend Mrs. A. E Settle, mother-in-law of street com- missioner Duncan, favors us with a renewal. Mrs. Settle owns 80 acres of Kansas land in the oil belt near which @ fine producing well has been struck, and she naturally hopes of realizing handsomely on his invest- Prof. L. B. Allison, of Butler, was shaking hands with friends in our city last Saturday, and during his roundsfound time to pay the Tribune editors social call. The Professor has many friends in our midst who arealways glad of an opportunity forasocial chat with him.—Appleton Our young friend Walter C. Hays sends remittance for renewal and orders his paper changed from Fair- field to Spokane, Wash. Walter has secured appoiatment as postal clerk and has his run from Spokane to Northport, Wash. He is a worthy young gentleman, gained his promo tion by merit aud will make an effi- The regular June examinations of went out of its banks, overflowed his| teachers for certificates were heid at land and his days cutting floated off| the west school building last Friday down stream. The back water was|and Saturday. In the absence of still over the field Monday, and he| County Superintendent Maxey, who feared his entire crop would be lost. | Was sick, the examinations were con- He stands behind bis goods and his| He says he still has a chance for a| ducted by Prof. A. L. Ivee, assisted wordis as gvod as & U. 8. goldbond.| hay and blackberry crop, and there|by Profs. Richmond, Davis and Read the advertisement of this firm, | is no use of loosing sleep over misfor-| Hoover. There wers 87 teachers in Fred Boxley and wife came down from Fansae City and spent Sundey The free employment agency at with relatives and friends in this city, Kansas City shipped five hundred] Mrs. M.T. Duncan left the first of men to the Kansas wheat fields Mon- | the week for Bedford, Okla., to visit day. her sister, Mrs, Brabn, of that place, Mr. and Mrs. John Harlan, of| Squire 0. M. Burkhart was & pleas- Enid, Okla., are in the city visiting | ant caller on Monday, and reported at the home of W. H. Hupp and wife, | TOPS in Pleasant Gap as very back- parents of Mrs. Harlan. wil Misses Lee and Eiple Stith, Clara Pale Bel rar mee ie Te and Laura Bolin, Mrs. Chambers and | of Willard, Okla., are visiting with daughter Pearl, Mrs. C. 8, Edwards’ Mrs Gaddis’ sister-In-law, Mrs. J. A. and daughter Lizzle are attending Padley. the world’s fair this week. Claud Edwards has returned from a visit to relatives in Illinois, The People’s Elevator Co. is pay- Butler Camp No. 2458 Modern | ing the highest market price for hay Woodmen of America will hold their | and grain and extends a cordial in- annual memorial services Sunday | vitation through our advertising - July 10, 1904, at the Ohio St., M. E. | columns to the farmers to visit the a ehurch. Services to be conducted by | elevator, Rev. Joel A. Barker. Chas. Haas, of Adrian, has received W. J. Stewart, a pioneer farmer of | his commission from the Grand Mas- Cowley county, Kan., fell from the} ter appointing him District Deputy top of a forty foot windmill Monday | Grand Master of the I. 0, 0. F. lodge and died from his injuries in a short | of this district. time. He had gone to the top of the! Chiet of Police McCann and Pound- mill to tighten bolts. master Henry, we understand, are The American Clothing House is} doing good work in getting rid ofthe having a clearance sale this week | dogs. One day’s work resulted in and is making special prices on light | twelve dog funerals. Let them keep weight suits. I¢ will pay you to| up the good work. read their ad this week and pay you Lawton, Fort C atill better to take advantage of this Oklatioms City, pce lange nen Ss sale. fine rain Sunday, which was of great ae Mrs. George William Logan receiv- | value to the country and insures the ag, ed at her home 2411 Washington | corn and cotton crops. Corn down avenue, Cairo, Ill., yesterday after-| there is silking and taseeling, and noon in honor of her sisters, Mes- | the cotton is in bloom. dames T. A: Black and Jesse Smith Mrs. Penelope Sappington died at and Miss Agnes Arnold, of Butler, Colorado Springs eo the age Mo. of82 years, She was an old resident Col. Jno. M. Courtney was down | of Saline county, Mo., and a daugh- from Kansas City the first of the | ter of ex-Governor Breathitt, of Ken- a week looking after his business inter-| *ucky. The burial will be in Sap- , ests and greeting his old friends. He Pington, Saline county, favored us pleasantly and had his| The new team uniforms for the dates set ahead. Col. Courtney was| Butler camp Modern Woodmen of pioneer of Butler and has many | America have been received and the friends here who are always glad to | boys in their new suits will join the see him. parade on the 4th and give an ex- James A. DeArmond has purchased hibition drill at 6 p. m. of that day. the Bates County Democrat and will] Weare in receipt of & new ballad take charge to morrow, July 1st. | “Onthe Farm in Old Missouri,” from Mr. DeArmond has been ambitious | Continental Music Co., Broadway & for a journalistic career forsome time. | 28th etreet, N. Y. The composer is He is a young gentleman of ability, | a born and bred Missourian, grand- a good writer and, we have nodoubs | son of the late Judge E. V. Wilson, wil make a success. THe Times wel-| of Knox county. It is « beautiful comes Mr. DeArmond into the news- | melody of much music and is destined paper fold. . to make a hit, especially in Missouri. a.