The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, August 25, 1904, Page 5

V | > Sb. "with other state lenders relative to a At “Here with the Goods” i That will please you in the line of BOYS AND CHILDS Clothing AND Shoes. Our guarantee goes with every purchase. POOOPESONTOD O00. THE » GOOD CLOTHES Mens and Boys Outfitters. ONE LOW PRICE TO ALL, <I | STORE. SGA LSILS SD SILDA S Ag Satisfaction or Money Back. AMERICAN THE § CLOTHING HOUSE. Mrs. J. W. Harshaw of Summit fs reported quite sick. Dr. and Mrs. Zey returned from their Colorado outing the last of the week. Mrs. W. W. Graves paid a visit to Judge Graves’ parents in Cass county last week. Miss Lucy Langston, of Phoenix, Arizona, is visiting her aunt, Mrs. G. A. Caruthers. Eppery Bros., store at Clinton was burned. The building and contents ’ were totally destroyed. The old settlers of Henry county, will hold their annual meeting at Windsor, Henry county, Sept. 10th. Gov. LaFollette, of Wisconsin, will deliver an address at the Clinton Chatauqua, Saturday, August 27th. Both sides ate gettin ready and the natlonal campaign will break loose in dead éarnest about the firet of September. Mrs. W. G. Shafer and children re- turned the last of the week from a visit to relatives and friends in Seda- lia and Holden. : Mrs. W.H. Sherwood and children, of Pittaburg Kansas, are visiting rel- atives and friends in Butler. Teacher Wantep: The Burdett » School Board wante a good man teacher, to apply at once. 43.2 Capt. W. P. Abell, wile and chil- dren, of Wichita, Kan., spent a few > days visiting Butler friends the last. Of the week. Graves spent several days in Jast week in congultation campaign matters. Mrs. W. F. Duyall and mother, - Mrs. W. F. Rogeer, lets the last of the week for Colorado Springs and Man- itou for astay of three weeks. “ ‘The splendid rains of last week were great help to the late corn. While es County will fall far short of a | | Greenfield, Dade county, is to have a street fair, Sept. 14, 15 and 16. Prof. H, L. Walker, of Baird col- lege, has leased Artesian Park hotel at Clinton and will convert the same into a military school. The sixteenth annual convention of the Bates county Sunday school aesociation is being held at the Bap- tisé church, Adrian, to-day and to- morrow. Mrs. Nellie Catterlin Aabel, of Los Angelos, Cal., is visiting the family of Jno M. Catterlin. She ts the daughter of a former Bates county citizen, Uncle John Catterlin. Our citizens should attend the Rich Hill Fair next week. Special attrac- tions are offered and the Fair prom- ises to be the best ever held in the county. A few days can be spent pleasantly and profitably at the Fair, The populist party, or what is left of it, has told Tom Watson that he {s running for president. When the beat is run Tom won’tknow whether he was entered for the race or not. Ed. Childs had the misfortune to run 4 nail in his foot at the oll tanke near the depot, last Saturday. The wound ishealing nicely and hopes are entertained that no serious results will follow. The American DeForrest wireless telegraph company is preparing to compete with the Postal and Western Union systems. Several stations will be established, among others one at Sedalia, Mo. Robert Stubblefield, of Summit township, and one of the staunch Republicans of thiscounty, says if he is able to get to the polls on election day he will certainly vote for Mr. Folk. « I. N. Mains, daughter Irene and sister returned from a two weeks outing in Colorado on Monday. They were accompanied home by Charley Mains, who had been at Idaho Springs for some time. Judge March lett Wednesday even- | ing of lat week fora ten daye’ visit to the World’s Fair. Hewas accom-| Fulton county, Ilinols, in 1851, Ho|lesely and had been on the platform panied by Mra. March, Mrs, Tileon|had not been strong for eeveral|for three hours, when the south| Govérnor Dockery has issued a the} and Miss B. Tilson of Reavely, and } met in St. Louis Monday. | Icecream and cake will be served |at the home of W. B. Tyler, 4 miles ,east of town, Wednesday evening, | Aug. 31st for the benefit of Summit Center Sunday school. Everybody invited. | a | Tie EMsabeth Chepel will give an ice cream supper at the church, Fri-| At the city election held at Foster day, Sept. 2nd. Everyone is invited t> come, and notify all friends whom ' | The Democratic State committee! Miss Addie Lotterer, of Ft. Scott, ! is visiti the family of her” uccle, Juo. F. Herrell. } While Dr. Geo. T. Rowe and wife were attending an entertainment in Pleasant Hill the other night their horse and surry were stolen from the hitch rack, the thief making his es-/ cape. on Tuesday of last week the follow- ing named were elected: Mayor, — yOu may wish to enjoy the supper. We acknowledge favors of Chas. , W. Ross, of Auburn, N. Y., traveling | representative of the big shoe manu- | facturers, Dunn & McCarthy. Mr. | ‘Ross was formerly propriegor of the Ross Hotel in Butler and it was for him thé hotel was named. Capt. Tygard, accompanied by his nephew and niece, Ray McCullough and Miss Nellie Orr, left for Califor- | nia on Saturday last, where they will attend the Knights Templar con- clave. They will visit the National | Park and other western points before raturning home. J. F. Ritchie has filed suit against the Mo. Pacific railway company in the Vernon county circuit court for $6,000 damages, He aHeges that he was permanently {njured while working for defendant and that his injuries were due toiuferior tools fur- nished by the company. Superintendent, E. B, Mitchell, of Casey’s herd of famous shorthorne, is arranging to show fifteen of the finest blooded animals at the World’s Fair. These will be headed by “Choice Goods,” undefeated champion of three countries and “Roberta,” the champion cow,—Clinton Tribune. Mr. and Mrs. M. M. Tucker, for- merly of Altona, now of E!Dorado Springs, and daughter, Mrs. Franze, visited their daughter, Mrs. Dixie L. Haggard the last of the week. They will spend @ week or ten days at the World’s Fair before returning home. The years rest lightly upon the shoul- ders of these estimable old people. Our esteemed friend T. E. Grider, of northwest Bates, was a pleasant caller while in the city the last of the week. Mr. Grider was the first man in the county to utilize natural gas for heating and lighting his home. He struck a strong vein near the house and has been using it with satisfactory results for several years. He owns a fine farm and has it well improved. J. R. Ford the last of the week re- ceived word of the death of his mother Mrs. Mary A. Pierce, which occurred at her home in Colorado Springs, at the ripe old age of 92 years, she hav- ing been born in 1812. She had been married twice, Mr. Ford being a son by the first husband. Mrs. Pierce had visited her son here on several occasions. Geo. Hess, 18 years of age, has been arrested and locked in jail at Lamar, Mo., on suspicion of having been the person who shot his father and mother near Sheldon, Saturday night of laet week. It is belived that young Hess, who fs his father’s only child, wanted to get the elder Hess out of the way so that he could get his property, which amounts to sev- eral thoueand dollars. The wound- ing of his mother is believed to be purely accidental. For some reason the candidates over in Kansas are certainly giving W. O. Atkeson the cold shoulder. He says in his paper, the Independ- ent-Journal: ‘We have been in Ot- tawa most of the time now for three weeks and have not seen to our knowledge a single live candidate of any party for any office in Franklin county.” At. had no business going over into “bleeding” Kansas. B. F. Richards, chairman of the Prohibition county committee, re- queste us to say that 73 signers to a petition are necessary before the county clerk’can place the county prohibition ticket, recently nominat- ed, on theofficial ballot. That 34 of these names have been already secur- ed:and all prohibitionists in the county are requested to call and sign this petition at an early date. _ Orville C. Horr died suddenly at the home of his brother, J. P. Horr, in this city, of heart disease, on Mon- day evening, August 22nd, 1904. Funeral services were beld from the Horr home, north Fulton street, at 8 o’clock on Wednesday afternoon, H. Scrivner; marshal, John Allen; assessor, Wm. Cobb; aldermen, W. M. Mills, D. W. Steele, south ward; A. G. Metzler, J. W. Bowman, north ward. Geo. L. Herrell, Bates county’s popular deputy clerk, left yesterday for Colorado Springs and Manitou for a season of rest and recreation. George’s close application to busi- ness has earned him a vacation which we hope will prove pleasant and beneficial to him, Butler and Rich Hill M. W. A. drill team will leave for St. Louis Satur- day night, September 8rd, for the Forester’s Encampment et the World’s Fair. We hope both of our home teams will capture some of the prize money offered for that oc- casion. Clark Boxley’s store at Paola, Kansus, was robbed of twelve dollars in silver Tuesday night, says the Spirit. The money had been placed in a shot sack and hid behind some canned goods on the shelving at night The thief evidently saw Clark hide the money and after he left pried a back window and went in and got it. Clark isason of Judge Boxley, of this city, and opened his store at Paola about two years ago, and has been doing well. The Clinton Oil and Development Company, of Clinton, Mo.. has let a contract to O. J. WilsonofSt. Louis, to bore their firat prospect well, says the Tribune. This hole isto be 1900 feet deep unless oil or gas is struck ataleseer depth. In drilling the deep well on the Henry farm at the north edge of the city limite of Butler several years ago a strong flow of gas was struck, Why not organize a company here and go after gas? Frank Warner, forinerly of this city, now residing in New London, Ohio, is back in Butler on a business trip. Hesays the wheat in his see- tion of Obio was almost a total fail- ure, while oats and hay was good, Yhen he left home rain was badly needed and the corn crop was being badly injured for want of moisture. A few more days of dry weather wouldcut the crop to about half. James A. Maddy was a pleasart caller on Tuesday. Mr. Maddy isa practical farmer of Elkhart township. He goes on the theory that as far as possible everything raised on the farm ought to go back into the soil. He therefore feeds all he raises. He has 120 acres of pasture and says that while a few yearsago it required three acres to one head of stock, that his land had improved so that two acres are more than sufficient. He believes hat every farmer should keep a yeer’s feed stored in case of crop failure. Mr. Maddy believes that an industrious farmer will grow richer on a rich farm, wiitle he is apt to grow poorer on & poor farm. Ex-county treasurer Roeder was a pleasant caller on Tuesday. He had but recently returned from Dillon, Mont., where he was called on ac- count of the illness of Lis son, Joseph Reeder. He sald tha J a is suficr- ing with appedicitis, anl that ay operation may become necessary, but he hopes to bridge it over until Lace Cc Belts, Stocks, Combs, PREIS. GOR len OP pg a aR EA. ee ollars, Shopping’ Bags, Ribbon 8, Dress Trimmings, Laces, Embroideries, Walstings, Fall weight Underwear, Percale Topsy School Shirts, Trunks, 8, School Hose, Suit Cases, Shirtings, Table Linens, Carpets, Rugs, Curtai We Sell Good Goods, and guarantee s the Lowest Prices, MCKIBEENS, : EDWARD CULVER’S NARROW ESCAPE Bolt of Ligntning Kills His Hofse and Burns Barn. Sunday evening about 5 o'clock Ed Culver, son of A. H. Culver, of this city, had a narrow escape from’ losing his life by being struck by a bolt of lightning, while the horse he was driving to a buggy was killed inatantly. Ed had gone to the farm home of Mrs. Tiffany about four miles west of town to call on a young lady. Seeing the approaching storm he concluded to shelter his horse from the rain in a buggy shed adjoining the barn. Leading his horse in theshed he went to the back part of the buggy and took hold of a wheel to straighten the vehicle in the shed. At the in- stant he took hold of the wheel a bolt of lightning struck the barn and the horse Mr. Culver was houseing dropped dead in the shafts. Ed. was badly shocked and knock- ed two or three feet from the buggy, but aside from a roaring sensation in his head and pain in his chest he escaped unhurt. Ed. said he saw a flume of fire pass out of his hand as the horse fell. The barn was set on fire and totally destroyed. Aesisted ‘ by a hired man on the farm Ed. suc- | cool weather. He said that Joe and | ceded in saving the most of tke con- hia wife are blessed with a fine baby |tents of the barn including his own boy, seven months old. Mr. Reecer| buggy and harness off of the dead said that Marion and Perry Staley | horse. and J. G. Erwia, of this county live Had the lightning struck a minute in that neighborhood. Joe and his/sooner Ed. would certainly have wile are living on a ranch, Fifteen cases of dynamite piled on the Missouri Pacitic depot platform at Minden, Mo., and consigned to a shared the same fate of the horse. Tue horse belonged to the Smith liv- ery barn, and was insured. Eva Martin, 17 years of age, was mining company, being struck by a| drowned in Brush creek, eight miles freight engine, exploded Saturday | northwest of Sedalia, Saturday night afternoon. Engineer Rody, of Ne-} he young girl, with her brother, his vada, and depot agent Ed. Brooks) wife and baby were in a carriage and wife, were killed. Those injured} which was swept from a bridge by were, Ed. Lowe, cf Nevada, fireman, |¢he swollen water. All escaped but probably fatal and a man named] yiss Martin, The body was recov- Jones, a bystander. building was demolished and a hole made in the ground big enough to bury a boxcar. The engine was dis- mantied and the track torn up for a and interment was had in Oak Hill|distance of two hundred yards, The cemetery. Deceased was bern in|dynamite had been unloaded care- ’ yeare, and wae making hishomewith| bound freight engine struck a caee . that projected over the track. The depot] ered about midnight. For the Rich Hill fair a rate of one and a third fare has been made from all points within one hundred miles. Season and special tickets are on sale for the Fair at Trimble’s drug etore in this city. proclamation asking observance of Labor Day, Monday, Sept. 5th. R. H. Conard, of Elkhart, favor d us pleasantly on Monday. Mr. Con- ard owns a from of 280 acres, 100 of which he has in grass, and from which he cat over one hundred tons of bay this suminer. Ho will hold the | hay for better price, John Keirsey, an old confederate soldier of Butler, Mo, was in this city this week mingling with old jfriends. Mr. Keirsey was a member of the 1st Missouri Gates Regiment No, 1, and lost an eye in the battle | of Peach Tree Creek, Ga, June 22, 1864.—Pleasant Hill Local. HILLS CASH STORE A ‘small list of the many usc- | fuly things we carry in stock. Don’t you think they are | cheap? 5 cakes of good toilet soap tor Se 25c box of witch hazel toiletsoap 15¢ 25c box corination rose “ “ 15¢ 1th) cake fine castile soapfor 10¢ | 2cakes good launéry soapfor Se 6 boxes soap powder for 25e Good ink tablets for Be Envelopes two bunches for 5e Wood frame looking glassfor 10¢ Goed tumblers per set for 10e Good glass water pitcher for 15¢ Good tea strainer for 72 Good wire egg beater for 2c { piece glass table set for 25¢ Large size butter moulds tor 10¢ Large kitchen forks for 5e Good dish mops for 4c Extra good auger brace for 25e Good blacking brush for 10¢ Extra good serub brush for 10¢ Good hatchet for 10¢ Good hammer for 10¢ Good paint brush for 5e Good towel roller for 5e Good dust pan for Se Large size flat filefor - 10¢ Homers soap two for 5e Good mop stick for 10¢ Good wash board for 18¢ Good bridle bite for 10¢