The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, November 10, 1904, Page 5

WY You Voted For Your Choice Now take time to vote who shall be your lothier ano Shoer _ WE ARE ASKING FOR YOUR SUPPORT. THE GOOD CLOTHES STORE. CLOTHING HOUSE ONE PRICE TO ALL THE GOOD SHOE STORE.—ONE ‘PRICE TO ALL. Best bargains in faseinators, Hill's; E. F. Letourno, the redoubtable Cash Store. Lee, who lives alone with his chickens _M. ls has hi hanged | 824 bees on the banks of the classic ee precuring a ore Miami, favors us with a renewal. | ‘The ladies of the M. E. Church | | ‘South will give a church fair Dec. 17. Saxony yarn 5c per skein at Mill’s Cash Store. John Griggs and wife left Tuesday for the Nation to look up a location. Thompson’s glove fitting corsets, new models, 48, $1, $150 at Me- Kibbens. Miss Lena Hurt is at home on a visit to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. “Dick” Hurt, She has been holding @ position as stenographer in Illinois for the past two years. | | | } } W. B. Stark, our efficient veterina + Tian has his name enrolled for THE | Cotton flannel mittens only 5c | Hill’s Cash Store. a Good shirtings Sc per yard at! Hill’s Caeh Store. | Franklin, prominent and influential J. H. McElroy has his paper | Young Democrats of Howard towz+ changed from Butler to Amarillo, | Ship, were pleasant callers while in Texas where he has located. the city the last of the week. Mrs. C. T. Blackhasreturned home| Congressman Champ Clark last from St. Louis, seeing the World Fair | Week announced his candiadacy for and visiting relative. a seat in the United States Senate to at | TrMEs. Col. Wesley Badgett and Eugene | Factory line of gloves and mittens | at wholesale prices, Hill’s Caeh Store The next most important event, especially for the little folks, is Christ ;mas. The little ones all understand old Santa and their hearts beat with delight at the thought that thegrand old man will soon make his annual visit to their homes. SSSSSSSSSSS=S Cards are out announcing the \ SS marriage of Walter G. Davis, to US | Miss Effie Burcham. The ceremony is to take place at the Christuian eburech, Windsor, Mo., Nov. 17th The groom is a promising young attorney of Henry county, and a nephew of J. R. Davis of this city: J. C. Boswell, who lett Bates coun- ty for the west thirty-one years ago to seek his fortune, was in Butler Saturday with bis brother Ed. Bos- well. He recently sold his large ranch in Oregon and is looking around for a new location. We would be glad if he would conclude to locate again in old Bates. The following hunters left for the hunting grounds of southern Mis. souri yesterday: John A, Patterson, J. R. Cobb, C. D. Denney, H.H. Wyse, Fred Cobb and Joe Stanley. They | will be gone ten days or two weeks and we expect them to return laden with deer, turkey and other big game, with possibly a bear or two. A letter from Miss Gertrude Mc- Connell, daughter of Dan MeConnell, whose familly is now doling the World’s Fatr from their house boat, says they expect to leave that city for the sunny south in a week or ten days. They expect to go down the river as faras New Orleans, They promise to keep our people posted on the incidente of their journey, through Tue Times Jno. 8. Newlon, son of S. J. New- lon, & prominent farmer of Summit township, who is attending medical school in Kansas City was struck in the leg by a shot fired by a dog catcher into a crowd of men and boys who had assaulted him. Young Newlon was elmply a looker on and, as frequently happens, was the one to suffer. We are glad to report that the wound is not considered dangerous. j Mra. 8. T. Duncan is enjoying a visit from Mrs. J. D. Horan, of San Francisco, Cal. Mrs. Horan wili be remembered by our old citizens as Mrs. James Pickett, whose husband owned the old Pickett house on the southwest corner of theequare, which long ago was moved away to make room for the substantial brick busi- ness buildings occupying that site. Otto Hund, a verdant youth of Nevada, f ll into the hands of confi- dence men in St. Louts last week, who relieved him of all hiscash. To prevent this very occurance he had concealed his money in smal] amounts in different parts of his clothing, but when arrested by a bogus detective he readily helped the officer by disclosing the hiding places of his coin. ‘The probabilities are that when at home Hund is too stingy to pay for and too busy to read his local papers. While the campaign has closed, we can not forbear to speak of the eloquent and learned address of our eminent Congressman, Judge DeAr- mond, delivered at the court house to SSSSSSSSSSSSS9S9S9SSSSSS9999 SWELL TOUR FANCY MANN Other ladies cloaks from $5.00 up. Misses cloaks $2.00 up. Another lot of BEAUTIFUL Come and see them. We only have ONE PRICE, and guarantee it to be the lowest for GOOD GOODS. We do not handle trash. McKIBBENS. SSS SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS Floor oil cloth 25¢ up at MeKib- bens. We have written and thought of politics so much that it is hard to get back to the ordinary events of life, but we will exert ourselves to the utmost endeavor to furnish all the current and local news and abjure politics for the season, after all the returns are in and duly re- corded, The house oceupied by Charley Lee in Elkhart township, was burned last week, Mr. Lee had recently traded the property but still had posseesion, The household effects were insured, bat the new owner refused to take the policy which was on the house at the time of the trade and consequent: ly the house was a total loss, Sam and Albert Kimmick, brothers living in Cape Girardeau, Mo, were badly wounded the other day while out hunting. They stopped to talk to a farmer who also was hunting. As the farmer was ejecting a shell from his gun both barrela were discharged into the bodies of the brothers, Their condition are consid- ered critical. Mrs. A. Huyser, nee Miss Carrie McFarland, of Colorado Springs, favored us with remittance for renew- al. Although entitled to vote in that state, Mrs. Huyser still holds to the belief of her fathers that woman’s is a different, and, in many respecte, @ higher and holier sphere, and leaves politics to the men folks by refusing to exercise the right of suffrage. The Big Three Coal Company made a lucky strike in their sheft one Childrens wool toques only 10c at} Hill’s Cash Store. St The Crossett shoe fs unsurpassed for style, fit and wear, cost $3.00 $3.50 and $4.00, PorrexBarcer & Eowarps, six miles southeast of Adrian, says the Journal, Ed. Wardman strack gasatadepth of 77 feet and the flow was quite strong, throwing a flame of fire five feet above the pipe. Tue Totes still sticks to the prop- osition that wells sunk on the Henry farm just north of Butler, gas in sufficient quantity could be \ing there as it was etruck in boreing the deep well several years ago. Governor Dockery on last Thurs- | day appointed Charles E Johnson | county, treasurer of Bates county, to fillout the unexpired term of his} father, the late W. T. Johnson. No} other application, so far as we are | informed, was filed, and the appro- | priation meets the hearty approval | of our people Cuarley was deputy | treasurer and during the last few | months, owing to his father’s ill health, was in charge of the ottice. He is competent and worthy inevery respect. The county court met on Vriday and approved his bond and he opened the offce for business on Saturday. W. R. Bell, treasurer elect | will not take charge uutil theticst of April, 1905. A leak in the supply pipe from the reservour to the gasoline engine, i the Republican office, caused an ex- quarter of a mile southeast cf Rich plosion ast ‘Thursday #tierioon A LARGE SHIPMENT OF AND BLACK GHEVIOTS. $9.00, $10.00, $12.50, $15.00, $17.50, $20.00. Infants 75e up. SSSss While drilling a well on his farm’ obtained to light and heat Butler. | There is no doubt about the gas be- | ] IST GLOAKS, ISH GLOAKS FURS $1.00 up to $25, Are You in Need of a SUIT OR OVERCOAT PERHAPS BOTH. COPYRIGHT 1904 BY KUM.NATHAN &@ FISCHER Q, Do you want to save some money on your Clothing bill, come and see how low we are selling Reliable Clothes for Men, Boys and Childrens wear Prices vo hieher than the he ; hod | succead Senator Stone, 5 aga ik iia: ast always proceeded on the early bird theory. T. C. Greer, prominent young farmer of Shawnee, favored us pleasantly and substantially on Buy Munsing underwear. The best at McKibbens. Monday. Elder Lewis Wix returned from Good apron check ginghams 5e per Arkansas last week where he had yard at Hill’s Cash Store. been holding successful meetings at a number of points. He reports ninety seven conversions and one new church instituted. Broom corn is worth $30 to $65 perton. Thatis not encouraging to the farmer as raising broom corn is not all profit by any means. Sep our men’s underwear at 39c McKibbens. Mrs. J. M. Wells has returned from Ohio where she was called by the ‘ gerious illness of her aged mother, who died shortly after her arrival. * But for the crowd around the voting booths, by the quiet that prevailed in Butler, Tuesday might well have been taken for a Sabbath Splendid work shirts 50c, at Me- Kibbens. Take care of your own nose; don’t let it “roam.” A Roman nose is all tight bat when one’s nose gets to “roamin” 80 as to get into all the business in the neighborhood, its own- er is approaching the danger line.— Ex. B. F. Billings who left a few y ago in quest of health and settled at day. Sheridan, Wyo., accompanied by his Ladies hemstitched all linen hand- | 2004 ile pce ogee - T kerchicts 5c, McKibbens. western prospering in their hhew home. " The large barn at the county farm in Vernon county, burned to the ground Friday night. The fire caught in the hay loft. Six or seven tons of hay, 60 bushels of oats and harness and implements were bur- ned. The loss is. covered by insur: On Friday J. M. Sallee received word of the death of his brother Thomas, at Westfield, Ille. Mr. and ‘Mrs. Sallee returned from his bedeide the firet of the week, thinking him _{mproved, but he took a relapse after ny fe. ae ie ; ' icKi ‘Brown hose, best for wear, a large audience Saturday afteraoon. His description of Roosevelt’s esti- mate of the present occupant of the White House, gleaned from his writings, was & masterpiece of sar- sasm, which weapon Judge DeAr- mond knows so well how to handle, and his eulogy of Mr. Bryan was the most beautiful und eloquent we have ever heard or read of that great American statesman. Our 10c hose for women and chil- dren are the best madeforthe mon y at Hill’s Cash Store. The Rich Hill Review reports the burning of Mrs. Falor’s barn, four and one half miles southwest of that city Monday morning. The barn was anewly built structure and contain- ed about 15 tons of hay, 50 bushels of corn, several sets of harness, etc, which were @ total loss. A span of mules which were in the barn when the fire started was saved with great difficulty. Alittle over ayearago Mrs. Falor’s barn was burned to the ground} on the same spot where the one that was destroyed last night stood, and how either of the fires were started is a mystery to Mie Falor. Macon, Ga., Nov. 8.—Fire swept Tifton, to-day, destroying several business blocks and causing a loss of $250,000. There wereno casualties. gether with the cheapness Hill, They had gone down twenty- | seven feet through twelve feet of slate, when they struck a fine three foot vein of cannel coal. This is! the first strick of cannel coal made | in the Rich Hill flelds, and the price {¢ commands in the market, te- with which it can be mined, makes it a rich tind for the operators. They claim they have 40 acres underlaid with the product, Lets stand pat now and with a long pull and a pull altogether, boom Butler for the next two years as she has never been boomed before. If every business man and every citizen that for # tite threatened the tate. ing if not the whole east site with conflagration, The promot action of the fire boya soon had the thames uvder control and the datuage proved slight. The flaties threaten ed the gasoline reservoir, avd Jobo Forbes tock big) ehances when he rushed in aud turned off the supply cock The engine was temporarily put out of service, and the weekly edition of that paper was rua off on the Democrat’s press. It was claim- ed by sume that it was the “hot stuff” Atke on was dishing up onthe | eve of election that caused the ex plosion. | ordinary hind. growing town can be doubled. The| him bark on his crutches, from | in any country town. of the town will put his shoulder to] Ben Johnson was the victim of a! the wheel the population of this| runaway last Thursday which pus | big hotel to be built on the north-| whicn he had barely recovered, from | west corner of the squarein the early | having sprained his aukle in a ball | spring will give the towna boost and | game this fall. He had driven his | while the boost is on just keep boost- | wife and Mre. Frazee to the home of | ing and you will see the town grow! Bud Grider, in West Point Township | ag it never has grown before. The|and while the ladies were in the | new improvements inthe way of eub-| house Ben lost himself in oue of the stantial brick and concrete pave-| pylitical supplements vf the Re | CcopvRicht 1904 By Mw ments inaugurated, has been very| publican papers and when the| "UM NATHANGFISCHERO \ beneficial to the city, and the new! climax was reached, Ben slammed residences erected are not surpassed | the paper down, which act made the j Republican team he was driving mad We can eell you the beet shoe man- nerd ee ee ufactured for boys. Come and seo| Things are never so bad but what and take a lookat them, $1.25,|they coufd be worse and Ben is $1.50 and $1.75. felicitating himself on the fact that Porrensarcer & Epwarps, | they did not dump him in the creek. It will pay you to visit us be- fore buying. JOE MEYER, The Clothier,