The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, December 15, 1904, Page 11

sa $7.50 OUR STOCK OF Don't Delay Buying Your Overcoat inter Suit Until our splendid stock of Patterns and sizes are broken. We have never before shown such Splendid Values, Mens Balt Back Long Coats $7.50 . UP to TWENTY MENS and BOYS SHOES Felt Boots, German Socks and Over-Shoes are direct from the best manufacturers in America and are sold at small pro- fit with our guarantee of honest values. The Goo SHOE STORE New line of boys union suite this| Buy your toys at Hill’s Cash ek. Good value at Hill’s Cash | Store. : The city council of Adrian has Hon. €. A. Calvird, one of Clinton’s rise on oninanee ei wn - leading ; “in Butler | future walks to be constructed. o -Monday se sede Nie wc peas concrete, granitoid, brick or stone. court. : Snow falls over the fwhole of the N Central West, greatly relieving the : eins sot aiacowere Jost in condition of wheat, which was euffer- ‘Chris y Store. jiae seen eh Ee Conk ~ {ng from the prolonged drouth of Jé were complimented pleasantly | three months duration. ae Ee Pers Lente. W. Jonge, 0 W. H. Ewin, who recently sold his and influential citizin of t last week. farm near Butler, has moved to Laonard, Kansas, where he expects umbrellas for tho holiday | to locate. His many fri-nds in this ‘ re county will always be glad to hear young friend R. K. Godwin, | good reports of him. township, accompained, by |- , was in the city on Saturday. ‘knowledge plessant call from odwin. holiday books at Hill’s Cash We are ordering direct from the |factory new Christmas neck wear and mufflers on sale Saturday at Hill’e Caeh Store. Ed. Thomas, a sewing machine agent, was arreated and tried befor? pat Joe T. Smith for alleged at- Mo. dre gr 7 Denia eons Remny, wil gt be! eng from Burns Snoffer near New Home. a TOT TOUTE P NL Pi Judge gave him teu days in the Pipe ti ee county jail. i al new pictures for Chriet-| ving line of Christmas handker. . Hill’ mas handker. wip end on display. Hills) ote just selected trom one, of the largest New York ‘importers. They are beauties. Priced from 1 cent to of the State of Missouri Review says that Mr. and _} a bird in the hand being worth twoin to a’ fine supper Saturday night, “|-bas filled for several years, to take | ‘term as postmaster does not expire ‘} for over a year yet, and there is an M. H. Price, of Spruce, is prospect-| A member of one of the Exposition ing in the northwest states with a Juries of awards, who alao served in @ similar capacity at the Chicago view of ooking up's locaton. air.esys theresaams to be littleor no In Continental United States, ac- | foundation for the charges of bribery. cording to a census bulletin just{issu-} Pho twomen who raided the Peoria ed there are 1,638,321 more men| National Bank are cauzht at Toulon than women. IL, with $1,980 ef the plunder in W. W. Hill living on northeast; their pockets. They are believed to road out of Butler, shot and killed | be well-known Chi-ago crooks. what he believed to be @ mad dog! JamegR. Angle has accepted the last week. position of Deputy sberiff under The week was one of the most ex | Sheriff-elect Moses B. Morris. Mr. citing Wall street has known for| Angle has had much experience and months, and the lessons to be learried | will make acompetent and p: pular | Mrs. Frank Allen, who has been crit- | ically ill for several days, is very }much improved, and strong hopes are entertained for her recovery. Analysis of the vote of Illinois and Indiana shows that the Republi- cans made no gains commensurate with the normal increase in popu- | ation. The falling off in the Dem- | ocratic vote caused the large major | ities. Dr. Harriett Frederick bas return- ed home from the hospital at Kan- sas City, and is fast regaining her health. She has had a long and sever spell of sickness, having past through a very dangerous operation. She will soon be able to take up her successful y.ractice which she was compelled to abandon, Estes Smith was in the city on Monday and favored us pleasently. He. is one of the county’s best known and influential citizens. He has always taken an active interest in public affairs and isa s{mon pure Democrat who never had the itch. When the party epeakes through its conventions, it is the court of last resort for Estes. He always takes | the medicine straight. E. E. WalJl, of Tebo township, is showing his friendship for good roads in a pratical sort of fashion, accord ing to the Clinton Democrat. He is | graveling a quarter of a mil» of turn- pike at his farm, getting the gravel out of a near by creek with a wheel scraper. His neighbors are watch- ing the work with interest and if it proves to be a@ success others will follow his example. Squire Thos. J. Wilson, of Thomas county, Kansas wasin Butler on Tuesday, aud favored us pleasantly, He had been down to Foster on a visit to his daughter, Mra Coley Colyer. Mr. Wilson is enthusiastic over the outcome of that part of { Kansas where he lives. He said the land {s now cheap, but is increasing in value rapidly. He said he had been there six years and had never failed to raise enough to carry them over, and they now have feed fortwo years ahead. Land can be bought tor from $5 to $10 per acre. He is located about fifteen miles south of Colby, Kansas, James Griffia, @ horse buyer and trader of Cawood, Mo., reported to the police Saturday that he had lost a leather pocketbook containing $3 160 in currency while in Kansas City last Friday. Captain Weber, in charge of ceatral police station, de- | tailed men to work on the case and jhe hasiformation which he thinke J wil lead Lo bie arrest of the tlader of the money. Giffia has offered a re- ward of $500 for the returo of his money and says he dos not care to prosecutein che eveutof a voluutary delivery of it. Wesley Manning, of Bluine, Wasn- ington, arrived in Butler last Toure day and wade enquiries tor hia broth er, Eid Manning, living io Bates county, whom he had uot reen for forty years. He svon located him | near Bullard aud communicated with him by telephoue, aud one of the boys camein after him that day. Mr. Manning is & ranchwau iu. the northwest aud bure every appear- ance of being prosp-rous = Uncle Ed, Maaving came bo this country ia wn early auy and Ww is said is oni its developementsare manifold. | deputy. He hus appoiutel J.-H. s Owens deputy constsble, aud he will Anew religious society haa been organized here to be known as University Place Methodist Protes,| Temainder of Mr Angle's term of trauspurtation, uever having ! ridgen on @ ratlroad, and prefers to ‘horse Heis #& prosperous farmer, Beating the Record according to present indi- cations we will break the record this year for Holiday Business. Our store is thronged every day now with Christmast shoppers, not only to look but they are buying and buying liberally. While our stock is most complete and large, many of the good things are being car- ried away daily and now you will find a better selec- tion than you will tomor- row or the day after. The rush and jam of the last few aays can beavoid- ed by doing your buying now. A pound of candy free with every dollars worth of goods, HILL’S CASH STORE. For sale or trade, for town pro- perty. 120 acres in Cass county,will sell on time and take house and lot as first payment. J.W. Sherrill, Archie, W. KR. Bowles district inepector Knight Templars, was in Butler the last of the week inepecting the Knight Templars lodge of this city. Mr. Bowles is editor of the Greentield Advocate, one of the best county papers in Southwest Miseourl. We acknowledge a fraternal call on Saturday. The Review boasts of a subscriber who paid four years {n advance. THE Times is modest in its claims, but we are carrying a subscriber on our books marked up to 1934. About twenty years ago when the battle for existence of Tue Times under its present editor and proprietor was very strenuous, Judge John H. Sullens. may the saints record it to his credit in the great book, planked down fifty dollars for fifty years in advance, The Judge modestly for- bade us mentioning it at the time, but he won the everlasting gratitude of the editor, There were other splendid gentlemen, and substantial citizens who came to our assistance at that time, whom we have never j forgotten, have aiways been loyal to and when oceasion offers expect to make public acknowledge: oe of. KRATZ CASE CONTINUED: Goes Over To January. 2nd 1905. When the Kratz case was called Mondays by Judge Graves, Governor Folk, for the prosecution, announced ready for trial. H.C. Clark, for the defence, offered an attidavit from Kratz's physicians that be was still too ill to appear for trial. No counter affi Javits being filed the court con- tinued the case until January 2nd 1905. The terms of both Judge Graves, as Circut Judge, and Mr. Folk, as district attorney, will have expired ab tha ty will be tried before Judge Denton be in charge of that oftive during the walk ratuer thaa rife vehiud a |aud by the new ‘istrict’ attorney of st. Lonis tant Church of which Rev. J. N. Moore, D. D. president of the college has been chosen as pastor —Merwin Clipper. Postmaster Welton and wife enter. tained the members «f the Rural Carriers Association at their com modious bome in south-east Butler, following the meeting of that asso- ciation. The next meeting will be held at Adrian on March 11th. J. C. Bell was re elected President. The Record says that Clark Wix has tendered his resignation in the Revenue department. a position he effect January 1st. We might re mind Judge Wix that Del Welton’s old adage thateayseomething about Shirts, Ties, Suspenders, Kait Mufflers, “Topsy Socks, Linen Handkerchiefs, Silk » Handkerchiefs, Gloves, Hats, Pants, Suit Cases, Trunks, Shoes. » PRESENTS FOR THE HOLIDAYS, which will be thoroughly appreciated,