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aa: as THE BIG SALE — HILL’S CASH STORE is*not like ordinary clearance or closing out sales. Our bargains are not composed of Out of Season and Slow Selling yoods—bnt the Newest, Brightest end Rest that we could gather together especially for this eale. Ane the prices are so much under theordinary that we “outahine” anything over before attempted in low prices. — Look in our windows for Bargains at 5 and 10 cents We have added to our list of bargains thia week a newline of Ladies Black Skirts at 75c, 8% and 98e AYof them worth much more. Every day wehave something rven, We donot ask ven to buv of us without looking about, but we do ask you not to buy until you see where you can doth best, A Few of Our Bargains 10e Packet Rooks for de, 100 Anire nane for Fe, 100 hridle hita for Se, 1 106 Tapanned waiters for fe, 106 eonp plates far Te ; The towels for 10e Nnohame tor fe Man's snenenders for 1., 2 S17 TO Weolehirts S115. 200 eteel feving nan for 106 fr ante Rho tthad mittens Ofe, One hrend and enke knile gots 10. fe) THe Tennis tlannela for 7 200 fire ehovela far 1M + Te neckwear for 100 Pe eavered tin bnekets for 100. Chiliren'’a Qe woal hose 196. 256 harse hensh far 1Ne RM! notre far Ate 19 Onart dish nan for 1Me E T0e Anet pans for Te Mon’a SMe averhalla for Bie 10e baking pans for de Men's SOe Workshirte for 350, Rava ihe knee pante for Qe, Rave $2 50 anita for 1 39. Ie One avrup pitcher for 10c, 25 mirrrora for 10e 25e cup and saucers for 10¢ Eggs taken same as cash. We have aome 044 Lota of Men's, Shoe Bargains Women's and Children’a shoes —_ ve we will place on our bargain ta : That Are Bargains. tes. If you want bargains in shoes COMEIN AND LOOK THEM OVER. If your want a thoroughbred Per cheron stallion attend the sale at J W. Barnhart’s residence, 24 miles northeast of Butler, Wednesday of next week, Delegates to Demo- tion in the Democratic county vention to be beld in Butler on ruary 13th, 1905. Clatming that hie life is ruined and his fortune lost by the attacks of eH cratic Convention. The townships of Bates county are entitled to the following representa: | Democratic Committee Meeting. | The Bates County Democratic Cen tral Committee pur-uant to call of ebairman held court house on Saturday afternocn The county convention to nominate & meeting at was called for Monday February 13, 1905, the dute for the township meetings to select the delegates was fixed for Saturday, February 11th, 1905. the | T & county school superintendent! county declared that he had been Jefferson City, Mo., Jan. 16.—A figurative bombshell was today dropped into the Senate committee investigating the charges against hos K. Niedringhaus relative to the source of his campaign fund, when Representive Cook of Howell offered “a good piece of money if he would vote for Niedringhaus in the Kepublican caucus.” | A BIG SUCCESS Our Annual Stock Taking The basis of representation was fixed at one delegate forevery 25 and Parker for Prerident. townshipe were represented by the committeemen or by proxy. Chair for the committee on February 13th and announced his intentlon to re- sign as chairman of the committee at that time, _ Iv was recommended that conven- be held at the same time. Virginia Items. Thomas Hocket is hard at work making & fine sleigh, The weather prophets predict that the snow will 800n be gone. house on account of a very bad cold Many cf our people have bad colds The paper last week should have said Harry, not Perey, Willson was presented with a fine boy. J. W > MeFadden finished filling his ice house Monday. It is fine looking ive about T inches thick. He got it off the creek on Pat Maloney's park. W. J. Bard commenced to fill his ice house Tuesday. | Christian church Thursday night, | the 19th, It has been several years since Elder Ishmael preached here. Virginia has a new subject before the house the laet few days. 1t fs ofl and gas. Several offers have been made providing the well is dug on certain farms. They all pass by the best location, Parktown, where they would be eure to find ofl and gas. Some people think they should form a company and go to work at once, The dividing line willalways be where and there it will end. Mrs. Amanda Durat is very low with pneumonia fever at this writing, Wednesday morning. The school children say there will be a wedding soon. AARON Will Establish Crematory. Kansas City, Mo, Jan. 16—Ac- cording to a local undertaker, Kan City {a to have # crematory in opera- tion within a few montha “IT have been contemplating tha establishment of a crematory,” said John W. Wagoner to-day, “and though at present my plans are not complete, I will install an up-to-date plant here soon.” Mr. Wagoner recently returned front Indianapolis, where he inapect- ed the crematory. He rays the crematory will be inatalled at his place of business on Grand avenne, and will be larger and better equip ped than those in St. Louis and Chicago. con- Feb- Del. tow to Ben Capell, a white man living on Forth—street—was Lawson on Wall street. Frank D. Township. Votes. Austin makes two unsuccessful at- Mingo 62 tempts to leap from the Brooklyn | Grand River 57 bridge. Deer Creek 138 East Boone 8 Married,on January 7, 1905 at C. |} West Boone 38_ A. McCombea,in Spruce township, Mr | Weat Point 77 Joe (. Hickman to Mias Myrtle E | Elkbart 66 Pettus, both of Ballard, Bates} Mound 80 county, Mo. Elder Lewis McComb, ' Shawnee 76 officiating. Spruce 145 Deep Water 127 Married, at the home of the bride’a | Summit 69 father, Mr. A.M. Shelton,on Dec. 25, | Mt. Pleasant 508 1904, Mr. Carl Lewis, of Arkansas | Charlotte 70 City, Kan, and Mies Carrie Shelton | Homer 71 of Ballard, Bates county Mo., Elder} Walnut 185 _ Lewis McComb officiating. New Home _ 132 Lone Oak 51 Governor Folk requires profeasion- | Pleasant Gap 105 al lobbyista to report to him, state} Hudson 89 their business and get out ofthe cap | Rockville 96 ital within thirty hours without dis | Prairie y 60 tributing any railroad passes. Osage 875 — | Howard 154 The majority report of the House Total Investigating Committee exonerates Niedrinhaue; the minority report Necessary to choice finds him guilly as charged in the Grace resolution. More miles (371 90) of railroad track were laid in Missouri in 1904 than in any other state or territory in the United States. This addition- al milage brings Missouri’s total tallage up to 7,648.30, and fe more than twice the mileage added in 1908, which was 128.40 and undoubtedly exceeds the record of any previous year. The new mileage was built by twelve of the thirty-eight systems in thesta‘e. . died in Paris from sheer etarvation a penny of hie hoard.—Ex, Greatly in Demand- cleanser, such as Dr. King’s The prorpects are that the Presi- dent and hie Secretary of the Navy are likely to encounter insuperable Opposition to their naval program. They bave eeked that new vessele| y, which will cost $42,000,000 be | istration, with wilt ax euthorized. The government has idont sal 2 the andetuised by the already authorized ships which, be bearing date the sth aay of January 1905 fore they are completed, will cost sine $130,000,000 and there will be a | Siqyence withis national deficlency of $22,000,000} anybenedt of anck at least, this year.—Stockton Joura- al. : : Of what kind of inhum: n stuff are mieers made that they can starve and freeze their bodies. Oneof these {nohoman money vampires recently and a fortune of $25,000 was found hidden in his mattress. He said he preferred to etarve rather than touch Nothing {s more in demand than @ medicine which meete modern re uiremente for blood and syetem Life Pills, They are just what you need to cure stomach and liver troubles. Try them. At Frank T. Clay’s drug store, 25c., guaranteed. / foeercnpniongit Ryesrere ss tive is hareby given that letters of admin) annexed 0} the Co All ie bayi jeinet tate, tre Teqatred 4 exhibit them to us ance one oe from Monday night by Constable John Belton, charged with chicken theft. Saturday night Ben Moore’s hen roost was robbed. The stolen chick- ens were located {n @ chicken house where it is sald they were sold by Capell. If found guilty, under the new law Capell with go to the pen- itentiary.—Clinton Tribune. QOonr rr ENP TNO COMO wow MO BEST New fraction of 13 votes cast for Judge | which was furnished ue by Mre. J. E. | Seventeen | Forbes, we learn of the death of Rev. | man DeArmond-made another call! pneumonia. Mr. Pearce was born in| tions to nominate township officers | the right lung by a minnfe ball, and ,| the pneumonia fever settled in that dudge Wolf is kept close to the’ j the fall of 1801, It was prinsipally There will be preaching at the Complimentary to Recorder Lisle SHOES. LOWEST PRICES * ONE PRICE TO ALL. POFFENBARGER & EDWARDS. i Sale. Death of Rev. Pearce. | We Are Doing The Business. From the Neosho Times, a copy of wHy? Every Heavyweight Suit and and Overcoat In The House Will Be Sold Regardless of Protit, Get in Line And Buy Now. JOE MEYER the Clothier. L. W. Pearce which occured in that city,on New Year's morning wien east Tennessee in 1839, and was 65 years old. He enlisted and served in the Confederate army during the civil war, belonging to the 9th Miss {sharpehooters. He was shot through jlung and caused his death. After the war he came to Missouri and was for 23 years in the itinerant ministry of the M. E. Church south, He has Leld superanuated relation with the | church since 1893, Rev, Pearce served our people in | Butler for two years, coming here in ; The Dunbar Company Male Quartette and Bell Ringers with Ralph Dunbar, the American Cellist, the next number on theenter- tainment couree, will be here Febru- ary Ist, 1905, Missouri State Bank Meeting. The stockholders and officers of the Missouri State Bank held their annual meetings on January Sth, L905, through bis efforts the fine brick jehurch of othe M. E Chureh] Tie offcers elected were: The Dunbar company fs certainly south congregation was built and} Wm. Eo Welton, President, | the most novel and vereatile com- stunds as a monument to bis labor} pr, T, C. Boulware, Yy. President; | PAny hg meee artists now be- and devotion to his) work for} J R. Jenkins Cashier, |e. fhe , Panik The bureau See a Seeders ’ . ..#.| bas had to refuse applications for christianity, Our peopla were very | Wesley Denton, Ass't, Cashier. | there was not nights enough to mee much attached to Rev, Pearce and) Corb'y Garard, Clerk and the demand, The company consist grieve tolearn of his death, Bookkeeper, | Of the male quartette, as good as a DIRECTORS, | the best, a complete concert organ- ization, They present an exten- sive repertoire of dancing, popular and humorous selections, The bell ringers stand unequaled. They use a magnificent peal of more than one hundred musical hand bella, cast by England's best bell founder eapecially for this company. Ralph Dunbar, violincellist, fe a special feature of this company. He {a an artist who has won pronounced success as & soloist with some of the best concert compantes and he is apt- ly styled “‘The American Cellist.” Dr. Wm. St. John The Eye Specialist of Dr, T. ©, Boluware Dr. J. M. Christy John Deerwester, OC. H. Dutcher, J. R, Jeukins, Samuel Levy, A. B. Owen, B. P. Powell, Wm. E. Walton, Chas. R. Radford, Wn. B. Tyier, Frank M. Vorie, Dr. N. L. Whipple. The business for the year 1904 showed as follows: Gross earnings, Gross expenses and taxes paid, Thé Bates County Record pays the following merited compliment to our popular and efficlent County Record- er: ‘Recorder Lisle filed his annual report as required by law, with the County Court on Tuesday last. The report shows that he issued 261 mar- riage licenses during the year 1904 and received from all other sources $3.465 90, making a total of $3.- 726 90, lacking $23710 of the $4,000 to which he isentitled by law. Marriage licensea varied in number from 9in July to 35 in December, while the fees for filing deeda and other papers did not vary as much, $15,472 64 7,826 61 Leaving as net earnings $ 8,146.03 During the year placed In this connection it may be proper {n surplus fund, $1,900.00 “ Kaneas City, will be to state that during the past 38} paid etockolders 10 per at the Cottage House, in Butler, yoane - — yy good, cent dividends, 5,500 00 | January 25th. My price for glasses | had and inciterent, Bub Aver HAA) a a top rer are 80 very reasonable that there is | the office been better managed or| Profits left over and not i more courteona treatment rendered divided, 746 03 | 20 excuse for you notghaving a pair those who had business with the of ———_——| that is absolutely correct. I have fice than by the present incumbent. Total $8,146,038 | been making regular visits to Butler pag F sand ba pg anl his duties | 1, was found the bank for three years and give as references or filed hae rent anaGts Naboo’ holds in loans, $153,596 35, all the leading citizens of Butler, ed the come day, before the, office wae soll bank said Examination and Consulation free. opened the next morning, and that uilding, 000. rule has been strictly enforced ever| Furniture, fixtures and Pic “ —, of western lands since. Again the records are neat stocks 2,000.00 ine . I" * pee os and clean and written in a lain, leg- iat oh ee and 4 0-30, - Vaucuan, Butler, Mo. ible hand—something that can no¢| “962 On Sand and in be anid of all the Recordera in the other banks subject Coat—3,000 bushels on the dumpe past, for some of thelr work would to check, 85,041.52 | at Hunt’s bank, Hudson towsehip | sed to seamen Se year old achool penis at 7ctsper bushel. 48tf OG, Aun ov. e records are there to apeak T y Om Qn HF °) for th 1 ; ‘otal = $248,637 87 pf mga get yp big mye Capital stock, $55 000 00| Dr. W. E. Lampton the Osteopath, we remark that Bates county haa a| Surplus fund, 9,500.00 | has removed to North Main atreet, Recorder and a deputy of whom ashe may well feel proud, not politically, from our standpoint, but on aceount of merit, ability and courtesy in the diecharge of the multifarious duties of the office, 184,137.87 Total $248,637.87 During the last five years the Mis- sour! State Bank has paid all ex- penees and taxes, and earned net for {ts stockholders $37,505.00 which equals thirteen and sixty-three hun- ear. The bank was found to bein good condition and doing a safe and prof! itable business. The stockholders and directors were well pleased and the officers of bank were congratulated on their showing for safe banking methods andgood profits. The Missouri State Bank is one of the old and substantial institutions of the county. Due depotitors, 2 blocks from square, at which place will be hia oftice and residence in thefuture 10-4¢*" Wantep—Young man from Bates county to prepare for desirable position in Govt. Mail Service. Sal- ary $800. Rapid promotion to Sickening Shivering Fits of ague and malaria, can be relieved and-cured with Electric Bitters, This , tonic medicine; of erpecial benefit in malaria, forit exerts true curative inflnence on the disease, driving it entirely out of the syatem. Is is much to be prefered to quinine, having none of this drug’s bad after effects. E.S Munday, of Henrietta, Tex , writes: “My brother was very low with malarial fever and jaundice. till be took Electric Bitters, which saved hia life. At Frank T. Clay’s drug store; price 50c guaranteed. dress Box One, Cedar Rapids, Ia —4:t° The Only Place. To bave your lace curtains cleaned makes old ones nice as new. Troy Lavnpry, Phone 138. 10 tf. IT IS WORTH A DOLLAR TO A Grim Tragedy ANYONE WHO is daily enacted, in thousands of homes, as death claims, in each one, HAS A COUGH another victim of consumption or pneumonia. But when coughs and colds are properly treated, the t is averted. F.J. Huntly, of Oaklankon, Ipd., writes: “My wife had the consumption, and doctors gave her up. Finally she took Dr. Kings New Discovery for consumption, coughs and colds, which cured her, and to-day she is well aud strong.” It kills the germs ofall diseases.. One dose reliver, Gusranteed at 50c and $1 by Frauk ‘| T. Clay, drdggist. Trial bottles free. IT COSTS 25 CENTS OurSYRUP WHITE PINE composition is the quickest — po gps og mot oro co cure we keow a Weel have made and sold it for years and each year brings added evi dence that it is in a clase GOODS by itself. fi B. F. RICHARDS - tne sty San ot te al a8 & cough. 4 Handles Piano Organs falls fn aay way” to-pive satisfaction, come back for And Smail Instruments, Strings for same. Sewing machines, needles and repairs. New and second hand goods. Came in and see me first door south of Bazar, South side equare, Butler, Missouri. 11 46 your money. FRANK T. CLAY, _ PRESCRIPTION DRUGGIST NORTH SIDE SQUARE,