The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, August 17, 1905, Page 6

owns CHBLE G GROVES, ame If you are not already a customer of ours, it will pay you to give us atrial. We try to keep a fresh up-to-date stock of goods and sell them on as close a margin will permit. Don’t forget our Kansas Hard Wheat Flour, Perfection and Full Moon; there is none better. ; We handle nothing but the best grade of sugar. No beat sugar goes with us. We can please you in in Coffee and Teas. Our line is complete. Soap and Powder of all kinds. Our canned and bottled goods are of the highest grade. hen needing anything in Hardware, give us a call and get our prices. We want your produce. Cash or Trade. Don’t forget the place, Ist door south of Bates Natfonal Bank, West Side Square. CABLE & GROVES. Phone 13. BUTLER, MO. Miss Ethel Kirk, of Rich Hill, is vis- | Old Settlers’ Meeting. ing Miss Lena Morris this week. | 7 . | The offloars and such members of j the Old Sattlers’ Boclety of Bates county as may be interested will meet at the circult court room on Thuradav evening, Aug. 17th, at8 o'clock, to, arrange for the coming annual meeting. By order Presipent. O, D. Austin, Beo’y. Eggs taken the same as cash, 42-56, McKiprens, J. E Dowell, editor of the Adrian Journal spent Sunday in the elty. Hon. T. W. Silvers and wite are ex - pected home from the west this week. Dr. and Mrs. Van Nuys, of Osawa- | tomle, Kan.,, are visiting thetrdaug h- j ter, Mrs, Elmer Silvers. Miss Rosa Pruitt, of Joplin, is vis- iting Mr. and Mrs. Dr. J. W. Choate. Mrs. E. L. Thurber, of Warrens- burg, is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John E. Shuts. Veave Price, son of George Paice, left for Siloam Spriags Friday to ac- cept a position with his uncle, M. B. Price, : A. H. Hall, of Amsterdam, with his two children, passed through Butler on Friday on thelr way to ElDorado Springs. Miss Dora Harrison, on rural route No. 6, was & business caller at THe Times office Saturday. Miss Emma Cheatham, who has been spending a week at Harrlson- ville with friends and relatives is home again. E. A. Bennett 1s expected home from Europe in a few days. A tele- gram to Mrs, Bennett announced his safe arrival in New York. Judge Graves has been retained to defend Thomas M. Casey, latecashier of the Salmons’ bank, in the numer- ous indictments against him. G. W Clardy and W. S. Woods, comprising the real estate firm of Woods & Clardy, of Kansas City, were {n Butler Monday on a real estate deal. Mrs. G. C. Ritner and little son, Ford, of Lawrence, Kansas, is visit ing her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Ford.Mr. Ritner 1s in carriage works in that city and ia prospering. Butler was crowded Saturday with farmers and their families, all in the best of spirits over the big crop pros- pects. The beautiful Power lawn was strung with eleetric lights, and many colored lanterns, on the occasion of the Presbyterian lawn supper Friday evening. The attendance was large and an enjoyable time had. Misses Leah Weiner, Clasie Meyer and Mildred Poffenbarger are etay- ing with Mre. C. L. Mills at Adrian this week, while Mr. Mills {s absent Ss in th 4. Soom, of See, gare Se on a trip to the Pacific coast. elty Friday with his daughter, Mrs. Blizzard, who {s suffering from a ner- vous affliction and {fs taking Dr. Boulware’s electric treatment. A spark from the thresher engine set fire to the grain at John Cook’s, near Johnstown, Thursday, and sev- eral hundred bushels of wheat were burned. q George Henry bas moved hisfamily os from Pleasant Gap to his farm in 2 Summit. He ts building a fine house } and otherwise improving th{s place. Says his farm in Pleasant Gap is for sale. The 8 year old son of James ‘Pipes of Shawnee township was bitten on the foot by a rattlesnake a few days ago. Prompt medical aid brought the little fellow around all right. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. 8 Ewin return- ed home the last of the week from a two monthe’ stay inColorado. They report a fine time and gained much benefit from their stay in the moun- tain. The Journal ts endeavoring to work up sentiment favorable to a street fair at Adrian this fall. The first day to be given to farm pro- (ducts and the second to stock Miss Lula Couchman, of this coun- | ax pipit, ty, and Hulet Shedrick, of Warrens- burg, will be married at the home of her sister, Mrs Davis, at Eureka, Kansas, on Wednesday, August 30th. Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Reedy, of Elk- hart township, were pleasant callers at Tur Trs sanctum on Saturday. They had just returned from a trip to Kansas and say that state, like Missouri, has a bumper-crop this year. Those wishing to buy a Farm or City Resident Property should eee my list. Some choice bargains to offer. 40-tt A. 8. Milhorn. Mexico, Mo., Aug. 15—Otto Smith thunder and hardly had the echoes died away when the boy threw up his hands and with a cry fell dead. Prof. Herman 0 Maxey, of Batler, and Mies Joanna Langley, of Mont rose, were married here this morning, Probate Judge Myers officiating. Prof. Maxey was formerly superin- tendent of echool in Bates county, and is well known to many of our instructors.—Nevada Mail, 8th. Tne Times extends congratalations to Prof. and Mra. Maxey. Bill Graves and Ike E‘lingtoncame up to “josh” the editor Saturday af- ternoon, but fortunately for him he was out of the city. Seriously, there are not twu better or more loyal democrats or clever gentlemen in the county. J. R. Ewing, of Mingo, wasta But- ler on Monday on his way to Shaw- nee, Okla., to see his sister, Mrs. ‘>. Luther Williams, who is reported to be very low with cancer of the stom- ach. Sheis a daughter of Uncle Peter ' Ewing, of Mingo. The Bates National Bank has on display some of the tallest corn grown in Bates county for many years. Friday morning Jake Brack- en brought in a stalk 14% feet tall, nor wae this all, the atalk had sever- ‘al immense ears of fine corn onit. “ ed 5 We received a very fine water melon James Frost of Deep Water. town- ship. Mr. Frost {son the old Ewin place; and mighty few seasons have past ‘in twenty years that Tue Times force didn’t got » melon from’ that place. The soll eeeme peculiarly adapted to melon growth and it produces not only the largest but the sweetest melons. Mr. Frost hasa large crop of very: fine ones wp aged 18, died here yesterday trom a peculiar cause Preceding a rain storm there was a loud clap of on Tuesday with the compliments of For Sale or Trade. 160 acres 5 miles southeast, Sum- mit township, all blue grass— native soil. : Eight room two story frame dwe! % lot, west Ft. Scott street, Butler. Win sell either at a bargain, tak- DROWNED IN MARIAS DES CYGNES. Floyd Burke and Arthur Nesbit Lost Their Lives While in — Property as part pay- immi 41-26 E. D. Kier, Swimming at Corniand. 200 Bryant Bldg. Kansas City, Mo. Floyd Burke and Arthur Nesbit were drowned in the Marias des Cygues River, below the Cornland bridge sometime Sunday afternoon. No one saw the aecident but it was supposed that young Burke was taken with the cramps and Nesbit went to his rescue and both were drowned, in water about 12 feet deep. Floyd Burke, was 15 years of age,son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Burke, living in that community. Sunday morning about 11 o'clock he went to the river. When he failed to return by 5 o'clock in the after- noon his mother became alarmed and caused a search, which resulted in finding the clothing of the young men on the river bank. The alarm was quickly spread and parties went out from Butler and Rich Hill to as- aist the neighbors in a search for the bodies, About 10 o’clock at night the body of Burke was found by means of a garden rake fastened to apole. At two o’clock next morn- ing the body of Nesbit was recovered in a etmilar manner. Arthur Nesbit was about 24 years old, a step-son of Al. Roberts. His mother resides west of Butler near the Miami. Obituary. Jesse Mullies one of Bates county’s oldest residents died at the home of his daughter in Vernon county, Sun- day, August 55,1905. The remains were brought to the home of his son, 01 Mullies and from there were inter- ed in the Woodfin cemetery near Foster. Jesse Mullies was born in Ardell county, North Carolina, Nov.2,1814. When he was 22 years of age he went to Ohio and two years later was married to Ruth Crue. To this union eleven children were born, five of whom are living. From Ohio he] ff moved to Indiane and in i856 to Illinote where his wife died in 1857, He then married Mary Crule; two children were born to this union, one of whom fs living. From this wife he was divorced, and in March 1864 he married Mrs Mary Emtl. To thie union eight children were born, two of whom are living. He came to Mound ry 4 Kansas {n 1866, and to Worland, in 1867. His wife died August 6,1891. He has voted in Walnut township at everyelection aince 1867. W. F. Sronr, Hume, Mo. Died at the home of her daughter, Mre. Frank Speece, in Foster, Mo., Mrs. Jesse Mullies, aged 55 years, 9 months and 17 days. Martha Ann Brocks was born in mi bodies wave brought he Butler Grondy county, Mo., October 11, Old Huck Finn Home. bank in Hudson as, uesday, and funeral services were 9, Atthe age of six years she a at Bunn t pe 4 conducted from the Cumberland |came to Bates county, where in Feb- Pees a ee Roekville, Mo. Presbyterlan church by Rev. Hude- burg, and {nterment was made fn Oak Hill, A large number of nelgh- bors of the young men. ruary 27, 1875 she was married to Jesse Mullies. To them: were born eleven children of whom four are now living and with their father mourn the lose of a faithful wife and a kind mother. Aftera lingering illness of mare than a year, she passed peacefully away July 28 and was laid to rest in the Woodfin Cemetery. Rev. Wm. f Miller of New Home conducted the |! servity. The family have the heart- Fg y of thelr many friends in fe their sad bereavement. W. F. Stour, Hume, Mo. Death of Mrs. Mollie Graham. Mrs. R. E. Berge, sister of deceased, of 8t. Louis, sends us the following notice for publication: “Mre. Mollie Graham formerly of Butler, Mo., died at the home of her parents Mr. and Mrs. John T. Peck Judge F. M. Steele is reported sick with the “grip.” Mr. and Mrs. O. D. Austin returned home Saturday from a month's visit to thefamly of J. M. Tucker, near Woleott, Colorado, where Mr. Tucker ownsand conducts a big stock ranch. stam aid 0. Many young people went out to the tee cream social at B. P. Powell’s, in Summit, Friday night. The band went out after its regular concert and rendered several selections. Ava Doolittle, of Walnut town- ship, was adjudged insane by a jury in the Probate court Friday, and Judge Silvers ordired him confined Bates County Fair, Oct. 10 to 13, Inclusive, Fatally Stabs Wife in in the old Huck Finn home, of Mark Twain and Tom Sawyer fame, quar- reled, theabdomen, Infilcting a fatal wound. He made his eseape. A Guaranteed Cure For Piles Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Protrad- Piles. Dri ‘AZO OINTMENT falls to cure apy case, no matter of how long standing, in 6 to 14 days. First a plication gives ease and rest. 50c. your druggist hasa’t{t send 50c in Threshing coal at Hunt’s bank at T cents per bushel. Set! NY OUR SPECIAL SALE ON Oxfords and Slippers, A WINNER. You have lots of time to wear them yet. We are selling them lower than any house in Butler. Call and be shown, Our; |New Fall Shoes Are Here. Poffenbarger & Edwards, One Price to all. . POFFENBARGER & EDWARDS All the time. ) COAL.—I am now prepared to fur- nish coal {n any quantity at my Agonizing Burns are instantly relleved, and Fo songy, healed, by Bucklens Arnica Salve. C. Rivenbark, Jr., of Norfolk, Va., writes: I burnt my knee dreadfully; that it blistered all over. Bucklen’s Arnica Salve stopped the pain, and heeled it without @ scar.” , Also heals wounds and sores. 5c at Frank T. Clays, druggist. . and Payton stabbed his witein uggists refund money Creamery for Sale. Building 40x70 feet; 8 lote; good | pond; 2 wella; new 16 horse boiler 10 horse engine; 2 DeLaval separa tors in good running order; now ting 4,000 pounds af milk and ft |cream per day. In fine dairy coum try. A. M. STEVENS, Sec’y 89 40° Garden City, Mo. 8 and ft will be forwarded post y Paris Medicine Co., 8%. Louis, Coal. Respectfully, C. G. Hunt, Appleton City, Mo. in St. Louis, Mo., Wednesday, August 9th at 4 45 p. m. Mrs. Graham had suffered for several years from cancer of the stomach, but her malady was not diagnosed until she went to St.Louis to reside some two years ago. She was able to provide for herself for some months but was not very well and when the final collapsecame an examination was made by Dr. Frank Glasgow, one of the most eminent physiciansof St. Louts, when he pronounced her case cancer. He advised her family she could never get well and an operation would only give temporary rellef. She was immediately taken to the St. Louls Mullanphy Hospital and operated upon on the 17th day of April. She was carefully and tenderly nursed by the good sisters and a trained nurse until she was able to be removed to the home of her par- entg. There she was cared for by her devoted parents, brothers and sisters until the end. She was buried in the family lot; services being condueted by the pastor of the M. E Church South, of which Mrs. Graham was a member. Old Settlers Are Passing Away. Mrs. Jennie Heath departed this lifeat her home on East Dakota street Sunday morning at 6 o’clock. She was the relict of the late “Uncle Billy” Heath, at one time one of the best kuown men in Bates county, having ridden deputy sheriff and constable of Mt P! nt for about 20 years. Mrs. Heath was born in Wayne county, Kentucky, in 1816 moved to Butier in 1869. She came of sturdy stock, lived a long and useful life, was loved by all for her many virtues and has gone to her reward. Funeral services were conducted from the family residence on Tuesday and she was laid to rest by the side of her husband in Oak Hill cemetery. Notice to Teachers. The larexaminations for teach ere’ ficates will West School. building in Butler Fri day and bweepirag 4 August 25 and 26, beginning at 8:00 o'clock. Sub. jects will be given in the following Friday Forenoon: Geography, in Asylum No. 3 at Nevada. Deputy Sheriff Angle took him to Nevada on @aturday. He confessed to the asy- lum physiclan that at times his mind was blank. That he tried to lift the big bridge off its pliers and that he tried to turn the jail over while con- fined there. He sald his brothers were afraid of him, and he was afraid of them. He recently ordered a big pistol from a mail order house to shoot ghosts with, W. H. McBride died at the home of his son-in-law, W. J. Hutchinson, in Pleasant Hill, August 7th. ‘Uncle Billy” McBride was well known to our older citizens, having lived here fora number of years. He was an expert brick layer. Hé was a native of Franklin county, Kentucky, but came to Missouri when a young man. He was a strong Democrat and in his younger days took an active part in politics. He was 75 years oldand had always been a vigorous man. He was an honest, straight forward citi- zen and highly respected by all who knew him. He leaves a widow, two sons, U. A. and George, and two daughters, Mrs. Hutchinson, of Pleas- ant Hill, and Mrs. Stream, of Kansas City. His son, George, was badly hurt in Kansas City a few days ago. Frank McVey, living near Nevada, had a narrow escape the other day from being stung to death by bumble bees says the Mail. He was at work in the hay field at the time, raking hay. When attacked he started his horses for the hay stack where the other men were at work, bat before he reached them, fell off the rake un- conscious. The men on the stack came to his rescue and at least two hands full of bees were taken out of his hair, and his clothing seemed to be alive with them. He soon regain- ed consciousness and wae.able to go to the house and ate 4 light meal at the acon hour. He retarned to work tn the afternoon, but about 40’clock was taken violently ill. He was re-| Grammar and Algebra. moved to the house and physician) Frid 3 palling, Lan. eomioned from Panama. Ale rela-| SUSE, ag and we tives were advised of his condition | cising. 1, } History prop tad Het x) and they hurried to bis bedside. Not| Saturday Afternoon: Physiology, until 4 o'clock thie morning were PodngoeTo0d havaooed latory thereany visible signs of improve- 3 7 repeals . i ‘ YE C 4 * ~ HARVEST IS HERE And so we are willing to pay the highest . market price for Grain, Hay and Field seeds. Our facilities are the best for handling your grain loose or sacked. 1500 new sacks added to our stock of sacks for this year. If you-have wheat to deposit try our “Turkey Patent” the best hard wheat flour in town. Call and see us and we assure you we will try to prove worthy of your patronage. PEOPLE'S ELEVATOR 60,, Phone 139. BUTLER, MO, Big Reduction In Price-- ofall our wallwaper. Wehavealarge surplus stock which we must closeout in the next 60 days to make room for new fall stock. Don’t buy till yousss our papers and get our prices, We carry 6 full Mne of mixed: paint, white lead, ole, glass, putty, ete., cheaper than eny one in Bates County. : BENNETT & HUPP.