The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, December 21, 1905, Page 7

Sp PRUE NE TRE che RR ene 2 Presents | —FOR— Father, | Brother or | Sweetheart may be found at this popular | 1. | “MAN’S SHOP.” FANCY---HOUSE COATS. HANDKERCHIEFS:---SHIRTS. NECKWEAR---MUFFLERS. SWEATERS:---GLOVES---CAPS. CUFF BUTTONS---STICK PINS. SUSPENDERS and SOCKS. | Stetson Hats and Walk-Over Shoes Suspenders with Sterling Silver Buckle Engraved FREE, ™ | metice2 prone CLOTHING HOU Clothes Fone PRICES. Auli Store. THE RIGHT WAY. The od Store. haere een initiate ieeatereesei—temrent We take eggs in exchange for dry oda, shoes and clothing. Mare, Phaeton and harness for sale, eall at thie «office 4-t!. Sam's Levy & Co. Mrs. Maggie Logan, of Cairo, Ills., 4 - arrived in the city the last of the Gongh & cara — week ona visit to her parents, Mr. Boor finish; alku Devoe P pants. | and Mrs. J. BE. Arnold, and other Miss Mary Swift favored us pleas- friends ntly and lind her dates set ahead. Tien Bice momar ots ner Elevator Company | Board of Ay nevitare Irom be Gt 52-tt Cor i aisiricé, went to lye ni 1 Colt miday to attend a meet Rough & Hoss for fine pipes, cigar | ing of ie Lourd. es and box cigars for the holi- : a Under the management of Prof. H. _ | F. fenton there will bea musteal Herbert G. Walton has sold his! given atthe U.P. cuureh at m in Summit township to A. 5. born. . Margery H. Helstand orders is Times to her address at Hills- 0, Uhio. he Elks are preparing to give a reception and banquet during iiday week. .E. Miller purchased the residehce pperty of J. J. Cameron, southeast of the city the last of the week. ire. M. V. Nix weng to Erle, Kan., Monday to attend the funeral of father, Hugh Talbott, at that on the evenings of Dec. 27 und 2 Proceeds to go fur an organ. Ad- mission 20cts. Gough & Hess have a fine line of ebony brushes, eastman kodaks, pictures, stationery, package per- fume, ladies purses and Lowney’s candy for the holidays. J. B. Paget was in Butler on Mon- day shaking hands with his old friends. Josh is now running 4 gen- eralstoreat Bronaugh, Mo., and was on his way to Kansas City to buy goods. ’ Friday afternoon the dwelling house on G. C, Spicer’s farm, east of Butler, occupied by William Keeble, was destroyed by fire, which proba- Miss Kate Tucker, erg ser e Thos. J. Smith, is at Altoona, , to spend the holidaye with her | bly originated from a defective flue. i # a Frank Welch was a pleasant caller 4 ough & Hees, the prescription |, g.turday and had his dates eet CgpPexists, want your prescriptions. | 4, ¢> 1907, He ie one ol Bates imatters not w! you get them. W. A. McBurney, son Earl county’s most successful farmers; and owns a fine farm in Summit toyn- ship. ; Ed. Steele, who is in the real estate business in Nevada, was in Butler the last of the week on business and shaking bands with his old friends. Lig Times acknowledges a pleasant F. Hovey, a prominent farmer : te No. 3, oe pleasant call- 10m Monday and had his name en- for THE Tone. *| State Supt. Carrington will con- duct an examination for state cer- | tifleates in Cepitol building at qi d I. Williams, who owns a od fn Oklahoma, near Rush + }on his recent so _{from the baggy and badly bruised, He was taken to Dr. Chastain’s office. | will ship to Pendleton, Oregon, being patebed up and his family notified. |from twelve to fourteen days on the The accident happened on North |road. PORE ae aoe Lon 8. Kiersey was shaking hands | Brady & Co., of Kaneas City, who! with his many friends in Butler the! were given the natural gas franchise last of the week. He is living at Kiowa, Ind., is well pleased with the country and is a firm believer that this Co! will admit the present Indian tory into the union as the “State of Sequoyah.” Sam E. Heinlein, maneger of the Midland Manvfacturing Company, of Kansas City, Mo., sends Cnristmas ting to Tue Trwes and has his Seese ont ahead. Mr. Heinlein is one ing with the suceess he, so richly de- serves. Earnest Merryfield, a young man 23 — of ore committed suicide at the home of his parents in Osceola, by shooting himeelf through the head with a shot gun, while on a drunk. The Osceola Democrat states that he had a suicidal mania whenever drinking and had twice before attempted to kill himself un- der like conditions. General and Mrs. H. C. Clark enter- tained a party. of friends at a six o’clock ‘game’ dinner on Saturday evening. A fine Canadian gooee and speckled brant, killed by the general hern hunt on the @ulf coast, furnished the meat for one of those delicious six course din- ners for which Mrs. Clark is justly famous. A writer in the Pleasanton Herald is agitating the question of straight- ening th vsbaanel of the Marias Des €ynes river through” Linn county, ‘ansas, to conform to the work be- ing done in Bates county. He thinks the river could be shortened by one- half and that sixty thousand acres of overflow land redeemed at a cost of about $3.00 person. If thatis true, it would ceainly beat to death the best offer Bates county has been able to secure. Newe was received in Butler the last of the week that Jim Potts and fam- fly, colored, who had been living on a farm five miles south of Butler, moving to Kansas, when near the state line discovered that an idiot child, three years old, had been smoth- ered in bed, and without reporting the matter to the authoritivs they unceremontonsly buried ft hy thel, road side, seemingly glad of the rid | Oiio street, from the alley in dance. The anthorities are investi |: ; i gating the matter, The emooth agent isafter the farm- er this vii iuh a ate j that pr jit at erisen yer for hi tank on trina, a rece hands of an innocent purchaser in the form of a promis ory note. Rut we donot exnect tits warning to reach the ! \ rves the water f eoldoatweutt he wishes to leave tt right { 1 these kind of swindlers rarely if ever} tuke a home pnper tend an effort ia bein made toestublisha wholesal grocer, reson store {in Butler George Gilke and Z..J, Williams are working up the enterprise and are interes ing our business me a Those who have — give the otter dra yal 3 Hy Pies won men sue¢ pectations, even beyond their + Henry Martin’s team ran off Butler Thursday last, he was thrown Main street. The team was eo loose ly hitched that in going over the crossing at Bennett Wheeler Merc Ce’s store the tongue pulled out o the neck yoke. When in front of the would probably be completed this wonaie Sennen te Sones 208 outer week and the extra force discharged. a crossing and threw the buggy hig’ in alr. The top was up and Mr. Mar- tin was fortunate in escaping with his life and limbs intact. citisens are to be congra' that can happen to a town. Her in- ternal {mpro’ ta should be kept | dertaking, and the commission, com- a chore co yp lle posed of Judge Jno. March, W. J up, the streste, sand clean and in J 4 repair and the town givena the best interests of the town should not be neglected to that end. Tue Times wishes ite subscribers, osperous op bene 1 one with us from 2 tusiiess ndpoint and we| Sunday morning, Dee. 17th. The re- have enjoyed the blessings of good | mains were taken to Covington, Ohio, Ind. Ter., was in Butler for the last of the week. white, a successful coun- now in of the , Dorthwest of Butler, nt caller while in Butler Jefferson: ( December 26 an All subjects will be given on the first day, beginning at 6 a. m, Mrs. Lucile Garner entertained the ladies of the “Fancy Work Club” at the home of her te, Mr. and ship on Tuesday. , Andrew Hermann, an old geraien | citizen of Shawnee township, d town.| his home on Monday, of bowels. : or ate organ and be was in- renting . was a ago. He was an old citizen of 27. | health, good will of our fellow-men. For and or of Tar ron po king for the upbuild wor ir up! - ing and no of Butler and the hands of the enterprising, pro- by the eouncil for the city of Butler, | failed to put up the required bond in the time specified and the franchise | reverted to the city. Nocause was assigned by them for their failure. | Adrian Journal: Grant Wollfe’s children are eald to be quite serious- ly ill, their malady being scariet fever. We hope they may bespeedily restored to health, * * * Mra. John Koger died at her home near | & Aaron Sunday. She leaves a hus- band and six small children to mourn oe Funeral services were held onday. The special Christmas edition of the Macon Time-Democrat was what might be properly called a hummer. It had 24 pages besides a heavy, handeomely iilustrated over. i illustrated the public buildings, the finest private residences anda number of local statesmen and business men. The business of the city was well represented with advertising. There is an anti-trust law in this state wit h severe penalty clause at- tached. A combination between mer- chante to sell goods at a fixed price isas much of a trust as asimilar combination between manufacturers. Tu some towns it ischarged thateuch acombination exist and the atten- tion of the Attorney General has been called to it, and it {s said ‘t ts his in- tion to give the matter a thorough investigation. We hope {t will not - necessary for him to include But- er. Charley Hilton, in his Appleton City Journal, with his mouth drawn allout of shape with sour grapes, thus soliloquises on his prospects for a Christmas dinner: “With theprea- ent price of turkeys staring us in the face there is no a hope ofa country editor being able to enjoy such a luxury for his Christmas din- ner, but we are living in hopes that some farmer friend will kill hoge about that time and prevail upon us to help him take care of the back- bones and spare ribs, Turkey {s dry meat anyway and awful hard to digest—so our family physician tells us, Tie following gentlemen have pur- wed the old) Hear ior ' Bank to Mavens street: Louisa Radford 50. feet, en bracing the very barn building, J. T ital the next twenty foes ipty: tiv i t business houses 1 » this is splendid property, close te the square, on the principle street from the depot and facing the New ' snal Inn baildine ont wesu corner of the square. While visiting at tue bor parents, Mr. and Mra. Ben TL Journal, John Looney, of Walia Walla, Wash., concluded to con bine busiiess with some pleasure tason naies fro { j | ur did a fifteon fine work i | int He | ¢) Monday in consultation with the The Journal says that for the first first of March. These gentlemen will time fgher history Adrian isin debs. |have to puta valuation on every The management of that town in the | foot past has certainly been good and her | cour’ tulated, |cost But a reasonable debt, which can be |can issue and eell the bonds, adver- promptly met, is not the worst thing tise and let the contracts for the healthy, wide awake |@plendid work. They will probably. . Itis unquestionably a | establish an office in the court house good thing to keep out of debt, but | for the completion of their labore. advertisera,and otherfriends, one and| ‘The many friends of Fred F. Reis- all,a Merry Chrietmas, a Happy and |ner will be pained to New Year. The past year|death which occurred at his home, sta , and, so far as.we know, the | for burial. twenty-two years the present editor|old. He wi Ties has been | came to Butipr with bis parents, Mr. stand, through good andjand Mrs. J. nev su piecingup ehout fitbeen head paving asx hich as $200 for some of them. heft Sunday morning with bis] “long eared beunties going over- laud to Busler, from which place he Estes Smith, chairman of the Drainage Commission, was in Butler county court. He said the field work The commissioners will have consid- erable office work to do in preparing their full report to the county court, which they hope to complete by the of overflow land, and give the + fulldata ae tothe probable of the canal, so that the court work, etc. It fea tremend ous un- Bard and Estes Smith have done Death of Fred Reisner. arn of his 6075 Fairmount Ave., St. Louis, Fred Reisner was about 28 years born in Coviogton, . Reisner, at an early age and wasp student in our public sehools. Hig mother was a sister of Mrs. W. P. Sevier in Summit town-| Bates county. We have ever held up | John M. and Cliff Catterlin and Mrs. T. W. Legg. ‘When his father accept- gressive spirits and aiscouraged the |jed a position in the Pension depart- seer ag that time we have seen| ment at Washington Fred went to betterment of the {i the new we pledge our con- at! wonderful changes, mostly for the|Covingtom to finish his schooling. le. In closing | He afterwards took a course in the Funeral services were con-| the door on the old year ard enter-| Washington law university and uated with high honors. He ac- 6 position in line with his pro- t| fern ‘ ion, which he was filling at the time of bis death. He leavesa wife| -tand one child. He was 6 young man bright promise.” operty, on | {a | it Ab follo and sary rantfor said amount to the Relief Com they tern late. ler I ly adopted: “That Butler lodge No. 958 B. P. O. Elks contribute $50 to charity Rad money. This is an example that every fra- Useful Holiday Presents For Men Boys and Childrens Wear. A nice Suit for Father $5.00 to $20 A stylish overcoat for George $4 to $10 A good knee pant suit for Elmer $2 to $6 Cravenette rain coats $10 to $18 Silk suspenders 50c to $1.50 Fine Hats and Caps 50c to $5.00 Silk umbrellas $2.50 to $5. Silk mufflers 50c to $2 White and colored shirts 50c to $2 White and bordered h’dkfs 5c and 50c Underwear 50c to $2 per suit Silk initial handkerchiefs 25 and 50c All the latest styles and colors in neck- ties 25c to $1. See our smoking jackets which we are retailing at wholesale prices 40c to $1 Gents beautiful scarf pins, latest designs 25c to $1.25 All the newest novelties in sleeve but- GEERSCSCCSDTEHF 6000 SHSES5O0000S DE. IN CSCCTRENEE tons 25c to $1.50. ra i] Fine suit cases and grips $1.50 to $5 e ccuarters for Santa Claus. Meyer, THE CLOTHIER, a SOS A AIM Tax Paynes Take Notice, | Jefferson City ts pond tat your taxes are no’ paid by De- | tion on Dever r the ber Stat, 190% Itv will be| fire at the Governor n, it e* wee ferred t ' rs the law ; ) Phe \ we 1 j | } viome In | th court | w)])} | Poi s Tene couuship, | Tngton, a ae ‘ivine’’ Cheietimoac A “giving” Christnas. the regular meeting of the Bot. | give their Christinas exer n Fri ks on last Thursday night the | Cy night, December 22nd. The “i macliklonwas inaninoune | whole school will observe the occas+ tag Teaotusic me GR ionas # “giving” Christmas by re- membering the poor and needy with their gifts of groceries, provisions, The admission to the entertainment, to all not mem- bers of the Sunday School will bea large potato. A committee appoint- ed from the church and Sunday School will take charge of and distribute the gifts. All who desire to assist in making the poor have a ‘Merry Xmae”’ are invited to join in the good work. watts that the exalted ruler and s«cre- be instructed to deliver the war- mittee for distribution where see fit.”’ ial order in the ‘city might emu CHRISTMAS 1S COMING | CABLE & GROVES. Are here with the finest line of Candies and Nuts to be found in the clty. Don’t make the children sick by eating cheap candy, but buy the best pure candy made by Loose- Wiles Candy Co. and for sale by us. IF you want something nice in CUTLERY for presents, we have it. You will find our prices as low as Groceries. the lowest. Our stock is always complete. Ask for what you want. We have the best 20c coffee sold over Coffee. any counter. Pickels ot all kinds Heinz’ complete line. Hardwate. pea ve on nails and build- Prod uce. We are always on the market for all kinds of prodace at the highest mar- ket price. Cash or Trade. Don’t forget the place, 2 doors south of BIG NEW HOTEL. CABLE & GROVES. Phone 13. 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