The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, January 25, 1906, Page 3

The Butler Weekly ‘BUTLER, MISSOURI, er JANUARY 25, 1906. VOL. XXVUI. i a RE EID ETE eto | jes. Dr. a / BARING POWDER es seat es food purer, $ wertes @ age 1% Tested and Approved by t' CE tak ek 2 f FOG TI es the ESOrIe ¢ té G DUOC Pr yth erat WHEN YOU HAVE A SALE. You want the BEST AUCTIONEER. A poor one is dear at any price. The eryer who keeps things moving, and the crowd interest- ed will make you the most money. DO NOT PAY For personal frieadships or because an aue- tioneer happens to have the run. Exercise business judgment and employ the man who will make the property sell readily and bring the highest price. I will cry sales in any part of the county on reasonable terme and guar- antee satisfaction. Write or call up over the telephone. | C. E. ROBBINS, AMORET, MO. = Dates Made at this Office. BURIED THE WRONG BOY. A Kansas Youth, Mourned as Dead, Wrote Home. Iola, Kaan., Jan. 22.—Mr. and Mrs. W.A. Woodward, of Gas City, recelv- eda letter from their son, Hershel Woodward, whom they thought they had buried last July, stating that he was alive and in good health. It {is evident from the letter that the boy has had no information whatever of his supposed death. The boy is now working near Olathe for a farmer The Wedding Was Postponed. Kirksville, Mo., Jan. 22.—Danie Huffman, 4 ayoung miner, was ar- raigned before Judge Shelton {prrob bing the office of the Kaneas City Midland Coal company in Novinger last Friday night and taking $15 out of the money drawer. Huffman wes to have been married Saturday night, and it iseaid that during Friday he had vainly tried to borrow $10 to help out the event and that later he was “flush” with small coin. Fail- ing to give a $400 bond Huffman was sent to Lancaster jail and the wedding indefinitely postponed. andis going to school. He lefthome last spring and failed to write to his| To Drill for Oil at Rockville. eerwans. They heard of him in Weat-| 4. p10ton city Tribune, Kansas 4nd later in Illinois, ‘where he was travéling with a show. In July word came to them that a boy answering Hershel Woodward’s | description and traveling with s show had been killed in a railroad accident near Freeport, Iil. The father of the boy went to Freeport, where the body wasexhumed and identified him $0 m.scar on the lip. The body was _ brought to Gas City and barled. ‘Since that time the family had not days. joining the town on the east. the first of the week. The work of drilling for-ofl at Rockville will be resumed in a few The old company has been reorganised and a portion of a drill- ing vutfit together with a lot of cas- ing has arrived. The ‘prospect hole will be sank on the Merritt farm ad- An oil witeh located what he sald would prove to be a good producing well, when brooght in, on that tract HUNTERS MUST GET LICENSES. Court Holds Shooting in Own) County Without Them Illegal. Sedalis, Mo. Jan. 22.—State Game Warden J. H. Rhodes, of this city, is highly gratitied that his conetruc- tion of the state game law has been sustainet by a superior court. The St. Louis court of appeals handed down an opinion by Judge Bland, all concurring, in the habeas corpus case of Virg!! Helton, petitioneer ex parte The petitioner had been con- vieted in a justice court at Hannibal for hunting in his own county with- out taking out @ license, and sued on awrit of habeas corpusin the court of appeals, alleging that the game luw of 1905 did not require @ person to take outa license to hunt in the county of bis residence, The court held that the statutes did not make this requirement, and refused to discharge the prisoner. Tne de. cision puts a number of prosecuting attorneys, who announced a core trary view and refused to prosecute pereens so violating the law, in an embarrassing position, Letter From Mrs. Luther Shode. Tue Tives assumes the responsi- bility of publishing the following private letter because of the wide ac- quaiptance in the county of the writer and her late distinguished husband, wno served as Sheriff, Treasurer and Mayor of Butler, and their many friends will be glad to learn of the family: BILuines, OKLA. Epiror Times: Iinclose order for one dollar and fitty cents for your paper for anoth- er year. We have been taking THE BuTLer Times since the firat desue and f prizeit more than any other paper. I was sorry when dear old Missouri went over to the Republican ‘party in the lest election, but trust she has seen the disadvantage of Republican rule. It has ohly been a few years siace she got out from under the yoke of Republican bondage and | oppression. Trusting that at the) ~ “HIS ASHES SCATTERED. next election the grand old State will ‘come back to the Democratic party with agreater Majority than she ever gave before. This isa fine country, business of all kinds are good. We expect to eel] out here soon and go to Pawhuska, I. T., or Woodward, Okla Luther and Walter will go in the hardware business at Toneaker, I. T., the oth- er two boys at Pawhuska. Hoping you are enjoying good health and are prosperous Iam yours respect fully, Mrs. LuTHer SHOBE. Peru Items. The literary entertainment at Peru Friday night was wellattended. Proceeds were $5.15. Elias Harper sold a span of mules to Dave Wileon of Butler for $810. Saturday Bob Lyle bought a span of young mules from John Todley for $190 if we are informed correct. Jess Warren bought a span of young horses of W. H.@irker for $240 - W. B. Griffin has returned from his trip to Texas. He likes the country ee there if he n vel. Sanday nightend Monday. Carry McCongh returned to Kan- ses City Sunday and ber sister | Minney went with ber But think of | sie boys left behind, how great their loss will be. Uncaz Aza, Semen hate Robbins and wife, of Amoret, ir insurancesuperintendent, W. B. Van- The only store in the town handling a complete line of Dry Goods, Shoes and Groceries We want your Produce and will pay the market per cent more in trade for produce than you get in cash. house where you can get all kinds of goods or cash if you want it. our weights and measvres, Read Our Prices for this Week. See how they Compare with won Yale coffee worth 200 at. Moraing Glory worth 2 Morning Star worth 30¢ at 25 Se Yule best 3 ibs in case at $1.00 ‘Test or banner oats at Best white beans 4c lb 7 It Best pink beans 4 1b 7 lbs Buter beans 8 Ibs for..... Silk soap 4c bar 7 bars Crystal white 4° bar 7 bars Oldcountry sap 6 bars..... Seeded raisins 3 packages.. Seeded currents 3 packages 25 Ground peper, »pices or cloves: per pound 1,000 matcher best quality.. 6 Granger twist tobacco.. 6 Hampton homespun. Sledge chewing tobacco Star, Horseshoe per |b. | Cow brand soda 8c, 2 lbs. Ladies Ready-to-wear Skirts, Cloaks and Jackets at Much Less than Cost. We want your Butter, Eggs and Chickens, and will meet all legitimate prices on DRY GOODS, SHOES OR GROCERIES, for a pound, and 36 inches for a yard. Honest weights and measures. Michigan Salt $1.25 per Barrel. Cast Into the Mississippi From the Top of Eads Bridge. St. Louis, Jan. 22.—In obedience to stipulations in the will of William Burnside, an octogenarian who died recently, the ashes of the deceased were Saturday cast to the bottom of the Mississippi river from the top of Eades bridge. The mid-air inter- ment was performed by Attorney J. A. Nolan, executor of the will, who recited a few lines of original poetry as he poured the ashes into a jar. Willlam Burnside was once worth Drag the Reads, Nevada Post, Good hatchet All of cur $1 75 My Fiber puils, tin pails, pie pans, gloves ac ¢ bread pans, plain white queens Allof our $1 00 ladies kid ware and many other things gloves at 6o cheap, too numerous to mention ‘These are x it _ | For und New Zaphyr Ginghams justin | Black moreen good quality * oe | 12ce quality solid colorat......10¢ Black ribolins skirsi c $250,000, but died in comparative poverty. J. 8. Frasier, living 4 miles east of Milo, called on the Post Saturday. That day was warm and muddy. Hesaid thatcoming to town he Any farmer can make a drag, at morning. "he largest snow of the season fell | small expense, and {f dragging the roads was universally adopted, the problem of bad roads would belarge- ly solved. Dropped the Vandiver Suit. Jefferson City, Jan. 28.—The state A | utetton of being one of the best anc- Bad ty the he York Life Insurance ! rein the county. He came to company toprevent him from enfore- yeors ago.and|ing his order of ouster from the passed over four miles of road upon which a drag had been used. Theee roads weredry, smooth and fine, while the roads upon which a drag ‘The change in the weather caused | had not been used were muddy and a email attendanceat Sunday School | gimost impassable. at all tines Why not We price n,get 10 n take it toa guaranteed Gan corn'Se, 4 cans for 25e ff Solid pac ked tomatioes 13: 2 cans tor.. Yuba peaches 5 Delta yellow cling 19 Gallon of syrup in pails Good sorgoum per gal Bon Bon buking powder can 10e K © baking powder can Good red salmon 25e qval...19e One gallon oil cans : One gallon glass oil cauns...... We Cotton mobs hudigo Ulue Bost spool + 10e quality solid color at.....84c | All wool moreen sk’ Ne ) and give you 16 oz. COME AND SEE US. AUCTIONEER When planning for a Public Sale why not employ the Anetioneer who has the record of making the beat A wud largest sales in this and adjoining eornties, who 4 is a stock dealers and knows the value of et k when r put upat Auction Heis also a member of the State i Auctioneers Association and hus License . REASONABLE TERMs. ¥ Cc. F. BEARD, R. F. D. No. 1, Butler, Mo. ' ' Telephone on Butler and Spruce line. ! H People’s Elevator Co. CORN And will give you the highest market price in cash for all you will bring.