The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, February 8, 1906, Page 4

<2t "tee THE GREAT WEST. County Boy. Meridian, Ltaho, dan. 29 "06 Eor of THe "ives Botler, Meo Sire—There m.; in Mi eouri whv cau Lorrow their Leigh be peapl- Anteresting Letter From a Bates | bors paper and thue escape the ex pense of subscribing, but send then. oat hereand they wil doasl an doiog—eend « dollar and wait anx fously tor the first number to arrive The letter describing the trip t the weet is an ok! practice bit I have never seen x letterjust lke the other f-llow wrote so will relite 9 few ofthe many interesting thing that impressed me On the morning of Nov. 29th asl aa standing by the depov at Ur.c. waiting forthe train, which is always late ifthe mercury le very low and no fire to stand by, with a keen wind blowing from the northwest which made ones teeth chatter and aroused # LiGtle Ill feeling for the “..ld Stare,” which I was about to leave. But having “gct agoing” and entering 4 Kanaas I glanced eage:ly out of ‘he } car window expecting to see the pro- verblal red top boot, sunflower and hatchet but was disappointed, they did not appear but in their stead was some as fine farms asin Mo. ln going on across the state I saw many things that drove away all the illfeeling for Mo., that had found anchorage in my belong and caused me to wonder howeven the pratrie dog and wolf managed their exte- tence, and it was the same inerstern Cotorado. Had I painted Denver, Catorado Springs and Pueblo by the appearance of the eastern part of the etate it would undoubtedly have been apicture ofa mass of sod houses witli: smoke curling »pward from the Jard buckets need for atove pipes But things changed and arriving at Denver I saw a most beautiful cit’ and leaving Denver one beautiful and thrilling ecene after another pareed as one grand panoramic view with the cold dry air of Tennesree Paes and other elevated places thrown in. Entering Utah L applied my glage to thefirat ranch house that we pseaed expecting to see the rancher and his “wives” looking eagerly out of the windows, but instead he and hie ‘wife’, as I enpposed, were mounted upon two horses, that it would be indeed a luxury to own, etarting for a morning ride. Ihad een already too much for my vision was becoming clouded so J rettled back in my seat resolving not ¢o look out again until Tarrived at my destination, but finding that J would have to change cara gt Ogden I decided I could stand a little ; more aight seeing so I pretty thor- ovehbly took in that city. While spinning along the 0.S. L. { and eeelng the sagebrush with here and there a dwelling anda ranch eleared out the same thought came 1a to me about the people of Idaho as : of the prairle dogs of Kansas. I got "off the main line at Nampa and run up tanto the Bolee Valley and found myaelt right here at Meridian in the midst of great fruit farms, fine ranches and a growing common wealth, and have decided thot it is worth coming all the way from Mils- gourl to be here. A great many of the people here are Missourians the reat are Nobras- kans and all are certainly a most oelable people. Dr. Payne, formally of Butler, is located here and has a good practice. Quite a number o Bates county people are here and qhile they do not exactly look down on Bates county they are well pleas- eft atid are likely to let well enough ogee — x tI ¥ Joo tae eres alone. + Bench land {s high here and with a heat eugar factory starting up in the 7% per cent. But with the govern- ment work on the irrigation ditches promising plenty of water the land nt thee prices offers a paying invest- mens. Youre Respectfally, Z B Barker, Hadley Says Death Severs All Kinship By Marriage. Feb. 5.—At- and his . Then he laaned ba: k io bis bed again and went to sleep. Conductor Frank Leslie Suicides known in Rich Hill (his boyhood home) shot himeelt at Kansas City. The set was committed at half past 12.’clk voon, while his wife waa asle pin an adjacent room at the family bome, 403 Askew. Avenue The wife was awakened by the report of the pistol and goitig to her hus Wand 1ound him dead had penetrated the brain pasrenger conductor by the Frisco road for 20 yeurs. For the last year he had suffered from nervournees. Recently he had appeared to be de- spondent and expressed a wish to die. He was a thirty second degree Mason. son, 13 years ¢1i, who is a pupil at the Scarritt school. FUKUUT HIS BASS DRUM. State position fims The G vernor asked for thie infor | cova Man Bas Strong Claim on the } tiation beesas Lhere is a WON Ob Title Champion For- Sbe bard of Manngers ot one of tt getter. Sta itnti we end b va ni gst ages “ = The man who lost the bass drum jto’e sinter hel + m porttion @ | nas been found, says the Chicago Inter hat ieetitation Ocean. The repotiem +tatate provi Newspaper paragraphers have made merry with the absent-minded man. & oot ob Kia by tba oy ae ee “is and he has been accused of all sorts puringe toa membre fhe Bones of deeds of omission and commission. Therefore, some of the stories told at his expense have been taken in a Pickwickian -semse. The tale that a man said he was so absent-minded that he at one time lost a bass drum has always been considered a mere joke. Originally this story may have been a fable, but now it is true. A man has actually lost a bass drum,;-and-el—the- members of an lowa band will bear witness to the fact. It happened near Davenport, a few Sundays ago. There was a celebration at Davenport and an up-country band had arranged to take part in the fes- tivities. The train stopped at the sta- tion just a moment, and the members of the band piled into the smoker, with their instruments and their re- galia. > Just as the train was moving away, a fat, red-nosed man grasped the rail and swung aboard. Then he turned pale and gasped, “Where's my drum?” he cried, as his eyes bulged and his knees shook. “I saw it on the depot platform,” said the trombone player. “Suffering cornshucks! I forgot it!” When the band began business at Dav- enport, it labored under a handicap, and the bass drummer was not a popular member of the aggregation. . CHEAP SWIMMING POOLS. May Be Made in the Brook by Coun- try Boys with Small Labor, Managers cfu State inwth ati shail be eligible to hold a positiva et has isticaticn. , The (@ »vernor neked the Attorney General bo cons! rae thin statute ane ive bis opinion ng to whetheror to! we would Le permineitl forthe wo man to retain her position at the in stitution. : i Mr Hadley, in hie opini nto th Goveruor, aeys that in hiv jadgmen* the womanean retwin fer position without violating the etatute. He bolts that when one party to » marriage contract is dead or divarc dthat »'lkinahip created by that marriage ceases Wheeler Asked What Hour Firing Began. From the Pittsburg Leader. New York —The nuree who wae at General Joseph Wheeler's bedside until he died tells this story of the last hours of the old fighter: Several days before he died the general sat up in the bed and aald to the nuree: “When does the firlng te qi?” To humor him the nuree replied: “The firing will begin at 9 o’clock, general.” General Wheeler leaned back {n hia bed, apparently resting. . At five minutes to 9 o’clock he reached over for hia watch, noticed the time and took from the table near his bed a amall bunch of absorbent cotton. Very deliberately General Wheeler plugged both ears with the cotton. The brook or running stream of nat- ural outdoor water gives a variety of chances for the man who wishes to live his life aright, says Country Life in America, The brook can be con- verted, without being diverted, into & swimming pool for boys by building a dam at the point where the banks do a little extra shelving and tend to form a natural basin. The: bottom should be spaded out and made more of a reservoir in its capacity and shape. The dam itself can be made by a family of boys at the cost of the lumber and nails involved. The em- bankments are sodded. The sides of! the spillway are made of wooden posts driven into the ground and boarded up. This makes a boxed-up affair, or rather two boxes, one on each side of the stream. These boxes are filled with sand, rocks and sods to make a solid cubic piece of resistance. ‘he sodded embankments run across the valley or depression of the brook hollow to the higher ground. By means of a lever— a pole (playing into a wooden-jawed socket and weighted with a rock or pleces of iron)—the watergate can be Opened against a strong headway of water. The water flows over the top of the spillway when it is closed, and by raising the gate the pond can be emptied or reduced to the normal level of the brook, WHY THE BARBER TALKS. Keeps Posted on Current News of.the Rich Hill Rev'ew Conductor J, F Leslie, popularly The bullet Mr. Leslie had been employed as a Besides a widow he lft a valley means an advance of 25 to| | Day and Is Competent to Speak. BABY COVERED WITH SORES Would Scratch and Tear the Flesh Unless Hands Were Tied—Wasted toaSkeleton—Awful Suffering for Over a Year—Grew Worse Under Doctors—Skin Now Clear. WOULD HAVE DIED BUT FOR CUTICURA, comical “My little son, when about a 4 half old, began. to have doa come out on his face. “Barbers have to know something besides shaving and hair cutting,” saic the boss of a downtown shop. says the New York’Sun. “They have to read the newspapers. They must keep up with the news of the day, and especial- ly sporting events. I don’t know why it is so, but a majority of my custom- ers begin talking about the races and baseball and other sports as soon as they get in the chair. “You have heard about the garrulous barber. Now the fact is that a city barber rarely opens his mouth if the customer is reticent. “If the barber talks it is due to the customer, and, as | have said, most of the customers in a barber shop run to | sporting news. If they find that the barber is not posted they will go else- where. There is no rule requiring a barber to read the newspapers in the shop, but he understands that he is ex- pected to know what is going on. “I have one man here who has made a study of the war in the far east, and I really think he would be a valuable aid to any board of strategy. Several , of his customers are in the Army build- ing, and no matter how many are. ahead of them when they come in.they wait for that barber because they like to hear his views.” - France’s “Green Peril.” ‘France has a “green perli,” which, Money, feet, shoes You're going to put your money and your feet into shoes of some kind: it makes quite a difference what shoes you put them into. There_are a good many things to con- sider—looks, wear, comfort; you want all of these and there’s one way of being sure of getting them when you buy a pair of new shoes: anybody can tell after the shoes are worn out. Look for the name Selz on the sole; if you find it, you find a shoe that will give all three of the above qualities. : We sell them. Ask to look at Selz Royal Blue and Perfecto shoes. Back to the Old County Fair. | Always Reragaucs tas Fall Name Mexico, Mo —Audrain county will t. $% <a go back to the old county fair idea, ra r mS Ryen é MEER Instead of the etreet fair, which hes axativ e & vee Cc ae y erine had its day {n this part of the coun- Pine try. A public meeting was held anda permanent organization, pledged to givean annual county fair for five years, was organized. Representa- tives of fair associations in the fol- towing cities will meet in Mexico Sat- urday to form a new county fair cir- ntralia, Moberly, Marshall, Mexico | ™. } » his wife, aud Higgineville. The dates of the | sah Gay of say fos, Rs RY A page 270, of the is various old time county faire will of Bates county convey to the county of Bates likely be set at the meeting Satur- iyng and being ia the anid county of Baten: i ‘Cures a Cold in Que Day, Grip in Two. Order of Publication, STATE OF M1S80URI Notice of Sale Under School Fund * County of Bates, % In he Cirvals Court, in vac: tion, January lst, aura Varnes, Plaintiff, ve. - John Varnes, Defendant. Now at this day comes the plaintiff h b; her attorney.and files her petition eh iy It: alleging, among other things that defendant, day. Tats three (8) four («) and elght (8) In block | Sone Varnes, lecn nonerestaget othe state of =. wo (82) In the town of Foster. Missouri: nd, whereas, said mortgage was executed to secure a bond for Three Hundred and Fifty Dollars, duly executed by the said Jno. M. and i x Bila Lgl to preaket at eeilehcsn r the moneys belo: ging to ichoo! fund of said it 4 baste of county: And. whereas, default has been made in the payment of gald debt to the amount of twohun- , this plaintiff without a reasonable cause for ‘ved and seventy five dellars principal and | more thn one year before the fillug of this suit, -05 interest. | and that unless the said defendant, John Varnes Now Therefore, I, the undersigned she, iff, be avd appear at this court at the next term of eaid county of Bates, having been thereto | thereof to be and holden at the court | olrected alt ores of iy county cours of eaid | bry Md fhe ay BaF et io si seat on of Bates. entered of record on the 6th | the first y in May, and on or has bean found in the woods about & i Decemter, 1905, wi! | the rst day of said term, answer or plead to mile from her home. bd Shove described prem. = cone part Led petition oon a hd the ene Wie be ‘ ereof as may be necessary e east front | taken as con! and judgment w: ren- The little girl became lost in the | door of the court house dered * the copy hereof be d a h in said county of Bates - betas snowstoi m ond the woods, and she - lished, according to the la the Buruan was fruzsu to death, The searching 1th dag of Sebrwary., 1008, f newspaper Pablished in eala . county of Bates, Miseouri, for four weeks suc- ceesi at ‘least once a week, coestroly, pensiened, be at least thirty Jaye Whereupon it ia ordered by the clerk in vaca- tion, thatthe said derendanet be notified by pub- has commenced a suit Searching Party Finds Child's Body. Muskogee, I. T. Feb, 5.—The body of Evelyn Woods, the 8 year-old | daughter of Henry Woods, who wan- | dered away {rom home last week, rec county day o >, ul party had boilt a big fe withia 150 Boop und G eteee in toe ttNanrees sta nee, eet of where the body was found. Srgaalle £0, be st pablie anction to the highest Toe heavy enow hed drifted over MB. MORRIS, | fie sone Te Gy of sald next May term, of and buried her. Irom the time the| Sheriff of Bates County. J. A. PATTERSON, Circult Clerk. child was lort until the body was Notice of Final Settlement. ria Pay and seal of the found more than a week elapsed. Notice is hereby siven to all creditorsand |} (#8a1.] Glzeatt Court of Be County, this . C, Bicbop, deceased, that 1, Geo. W. 4 da. PATI ‘Cireuit Clerk. — sdmintorrator of wal oti, nar ‘make | _T4t Ouas. M. Banatar, DC, Bates coaney Gourt, tn Bates couety Order of Publication, state of to be . sonrl, om the 19th'day of EO. W.N u-& STATE OF MIS80U: Couey om Baraer” {%. In the oe it Cours, in Vacation January Jaco Galser, Piaintit, : and | W. 8, Jones, Defendant, Now at this however, it does not dread, but rather &