The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, April 26, 1906, Page 7

The Good Shoe Store. Cannon Weiner Elevator Company receiving corn. 52-tt Gardens about town are looking Best 8X and 10c shirtings at Mc Kibbena, The shade trees about town are out in leaf. New mattings and IMnoleums at McKibbens. Nevada, Mo., sent a car load of flour to the destitute of San Fran- cleco, Finest lot of white goods in Bates county 5c a yard up.—McKibbens. Mise Ella Means, of Sedalia visited Mr. and Mrs. H, E. Clayton for sev- eral daye last week. Mre. Hugh M. Gailey, of Amoret, visited the family of John Pyle for several days last week. Carpenter & Shafer have put on two new and handsome wagons for delivery of ice about town. » D. D. Peeler, candidate for Sheriff from Hudson township, was ecetng the boys in Butler Saturday. Marion Wood, candidate for Re- A corder from Adrian, was pleasant caller while in Butler Saturday. John G. Cantrell, Shawnee town- sbip’s candidate for Recorder, favor- d us pleasantly while in Butler Sat- urday, Tramps are on the road now, and bal Jas. Arrasmith should keep > m on the move, when they strike C. W. Allison, of St. Louis, spent several days in the city and county ast work visiting relatives and old friends. . Ifthe blvom indicates what is to be, then Bates county will have a cord crop ot apples, peaches, cher- and pears. ‘W.C. “Gabe” Hedden, was in But- er Saturday lacking alter his po- fences and made us a pleasant su eounty Democrate willhold mty convention May 4th to POA SO~ + 28-0 OOOLEOLELESS OOLSSDOSISOS COODOSOOEIDO High Grade Clothes At Moderate Prices in Great Variety. CLOTHING HOUSE THE RIGHT War, WE FiT YOUR FORM HEAD, FEET AND PURSE. We pay top price for eggs, and you have the finest stock in Bates coun- ty in which to trade them out —Me- Kibbens. W.H. Dunn, candidate for county clerk from Grand River, was in But- ler Wednesday and made us a pleas- ant call. Four men busy repairing watches but “always room for more.”—Ellis & Gains Jewelry Co. Miss Bessie Jackson, daughter of W.0O. Jackson, who was hurt ina runaway a short time ago, is about again, and we are glad to state her injuries were not so bad as at first thought. Rev. Swanson, pastor of the M. E. Church, South, this city, left Tues- day morning for Bronaugh, Mo., to attend district conference of his church. He will be home Friday of Saturday. Members of Butler Lodge 958, B. P. O. Elks are receiving a neat leather card case,{n colors of the order with compliments of Past Exalted Ruler H. G. Cook stamped on the inside cover. Jesse Kline, living on the old Book- er Powell farm, in Shawnee, died last week of cancer of the stomach, after a protracted illness. Mr. Kline was a well known farmer and leaves a family. Frederick Erb, 106 years old, died athis home, one mile east of Sumner, He was born in Switzerland in 1800 and had lived near here thirty years. Mr. Erb was the oldest man in Chari- ton county and probably the oldest in Missouri. Eleven clerks at work in the post- office building at San Francisco were buried under the ruins of the build- ing and supposed to be dead were rescued alive. They had been buried three days without water or food. Brick work on the north wall of the new hotel {s progressing nicely. Monday eight or ten brick layers were put to work, and a substantial ehowing in erection of the building will now be made day by day. the school honors of the past high school term, was the recipient of two university echolarships in addition Rich Hill Review. All the talk about having Mr. the White House ts { Farmers Bank at Rich Hill, and Den- Henry Sheppard, who curried off to his high echool diplqma. It pays to be good, at school as elseewhere.— Roosevelt take’ the presidency of his alma mater after he “retires” from In the New Styles Single Breast. Long Coats Also a Swell Line of Stetson Hats, x x Panama Hats ano WALEK-OVER SHOES. The Good Clothes Store. ae Mies Jennle Owen and Miss Leah Ives went to Adrian Tuesday to at- tend the commencement exercises of the public schools that night. The schools closed on last Friday. Louls McElroy bas returned to Bates county, having traded his property recently acquired in the Panhandle country of Texas fora farm out on No. 6 from Butler, We take great pleasure in welcoming Louis back home. Rev. J. W. Hudiburg has been selected by the graduating class 1906 of Butler High School to deliver the baccalaureate sermon on Sunday, May 13th. Rev. Hudiburg is a tal- ented and eloquent speaker and his sermon on this occasion will be a literary. treat. Mr. and Mrs. M, M. Carroll left the last of the week for Livingston, Montana, where they go in the hopes that the, change will arrest the course of consumption, with which | % Mrs. Carroll is affilcted. She has had a bad cough for several years, . which developed into that dread dis- ease lately. M. A. Carroll expects to leave shortly for a tour of the northwest He will probably spend several months in that section. Judge Graves was at hage the last of the week with his family. He re- turned to Jefferson City on Saturday to meet with the court en banc. Zack Patterson, official stenog- rapher of Supreme Jadge Graves, spent the last of the week at home. Zack isa popular young gentleman and good stenographer. John. McCandless has his paper changed to Greeley, Col., to which place he moved bis family last week. They are splendid people, and Tue Tues wishes them prosperity in their new home. L. L. Coleman orders his paper changed from Aaron, Mo., to Mingo, Kan. Mr. Coleman has been a sub- stantial citizen of this county for many years and we regret his re- moval. Excelling all past efforts in the at- tractiveness of the styles and daint- ines of the patterns. Effective from every point of view that jewelry love wearersbest. Reduction sale at Ellis & Gains Jewelry Co. closes May let. Township trustees are a little slow in making thelr report and turning ever the balance in their hands to the county treasurer. Only one township trustee so far hus turned over any money, and that is Mr. Williams, of Summit township. Bob Davis was up from his home in Hudson the last of the week and made us a pleasant call. Bob is one of the old boys of that section, hav- ing spent the greater partof hissixty summers in that township. He ts one of the subetantial farmers of that section. ( Our young friend C. W. Sitio, | & prominent young democratic nan! j er of Mound, was a pleasant caller the last of the week and favored us substantially. Bob Graves, who is traveling for a wholesale whisky house of Kansas City, his territory being Texas and Kansas, was in Butler Tuesday visit- ing relatives and old friends. Mrs. C. A. Webb and her father, M. F. Perry, returned the first of the week from Amarillo; Texas, where they had been to settle up the affairs of Mrs. Webb’s late husband, who died thereeuddenly of pneumonia this spring. Welton’s Lake has become quite a noted fishing resort. This epring some good catches have been made by local fishermen, and hardly a week passes without parties from Kansas City coming down to engage in the sport, and they rarely return empty handed. Estes Smith and son Stephen Smith, of Mingo, were in Butler Sat- urday on business and favored ua pleasantly. Estes was !ncidentally looking up the Democrats in the in- terest of his candidacy for Judge of the North district. Stephen is teach- @ very successful school, which will close in about two weeke. John J. Caven died at his home in Fargo, Oklahoma, last week. Mr. Caven went to Oklahoma at the first opening and secured a valuableclaim, and had prospered in that new coun- try He was serlouely injured by the kick of a horse some time ago, and never fully recovered. He left a widow and three children. Mr, Caven was the brother of Mrs. W. H. Hupp, of this city, and be spent the greater portion of his life in this elty. Home in Butler. To sell or exchange for Bates Co. land of nearly equal value. Address P. O. box 332. 26 2t J.T. Armentrout, of Amsterdam, candidate fgr Judge of the north dis- trict,was in Butler Saturday looking after the interests of his candidacy and favored us pleasantly. Judge Asmentrout is well known over the north part of Bates county, having madé the race against Judge Bruce two years ago, besides being an old citizen of that section. Ed. Morgan, who has been working in Springfield, Mo., came to Butler the last of the week to visit his par- ents Mr. and Mrs, Asa Morgan. Ed. says the opinion {s pretty general in Springfield that the negroes will have to go and that anotherdemon- stration against them will be made ae soon as the militia is withdrawn. Ed says that Leslie Peters, the young man who shot the negro in defense of his sweetheart, isin con- stant danger of assassination by the negro’s brothers, who areconsidered dangerous and desperate negroes. James Petty had his leg broken fn @ runaway near Spruce last week. Mr. Petty had driven a drummer to Spruce, and while he was interview- ing the merchants of that thriving little burg, the horee became unman- ageableand ran over a highembank- ment, catching Mr. Petty under the buggy. The drummer caught the horse’s head and held him down, while Petty was extricated. The horee was straightened out, hitched up and Petty was brought to Butler, where medical attention was given him, This fs the same horse that ran away with Mrs, W. O, Jackson and daughter, Miss Bessie, the week before, Something you white belt. ies of all kinds. three different grades,--50c, 75c, and $1.00. A pleasing and unusual event, says| & the Clinton Democrat, was witnessed in the First Baptist church in Clin- ton on Sunday in which A. C. Avery, for thirty years superintendent of the school, was presented with a handsome gold-headed cane. Mr. Avery und wife had just returnea from a five months’ visit to the Pacific cvast. John W. Jamison, cashier of the nis Miller, liveryman, drove up Sun- day to attend the funeral of Mrs. Marths Major. Mr Jamison said that Fleod Major furnished him the first em; loyment he had in Bates county, a clerkship in his grocery store at Rich Hill. A number of contractors from 6 distance hnve been here the pest week lovking over the plans end speclficutious for the drainage canal with « view of bidding on the con- tract to be les by the county court on nex: Tuesday, May 1st. Official notice of the letting can be found in another column of this paper, George Bracken, wife and little son Raymund, who had been visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.C. Bracken, for thy past three weeks, returned to thelr home in Oskaloosa, Iowa, on Monday. Sunday they had a family home, where 25 or 80 relatives en- joyed a fine dinner prepared by day. County Superintendent of Schools A; L, Ives informs us that one hun- Gred and fifty-three pupils took the | examinations throughout thecounty Jast Saturday and the Saturday pre- gathering at uncle Jake Bracken’s Aunt Ellen, and epent a pleasant Mrs. dadge Cole is suffering from & severe attack of rheumatism. Kaneas City for several days last week. Mr. and Mra. Squires, eubstantial citizens of Summit, favored us pleas- antly while in Butler the last of the week, Harve Johnson, Rich Hill’s candi date for Sheriff, was jn Butler Mon- day looking after his political fencea and favored us pleasantly. Lafe Cassity, anold citizen and substantial farmer of Pleasant Gap township, was a pleasant ‘caller on Saturday and favored us. geding for raral graduations. This} J. Venable, of Summit, dropped wes @ much largér number than was in tg renew his allegiance to THE Prof. Ives said 18 willtake| Tra, He has been to Kansas, Lon staan $o examine and| Oklahoma and a number of places, befc afement of but says he likes Old Bates the best Mrs, A. O. Welton visited friendsin h We are offering a fine quality of silk gloves in Also long lace mitts, very pretty and popular in white and black at $1.00 and $1.50. Would you like to see a fine assortment of long silk scarfs in plain and fancy colors, and the choicest of braid dress trimmings? This store is filled with seasonable things at reasonable prices. May we show them to you? Mrs. J. D. Allen and “Miss Irene Mains entertained a large party of lady friends with a reception, at the ome of the former, on West Ft. Scots street, Wednesday afternoon, from 2 to 5 o’clock. Mrs. Benjamin G. Mains was the guest of honor. The house was tastefully decorated tor the occasion and appropriate re- | treshments were served. In the even- ing the ladies entertained aa open session ofthe Young Ladies High Five Club. Miss Emma Cheatum and Law- pang? d were married ~ - tian po tg y jer James ett, last Saturday morning, wena: 21et, ~ took the noon trainfor Wellington, Kansas, their future home. The bride is a niece of Mrs. William Jackson with whom she made her home. She was born and raised in Summit town- ship, where she has a large circle: of friends.. The groom iv a railroad man and bears Re a mere WHITE BELTS, ETC. summer wear,--your costume isn’t complete without silk gloves and a Splendid showing ofnewest styles in gloves, belts, and dress accessor- can’t overlook for Ladies Home Journal Patterns 10c and 15c. EGGS TAKEN SAME AS CASH. . McKIBBENS. OA Ad J. W. Rogers, formerly of this county, now of Kingfisher, Okla., sends us remittance for renewal. He says they keep up their interests in Bates county and her people through Tue Times. Allen McCracken, a successful young farmer of Deep Water, with his wife and two daughters were tradivgin Butlerthe last of the week. Accompanied by his pretty little daughter Miss Ethel, he favored Tae TiMEs pleasantly. We understand an effort will be made to raise by private subecrip- tion a sufficient sum to installa pub- He clock in the dome of the court house. This will not be a city clock, but a county time plece. One gentle- man has agreed to head thelist with one hundred dollars. It will require from $800 to $1,000. Every citizen should donate thereby giving them the right to feel that they have an interestin the clock, -