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Your mmediate Needs Say be euppiiad be supplied on a }-— Nat 7 | MOMENTS NOTICE | Special Price At this popular store. | O waneae AWAY UNDER VALUE SPRING ‘Clothes You Know our Ona Price Plan | eat "SUMMER | | = PROTECTS YOU } When we say UNDER VALUE it means a Saving of Money to you. | MENS AND BOYS Low Shoes At Cut Prices The Good Shoe Store CLOTHING HOUSE THE RIGHT Way. WE FiT YOUR FORM, HEAD, FEET AND PURSE. to Clean up. The Good Clothes Store adies summer underwear 5c up— | Kibbens. . H. Plunkett, of Butler, is a new pecriber to THE TIMES Giesecke plow shoes at McKibbens. [The blackberry crop this year “ g to be a big one. argeat selection of room size McKibbens. eorge Utley, on Route No. 8, fers THE TIMES to his address. . K. Lisle sends Tur Tres to his phew, Henry Lisle, at Ford, Ky. Mir .J. Morrison, on Route No. 3, @ pleasant caller and favored us h & renewal. lore new laces and embroiderles— Kibbens. or old friend J. A. Wear, with nett-Wheeler Mer. Co., favors us petuntlally. Sheriff Chas. 8. Ewin favors us h renewal for B. W. Kelley, of neas City, Mo. . P. Jewett orders Tue Times Wred W. Jewett, U. 8. 8., care New postofiice. ww styles in ladies oxforde—Mc- Pe V. H. Nelson, a substantial farmer Route No. 2, Adrian, has his ne enrolled for THE TIMES. A. E. Settle, through her son- w, M.T. Duncan, has her dates shead for another year. e big rains the past week has @ stimulating effect on the and now a good hay is expected. bas the promise of a big prop, which puts 4 emile on the our farmer. It makes the n feel good also. h, nominee for Recorder, Embree, nominee for clr- t, were in Butler Saturday d us pleasantly. M. Mills and daughter, ne over from Foster Best India Linons at Mckibbens. Mies Kate Blair, daughter of Mrs. C. W. Allison, of St. Louis, fs visit- ing her many young friends in But- ler. The new State Normal, at Spring- field, Mo., opened up on June 11th, The first week the enrollment reach- ed 528 students. C.G. Weeks, Democratic nominee forcounty clerk, was mixing with the boys at the connty seat on Satur. day and favored us with a call. Mens Ralston and Fellow Craft fine shoes, $3.50 and $4.00 at Mc- Kibbens. © Mrs. Pierpoint, who has been visit- ing her parents, Hon. and Mrs. T. W. Silvers, left for her home in Aurora, Mo., the last of the week. co hase been raised to $6,500 a year, and under the new order four hun- dred applications for saloon licenses have been filed. Mieees Birdie Vantrees and Ada week from Neosho, Mo., where they had been as delegates to the Epworth League convention. M. V. Carroll, editor of the Rural- ist at Sedalia, was in Butler Satar- day shaking hands with his old ody He went out to visit his parents in the east part of the coun- ty. on the new hotel, and ina few more daye the building will be turned over to the carpenters. Mre. Jesee Jasper visited thefan way home in Crotty, Kan., from Ill tend the funeral of her father. — The Enterprise eays that the q antine has been raised on all smallpox casge in and abdut An dam, end, a8 @ consequence, 80 poe Wha are. The saloon license at San Francis- Morgan returned the last of the The brick masons are putting the}! finishing touches to the brick work of B. F. Richards. She wae on her i nois, where she had been called toat-| @ Roy Kious severed his connection! with the Sam Levy Mercantile onl and left the last of the week to accept rear teeerig A a dry goods firm at Bartlesville, Ind. Territory. The small pox scare which hus put a damper on business in Amsterdam for the past few weeks is now at an end, the quarantine having been = on all cases, says the Enter- Rev. H. James Crockett and wife returned the last of the week from Hannibal, where they attended the annual state convention of the Chris- tian Church. More than 1,200 dele- gates were present. Bates Vaughn, a prominent buel- ness man of Lexington, Mo., who has been epending several days in the city visiting his brother, J. M. Vaughan and family, returned to his home.Monday. Miss May Watkins, daughter of | Rev. Watkins, of Appleton City, came over the last of the week to vialt, among friends for a few days. Watkins was former pastor of the Presbyterian church here. For the next two months, July and August, the Churches of this city will join in union services at the night meetings. The first of these union meetings will be beld in the Ohio Street M. E. Church Sunday night. Elder Crockett, of the Chris- tian Church will preach Mr. and Mre. J. R Morrison went to Kansas City Saturday night to visit Mr. and Mrs, Geo. M. Canter bury. They attended the wedding of Walton Steele and Miss Beasie Strodt- man, at the Strodtman home, five miles northeast of Independence, on Monday evening. Over at Garden Plain, Kansas, the farmers being unable to get help to save thelr wheatcrop, the merchants of the town closed their doors and went to their assistance. Not a store inthe town was opened for three days, the merchants being in the harvest fields. A barn on the farm of Abe Tourtt lott, a couple of miles northwest of Rich Hill, was strock by lightning Friday night during the storm and burned to the ground together with its contents. There was no loss of live stock as the horses had been turned on pasture in the evening. The Carthage City council and the council of Joplin have awarded fran- chises for proposed new electric line from Independence and Chanute, Kansas, to Carthage, Mo., and R. C Rawlings, head of the new concern has deposited $2,000 to be forfeited in case the Iine is notin operation within 18 months. The line will be 125 miles long. Geo. Pollock, janitor at the court house, {s keeping the court house lawn in fineshape. Monday he was up- rooting the scattering plantain and “lother weeds. A fine set of blue grass is taking the yard and In a few more years a pretty park will meet the eyes of every one. For a pretty yard there is nothing better thana good janitor and a lawn mower. Rev. | Oates cutting is the next thing on! Mre. C. A. Emerson entertained | Sake the storm which er at tap with the farmer and then comes | Mrs. Robt. Deacon, Mrs. T. J. Day | hay harvest. Judge Graves came in from Jeffer- | and Mrs.J. W. Morris ata house | party last. week. The ladies return- son City Saturday evening and spent | jed home Saturday. Sunday with his family. Zack Patterson, private stenog- raphef and clerk for supreme Judge Graves, came home from Jefferson City Saturday night to spend a few days. The wind storm last Friday did some damage to the apple crop by blowing the fruit offthe trees. In Dr. Boulware’s orchard in Lone Oak township a good many bushels were threshed off the trees by the high wind. Mra. C. D. Garrison wasin Butler | Thursday and Friday on business connected with the settlement of her late husband's estate. He left a fine farm of 240 acres near Worland, and we understand he left a will giving all his property to the widow. Their only child died about ten years-ago Louis Defienbaugh will accept the thanks of Tur Times force for amess of delicious raspberries of his own raising. Those with which he favor- ed us were of two varieties, Cardinal and Brandywine, were large, plump and of a delicious flavor. Louis is making @ decided success in grow- ing small fruits. Lucien Baskerville left the last of the week for Raton, New Mexico, where he will spend the summer. Mr. Baskerville is a learned young law- yer, & graduate of the Law Dept. State University, and he may find a location that suits him and conclude to stay in the sonthwest where the possibilities for brainy young men are boundless. The agent at the depot on Mon- day morning was attracted toa, refrigerator car by the kicking on the door from the inelde. When opened upa tramp was discovered who claimed to have been locked up for three days without food or drink. He said he was locked in at Sedalia and had been unable to attract at- tention. He was given a aquare meal and started on hia way. The Kansas City papers have re- cently been very flattering in thelr notices of Police Judge Ai .rry Kyle, who was formerly a farmer boy of Bates county, who has an original way of summing up. case and be- stowing even and exact justice. Last week Henry Thurman, an old neigh- bor of the Judge’s was brought be- fore his court charged with being in a gang that attacked a laborer. Af- ter hearing the evidence the Judge sald: “Thisisa case where everybody works but father. Well, you say your folks live in Bates county near Hume. I’m going to fine you $100 and give you until six o'clock to- night to get out of town. They need men down there to work on thefarm. Don’t let the sun go down on you here.” ( 5 5 S S BPs s i Hore" 5 Eggs taken 5 same as cash. _ Remember FRIDAY is REMNANT DAY. at our store. 8. H. Ray. manager of the Farmers Lumber Company at Adrian, was in Butler Wednesday on business and favored us. Mr. Ray’s family are now visiting relatives and friends. back at théir old home in Illinois. Charley Beard ran for sheriff in 1900 on the populist ticket. The Republican nominee was George Me- Laughlin. Probably Beard couldn't be charged with contributing to Me- Laughlin’s defeat, as Joe Smith had 4 majority over both, but certainly he didn’t help the Republican nomi- nee by running against him. Beard and Smith 3,330 Miss Josephine Hyatt will give a piano recital, assisted by Miss Irene Shafer and Chas. Fixk, under the auspices of the Baptist church choir on Monday evening, July 2nd. Miss Hyatt is a recent graduate of the Warrensburg Conservatory of Music and is a talented young musician. The public will be given an excellent musical treat. Admission 10 cents, Postoftice Inspector Martin passed through Butler bound for Pleasant Gap to Investigate the reported breaking into the postoffice in that village by Brown and Vogt last Sat- urday night. That hilarious drunk may prove very costly to those two parties before they are through with it, as they will have to answer to both the State and United States authorities. The day of the “bad man” is passed in the west and when hoodlums attempt to emulate him they are sure to come to grief, E. N. Jones, an old citizen of Bats ship, was in Tuesday and favored ue, making the 25th year he has puid for Tot Times Mr. Jones was with Pap. Price during the first of the un- pleasantness between the states and then was with Pembleton at thesiege of Vicksburg {n General F. M. Cock rell’s division. He attended the un- veiling of the confederate monument at Higginsville on the 3rd of June, and met a number of his old com- rades-in-arms. The monument, which cost $5,000, 18 located cluse to the Ex-Confederate Home, Recorder T. K. Lisle returned Sun- day evening from his visit to his old home at Richmond, Ky. He said he metand enjoyed visits with hundreds of his old friends, and the old family darkies fairly dissected him and pass- ed the pieces around,—that is, from $1 to $2 per head. He met George Phelps and Claud Walton and their families, who asked all about their Butler and Bates county friends, He! ‘enjoyed every minute of his stay. | Hesald one thing that impressed him | the rivers and creeks smaller. got 482 votes, McLaughlin 2.813) county, now living in Elkhart towr-' was the hills had grown bigger and | j Adrian and vicinity Sunday morning the house of J. J. Eply, 5 miles west | ofthe town, was etruck by lightning and burned to the ground. The loss is estimated at $1,560. The rest- dence of P. J. Smith was also struck by lightning, but the damage was slight. Two and one balt inches of water fell in four hours. Conelder- able bail fell damaging the crepe. IF YOU ARE IN NEED OF A SUIT we kindly ask ‘you to call and see the Large Stock of MENS, BOYS and WOMEN We are showing and the Extreme Low Prices we are making on Relia- ble Clothing. JOG MEYER, | THE CLOTHIER. SATURDAY, JUNE 30, gumnccocoemmecemmmmmncecumisecannscGmn2+SammEEa2s Special Offerings —— FOR — 1 lot 35c White Goods for 1 lot 7%c Unbleached Muslin 1 lot 35c Half Bleached Table Linen 1 lot 25c Red Table Linen 1 lot 30c Black Lawn 1 lot 20c Black Lawn New Stock Collars, New Belts, New Turn-over, New Fans, Japanese, Folding, Feather. Fans 5c up, New Topsy Hose, New Topy Sock, plain or fancy 10c up. ALL DAY 22kc 6c 24c 19c 20c 14c Ladies: Home Journal Patterns for July 10¢ and 15c. Highest price guaranteed. McXibbens.