The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, July 12, 1906, Page 6

You will be Surprised no Doubt When we tell you our fall stock of Carpets and Rugs are in the House and on sate and ready for your inspection. In Room Ruge we have twelve different kinds from $2.50 to $35 00 in price. We are showing an excellent quall- ty in 9x12 $12 50, a 9x12 suitable for bed rooms at $4.75. We are showing thirty patterns in Ingrain Carpets 25c to 75c per yard. In {Carpets we show Bruseels, Velvets, and Axwialeters, at from 60c toa $1.25 per yard. Linolenms iu 6, 7% and 12 foot Big reduction on Mattings, See our line of Lace Curtains, Portiers and Couch Covers. We are proud of our showlpg and want you to see them, AH. Culver Forniture Go, 444 Headquarters for Good Furniture. Mr. and Mrs, W. 0. Jackson spent Woodmen Picnic. the day In Kansas City Tuesday. Amsterdam Camp No. 4910 Mod- ern Woodmen of America will hold their third annual plenic Thursday, August2,1906, Hon. Jno. Sullivan, of Kansas City, will be orator of the day, assiated by several local speak- Everybody Invited to attend. Mrs. Susan Thrall returned from a visit to relatives at Joplin the first Major and Mrs. Crowell will leave next week fora pleasure and pros- pecting trip through Oklahoma and the Panhandle of Texas. Judge Cole had his hand badly cut on glass Sunday night, ed to lower,a window In the dining room, when his hand slipped and broke the window pane. Mrs. Sam West entertained at alawn dinner in honor of her guest, Mrs. Muir, of Peoria, Ills., on the even- {ng of the 4th. A delicious dinner was served and a good time had by The ball game between the Butler and Rich Hill teams on the 4th re- sulted 4 to 3 in favor of Rich Hill. Missour! Democratic State committee {s to join in welcoming Mr. Bryan from his trip around the Abe Hess and Mrs. Felix Oppen- heimer, of Pleasant Hill, spent Sun- day in Butler, the guests of Judge and Mrs. Sam Levy. Agent Gieger sold 373 round trip tickets from Butler to Rich Hill on the Fourth. Many pald their fareto the conductor and a number of our citizens drove through. It is a safe estimate that 500 Butler people as- sisted Rich Hill to celebrate. On Sunday last Y. C. ceived a telegram from his wife at , Ky., announcing the death of her father. Big drill going down for gas in Edwards’ pasture has penetrated the earth over 400 feet and is still going down. Asmall flow of gas wasstruck Wantep:—Gentleman or lady with good reference, to travel by rail or with a rig, for a firm of $250,000.00 . Salary $1,072.00 per year andexpenses; salary paid weekly and expenses advanced. Address, with Jos. A. Alexander, Asa Morgan went down to Spring- field last week and spent several days visiting his son, Ben, who is working {in a job printing office in Captain F. J. Tygard had another severe sinking spell Monday after- noon, which lasted several hours: TheCaptatn has been subject to these attacks for several years. A hose cart house has been erected {n the rear of the Catholic church. This is for the protection of property in that section of the city. The council granted an order for such disposition ofa hose cart when a house was erected for it. Crowell raised the money by private Gus Keinberger, bookkeeper at the Farmers’ Bank, is off on a two weeks’ vacation. He went home folks near Papinville. pects to go to Denver next week to attend the meeting of the ElkeGrand Mrs. Gwin Vanmeter received & severe fall the other day and suffered greatly. She has been an invalid for some time, confined to her bed When left alone for a short time, she arose and attempted to walk across the room for some object she want- ed. She was weaker than she knew. Her husband was attracted by her scream, helped her back to bed and summoned medical assistance. Parties who contemplate going to Denver to attend the meeting of Elke Grand Lodge should apply early to our local agent, J. F. Geiger, for reservations on the through sleeper, which will be put on at Nevada, and pase Butler at 1:40 on nex( Saturday, July 14th. Mise Mabel Newbill resigned her position with the local telephone exchange here and went to Spring- field, Mo., to accept a similar post- tion s$ that place Hart has been employed by Mr. Reivheimer to take the place vacated by Miss Newbill. H.G. Cook and wife will leave for Denver, Colorado, next Saturday. Mr. Cook goes as a representative of Butler Lodge 958 B. P. 0. Elks, to the Grand Lodge meeting. George i i y | William Hoster, second baseman for the Butler Ball team, fell and} Summit township, favored us pleas- vine his leg, while playing ball at} antly and had Tue Times sent to his ich Hillon July 4th The fracture} eon, Fred, who {a in the'U. 8. Na {ejustabove the ankle jolat. Hoster|on Battleship Rhode Island. Fro tellow workmen to cut off bie lag and had made the run from third base] first went to Kansas City, where he and tripped on the home plate. He} secured a job and wrote to hie father was taken to a doctor’s office and|in apparent contentment. He stiy- had the fracture reduced, and was}ed there about a year, when Mr. mo he. brought home on the train on the| Jewett was surprised to receive a let-| L. L, Judy, of Charlotte ie a morning of the 5th. The break was] ter fromhim at.e Government Naval @ bad one and will lay him up for] training echool in theeast. He wasjerise very busy man, witha 1 The brick masons working on the big hotel will fiaish their part of the work on the building by the last of the week. Mrs. J. E. Arnold and daughter, Miss Agnes are visiting relatives and friends in Odessa and Independence, Missouri. Miss Anna Lyle, of Wahoo, Nebr., is hereon a visit to the families of her uncles, Dr. E. A. Lyle, of Butler, and M.R. Lyle of Lone Oak sown- ship. W. B. Tyler has justcompleted the erection of a fine barn on his farm @ short distance east of town, and we understand it is his intention to shortly begin the erection ofa fine dwelling house. THURSDAY JULY 12th WE START OUR SEMI- ANNUAL * CLEANING UP SALE. Mens, Boys and Childrens Light Weight — Suits and Odd Pants will be sold regardless - | OF PROFIT. Mens $12.00 Outing Suits $7.50 Mens $10.00 Outing Suits $6.50 Mens $ 5.00 Outing Suits $3.00 Joe Meyer, CLOTHIER, The Merwin Clipper raports the death of Uncle Geo. Roster, a resident of that community since 1865. He was 80 years of age. His death was caused from @ complication of dis- eases. He leaves four daughters and three sons. Monday the county court of Vern- on county held a meeting at Nevada to consider bids for building the new court house for that county. Three bide were filed and all were rejected. The people voted $75,000 to erect the building and the lowest bid made was $85,847. The employes of the Herald office at Nevada, Mo., went out on astrike Monday. The hands took a holiday} A Bates county editor says that E 8. A. Scholes, of Foster, and Mié on the Fourth, and Saturday even- | the Democratic voters of that coun- ANOTHER GAS FRANCHISE. Pearl E. Clark, of Nyhart, were mai ing the amount of the day’s work| *Y can bedriven to the polling places sie ried by Justice of the Peace W. ; : and bought like sheep and hogs. was deducted. The hands objected) But who ever heard of driving sheep | This Time it Looks Like Prae- | Woods, in New Home township, o to being docked for a holiday lay off and hogeto the polling places.— Sunday last. aud quit. Kansas City Star. tical Results Will Follow. Through Sleeper to Denver.—A W. C, Hedden, president of the Old Grantees Now Drilling count of meeting of Grand Lodge Settlers Association of Bates county, Elks at Denver, a 12-section drawit while in the clty last week informed For Gas, room sleeper will be handled, o us that he would {ssue @ call shortly train No. 204 from Nevada thro for a meeting of the executive com- to Denver passing Butler at 1:40 mittee to decide on the date for the annual picnic. He thought it would tin, It providesamong other things Sold teGret eresens eek te that the price of domestic gas {s not to exceed 25 cents per 1000 cubic Rev. W. C. Heiskill, at Sheldon,| T## T!=8 regrets very much to | fect; churches, schools and hotels 15 Mo., {n celebrating the 4th of July, | !®8"2 that H. E. Clayton will move | cents; tor manufacturing purposes 6 made himself a cannon out of a piece} 8 machine shop to Kansas City. | conte; for use at electric light plant ofgaspipe. Loading {t with powder, | He expects to get away the last of| 5 cents; gas to be furnished free for the cannon was eet off prematurely, this week. Mr. Clayton is a splendid | lighting and heating elty buildings and, of course, the preacher was bad-| ™echanic and{t 1s too bad he 8! when used for city purposes. The ly hurt about the hands and tace, A|!0rced to leave thie place on account | city’s interests are safeguarded. The plece of the gas pipe wae picked up of not getting sufficient work to jus-| grantees agree to drill two holes, of the next day in a lumber yard a hun- tity him in staying. 1000 feet, one in the city limite, and dred yards away. * notice the Republican papers | if gas sufficient is not secured to drill Cuting Suit A dispatch from Osceola to the Kansas City Journal, dated July 4th, says: “Charley Summers, aged 18) of Morgan Valley, who has been acting queerly for a month past, was forbidden by his parents to leave home. He went to the house procured a shotgun and blew his head off.” September. At a special meeting of the city council Monday night a gas tran- chise was granted to Becker & Mar- | ™: duly 14th. Parties desiring ervationsin this sleeper will pleas notify me. J. k. Geiger, Agt. hat You Buy, We Stand By, A Heauns Powoen, For animals is Dandy Healing - Powder. It heals all open sores and renders them anti- septic. Try it for wire cute, sure necks snd backs, scratehes™ and all sores. This powder is Nr. Me Aninch’s Favorite Healing prescription and will give re- sults that are most satistac- tory. PRICE 25c PER BOX. CLAY’S Prescription Drug Store. of Mates county are copying quite| another within 5 miles of Butler. coptously political articles from an | Gas sufficient to supply all the needs erstivhile Democratic sheet, whose | Of the city to be shown to the satis- boasted loyalty to that party under | faction of the Mayor and council be- all conditions heretofore won many | fore the franchise becomes operative. crumbs from Democratic officers. It| The grantees are now running a is apparent to all that if the editor drill day and night, in the Edwards of that paper had been euccessful in| pasture, northwest of the city and his efforts to get his mame on the}are down 500 feet. They report Democratic ticket, {ts eolumns now | splendid prospects for gas. The drill would be singing a different song. has passed through one or two veins A heavy wind and rain storm pass- ot coal. Pe EY PRI eda few miles northeast of Butler] Mrs. Lydia Morton, of Modale, Saturday afternoon. The wind blew | Iowa, sends us remittance for renew- a perfect hurricane for a few minutes. | al to 1907. Andrew Cummings, a young man, wasloading wheat on a wagon, when the wind struck, turning the wagon over, and young Cummings sustain- eda fraeture of a bone in his leg. Dr. Christy was called and dressed his wounds. Besides the heavy rain considerable hail fell, but little dam- age is reported. The path of the storm was not very wide. Engineer Hamrick, who wasinjared at Panama, just below Rich Hill, was given judgment in Judge Park’s court, Kansas City, Saturday against the Mo. Pacific ratlroad for $34,999. He sued for $35,000. Hamrick was en engineer on the Missouri Pacific. June 15,1905, in making his firet when he ‘‘aleo ran for Congress.” It/trip over that part of the road, he is all he will get. out of the race. —_. | ran his engine, in response to a sign- al, upon a aide-track and off a derail- PJ. Jewett, © wpetsental tattner cls Talk’ bie agi Sadid- weer and he was pinned under it, and lay thereforfour hours. He begged his A. J. Smith, a popular and success- ful attorney of Adrian, was a pleas- antcaller while in the city on Friday. Al. Smith {sa Bates county boy, tu the manor born. He has spent his whole life among our people and has made @ success in his profession as well as financially. He is of a genial disposition and {is very popular. Come and see us, Al., the latch string always hangs on the outside. The Review is not at all pleased with management of the big celebra- tion at Rich Hill on the 4th, and comes out and says so in pretty plain words. The people of Butler who attended the celebration, with almost one accord, agree with the Review that there was something radically wrong with the program of the affair, as they were disappointed in the entertainment. The Republican-Press publishes several columns of comments made by the Republican papers of this sec tion respecting the nomination of W. 0, Atkeson for Congress. At. should cut these out and paste them in his scrap book and all other nice things said about him during the campaign, 80 he will have something tangible to refer back to as the time ee i ee ee de i ee We are’ still here if we have’nt had time to change our advertisement for three weeks. IT IS HERE——— EMPRESS AND CREAM LOAF FLOUR. Also just received a car of s::'t. Call and we will ¢ave you money on : very barrel. : WANTED one man if he lives in Bates county to sight Us to a time in the history of Bates county that he could buy 19 pounds of sugar at any time for 6 months. Now ask your grocery, if you trade some other place, he knows sugar has advanced but we have given the people the advantage. . 12 We have got bargains all the time. released him. He was.severely ecald- ed. His leg was: amputated twice, once cloee to the knee and again near pleasant caller on Saturday. Luth- Inter transferred to the Rhode laland. merket at Amoret, for which bps hentonectto dea ha Mads C. Gilkereon goes as 8 representative |. itty Republicans, Members of cattle that area p of the Warrensburg lodge, of which he is a member. 6 W. Best telle