The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, September 6, 1906, Page 6

‘ ieee snebetrmes a DRESS GOODS A happy purchase enables us to offer you a lot of 50c Dress Goods in Light, and Dark Mixtures as long as they last for 25c Yard Come and see them. You will be more than pleased with the values. EGGS TAKEN SAME AS CASH. WALKER-McKIBBEN MERC. GO. FORMERLY McKIBBENS. Mrs. Ira Fowler came {n the last of the week from LaHarpe, Kansas, to visit with friends. In his speech in New York, Bryan makes truste the paramount issue in the next campaign. \ Judge Graves was the recipient of a fine saddle horse last week, present= ed by his father, A. L. Graves of Cass county. FOR SALE. Traction engine, 12 horse power, good repalr. See E. A. BENNETT, 42-1m" Butler, Mo. W. W. Wilson, formerly of this county, writes to have THe Tings sent to his address at Colby, Kan- sas. In the ball game at the Park Sun- day between the home team and Sedalia Mo. Pacifiés, the vialting team was victorious by score of 14 to 11, 7 Herman Guyant, who fs tatloring at Iola, Kan., came in the first of the week to visit home folks and hie many triends here. Mrs. Joe Meyer, Mra. J. M.Christy, Mrs. Alice Allen and H.C. Wyatt re- turned the last of the week from their trip to the summer resorts about Minneapolis and 8. Paul. They re- port a very pleasant tims. Rev. Dr. A. B. Appleby, of Sedalia, presiding elder of the M. E. Church, South, the Sadalia Democrat reports, has accepted a call to the pastorate ofa congregational church at New- ton, lowa. He says “1t does not {n- volve any great change of creed; that he is still orthodox, and can speak his religious sentiment in his new charge just the same as in the old one.” A merchant inetructed hie clerks to strictly follow the precepts of the Bible in all thelr dealings. One day he noticed o clerk trading with a fussy customer, who wanted some- thing better, show her the same goods « second time, with the price raised fifty centaa yard. Thewoman said she could readily see it was a better plece and made a purchase. When ehe had gone, the merchant demanded of the clerk his Bible au- thority to justify his conduct. “Well,” replied the clerk, “she was & stranger and I took her in.” —Ex. Hon. John Doerwester attended the lowa State Fair at Des Moines last week. Mr. Deerwester, as mem- ber of the State Board of Agriculture, is a director of the Mo. State Fair, and went to get poloters in the inter- est ofhisstateinstitation. TheState Fair at Des Moines has been running for more than a half century. County Clerk Herrell has secured the services of J. A. Rogers, sun of J. H. Rogers, of Homer township, as deputy in the clerk’s office. Mr. Rogers has had considerable experi- ence with the county records, having been in the office with County Treas- urer Bell for the past two years. He {sa capable young gentleman and comes of good old pioneer Democrat- fc stock, his grandfather having en- tered the land at the foot of Spy mound long before the war, and where his father now lives. Jas. R. Angle, Democratic candi- date for sheriff of Bates county, leda delegation of about two dozen But- lerites into the city. Mr. Angle fs looking hale and hearty and growing more popular each day as the people become better acquainted with him. He fs 6 strictly sober, capable bust- ness man, an affable and obliging gentleman, and has had lote ofexpe- rience in the duties of the office to which he aspires. He will be elected bya good majority and will makean excellent sheriff—Review. Rev. Thomas F. Miller, a preacher Cainsville, Mo., announced to hiscon- gregation ata recentSunday morning that a coliectiou for foreign missions was about to be taken up, but that he wanted no member to give a cent, unless he has already paid his baker, butcher, grocer and printer. “Pay your local debts first,” he sald, “and then pay the debt you owe to the heathen.” Report has it that the missionary collection was small, but the respect of the congregation for the preacher was large. lence of the material, Our Shoos Attract: Attention. On account of their fine fit and the excel- We have been in the shoe business here since 1896, and have held the public’s confidence during this period. This has been accomplished by untiring ef- forte to keep the best shoes, most reasonable prices and: give patrons complete satisfaction. Call and see our fall styles. } George McCurdy came down from Warrensburg the last of the week to visit his sister, Mre. Geo, W. Ellis. Deputy Recorder Harris Lisle went to Kansas City Monday to spénd a few days with relatives and friends, Mrs. W. F. Homatreet left on M on- day for Omega, Okla., to see her sister, Mrs. H Carter, who has been critically ill tur several weeks. A seat on the stock exchange sold in New York the other day for $93,- 000. ‘Only once before in the history of the change has this price been reached, W. E. Talbott and family, of Adrian, have moved to Butler to make thiscity their future home. They are good citizens and Ture Times extends to them a hearty welcome. Dennis Thralls has on exhibition at the Bates National Banka etalk of corn measuring abopt 12 feet in height bearing ten nearly developed shoote, Mr. Thrall says this is only an average stalk. County Superintendent of Schools Ives informs ue that he will start next Monday on hie visits to the dif- ferent echools of the county and will be at his office in the court house on Saturdays of each week. Will Smith and wife, who have been spending a week here visiting frlends and relatives, left for Rich Hill to spend a week with hie par- ents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Smith on the farm, before returning to their home at Coffeyville, Kunsas, where he holds an {mportant rallroad po- s tion. Dr. Van Noys, of Osawatomte, Kansas, arrived in the city the first of the week on a visit to his daugh- ter, Mra. Elmer B. Silvera. Miss Jessie Lane, who had been visiting the family of J. R. Douglass, returned to her home {n Ponca City, Okla., the last of tha week. The Democrat secured the contract for printing the Fair catalogues this year, being the lowest bidder. Tur Times printed them last year. We publish in another column the apportionment of the etate, county and township echool monies for the year 1906, as made by county clerk John F, Herrell. The amount for each district is clearly set out, and of interest to all. Dr. Stanley D. Jewell and Mrs. 8. W. Davis, of Butler, and Miss Mabel Balley, of Foster, returned home the last of the week from the State Sun- day School convention at Sedalia. — report a very successful conven- on, In public enterprises, of a non- partisan nature, which all the pa- pers are expected to, and do adver- tise, free of cost, the printing should be equitably divided, and not given to one office because of personal favoritism or kinship connection. We are in receipt of the Catalogue of the Adrian Street Fair, which will be held in that town on September G. H. McElroy, who has been visit- 12th, 13th aad 14th. The premiums ing here for several weeks, left Tues-| offered are liberal and should attract day for Bovina, Texas, near which good entries. The prospects for a Place he purchased @ farm. He is a| auccesstul fair fs very flattering and practical printer, of much experience | the management is making an effort {a city job offices, and figures on es-| to excell that of last year, if possible. tablishing a newspaper at Bovina, if it becomes the county seat this fall, Ric dbigrcny fd a Poth which now appears almost certain. tere this week: crs sing: 92:8 He was recently at Amarillo, to see Oak: Bud Tilson pa ed re” his uncle, John H.. McElroy, whom Clark, New Home: P ih aemage mF he reports as doing well Clark Wix, Butler; C WSmleer, Shaw. nee; Fred Wolfe, Pleasant Gap; G W Smith, Pleasant Gap; Y C Combs, Mt Pleasant; T H Smiser, Summit; DC ~i3 eon Kan; L A Rayboro, ‘¢ Hill; O 8 Kersey, ; wasformerly marshal of, Rich Hill,| W F Stilwell, Homer; Ned Da ated) and at one time. made .a creditable| Homer; Mike Curry, Butler; B Milli. race for Democratic nomination for| gan, Mt Pleasant; J F Miller, Lone George E. Logan, of Nevada, mem- ber of the Logan-Moore Lumber Co., wasio Butler Tuesday on business connected with his firm and also be- fore the Probate court. Mr.-Logan his goud judgment in retiring from | Denton, Botler; H Hopkins, Deepwa- prospered to an ‘unusual extent in a} Walnut; L L Wix, Doe L Kersey, Mt Pleasant; Zach | tified " at the large number of new eubscri- | Patterson, Mt Pleasant; C A Dalton, ers received each week. We estab-| West Boone; TD Embree, James Boyles, Ms Pi "les, Lone ) Stock Peisoned by Eating Weeds » sherif. He now felicitates himeelfon| Oak; RJ Thomas, Summit; Wesley |’ politics and ramor has {t, that hehaa} ter;8 A McJaniel, Adrian; J J Lovell, We Are Showing The Latest Styles in Fall Suits and Overcoats, For Mens, Boys and Childrens Wear. It will pay you to visit our store and see how low we are selling RELIABLE CLOTHES. VDE MEYER, wt Last Friday R. C. Moore, assistant} Last Sunday evening lightning state veterinary surgeon, connected struck and burned the large hay with the Kansas City Veterinary Col- | barn on Ted Kendall’s place,near the lege, came to Butler and in company | poor farm, being farmed by George with Dr, McAnineh, local veterina-| Kelrsey. All the hay consisting of elan, went out to Nyhart to hold a/ many tons, 150 busbels of oats, 40 post-mortem on some dead cattle, to } bushels ofseed wheat, some corn aad discover the malady which had been | farming utensils were destroyed. Mr. 80 fatal in that locality. The post- | Ketraey succeeded in saving some har- mortem, held on a carcas on the | negs, farming utenails and vehicles. farm of Jno. L. Stanley, revealed the | He carried no insurance on his par- cause of death to have been thebella- | sonalproperty. Mr. Kendall carrind donna weed, which grows in that lo- | $250 ingurance on the barn. \ cality and which the stock has been| Charles Jenkins, living in Mound eatlog. township, lost stack of hay by light- ning the same evening. County Court. Jas. Bratton, living near theceme- The court met Monday as a Board tery was badly shocked, while milk- of Equalization on merchants as- | !98- sessments. C. E. Robbins informs us that the Tuesday the following court pro- | ighthing Sunday evening strack the ceedings were had: chimney on the house of Art. Cramer, Dram shop license granted to killed a dog that was lying in the Mabbots & Seese, at Butler and A, |T°O™, knocked down two little girls C. Taft, at Rich Hill, and shocked Mr. Cramer. Mrs. C.H. School loans granted as follows: ; Hutchins wae walking along the A. J. Hoover $1,000; R. F. Summers, | Streets and was eo badly shocked $175; B. F. Jeter, $1,800; H. C. that she could not speak for several Morris, $350. hours afterwards. Mr. Robbins said | Road commisstoners were appoint- {t was one of the severest electric ed as follows: Pleasant Gap: P. M. storme that had visited that section Allison, I. F, Ellington, and R, N. | [oF ® long time. Montgomery. Mingo: Robt. Baker, 7 Burt Thurman and G. W. Miller, | Bates County Girl Killed. A Wichita, Kans., special saye Bridge commissioner ordered to make estimate and specifications for abutments for steel bridge between Dora Bright, of Foster, Mo , died in secs. 14 and 23 in Eset Boone town- | *28* city yesterday asa result of ship. He was aleo ordered to have | ng shot in the head. erected abutments for steel bridge Roy Sing Stevens, a photograph- over Little Deer Creek, in Mound | ° of Schell City, fs in jail charged township, between section 8 and 4, with the murder of the girl. and toconcrete arched culvert in A note found, claimed to have Deer Creek township between section been written by the girl, indicates 21 and 85. that both were to die together. Warrants were drawn in payment Although the girl lived fully an of current accounts allowed. hour after being shot she was un- —_ able to make a statement, Prof. Ben E. Parker, president of | Stevens appears to have tempo- the Warrensburg Business College, | rartly lo«t his mind. was in Butler on Friday on business __ connected with his school. Prof. Parker has made a decided success FOR SALE in the conduct of his Business Col-} 4 No.1cowand calf. For parti’ f lege, which has become noted |Ularsse— \ throughout the west. ‘ 41-t Deacon Bros & Co. ' ie 2-2 = ~ } oe 2 ee ee ee ee Jap A Lac. There is no better finish for floors or furniture than JAP A LAC it gives a bright beautiful hard We have used it on our own g successfully We carry it in all colors. , Price trom 1c to $2.50 per'can. OPE LLL LLB ELV OL LOB