The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, December 27, 1906, Page 3

VOL. XXIX. We are he Before selecting is in our Fine Dress “of shoes made from NICHOLS SHOES ARE BETTER. Poultry Show For Hume. Hume will have a poultry show during the latter part of January. Date to be announced later. An enthusiastic meeting of the chicken “fanciers was held at the Telephone Office, Monday, and the Border Poul- ry Show Agsoclation was organized: he following officers were chosen: / Lewis W. Moore, President; Ira B. Campbell, Vice-Pres; J. Gasaway, : y; Mrs. D.G. Finch, Treas. see directors were aleo elected: J. J. Mossinger, A. M. Bogan, J. M. illen, F. A. (layton, Mrs. 8. H.Gam- le. It was unanimously voted tv the membership fee at fifty a card for 1907, which entitle the holder to all the priv- > of the Association.—Hume phone. as Bait For Car Mens Votes. on, Ky., Dec. 24.—John one of the candidates for the tic nomination for Mayor, given gn oyster dinner to S 0 of the street railway mpany in the interest of his can- . About 100 of the street car ded, including Louis Des- 6 of the company, Skain’s FOR Useful Christmas Presents, think of the pleasure and comfort there ‘of slippers. We have a large assortment on all tae latest ap-to-date lasts. ° Who would’t appreciate a pair of our house slippers for a Christmas present? Call and see our goods before buying. HIRAM NICHOLS, The Shoe Man. The Butler Weekly Times. BUTLER, MISSOURI, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1906. WE THANK YOU all for your support in making a splendid business for us this year ‘and wish you A HAPPY AND A PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR. Walker-McKibben Merc. Co. adquarters gifts for Christmas Shoes or a nice pair all sorts of leather Romeo and Juliet. Of all the plays in our languagr, Romeo and Juliet is the most fam- ous. It contains such a marvelous wealth of ideas and dramatic situa- tions thas & dozen ordinary plays could be made of it. It abounds In comedy, pathos, philosophy and tragedy. “Init are set all scenes that lie between the morn of ‘augther and the night of tears.” It is justly conceded to be the most popular play the world has ever known. Mr. Sanford Dodge and Miss Louise Marshall, with a talent company of players and a full equipment of beau- tiful costumes, special scenery and all properties and accessories will present this great drama at the Butler Opera House, Monday, Dec. 31st. Count Boni is in Luck. Paris, Dec. 24.—The Castellane verdict has squelched fourteen mon- ey-lenders and the Paris aristocracy is in glee. The aristocracy has been & prey to usurers for years. . Thecourt’s intervention to prever t Countess Anna from being fleeced established a valuable precedent for other ariseocratic victims of usury. The count’s financial position also is improved by the verdict, for it re- Meves him of money-lenders’ claims francs. - a And This From Rockefeller. amounting to more thana million JACKSON COUNTY THE WICKEDIST? City of St. Louis Alone Leads in the Number of Con- victs in Prison. TOTAL NUMBER Kanaae City World, Is Jackson county the wickedest {n the state? Figures show that it it IS 2,058. 8. In the forthcoming report of the state board of charities and correc- tions, 1¢ will be found that Jackson county has more than twice as many prisoners in the penitentiary at Jet- ferson City an any county. Jackson lacks only five of having 300 con- victs booked, while the nearest rival in wickedness is Buchanan county with 112, But as bad as figures may show Jackson county to be, the city of St. Louis by the longest odds wins tn the criminology race. From the city on the Mississippi, where Governor Folk first tooted the boodle horn and made asmall sized colony dance to his music, 531 have been sent to the penitentiary. This beats Jack- son county by 236. As to counties, strictly speaking, Jackson and Buchanan are the only ones to go over the 100 mark, and five counties have the extreme plety and respectability to be represented by only one man each at the court on the hill. Jaspercounty, of which Joplin isthe county seat, is the third in the list with 74, and Greene, with Springfield as the county seat comes next with 68. From this the num- bers dwindle. The counties with only one convict each are Crawford, Hickory, Moniteau, St. Clair, Ste. Genevive, Shelby and Worth. In all there are 2,058 brown and white striped boarders in the state penitentiary. Fifty of this number are women. Regarding sex there are 1,233 white males andJ 2 females; 775 negro males and 38 females. These figures show three times as many blacks as whites in the female division, while there are nesr- ly twice as many whites as negroes among the men. Four to Hang January 10, Jefferson City Dec. 22.—Thureday, January 10, will be ahaneman’sday {n Missouri unless Gev, Folk inter- venes to prevent some of the four executions of murderer set for that day. The executions set for Jan- 10 are those of Mrs, Aggie Myers, at Liberty; Frank Hottman, at In- dependence; Bill Spaugh, at Center- ville, and William Church at War- renton. In all the cases except Hottman’s effort 1s being made by attorneys to prevent the carrying out the death sentence. 16 is believed that there is @ probability of a commutation in the Myers and Hottman cases and létle probability of interference by the Governor in the other cases. While Gov. Folk has declined to discuss what action he may take the impression prevails that he will not permit woman to be hanged fn Missouri. Hottman and Mrs. Myers were convicted of murdering the lat- ter’s husband {n Kangas City, and it is anticipated that the man will share in any clemency which may be extended. The Supreme Court today refused @ rehearing in the Spaugh case. Spaugh killed Sheriff Polk of Iron County when the Sheriff was trying to arrest him. Church murdered his foster parents, Mr. and Mrs. Yeater, at thelr home near Warrenton, for a few hundred dollars they had in the house. Clemency has been asked in his case that he isinsane. TheGovernor has declined to consider this, holding that insanity is a queston foracourt to determine. The extra Many want come Real Estate Transfers : For Week Ending Dec. 25th. Anether Big Crop in Prospect. Jno W Hammock to Martha A From the Hartford, Conn., Times, Thomas lot 2 blk 132 ladd Rich The preliminary indications are | Hill $65. that next year, too, there will be' J W Graves to Claud Frazier tract abundant material to put into the sec 23 Mt. Pleasant $1500. nation’s bread basket. The official } Claud Frazler to J O Graves 40 8 Statisticians report that the new sec 25 Mt Pleasant $1000. acreage of winter wheat is larger by) RD Jones to Thos McComb pt lot 358,000 acres than that of last year|7 and 8 blk 7 Rich Hill $650. and thatthe present condition of| J P DeLong etal to Mary J Brad- the crop {s the same as that for last | shaw lot 1 blk 34 Rockville $250. year’s harvest at the corresponding} Kate Gilbert to WH. Home 8048 time. Of course many things may |sec 15 Summit $4400. happen between now and nextepring} J C Carlile to Melvin Sewell 80 a but the early indications of a bump-| sec 32 Cuarlotte $8400. er wheat crop {n 1907 are profound-| Audrew Ertert to R J Jones trac ly gratifying. sec 28 Mound $400. “ W H Home tr Xate Gilbert 159 a sec 37 Summit $8345. C F Pharis to John Wright pt blk 1 and 2 Bartons ad Butler $1625. B.J Groves to Andrew Erhart 120 a sec 26 Elkhart $6000. - EP Hansford to W CGreen 358 pec 21 Summit $1050. WM Hardioger to E G Wright tract sec 22 Mt Pleasant $525. Andrew Erhart to R J Groves lote 261, 262, 263, 264,265 and 266 Adrian $600, WE Farnham to Ira Woodworth 188 @ sec 8 Hudson $4,155. QUIT CLAIM DEEDS, W 8 Gifford to G W Allen 70 anc 21 Elkhart $1800. i Hangman’s First Rope Broke. Houston, Mo.—The rope with which Joda Hamilton, elayer of the Parsons family, was hanged broke. The officials were forced to string up Hamilton again. The young ™man was marvelously cool when he ascended the scaffold and assisted in singing a hymn. The Missourt banke re wanta bank- ing bureau established by the com- | spare printer's ink in effort for holl- day trade and bountifully were they rewarded. Never in the history of this city was there a greater crush of people preceeding the holidays and they were all liberal buyers.| C. Pi. Saturday the stores were so crowd: ed that it was almost impossible to get through except to go with the | Vest. crowd and while all the stores had sible to walt upon all the customers, evening before completing thelr pur- chases, perity of our farmers that a betéer | grade formerly and the cash paid {n most instances. No town need fear “mati | Sunday. order houses” so long as its mer-| Grundy Barker and wife, of Coffey- 4 chants are alive to the importance | Ville, Kanens, are visiting relatives ol advertising their goods and giv- | 1n this vielnity, x. ing the people to understand they The merchants of Butler are selling goods at reasonable profits and the best of feeling exist between them aud the people of the county who The following is the section of the law in regard to thesale of cigarettes in this state: “Section 1.—It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation in this state to eell or give, or to offer to | sell or give any cigarette or cigaretie | paperor cigarette wrappers to per- | sonaundereighteen years ofage. Any | person, firm or corporation violat. | {ng any of the provisions of this sec- tion shall be deemed guilty of a mis- demeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined in any sum not to exceed P one hundred dollars for each offence. PRESCRIPTION DRUGGIST. r Approved March 1, 1903.” 0000000008500 30000086 New York, Dec. 22.—John D Rock- efeller, in an interview bere, hasgiven a now of warning against the waiste- pires. That official already has more than he can well attend to and if he is relieved of bankoversight he could Give more time to the duties of his ) {s proposed to have NO. 9 E use this method to thank the people of Bates and adjoining counties for their very liberal patronage during the past year. Wishing alla happy and prosperous‘New Year. Very Respt. JOE MEYER, The Clothier. Ballard Notes. M. L. Embree came from his home in Oklahoma for an extended visit with his son, T. D, Exabree. Mr. Chambers moved his family onthe M. J. Crow farm the firet of last week, Vest came home from War- rensburg to spend the holidays with his parents, Mr-and Mrs, W. A. Our Holiday Trade. merchants of Butler did not A. B. Crowand Arthur Andersoa who are attending Central Business College, at Sedalia, are home for the holidays. Mrs, Maude Teeter went to Kansas City the first of the week to visit relatives and friends. Mr. and Mrs, J. A. Warford vistted relatives in Butler Saturday and clerks, is was almost impos- had to walt until !ate in the It was also a sign of pros- of goods were purchased than and appreclate thelr trace. | [qgugmmmmmemasoreremmememma 2. Little Savings Count U The emall saving on little thinge do no’ seem to Amount to much, here to trade. bus in the segregate they amount} , quity a sum, ray On uw year’s purchases, even if each purchase is not over five or ten cents. Our prices on all the minor drug store goods like Epson Salts, Sweet Tinct. Rhubard, I’aregorte, | Thee, Anise, Exe. Lemou, Sweet} | [Spte. Mere, Ext. Jamaicn Ginger, Licorice Powder, Powd. Pumice, lete.—things you are constantly . using, but In euch stall quonties that you seldon give s thought to what they cos’ you—are atcu one half what you would half t9 pay at other stores. A yeur’e trading with us will mean dollars saved. Try It. CLAYS’ Ought to be Enforced. ote Thank You. We wish to extend our thanks and appreciation to our many friends for their liberal patron- age during the past year and solicit a continuance of the same for 1907. We wish you all a happy and Prosperous New Year. q Sincerely H. CULVER FURNITURE CO, oe it A,