The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, April 18, 1907, Page 7

ob a aa ee TS EVERY MAN WANTS A SQUARE DEAL And he will get it, in this popular Clothes Shop ’ Where your child can trade. Men’s Suits - Young Men’s Suits - Boy’s Suits : $7.50 up. $7.50 up. $2.00 up. SHOES &nb bovs oe We Fit Your Head, Feet, Form and Purse. eee Morris Moore has returned from a ree weeks trip to New Mexico. The Rich Hill Review fs still chang- g the Interstate road from Butler ) that town. Ex-Senator John B, Newberry was ) from his farm in Deep Water the st of the week on business. Representative delegation to peace nference from United States toaail r The Hague about May 15. Graves & Riffis are erecting a large areroom in the rear of their laun- y building on West Dakota street. . 8. M. Gragg and R. C. Chap- re down from Merwin Saturday 4 dtayed over fa Butler until Sun- ay. John Newlin, who has been attend- g medical college in Kansas City, me home the last of the week for vation. The young men of the M. E Charch sve a reception to Rev. C. V. Criss the Ohio street church on Friday. here was a large attendance. Re sshments were served. 8. H: Wray, the gentlemanly man- yer of the Farmers Lumber Com- ny, at Adrain, was in Butler on einees the last of the week and fa- red THE Times with a call. Perfumes. The Elks will hold social meet- ing to-morrow, Friday evening. All members are expected to attend with. their ladies. Miss Gertrud Aiken, who had been vietting friends in Butler, left the last of the week for Chicago to resume her musical studies. J. V. Snodgrass and E A. Kimble, two prominent citizens of Deep Wat- er, favored us pleasantly while in the clty last week. Mrs. George McElroy, who had been visiting her mother, Mrs, A. M. Wilson, returned to her home in Chi- cago the last of the week. Sam and Stanley Witmoth were down trom Kansas City and spent Sunday with their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Warnock. H. G. Cook, manager of the Amert- can Clothing House, spent a few days the first of the week in Parsons and Tola, Kansas, with relatives. Our esteemed farmer friend D. B. Sweezy, of Pleasant Gap township, was a pleasant caller the last of the week and favored us with renewal. Russian and Japanese troops with- draw from Manchuria under provis- fon in Treaty of Portemouth, leav- fog complete control of province to a. Missour! State Automobile Asso- clation organized at Macon. Mayor Harry M. Ruby elected president, and announces no speed limit in his town. The couiity court last week, in call- ed session, with Judges Harper and Hyde present, sentenced George Heinz, a youngman from New Home township, to the asylum at Nevada Probate Judge John A. Silvers and Prosecuting Attorney Watt B. Daw- son attended circuit court at Stock- ton, Cedar county, last week, where land sult. The case of the State ve. Warner Ed. Warner took out license and married Miss Grace Simmons. So peace again hovers over the two households. Ex-Presiding Judge John W. Mc- Fadden was in from Virginia on Saturday and favored us pleasantly. Judge is looking well and happy and says heis kept out of mischief by having plenty to do Editor Austin calls our attention to the fact that last week, ina wee small local notice he made mention of Prof. Ives’ election. We eonfess we overlooked the notice and hasten to make the correction. Superintendent of county schools A. L Ives left Monday for Amster dam to hear evidence in a school district boundry dispute. He thought it would take several days to get all the facts before him. A prominent Repubilcan, when told that Ives’ majority was 400, inno- cently asked: “What do you sup pose it would have been if Fank had had one moreissue?” We confess {t’s beyond us. We would not even hazard an estimate. A meeting of the Ladies Cemetery Assoctation is calied tor next Satur- day at 2 o’clock, at the Ohio street M. E. charch, All members are urged to be present. Those who have not paid their annual dues are urgently requested to do so. George W. Daniel wasa pleasant caller the first of the week. Said he came in to find out about this row in Republican party between the Roosevelt and the anti-Roosevelt forces. We confess our {nability to enlighten him very much. Dr. J. W. Choate called Saturday and favored us. The doctor fe quite @ fruit man and says that while he thinks the fruit was greatly damaged by thefreeza on Friday night, he does not believe itis all killed. We all hope he {a correct, and we believe he {s. Freeentertalnment at Black school house Tuesday evening, April 23rd, beginning about 7:30. The enter- tainment will consist of songs, dia. logues, recitations, tableaux, concert reading and all kinds of good music. Everybody tnvited Fannie Corren, Teacher. G.P Wyatt gives $25 00 in cash to be offered as premiums for the best display of garden produce, at the next Bates county fair, by boys of 15 years of age and under. The $25 is divided into four premiums as follows; 1st $10, 2ad $7, 3rd $5, 4th $3. = U. A. McBride, business manager of the Star, was called to Colorado Springs Monday night by the very serious illness of his daughter, Mil- dred. Telegrams from Colorado Springs since Mr. McBride started describe her conditional as critical.— Warrensburg Star. L. 8. Paddock dropped in Satur- day to swap stories ard talk hogs, Mr. Paddock has a fine bunch of thoroughbred Poland Chinas which he is offering at Public sale to-mer- row, April 19th. Those who are in- terested fn that breed should not fail to attend. The Elks Minstrels, which will be pat upon the boards in a few weeks under the management of Chas. Fisk, will contain fifty actors, all local talent. Rebersals have begun and the people of Butler are promised the they were attorneys in an important| down consulting J. F. Kearn, on Drainage matter the first of the week. Mr. Hall eald that a meeting had been called for next Saturday at Harrisonville to consider atraighten- ing Grand River by the same meth- ods employed on the Marias des Cygnes in this county. Fred Lloyd and Miss Grace Bad- gett came over to Butler Mon- day {evening trom Foster, secur- ed the proper credentials from Rec- order Smith by exhibiting parential written consent both being under age, and had Judge Boxley say the words that united them for life. It {s an almost unheard of thing for a bank to lose any considerable amount of money, by defalcation or otherwise, without being able to trace the source in which the loss originated. And yet, within the last seven months, $233,000 has dis- appeared from two of the nine Sub- treasuries of the United States, and nobody knows what became of It. Cireult Clerk Dan Embree has his docket for the May term of Circult Court up to date and in the hands of the printer. There are 138 cases in all, 29 of which are the outcome of the B stes: National Bank failure; 12 divorce cases, three cases of grand larceny, two against Harvy W. Sal- mon, one for seduction, State vs. Warner. It is rather # light docket. The Rebeka Lodge of this clty {nitiated eighteen new members at the last regular meeting on Thurs- day night. The lodge surrendered {ts charter several years ago, but about three weeks ago reorganized and bas 4 bright prospect, as all the members @re enthuslastic, harmont- ous and working hard for the order’s success. The case of Dr. G. Y. Salmon was continued {in the Henry country court last week, on the opinion of four reputable physicians, appointed by the court to examine him, that he was unable, physically and mentally, to stand the trial. Dr. Salmon’s condition is reported critical, and it js hardly expected he will live to stand trial. He is now 84 years of age. The Appleton City Tribune drops ite “Independent” theories and comes out eqiarely as a Democratic paper, under the editorship of W. J. Jackeon. Mr. Jackson ts a Bates county pro- |. duct and is alright in every respect. He will make a live, interesting local paper and deserves the patronage of the people of that section, who have long felt the need of a Democratic paper. * Basil Warnock, ex-sheriff and ex. Representative of Green county, Ken- tucky, visited the family of bis uncle, Wesley Warnock, in Butler several A Mr. Hall, of Harrisonville, was to Wear Suits. SINCERITY CLOTHES) Made and Guaranteed by KUH- NATHAN & FISHER CO., are designed, cut and made by the ~ most expert and knowing TAIL- ORS IN AMERICA. We are exclusive selling agents for this Celebrated Make of Ready PRICES $12.50 TO $22.50. JOE MEYER, A Johnson county man has five black Langshan hens, of whose lay- {ng process he has kept a strict and accurate record since the first of the year. In January they laid 122 egge, in February 105, and in March 126, @ total of 363 In ninety days. The count for thelr March record showed that they laid 2 eggs on one day, 3 on four days, 4 on thirteen days and 5 on thirteen days. Mrs. George R. Daniel came in last week from Greeley county, Kansas to visit her father Joho Thomas, who has been critically {ll at Rich Hill, but who{s now much improved. Mrs. Daniel also visited Mr. and Mrs. George W. Daniel, her husband’s parents. She will accompany her father to Kansas City, where he goes for medical treatment, the first of the week, and then return to her home. F As Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Wier, who realde on the Chas. Beasly farm, a little northeast of Rich Hill, on the east alde of the river, were coming to town, Mrs, Wier fell from the wagon and sustained a broken arm. The accident occurred about 11 o'clock. Is was the right arm that was brok- en. Dr. Allen set the fractured mem- ber, and {¢ {s expected that Mra, Wier will soon regain the use thereof — Rich Hill Review. Miss Laura Bernadette Duvall, of Chicago, will be at home for several | months on*ind after May 1st and will tak pupils ia Voice and [nstro- mental music, Elocution and Dra- matic Ars. Miss Duvall has been teaching {n the city of Chicago for a number of years aod stands at she head of her profession. She wishes to spend a few months at home and to take some rest and willbe glad to accept a limited number of pupfls, 25 2" THE CLOTHIER. While many local experts were ready to testify that the fruite had all been killed by the freezes of Fri- day and Saturday nights, the more conservative were slow to express an opinion, and now announce that while the frutts were badly damaged, not all of it was killed, and we will still raise considerable fruit this fall, Some go so far as to say the buds were too thick and the fraft that re- mains will be bigger and of a better quality. A notice is posted in the post office lobby to the effect that a civil serv- {ce examination will be held in But- ler on Saturday, April 27th tochoose three letter carriers and one substl- tute forcity delivery. Those destr- {ng to compete can get blank appll- cations from Postmaster Wix, or trom Milton M. Deering, secretary of the Civil Service Board in St. Louts. Applications must be in Mr. Deering’s possession by 4:30 o’clock p. m. on April 24sh 1907. The following {se the open season for hunting under the new law enact- ed by the last legislature to take the place of the Walmsley law and which ‘was recently signed by Governor Folk: Wild turkey trom January 1 to February 2 and December 1 to December 31; quail fram November 1 to D-cember 81; prairie chicken shall not be killed prior to 1910, after that year open season will be from November 15 to December 15; ducks - and geese from January 1 to April 80 and September 31 to December 31; plover, woodcock and dove from August 1 to December 31; squirrel from June i to December 31; deer during November and D cember, Under this Jaw license is nut required in the county in which the hunt-r lives. This law goes Into effect nine ty days from adjournment of the legislature and iu the meantime the Walmsley law remans in effect. Leghorns and all the new MILLINERY | We have a nice line of Black and White styles in Summer Milli- nery. New Fancy Hat Pins and Ornaments. We can Save you Money on your SUMMER MILLINERY. Fuhrman &Tingle West Side Square. Earl McGaughey was in the claes! best evening’s entertainment, ever eee Oe ee a given on a similar occasion. ng ete ? Rev. J. B. field, pastor of the|chased a big ranch, and to which parties Chay Toot wight | rian Obureh te Butler, went to| place he expects to move his tamily no Independence Friday to attend the|at an early date. THE Times ac. Eimer Silvers went to South Mis-|11, sevival being conducted by Rev. | knowledges a plessant call. a. fires of the week on Jess! Gmall and St. John. Those noted! 4 horse driven by Mrs. J.C. Lane 5 coer aggpar caer ? will begin @ series of meet-| Wednesday of last week, took fright vain ae whore sho '*/ings at bis church in this ety about just south of town and ran away we <i the first of the month. In turning a corner the buggy was H. L, Hess came down from Kan-/ Qatty 9 snow fell in $his section on|overturned and Mre. Lane was saa City the last of the week tospend Tuesday, April 16th. It began fall-| thrown to the ground, sustaining a ‘|e few days with his brother, Dr. C. ing about noon and kept it up at| serious fracture of the left shoulder W. Hess. He fe attending medical | iatsevnls most of the afternoon, and|and belng otherwise badly braleed. college in Kansas City. by night quite a scum was on the|Mre. Lane is the daughter of J. J. Mrs, ©. F, Jackson and children re-|ground. With the heavy freezes Fri-| McKee. Mr. and Mre. Line are tarned to their home in Kansas City and Satarday night’s and snow | building 4 fine concrete house, on the the last of the week. ‘They had been | on Tuesday 1¢ looks like the wéather | old Humphrey tract, south of town, with the family here’ since the death | clerk has lost his reckoriing and’ the| the first house from this material ot her father, 8. T. *” shagon hee slipped cog. ~~ erected in Butler. 4 eps dae MEPL AS RS eae We have received a few NEW ., ODORS. Call and test them yourself daye last week. He was on bis way to Dalhart, Texas, where he had pur- Cee 3 " 7 ° ao Giesecke Shoes Walker-McKibben Merc. Co, BUY Every pair war- ranted. An im- mense line from which to select. Eggs taken same as cash. Pe ke) ee ees woes Se a ae ee et