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The Butler Concert Band held its! Prof. H.O Maxey was over from first open air concert of the season Sprague on Friday and calied to see pate) on the public square last Friday!us. The echool board at that place é Ol | e 0 evening. An excellent was | has voted to retain both Prof. Maxey ol ‘ rendered and thoroughly evjoyed by|and his wife for another year. He have you see what we the large audience. was commissioner of Bates none For Sate: Two houses and lote|SUsty for several terms and was the ' ; ane tn Butler, both three room houses. |tupervicion lee He te noe of tee MEN’S SUITS $5, $7, $8 50, $10 $12 50, $15 Located on corner of High and . yf omg relay: Pn tg county's best known educators. ne Miss a Swirt, W.A. McBurney was called to Kan-| |W i y . ¥ te es. ee utler FEA 47 YOUTHS’ SUITS death of his brother, John W. Me.|| f ie ae The divorce case of Lydia Warner|Meparney was suricken wrth parsig: $3.50, $5, $7, $10, $12 50, $15, ebrated against C. E. Warner occupled the|. Mag about a year d since had lime light in circuit court last week. bechan lavcna The promt ny were CHILDREN’S SUITS 50e, T5e, $1, $1.50 up to $6 00. Much racy testimony was introduc- XTRA ed. mr. Warner secured her divo taken vo Udessa, Miseourt, for burial. To get the best clothes W. A. returned yesterday. We ex- and the custody of the child. vend eymputny.—Amsterdam Enter- C00 George W. Baker, our esteemed | Prise. For the least money youngfriend from Pleasant Gap, was carefully tailored The managers of the Butler Con- Go to & pleasant caller on Saturday and ; Clothes for Boys favored us with renewal. He wasec- le a ig ong Pig —— J M e ay M companted by J. W. Ferrell, another eorney of Careeed, New Meith, to Oo e ye r, an oung en. young farmer of that neighborhood. play ata celebration by the Terri- The Clothier torlal government on the 3rd, 4th aad Sto of July. The boys have the matier under consideration, Mr. Dre undoubtedly learned of thefame of our band while he wasa resident of Lamar. A L Pipers was in to see us and Wantep:—To buy a good horse Would like to do pa'nting or paper hanging as part payment. Address, 80.36 OsBorne Bros , 202 N. Main street, Butler, Mo a H. P. Faris oat George ngle came over from Clinton Sat urday fn an automobile. Mr. Farts, — have a —_ ne . Lene who 1s president of the Prohibition me ney An bed oe Association in the atate, delivered | #et week that G. . Argenbrig the two lectures on temperance at the |S! yearling mule for = - -)Chritian church on Sunday. Pipes eold that mule to WB. Em- ereon. Is was sired by his fine Jack Mrs. Chas. E Scott, received atele-| Alexander Monroe Dockery. We are — Sunday that her brother, L.| glad to make this correction, even if avis died Saturday afternoon at} we are anewerlng for the sing of the Boones, ne Mra Scottlefs at | Ruraliat. once for that place and expects t» F join her mother, who had been visis- eee es eee ee ee oe ing in Oklahoma, at Kaneas City. the Y. P. U. of the Baptist church, It{s reported that Mrs. John T. “Good for Bad Boys” Line who called to pay their respects be Smith, of Livingston, Mont., who is Where you get an honest shoe for tore the departure ot fhe pastor and i new visiting friends in Kansas City, ly tor Lee’s Summit, where your money. Every shoe in this will come t> Butler shortly to wise Shey go about the first of June. The \ storeis SOLID LEATHER, and old friends and neighbors, ull of/YOUnm people presented Rev. and r . 111 be gl Mrs. Laster a beautiful si'ver bread guaranteed to give satisfaction. a oes Plate as a token of esteem in which they are held. Theo. D. Fisher, editor of the Farm- Every stitch sewed with silk, and for , STYLE AND FIT XS) X™09) They lead the World. YOUR BOYS’ SHOES Should be of our celebrated PDP. A BP BB BS BS BS SS SOSB See SR Pretty Low-Cut SHOES A Splendid Showing of all the Desirable Styles. If you want shoes that are nobby and pretty, thoes that are lighter and easier on your feet than any you’ve had before—then come to us for the footwear which has given comfort and long service the world over. jac ere. HIRAM NICHOLS, ' \ The Shoe Man. T. 8. Short, the Rich Hill miner injured in a fall of slate at Cornell, , Kans., last Friday evening, died in|!eaton Times, 1s thought by the a Pittsburg hoepital asa resu!t of; knowing ones, to be slated for elec his injuries. Mr. Short wasa man | sion to the position of Treasurer of aged-about 45, and leaves a wife } State Hospital for the Insane, No. 4, and four children. at Farmiogton, when the Board of Managers meet next month. Mr. Cleveland Stotte, who fell from the | Fisher has fought the battles of the top of the Cannon & Weiner eleva-! Democracy, loyally and ably, for 35 tor, while it was under construction, | years, and richly deserves this recog- and whose life was despaired of for a|nition by the party.—New Madrid We Have a Bargain Counter Of odd end suits at half price. Alsoa lot of Boy’s Shoes closing out at big cut in price. SO ES SE SES SS SP The 4 The long time, was last week working} Record. Pees Oeee@eeeeweweewes 7 Good Good around the top of ae elevator Gal 2 Court Italist of - ood. CLOTHING HOUSE 0 doing some repair work. Vol. J. Ml. Courtney, @ cap pte oye -_ 3 Kansas City, with his wife, spent the an OL A Clothes Shoe Jas. G. Walker and son Robert ' greater part of last week 4 Butler CSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS were in Saturday from his tine home south east of town. Tue Times ac- knowledges a soctal call. Mr. Walker said he had planted all his corn over, and with favorable season from now he expects to raise a big crop. At Harrisonville the ladies of the Presbyterian church had 4 real geno- ine hen party. Every one who at- tended brought @ hen, and the gate looking after property Interests. Thet olonel of course paid Tar Times an apprectated call. Col. and Mrs, Courtney expect to spend the great- er part of the summer {n the moun- tains of Colorado. He says thas whils they are contented in Kansas City the always regard Butler as their home. Ei «New York) Blevins, whose Store Store. We Fit Your Head, Feet, Form and Purse. $100 to Wager That the car of flour due here tomorrow will make the third car this month. If you don’t understand this state- ment call around and we will explals John Johnson went to Rich Hill} Dr. Foster epent several days in Monday on a short visit with friends | Kansas City last week on business, and relatives. John Wix, who had been in the r i Buy your flour now, for it is going up every day. Don’t , itl la. receipts were sold to a local poultry}home is where he hangs his hat, vy , | : PP soe Pag Po OS be bi eee om regurned | house for $12 80, and two eye lald | drifsed back to Butler, afer working put it off too long. Get 500 or a 1000 pounds, enough to Johnson county. in Colorado, California and othor| OY ‘he hens during the social were|at different jobs throughout the last you a year. A few prices below: given tothe poultry man for good measure, wees. Ed. Blevins was brought to Butler from New York by @ soclety when quite a small boy and lived here unéil grown. During one cf his trips, he Jost an eye, in an explosion whie working on the railroad. Ed. is of happy roaving disposition and takes what is coming to him in a philosophical manner. Mrs. T, W. Childs has been quite | 3% \ efck for the past week, but ts report-| Clyde Robbins, the popular auc- ed much improved. tloneer and liveryman, of Amoret, accompenied by his father, J. M. Mrs. Jack Sargent, of Lake Charles, | Robbius, of lowa, was In Butler Sat- La., is visiting her parents, Mr. and | urday. Mrs. D. G. Newsome. The Black District Schoo! will close Wantep—Girl to do general house- | Friday, May 31st, 1907. Suitable work, good wages. Apply to Joe| exercises will be held in the after- | Meyer east side equare. noon. All patrons of the school cor- § Sek de dens ‘ ren dially lavited. , rs. J. R. Jenkins returne a“ # first of the week from Kansas City, onl aa ye soya 1 Bockvits, office where che bad besa visiting. Tuesday. He has been 4 resident of Mrs. Wm. Hodge, (nee Arnold) of | the county for 36 years and a Demo- Paris, Texas, {s in the clty for a visit | crat all the time. ith home folks and friends. Ea. F of Okmslene, Ind. Ter. Mies Virgie McConnell and Miss | who = ja Mr. and Mrs, Mary Sieg, of Hume, were over visit- | Ed. White's near that place, ing Butler friends the last of the| was in Butler the firas of the week week. closing up the deal. Dr. J. M. Christy accompanted 8) ‘The Navada Herald thinks there 1a atient from Passaic to Kansas City | liable to be a neck-tle party in that onday, who entered a hospital for | gown some day when they catch the treatment. fellow who is using bnelness houses Mrs. Robt. Hollenbeck and gon re- | *© kindle fires with. turned Saturday evening from| Joe M. McKibben, who has been Oswego, Kan., where they had visit- | jiving in Pasadena the past year, ar-| Ino the published account of the hel t t ed her sister. rived in Butler the last of the week| graduating exercises of Webb City op ped has i, nsphedeetsluate Tue Tries was complimented by | 2 business and to vielt his many old | High School, we notice that Miss Zoe | °¥ yy i s Ki Oa Fe Meee’ ecall from Art, L. Gilmore, of Deep | {tiends in this county. Thralls took the honors of her class, p ead ai Liberts Mo These wel Water, who was in Butler on busi-| Mp Len Barber informs us that composed 2 thirty oo boys. ranged from 9 A 44 years of age.— ness Monday. Mr. and Mre. Cleo Smith, of Scot-| “ise Thralle te the daughter of Mr.) p view. land, Mo., are the 4 parents of and Mrs. Dick Thralle, formerly of far as the officlals are advised, but | discovered. Dr. T. C. Boulware took his son, reg age Ars sed ae Gaié & ak Butler, and her many friends here re-} The editor of Tae Times left Mon-| ona trunk line of railroad, the St. 25 John Boulware, to Kansas City last on M, y 10th, 1907 elr HOME | joice at her success. day night for Kentucky to deliver | Louls & San Francisco, {e holding week, where he was operated on for saad - “Aaron” wasin from Virginia on|*he commencement address at the | out against the terms of these laws. | i enlarged tonsils. Warren Bigler, of Wabash, Ind., Monday and, of course, called around | Kentucky Military Institute on| Perhaps it may yield later on, in C al all ons H. G. Cook went overto Iola, Kas., | one of the the Stanley |to straighten us out.’ “Aaron” haa| Wednesday, May 29th, 1907. Mr.| view of the disposition of the other | Sanday and returned with his moth. | farm near Nybart, was in thecounty faithfully chronicled the news from| Allen was graduated from that er, who had been visiting another | the first of the week. Mr. Bigler is|tnat soction of the county for the} echool tn the spring of 1882, and poidlpiny ov oetaemaed State Auditor of Indiana. raat fifteen pence, teothfull> end tm {thle will be ble first return to his teri arter of acentury. | that the dip he uses on hie flock not B. 8. Catron is hobbling around| ©. H. McGutre, a substantial farm. | Perélally. Times together with | Alma Materia a quarter o} expec 1s his old family | only keeps off disease and parasites, ; : tod nh lg 5 ~ @, while but al tects against dogs. The| Sayers & Scovill and Columbia guerepeerss | Dace ood od PY re Rey tbe ne ere Ne ted his efforts homestead, while there, and go over | but also pro ag! jog which was by a plano he | ®Caller and favored useubstantially, was trying to move. Sour picklee, ready for use, per gallon Can sweet corn, per can........ or Tomatoes, 3 th cans, best bran an lOO Fancy Jap rice, 4 tb for......... Can California peach, 3 th caus, per can Dili d BOAOS, 4 TW TOP, ..csscsessescesesoosssssesseseaes Joplin crackere, test on earth, by box per Il gt Try Egg-o-see corn flske largest 10+ pack made 3 for. 25¢ Pio peaches, $ th cans, each Scotch oats, 2 Ib packages, 3 for. Try a package of our Mocha & Java coffee, per tb... ¢ A soclal was held as the Christian cburch Thursday evening to give the members @ chance of meeting and welcoming into the fold the new mem- bers taken in during the late Small revival. A large crowd was present. A musical program was enjoyed, and refreshments were served. Uader the new road law adopted by the last legislature each county courtin the state will have to ap- point a county road and highway engineer. The law specifies his quall- fications, which include mechanical drawing and a knowledge of civil en- gineering. How many of our bright young High School graduates can Quality for the office? The salary is optional with the court from $300 to $2,000 per annum. Meadames J. K. Martin and J. H. Williams arrived home last night from St. Louis, where they had been attending the Rebekah Assembly— she ladies’ branch of the I. 0. 0. F. Nearly 400 delegates were present from different portions of the state and a delightful meeting resulted. One of the best features to the Rich A large majority of farmers of Bates county embraced the pretty weather of last week to plant their corn over again. Only in a few cases did .the firat planting ges a good stand. There js plenty of tlme, how- ever, from now on and with favor- able weather Bates county far will have no kick coming this fall. Don’t forget to send for OLD GLORY flour and take no other-or-you will be disappointed fh the results. Yours, Norileet & Ream, The ONLY Independent Grocers, West side Square. Phone 144. Butler, Mo CESSSSSSSSSSSSSS9SSSSS5S9999 kind Sam. M. Fulkerson, of Shreveport, La., came tn the last of the week to visit his motber, and grandparente, Mr.and Mrs. J. M. Patty. Mr. Fulk- erson is treasurer of a big lumber company in that city and recently assisted in entertaining the bankers of that state at thelr annual meet ing. oosoosososooososossssssssosssossss soocoosooosossosoososssosssosessooso The new maximum friegbt-rate law | apparently dead. The coroner was and the 2-cent passenger-fire act | notified, but on closer {nvestigation will become operative June 15 So) the true condition of the man was roads to acquiesce. Asheep raiser near Paris hasfound SELL the scenes of hie childhood and early |canine sheep killers do not care for | Buggies, and had Taz Toes eent to George} The Harrisonville school board|manhood; will take a drink—out a mutton with this particular brand} Carriazes, Spring wagons etc., Nebr. raised the salaries of all teachere| the old epring and do and see many | of dressing.—Ex. ; Milburn Farm Wagons, ¢ things to remiad htm of the olden| It might be cheaper and justasef) Home Manufactured Harness, % times. fectivefor dog owners to purchase} j nadies’ Astride, Steel Fork and Alexander Lopp, brother of Mrs, | thls particular brand of dip and fur- | Kentucky Sole Leather ‘Tree Saddles, ; Ed. Saider, at El Reno, Okla ,! nish it to the sheep men and thereby Bridlee, Haltere, Whips, dusters, etc., 2 po ny MD an i escape the tax. Genuine Red Rope and Rubber .. He had been sick for some | Coroner Renick was notified Thure- | Roofing, ry beg ng a yo ba oe Johnsons’ and Mica Axle Grease. jn the timber near Curnian 5 Mas hb bate tein tor the Ss of the Mong oil your harness for One Dol. Come and see us, | McFarland & Sons,