The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, June 20, 1907, Page 4

“W Penny Saved is q Penny Earned, Then how can you afford to buy a cheap buggy when you can get a genuine wrought fron Velle at @ very reasonable price which will run several years with practically no repairs? They are made right and we are selling them right, and if you want to see the finest finished and the best buggy for the price asked, don’t fall to call and see the Velle. It will do you good whether you want to buy now or not. We also handle the Morris, Woodhull and the Anchor buggies, which are hard to beat. In driving wagons and stanhopes we have the best assortment {n town and our price lower than the lowest. McCormick Binders and Mowers. Right now ts the time you must be making up your mind about that binder or mower that you will need in the next few weeks and {f you want the one that wi!l do the best work and take the least repairs, you «ortatoly want a McCormick, and we have them. Pine Sisal Binder Twine 10c Pound. Now don’t that look good enough for anyone? We can’t see how you can afford to be sending away for twine when you can get good twine at home for 10¢, Quick Meal Gasoline Stoves. Now is the time to be looking for that gasoline stove, ‘as wood and coal make too much heat for this kind of weather,” and we have the best one made, which is the Quick Meal, and is made tn all sizes. Wealso have a full ne of the cheap 1, 2 and 3 burner Junior stoves. Wagons and Harness. Don’t forget that we are headquarters for the Mitchell, Schuttler and Moline wagons and can name you very low prices on same, consideriny the present cost. We also have a large line of buggy and wagon harness that we are selling very cheap, and can sel! y ou @ saddle cheaper than anyone, American Field Fence. R Yes, we are aware that we have been out of fencing for several days, but we now have a car on the way, and will be able to supply you in a very few days, and {¢ will pay you to walt for the American, 7 Groceries, Hardware and Queensware. Remember that we are heaquarters for Groceries, Hardware and (Jueensware and our price as low as the lowest, if you don’t be- Neve {t compare them with Chicago prices, We have a large stock of Screen Doors, Washing Machines, Grind Stones, Screen Wire, Scy thes and Snaths, Bullder’s Hardware, etc. Don’t fail to see our new Gee Whiz, Wonder and Run-so.Easy Washing Machines, as they will beat anything you ever saw. Don’t forget that we are headquarters for Flour and Feed. Remember that we want your produce and will pay the top price in cash as well as trade. . Thanking you for past trade and solleiting a continuance of same, we are Yours truly, Bennett-Wheeler Mere, Co, E Phone Marriage Illegal. ‘Galveston. Texas, June 17.—The estate of the late Thomas Wemberly the wealthy ranchman, valued at over $200,000, is tied up because the Nolan county court holds that a telephone marriage is not legal. When Wemberly died a contest of the will was made. The question ol the legality of the marriage was —— but the Rape be Byer Bridgman, Oregon; C. A. Morton, wai ceremon: mue' ; be solemnnized by & minister or other |S* Loulé, and Arthur B. Drescher, authority in the presence of the con- | Hannibal, all for two years from the tracting parties and witness. date on which the law becomes ef- The governor also appointed Wal- Corn Plaster. A State Poultry Board Now. Jefferson City, June 17.—Under the law enacted at the laet regular session of the Missouri legislature creating a state poultry board, Gov- ernor Folk appointed the following men to compose the board: Frank Temple, Eleberry; J. A. Maxwell, Fayette; Samuel Tetley, Farming- ton; W. H. Turner, Mexico; R. B. ter L. Mack of S¢ Joseph a member of the state board of barber examin- ere, vice R. M. Dorrence of Jefferson City, resigned. Women Make - the Katy’s Flags. Sedalia, Mo, June 17.—The Makes hard roads easy. § Easily and quickly ap- plied—no uncleanly B salves, liquids or clumsy § bandages to bother with. Cures either hard or soft corne and bunions. POSSE FLOGS MINISTER | The Latest Chicken Story. It has been sald that “itis an ill WHO WRECKED HOME. et wind that blows nobody any good "| and {it might be well to add that the Rev. Hawley is Taken From fellow who don’t enjoy a good story : either has wheels in his head that Train, Cowhided and turn the wrong way or they need Driven South. | lubricating The following story from Pennsylvania on the backward Paducah, Ky., June 17 —Disclo- | spring certatoly wins thé priz>: sures made since the horse-whipping “Speaking of the backward spring, of Rev. Frank Morton Hawley, for- | remarked Abe Wells, as he sat in merly pastor of the First Presby-' Hetricks store in Roseville, Pa., the terlan church at Fulton, Ky., bave! other day, “it is doing scandalous Woven a web of scandal about the! things up our way. [started my young minister's shoulders. l4ncubator along about the time that From the time Hawley, who is just | 1 thought the winter was over and a 30 years old, arrived in Fulton and! few days ago there was hatched out looked upon the beautiful wife of W. | the fi. est lot of chickens I have ever W. Meadows, a retired merchant,! gen. Everyoue of them was healthy complications destined to under-' ang I figured out a large profit. ~ ee PR I ne —_ | DUVALL-PERCIVAL TRUST CO. CASH CAPITAL, $50,000. Farmers Bank Building, Butler, Missour!. FARM LOANS. We have money to loan on real ff estate at a low rate of interest with privilege to pay atany time. ABSTRACTS. We have a complete set of abs- tract books and will furnish abstracts to any Real Estate in i Bates County and examine and perfect titles to same. | INV ESTMENTS. We will loan your idle money for you, securing you reasonable interest on good secur- ity. We pay interest on time deposits. W. F. DUVALL, President, ARTHUR DUVALL, Treasurer. J. B DUVALL, Vice-Pres * W. D. YATES, Title Examiner. mine one of the happiest familles in| ‘Then we had the snow storme and Western Kentucky began, the cold weather. Those chickens Hawley came from his home in| wore astounded at the way the Charlotte, N.C, soon after gradu-| weather acted. They did not die ating from the ‘theological School | hut acted sort of foolish. The cold there, and took charge of the First weather kept up. Finally those peeps, Presbyterian church in Fulton two} became convinced that they had years ago. He met Mrs, Meadows, | arrived a mite too early, and nature a member of his congregation and|¢old them what to do. Instead of boarded at the hotel owned by her growing they began to get smaller, husband. Meadows is 58 and his| yn¢t) they were no bigger than the wif) a little more than 30 years old. day they were hatched. They lost For the past 18 months marked at-| a1 thelr pin feathers and retrograd- tentions from the minister towards | 9q yntt! everyone was covered with Mrs. Meadows had been noticed by} gown, Then the amazing thing friends of the family. Three weeks happened. Hunting up the {ncuba- ago, when Meadows, by inference,! gor, the whole lot settled down in founded suspicions and expelled the heat, andin no less than two Hawley from the hotel, Mrs. Mead- days shells had grown over them. I ows declared that {ff Hawley was opened an egg yesterday, and bless driven away she would also go. me, if {¢ wasn’t as fresh as the day I Hawley left and the next day Mrs. put it fn.” Meadows carried out her threat, on the same day filing suit for divorce, alleging cruel and inhuman t-eat- ment and asking for $20,000 all- mony. Bills from dressmakers and milli- ners ranging from 20 days before, disclosed that Mrs. Meadows had] Doctors falled to help me, and all apparently planned her course, sup-| hope had fled when I began taking lying herself with ext loth Dr. King’s New Discovery. Then in- -ane pr $850. vinsalieeitili stant relief came. The coughing Hawley alter leaving the mead soon ceased; the bleeding diminished rapidly, andin three weeks I was ows Hotel, resigned his charge and|able to go to work.” Guaranteed went to Hollow Rock, Ark., rematn-} cure for coughs and colds. 50c and ing three weeks, Meantime gossip ed at : as Clay’s drag store. ran rife in Fulton, and stories of the vial Doves fron, young mintster’s misdoings assumed collosal form When it was intima- ted that Hawley was to return an impatient posse boarded every north bound train and at last were successful in landing their man. The conductor was powerless, and signaled his train ahead when Haw- ley was taken from the steps. “Go, keep going suuth, and never stop!” was the command the young minister received, when placed on a fast passenger train at Harris, Tenn., acquaintancesay ehe is not as pretty a few miles below Fulton, after be| 2° Lillian Prosse, who lives in the had been atri d : same house, Hearing footsteps in readily aaa comnient, ie the hall, the Richardson womsn Since filing the divorce petition, threw the acid, but the approaching Mrs. Meadows has not been seen on| YOMS2 was not Liitien Prose, the streets. It 1s generally believed Neilie Cole recetved| the contente of she willdrop the suit for a lack of srersetd Gap ; = “— Thering ® tangible evidence to prove her as- ceranmin the hal, the Proce wemnen portions. rushed out and her face was severely , burned by the acid. As to Haw) aoe thy + el Penge The Cole woman was taken to tke a more serfous nature is threatened Emergency Hospital for treatment, should he return a second time Lillian Prosse was too severely {njur- While residents of Fulton regret ed to be removed and « doctor was Lahe fi i-by—the—whtp= called. Jessie Richardson was ar- Remarkable Rescue, The truth is stranger than fiction, has once more been demonstrated In the little town of Fedora, Tenn., the residence of C. V. Pepper. He writes: “T was in bed, entirely disabled with hemorrhages of the lungs and throat Jealous, She Hurls Acid; Two Women Badly Burned. Kansas City, Mo., June 17.—Acld thrown by Jessie Richardson serlous- ly burned two other women. Both will recover, but thelr faces are mar- red for lite. Jealousy prompted Jessie Richard- son to hide in a doorway with a cup of carbolle acid. She had heard an - Capital, $50.000. Surplus $10,000. —i— DIRECTORS, CLARK WIx, J.J, McKee, Frank Houtanp, J. W. Cuoare, 0. A. Hemcen, W. F, Duvau. E, A. Benner, Jos, M. McKippen, F. N, Drennan, —_—ii— We are thoroughly equipped {n all departments to prompt- ly and properly serve you. —:0:— J. J. McKEE, Vice-Pres. HOMER DUVALL, Aést. Cashier, E. A. BENNETT, Pres. W. F. DUVALL, Cashier, TAKE YOUR HOME PAPER FIRST THEN SUBSCRIBE FOR The Kansas City Star and Times The Star and Times, reporting the full twenty-four hours’ news each day in thirteen {ssues of the paper each week, are furnished to regular subscribers at | the rate of 10 cents per week. As newspapers, The Star and the Times have no rivals. No other publisher farnishes his readers with the full day and night Associated Press reports, as does the Star and Times. This should recommend the papers especially to the progressive merchant and farmer. I deliver both the Star and Times to the subscri- ber’s door promptly on arrival of trains. Give me a trial. ROBT. SMITH, Agent. Subscriptions taken for rural route delivery. Also take advertisements for daily and Sundy papers. MISSOURI STATE BANK, BUTLER, MO. Statement of condition on June 6, 1907. ping episode and the disgrace they rested. a feel has been brought upon the} When you ieel the need of a pill church by thelr pastor’s acts, they |take a DeWitt Little Early Riser. take a logical view of the matter, | Sold by Clay’s drug store. Meadows is deeply humiliated by the alleged unfaithfulness of his wife. He has a beautiful 15-year-old daughter, who is with him. Mrs, Meadows {s thought etill to be in Fulton Oklahoma democrats nominated a splendid ticket on June 9. C. N. Haskell, an editor of Muskogee, de- feated Lee Cruce, a banker, of Ard- more, for governor. Roy V. Hoff- man and Robt. L. Owen are the auc- cessful candidates for United States CASTORIA = TWICE-A-WEEK BEPUBLIC The Kind You Have Always Bought — Bears the Three Years For One Dollars. Signature of Until June 80, 1907 the Twice-A- Week Republic, of St. Louis, Mo., the oldest and best known sem!- Potatoes Yield $81 an Acre. weekly newspaper in the. United Muskogee, I. T., June 17.—William | States, will accept subscriptions at|" Gulager, of Muskogee, has 4 potato|the remarkable rate of three years field of twenty acres near town, from |for $1. -At this price you cannot af- | which he is now marketing the first ford to be without this big semi- on long time and lowest interest rates. get our rates, ish fall and reliable abstracts of title to any land or town lot tn Bates county, 6 year or longer, for any {dle money you may have, . Frank Allen, Dr. J. Everingham, Frank M, Voris, Dr. T. C. Boulware, J,R.Jenking, Wm. W. Trigg, - C. H. Duteher, C.B. Radford, ‘Max Weiner, John Deerwester, _ Seam B. Bhat, Wm. B. Walton, Bills receivable, (for money loaned)... . S Cash on band andin other be 4 ber Due depositors........... 385,582.52 WE ARE T OLD, Organized ander Missouri law, and often examined by State Bank Exami: 5 Reeelvos deposits, issues drafts, and ALWAYS HAS MONEY TO LOAN. ae prod go for baelty ae, and avery neocmmetadon t taht bo enaletens with DEPOSITORY FOR BATES COUNTY FUNDS. Dr. T. C. Boulware, J. B, Jenkins, B. P. Powell ohn Deerwes A. B. Owen, Wm, &. Walton, O.B:Radtord = D7, Dee Christy" DENG Le Whipple, C,H. Duteher,’ Wm. B Tyler, Frank M. Voris, WE WANT YOUR BUSINESS. Wa. E. Wauron, President. J.B, Jenkins, Castier iB. T. C, BoULWARE, Vice-Pres. Wesixy Denton, Ass’t Cashkr Corsiy Gananp, Clerk and Bookkeeper, , Loans money on farms in Bates, Vernon, Barton, Cedar, Dade and Polk counties If you want e new loan or renew an old one it will be to your interest to call and Our abstract books are complete and are kept up with the records daily, Furne Will issue you a time deposit certificate bearing interest and due in six months or DIRECTORS: Frank M. Voris, Wm. B. Walton, President,