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Mrs. H.C Allin, of Kensacky came in the last of the week to visit her daughter, Mrs. T. J. Smith. Mr. a Smith went up to Pleasant Hill on Thursday to meet her. Clyde Robbins was in Saturday to meet his wife and Miss Mamie Ham- mond, who had been visiting the So we may sell you your =f) piers bother, aril: Hass, 0 2 C L O T H | N G Ex-Sheriff ‘:ose B. Morris, who fs The city council of Clinton last HONESTLY MADE CLOTHES. 1 Jaty eolobeation tu Rich Hil thle holding a position atthe peniten- NEXT SEASON AND THE NEXT— Work granted the Bell Telephone Co, . e vear, but there will be allsorts of fun 50 by the carnival crew and anybody rices u e'se that wants it. There will also o—— hoan interesting game of base ball tlary, came up from Jefferson City That is business, you know. a franchise for ten years, to put in { r the lovers cf this sport. —Review. The Glass Jar of Money To be given away to the party holding the right : key will take place in a few days. A Key With Every $1.00 Cash Purchase. Our Semi-Annual Sale Starts Saturday, July 6. All Light Clothing Reduced in Price. JOE MEYER, THE CLOTHIER. Ass!-tant State Mine Inspector, ! This cflice was complimented on Henry Hammil, was in Butler Thurs | Monday b} « pleasaas call from Ex- es day and made nffidavit charziog W. | Presiding Judge James Z Graves, of - H. Miersteto, at Worland, with viela- Sprague. Judie Graves isin his 85 oo Tuesday to join his wife and baby OUR 1907 MODELS Bracco rie tine cinson here, who had been visiting relatives has been without the Bell long dis- and friends since Saturday. ARE VERY ATTRACTIVE, ma. Mr. O K. Davis, who recently pur Our Shoes For Dress ce vused Mayor A. B Owen’s farm fn Monnd townshtp, has moved hisfam {'y to Butler from Knox City, Mo. or Wo rk He expects to make Butler his fature home, and will purchase property here It is reported that E A. Bennett, on his trip to Cunada last month, purchased a large tract of land in Saskatchewan, paying $1200 per acre. He says the and lays welland Are the best values for the price to be had in the market. See our Table of ting the state mining laws by a fal!- year, but fs lively asa cricket and as Copyright, Close-Outs For $1 .00. ‘s very rich. It is a great wheat ure to provide an escape shaft at his full of fight agever, Ue is remark. 1907, by country. mine Mierstein, whose home fs In | ably well preserved, bus has always Ti y Li Stoux City, Iowa, will be arrested. | been a man of vigorous constitution. L, ADLER : The ° The a po a beg Bees The penalty is a fine of from $50 to | He came to Bates county at anearly BROS. & CO, : Good Good the groom’s mother, Mrs. John Nor- $200 and {mprisonment. date ———— on the place he still + ‘ ‘ . has been a prominent “ Ee fleet, Sunday afternoon. The bride} John Jr, the 12-year-old son of OW; Fe : P Clothes CLOTHING HO8S Shoe is the daughter of John I Dunn, and|Joha Foster, of near Virgtata, wiitle man iu shat section, cae Store Store. {s only fourteen years old, while the) trying a 22 rifle Monday morning, | On September 4th the Bates Coun- we groom fs nineteen, reparatory to going on a squirrel | Ss * Runt, nccidentay shox bimeeltint!e Wig'u te deve sence te teat left big toe. ‘The bullet passed eb: | Sapsember 161 the Meneses a City tirely through the toe at the second | presbytery of the Hiebert “ed 7 r | yteriau joint He was given proper medical suapeh wil meet and be here tl attention and is now well on tle gays. The Presb wre Shere d to recovery.—Amoret Post, ys. resbytery comprises roa y | ten counties and a large crowd ts ex- In spite of tho wet weather the past | pected. Oa Sept, 25th Rev. Chester week, farmers have managed to get| Birch, a noted eastern evangelist, Judge Wallace, of Kansas City,an-|{nto thelr fields with binders and | will commence a three weeks’ meeting nounces he will send “gun toters” to | much of the Bates county wheatcrop | at the Presbyterlan church, jail for six months and make no ex | was harvested. In some instances | u : captions. President. Roosevelé will|the ground was so soft that plank, Thos. J. Smith, eaq , went to Kan. & do well to decline Kansas City invita: | braces were used to keep the wheels 88 City the last of the week and filed ae tions so long as Wallace fa on the|from sinking too deep. Farmerscer-| & petition in the Federal court, of bench.—Clinton Democrat. tainly deserve success when they thus | Feditors of J. C. Clark, asking thas overcome adversity. | = be —— a yr = ac: ion was taken wholly at the {n- We are under obligations to Hon. | sgance of the creditors, and was not John Deerwester, member of State) voluntary on Mr. Clark’s account Board of Agriculture for the beauti- ‘ ee u ‘who has always expressed a deter- ful embossed hanger, “Bred in Old | Missouri.” It represents a pretty = ap ang as far as possible country lass, leaning against the dle post cfa wire fence with a field of} Some healthy young men spend \ growing corn in the back ground. If thelr time loafing without any effort the state fair comes up to Its adver- gogecureemployment, Thisis wrong pon matter this time 16 will be ‘ie will Sree ,Saeerens resulta 4 . oth to the individual who does it : Butler was shure putting on metro- , 40d to seclety as well. Every young politan atrs last week. Besides the ) person should seek some profitable Theatorlum, a permanently estab- | employment and stick to it witha lished five cents picture show on the | spirit: f industry that willwin, There south alde of the square, a carnival | is nothing worse for a healthy young company held forth on the vacant| person than idleness. It dwarfs lots on north main streets, and, of | body, mind and soul —Adrian Jour- course, every device necessary to | nal separate the nickels from the inno- " cents was practiced, and, from re- _ The boys are telling that Forrest ports, with good results. | Stroup, who went to Clinton Tues- day for & marriage license, made a Judge Denton last week naturallz- | mistake and went {nto the county We fit your head, feet, form and purse. Oe STEERS On last Sunday, June 30th, Gen- eral and Mrs. H ©. Clark celebrated their tenth wedding anniversary | with a family dinner, They were married at the Episcopal church ia this clty June 30th 1897, at 7 o’clock p.m. e | the figures of Democratte county of] Rev. R. M. Shelton, a minister of The Butler Weekly Times pot but when he comes to to the Christian church at Garden City, tloning the specially prepared figures ons Butler Monday. looking up a "J.D. ALLEN, Bultor und Prop |‘! be own presiding Judge Harper, rane oe biked Bor no then that fs lese-majeste, and the Entered at the office of Butler, Missouri, a8 Republican party will have to disci-| , Judge John S. Francisco and Chas second class mail matter. pline him. R Racford expect to start for Colo- rado about the 10th of thls month i FENCING FOR POINTS. John Walker left the last of the|' Spend the heated term in the The “dtecusston” of the francial week for the Jamestown exposition. mountains, statement has tuken wide range in| Mrs. 8. M, Brown and children, of Deputy County Clerk Will Weeks ts the Republican Press From Dun so Kansas City, are visiting with her setting up real good cigars over the > arrival of fine boy at his home at Bersh*ba would be but a step. cor- parents, Dr, and Mrs, Everingham. 7:25 Wednesday morning. Mother sidering the latituie ludulged In ‘Mrs. Anna Larrimore, of Chicago, | and baby doing well. fact about every thing else is discuss- | 8 visiting her parents, Dr.and Mre.) constable from Jasper county ed except the actual financial cond!- Wolty. came to Butler on Thursday after tion of the county as portrayed by} Mrs. Walter Arnold presented her|one Newt Grooms, a horse trader. the statement. There is only one| husband a fine girl baby on Satur- | He was arrested on complaint of his oasts in all this desert of conglomer- day morning, June 296h. wife for abandonment. ated gibberish. It refreshingly tells} Mr. and Mrs. Ed. McMahan, of| The Knights and Ladies of Secur- us that the lact financial statement Rich Hill, visited her mother, Mra. |ity reporta delightful timo at their {s not made out in conformity tolaw Sam H. Fisher, on Sunday. ice cream supper on Tuesday night. About two hund and promises to tell atafuturedate| Mrs. F. C. Smith and daughter, thelr families — “ be fail lies. Of course, | Miss Nellie, are visiting friends as ag plc i posstbly ‘- it Kansas City and Excelsior Springs. Fred Marley has purchased a gro f] now, it would break the mystic spell} Mise Pearl Weidman, of Kansas se th earl oe ped fae & and his climax would not be go effec- City, Pag ome pel = Miss Clara|the grocery business with Harry tive. The best lawyers have passed | 4!!! she last of the week. Holloway. onthe form and pronounce it cor- Miss Mary Jones, daughter of Rev.| 7 Keller, an old Butlerite, who rect. The late grand. jury admitted W. F. Jones, of Joplin, came up the! h..1 bean visiting his son, deputy : {¢ was anade out in conformity to | '88¢ of the week to visit Butlertriends. | .1,.riff Tom Keller, returned to his) We had the pleasure of meeting |©d Ell Goret, & miner from Rich Hill, | clerk’s uttice and called for a license; law. Mr. Wilder, the Republican] John Carpenter accompanied his home in Kansas Clty, Kan., the first] Samuel Wheeler, a prominent attor- | *he first applicant under the LeW | the clerk made out a hunters license, j , 5di ua Mr. Weeks a| Niece, Miss Elste Carpenter, home of the week. ney of Grand Junction, Cal., who was naturalization law passed by the! ho refused it after reading it, saying ‘ Beare ausitor, Writes BP. eee & i \ 2 in Butler Thursday with his brother, last congress. The papers and re-| ho was through that part of tl ezame letter of congratulation on his state- | om & visit at Volby, Kan. Rev. W. A. McClannahaa, presid- Thos. J. Wheeler, of Homer, Mr,.|°OFds to conform to the new law are | and wanted a license ‘to have and to f nt, but it {s evident that none of} Mrs. Harry Moore, after a briet | 2Selderof the Nevada district, M. E. : Wheeler, like his brother, formerly | ther complex and circuit clerk Em-| hold, until, etc.,’ saying that with 4 authorities consulted Bro, | Viel wish her friend Mrs, Ben. Mains | Church, South, preached morning} saught school in Bates county, but| bree and deputy Barckley has been | him, the hunting season was closed ‘ \Nets for her home in Birmingham, and evening at that charch in Butler “digging’’ them out the past few | _ fi. a unk and are all wrong. Ala. last Sunday. An official meeting of went west and became a dlsciple of : pe Wee teen 0 ae peper Ol a days. These were Goret’s last pa | oor — i The Republican-Press persistently — iii thine a i ay soon with Rev. go wad tere eee: pers and makes him a legal citizen of ae ee rT f issue, . H. Harper, of ne, 0. lannahan fn the afternoon. © were . this country. : A At d {gnores the real = i oom on a visit with his brother, Presid- TT & * M. &. Murphy, of é ‘ West Fé. Kida d Feostag. " which brought on the discussion, ing Judge R. F. Harper. Altona, who had Tae Times sent to} The correspondent from Mt. Ver-|. 1 belonging to ‘the feather reno. why the grand jury ignored the offi- ‘ her son H. E. Murphy. Mrs. Murphy|non to the Republican-Press states | | aes Bemis tri haan’ be the clal statement and took Judge Har-| Probate Judge John A. Silvers fe arelative of the late Judge Bai. thas the fine in the case of the State | pO mon penne di guletraee A ther 1’s figures, which pretended togive went to Lebanon, Mo., the first of DIES lard, and of ex-Warden J. D. Starke, | vs. St. Clair Powell, tried in Justice Punnis ., ahoet dlatahes the tonmne a ; r rf the week after his mother, who will y Not Cooper county. She came of good | Jeter’s court, was remitted. This {s | pe the ground and pens baek the condition four months before. | make her home in Butler. old Virginia stock which fs shown in pper g' Printed on Thursday of each week, | Mrs. John Broocks, and two chil- dren, Eugenifa and Ben, of Texas, visited Mrs. J.D. Allen the first of the week. They came up from Rich Hill where Mrs. Broocks {s spending @ vacation with her parents, Dr. and Mrs, W. H. Allen. Mis Emma Fletcher, of Burling- ton, Kan., who {s visiting at the home of her uncle, J. J. Richardson, fell from a shed, on which she had climbed in play with some children, and sustained a fracture of her arm. Dr. Christy was called and reduced the fracture, Arch Stone caught acat fish a day or two ago which weighed a little better than 50 pounds reports the Reylew. The arrival was too big for Arch to manage, 60 he sold it at Geo. Watson’s lunch room. The fish was taken from the back water of the Marlas des Cygnes. a mistake or misstatement. The ex ’ under the wagon, the horses kept dee H , Weha Nevada, Mo., the first of the week, avons About one o’clock Tuesday morn-|ell paid his fine and costs in full onejumped and escaped injury. The a + Feflecte upon Judge Harper. Wehave| and was accom home by her , ing this section was visited by one of| The fine was by agreement of the at- other was thrown out on his head a never denied their correctness apd | daughter Mrs. J. H. Smith. the hardest wind storms which has|torney in the case which the court and shoulders, and was patntul'y bruised and cut but not seriously in- BS accepted. jured. J Under the new law which weat into 25 mil ere oa —that’s what we sell you. All our| Sg? was reported. tt tasted abous pea egy 2 00 per month | Louisiana July 4 and sake dinner ee harness made at home by the best 4 This effects every carrier in Bates| With him. He has promised them an workmen and all cut from the best| J. K. Martin, of Rich Hill, District |county, so far as we are advised, | Old-fashioned equtrrel dinner with Oak Tanned Leather. The High-|Deputy Grand Master I. O. 0. F.|This is small pay for the boys, con- ‘slick dumplings.” He has arrang- . @h| vas in Butler Monday night and in-|eldering they have to furnieh their |°d with Lon Todd to furnish him a stalled the officers for Bates lodge |own conveyance. We hope they wi'l | hundred ‘ET experienced No: 180 us follows: C. A. Allen,| ultimately get {t up to $1,000 per | ones with lots of flavor preferred. have failed to note wherein any one in authority has dented their correct- me. anoes enteriat tone Settee. ness. But Bro. Funk now comesfor- | has caught up with his work and ward, and says he does not believe | will now take his summer vacation. they are correct. That is a matter to be settled between Judge Harper |esyate’ end cont’ mon ot Werle, and Mr. Funk. was in Butler Monday on business To divert attention from the real | and favored us with a pleasant call. fesue the Republican-Press isdemand-| prot (, A. Chambers went to War- | Grade Sayers & Scovill and that the county treasurer make the first of the week Columbia Buggies are strictly a some kind of a statement and roar Gels cogues ot the Guar first-class in every particular and com Rees } 4 —_ year. jenn hin Boge — cortify to 1t. If that paper will point | mer normal. tally guaranteed. Frans TM sccuter The aprointive| DF. O. P. Bowden and Dr. Pribll| says the tool squirrels are eating } Outany authority of law requiring We aleo sell the old reliable Mil-| oficars were also installed. drove over from Appleton City on | locusts, which makes them not only j Mr. Bell to make out a statement, he burn Farm Wagon. This is one of business Friday. Dr. Bowden was/ unfit for food, but positively delete- 7 © will gladly conform to it But no the oldest and best farm wagons|. -H. Lowder, Henry Tilson, Judge chairman of the Bates county Repub- | rious.—K. C. Star. ~ officer can turn aside from his duties ever. made and we will sale aie John March and William Whitley, lican committee and later a : tomake out statements at the re-| 3. D. Radford and J. V. Sn ) | price. Come and eee these wagons. ed menage before B ssg pobesger: aaah ny tose poeminant Will They Do It? . quest of Tom, Dick or Harry, and Lay y org fg weed po — We carry at all times a complete| Tuesday, asking for assistance in{in politics in this section He in-| “Passenger rates on all railroads any officer would be mighty foolish were pleasant callers po Monday. NY; | stock of Saddles, Bridles, Halters, | building an arched stone culvert on forms us that he haseechewed politics, | .¢ ghe United States will be reduced ttem Rural route No. 6, out of Rich Hill,| but we are skeptical until the duck pt such a thing. The rec- Ray Heinlein and wile, of Fly nete, dusters, &c. In fact every visited this section in years. Itlook- ed for awhile as though some dam- age would be done but a rain soon set in and all was serene. No dam- It it 1s a harness you want, why of course you want a first-class article near Mr. Lowder’s residence. The| refuses to seek {ta native elements, |t02 cente 4 mile,” says the Inter- é in horse ' Ocean. The lowering of the price ick oe. brane sapolbomand [2 epwnt she fires of the wook here | "are 4‘ e0 3 pian nes gag ma Judge John Francisco was the vie-| and complete abolition of the old 8 f j Yisttlug friends. They remained over Judge of the Southern District A.| tim of a runaway horee, and as a|cent rate to begin on July 1. This regular reports to the county ' until after the 49h. on hand at all times. which, after Inspection andep-| preg Rochmn reburned to hie dutles| Al gents for the Genuine Red are spread upon the records | ascook at the Parsons asylum, after | 80pe 4d Rubber Roofing. body. Mr. Fank knows these | a two werke’ visit with hie family at| Come and eee us—we will eave you D. Hyde, of the Papinville nelghbor- | consequence was laid up with a badly | was the decision reached in Chicago hook, wasin the ity Seneca bas bruleed head and ly for several | after a long and heated discussion way to Butler, where the county |days. The horse he was —~ | by the railway presidente of the weat- court met {n regular session thie ak young one, took fright on High/|ern and transcontinental roads. It ternoon. Judge Hyde rted that|street and ran away. At the junc | was not a formal agreement, but was a amount of the wheat in his | ture of High and Ft. Scott he tipped | equally binding, for two oo section of the country was tn shock, |the buggy over and “‘epilled” the| doing a transcontinental and that:the corn, though emall for | Jadge out on his head.. buggy | aresald to have served an ultimatum this time of year, looked well.—Be-| was demolished, and the horse went | to the others that thoy would put view. on home. the rate {nto effect immediately. and fs elmply fencing fur Lone Oak. County court convened —_——_—_ toe membere Ibis a ~ ated to a heater.