The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, August 29, 1907, Page 7

had an attack~of acute indigestion|of Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Matheney, at last week, is able to be at his office|Custer, Ohio. Mre. Matheney was Miss Nellie Voris, daughter of Frank M. Voris. She was born and raised in this community where she was big grey wolf was flushed north of School Suits $2.00 to $7.50. A movement is on foot to build an electric line from ElDorado Springs to Lowry City by way of Monegaw. A preliminary survey is now being made. but know it happened, because Jim sent Gs word he would bring use watermelon the firet of the week un- lees the bees stung him, and we didn’t get the melon. Mrs. Laura Staley and daughter, Mise Ethel, moved to Urich Tuesday, where Mre Staley has a situation as housekeeper and her daughter will attend echool this winter. Their friends wish them success in their new home.—Creighton News. Mrs. W. L. Stewart, of Sumpter, hie buggy, he lost a.very valuable cow. In order to “encourage and pro tect its infant Industries,” Appleton City will havea parade of decorated baby buggies during the street fair at that place. Mrs. F. C. Davideon, of Kansas City, and Willis Price, of Reading, Kaneas, are visiting the family of C M. Walker. Mrs, Davidson is Mrs. Walker’s mother. Our good friend A R Keeser, who represents the 3rd ward in the city council, favors us with renewal for himeelf and hie father, Jacob Keeser, at Sandaville, Iowa. Mra. J. M. Robbins, of Wintersett, Towa, who has been spending several weeks with her son, Clyde Robbins, at Amoret, visited her old neighbor Sam Newlan last Saturday. Mrs. C. Culver, of Butte, Mont, who had been visiting the family of W. F. Hill and Mrs. Coonrod for two weeks, departed for home Tuesday. McFarland & Sons have just racelr- ed another car of High Grade Sayers & Scovill Buggies. This is one of the nicest line of vehicles ever shown {n the town. mrs. Daisy Cunningham, of Nelson, Saline county, and Mise Millie Cook, of Mt. Leonard, Saline county, are in the county visiting thelr sister Mrs. Wm. M. Taylor, in Summit township. Prof. Burke has moved from the George Herrell property, on Pine street, to one of the Shafer houses, near the west rchool building. Geo. Gilkerson moves into the house va- cated by Prof. Burke. R. M. Braden, of Kansas City, son of Robert L. Braden, of Homer town- ship, was in Butler on Monday. He holde an important position witha zinc mining company. We werecom- plimented by a pleasant call. R./M. Kemp, of ElDorado, has been appointed aa out the unexpired term of Jo ontgomery as mem- ber of the Hard of Managers of the State Hospital for Insane at Nevada. Mrs. William Valentine hae pur- chased the depot restaurant. Mrs. Foster and John Hutchinson have Young Men’s Suits $7.50 to $20. son, in Butler, and her parents in the east part of the county, returned to her western home the first of the week. / Some factory price $800 pianos $400; $600 pianos $300; $250 pianos $125. $10 down balance to suit customer. Come in and see our goods whether you buy or not, and tell your friends what values we have. Aug. 24 to Sept. 5 at R. i. Wheeler Music Co.’s, Rich Hill, Mo, W. A. Martin’s boss found their three year old fron grey mare, valued at $150, shot in the leg and the bullet had gone into the body, week ago last Saturday. She was in the pasture, just southwest of the store, and a week after they found her, she died.—Clinton Eye. John H. Pyle and daughter, Mrs. M. P. Campbell and Miss Edith Camp- bell returned Sunday from several months’ stay on the Pacific coast, most of which time was spent with Mr. and Mrs. Alonzo M. Hunter, at San Jose,Cal. They reportadelight- ful time and are much pleased with California. J. W. Wainwright, Company M, 1st regiment, WU. 8. Infantry, station- ed at Calbayog; Samar, P. I., sends us remittance for renewal. He writes that he {s enjoying good health and expects to be back in old Bates in about ten months, Everything {s quiet there now and expects to be ordered to Manilla soon. R. A. Guynn, of Montrose, charged with the illegal sale of liquor, was tried last week. The jury could not agree and were discharged. The at- torneys then agreed on a verdict of guilty, Guynn to pay 4 fine of $300 and costs. A parole of $150 of the fine will be submitted to Judge Den- ton in the September term. County Collector Yancy Combs has his force hard at work making out receipts for the current year’sjtaxes. County Clerk Weeks turned over the tax books to him the 1st of August, which was arecord time. Mr. Combs is a rostler and says he {s ready to receipt for all taxes pald. He {s sure making 8 good county collector. Tom Baldwin moved his famtly to Kansas City last Friday, where they expect to make thelr future home. Mr. and Mra. Baldwin have lived in Butler many years, where they have strong friends. Mra. Baldwin was Miss Clara Brown, daughter of the late Judge D. V. Brown, and had liv. ed in Butler from her early girlhood. William H. Ison, who was so badly injured in a runaway accident last week, at his nome in Lone Oak town- ship, while stil in a critical cond!- tion, is much impraved. He has some feeling in his legs, suffers little pain and {s cheerful and confident that he will ultimately recover, which in such cases fs half the battle. His family and triends have strong hopes of his ultimate recovery. Uncle Charley Clark, who has been in poor health for several years, but {s able to be up moet of thetime, and he says he feels like challenging the world on a welghing match as a light weight. He wolghs but 79 pounds and thinks he{s about the lightest specimen of mankind in the commu- nity able to navigate.—Urich Her- ald. A petition for pardon{was circulat- ing in Walker Thureday, says the Herald, asking the governor to par- don Dr. Todd of Richards, who was gent to the penitentiary) for],twelve years for killing Robert Wallat Rich- ards, Several other petitions of like nature are being circulated in other parts of the county. All are being heavily slgned.—Metz Times. The Greatest Fall Line Ever Shown in Bates County. Hart, Schafiner & Marx Clothes: have more Style and Fit Best of any line of Ready-to-Wear Garments in America. The ‘ ot); The dl CLOTHING HOUSE ot Store Store. We Fit the Head, Feet, Form and Purse. —EE———————————————————————————————————————— Splendid bargains in crash rem- Mrs. John Endres returned the last nants. Walker-McKibbens, [of the week from a visit to her D. A. Colyer left for Richmond, eo Will Smith, at Cof- Ky., on Sunday on a business trip. | © ley, Kan, Charley Lane, of Prairie City, was Mrs. John Ray and Mrs. B. P. Pow- ' | ell returned the last of the week from in Butler Thureday and favored us @ two weeks’ visit to relatives at Geo. E. Fox, thedraymanfrom the | VanBuren, Ark. with re- — called end favored..es with re Whole car load of pianos at factory : prices. Saleto be held Aug. 24 to School books and supplies at | Sept. 5 at R, H. Wheeler Music Co.’s, Smith’s Book and Stationery Store. | Rich Hill, Mo. New hotel building. 4426 bx County Treasurer Oscar Reeder| Purchased a hotel at Los Animas, Major F. H. Crowell returned from gnd wife were in the city on Tuesday Col , to which place they will shortly a week’s business trip to Panhandle from their fine country home in|™°V® of Texas on Monday. ” , Mound township. Mies Kate Colyer has accepted the Mrs. John Huffman ment to Leba- Mfrs, @, H. Evans and two pretty | Principalship tn the primary depart- non, Mo., last week to visit her sis- daughters, Misses Iva and Minnie, ment of the Alabama State Agricul- my \ tor, Mre. Albert Silvers. of Shawnee township, graced our —_ SS Se for vergreen, enter u; JulinsC, Weeks, of Pittsburg, Kan., | sanctum on Satarday. ’ pon her duties. ; one peg: Buy his father,county | Mrs. Dr. J. P. McFarland and chil-| Rey, @. W. Beasley filled the pulpit ve family. : dren, of Kansas City, Kan., came} at the Methodist church, south, on ‘Wm. M. Taylor, ourgoodtriend out | down Sunday to visit relatives and| Sanday. Mr. Beasley, it will be re- in Summit, was @ pleasant caller on triends in the county. membered, married Miss Etta Willis, Saturday and favored us. James M. Deane, of Harrisonville, | daughter of the late J. P. Willis. Miss Nellie ‘Atherton, of Kansas | was in Butler on Monday, visiting | They make their home in Nevada, City, is visiting her grandparents, | the banks and court house in the|M». Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Patty. interest of a stationery house. J.C. Hargus, & talented and rising lawyer of Osceola, spent . J. Spears, of Spruce townsh{p,| Mrs. M. R. Power and grand|70wé was a pleasant caller on Saturday | daughter, Mise Nina, Warnock, left tery fn R sad on legal buel- and had his dates set ahead, the first of the week tor @ month’s| 20 We acknowledge a pleasant School books and supplies at| "Ay 4 Marenette, Wisconsin. call. Mr. Hargus is not only a good , . lawyer but an influential Democratic Smith’s Book and Statfonery Store.| Grant Shaw, who owns the old P| joader. New hotel building. 44-26 a Wilson aoa npg! Kastan Robert W. Bracken and wile, of "Phe weather was excessively hot | “Upper, shipped two feeders | King Fisher, Okla., who hae been Saturday and another yesterday. visiting his brother Jake Bracken, , Greatest sale of pianos ever held in| left the last of the week to visit his rday to Bates county at factory prices from | sister, Aunt Jane Hutchinson, at El Aug, 24 to Sept. 5 at R. H. Wheeler examination for a first Music Co.’s, Rich Hill, Mo. tificate before the county Dorado Springs, before returning to thelr home. ; Ico cream.and take will be served] Harve Johnson was promised a|education. He will teach the Pera Se cow by “Gabe” Hedden some time] school next winter. He resurned last ‘ the occasion of his marriage. | week arrens! Jullus Elgert and J. B.SWateon, pea . on cis, Rares while prospecting on the Elgert farm, a day or two ago, struck a fine arte- alan well. Their drill hole was 2% Farmers in this section have arm- ed themselves-with shotguns and are making war on the blackbirds, which are to be found in numberless thou- sands throughout the entire county. The birds make short work] of a small field of corn, and the farmers are trying to drive them away by continuous bombarding into their flocks.—Rich Hill Review. During the past few weeke a num. ber of white women of Wichita, Kan., have been attacked by negroes and similar crimes have occurred at other towns and negroes have been driven from those cities. Chief of};Police Reavley very wisely has instructed his assistants to keep @ close watch on all strangers who come into Nevada and all suspicious negroes are ordered to move on. Nevada doesn’$ want any strange negroes stopping here, and Chief of Police Reavley’s policy will be fally indore- ed.—Nevada Mail. Mrs. W. E. Copeland celebrated her alxty-sixth birthday witha visit with the family of Uncle Abner Copeland. This was the first timoin five months Aunt Jane had been able to leave her room. During her continued ill- neas she lost fifty pounds of flesh, but she atill weighs 810 pounds. Aunt Jane 1s just as good as she 1s large, and her many friends will be giad to Henry Tilson was a passenger for Kansas City on the afternoon train, and from there expected in the course of a few days to take a trip to north- western Kansas. We don’t know, but rather suspect there’s a woman in the case, as Henry has been mak- ing “goo-goo eyes” at the widows and elderly maidens for some time now.—Rich Hill Review, 27th. Grady Smith, son of Recorder Smith, came in from Pratt county, Kansas, the last of the week to start in achool the firat of the month. He says C.J. Schooley has sold his farm, for which he paid $3,000, for $7,500, and expects to return to Missouri. Ralph Schooley and wife will \move back to Bates county this fall. Stephen Smith, of Mingo,/wasa pleasant caller on Saturday) after- noon, He had just completed his We show Clothes equal to the best Custom Stylish Fall Suits, Finest Cravenette, Rain Coats, Swell Overcoats. ork Every Garment Will Retain its Shape. Get our prices on Trunks and Suit Cases, Joe Meyer The Clothier. One of the features with the Belcher- Wright attraction of “Under Two Flage” is thelr own “Military Concert Band” that will render two concerts dally of standard and popular muste, Don’t fail to hear them, Butler Opera House Tuesdny, Sept. 3rd. The Jasper county court is having a 8 arch concrete bridge built as an exper!ment. There will be 26 tons of steel in the bridge butnowood, The steel will be covered with cement making {¢ {mpervious to the weather. The floor will be of cement laid on steel beams. Should the venture prove successful more of the same kind will be contracted for—Stock- ton Journal. Maryland {s sending out invita- tions to her sons and daughters throughout the world toreturn home for a week’s reunion October 13 to 19. These home comings are joy- ous occasions for counties as well as states. Bates county has sons and daughters scattered over the coun- try, and we would like to see an ef- fort made to have them all home at one time. Our good friend J. A. Maddy, out on Adrian No. 5, was a pleasant caller. He brought his youngest daughter, Miss Natalle Maddy, who this spring passed the county grudu- ation, to town to stand an examina- tion before the county board of education for a teacher’s certificate, His oldest daughter, Miss Lavina, has taught two years at Miami Center, and has been re-employed for another year. The people from a distance, who will appear on the programme of the Bates County Sunday School Con- vention Wednesday and Thureday, Sept. 4 and 5th, are Rev. Geo. P. Baity, D. D.; Rev. F. L. Johnston, D. D.L;G. A. Coply and wife, all of Kansas City. Mr. Coply and wife have just returned from an extended trip to the Orient, and his lecture on Jerusalem as it {s to-day will be of especial interest. Do not fail tohear all these people. Patrick O’Connor, & young man, who has been employed cleaning up the debris made by remodeling the Firet National Bank of Appleton City, was overcome by heat the other day. O’Connor says he served in the Boer war and was wounded in the head with a polsoned arrow, which has caused him to have faint- ing spells ever since. 48 soon as he recovered, he left the city, saying he intended going back to Africa and develop some diamond mines he dis- covered while there. The cottage home of Jesse Miller, in the north part of town was totally consumed by fire Sunday evening & little after 9 o’clock. Thw fire was caused by an exploding ofl lamp in the hands of Mrs. Miller, and she had @ narrow escape, as oll and glase were thrown upon her person and clothing, but fortunately she escaped injury. The flames, however, were communicated to the dwelling, ard though neighbors rushed to the res- cue as oon as the firet flash of light occurred, they could do not to save the building.—Rich Hill Review. The catalogue and premiym list (for the third annual live stock show and agricultural exhibit, at Hume, Mo., on Tharsd rey 196b has been reteel ‘at o! It