The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, February 13, 1908, Page 7

SPRING GOODS Are’ already pouring in on us and we need the room occupied by Winter Suits i and Overcoats | COME NOW WHILE OUR CUT PRICE SALE IS ON—WINTER GOODS CUT 20 to 30 per cent. FELT BOOTS and OVERSHOES Cut to Close Out. Fs CLOTHING HOUSE ( * \ Copyright, 1908, \ byL. ADLER, BROS. & CO. Valentines—all kinds at Smith’s. the Dixon residence property on| Mrs. Dora Harrison was a pleas- | Mechanic street and will move short: ily. ant caller the last of she week. ler, Mo. 8-tf Mrs. B. J. Berry, Biggest and best line-of poss cards) ghort Horp and post card valentines at Smith’s.' China boars for sale by W. G. Sellon Dick Howard, of the Amsterdam 6 miles west of Butler, Mo, R F, D Enterprise, was over attendingcourt No. 6. 13 1m on Monday. plimented us pleasantly, A Mr. Lovell of Lake townshtp, aged 95, the oldest resident of Ver- non county, died of old age lass Sun day. several years. Bates county shipped out another car load of Jacks, last week, to = and has lots of good ones left. 1 A change of venue ta Bates county was granted {in the sult of Mary E. Bailey vs va City of Nevada for dam ages. | agriculture. Frank Smith was up from his’ (Charles Harvey, writing from Gar- | Osage farm on Monday looking after field, Kan., to renew for his paper, | rensburg. business mattersand greeting old reports an open winter and very fine | friends, weather. Mr. Harvey fe running a) Joe Whipple, who has been visiting |!very and feed stable in Garfield. relatives and old friendsin Butler and the county, returned to Kansas b City Monday. Dr. J. M. Risley, from Kansas City last week, sold his residence property on Mechanic people's mistakes.”—Ex. street to W.S. Steele. terested. Eugene and Homer, sons of P. J Jewett, of Summit, returned home Saturday from Columbia, where they tad been taking a short course tn elegant dinner. Ed. Crabb, of Osage, was a pleas- | attend the funeral of Mrs. Roy ter, who died there Friday. The first woman attorney who has er, ever appeared in Mexico, Mo., ap- before the circuit court last week. crat, whoee name {s Dray, 1s going! acter is portrayed {n the ) play. because a Jack W. McClure has purchased, BOARD, by day or week, Meals a specialty, 105 Ft. Scott street, Bus- Editor Dowell, of the Adrian Jour- bulls and Poland, nal, was {n Batler Monday and com- Besides runnioga live local paper for the peo- ple of that section, he has been serv- {ng his town as chief magistrate for He was looking after a lawsuit in which his town was in- President B. E. Parker, of the War- rensburg Normal Business College, accompanied by his charming wife, made a social call on THe Times, Tuesday. Mrs. Parker will remain | for a short time at the home of her father J. C. Cuzick, of near Virginia, while Mr. Parker returned to War- Mr. and Mrs. F. F. Mabbots cele- ‘brated thelr twenty-fifth or silver wedding anniversury, Sunday even- “No,” sald the bishop, a wise and {ngat thelrhome on East Dakota road man who had seen much and / street, and were the recipents of a suffered much. “I make it role to! number of elegant and useful silver- who was down perform marriage ceremonies free. 1 ware presents given by a number of have no desire to profit by other | friends who gathered in as a surprise to them. Mrs. Mabbott served an Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Valentine went ant caller while in Butler the first of! Capt. Will Forrest, who was strick- over to Chanute, Kansas, Sunday to | the week Mr. Crabb came to Bates en with paralysis while at a perform- ot- | county {n the early seventies and has | ance of the “Clansman”, falled to re- ‘always held a high place as a citizen | cover from the shock and died Sat- and an Influential Democratie work- | urday morning at his home in Mem- phis, Tenn. He was the son of Gen- eral Nathan Bedford Forrest, the peared inthe Carp vs Bartoncase, The editor of the Savannah Demo-! famous cavalry leader whose char- | Mrs. Alida Walker, of Bisbee, Ariz , is visiting Mrs C. W. Daniels, four miles south of Butler. Whether you Want Them | George Herrell was down from Ad- |rian spending Sunday with his par- }ents, Mr. and Mrs. John F. Herrell. Don’t forget the Jubilee Singers at the Opera House on Wednesday even- ing, February 19sh. If you like old Southern plantation songs, they will please you. | TO STAND IN TO WALK IN TO DANCE IN TO RIDE IN Trenton, in Grundy county, voted wet last week by & majority of 241,| after @ very strenuous campaign. Grundy county outside of Trenton voted dry some time ago. Our $3.00 Shoes FOR LADIES Can't Be Beat. | The Farmers Bank has on display an old Spanish coin, near the size of | asilver dol ar, po ved up by George | Rains on his farm in Pleasant Gap, township. It was coined in 1808. W. A. Epbland. of Shawnee, Okla., | passed through Butler the lass of the | week on his way to visit old friends | {a Foster. He was formerly cashier ot the Farmers Bank of that town. They are all Styles and Leathers. We have Shoes Lower and Higher if you want them. On the ground that a dog has no real value, the supreme court has de- | clared unconstitutional the dog law passed by the last legislature, taxing | male dogs $1 per head and female | Poffenbarger & Douglass dogs $2 per head. Lambertville is the best Rubber made. Columbia went “dry” at a local We are exclusive agents, option electiondast We Inesday by a} majority of 42, The vote was 998 “drys 955 “wets.” Theelection was hotly contested on both sides, and {t {s said much bitterness was engend- j ered, _——————_- — J Emmett Hook came tn from his Hudson farm the lass of last week to attend the funeral of his mosher-in law, Mrs. Robecea Argenbright, De C. Mize, trustee for New Home township, came {n the last of the | week to make his eem!-annual settle- ment with the county court, but ar- rived too late, court having adjourn- ed. He reports much sickness inand ‘about Foster, New Waists, New Muslin Underwear New Dress Goods, New Silk Waistiags G. H Nuckols, who was transact ing business in Butler last week, gives usto understand that he ts still {nthe horse and mule market, He says thas prices are still up. New Oxfords and Slippers, New Laces and Embroidery, Hill’s Cash Store. Rey. J. A. Smith, a Baptist minis- ter of Dayton, Mo,, who wasin the city the last of the week favored us with a call, Rev, Smith fs a brother of Attorney T. J. Smith of our city Winterstein, the asylum attendant, who wascut with an axe by a patient |named Sykes last week, continues to jimprove and !s now out of danger. The patient who assaulted Winter- steln,_was_not—c red_as_atated, butis still at large —Nevada Herald. J, N. Chambers, an old Bates coun ty boy, who has been Iving at Hep Forced Marriage. ler, Kansas for several years, came’ Wijitam Wantl: and Winnie Klatr, Among the strange things develop- in Wednesday to visit relatives and a young Kansas couple, secured I edin these piping times of polittcal| ld friends for a few days. Weae conse of Recorder Smith and were progress are the leaders who ‘aro | knowledge & pleasant call. married by Probate Joba Silvers on Tuesday. The father of the bride was present ab the wesSing of the li- cense but refused 60 witness the cere- promoted, because they are greater than the party they profess to repre- sent. There fs only one statesman who can be so classed, and his name is Theodore Roosevelt, but he is now very decidedly out of faver with his party.—New Madrid Record. Bate Batchelor, of Deepwater town ship, was fn the city the last of the week settling up the Insurance on his 4 2 house which was destroyed by fire mony. Constable Judye Stangle was short time ago. He had about $400, also present as & witness In fact | on the building. The farm, which | She young couple were under arrest wasin the poasesston of J. W. Alli- }and were released when pronounced son at the time of the fire, has since Man and wife. Constable Stangle been rented to young Powell whose = Pe pe _ Panama lor satiate Ta reaking a state statute. The fath. | parenty reside in that neighborhood. w hed bees told that they wore’ Jake Allen, of the Bur_Ler Times, | married two months azo and only thinks the bees way for Stone and the othar day discovered the truth Folk to settle the senasorship will be! and bad them arrested. All's well {n joint debate. Allen was formerly thas ends well. a Folk man, but he seems to lean; toward Missour!’s famous pebble now. Atleast that {sa reasonable conclusion regarding any man who proposes a debate between Stoue and Folk. —Warrensburg J-D. Mrs. Manda Johnson, widow of George Johnson, early settlers {n Bates county, died at her home in Deep Water township on Sunday af- ser an {llness of shorts duration, of disease incident to old age. She was making her home with her daughter, Funeral services were conducted on Monday afternoon at the home by Elder Lewis Wix, and interment was made at Union church. Will G Reed, of Amorett, Mo., was {in Paola last Weduesday on his way to Gainesville, Texas, with the body of his grandfather, Jefferson Robert- son, for burial. Mr. Robertson was the father of Mrs. Mats Reed, of Louisburg, Kansas. He fell last Sunday and ,broke the bones in his right hip, and being over 92 years of age he could not recover from the shock, but died last Monday.—Weat- ern Spirit, ‘ ONLY A Few Days pipecunasn Left be the next number on the lecture | course, at the Opera Honse, Wednes- From the Pleasant Hill Local we learn of & new feature fn Sunday School work, The Rey, Robt. Simons, pastor of the First Christian Church of that city, says that Sunday schoo! teachers should and will soon recelye pay for thelr work. The American Sunday School Association {s back- ing the movement and thelr stand {s that 6 teacher fs as much entitled to pay as the preacher. A class of fil- teen has been formed in Pleasant Hill to study for teachers certificates Mrs. Willis, an aged woman, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. C. C, Pitebford, early Thursday morn- ing last. At noon of the same day Everett Pitchford, aged 24 years, son of Mr. and Mrs. Pitchford, died TO BUY ~~ Geo. B. Dowell, the able you editor of the Rich Hill Tribune, was in the city the last of last week and nade a fraternal call on THe Times | ¢; 1) he city council, at {ts las - | " to consiaued the Suaarouteh, bes) Wiley E. Welle, of Parsons, Kan., cut hie salary to $15.00 per month, | W*ites that he has never lost interast | ;- in his Missouri friends and that “THE The oe —_ —~ isp each week brings glad tidings ee > one ae eee | from his old home.” Wiley 1s atrav- H. M. Cannon, F.C.Smith and J, eling representative of the Barton se oy — — ys to Ne- Bros. Shoe Co., is prospering. vada on Sunday to dttend the funer- al of William Fraze, held under the| The Elgin National Watch compa auspices of the Nevads lodge, A. F. | BY is about to. discharge a thousand .M. or two employes who are so nicely a, by the tariff which en- a | pleasing way. Cards have been received by lady friends in this city to attend a valen- tine party given by Mrs. C. L. Mills and Mrs.S. A. Walls, at Adrian on the 14th, as 11o0’clock. Cards and filnch are mentioned. Ina basket ball game at Pierce : City between the girls of the Joplin A pile of coal otled papers was dis- | 1) *Y, crue te 5 cut Jeera Barat opl a house in Mexico, Mo,, the other day. yoena sid B ge M4 0} gir While there is no explanation offered perwedh oe = ne 8 rate} prod» tows des ae nae GIP based iy Gelling on 2 ators, anoth- io Sp wale a -aaeinanes er had her nose broken and _ tpn ie that + fre |tourth was taken seriously ill. Mr. and Mre. E.M. Pennell have ‘eoued tnvisetlons to a dance at Ho- a a nell on to-morrow, Frid , 4 snsalag, February 14th. ‘The Elke) he 1s interested in Bates county's | ore, taken from the dance which was onan ¥ in Aaron’efitems, | anid to be ve evening has been postponed to Feb 21et,a week later. |charge American dealera $10.15 for the watch that 1s sold to English dealers for $7.41.—Commoner. were elopers. a six years and | Judge Smith in Davies county. {s mach with the soll and cli- Letendearoage | Bill, granting a flat | mate. they have had an open pension to $12.8 month to all wid- | winter, lote of plowing done, wheat : . ows of honorable disc! sol looke well. R new spring shoes passed the House the first of last week, without division and with only one vote in opposition. and oxfords are ar- riving. We need room for them and are selling some broken sizes in Men’s, Wom- en’s and Children’s Shoes at bargain prices. Into Marebol, Me, lass Friday night into n Oung ticense tax of $15 has been levied on) Ed. Culver has demonstrated his each dray in the city, and he has six | ability as an expert window dresser draysin his famtly.—Columbia Sen- on several occasions. His latest ef- ois fort at the Culver Furniture Store, {s a lady’s boudolr, artistically fur- nished, with bed set in an alcove made with curtains and rugs. He ts | now planninga Washington window, which will probably be set next week and promises to show up the father ‘of our country faa patriotic and Henry Parker and Miss Hattie Stockbridge, two young people giv- {ng their home as Kansas City, came | to Butler on the night train Satur- les the Elgin Watch company to | day, hunted up Recorder Smith and jsecured a license and went to Judge Boxley’s office and were married. They leftfor thelr home in Kansas City Sunday morning. Both of them were extremely nervous and timid |and created @ suspicion that they Judge Estes Smith and H. A. Dins- more were county seat visitors on Monday. Mr. Dinsmoreisfrom Troy, the | Idaho. His wife is a sister of Judge Smith, and they are back on a visit. Mr. Dinsmore owns a big saw mill from Braman, | and {s interested in placer mining near HE TIMES, 8AY8| Wallace. He had samples of silver of the river, rich. He fa an old at Virginia.- He} Missourian, being an old neighbor of Overcoats Heavy suits Wholesale Prices of pneumonia. A double funeral was held Friday afternoon, and the bod- {es were interred {n Double Branches cemetery. Mrs. Pritchford was re- ported very {ll at the time. The Jubilee Singers, composed wholly of negroes with fine, melodfous voices, come with the best of recom- mendations. The Times, Bedford, lows, says: The Nightlagale «Mid land) Jubtlee Singers were with us Tuesday and Wednesday. This troupe is composed of colored people and they gave excellent satisfaction. They confined themselves wholly to plantation songs, and every number called forth applause long and loud, David H. Ford Dead. David H. Ford, an old resident of this county, died Friday, January 31, 1908, of diSease peculiar to old age. He was 87 years old and lived with his son, John, nine miles north- east of here near the old Charles Lee farm. His remains were taken to the southern part of the county Sat- urjay for burlal in the community in which he first settled upon coming to the county. He leaves son and one daughter, John Ford and Mrs. 8.8 Fox, respectively. Mr. Ford was an excellent old gentleman, a Ifelong Baptist, and there are many who will mourn his departure.— Amoret Post. 80MAcres at Bargain. It les two miles east of Foster, fine U.G Robinson the superintendent of the state antl-saloon leaguefroths at the mouth when he thinks of Cow- herd being elected governor of Mis- sourl. Robinson will find that he cannot run séate politics. In fact he is not necessary in any sense, moral or political. Warrensburg preferred to conduct {ts own campaign and let Mr. Robinson, who {fs at best buta hatr-brained trouble maker andslan- derer of good men, stay away —War- resburg Star. Ata mass meeting of citizens held in Hume last week the following di- rectors were el:cted for the Hume Stock Show Association for 1908: F. L. Martin, J. L. McConnell, J. Gasa- way, J. O. Botts, S R Humphrey, T. 8. Wilson and J. F. Futhey. The diréctors thus named elected the fol- lowing officers: Dr. J. O. Botts, President; J. Gasaway, Secretary and Treasurer; S. R. Humphrey, Vice President. The sentiment was ~ oat for perpetuating the stock show. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Spear and daugh- Take advantage of This Sale if wre vleaaant callese. at Tax Temes |Reigbborhood. School adjoining) YOU are in need sanctum on Tuesday. From them we| ry, See or write. Dé Tewxreis, of an Overcoat. learn of the birthday surprise, given his father, James W. Spears, of Johnstown, by hie children on last Sunday, in commemoration of his 70th birthday. It was a happy fam ily gathering. A good dinner was eaten, and the o sleman was ITS MONEY SAVED. Joe Meyer THE .CLOTHIER. Duck coats, Mens & Boys sweaters, Winter Caps, High top Shoes, Overshoes, AT LESS THAN COST Hill’s Cash Store.