The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, February 20, 1908, Page 7

At the annual meeting of the Fire | Wordcomes from Muskogee, Okla., Department held last Wednesday | that A. A. Lesueur, of Antlers, for- levening, W. H. Hupp was elected| mer Secretary of State of Missouri, | chief, Walter Anderson secretary and | {e getting Into politics in that coun- | RING GOODS Are’ already pouring in on us and we need the room occupied by Winter Suits 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. e - 3 CLOTHING HOUSE ) i Mrs. W. J. Atkingon presented her) Petitions have been circulated in al © husband with a fine boy on St. Valen: | number of places in the county and | tine’s day. pretty generally elgned asking the Balance of furs and cloaks at half C°UNtY court to appoint Dr. C. P price —Walker-" cKibben. Lusk, of Nyhart; county coroner to fill the vavancy caused by the death _ _L.8. Paddock, the rustling Amster: + pp O, F, Renick. - dam butcher, was over attending court Monday and favored us witha pleasant call. Miss Effie Lear returned to her home in Kansas City on Saturday after a pleasant visit at the home of Dr. E. N. Chastain. Copyright, 1908, by L. ADLER, BROS. & CO. NUR new spring shoes jj and oxfords are ar- tiving. We need room for them and are selling some broken sizes in Men’s, Wom- en’s and Children’s Shoes at bargain prices. Hill’s Cash Store. White Perslanjawn onsale at 12kc up. Come and see them. Walker—McKibben. Will J. Bullock, candidate for the Democratic nomination for sheriff, was @ pleasant caller the last of the ” week. Mr. Bullock {strom DeerCreek A. G. Metzler was over from Foster Felts and overshoes reduced. township, where he has resided the 90 Monday looking after business Walker-McKibbens. — mogt of his life. _ matters, Mr. and Mrs. Sam E. Heinleincame; Munsing Underwear is the best. | H. G. Cook was called to Center- ) down from Kansas City Saturday, | All weights, all aizes 50c up. | ville, Iowa, on Monday by the serl- and stayed over Sunday with rela- Walker-McKibben, | US {llness of his mother. perenne OG When ds, | F.M, Woods was pleasant caller Mre I. M. Smith who has been Extra good value in long cloth at the last of the week. He had just re-| seriously sick with erysipelas in her 15c yd —Walker-McKibben. | turned from a trip to the Panhandle | face is reported much improved. Mies Ava Lopr: visited her sister, Country where he escorted some land | The regurns from the Johnson coun- Mrs, Ed, Snider, the last of the week, buyers. Marion does notattemptto ty jocal option election show a ma- Miss Lopp {e assistant business man- por ohre hag sore of — | jority in favor of the drys of 1,244. ination. | ayer of the Joplin Daily Globe. ae ee The dance at Hotel Pennell on Fri- Now window shades.—Walker-Mc | ~¥irg!l McKnight, a Kentucky sena- day evening was well attended and _Kibbens. ‘or, who has been voting against! tho young people report a good : . | Beckham for U. 8. Senator, died at! gime William Guyant hae been appoint: | his hotel in Frankfort, after an ill- oe ed express agent at Butler vice W.| 44, of a few hours. Beckham’s| Prof. N. E. Stephenson, whois con- G. Shater, resigned. Mr. Guyanthas 1.545 claim that a new senator will | ducting 4 fine stock farm near Tren opened up town office In & room ON bh» olected who will vote for the party ton, Mo., sends us remittance for re- North Main street. | memiloes; 7 newal. The Butler basket ball girlateam Mrs. Charles Johnson came inthe The Elks will have an open session met defeat at the hands of the Neva- last of the week to visit her father, @& their hall on Friday evening, Feb. da girls last Friday. The games are F. M. Wyatt, at the home of Al. 21st. Dancing and cards are an- now even between these two teams, Lindsey. A numberof the “oldcrowd | nounced. ; the Butler girls winning the first) of girls” surprised her on Saturday JoeRadford went over to F's. Scott “pit jafternoon, Miss Hattle McKibben sholast of the week and bought three an seit. ciateatiaeles and laces came up from Rich Hill for the occas- | good buggy horses for the Radford on ale 5c up—Walker-McKibben, | !2- | Mvery barn. r | Prosecuting Attorney Cockrell, of Mrs. Silas W. Dooley has been ser!- 2 7 ; ang 9 — ara Johnson county, is certainly causing ously illfor several days, but she sn |@ rattling of the dry bones along | was reported much improved at time . hie wifeand baby. Ed. is still using |, Ise tax Ilat If We learn. fom | crutches, from the effects of a wrench- |.> . ~ | of going to press the Johnson County Star that twen- _ ed knee which he received some time | ty-one have been found againet A new gas well at Pleasanton, Kansas, brought in last week ego. five citizens, who have been fined ae te Se ts beh enon _ New rugs and linoleume all sizse| from $10 up to $500. drilled in that field. and grades at lowest prices. County clerk Weeks has two photo- Walker—McKibben. Those who fail to hear Dr. James 8. Myers in his lecture “The Ro- ‘graphs of the wrecked Farmers &| Harrisonville was entertained last Mechanics bank vaults, taken the week by the antics of a steeplejack next morning after the explosion, who was at work on the flag staff on % of Achievement” will surely | Showing the outeide and inelde views the court house tower. “mies atreat. The lecture is given 92d giving @ good idea of thedam-| The long-drawnout session of the ander the auspices of the Dorcas | 8? done. Those fellows were evi-|prand jury has put many of the dently not very economical with their | sports on the anxious seat, and oth- explosive matter. ers are a little bit uneasy. ‘ Mise May Bard, whois conducting) (,) Frank Kellogg, who spentsev-| Joe Meyer, the east side clothter, : store at Republic, Mo, seqi days in the city assleting in the | went to St. Louis Sunday to spend d through Butler Saturday On| Water. McKibben store, 1 an on-|awhile,on the market, buying new way to St. Loule to study the| t usiastic Cowberd man. He says| spring and summer goods. jond lay in a stock of millinery. that while he is s republican and ex- The Standard Oll Company has pects to vote for Mr. Hadley, that Cowherd {ie all right in every way, ‘and if the people of Missouri must New Waists, to stockholders on March 14. 9 b Democrat for Governor, he . New Muslin Underwear, soe % oie ee ae * us| ‘The tt le a pew Bases Sete, Will Cowberd. New. Silk Waistings, well to look at them. Walker-McKibben. _New Oxfords and Slippers, Lumber For Sale. southwest of Butler on the Rich of nati At the sawmill-in my timber, five; Mr. Lipes, the smallpox patient, who was quarantined at a relative’s Ve! home, in Pleasant Gap township, Friend Carpenter treasurer. Charley Ewing says that Stewart Atchison fs out on the Pacific coast, where he can have that baby “stomp the green earth and snuff the cool alr.” The eating room and restaurant, run by Ej. Hawley, on the south side of the rqunre was entered by burglars early Sunday morning and robbed of $5 75 in cash and a box of elgare. Entrance was made through a back window, Inan address tn San Francisco, the editor of the Chinese World made the statement that China was fast raising anarmy ofa million men with the intention of driving all Europeans out of China. L. 8. Radford has added to his al- ready complete stock of rigs an up- to date high wheeled rubber tired buzgy and a two horse hunting rig which has a place for everything a sportsman may require. Del Lutsenbizer sold the old home place in Deep Water township, on Monday, to D. P. Wise, of Henry county. Mr. Lutsenbizer {s undecid- ed what he will do, but we hope he will conclude to stay in the county. Cheater Gillette, the youth who murdered Miss “Billy” Brown, year ago last December and threw her body into Moosehead Lake, has heen refused a new trial by the court of appeals and must die {n the electric \chatr, This has been an {deal winter in ;more ways than one, While it has been bright, clear and sunshiny, as a "rule, still the nights have been cold enough to prevent fruit buds from swelling, consequently the frult crop to date Is safe. Sam L. Coleman, of Deep Water, was in Butler advising with his friends relative to becoming & candi- date for the Democratic nomination \for county treasurer. Mr. Coleman {g an old line Democrat, has always given loyal service to his party and {aa strong man. Roy J. Ewing, of Waterville, Wash., and Miss Nellie M. Eckert, of Butler, were married at the home of J. E. Hall on East Dakota street last Wednesday, Rev. O. E. Vivion offict- ating. The young couple left on Monday for their western homa. Dr. Lusk was in from Nyhart on Monday having bills printed at THE Times job office for a sale of some live stock and personal effects. The sale was originally advertised for Friday, Feb’y 14th: but was post- poned to Tuesday, Feb’y 25th. The Kansas City Post had a notice that Leona Newberry, the thirteen year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George W. Newberry, had-taken the prize for the best sketch in her class at the public schools in that city. The defense of Beech Hargis, who shot and killed his father, Judge James Hargis, will be self defense, Beech claiming that his father as- sulted him and knocked out his teeth before he fired. The trial will take place at Jackson, Kentucky, during the present term of cireult term. The monthly meeting of Marma duke Camp at the court house last Saturday was well attended. The enrollment now shows twenty-five active members. All ex confederates in the county are urgently requested to enroll. The meetings are held the 8rd Saturday in each month. Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Reeder were in Butler on Friday and Mr. Reeder made use soctal call. Hoe recently sold his finefarm near Adrian and bought another one in Mound town ship Oscar Reeder was born in Bates county, has spent bis whole life here and says he has nointention of leaving it in his old age. The Supreme Court has atfirmed the sentence of Albert Crone who is now serving his term in the peniten- tlary for murder tn thesecon: Croue wae found guilty of the mur- der of Bertha Bowlin in Kersey Coates drive July 19, 1906, and sen- tenced to serve eighteen years. Mrs. Clara C. Hoffman, who for more than a guarter of a arg’ f was state president of the W.C. T. declared a dividend of $15 per share|U. in Missourl and was record ore total of $15,000,000, payable} secretary of the national order, d' at her home in Kansas City Thurs day night, Feb’y 13th, of pneumonia. She was 77 years ofage. The good Snappy and up-to-date. You will do| work shat thle noble woman Det; |ary 25th, 1908, Mr. Lewis ie a eub- she will long be re- formed in her live after her, membered for her good deeds. 40 ACRES AT BARGAIN. t, terms to suit. It lies four miles east of Butler, fine borhood, fine soll, ee | Biacuget & Kipp, Kansas City, Mo, ple. try. He has been selected as tempor ary chairman of thestate convention to meet at Muskogee next Saturday, to select delegates to the national convention at Denver. Carpenter & Shafer shipped three car loads of poultry to New York on Friday. The poultry weighed 50,- 000 pounds and the estimated num- ber of chickens was about 14,000, This is probably the largest single shipment of poultry ever made from one pointin the southwest to the eastern market. The following friends haye dropped in the past week, in spite of incle- ment weather, and favored us with renewal: Peter Ewing, Mra. A. K. Thompson, G. L. Woods, Allman Daniels, Willis] Yeates, F. M. Woode, M. Ballew, Ed. Corlett, Prof. N. EB. Stephenson, J. 8. McCraw, R. C. Dickensheets, J. M. Patty and M. M. Carroll. Eugene Bradley was kicked in the face by a young horse, at his home in Prairie township, on Monday. Four front teeth were knocked out and his face badly cut and mutilated. He isa member of the grand jury, over until he fs able to come to But- ler. It is thought that he will be here by Friday. The basket ball game between the Fs. Scott and Butler High School team, played in Butler Saturday night, resulted in victory for the vis- {ting team by a seore of 28 to 23 The “curtain raiser” was played be tween the grade teams of the east and west school, the little fellows playing good ball, the game finally going to the east elde by ascore of 10 to 8, Mrs. Minerva Lewis, aged 73 years, Thomas Lewis, with embezzlement. The old lady had been living with her son who had charge of all her personal property, A short time af- ter he was married he drove her from home and refused to return her prop- erty to her, claiming {¢ as his own. She {fs now living at the home ofa nelghbor. The young man’s bond was fixed at $500. Dr. James 8S. Myers will deliver his famous lecture “The Romance of Achievement” at the Christian church on Thursday night, February 27th. The Des Moines (Iowa) Leader says of this noted lecturer: “Des Moines has seldom listened to @ minister of greater culture or scholarship than Mr. Myers. He is plain and pointed and yet rises to sublime heights of eloquence. His auditors are entranced from the first word to the last of his address.” Hon. Lawrence (riffi was up from Rich Hill on monday seeing the boys and complimented Tae Times with & pleasant call. Mr. Griffith will stand for renomination before the next Democratic primary. He made @ good record in the House as a new member at the last general assembly and willbe in position to takea prominent part in the next. He isa talented speaker, a gentleman of pleasing address and possesses su- pertor influence. Dr. Hall, of Adrian, informs us shatjin tbe wolf drive, which took place in that vicinity the firrt of the week, no killing was made. The lines on the south, east and west sides of the equare advanced {n good order but the northern division for some rea- son madea hitch. The result was that some three or four wolves escap- ed through that side. Dr. Hall saye that Mr. Lewis Informs him that about 280 men took part in the drive. Judge Graves and wife spent sev- eral days in Butler the last of the week visiting relatives and friends. Judge Graves looks well and feels confidant that he will have no seri- ous opposition for re-nomination and election to a full term. Judge Graves was elected to fill out the un- expired term of two years of Judge Marshall, fesigned. He has already made an enviable reputation on the supreme bench, and will be returned by an overwhelming vote. ’ ‘Tue Tres acknowledges receipt of invitation cards to attend the fifth wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. 8.C. Lewis, at their home in West Point township, on Tuesday, Febra- stantial and popular young farmer, of that section. Mrs. Lewis (nee Miss Minnie McFarland) is a charm- ing lady and talented musician. We hope to attend the 50th anniversary of the marriage of this worthy cou- You Should SEE . and that body was forced toadjourn The Swell Li ne OF MEN’S, BOYS’ AND CHILDREN’S SPRING SUITS HATS, SHIRTS AND. NOBBY NECKWEAR ot Nevada, Mo., charges her son,| NOW ON DISPLAY AT Joe Meyer THE CLOTHIER. James R. Angle received a letter Monday from Guyman, Okla., that his brother, Dr. J. W. Angle, had suf. fered a stroke of paralysis and was unable to walk. Dr. Angle held the position as assistant physician at the Nevada asylum for several years, and resigned within the past few years to enter the private practice. Dr. Angle had the repution of being a good phystelan and & most genial gentleman. He was well known In this section and had many friends who regres to hear of his misfor- tunes. The Butler ladies who attended the “Progressive Luncheon’? given by Mrs. C. L. Mills and Mra, S A. Walls, at Adrian on February 14th, speak in highest terms of praise of thelr reception and entertainment. First — a big, delicious turkey dinner was given atthe Mills home, after which the ladies were driven to the Walls home, where cards and other games were enjoyed until six o’clock, when a chicken ple dinner was served with all, its appointments. Ths ladies were literally swamped with good things to eat. The Adrian hostesses fully sustained their reputations as entertainers. A Fifty Million Dollar Mortgage was filed for record in the Recorder’s office of Bates county on Monday by attorney forthe Missouri Pacific Rail- way Company. The mortgage cov- ers the Kansas and Colorado branch of the Mo. Pac. and is given to the Guarantee Trust Company, of St. Louis, to secure fires mortgage re- funding bonds. They run for 20 yeare and draw 6 per cent. intereat. The mortgage covers 156 pages, of closely printed matter, and contains 25,000 words. Harris Lisle, deputy recorder, says that thie {s the sev- enth mortgage of this s'ze and kind he has spread on the records during the time he has served as county rec- order. Duck coats, Mens & Boys sweaters, Winter Caps, High top Shoes, Overshoes, AT LESS THAN COST Hill’s Cash Store. OTR AE. IF ¥ baie NN REL oC eR NF I ae Sak & bn Hot, Ms