The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, May 21, 1908, Page 11

We are showing the greatest line of ® CLOTHING in Bates county. And we fit the “HARD-TO-FIT” The Long Slim Short Stout OR Long Stout Finds This Store to their liking. Come to us for Underwear Shirts, Hats and Shoe GCimeuca: CLOTHING HOUSE Copyright 1908 by Hart Schaffner & Marx A Watch . Free | With Knee Pant Suits. American Building--The Center of Town. Dr. J. W. Hall, of Adrian, was in. the city on Monday. 8. B. Cole came up from Rich Hill Monday on court business. Lucien Green, Bates county’s Ro- publican war-horse, says the post- masters wear gum shoes, with heela on both ends. Now, we wonder what he means by that! Mrs. Annie Axelson, of Joplin, Mo., was the guest of Mra, Sandy Wilson, of R F. D»No, 4, Friday and Satur- | day. Mr. and Mrs. M.S. Clay are attend. ing the meeting of the Kansas G. A. R, in Kaneas City, Kansas, this week | Mr. and Mrs. Robt. Johnson were Rich Hill visitors she tirss of the’ week, Young George Dowell, whois tun: ning a spley paper in the Rich Hill fribune, calls the Republican-Press the “Funk Press.” Now, we wonder Elder Lewis Wix wasa pleasan what he means by shat! % . ke Robert Farrant, of Vinita, Okla, — whiletn the city the last of she | came up the lastof the week ona | visit to the family of Mrs. Sam Mre. S. W. Price, of St. Louts, is Fisher. W - Pins so George Fulkerson, who fs holding country—barring himeelf—are all down aclaim {!n Eastern Colorado, Democrats.—K. C. Post. Mrs. E. A. Bagley is visiting her! came in the first of the week to vialt wc . ‘ | 5 - C, Green and Miss Pearl Winn, fangheer, Mre, J. A. Patterson, at/ ble fétitiy. both of Butler, were united in mar- > “Clover Blossom Stock Farm” {s ‘lage at the parsonage of the M. E Dr. E. E. Gilmore, of Adrian, wasa | registered by J. E.Thomeon in the Church, Soush, Sunday afternoon, visitor to the county seat the first of county alak’e office, It lays juss Rev O E Vivion offictating, the week. | north of Butler. Miss Pearl Smith spent Sunday | W. 0. Atkeson and Bro. Funk, of with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank | the Republican-Press, attended the Smith, near Rich Hill. | Cass County Republican convention Misses Kate and Mary Walker are the Gret of the week. ton Post. visiting thelr sister, Mrs. Harry | Mise Besse Cable came down from ‘ Hale, Sbeldon, Mo. | Harrisonville the first of the week, REMOVAL—Have moved my | she guest of Miss Irene Mains and to dress making establishment to my J. E. Dowell, of the Adrlan Journ-| attend the reunion of thealumni. house on West Ohio street, 2nd house al, was in the city on court bustness | westof Wyatt’s lumber yard. Would the firat of the week. | be pleased to have my friends call. 2938 Miss Viota Haris, always bad. The five men whom he considers to be the greatest in the An Iinols man recently rolled a barrel of water two miles to win a bes and get a barrel of whisky. In short time we may have togo farther than that to ges whisky —Washing- Mrs. J. B Paget arrived here from | Rich Hill Monday, on a visit with friends. She will leave May 28th for Spokane, Wash, to join her hus band. Gus Benners came up from Spring: field, Mo., Sunday for a visit with W. W. Jami d wife, of Rick relatives and friends. P acest nea ein re Hill, spent several days in the city the last of the week, guests of Mrs Mrs. J. B, Duvall entertained the) Jamigon’s parents, County Clerk and | cooking club at her suburban home, | Mrs, Weeks. Mr. Jamison was a pepe a oy! gag nant | witness before circult court. 1 7 of her sister, Miss Myrtle Hartwell, mL L 9 — 2 arene St. Louls. 7 THE Times {s in recelpt of the fol ouse work. Good wages. Apply) ‘lowing card from postmaster Wix, Joe Meyer, east side square, 29-tf Little old Bates county is usually be = bay gs Doge J hia thang up-to-date in all things but up tothe “El vation 5,5: eet; population, wae ~ p.. Ly time of going to presa we — - pe apes oa pay roll pay ry "| heard that she has yet produced a_ ric copper mines. Boys are doing Mrs. R. A. Davis, at Chickasa, Okla Ganness catia, J Ki |afine businnes. We are having the Mrs. H. P. James and children, of! j time of our lives, will be home the Rich Hill, were the guests of Mr. and! pt sponge hag - /206h.”” Mrs. H. G. Cook the first of the week. | oluanthe aes dso | Rev. J.B. Mayfield, pastor of the For SaLe—Hair switches, coronet| lican editors. Now, we wonder what | Christian Church of Butler, was puffs. Combings made up. 30 26*| they mean by that! nominated for Congress by the Pro Mrs. G. R. Marrews,400 East Pine Mrs. W. F. Hawkins, who was call- Earl McGaughey was down from Kansas City Monday and Tuesday visiting his mother and sisters. | hibitton convention of the sixth die- John Jennings, of Rich Hill, who! trict, held at Clinton last week. Rev. has been confined to his homefor the| Mayfield ia a strong man, a good ed to Kentucky by the illness of her| past few weeks with rheumatism, {e| talker, a ready debater and very ac sister, Mre. Dykes, wired her hus-| being attended by his son John who | tive in the cause of Prohibition. He band of the latter's death on Satur-/came down for that purpose from/ will make an active canvass of the day, at Ford,Ky. Kansas City. district. NEW CLOTHING FIRM T. A. Black, formerly of Bennett-Wheeler Merc. Co., and W. S. Arnold, recently of American Clothing House, having bought a full line of Clothing, shoes and Furnishing goods, offer the public the benefit of their cash purchase. They | invite all their friends and the general public to call and see them when in town and make their store headquarters. sts sts ots Black & Arnold Clothin Mr. Roosevelt's judgment {8 not Dan Andrew Groves, who has been working some tim-for N. J. Groves, northwest of town, was arrested Wednesday charged with forging a check on & man by she name of [PEYTON A. PARKS AND J. D. ALLEN Greene at Vandalia, Andratncounty, |To Go as District Delegates to Mo., on March 10th —Drexel Star. the National Convention, The directors of the Bates County | Special to Tuk Ties, Fair Association held a meeting at the cours house Sasturduy afternoon, which was well attended. Besides transacting the routine business, a! ‘ommittee was uppuinted to con | sider tie propos-d fusurity stake. WAN TED—A g¢ of farm of from 200 bo 240 weres in North Western | Bates, must be good corn iand, prie ed worth the money, and will take | first class residence In Galesburg, Ll, jtor part pay Address Central Co- | Operative Realty Co., Rieh Hill, Mo. | | ES, Carrishers, the former pro- |prietor of the Amertean Clothing Jefierson City, Mo., May 20th, 11 &. m.—At the Democratic Ssate Con- vention, which opened here thie morning, Peyton A. Parks, of Henry | county and J, D. Allen, of Bates county, were elected district Dele | gates for the 6th Congressfonal Dis trics to the National Democratte | Convention at Denver. W. G. Shock, | of Johnson county and G. R Church, | of Cedar county were elected alter- nates. The delegates at large have | not, up to this hour, been elected. High School Commencement. Hons», was tn the elty on business | Monday, departing for home by way of Kaseas City, Tuesday morning, | Mr. Carritiers ts doing a booming j clothing business at Greely, Colora- do Boonville is entitled to another tibbon. This time she produces a | citizen of color, who has been charg- ed with stealing a monument, for his jown use, The man charged with | stealing drifts wood und hot stoves takes a back seat —Boonville Adver- tiger, Calvin G. Reed, aged 75 years and 6 months, died at his home on the | Kansas side of the border, near | Ameterdam, Missourt, after a Iinger- ing llnese, Mr. Reed came to Bates county in 1856 and {in 1861 moved over the border into Kansas where he made his home to the time of his death. ' Bates county delegates to the State Convention went to Jefferson City Monday night and Tuesday morning. So far as we could learn, nota single proxy was given. That speaks mighty well for the party patriotism of the delegates when it {a considered that all had to pay rallroad fare. THe-Fites-was-compltmented by a pleasant call from Mrs. Charley Campbell, of Pleasant Gap, and Mrs, Hugh Lotspeich, of the city on Mon- day. Mrs. Campbell {s a daughter of J, B, Lotspetch and Mra, Lotapeich is his daughter-in-law A family re- union was held and a big dinner was enjoyed on that day. Charley Ewin {s in recelpt of the graduation announcement of his niece, Miss Mary Stockton, as vale- dictorlan of the class of 1908 of the Amity, Oregon High Schools. Miss Mary is the daughter of Rev J. W. Stockton, formerly pastor of the Baptist Church of this city. M. V. Nix, who has for some time been in @ very serfous condition, owing to an accumulation of water {n his left side, was operated upon Sunday by Dr. T. C. Boulware, who drew off over five quarts of water. Mr. Nix passed through the opera tion very well and his many friends will rejoice to learn that it {8 thought he will recover. The Hon. J. R. Hales, if successful {n securing the nomination against Judge DeArmond for congress, would make as good a tight, no doubt, as any other Republican tn the district. But the Republican candidate, no matter who he {s, simply won’t be In it this Democratic year of our Lord. —Rich Hill Review. S8.G. Forbes, aged eighty years and four months, departed this life after an fllneas of several months. Mr. Forbes was an early settler and came to this state at an early period of his*Iife. He passed_away at the place he has called hia home since be- fore the civil war, in the northwest part of Bates county. Dr. T. F. Lockwood, as chairman of the Medical Section, Dr. Mat Smith, of Virginfa, Dr. E. N. Chas- tain, Dr. T. W. Foster, Dr. N. L Whipple, Dr. John Crabtree and Dr. T.C. Boulware went to Springfield the fires of the week to attend the annual meeting of the State Medical Soclety at that place. The “Senate” saloon closed {ts doors on Saturday night last, for reasons well known, but just now too painful to discuss. The “Goose” Spread {ts wings and departed last n'ghtanithe “Oak’’ falls Saturday night. Then Butler will be so “dry” that the mythical old woman could fiad employment right here without satling away on her broom to sweep cob-webs from the sky. Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Barnhardt and other friends here are in receipt of in- vitations to attend the wedding of Clifton H. Womack to Miss Inez M. Brandenburg, {n Chillicothe,- Ohio, on June 2nd 1908. Clifton is the son of W. G. Womack, formerly a promi- nent business man of this city. He was born and raieed here and has many friends here among his former echoolmates, who extend to him beat wishes. his father, Taylor Hulen, in just 4 Willie B. Hulen died at she home ot | Coven, 3 either to justify an an ent incumbents Ed. Borron, Jno. C. The commencement exerciaes of the Butler tiigh School, held at the Opera House last Friday evening, was greeted by a large audience, The seventeen graduates acquitted themselves creditably in shetr ora tons, essays and musical numbers. Hon, W. O. Atkeson/member of she school board presented she diplomas to the following young ladies and gentlemen: Misses Loe Reese, Laura E. Angle, Lille L. Henry, Lottle A. Young, Permella E. Herrell, Edith R. Palm, Nixie McLees and Irene Shafer; Messrs, Walter L Jackson, Benjamin J. Richards, Benneté Henty, James T. Pahimann, Ralph R Allen, Frank M, Ludwick, Volney McFadden, Ernest L. Vantrees and Albert L. Dunwell. Capt. J. D. Allen, editor of Tue Times, lets Monday night for Jefier.: y. J. W. and G. W, Holloway left! Tuesday on a bustness trip to (en- try, Arkansas. Oa account of a frelght wreck near Nevada, Monday nolght’s north: bound passenger, which {s due here at 11:06 p. m., was nearly elghs hours late. Mrs, Clark Wix, who has been win. tering in California with her Iissle son, Hilton, returned-home Monday night, accompanted by her husband, Postmaster Wix, who spent the last | few weeks of their stay with them, Twenty-eight of the younger set held one of their jolly Iistle plentcs at | the beautiful Christy lake south of the city Tuesday night. A delictous lunch was served and all attending | had a most enjoyable time, { Josephine M. Allen, the ten year old daughter of Mr. and Mra. 8. L. Allen, of Nevada, died in Kansas City May 12h, of wenengitis, In- terment was made in Crescent Hill cemetery in this county. Mrs. Allen was formerly Miss Mamle Sisson, a | former Butler girl, daughter of Col and Mrs. James H. Sisson. Her friends here deeply sympathize with her in her deep afiliction. Cap Price, of the Spruce neighbor. hood, was bitten on the finger by a dog, Monday, while trying to remove a fish hook which had {n some manner caught in she dog’s mouth. The dog closed down upon his finger, and Mr. Price came {n town to Mayor Moore's office to have the madstone applied. Although the stone adher- ed, a physician, who was called {n, gave his opinion that there would be no serfous results, A team of mules belonging to Orton Moore, who lives about eight miles northwest of the city, became fright- ened at the Chase Lister Theater Snaps In Snappy Outing Suits FULL OF STYLE AND QUALITY. MEN’S $5.00 to 15.00 BOY’S $3.50 to 10.00 Children’s 50c to $5.00 JUST ARRIVED PURE WORSTED SUITS BROWN EFFECTS $13.50, $15.00, $18.00 They are the Latest. See them at JOE MEYER’S, THE CLOTHIER. company’s band, during the concert at noon yesterday, and broke loose from the hitchrack near the Farmers Bank, making a viclous runaway. Running down the east and south sides of the square, they narrowly missed several vehicles and turned south Into Fort Scots street. They were stopped hy running Into alarge tree {n front of the residence of Mr. Duvall on West Fort Scott street. The damage was remarkably slight, the harness being pretty badly brok- en upand the neck yoke was snap- ped in two. Sheriff Beard run an attachments, {esued from the St Louls clreuts court, on 460 acres of land In Elk- hart township, owned by Charles E and Willlam A. Lewis. The attach- ment is issued on petition of the National Bank of s+. Louts, alleging that the defendants were conveying their property for the purpose of de- frauding their creditors. Messrs. Lewis are summoned to appear at shat court in June. Posting a Letter Is an everyday occurence, but let- ters are of no trifling importance The friend who cannot see you per sonally, sees you in your letter. The best clothes are not too good when you call; neither is the best Mrs. H. Carter, of Omega, Okla.,| Stationery too good when your let- and daughter, Mrs. Lida M. Brand, |ter calls. and sop Horace, of Etna, Okla, are visiting Mrs. Carter’s sister, Mrs. W. F. Hematreet. They will probably stay six weeks. Tae Times acknowledges a very pleasant call trom the ladies. Mrs. Carter is very partial to Oklahoma, aside from the wind, and says when that blows con- tinuously in the spring she gets homesick for old Missouri. The offices of Surveyor, Public ad- minietrator and Coroner appear to be going begging. There {s scarcely ‘he pres- Butler, Friday, May 15th, be m{d-| Hayes and Dr.C. A. Lusk, reepective- aight. Impress! ted b; ‘1 out Dr. Renick’ tion. probably file intentions to run 40 ACRES AT BARGAIN. _It lies tour miles east of Butler, fine| Barry. x 0 fine soll, need pg ctennd ten, io. 1 City, New Hotel Bidg EATON’S HOT-PRESSED VELLUM Glenbrook size, is the best there is in gentlemen's stationery. We have the biggest and best line of box paper, tablets, envelopes and everything in stationery. s g Smith’s BOOK AND STATIONERY STORE **Just around the corner.’? Case Jeffries, postmaster at Schol- Vian tte County clerk. Dr. Lusk was|*e0, Barry county, Mo., is the victim county court to fill/ Of & strange circumstance. Mr. Jeff. oe hats any emiet |tgn ta order suas erupebiona ntans 5 0 01 ata an might will ew not have any oppoel. te Hreeies es aad en aie rightly belongs to that party, but there ~~ Ps be es ape 1. Jeffries’ bard work of three months in attempting to resign bas been unavalling.