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VOL. XXX. Have you been WE HAVE SAVED OTHERS MONEY. You have a right to your Money’s Worth getting it? WOOLEN DRESS GOODS New Dependon Voile, rich brown, 44-inch wide, just the thing that is selling for summer at.......... $1.00 New Dependon Voile, the new shades of blue, 44-inch wide.. .$1.00 New Dependon Voile, good shade Of black forw.......eee cesses $1.00 New Dependon Novelty Jasper gray with stripe for............. $1.00 New Dependon Novelty, fine shade of tan with stripe for............ $1.00 WOMENS OXFORDS Patent Colt oxfords, the finest you ever bought for .............s08. $2.50 Black Vici Kid, the new last, Cu- ban heel, for...........cceeeeeees $2.25 Black Vici Kid for............. $1.75 Black Vici Kid for............665 $1.50 Sewing Machines. WHY NOT YOU? WASH GOODS Have just arrived. New fresh stock to select from. Malverin Batiste for.............. Tic Fairview Batiste....... 10 and 12':c New Dependon Batiste for 15c Soisette, all colors ............0055 2 Tinted Mercerized checks New Dependon linen finish suitings Wee, ear ninains sean ticeesae 25c New white dotted Swiss ........ 25c New Percales, all colors,......... 15¢c Big line of Ginghams 8',, 10, 12'; and 15c CHILDRENS OXFORDS Black Vici Kid oxfords for...... $1.00 Black Vici Kid oxtords for......$1.25 MENS OXFORDS ' Virginia. |Chairman Jones, of Chicago, was “RED” AN on |presens one day and spoke. Rev ie RE 2d be D THE BEAR. _| Palmore, of St. Louis, spoke Wed- HE ATTEMPTS TO BRING BRUIN HOME | needay. Mrs. Carry Lee Stokes : ALIVE, spoke Wednesday afternoon. Eb. F Uncle Henry Hockett, of Athwell, | Chaffin, of Chicago, spoke at night Idaho, who ie visiting friends and | Thursday was a business day. Kev relatives at his old home near Vir- | Palmore recommended tor President: ginta, told’ Tur: Ties reporter a/H. Pl Farris for Governor, Rev bear story which will “bear’’ repeat: |} id was a delegate to National ng. m Convention at Columbus; J. M “Uncle Henry” has for one of his} Vaughn, elector. E. I’. Chatiinmade neighbors, a young man of the name | the closing speech Thursday night of Redding, called “Red” tor short|Subject: Whas kept the Whigs and by his most {ntimate friends and] Democrats together so long. A ma Uncle Henry, who has a reputation | jority In both parties were in favor as a mighty hunter, always carrying | of slavery. They changed and gave a large caliber Winchester with him |each party their turn, unt! the anti- whenever there {s a poesible chance] slavery men left both partles, then of running onto big game. A short} one had to go down, and that was time ago, a cow belonging toafriend| the Whig had to die at present ot *Red’s” strayed away and ‘‘Red"| There were plenty of men !n both went out to look for the cow, taking| parties that were opposed to the along his young cannon. Now | saloon, and when they lefts their old “Red” didn’t tind the cow, but hedid | parties, one of the old ones would go find a bear; not a Teddy bear, but a} down, and the saloons would leave great big real live bear. When he|she country. Thut he would be Gov saw the bear, “ed” forgot all about |ernor of Ill, and Hadley, of Mo the cow and beyan to think realhard|The Republicans have been bidding about the bear because “Teddy’s|for the brewers’ vote. A distiller’s Dee light” seemed to think he had a|fatr bank made a dicker with bush to date with “Red” and wanted to em-| pay $25,000 to the Republican tirm brace bim. When he remembered | to down the Democrats, that he had his trusty ritle with him,| We took a lookjat the town Friday “Red” -began to take potshots at] forenoon. [tisa clean town, fine bulld Bruin, but they did not seem to|{ings well arranged and on the street “take” well and our hero tryed to|car we found a young man that work his artillery faster than a gun|was partly ralsed around Virginia, of that pattern {8 supposed to go,| D.C. Morris, conductor of @ street with the result that he jammed a|car, and had been for six years, He cartridge. Then he attempted to} {nquired about all the old nelghbors work the power of the human eye|He wasa boy, when he lett He is racket on the bear, but as for star-| living in Webb City, a neat town: {ng him ous of countenance, he did | married and has gota good looking not have much luck, fortheimpudent|woman. He educated his youngest House cleaning fs the order of the day and papering, so things willlook neat and clean. Mrs. Minnie Myers had a room pa- pered on Thursday. Mrs, Anna Fulk did the work and came down to Pas- sale and papered the Parsonage. The paper, paint and window shades were furnished by the Altona people, tor which the preacher no doubt Is very thankful. So the Altona folks can come over and eee how the room locks and how well the preacher did she paloting, and report the same. Our pastor filled his regular ap- potntment at Passaic Sunday morn- {ng and had a fine congregation and he read the general rules of thechurch. He wens cut to Mé. Vernon school house in the afternoon and preached, but did not have any preaching to she evening on account of the shreat- ening weather. Verna Brummets has _resurned home. She has been away for some time on a visit to her sister at lols, Kansas. Her friends are glad to see her again and mix and mingle thetr volces. Rey. Clendenning left Saturday on she train to fill bis appotpsment as Ms, Z:on, near Rich Hill. He preach- es there the third Sunday of each month, and we understand the third quarterly conference tx to be held sire she fifth Sunday of this month, The Presiding Elder fs expeeted Sun- day night. We have not put in our appear wuce for awhile; you know the farm- ere have been quite busy of late get ung in thelr corn, but most«f them are through unless (hey have to plant over and we hope that will not be the case. Ruby Sewing Machine Honey Moon Sewing “ New Ideal Sewing Machine. .$25.00 New Home Sewing Machine .$35.00 REMEMBER: We sell Groceries as cheap as anyone in Butler. WE WANT YOUR BUSINESS. Black Patent Colt with buckle fastening, Henely last for...$4.00 Patent Colt, Amherst last for ..$2.50 Black Vici, Stanford last for....$3.00 We want your Pro- duce, and will give the market price, cash or trade. Young Men's Suits Sam’! Levy + Serr Co's. THE coming of the warm days will make your old heavy suit uncomfortable. . You really ought to see the many styles we have in Summer Suits. They are very swell, stylish and dur- able. The prices the lowest of any house for good reli- able clothing. SPECIAL Weare closing out two lots of suits. They. are good material, and worth a great deal more than we ask for them. LOT NO. 1. $15.00 to $18.00 Suits, choice..:...... $ 10.00 LOT NO. 2. $10.00 to $13.50 Suits, choice.........-. $7.50 Don’t pay fancy prices for your clothing. Come and see us. 3a G |Sam’l Levy Mercantile Co thing came right up and took the|sister. At the convention we met gun ous of “Red's” hands. Now R “Red” didn’’ know but what the|came home by way of Pistsburg, bear would be able to get the jam-| Kan. We could see that the full din med cartridge out, and as every one|ner pall was empty in the mining knows a londed gun {8 a dangerous|towns along that road, One thing weapon in the hands of a bear, the|that makes Joplin look good fs the hunter took to the tall timber. The] beautiful women, taster he ran, the louder the bear’s| If you wanta good place to board breath sounded over his shoulder, | whilein Joplin,go tothe Yates Hotel, but he was game and didn’t give up| Fourth and Pear! etreets. They will the race until he reached the houee of] treat you right. A good part of the anelghbor. He went in and shutthe|town: several churches across the doorsand windows, because he didn’t | street from the hotel. A large number want a draft blowing upon, until he|of the delegates to the Prohibition had thoroughly cooled off. After he} Convention board there. had rested sufficiently, a party went| A tine little girl arrived Tuesday out to Interview the animal. They|to bless the home of Julius Hecka- found the gun, where “Red” hadjdon, The happy mother {s doing turned {t over to his tnquiettive | well, : AAION triend and—The bear? Well, Uncle ser - ae ony id doesu’t know of any bear be- * Passaic. {ng found who was carrying about; .; iaiie we +} : twenty pounds of lead around fn his rridey oe idm alta hide. ; Mrs. Chas. Timmons was see her parents on Sunday. We had quite a rain Wednesday afternoon and some wind wish it. Mr. Deerwester was at Sedalia at- tending a meeting of the Board of Agriculture, of which he {sa member over bo The Virginia school closes Friday with an entertainment {n the after- noon. They expect to have a good time. Box supper ab MecFadden’s hall Saturday night for the band boys Comeand hear some good musie, and have a good tine, and help the band boys on their way rejofeing. i Dr. Smith left Monday of this week for Labanon, Mo. We understand he will visit in Springfield before resurn- {ng home. Mrs.. Will Durst went with her mother, Mrs. C. A. Wallace, of Amo- ret, to Kansas City to vielt her son, Gordon, and daughter, Bula Wal- lace. Mr. Graves, of Lebanon, Mo., ar- rived last week to take charge of the blacksmith shop, known as the Hocket shop. Mr. Graves commenc- ed work Monday morning. Let the old patrons of the shop give hima trial and welcome # stranger into our town, Quarterly meeting at M. E Church filth Sabbath. Elder Hunt will be present and preach at 11 a. m C.R. Home and lady, of Butler, took dinner with Aaron and family Monday. Geo. Thompson and Mise Ella Colburn were married in Kansas City last Wednesday, and were at hofne Friday night. (Juite anumber of his neighbors came with their We judge quality by judged horns, and disturbed ‘them in their slumbers. mesit ; , Aaron spent Tuesday night of last % fai Le week with his sister in Lames. H don’t fail to see us. H. Fleisher {s kept busy in the store. Mrs. Rollo Fleisher, of ;Kansas City, was thereon a vielt. Mrs. Ida Ray {a with her parents for awhile. We lets Wednesday morning for the clty of Joplin to attend the State Probl. bition convention and help fix the winning tickets in Missouri next November. The convention met in the Commercial Club. Mayor Osborn welcomed the delegates and the con- vention. In behalf of Joplin he gave ev, Sapp and Simpson Ely” We— Iron Roofing, Rubber Roofing And ali Other Kinds of Roofing, - Always in stock at our places of business, Doors, Windows, Porch Columns, and a Complete Stock of Lumber. sur knowledge of the thing | We judge values by comparison of prices. rsion Vrs. Anna Fulk wae fn Butter Sar urday transacting business. She was nceompanted by the Pastor's leble son, Orvil. Mre Ross Coward andson, Arthur, were doing some trading with Chas Timmons Saturday. Our Pastor was away last week at sending the district conference at Clinton, Henry county. A good tine was had and most of the preachers were there. A good program wasren: dered Tne work over the district seemed to be {n a prosperous condi tion, for whieh we are glad, ALHta, (The remainder of Passate [tems were recelved too late for publica- tlon this week aud will be Inserted next week —Epitor ) Mark Twain has been invited to speak in Kansas City for the benefit ofthe Zoo. Let us hope he does not make a monkey of himself. There seems to be an epidemic of elgar stealing raging tp Kansas City We would think that campaign year would be a pretty poor time to steal cigars, as well as We invite you to examine our goods, compare our prices with those of any other firm, either retail house in the country or catalogue house in the city, and if our_ prices are not as low as the lowest, we will thank you to tell us about it. When you want paint, oil or glass Yours for business, LOCAN-MOORE LUMBER CO. (No. 30st) Dispe a good talk and tothe point. Mr. — Stanford in behalf of the Commercial Club talked well and thade the con- vention welcome and the Prohibi- tlonista neat little epeech The Rev. | G L Peters in behalf of thechurchee. | Miss Julia Howe in behalf of the W. C.T.U. D. W. Crow in behalt of the Local Prohibition. The Joplin Herald sald 250 delegates were present and the Globe 62 on account of the farm- ers backward with their work. was not a full number t. Therain kept many of the oplin people away. Hadley’s posl-| tion State Prohibition kept the Epublicane away. National ers, calves and bulls. mares. COL. G. P. CELLOWS, COL. R. M. PAGE, Auctioneers. R. a= OF Fair-Mead Short Horn Cattle 1 will offer at public sale on Sat. Sept. 26th,1908. 46 head of pure bred Short-Horn cattle—cows, heif- Also sell some good, high-grade All invited. Send for catalogue. Sale N. Chandler, Fair Mead Farm, CREIGHTON, MO. aes 2 he SURE 2 tse SDL ICM Pt ERRNO E LI nt PA ARN,