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| | i y d 8 # v et cae ti co tee A ie ————— “4 man with a bank account is a good citizen,” according to Mayor Josiah Kirby, of Cincinnati, Ohio On the Wing. (By N. M, Nestlerode.) E. Wooden has built a new porch The first Fourth of July victim for | since the severe windstorm. this year isweported from Joplin,a) The little daughter of Ross Conard nine year old boy blowing off-b!= | swallowed a pin the other day. She hand with a toy pistol. | was taken to a physician at Adrian, A Joplin woman must pay a wil| Ut the pin could not be located. 99,000 tor allenating the affections The doctor gave his opinfon that if of her husband. Isn’t {¢ a pity thas | *he pln was swallowed head first no the affectiuns of all of us arenot that | very bad effects will result. highly rated. M. Spillman reports that bis cane RT | crop was destroyed by the hail last Unless a certain class of coons and | Kk, especially the brand which seems to | hee age © Ol have te teguame be running loose in Oklahoma, | “Wijbyr Parks has built a -new come to patted = be - be | 14126 2 etory front to his realdence, bad niggers’ the old saying ip re-| hows up in fine style, The root has gerd to the Indians will have to be |)... painted. changed to “a good nigger fs a dead | he Mount Vernon Sunday School ck ee nr | had an {ce cream supper June 10. We are now looking forward tothe! John Duggan has built an addl- time when we may have the pleasure | tion to his residence. of burying our face into and getting | Thenew barn on Low Simpson's our ear’s julcy with @ slice of one of | place shows up well and 1s quite an the biggest watermelons raised in | !mprovement. Bates county. Kind friends who| J. Ford’s sale was well attended. have patches of this luscious truis! Joshua. Dickerson was agreeably please take notice. surprised by his friends and nelgh- . snag REG |bors, who were invited in by his pack op ber _ . ah | daughter, Miss Alice, to celebrate his pasa tg eal Pl, ey alba | 82nd birthday on June 3. A superb ew ee dinner was served and later tn the Seventy-five Dayton, Ohio, women evening the guests enjoyed dainty were expelled from the Dunkerchurch | pefpeghments. N. M. Nestlerode was last week, because they persisted in preeent and took photograph. wearing the “Merry Widow” hattn- | Four generations were present, Mr, stead of the regulation church bon- pickerson was born in Kentucky net. near Loulsville in 1826, came to Illi- When you need to take something | nols at the age of 10 years and was take 1s promptly for the stomach, | married to Samantha Collins on but take something you know is/ jecomber 15, 1854. To thts union Pecincriggere «boon =~ four girls and six boys were born, 9 {s pleasant to take, it {s rellable and | °f these are still living. Mr. Dicker- {s guaranteed to give relief. It 1s aon ts the great-grandfather of 14 sold by C, W. Hess. children and the grandfather of 20 Willle Barkest, an eleven year old chitdren. tgs = St. Joseph, Mo., boy, was arrested Srare or Onto, Crry or TOLEDO last week for turning @ switch which = Lucas County, bead wrecked @ train, The boy sald he, Frank J. Cheney makes oath shat | he fg senior partner of the firm of F. was.trying to upset @ coal car, 80) Cheney, doing business in the City that he would not have so much of Toledo, County and State atore- trouble getting tuel. | sald, and that sald firm will pay the . face piece reglage eareee sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS Kennedy’s Laxative Cough Syrup foreach and every case of Catarrh {s the one that children like 80 well | thas cannot be cured by the use of to take as {6 tastes nearly as good as | t74))’ Catarrh Cure. maple sugar. It acts gently yet free FRANK J. CHENNEY, ly onthe bowels and thereby {tdrives’ Sworn so before me and subscribed the cold: out of the system. It is! )) my presence, this 6th day of De. sold by C. W. Hess. ember, A. D., 1886. Butler has the Sunday Id ongood A. benny i and tight. Only the necessaries can | Hall’s Catena 0 ane 's token Anton be sold in cases of emergency, such | nally, and acts directly on the blood death. It they can only get Jake | and mucous Cte te - the system. Allen and Sam Davis to attend Sun- Send for testimontals free. day school, the lid will be hermetical- | Address, F. J. vere So, ly sealed and the reform will becom | goiq by all Drugglets, 75c. ad plete. But??? ??2.—Adrlan Journal.; Take Hall’s Family Pills tor con- atipation. Bucklen's Arnica Salve Wins. Tom Moore, of ‘ 1. i _— an py lng py ty ie When the new city water and light and could find nothing that would improvement proposition is fully die- heal {6 until I applied Bucklen’s posed of which will be as soon as the Pr pina cm. ia -_ Pog tg weather will permit, an extension of 5 cent box won the day for affecting a perfect cue,” Sold wader water mains should be urged and guarantee at Frank T. Clay’s drug | ore revenues secured for the city. atore. ‘Immediately following this should be the agitation of a sewer system. The Jersey lawyer who wants tO Every town the size of Rich Hill fine doge $5 for the firet bark after | should have adequate sewerage, both sunset and $10 for each bark there- for the convenience and health of {ts after until morning may attaln noc jnhabitants, not to mention the turnal peace in his town, but he economy. A good system of sewer- could never stop the crowing of the |mge would result in the erection of Democratic rooster by that or any | many fine modern buildings, as well other repressive measure.—Republic. CASTORIA. iantes The Kind You Have Always Bought wd It’s @ poor rule that doesn’t work both ways. As long as the negroes are allowed full representation of the Southern white population in Reput- lican national conventions, theCrum- reducing the Southern representa- tion in Congress in the ratio of illit- there. —Republic. Dr. Gilmore has returned from Chi . cago, where he went last week to at- tend a meeting of the American Medical Association. The Doctoren- joyed the meeting. An enterprising cartoonist caught @ good sketch of him for the Chicago papers, except the fact that the length of his whis- kers {8 exaggerated conelderably and hat {s rather above size, but he enjoys the fun with his many friende —Adrian Journal. packersshould shut up talkingabout | eracy among the negroes down| |as connections with those already | established and would prove a great accommodation to the business dis- trict. Let us have such @ system soon. Work should commence on the main sewer within a year. The branches would be minor affairs. With a factory to provide the tile right at home, this town would have every advantage over most others. —Rich Hill Review. Swam For Snake Bite Cure. | McAlester Correspondence Kaneas City Star. | Mrs, B,C. Self of Tannehill Prairie | neighborhood, several miles out, de- | clares she owes her life to a neighbor | who swam more than half a milethis | week to reach McAlester to get her |eome whieky. Mra, Self had been bit: | ten by a copperhead snake and her | home was surrounded by water. A neighbor who knew of her misfor- |tune volunteered to come to this ‘city tor whisky. He was compelled | so swim a good part of the way, but |made good, and Mrs. Self 1s etill alive. A New Orleans, woman was thin. Because nourishment Result: she did not extract sufficient frgm her food. Emulsion. She gained a pound a day in weight. er Ths aes A girl in Kansas had a newepaper | man fora beau. Shesays he was) firat a monthly, then semi-monthly, | then a weekly, and finally got to be a daily visitor with .an extra on/that Bates county boys are taking) General Meyer announced that an special occasions.—Ex. The practical jokers at the Dugesne Steel Works at Pittsburg are facing ajcharge of murder. They inflated a friend with a compressed air pump, and although he didn’t quite burst, he finally died. Anarchists and mem- bers of the Black Hand might find a compressed alr pump quite as effec- tive as dynamite to say nothing of ite being noiseless. CASTORI aA. sare the The Kind You Have Always Bought | Oi Strawberries are getting short. Thecrop was not up to the etandard in either quantity or quality, owing to the excessive rains, but there were enough to go around. ‘Ihe black- berries and raspberries promise an abundant yield. In the largertfrulte, apples are dropping fearfully and orchardiats will satiafied if they getovera quarter of a crop. Peaches are holding thelr own, but are a fall- ure in spote.—St. Clair Co. Demo- crat. Complimented by Opposition. This week’s Rich Hill Tribune (Re- publican) says County Clerk Weeks (Democrat) the following «ompli- ment: “County Clerk Weeke te receiving compliments on his statement pub- lished in the Review last week. It is the most complete statement ever couplled and goes té show that Weeks fs one of the best county clerks Bates county has ever known.” The appointment of a successor to C.R. Walters, of Rich Hill, as a member of the board-of managers of State Hospital No. 3, brings to no- tice his public services. Col. Walters wae president of the board and ser- ved with ability and @ consclentious desire to do his duty, to the inter- ests of the Institution and the state. Unquestionably Mr. Walters was a valued member of the board —Ne- vada Mail. =z CASTORIA Bears the The Kind You Have hivays Bought | "i" Ligh Marriage Licenses. Albert Christmann, Rich Hill. Martha Merchant, Rich Hill. Wm. C. Stockton, Eureka, Kas. Minnie Sanders, Eureka, Kas. J.C. Hare, Foster. Bessie Lancaster, E1Dorado Springs. Boys’ Contest. The following letters from Prof. | Porter M. Allison and Major Crowell to Coleman’s Rural World shows greatinterest in tbe coming corn con- test: Butler, Mo., May 18th, 1908.—In reply to your letter will say, thatthe boys are entering into the work with @ zeal and energy that bespeake suc- cees, Most of them have planted and all have prepared their land well before planting. We have ten boys andelght young men in this town- ship. We are going to offerascholar- ship to the boye from this township. Alsol am trying to get the school district in which I teach to offer one scholarship We have $10 promised onitand I think we will get the re- mainder. The young men are after a scholarship to the Short Course at she Agricultural College offered by the banks Respectfully, . M. ALLISON Butler, Mo., May 21et, 1908,— Dear Sir: In reply to your recent letter regarding the boys’ contest, will say that we are having reason- able success with {¢ here in this coun- ty. My plan of having each town- ship offer a premium at our fair te meeting with responses from nearly every one of them, and I think after we pull: off that “encampment” we will have more boys than we know what to do with and corn to throw to the hogs. Will push the whole matterall I can and hope for thesuc- sa of all the shows. Very truly yours, FRANK rf CrowELL The corn shows this fall bid fair to be the best ever yet held. One reason forso thinking is thas men know more about good corn, and a second is that such liberal premiums were | never offered before. The State Fair at Sedalla October 3rd to 9sh.comes across with hun- dreds of dollars for cash prizes, be- sides good merchandise prizes, free scholarships; ete; —— The State Corn Growers Assocla- tion for thelr annual show 1n Jan- uary will offer the beat let they have ever been able to give. Some of the fine things are given here, take a look at them and get into the game. Some young man will win a $75.00 _|worn clothing. There were no Corn Growers—Look This Over | 2 Cents an Ounce Cost of Post- age. Washington, June. —Postmaster agreement bad been reached with the British governments providing for aletter postage of 2 cents an ounce between the United States and Great Britain and Ireland, to be- come operative October 1, 1908. He stated further that the British post- master general, Sydney Buxton, was making a like announcement to the house of commons. A Memory of a Lost Delight. From ‘‘Around the Fireplace,’’ by BE. P. Powell in The Outing Magazine. A fireplace any one may have, and to me the wonder fs that ourciviliza- tion has abolished the very soul from our northern homes, Fire is no longer the joy of the household, but the slave, {mprisoned {n the cellar, Ah, but 1t was delicious, when the old-fashioned family sat together in the great kitchen around she huge fireplace. All the evenlog we told stories, ate doughnuts, drank cider, all the time paring apples, and hang- {og the long festoons of quarters from the beams. But the dear little mother, she !t was who told the best stories, while she was knitting muf- ' flers and socks, or mending our well- parlors atall in those days, and as for thrummed pianos, we had not yet heard of them, At 9 o'clock, honest and drowsy, we kuelt and thanked God for Ife and love and home. Our bunks and beds and trundle beds were all in close prox- {mity, and from every one of them we could see the flames, still jumping up the chimney while the big tirelog |was slowly eaten through. There was not one milifonalre {n all the world, and Indeed we were nos wor- ried over the affair, Why Women Are Fickle. Boston, June 15.—Women have Automobile Seat Buggy, offered by | two souls, perhaps more, according Jones Bros. Mercantile Co., Kansas | to President Gi. Stanley Hall of Clark City, Mo. Then the Debaval Cream | yniveralty. He gave this as the ex- Sg only Sanaa wee os planation of the “fickleness’” of wo- #7000. The Avery Company of|man, of her “erratle methods of Peorla, Illinols, a Perfection Edge-| jumping at conclusions, and her tn- Drop corn planter $45.00. The) tuition,” in his address of psychother- Phelan oe wan satu 40 00 apeutics before the graduating class The Stover Mig. Co., of Freeport, of the College of Physicians and Sur- Illinois,” a No. 5 Ideal Feed Mill, | eons. $45 00. . The agg Mfg. nat “Woman fs much more susceptible Sandwich, Illinois, a $45.00 Feed | han man,” he said. “There is a Mill. The-Johnson & Field Mfg. Co., good reason for this. We know that Racine, Wisconsin, a Fanning Mill, , Corn Sorter and Bagger, $45 00.| She has two or more aouls. Shemay The Simmons Hardware Co., St.|love and hate at the same time and Loule, offer a $50.00 Keen Kutter] the same person. She may say, and Tool Cabinet, also a $2000 Keen! patjeye, that she fs ill or well when F. V. Puryear, Rich Hill. Viola P. Finch, Rich Hill. WB: Heretord,- ; Dora Davis, Rich Hill. J.C Umstated, Spruce. O. E. Spears, Spruce. DeWitt’s Kidney and Bladder Pills} are prompt and thorough and willin; avery short time strengthened the aa kigueys. Sold by C. W. ess. Two Good Ones. From the Chicago News. “Edmund {sthe smartest child I ever saw,” boasted the fond mother. “He is as keen as @ razor.” “Yes,” spoke up grumpy grandpa, “and he reminds me of a razor.” “In what way?” “Why, he needs strapping.” Pearl—Another message Freddy? Ruby—Yes, another message. Pearl—Gracious! He is getting to be a regular Teddy Roosevelt. CASTORIA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of from Hard Cider Can be Sold. The much talked of cider case against A. N. Brashar, Portland, Callaway county, has been decided in favor of the defendant. Judge Ryors euetained a demurrer in the case and ended the matter. The prosecution held that, as cider is a beverage, and the particular cider in question contained 7 per cent alco- hol or more than twice as much as beer, it came under the statute which says that no intoxicating liquor shall besold. Judge Ryors admitted that the cider was sold, and thatit was intoxicating yet held that !t did not come within the law. The case ie she | ‘ool Cabinet. There are i erent articles not named |‘: is-reelly—erie—L- here, Christ Ohlendrof of Boonville, |8imply that one soul fs In the ascend- Cooper county’s big seed corn grow: | ancy. These two souls may beabso- er offers a fine silver cup for thellute strangers to each other, but young mens’ class. they certainly exist. We have prov- These premiums and the people) qi, beyond the shadow of adoubs.” who offer them are too well known ——— to need any Introduction. Every man in Missourl knows the goods. The list 1s only under fair headway and will grow from time to time. A local Corn Show should be held in every community, and fn each one the winning corn should be sent to these other shows. S. M. Jorpan, Sec’y Mo. Corn Growers’ Assn. Big Tract of Land Involved. Nevad Mail A bligland suit was tried: before Judge Thurman at E!Dorado Springs Friday which {nvolved about $10,- 000 worth of real estate. The suit was brought by Jason Campbell agalost Chas, M. Howard to quiet racuneiaaAbe the title to the land. Judge Thurman’s decision was Don't Destroy It. favorable to the plaintiff. The de- The following {s a walf floating | fendant appealed the case to the su- about in newspaperdom without any | preme court. indication of {ts authorship: “Is| Itseems thatthe helrs who sold religion true? I don’t know and| the land years ago only had a life tn- don’t care. But if it {¢ a lie it is the| terest and that when this ceases the most beautiful one ever told, one| land is to revert to Jason Campbell trom which truth itself might learn.| according to the dectsion of Judge Could we exist as a nation without| Thurman. A number of warranty it? France tried 1%. Does it do any | deeds have been made during recent harm? Then why destroy it! Don’s.|yeare the land title passing last to IW’s old as civilization. It was al-|Chas. M. Howard who bought the mostallto our mothers. We’vebeen|land froma man named Swetgart sung to sleep a thousand times by| who may lose a large amount as be {tshymns, We are better men and|gave Howard @ warranty deed. It women now whenever we hear them | seemed that an abstract to the land sung. They are joined to tender|showed aclear title Instead of a life emotions. It has made many aman | interest. Lhappler and better, more honest, tender and forgiving. Many a man A $97,460 Check to Kansas. Topekaj-June 15 —A government and woman have lain down within {ts shades peacefully. Don’t destroy | warrant for $97,466 02 was received {s. Why nine tenths of the mothers | by Governor Hock to pay the claim {nJAmerica believe in it. That’s | of the state of Kansas for the foter- neough for it.It has been growing on |est on money spent by the state in our hearthstone for ages. Let {tetay equipping Kansas soldiers for the there, it can’t hurt you, It fs such a/ Civil war. The claim was allowed by loving religion. What will you give|the court of claime last winter and in its stead, If you take it away?|the money appropriated just before Philosophy? What are you to do | Congress adjourned, This money when tired and homesick? Love? may be used for building a memorial Earthly loves are so selfish. I¢ fe! hall or memorial arches or for build- such & beautiful delusion. Don’t de-| ing armortes for the national guard. first decided upon this Lougpocrse tne it. Weave the silver threads! The money ts in the treasury now drink and it attracted wide atten- tion. Judge Ryors declared from | the bench that he would not have his boyhood dreams shattered by, any decision which outlawed cider as, a beverage.—Warrensburg Journal that reach down from the star of | but ft cannot be used until the legis- Bethlehem into the golden roof .of lature appropriates {t. John C. sunlight. Trata ite clinging tendrils | Nicholeon, state claim agent, will re- around the bare walls of our lives |celve $7,373.30. Mr. Nicholeon is and cover up the jagged corners and paid 10 per cent on the first 4 million rough, unsightly places with this’ dollars and 5 per cent on the balance beautifal Story of Calvary.” ' of all claims prosecuted. —_— a ae bates The Missouri Pacific Time Table at Butler Station. CORR D TIME TABLE, SOUTH BOUND, No 209 Joplin & Southwest mail & Ex 5 No, 207 K.C,& Joplin mail & Express 13:! No, 205 4.C. & Nevada mail & Express9: No, 291 Local freight i: ORTH BOUND, . 6 Kansas City and St. Louis Ex. 7:50 . &8 Kansas City mail and Express !: . 2lv Kansas City limited mai 1 LOCAL FREIGHT: . 28 Local Freigns . 252 Kansas City stock INTERSTATE DIVISION, WREST BOUND. . 14) Local freightand Pas mixed 8:000m 2a8T ROUND, » 142 Local freight and Pas mixed ar5:00 pm . TI8 Sunday Passenger 8 rf @ . Tl4 Sunday Passenger, arrives E. C, Vaxpenvooat, reat Home Seekers Excursion. To pointsin Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, tieorgia, Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky, Loutelana, Mex!- co, Mississipp!, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginfa, Washington, Wisconsin, Wyoming. On all first and third Tuesdays of each month at rate of one and one half.fare plus $2.00 for round trip. Twenty-one days from date of sale. E. 0. Vanpervoort, Summer Tourist Rates. Season 1908,—On sale June let to Sept. 30; tinal return limit Oct. 31, 1908, to Pueblo, Colorado Springs or Denver, Colo,, $1850. To San Francisco, Los Angeles or San Diego direct lines $60 00, Ogden or Salt Lake, Usah, $31 50. Mexico City, Mextco, 4.75, Portland, Ore., direct Ine, 62 50. Trinidad, Colo., 25 55. California, Oregon and Washing- ton rates expenses 15th Butler, Mo.—Republican National Convention, Chicago, June 12. Tick- ete on sale June 12 to 16; good re- turning to dune 80 Rate Ste 75 for round trip. KE. C. VAN bERVOORT JOHN F, HERREL & SON Make a Speciality of Farm Insurance and Real Estate Office in court house, BUTLER,MO. DR- |. Me CHRISTY, _ Diseases of women and Children a Specialty Office The Over Butler Cash Depart- ment Store, Butler, Mo Office Telephone ae. House Telepnoneit DR. E. N. CHASTAIN. : - Mo — Office over Bennett-Wheeler Mer. Co. Residence High Street Office Phone 2i3, Residence Phone 19. le item ea DR. H. M. CANNON, | Dentist, BUTLER, - MISSOURI. WILL BE IN ADRIAN EVERY FRIDAY, prepared to do all kinds of den- tal work. BUTLER, B. F. JETER, Attorney at Law and Justice, Office over H. H, Nichole, East side square, Butler, Mc, DR, J. T. HULL DENTIST. fntrance, same thatiead to Hagedorn’s studio, north side square, Butler, Mo T. C. BOULWARE, Physician and Surgeon. Office North Side Square, Butler, Mo. Diseases of women and children 6 spectalty. Fa I fipt Hi t it r