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MARK FOR JULY Every JULY we hold a Mid-Summer Sale for the purpose of getting our stock down to the very lowest point before August lst. In order to do this we offer you strictly reliable goods at prices which make a splendid saving to you—And the selections are so attractive that you will enjoy buying them. OUR GUARANTEE:—When you examine your purchase, if you do not think it the greatest value in an article of its kind, return it and your money will be promptly refunded. We could not give this guarantee unless we were satisfied as to the superior quality of our I i t merchandise. 4 SEEMS rel wa oe -TO-DATE STYLES IN Ladies’ Long $2.75 and $2.50 Chamois Gloves for.............. $1.98 adalah 8 a ‘ee ‘ S Ladies’ Long $1.50 Black and White Silk Gloves, sizes 6 and 6%, , ROO OM a cad cuahhaacuatin eeenscs: Braid acct cs is wnvbeniss14qneurnanses 75c Ladies’ Fancy Silk Embroidered 50c Hose for All 9x12 $25.00 Axminister Rugs for........ $20.00 Fast Black $1.25 Umbrellas for ...........0.cccccceccececeseuucuees All 9x12 $22.50 Axminister Rugs for........ 19.00 ALL FANCY PARASOLS 25 PER CENT OFF. All 8-3x 12 $22.50 Brussels Rugs for......... 19.00 Special lot Ladies’ Vests for. ...............0cccc cece ceeeeceseeuees 12%¢ : All 10-6x12 $20.00 Brussels Rugs for........ 17.50 Big lot high-class Embroideries for 20 per cent off. All 9x12 $15.00 Brussels Rugs for........... 12.50 One lot $2.00 Satin Petticoats for............ 6... cece eens $1.48 All 9x11 $13.50 Brussels Rugs for........... 11.50 All 12% and 10c Lawns for.............ee eee sere eect eee en enes 8c All 9x12 $10.00 All-Wool Ingrain Rugs for.; 7.50 CR Ge ARS ener err eL nner ra errr | All 9x12 $5.00 Matting Rugs for.............. 3.98 All 19c and 15c Lawns for 75c Best All-Wool Ingrai Our beautiful stock of Lace Curtains on sale at 20 per cent off. n Carpeting on sale 62':c Walker- FINE DRESS SKIRTS) All $1.00a Yard Fancy, All Our Well-known Men’s Fine on Sale, Speciattor Foulard Sterling Muslin! Fancy Dress Oxfords ; | Silks Underwear Shirts on Sale All other | We have had special low for Dress | ine prices on, we now offer line at 35 C nts $4.00 — Health “vn Skirts | 1 0 per Cent Off e fords for........... $3. 25 per 50C Yar d One lot Men’s25c Socks | $3.50 Fellocraft Oxfords cent off. | a abs hee for 12%;c. etch civial sage iont $2.50 50cWhite All 25c Yard Trunks and Suit Cases | All leathers, Patent Gua . 10 per cent off our Metal, Tan, Calf, Bar- = bat Plaid already low gains on the $1.50table. Goods Mercerized aeiewens: esnseotei Assortment of Ladies’ for 35c_ | : All Straw Hats at and Boys’ $2.00 and | Gingham HALF PRICE. $2.25 Shoes for $1.50. 40c White eee eee Cross ' a Visit the Remnant | #f > want pov gad bars for Counter-- hundreds of oes we have them~ The shoe with both 25c. 122C Yd. dandy bargains. and sell them RIGHT. ante ona ole. Extra nice bargains in India Linons = at 12!,c, 15c¢ and 19c. Special values in Table Linen at | Full Standard Unbleached 7;c Mus- lin for 5c yard. 48c, 75c and 98c. NORTH SIDE SQUARE-—BUTLER, MO. | ayard. Best 12!;c Lonsdale Muslin for 10¢ Ladies’ 7c All-Linen Initial Handkerchiefs for ...................06. 4c Assorted lot of Laces on sale for........... 35c Bleached Table Linen for McKibben’s Men’s 50c All Best One lot 7c and 8c Embroideries for 3c a yard. Calicoes for Sc a yard. Remember we sell GOOD GOODS and do not disappoint our trade. Eggs ai.d Checks same as Cash. . T. W. FISK, |shose that were bad or viclous he Theeditor of Tae Times was ap | affords; theother of mediocre abillty. WATT-B. DAWSON The Butler Weekly Times Mt, Pleasant township recommended for repeal, and all | pointed postmaster for Butler in|one-tdeaed, bigotted with vaulting 1. Wade a abl ” Printed on Thursday of each week. SURVEYOR. without ostentation. ma n enviable record a8 4.0. ALLEN, E Entered at the postoffice of; Butler, Mo., as ‘se90d-claas mail matter. ANNOUNCEMENTS, We srs authorized to make the following an- Souncoments for Democratic nominations at ‘the 188 primary election: REPRESENTATIVE. LAWRENCE M, GRIFFITH, Osage township, sor and Prop | \ ROBERT E. JOHNSON, Mt. Pleasant township. FROSECUTINC ATTORNEY. W. B. DAWSON, Mt. Pleasant townsnip. GROVER CLEVELAND. which occurred at his Princeton, New Jersey, home last week, the world In the death of Grover Cleveland, | Grover Cleveland was 8 big man in brain, heart and body. Because of | his bigness he was the target for the shafts of Iittleness andenvy. Hewas |elected president in 1884, the only Democratic president since the war. He was a true tariff reformer and coined the now famous phrase “Tariff for revenue only.” Many at- tribute his defeats by Harrison in | 1885 by Mr. Cleveland, but through combination of circumstances his time we had the honor of several in- terviews with the president and was deeply impressed with his democratic manner and his kind and courteous treatment of all who sought an in- terview, and the close attention he gave to the pleas of all, the humblest as well as the greateet. In 1892 we commission was withheld. At that) ambition. | Senator Stone, imbued with the party’s best interests, discouraged | such @ joint debate between demo | crate, pointing out that {t could only | descend to the low level cf apersonal | controversy and engender bitterness | within the party on the eve of a na- tional campaign. We can readily | epe the force of such an —| and sdmit that the evil from aparty Prosecuting Attorney for Bates coun- ty darfug the year and one half he has.beld that office, He came a? juttics practically and untried quan tity uud hes made good all along He has nos succeeded in * securing a conviction in every prose- eution, but he has been fearless in the discharge of his duty, undaunted in bis prosecution of ali lawbreakers 1, J. MARCH, lost {ts most distinguished private | 1888 to his strong tariff message to | had the honor to represent the Gth|standpoint might and probably — ch agg si pti vn Raw Home aso citizen and the United States one of} Congress at the close of his term. | district in the National Convention | would outweigh any good that would : A JAS, N. SHARP, Mound township. COUNTY JUDGE. ESTE3 SMITH, Mingo township, saorth district, her greatest statesmen. Grover Cleveland was distinguish ed for his rugged honesty, high sense of official obligation and his unyteld- ing, unbending will, when his course He waa re-nominated for the third time and elected over Blaine in 1892. Thetreecoinage of silver was an issue in that campaign, and Mr, Cleveland disagreed with a large majority of mendation of Congresman DeAr- mond and commissioned for four| bate of thie kind between two distin , at Chicago and voted for Mr. Cleve-jaccrue to the individual voter in’ land. In 1893 we were appointed] making his choice between candi- postmaster of Butler on the recom- | dates. We have just witnessed a joint de- established # reputation of never temporizing or compromising with lawbreakers. He conducts his cases in open court and open and above board in all hie acte. He will be re- L.8, PADDOCK, was fully determined. He was nota| his party. So certain was he that be | years by Mr. Cleveland, and thus we | guiehed citizens of Tennesece, Govern- eran ns rsd on pregance: West Point township, brilliant man and his phenominal} wae rightthat rather than sacrifice a speak as his friend and appointee.jor Patterson and ex-Senator 4 seacebbote y — rise from a private citizen to the|greatprinciple he suffered the great-| We believe that history will record| Carmack and the bitterness and per- gic pecei canines, mayor of a city, the governor of a| esthumillation that can befall a pub- | Mr. Cleveland’s two administrations | sonal animosities stirred up between 1. W. Fisk south district, great state and the president of the| lic man, that of being deserted and/as among the very strongest this| partisans of the two men threaten __ J. K. KELSO, United States in three short years, | ostracised by his party. government ever had. -| the defeat of the party in that state. Is asking the Democrats of Bates a” was not by filghts of oratory which| We believed then, and eoadvised in aos Slee BROOTE This is a Democratic year, Miseou-| county to nominate him for County sa ; swept people along before him, or by | our feeble way, that the convention THAT JOIST DEBATE. ri a loyal Democratic state and Dem-| Treaeurer, an office he 1s well quall- SHERIFF. riding upon the crest of some great of 1896 should have approved.ell of} Tue Tmzs wee the first paper in| crate should reserve all thelr ammu- | fied to fi!l. Mr Fisk e an old citisen W. J, BULLOCK, reform wave, but by his strength of | Mr. Cleveland's policies that {t could | the state to suggest a joint debate/ nition for the enemy. We are not|of vur county and has been a resi- — a mind and honesty of purpose, which| approve and disagree with him up-| between Senator Stone and Govern-| one of those who belleve that a spir-| dent of Butler for many years, where Mt. hector township. recognized that a “public office is a| on the coinage question. Any Dem-|or Folk. We were imbued with the|ited campaign between ‘candidates | he has been very succeesful as « bust- TREASURER. publictrust and not a privatesnap,” | ocratic convention could have en | sole idea that the Democratic voters| when conducted on a high plain ie|/ness man. He was in the YANCY COMBS and that the peoplo are entitled to| dorsed his tariff views, and hisfor-|throughout the state could best| harmful to the party. On the other| business fora lofy time and after HH. HAVELY, the very best service possible from | eign policy was as strong as_this |judge of the ability and fisness of the} hand we believe that euch a cam-|eelling ous embarked In the clothing Walnut township. thelr public servants. He did not| government ever knew. candidate for that exalted office af-|paign arouses interest, gives pi-|businees, which he recently disposed 8AM L. COLEMAN, Deep Water township. create reforms that he might cry them from the housetop or have Wo disagreed with Mr. Cleveland upon the silver question as heartily ter listening to the two candidates | quancy and will etir the boys up and|of. His bustness integrity and high fromthe same platform. Personally | get them’out to the general election | standing asa citizen combined with LE apna them heralded through the prees of | as she most radical dissenter, but we | we never had any doubte about the| in November. hie large acquaintance all over the @. W.STITH, the country that he might profit|did not believe it was the part of | resultof such a joint diecuesion prov- SS SE an county makes him a very formidable Mt. Pleasant township. thereby, but he took the laws as he| wisdom, or good politics to kick out | ing the oue a learned, broad-minded, Sporting Goods. candidate. Mr, Fisk has an excellent J. EMMETT HOOK, found them on the statute books| him and his friends, at that time the| liberal stateeman, schooled in the Base Ball and Athletic party recor’, baving been a strong: Hodeon township. and those that were for the public| trong men of the party, in order to | arts of diplomacy, and able to cope etn wthane Democrat, and active. worker since ‘nin otinks weal he ecrapalously enforced ‘and| satiety and gain populist votes. | with the brightest minds she world “seer SP ae eres _ “Just around the corner.”? | his mejority. '