The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, July 2, 1908, Page 9

**THE DAYLIGHT STORE.” Pat Johannes of Rich Hill was eer!-| Miss Alice Smith, who had bern ously injured by a fall while he was! visiting the family of Rev. Stanley D -ngaged in papering the Presbyter- Jewell at Fredericktown, returned ian church of this city last Thursday | home the last of the week. Shestop- COOL CLOTHES for Hot Days! Coatfjand Pants jatternoon. He was standing on a/|ped offfora few days’ visit with Ss Louls friends. W.E Evans resigned as superin- tendent of the municipal electric light plant last week, the resignation tuk- ing effect on the fires of July. Mr. Evane has rented rooms at corner of North Main and Pine street, the old Sackett corner, and will conduct au electrical supply depot. Since the, | present council dispensed with bred step ladder which slipped, throwing him upon his face onto a pew. One ‘ of she facial bones was broken. | Dinah: “Mandy, wha’ foh you give |dat’ babby a big piece of pohk to jchaw on? Don’ you all know the |pob ehild’ll choke on 1?” Mandy: “Dinah, don’ you see de string tied vo dat pleceer fat pobk? De udder end’a tled to de chile’s toe. Ef he chokes he’s] kick, an ef he kicks he'll $3.00 "work bench. The fine new barn of C. I. Burke, of near Cornland was struck by light- ening during the electrical storm Sunday evening and damaged to the extent of about three hundred dol- lars Mr. Burke and Mr. Keggeris were inthe barn at the time and both had @ narrow escape from desth After the barn was struck the electricity ran all through she building, striking and setting fire to_ a bottle of liniment setting on a Mr. Burke recovered from the effects of the shock just in time to throw the bench out of doors and to stamp out the fire which was spreading rapidly. The shock was so severe to Mr. Keggerie that for about two honors after one of bis lege wae completely paralysed. George Fulkerson went to Clinton UNDERWEAR AND HOSIERY IN GREAT VARIETY. See our Big Window Display. | WE SHOW THE BEST MEN’S AND BOYS’ SHOES MONEY CAN BUY IN Ederheimer, Stein & Co MAKERS DRESS OR WORK GOODS. | A Watch | Free CLOTHING HOUSE With Knee Pant Suits | $2 or Over. American Building--The Center of Town. APIA RL Mr Jehu Hull of Knobnoster was, L. P. Green, of Oklahoma City,; The Rich Hill Review announces @ guest of his brother Dr. J. T. Hull) and Miss Capitola Hartley, cf Adrian | the marriage of Marion A. Cowles to the last of the week | were married in the Pennell hotel | Miss Martha Hene, at Enterprise, > {ng at 11) Kansas, on Saturday, June 27th. | ¢é sensheets of Enid, parlors Sunday morning | " y, 7th. PP 2 PF nger rere Robt o'clock. Justice B, F. Jeter perform: | Marton {a the only son of the late M. Branch of Rich Ht, |ed she ceremony, -$. Cowles, at one time she leading Qrened ie bela broken thle week; Mra. J. F. Kern and daughter, ac merchant of Butler. He has been fur! }. p She past ten years conducting a tne 8 Pipe |Companted by her brosher, G. PF i és ee new Rich Hill Sewer pe aty, of Rich Hill, returned Satur- | Stock ranch in Western, Kansas, | and report says is doing well. Earl Walton, of Kingfisher, Okla- | day froma visit to relavives’ and) friends in Washington City and oth- | homa, {8 visiting at the home of W. E Walton, Did you know {t took more sense | to runa farm successfully shan any | | has planted three times but the wet | ‘eather caused many of the seed to | cob. |t8 @ rising young business man of crop almost a complete failure, He When the vines did come up the cucumber bug went after them sad cut many of them off. The musk melons and cantaloupes, he says, stand the ravages of the bugs the est. The cucumber crop also prom {ges to be shorts —Metz Times. Gus. B. Ludwick, of Florence, Col, who waa here last week to visit his mother, Mra, Jno. L. Ludwick, fa- vored us with a pleasant call and had his dates ses ahead. Mr. Ludwick says the best of feeling extets in the democratic party {n his section, and Democrats are confident that Colo- rado will go Democratic thie fall. All are enthusiastic for Bryan. Mr. Ludwick returned to Florence on Saturday. Miss Leona Biggs and J. W. Helms were married last Thursday evening at the home of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Biggs, in Hume, by Elder J. W. Rogers. These are very popular young people of Hume. The bride 1s the president of the Hume High School Alumni Assocta- tion, and has tanght several very successful terms of school, and tsa leader in church circles. The groom that town. One of the ladies of a nearby town nn pe rc Se” A er points in the eastern states. “Sunny Slope’t ts the registered name of Warren Ayer’s farm {n Char. lotte township. Mrs. W. W. Graves, who had been | with her mother, Mrs. Ludwick, for | the past week, returned to Jefferson City Saturday. The ladies of the Aid will give an {ce cream supper the evening of July 4th at Passaic church, Every body lnvited. John Boulware, who has been at- tending school at St. Joseph the past year, returned home Saturday for she vacation months Dr. and Mrs. Reynolds, of Prairie City, stopped over in Butler Sunday, on their way home from visiting relatives in Osowatomle, Kan. T. B. Fager and family left Tues other emall business? observes the | invited a few friends to a dinner the day for Rockford, Ills., to visit rela.| Lamar Democrat. It’s atact. For! shor day. The hostess {nsisted that tives and friends. Mr. Fager will go | Proof, observe that the folks who | on of the guest take another plate to Minnesota, where he owns aranch, | come in from the country, soon learn of pork and beans. “Why,” he sald, and reports are his crops have been | the way the town man does things, ..j>yg really had two already, butit’s greatly damaged by high water. jand goright along. But show usa rally euch nice cooked pork and ‘town man who ever went out and beans 1 belleve I will take another Interested in looking at the oun | BOO aOet epee a teem. plate.” “Ma's won!” exclatmed the through smoked glass to note the} Robt. E. Johnson bas finished his, !!stle boy at his side, “Ma’s won! effect of the eclipse. It was vielble estimes for a settling and storage he sald she’d bet a dollar you'd three hours, and at {ts greatest cov-| basin at the waterworks plant on, ™ake a hog of yourself {f you came. ered about one-fourth the sun’s disk.|the Miami. The storage basin is|—Ex. meant to be of sufficiens ize to hold | Sunday morning our people were A eupply and repair department, the | Suits. eoneteoceece to $ 1 2.00 |jerk de pohk out Ab reckon you all| duties of the superintendent bas been | don’t learn me nothin’ bout bringin’ | greatly reduced and elmplified. Soft Shirts ap ebillun,” Simpson & Keller, successor to) M.E. Frazler reports the melon|Riley & Son. Havi' urchased the 50c to $2.00 . a Weat Side Market we solicit the pat- | atrons. We will guarantee to al! ‘air and courteous treatment. We) will furnish the best meats that we can procure and at prices that are right. Our alm will be to please our customers. We want your business: Low Simpson Tom KELLER A pet cat attacked little Avis, the five year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Keasling Sunday afternoon and bit the child repeatedly, on the leg, on the lip and the right hand. A neighbor hearing the child ecream- {og rushed in and beat the cat off A doctor was summoned and dressed the wounds. It was not thought the cat had hydrophobla, but as a mut matter of precaution 16 will be kept under close surveylance. Hereto- fore the cat has shown fondness for the child, and !ts sudden savageness theory that the little girl must have handled {t roughly and so angered it. Mies Jennie Berry, daughter of Mre B. J. Berry, died at their home on Ft. Scots street Monday of consump: tlon. She had been an fnvalid for a long time, and ber death was notun expected. She bore her {Illness with fortitude, aad while her youth rebell- ed against the grim destroyer, she had become reconciled. She was only | 18 years of age, » loveable character, sweet dispositioned girl. Funeral services were held from the family residence Tuesday afternoon and: burial was made in the Morris ce m>- tery, southwest of Butler, in thefam- fly lot. She leaves a mother and sister to mourn, who have the sym pathy of their friends and neighbors jnear Pleasant Gap last week was driving along a few miles north can be accounted for only on the! | Friday to attend she funeral of his brother, Adam Fulkerson, whose death occurred in the Wesleyan Hospital tn Kansas City, following ronage of all the old patrons and | 80 operation for appendicitis. The cordially invite all to become our) Clinton Democrat says of him: “Mr. Fulkerson was born {n Ohio county, Ky., Jan. 17, 1843 In 1855 the family came to Cass county. In 1861, Adam enlisted in the Confed- erate army, and was captured at Vicksburg. He was in prison at Al- ton, Ill, until peace wae declared ‘and then Hyedin Kentucky, until ‘1866, when he engaged tn the drug buelnees in Chnton which was his vo- cation for many years. After an ab- sence of several years, be again re | turned to Clinton three or four years ago, and last March went to Kansas City to live. He was married in 1868 to Mise Allie Parks, a daughter of the late Judge James Parks, and two sons, Henry and Charles survive. J. A. Rogers, candidate for county treasurer, met with @ serious and patoful accident, while canvassing He west of thas town when his horse took fright at some dogs, which sprang at him from a fence corner, aud began to rear and kick. Mr. Rogers succeeded in stopping him but not until his left shoulder was thrown out of joint, by a kick from the horse or belpg thrown on the dashboard, Mr Rogers was uncer- tain which. He went to Mr. Eliing- ton’s home and got a Fred Willfame to drive him back > Pleasant Gap. The combined strength of Dr. Cump- ton and R. B. Campbell was not euf- ficlent to pull she joint back in place, and itwas thought for awhile that he would have to be chloroformed. Dr Cumpton manipulated the arm from the elbow and finally succeeded in getting the bone back {nto the socket, The operation was exceed- fogly patoful and Mr. Rogers ts nurs- Miss Leona Newberry, who had been visiting her aunt, Mrs. Chas. S. Ewin, returned to her home in Kan- sas City on Tuesday. Lightening struck a brick chimney Miss Mary Pulliam, of Appleton City, won the prize scholarship given by the Hill’s Business College of Sedalia, for the Honor Graduate of the Appleton City High Schools. Miss Pulliam made the highest gen- eral average of her class. T. L. Fisk, of Summit, was a pleas- ant caller whilein Butler Saturday. He said he had laid by about twenty acres of his corn, which he had plow- , When the Miamt water ts muddy and | unfit for family use. The filters will enough clear water to meet ull de- | mands by the clty during the periods be remodeled and put in good condi- tlon. Dr. J. M. Christy attended the meeting of the American Lnstitute of Homeopathy in Kansas City. There were between 700 and 800 doctors of that school In attendance, anda very interesting and profitable meet- {og was held. Dr, Christy had the ing avery sore shoulder, but no sertous results are anticipated IN FULL The editor of Tak Times will leave tor Denver Sunday, to represent the 6th congressional district in the National Convention, which convenes on Tuesday, July 7th. He goes thoroughly {mbued with the idea that a platform will be adopted up- on which every Democrat in the whole country can stand, that Mr | Bryan will be nom!nated on the firet ballot and his running mate, if not David R Francis, will be an eastern man, possibly Judge Gray. He be Heves that this will be a harmonious convention, free from sectional and factional strife that has attended so many national conventions of both parties and that the ticket nomina- ted and the platform adopted will be supported by @ united Democracy W. E. Hendrix, a successful young | pleasure of meeting a number of his] shat will be successful In November. farmer of Spruce township, was a old class mates who graduated with pleasant caller on Tuesday and fa-| him {n New York City years ago and vored us with renewal. Mr. Hendrix|this was thelr first meeting. Like said that section escaped the storm, | the doctor, all had prospered and {¢ Miss Agnes Arnold who has been visiting at Cairo, Illinois, returned home Monday night accompauted by her sister, Mrs George W. Logan, BLAST The on the residence of Ed. Snyder Sun- day night. Beyond knocking down a few rows of brick, no damage was done, Amony, those who talk of going trom Butler to the National Conven- tion are Judge Jno. A Silvers, Dr. Foster, DeWitt C. Chastain, Carl J. Henry, Jno. F. Herrell. Mrs. Frank T. Clay left tor Denver Monday, where ehe will join her par- ‘ ents, Mr. and Mrs. 8. G. Bevington. They expect to go to Seattle, San Francisco and other western points Grandpa Sam Heinlein telegraphed the homefolks here Monday, of the birth of a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. W. I. Ayers, of Kansas City. Mrs. Ayers was Mies Jessie Heinlein. Mrs. MarNE. White, of Lone Oak, favored us with @ business call while in Butler the last of the week. Mrs. White is an early resident of the county. There will be a special communica tion of Butler Lodge No. 254 A. F. end A. M. Friday night, July 3rd, for the purpose of conferring degrees :. @nd transacting all lodge business. ‘ A. H. Conver Sec. Miss Helen Fields, living five miles northeast of Clinton, Mo., was at- tacked by a vicious sow one day last week. She was knocked down and her left forearm was chewed intoa pulp _ Amputation was necessary. - Jesse Morris bas gone to Yates - Center, Kan., to en; in the | won by a majority of 848. ed five times. He sald prospects for @ bountiful corn crop in his section is exceptionally bright. but had a nice rain Sunday night, | which was greatly needed. He sald’ they haven’t had as much rain as in Mr. and Mrs. 1. B, Sager, who had | some other sections, and the corn is, been visiting Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Mc-|looking fine, much of {¢ being laid, Farland, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Searfus, | by. | returned to their home in East St. Louis the fires of the week. Miss Ethel Searfus accompanied them for a visit. . George V. McBride, Secretary of | the Fireman’s Relief Association and | for four years Lieutenant of No. 1 of | the Kansas City Fire Department, | By a vote of four to three the city | has been promoted toa captaincy. | council of Sedalia, Mo., Monday| Mr. McBride isa Bates county boy night defeated an ordinance to {n-| and his promotion is well deserved. | crease the saloon license from $600) His many friends in this section re to $1,000 a year. Sedalia recently |joice in his success and look to see! voted on prohibition and thesaloone | him mount even higher in his chosen work, Paul Walton dropped in to see U8! A number of Adrian Udd Fellows Saturday. He sald his father-in-law, | went to Garden City Monday to help W. M. Steffin, completed laying by | the brethern at that placefconfer the | thirty acres of corn on Friday. The} degrees on a number of candidates, corn was too high to try to plow !t| and not one regretted having made again, 1s clean, healthy and has! the tmp, The Garden City brethern| every appearance of a bountiful! are true blue link men and treated yield. the viel brethern with all the Uncle Fred Boehm orders hispaper|Courtesy possible to bestow. Their sent to Parsons, Kansas, where he| hospitality knew no bounds, and the has resumed his old position as cook | Adrian boys certainly appreciated at the state asylum. He had been the reception accorded them.—Adrian | spending several weeke on his farm | Journal. at Lone Oak. He called to bid us} ‘phe goyorost electric storm of years | goodby e, and sald he would try and paseed over this section on last Sun get back to vote at the November|qay night. Considering the fierce election. . and continued lightning-for a long Mr. and Mrs. John Angle returned | period, it was remarkable that no to their home in Harrisonville on| more damage was done. The heavy Tuesday after a week’s vielt to their | raine which accompanied the electric son, Jas. R. Angle. Mr. Angle is 83 storm raised all\ the streams. A years old, and-is hale and hearty. | member of the dredging crew report- He came to Cass county in 1859.|ed that the Marias des Cygnes river He glories in the fact that he has been | rose five feet in four hours. Other was & joyous reunion. Lloyd James McKibben and Miss Pearl Cornelia Johannes, both of Rich Hill, were united in marriage at the home of the bride’s mother, Mrs. L. Johannes, of that city, on last Wednesday evening at 8:30 o’clock. The bride is a beautiful and accom- plished young lady, was born and reared in Rich Hill. Mr. McKibben, who is a son of J. M. McKibben, for- merly 4 prominent merchant of this city, is a capable youngSgentleman and a happy future is predicted for the young couple. Mrs. Thiza Robinson, through her lawyer, W. O. Jackson, brings suit for divorce against R. A. Robinson. The petition recites some sensation. al charges. The couple are old real- dents of Howard township afd have been married twenty-five years. The defendants the party who received the anonymous letter some timeago, requiring him to put five hundred dollars under a bridge, under threat of death; which caused the hanging of Dantels by masked men and the subsequent sensational trial of his neighbors charged with the’crime. Under direction of a committee composed of H. C. Clark, T. J. Smith and Bruce Ludwick, the law library room {s being remodeled and greatly enlarged by taking in part of the sheriff's office. The upper part of the petition between the sheriff’s of- fice and the Hbrary room will be of glass. The new arrapgement will make the library room large, airy and well lighted. It will make the|9seume all responsibility of saving (formerly Miss Maggie Arnold) and her little daughter and son of that place. At Pleasant Hill where it was necessary to change cars the tratn was crowded and Mrs. Logan placed | the children in a seat temporarily while she looked after some baggage While she was thus engaged the little year and one half old boy fell out of the window, alighting upon his head | bruising him up considerably. A doctor on the train attended the little one and pronounced the in juries not serious. The Herald editor’s old schvo! mates seem to be getting into poll tics pretty thick over in Bates coun-| ty. T.D Embree the present circuit clerk, andC. F. Beard the present sher {ff of that county are old friends and schoolmates, as are also Ben F. Wix and Ira Merton Brown, both candi dates for representative on the Re | publican ticket. We are also av | quainted with L. M. Griffith, ti present efficient representative of that county who {ea candidate for reelection on the Democratic ticket, and his opponent J.N Sharp J Emmett Hook, Democratic cand! date for Mer treasurer, is another old friend. All are good men —Urich Herald. Big Reduction Sale On All Light Weight Men’s Suits Boys’ Suits Children’s Suits and Odd Pants effort to eatlely filty ineistant con-| stituents for tickets with three tick- ete alloted the delegate is not calcu- | lated to sweeten his disposition. He {s @ legitimate target for every pa trlot who fs directed by divine power or some other motive, to save the country and preserve the Democratic | party by es ting just the proper planks forthe platform, and who! must and who muet not be nomina. | ted for President and Vice President. | We have discovered that there are lots of patriots of that kind ecatter- ed around over the country willing Go Where you buy the Best Clothes For the LEAST MONEY Joo Meyer try business. He has been employed |, stalwart Democrat all his life and | reporte from along the river puts the|Sherlff’s.room much small the ——. letters y tne . the try it h aller but he: fi t . Diners = s for several | expects to vote for the next presi-/ figures much higher aud one fellow | will have the big grand jury room to! wee Peseiving the eet | years. ig dent of the United States. | claimed it rose 20 feet. dtaw on {n case of a crowd. | and therein {s our consolation. CLOTHIER.