The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, February 25, 1909, Page 1

4! Sogj. ANICS. VCL. XXXI BUTLER, MISSOURI, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1909. ;dim ight seen in the Salem church. | Parties who went to Investigate, found the doors locked and could | not see any one on the inside. From | the windows one lamp {n the chande- | Han was seen sobe burning dimly. Who iidthis? No one seemstoknow. Next | morning one door was open. Shows |vlainly some one was secreted in |*he church at that time. Fora long | sime this church has been a.rendez- vous for some one, who likes to sky- | lark, and be out late at night. As | shis church was built a place of wor- jehip, the trustees are going to see |shasit is not used any more fora | place to play cards or for a house of \ill-tame. There ts going to be aclose watch kept hereafter, and any one caught trespassing will be arrested jand prosecuted to the full extent of the law. Dinaw Virginia, (Over the ’Phone, The carriers unable to make it.) | | Joe T. Whinnery, after an illness /extending over many months, died | Tuesday one o'clock. Mr. Whinnery was an old and highly esteemed cit- - - —_— —————= = izen of this section. He came to this Foster Notes Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Walter County from Ohio following the war, i | Briscoe, a boy. Walter has moved ®04 by his just and upright life has Miss Goldte Swarens 1s reported on she young man on the farm, and will /®VeF retlaned the respect and confi- the sick list, She has not been able! make a farmer out of him. dence of his neighbors. to attend school, Uncle Aaron must have run his) Mrs: Peter Crooks is reported j The infant daughter of Mr. and machine with a gasoline engine, | critically {ll at her home at New ' Mrs. Wiley Woods, Iving four miles jidging trom the long iiss of tems Home. Mrs. J. H. Park and broth northeast of Foster, died Monday | last week. We have known Uncle,“ George Crooks, daughter andson, and was burled at Salem Tuesday. | Aoron tor many years and alwaye &F@ with her, Mra. C. C. Swarens, living east of) found him on the firing lingatany- John Zinn, of Virginta, who has town, who has been on the sick list | thing he undertakes | been serlously sick, is reported much for the last two weeks, ts able to Pra Uncle Charley Briscoe, with his | better at this time, up some. |hounds, was showing she wolvesa| Mre. Dan Smith {s reported very Fred Putnam and wife visited with | hot time in the old town Saturday | sick her brother, W. I. Stover, Sunday. | We understand they caught one| We had a nice “batch” of {tems Julius Heckadon and wile called on | gray wolf and run one over into! written up, but Uncle Sam’s repre- D. H. Arbogast and family Sunday | Kansas. When Uncle Chariey gets | sentatives were unable to overcome afternoon. after a wolf, he had just as well say | the mud. AARON. Sam’! Levy Mercantile Cc. E. Robbins, The Successful Auctioneer Does the leading Auction business in Southwest Missouri. Can sell your prop- erty for more than anyone. Is educated for the fine points of the business. Is a graduate of the lead- ing Auction schools of the U.S. A member of the Internation- al and President of the Missouri Auctioneers’ Association. Makes more sales than all the auctioneers of Bates county combined. Can make you from $200 to $1000 on your sale. It always pays to have the best. Send for Free Circular on how to arrange for and advertise a sale, Terms reasonable, Claim your dates early. . Call on or Address Me at Amoret, Mo. Phone No. 36. “IC. E. Robbins, No, 11-2m dD Na” Company’s Specials We have decided, in order to close this month with a rush, to offer some very choice and special offerings. Look these items over—there is some to interest you. 500 yards of Linen and Cotton Torchon Laces worth up to 12¥c Special at 5c yard 75 White Lingerie Waists, worth up to $1.75—New Styles Special at 98c each 1 lot New Style Spring Jackets, just the thing for early spring wear All Sizes at $4.98 - REMEMBER:—We are making some very SPECIAL PRICES on Ladies’ Muslin Underwear We claim these goods to be the best the markets afford and guarantee our prices the lowest. Come and See. We quote the above§$prices ONLY while||the present supply lasts. Sam’lLevyMerc.Co ‘ |hie prayers. 4 7 | Late Wednesday night there was a Mt. Vernon News. Tt is still muddy; it takes four horses to haul feed to stock. Buta few more days of sunshine and everything will be all right again. The Democrats of Eikhart town- shhip held their convention Satur- day and elected delegates to meet at Butler to nominate echoo! commis- sioner on Feb, 22nd. Moving day is at hand with quite a lot of people in this locality, For which they will find 1s very unpleas- ant, unless the roads get better. Mr. Balley ts having quite a task now-a-day hauling feed for his atock cattle. He is feeding over one hun- dred head. Alice Clapp was visiting S,S. Fox and family. Frank Proctor and Vester Eye have been very busy chopping wood for the last few days. Their wives hope they will hold out, until they get enough for the summer. Mrs. Clapp, who was sick at our last writing, 1s able to be around again. Mr. Kelly {s reported on the sick list at present. On account of bad roads there were no services at Mé. Vernon Sun- day. Ms. Vernon Literary Soclety came forward with a good program last Wednesday night. Although the weather was unfavorable, a large crowd was in attendance. Miss Edessfe Park has been suifer- ing with a sore throat, but ts report- ed better at this writing. Cyrus Nestlerode moved last week from the Joseph Clapp place to George Crook farm for the coming year. W. H. Hart and Mr. Kelly were hauling coal from the Dubes bank one day last week. James Maddy and daughter spent Saturday evening at the beautiful home of Mr. and Mrs, W. J. Park. Y. K. W. Southwest Summit. The winter is proving rather ser!- ous after all, Wenever saw mud as deep ax now and unless you start to town and mash a wheel or get stuck {na mud hole you are not up-to date. Mr. Travis, from Illinois, is mov- ing onto the Browning place which he lately purchased. b Miss Kate Wheaton has been spending the past week in Busler. | Some of the ladies are trying to re- vive the “long silent” aid society. Farmers are patiently waiting for it to dry up so they can get at spring work. It the auto agent would come around now with one that would run through mud and over stones, as they advertise, we feel sure he mightsecure several orders at once. No doubt all the mail carriers ap- preciated the legal holliday Monday if any one did, and wish several more would follow. Public Sales are the order of the day and things seem to be bringing big prices. x. Posse Earns $2,000 Reward, For Burglars. Hale, Mo., Feb. 22.—Thomas Win- ters and John Murphy, alleged post- office robbers, for whom the govern- ment offered a reward of $2,000, were captured by a posse here Sun- day night. They are wanted for loot- ing the postoffices at Linneus, Mar- celine, Hale, Utica and Mooresville, allin Missouri; aleo for attempted robbery of a bank at Bogard, Mo. The postoffices were robbed last summer; the bank robbery was un- dertaken Saturday night. The men were found in a box car heavily arm- ed, but made no resistance. Notice. # The spelling contest for Lone Oak townehip will be held at Peru the evening of Saturday, February 27, begi: €t-7:30 o'clock. An admiesion fee of ten cente will be charged all persons over ten years of age, except the contestants, their parente and the teachers of Pleas- ant Gap and Lone (ak townships. All money left after bee are paid will be divided equally among all the contestants. Cume. NO. 18 AFTER TEN YEARS. | The Famous Oglesby Suits. Bates County Forger Caught in: Kansas City, Kan. Sheriff Ballock was called to Kan- sas City by notice from the chief of police of that city that Jno, Wither- spoon, wanted in Bates county for forgery, had been arrested in Kansas City, Kansas. Sheriff Bullock went to Kansas City lass Thursday, after sending a decoy letter to that post- ottice, After shadowing the postof- fice until Friday eventng, a man ap- proached the general delivery win- dow aad produced an order for the mall of Frank Hale, to whom the decoy letter was addressed. He was promptly arrested and “sweated,” gave his name as Ruimer, but the information obtained from him was vague, bat the officers sneceeded in getting on the trail of Wither. spoon, which resulted in his arrest as above, Sherlff Bullock succeeded in per- suading Witherspoon to sign away: erand came over the Missouri line He then brought him to Butler and lodged him in jail, Witherspoon {s one of the parties who secured money on 4 forged deed of trust from the Walton Trust Com- pany, through the Farmers and Mechanics bank at Rich Hill, eeveral years ago. Mr. Walton, President of the Trust Company, has been per- sistent and dilfgent {in his search for these forgers ever since, A short time after the forgery was discovered Capt. Nipp was {njured tn a rall- road wreck in Iowa. Twelve hun- dred dollars was found on his person atthe time. Mr, Walton started to the place to identify him, but before his arrival Capt. Nipp escaped from the hospital and has since suc- ceeded {n-eluding his pursuers, Mr. Walton attached the $1,200, and succeeded in gesting the major poi tion of is ~The original forgery was jfor $850. Mr. Witherapoon will have to stand trial ia this county for the crime with a mighty good chance of serving @ term {n the p-nitentiary, Thurman Case on Trial at! Nevada. Some twenty-five or thirty Hume ises passed through town at noon en} route to Nevada, where the case of | Wm. Thurman vs, the Frisco Ry. Co. was booked to come up In the clreult jeourt Monday afternoon. Prosecut- | {ng Attorney Dawson, of Butler, was | also a passenger for the Vernon county capital to take part in the! trial. Is will be remembered that a little over & year ago the conductor on the Frisco train put @ number of} men, of the Hume neighborhood, off his train a couple of miles out of this | city. The men were mixed up in a} fight; Thurman was with them but claims he was not misconducting! himself, although he was ejected | with the balance. He brought sult against the company, and the case was taken to Nevada by a change of venue. Considerable interest is be- ing taken in the case by people of the western part of the county.—Rich Hill Review. | Bates County Boy Returns to! Navy After French Leave. K. C. Journal. Two jackles, who had taken French | leave, voluntarily surrendered to Lieutenant I. R. Landis, of Kansas recruiting station, who will ship them back to the training station! on Yerba Buena Island in San Fran- cisco bay, in charge of the single re- erult who has enlisted. The jackies celebrated Lincoln’s birthday by notifying the local of- fices they wanted to give themselves up. Their names are Roy N. Falor, of Rich Hill, Mo., and Earl H. Tan- ner. Falor left Yerba Buena station about a month ago to go home. He sald he had expected a furlough, but couldn’t wait for {stocome. Tan- ner deserted three years ago at New- port. They probably will be tried on the charge of absence without leave, inetead of desertion, since they surrendered without waiting to be captured. Perhaps the most famous damage sult fn the state of Missoor! was again called tn the Johnson county cireult court last Thursday. This suit, besides dragging through the courts from highest to lowest and back again, has had a reflex action, in that 18 made the plaintiff, Reub Ogleby, famous, and caused one Warrensburg editor to be hauled up before the supreme court and fined for contempt, because he expressed his opinion through his paper. Oxlesby’s original sult was for $25,000. He once obtained a ver- dict for $15,000, which be enbse- quently lost through @ seversance o the case by the supreme court. There are now two Oglesby sults against the Mo. Pacific. The orlgin- alone has been revived, and ©. T. Oglesby, father of Ratlroad Commis sioner Reub Oxlesby, has a sult for $2,000 damages on account of the loas of hfs son's services for the four years which lapsed between the time Reub was ertppled aud the day of his majority. Reab was only 17 when she frelght strato on which he was braking, went {nto the ditch as Greenwood, Both these sufts were continued until the June term of cours. They have been carried along on the dock- etfor several years already.—War- rensburg Journa!l-Democras. A White Squirrel. The Gander brothers, living near Stumptown, brought to The Titres ottive on Thursday she carcas of a white equirrel. They bad seen {in thelr timber frequently and had warned all hunters againes shooting lis, and they were grieved when their jdog caught ft on the ground and killed {%. The squirrel was perfectly white, the fur fine and soft. Ls was about the size of a full grown gray squirrel, Ite sail Los quite « ;vor bushy. We never saw or heard of a white squirrel before, and consequent- ly 16 was a great curlosity to us, We kepst on exhibition forseveratdays, and a large number of people called and {uspected {t, none of whom ever saw or heard of one. [sé was certain- ly a freak fn naturally history, espe- clally in this section, For fear we would be termed nature fakers we have preserved the pelt published the story that Culver boys, {un Hudson townsh!p, had a white quailin a covy on thelr place, and some of our exchanges accused us of nature fuking, and we never could produce even & feather to verify our statement. Now we have the goods to show We once Marriage Licenses. Butler, Mo. Butler, Mo. Joho F. Genevay, Pearl McClure, Mark Timmons, Adrian, Mo. Bertha Thather, Adrian, Mo, Clarence A. Bolen, Kansas City, Mo, Nellie Thomas, Butler, Mo. Henry Hill, Windsor, Mo, Hannah White, Butler, Mo 8. C. Jenkins, Butler, Mo. Lola Henderson, Butler, Mo. L. D. Wheatley, Rich Hill, Mo, Lula Anderson, Rich Hill, Mo, Alonzo Foster, Montrose, Mo. Connie Quick, Montrose, Mo, E. H. Moore, Busler, Mo. Pearl Evans, Spruce, Mo. Horses, Mules, Milk Cows 20 head of 3 and 4-year-old broke mules, | 15 head 2-year-old mules. 1 farm mare, 1200 tbs. 1 saddle pony. 2 coming 2-year-old fillies. 1 cheap work horse. 1 \-Jersey heifer, just fresh. Ex tra milker. 1 \-Jersey heifer, will be -fresh soon. 2 sets second-hand farm harness. 6 second-hand buggies. 1 second-hand carriage. T second-hand spring wagon, $5. McFARLAND & SONS, oa Hers 0 Ss.