The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, May 20, 1909, Page 13

$10 at any other N SALE Copyright 1909 bs Hart ith aa & Mare ON THE CORNER John W. Knight and Mise Ellen| Hough, of Rich Hill, were married fn | | the Recorder's office Friday morning | by Judge B F. Jeter. Black & Arnold Cluthing Co. A J. Bright, of the Butler delivery favors us with renewal John Rossen, Butler's expert plas- terer, favore us with renewal, Robert Power orders his paper : | changed from Reno, Nev., to Thorne. This year trade with us. Nev, where he has accepted a post 20 tt Black & Arnold Clothing Co. | tion with the railroad us @ hand: G. L. Coleman, of Spruce, orders | some salary. Tue Times through postmaster Rad-| rg Sarah M. Lowrey, of Butler, ford at Johnstown, has her name enrolled for Tur TIMES. Dr. J. S. Newlon, of Ballard 1g at-| Mra, Lowrey !s the widow of the late tending the Missour! Medical Asso- | John Lowrey, 4 prominent citizen of clation at Jefierson City. Walnut township. Our old friend Matt Adams remem-| Will Smith, of Coffeyville, Kansas, Lers us with renewal, observing his | came {n the last of the week for a annual custom of a quarter of & cen: | short stay with his wile who is visit tury. Mug her -movber, Mrs. Joho Endres Mra, C.N. Teeter, of north east oud other relntives, Bates graced our sanctum one day) A large number logs were last week aud favored us with re | prougho to Butler Monday and Tues- newal. duy for shipment to the Kansas City Mrs. Lula Morwood, of Ameter | Market, ‘The price ranged from dam, favored us with a pleasant call $6 65 to $6 85 per hundred while in the city Thursday, and ree fp and Mrs. F. E. Thompson, of newed for her brother, Nando Sclich- fy, yoines, lowe, arrived in the city mee the last of the week to vieis the fam- T. C. Robbinson, who fs in the tly of T. W. Silvers. Mr. Thompson county visiting at Sprague, was in ‘sa brother of Mrs. Silvers. Butler Monday morning and favor- pre Hekers family of musiclans are ed us pleaeantly. furnishing music for the moving pic- Ladies who des're the best {n mill! | ture show at the Butler O :era House nery, call at our store We can thie week. Little Miss Hozel Eckert, please you {fn style, quality andprice | the child viollnist, is certainly a mu- —Mre Y Combs sical prodigy. Charley Fix was{n fromthe south, Joo F. Herrell {s having ao resl- et the last of the week and was a | dence house on East Pleasant street pleasant caller. He was here to at-| moved toa lot on North Mainstreet tend Probate court as’ the adminis- | I¢ will be placed ona good: founda trator of his mother, the late Mrs, | tlon and thoroughly remodeled into Fred Fix’s estate. a modern houee. of a ex ae : smart new Regal Shoe styles has won a lot of praise among the best-dressed menin town, These new Regal models are smarter than ever, and they show genuine custom style in every / line and curve. Well-known New York and London custom bootmakers is built. They have a distinctive custom appearance found in no other ready-to-wear shoes. Moreover, they are made in quarter. sizes, insuring you an exact fit and perfect comfort. $350 $400 and $500 Hiram Nichols Shoe Co ae THIS WEEK IN Absolutely All Wool We also show three or four times as many patterns in Suits $15 to $25 as you will be able to find Over 50 pairs of $4.00 Oxfords Come to us for Work Shoes or Dress Shoes American Clothing House, The Home of Hart, Schaffner €» Marx Clothes. THE CENTER OF TOWN Arrangements have been made to go into the ground a thousand feet if necessary, fo search of gas near Osareola. Ata point a halt mile from | the town there has for years been a| elight eschpe gee. At.times the| flow can be lighted with matches and will burn for a short time The Marlas Des Cygnes river is on arampage. Tursday it was thret- eniog to come ous of the banks Floods on the Marmaton and Osage had backed the water some distance up the Miami. Highway Eogtneer Ed. Borron informed us shat on Monday the big ditch was doing good work in preventing an over- flow. Suits Rolla Chapin, a rusting young Hadeon township farmer, a few days ago sold to Bailey { Cole, stock ship- pers at this place, probably the high- est priced wagon load of hoge ever delivered ia Appleton City. He brought in ten head and took back in his jeans $156 00, or $675 per handre! jounds.—Appleton City Journal. The @Gtobe Trading Company, of Harrisonville, has purchased the en- tire stock of the J. B, Adair Dry Goods Company, located on the ucrth side square. T. W.Clemments and George E. Cable, officers of that company, were in Butler Friday and closed the deal No announcement hae been made as to the disposition of she stuck. Deputy County Clerk W. B. Weeks and the editor of Tue Times enjoyed the hospitality of Mr. and Mra. W. A. Baker, at sheir fine country home io Pleasant Gap townebip on last Thureday. Mr. Baker has o fine farm, of second bottom land, the best on earth, has tt well stocked with the best breeds of hogs, cattle, horses and mules. store in Butler. A.C. Burkhart, a ancceseful young farmer of Pleasant Gap, favored us pleaeantly while {n° Butler on Mon- day. He reports the farmers in his neighborhood buey and corn looking well, The place to buy milllnery and |halr goods is @ place where style, quality and price prevail. We will sell hate at cost Saturday 130 to selectfrom all up-to-date —\Ire, Y.C. Combs, Dike McCann was notified Satur day from headquarters that he had been employed by the Missouri Pacific Company ut a handsome Salary. ke is a rustler, always j nade good us coustable and deputy The Christian congregation onlast| sheriff, which positions he has held Sunday unauimously ratified the|/foralong term of years. He wase choice of the board of directors 10] ratiroad man in bis early days and selecting Rev. William Mayfield as! knows what he is golng up agninet. pastor to succeed his father, Kev. J, B. Mayfield. dren, B. I. Wix, wite and ciifld pasa- A. A. Svese sold his block of build-}eq@ through Butler Tuesday on an ings on the south east corner of the} overland trip, by mule power, fora equare, except the corner building|gour of the west. They will go where his meat shop ts located, to T J Greer, of Fé. Scott, Kansas Mr Greer is & Mo. Puc. engineer and for merly lived in Batler. + ; Mrs. Mary E White, of Pleasant |Gap, called and had her dates set iahead. Mra. White ts among Bates |county’s early cestlers and has a \tund of reminiscences of early days. | She fs & ploneer mother, the bravest | and best women in the world through to Yellow Stone Park and nfeer thoronghly tnspecting the won- they willgo on to Washington, where Mr Pharls has two daughters anda son. Col 8 W. Dooley had the misfor- tune to badly sprain his knee while working the garden at home, This is and shoald be u sign so all foolish husbands who make a practice of working {n the garden during their letaure hours. Ivtsa very bad and dangerous practice and should never be resorted to 80 long as the wife is in good health. | Jesse Hall returned from Kansas |City Monday, where he had been to purchase @ threshing outfit. He ob- tained the very latest model of en gine and separator. L.C. and Jesse Hall, father and son are experlenced men with the thresher and will get their full share of the business. So far no trace has been discover- ed of the team of horses stolen from Chas. Parish near Everett last week, Ihave a number of inquiries for farms. If you wish to eell, lies with me C. W. Hess, 28 tt Butler, Mo. James Sacre and wife were county seat visitors on Saturday. Jim fe constable of Charlotte and about all the Democrats saved in that town- ship at the spring election. Mrs. Sacre is breaking the record on eggs. She has been averaging about 50 eggs & day and has about 90 hens. of horaes was reported by H. L Pits, living 2% miles northeart of Free- man. Mr. Pitt’s team consisted of a bay mare with white bind feet and o horses were about ten years old.— Harrisonville Loader. The place to buy sewing machines {e at Richards. Machines from $3.00 up to $60.00—Singer, White and Domestic—and will sell you as good @ machine for the money as Sears & Roebuck or any other back. South side equare. 1t The State Medical Assoclation is holding its annual meeting in Jeffer- son City this week. Dre, Chastaine, Lyle and Lockwook are in attend. ance from Butler. Dr. Boulware was prevented from going by a slight at- tack of rheumatism. Ata meeting of the School Board, held last week, Prof. J. D. Gallatin and Miss Minnie Robison, the pres- ent teachers of our public schools, were retained for the coming term. The Board’s action has met the ap- proval of all cltizone of the district. —Ameterdam Enterprise. W. Tas. LaFollett, cashier of the State Bank at Siloam Springs, Ark., was in Butler the last of the week motor cycle, leg. ternoon. He atill goes a little lame, that it was no worse.—Review 15th the home of her grand parente, Mr, morning. Ed. Morgan went to Jef. ferson City to live several years ago, ht Geo, W. Pharis, wife and two chil-} ders of that government reservation, | and Tuesday morning another theft sorrel horse with a white face. The Robert Marsball, a farmer of John- son county, has brought suit against Henry Schnelter, proprietor ofa local sporting goods house at Warrens- barg for $8,000 damages, alleging that Schnelter ran past him on 4 notwithstanding he gave the halfling sign of distrese, and caused his mules to run away, throw- ing Marshall out and breaking his W. C. Hedden was in town this af- as 6 result of a mix-up with a young mule. Mr. Hedden says the mule did not kick him, but crowded a gate down upon him. The gate, accelera- ted by the weight ofthe mule was too much for the amiable country- man, and he js suffering from a bad- ly bruised thigh, but feele grateful Louise, the little nine months old; daughter of Mr. and Mre. Ed. Mor- gan, suddenly sickened and died at and Mrs, Asa Morgan, where the parents were visiting last Thursday SOSLSLISSSALSSLASSLLSSLSSAS S. WE DON’T Sell all the Good Clothes in Town. But all the Clothes we Do Sell are Good SEE THE POINT. Take a Look at our Blue Serge Suits at $9.00 they are all Wool, Fast Color. Our $10.00 Pure Worsted Suits are the Talk of The Town. If you are going to take atrip, get our prices on Trunks, Suit Cases and Grips. JOE MEYER, THE CLOTHIER. ) PAB ai Py (USSLALODLALADAGASASHAAAA ag Apreacherat Springfield, Mo,comes Some {nteresting facts were given forward with the declaration that! jasely concerning “King Corn” by the Garden of Eden fs located to Mis |ghe Colambta Herald as tollowe: sourl, Nothing new {n that, eays! “Corn is king indeed, according to @ the Ss. Louls Star. One Charles; bulletin recently lasued by the State Dickens, novelist, writing two gener-| Board of Agriculture. According to ations ago, lucated Eden tu Missourt, | she bulletin, the world annually pro- and he did not succeed {n covering | duces 3,340,000,000 bushels of corn. himself with glory, even ithe did af |Of this amount she United States terwards make most abjact apolo produces 2,575,000,000 Missourt gies to the American people for writ tas produced 314,000,000 bushels ing certaln portions of “Martin (torn in a single year, whieh figures Chuzzlewit.” out 1,100 bushelsfor each farm famt- The appointment of Thomas J.| ly In the State” Akins as Postmaster at St. Loule ytey John Hols departed this life was confirmed Saturday afsernoon, Thursday morning at 6:30 o'clock In an executive sestion of the Senate, 44 yh, ripe old sae of S2 years, thir- which Insted elyht minutes, Mr. Akins was notitied shortly after- wards of his coufirmation by Sena- tor William Warser, Mr, Akinseaid in Bates i was born 5, She 11845 ty five of whiet county, Mary El! In Penney venta 4 Was ito last Saturday evectny this action |») oe ; lhe a ‘ t tive years probably would result in his taking Pa " gins fs s ny ta D ” Vee r i i, iz: charge of the Post Office about dune!) yo yy Se Souls Gaon | 1 or as soon atierwards as the oftice nee ia ” Joan be transferred. tals: of Woot Charles H, Clem holds rather @ Kinney, ot Butler, y afternoon e and Inter- unique historical document tn the we form of a due Dil! against Bates fr county for $199 05, given his father | mi for services as sheriff in 1861, signed by Wyatt Sanford, treasurer. John! The Metz Times ins a favorite of- W. Clem was eberiff in 1861 and| fice bitch, which is named sfter that saved the county records by secret | POPer Ii tells the following story of aveadopted family: ‘Times’ 1s off duty now while she watches over five baoy canines. While she gives her offspring the best of care she has adopted five kistens that were cruel- ly deserted bs their mother at the sender age of two weeks. The two familles ges along oleely and at meal- time all hands get busy. “Times” continues the use of tobacco and hae added to her evil habits thas of chew- {nw gum aud munching bon bons. Metz belong in “dry” territory she vasn’s yet acquired the drink habit. {ug them, and afterwards took them with him to Texas. He never return- ed to Missouri, but the records were brought back following the war. The due bill held by Chas. H. Clem is valuable only as a relic of those stir- ring times A pecullar phenomenon was noticed here for the first time in many yeare since the last rain. It was discovered that the river was ronning upstream at Taberville and at the Katy bridge. Some were inclined to con- cider the drainage ditch the cause of tt but the real cause was exceedingly! \rs E. A Bennest departed thie heavy raine high up on Sac River, | life at their home on Pine street, causing a backwater in the Osage.) Waduesday evening, May 12th after The water was actually running up|, protracted illness, Funeral ser- the drainage ditch. The same thing | vices were con iucted from the family has occurred in times long past.—| home Friday afternoon, largely at Rockville Booster. tended by sympathetic friends, and The township board of Mt. Pleas-|!mterment in Osk Hill -cemetery. ant held a very important meeting. | Hannah Josephiae Roberts was born The matter of road improvement | it Highlend county, Ohio, Dec. 29th was taken up and acommittee com |1852. When 15 yeare old ehe mov- posed of C.8. Ewin and T.C. Jones/ed with ber famtly to Holt county, appointed to buy 12 road drags, to where she was warrled to E A. Ben- be divided equally between the flve|net’ Seps. 19s, Four years later dietricts, 2000 feet of bridge lum.|*bey xovedto Butler where they ber and 500 teet of beame for bridges|bave sloce resided. Four children and culverts were ordered purchased | Viz: Mre. E. C. Z+y, Mrs. Chas. T. and delivered to the township clerk.| McFarland, Charlee and Gorden Weare glad to see our township Bennett, with the husband survive board get a move on in road mat- her. ters. Mt. Pleasant‘should take the lead In good roads. Licensed Embalimer. Jamee S. Combs has devoted sev- Mre. Dora L. Nance died suddenly | eral monthe to the study of the aci- of heart disease at her home in Lit-| nce of embalming. He has received tleton,Col. Dora L. Hornbuckle was | instructions from some of the beat born in Calloway Co., Mo., March|embalmers in the state and attend- 4th, 1862. She came with her par-| ed term of school at Prof. Clement ents to Bates county in 1877. She} Williams Institute of embalming, was married to Willlam E. Nance) where many practical demonstra- Dec. 2, 1880. They went to Cedar} sions were made dally, He attended county to live. In 1899 she moved| the state convention, took the state {40 Colorado in quest of health. She! examination and be ie now licensed .'leavea a husband, one son, Emmett|embalmer. He also took a course of | W., an aged mother, 4 sisters and 4 | {netructions as funeral director and visiting relatives and old friende. | where he married and the baby was brothers. Her father died three| undertaker. He was accompanied home by hie | born. This mother, Mrs. Juila A. LaFollett, makes the home coming for who will vieit with Tas’s family and Mrs. Morgan very ead. They return- other relatives and friends. ‘ed to Jefferson City on Sunday. sudden bereavement years ago. Her brother, B. W. Mr. and Horabuckle, lives at Littleton. The Marriage Licenses. Rich Hill, Mo. Platteburge. husband took the remains to Dunne-| Ura Atkine, gan, Mo., for interment. Bulah Hixeon, ‘