Subscribers enjoy higher page view limit, downloads, and exclusive features.
_a et ean 8 owders, T bakin ter, Or money bDbert Burdette, in a talk to men, once sald: “Get away! bp thecrowd for a while and think pd on one side and let the world by, while you get acquainted | bh yourself and see what kind of ow youare, Ask yourself hard | tions about yourself, Ascertato, | n priginal sources, if you are| he manner of man you say| ju are, and if you are always hon ; if you always tell the square, fect truth in business detaile; i! ur lifes as good and upright at | en o'clock at nightas it ts at op; !f you are as good a temper , e man ona fishing excursion as| lu are on a Sunday School plenir; | ou areas good when you go w| bcity as you are as home; if, in prt, you are really the sort of man | ur father hopes you are and your! etheart belleves*you are. Get on | ly, and belleve me, every time you | me Out of one of these private fo- | views you will be a stronger, bet | , purer man. Don’t forget this, hd tt will do you good.” Hn its “Twenty-Four Years Ago’’| lamn the Enterprise prints this ac- junt of the Johnson county cyclone | jaé is etill well remembered: ‘‘A| rrific storm swept over Holdenand leinity. One life lost, a child nearly year old, Mrs. Edward Landis, the Mother was seriously injured. The ankey school house was blown own. Chas. Manford’s residence in orth Holden suffered the same fate. he house was turned over and the | upants dashed agains the celling. 8. Manford’s brother was badly ulsed. Dubachs lumber yard ghtly damaged, the public school ding, Holden College, Clark Bow- new house, First Baptist church, Carey’s house south of town, G Roberts’ north of town, Sam silane’ residence, all suffered me"SWamage. The bell at the tholic church was blown down.” SEs. | ve notice @ couple of our ex- nges are advertising their virtue refusing the ads. of The Anheuser h Brewery Co. The ads have) en Offered, we believe to most every tailed to see them in any of our hanges—they have been probably ned down, we believe very proper- 0: but as a question of morals, would prefer the brewery ads. to me of the ade. of the “medical liste” carried by some of the pers—but this is only a matter of lnion.— Montrose Recorder. lustice Ferrell calis our attention the dead cholera hogs dumped ng the road south of town, and us to state that unless the who placed them there bury n them, they will be proseco- It is againet the law to make a ground of the public roads, cholera hogs. Such action to spread the disease, infect country. It is criminal the farmers south of here are to make it exceedingly warm the fellow who did {t.—Hume 0 Friends Every Year We'll soon count you among them. It’s just a matter of time. more housewives are giving up the old- style, gf | se Trust-made Baking ousands are turning to Speak to yourgrocer. —) osts muchless. You won't od it till you try for your- 25 Ounces for 25 Cents per {in the state, and we have aa| the mob undertook to lynch a drunken man for stealing a mule. I believed | © Guaranteed under all Pure Food Laws More and sweeter refunded. Far bet- Jaques Mfg. Co, e Chicago Choosing a Builder. From the Circle Magazine. The selection of a builder te quite as important 4 matter to putting up a house as the choice of an architect Don’t choose the cheapest builder merely because he fa cheapest, If you avcept his bid find out the reason of {ts cheapness. I'r quently the build- er ia a man of little means and often he operates on borrowed capital. Should the builder become bankrupt, or fallto pay for bis labor or ma- | terlals, the owner, under the mechan- ics’ laws of most states, becomes Ia blefor the builder’s debts. This is true even though the owner has paid the builder for his work. In orderto obtaln bis house free and clear, in | such a case, the owner must meet the builder's obl{f¥tions. The pru- dent owner will, #f courae, pay for his house only as is {s constructed Boyhood Pals Meet Again. The Chronicle-News, Trinidad, Colorado. From the humble berth of country printer, way back in Butler, Mo., to the influential post of leader of she majority party on the floor of the Colorado house of representatives, is |the remarkable tise of “self-made,” /emiling Tom Howell, who uncere- }to day in company with his jovial | alde partner, H. W. Richards, of Den- | ver. Fires thing they did after tn- specting the beautiful street decora- tions, was to “butt in” to the Chron- {cle-News offive {n search of Dan Stone, their old boyhood chum | Strange to say the very minute that | their eyes met, Howell coughed up a huge gob of amazement and ejacula | ted, “B’Goeb! I used to ses type | with youdown in Missouri about forty years ago.” And true it was | Stone and Howell breathed the fetid | atmoephere of a print shop together four decades ago in old Miseouri. After bidding good bye to the type cares inthe land of good natured Democrate, Howell journeyed to Col- orado and made bis home there— thirty years ago. Like many anoth- er he grew “stuck on the climate” and decided that Denver and the Centennial state was good enough for him. Little by little he began to exhibit an interest {n politics, used to stay up nights, promulgating the doctrine of Jeffersonian principles, and last fall at the election he was elected to the state leg'slature by an overwhelming majority above his opponent. Howell soon won the $.tle on the floor of the lower house of “Honest Tom Howell,” simply be- cause he. remembered his pledges | made to his constituents previous to the election. Stone and Richards have known |each other 80 long that nelther can remember when they first met. Dur- ing his residence fa Denver, Richards has made frequent visits to Trinidad, | $1800. ] jmoniouely dropped off in Trinidad lote 11 & 12 bik 14 Littles add to Real Estate Transfers. WARRANTY DEEDS. | W F Duke & wife to Jas Spurlock | NEY, NEX sec 10 West Point twp} Jae P Burnoy & wife to Willis F Baker & wife \\, NW sec 16 East Boone swp $3200 JH Williams & wife to O B Odell Hame $1500. S L Standish to C E Horton lots 1 & 5 bik 9 Standish 2od add to Hume $2,025. Jobo J & Susan Messinger to OB Odell lote 3 bik 22 Littles add Hume $250 David E Keller & Wife to Omar M Drysdale lote 15 & 16 blk 31 Town of Amoret $750. Josephise Forbs to C M Clark 27 a sec 19 West Pitns $765 Weldon D Yates & wife to Hiram Nichols (Ik 8 Mousgomerye add to Butler $1. ‘WA Claunch & wile to EN Jones etall 60 fe Sside Mid ¥ blk 8 Old Town Butler $220, SC Lemar & wifeto W W Fergu son pt blk 2 in Wyatts add to But- ler $2500. EO Twymnon & wile to R R Russell lows 79 &80tn Town Co’s add to Adrian $2500 5 L Standish & wife to H J Middel- kamp & wife loweG HII & 12-34 5 6.-7-9-9-10-11 & 12 bik 14 exten- slon toS LStandishes 2nd add to Home Mo $730. A A Blessing (single) to Larence S Miller & wife all los 77 tn Worland $325. VJ Jenkins & witeto CH Hutch- {ns lote 6 & 7 blk 24 Amores $50 Mattie C Reach & husband to Elmer Miller 72 feet of West Side blk 15 in Town of Butler $1000.00. Enos Detwirler & wife to Detwirler & Sheaver lots 12 & 18 block 24 Anoret, Mo, $650.00 Joseph Ht Groves & wite to C E ven then {¢ would bea useful cau- tiou to make sure that the builder hae pald his tndebtedness on the hovee, Payments are usually med to the builder when the foundations | are done, when the frame fe up, when the house {s closed, when the plaster- {ng is finished and when the com pleted house is turned over to the owner. Lived 152 Years. Wm. Parr—England’s oldest man —married the third time at 120, worked In the fields till 132 and lived 20 years longer, People should be youthfal at 8C. James Wright, of Spurlock, Ky., shows how to remain young. “I feel just like a 16-year-ula boy,” he writes, “after taking six bottles of Electric Bitters, For thirty years Kidney trouble made life a bur den, but the first bottle of this won derful medicine convinced meI had found the greatest cure on earth.” They’re & godsend to weak, sickly rundown or old people. Try them 50c at F. T. Clay’s drug store. Cattle Stolen From Pasture. Sometime during the first of last week stock thieves entered the pas- ture of J. 8. Bell, located between Foster and Nyhart, and drove away a milch cow and three steers, and of which no trace has yet been found. Sheriff Ballock has been working on -matter-since-the-thelt—was-re- ported to him, butso far has been unable to establish a clue. Each animal was branded on the hip with a bar. It {s sald the Marais des Cygnes bottoms where the stock was on pas- ture affords a fine opportunity for thieves to steal stock and get away with {t,and !t1s @ difficult matter for the officers to run the rogues down. The local association of the C. P. A. will join with the sheriff in seeing that every effort 1s made to ran down horse and cattle thieves who may start their operations in the county. Beveridge and the “Cuss” Habit. From the Cincinnati Times-Star. “What was your hardest struggle in life, senator?” Mr. Beveridge was asked one day. “To quit cussing,” sald he. I[ learned how to swear hard enough to impress the loggers, and it was years before I could break myself of the habit. But it helped save my life one time. I was in a little cow town in Western Kansas, when a him {onocent, and I managed to out- case that crowd. And then the man who had preferred the charge came| "9p? after me, and Icussed him out so that he put his gun back in his holeter and went away.” and never fails to wave the red flag and threaten to “blow things up” on each occas{on. Both Howell and Richards are spend'ng a few days here in the Interests of the Aeglis In- surance company, placing the stock of thelr concern with some of the reputable business men of Trinidad. Some Interesting Facts About the Bible. The Bible contains 3,566,480 let ters, 773,746 words, 31,173 verses, 1,180 chapters and 66 book. The word “and” occurs 46,277 times. The word “Lord” occurs 1,885 times The word “Reverend” occurs but once which {s the 9th veree of the 111th Psalm. The middle verse 13 the 8th verse of the 118th Psalm. The 21st verse of the 7th chapter of Ezra contains all the letters in the alphabet except the letter “J”. The longest verse is the 9th verse of the 8sh chapter of Esther. The short | est, the 35th verse of the 11+h chap- ter of St. John. Thera are no words or names of more than six syllables. AFTER SUFFERING ONE YEAR Cured by Lydia E. Pink- ham’sVegetableCompound Milwaukee, Wis. — “Lydia E. Pink- ham’s Vegetable Compound has made me a well woman, and I would like to tell the whole world backache. I hope I can hale oltre by re what Lydia E. ‘ham’s Vegetable Compound has done for me.” — Mrs. Emma Ise, 883 First St., Milwaukee, Wis. The above is only one of the thou- sands of grateful letters which are a ean, being received by the Pinkham Medicine Company of yn, Mass., which prove beyond a doubt that Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com- pound, made from roots and herbs, actually does cure these obstinate dis- eases of women after all other means have failed, and that_every such suf. Ting woman owes it to herself to at Toasty ve Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegeta- ble Compound a trial before submit- ne Sy 52 catatien, or giving up of recovery. rs. Pinkham, of Lynn, Mass., vit sick women to ieriee Silvie She ies guided thousands to health her advice is free. jand lung trouble.” Every one who ( Boone $5600 00, Won’t Slight a Good Friend. “It ever I need a cough medicine again I know what to get,” declares Mrs. A. L Alley of Beals, Me., “tor, after using ten bottles of Dr. King’s New Discovery, and seeing {ts excel- lent results in my own family and others, 1 am convinced {¢ 1g the best medicine made for Coughs, Colds tries !¢ feels jast that way. Relief te felé at once and {ts quick cure sur. rises you. For Bronchitis, Asthma, emorrbage, Croup, LaGrippe, Sore Throat, pain in chest or lungs {ts supreme. 50c and $100. Trial bot tle free. Guaranteed T. Clay, Children Find Lost Father. Shreveport, La, May.—C. S. Lin- well, accompanied by his son and daughter, left here for Princeton, Ind., after the father had beeu re- stored to his children following a separation of twenty-four years. Linwell is !n poor health. He was confined in the Charity Hospital here when the location of hischildren was learned and they were notified. Although they could barely remem. ber the father, who lefs them In their early childhood, they hurrled to his bedside. Smashes All Records. As an all-round laxative tonic and health-builder no other pillscan com- are with Dr. King’s New Life Pills. hey tone and regulate stomach, liver and kidneys, purity the blood, strengthen the nerves; cure Constipa- tion, Dyspepsia, Billousness, Jaun dice, Headache, Chills and Malarta. Try them 25c at F. T. Clays. “Cement and alfalfa are going to make the western farmers the most independent people on earth,” de- clares a Nebraska cattleman. In ex- plaining the use of cement on the farm he says: ‘‘The time ig coming when cement will be the universal building material on the farm. A concrete floor and wall eliminates rodent and most vermin and in a few yearsa well constructed build- log, with bin attachments, will save enough grain to pay for the cost of construction. Ifextreme cold weath- ersuch a building affords an even temperature for live stock. I never have to worry about my young stock on a cold night. Another ad- chickens.” Kills to Stop the Fiend, The worst foe for 12 sig’ sce, Hepeld a ulcer. octors over a Then Buck- ; killed the ulcer! him. Cures Fever-Sores, Bolle, Felons, Eczema, Salt Rheum. Infallible for Piles, Burns, Scalds, , Cats, Corns. 25¢ at F. T. Clays. G290690000008 9000900806 8800 0990 0905009 1) OOO GOO GOO 0200 909080008 0000909000900 0090-0-0900000-009000000000008 FARMERS BANK OF BATES COUNTY. Capital Surpius..... $ 50,000 00 15,000.00 We are protected against robbery by insurance and our LABGE CORLISS SAFE, guaranteed by the manufacturer to be Burglar Proof. DIRECTORS, E. A. Benyerr, Ciark Wx, J.J. McKee, Homer Duvatt, Frank Houtanp, J. W. Caoare, F. N. Drennan, OA. Herter, W. F, Deva. WE WANT YOUR SUSINESS. E. A. BENNETT, Pres. W. F. DUVALL, Vice-Pres. HOMER DUVALL, Cashtler, H. H. LISLE, Asst. Cashier Beecoccccccccec co ccc ee seeee sees eee wom mmm ome § i } | i A AANA ALS ITLS RRLRIRLOIS COLON ps tle tt a Pea DUVALL-PERCIVAL TRUST CO. CASH CAPITAL, $50,000. Farmers Bank Building, Butler, Miseourt, FARM LOANS. We have money to loan on real estate at a low rate of interest with privilege to pay atany time, ABSTRACTS. We havea complete set of abs- tract booke and will furnish abstracts to any Real Estate in Bates County and examine and perfect titles to same. INVESTMENTS. We will loan your {dle 4 money for you, securing you reasonable interest on good secur- * ity. We pay Interest on time deposits, 4 W. F. DUVALL, President. J. B. DUVALL, Vice-Pres. " ARTHUR DUVALL, Treasurer. W. D, YATES, Title Examiner, icaianiens Rf PLL ILI Way Colonist Rates. ___ — —fa To points tn Arizona, British Colum. bia, Colorado, Idaho, Mexico, Mon- MISSOURI tana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, i Texas, Utah and Washington, fare PACIFIC | greatly reduced through services op IRON erated over the Missourt Pactfic via Pueblo andthe Scenic Route, The MOUNTAIN ; Denver & Rio Grande If you are t contemplating # trip West let m figure with you today. I can eave Missouri Pacific Time Table you time, trouble and money. Call BUTLER STATION at office or write me I will be glad to assist you. EE. C. VANDERVOORT, — FOLLOWING IS CORRECT TIME OF TRAINS Agent, : ‘ Trains North (No, 206, 6:08 a.m, : EN so ii 208, 12:36 p.m. aes: K.C. Stock | Soee ' T C BOULWARE Local Freight | 11:30 pm. ‘e is : ’ Trains South (No. 5:04 wm, Physiclan and Surgeon, Office oo ou 4 y- abe North Side Square, Butler, Mo, 'cal Freight ui, coos oe 80 pom Diseases of women and children Interstate § West, departs... 743 acm, a specialty. East, arrives... 6:00 Dim Freight trains do not carry passengers, — All freight for forwarding must be at depot not later than eleven o’clock a. m. or be heli Road Chief No (909 A C H R for following days forwarding. Freight for . y Memeitelle Interstate Division must be delivered before ster sire has few equals.SHis colts have been | sold year olds. | Office Phone 213, . | i. o00eeees Nipper, No.g1908, A.C.H.R. | AAA COOOOOO COO The fine young=German Coach Stallion, Nipper, will also make the season at the same stables at $10 to insure a living{colt, or $8 by the season, German Coach Horse Simpson, No. | 2129, dam{by Folie] No.t1071 Im-| Offee Telephone 20. House Telephonel0. ported’ French Coach. Nipper has! been a Blue Ribbon winner at the B. F. JETER, Bates County Fair fourfyears in) succession, and in conformation, | style and high action isJmuch like | his sire. Montezuma. See Guarantee below. This fine mule jack will make the vantage 1s the cleanliness, I have|season at the same stables at $8 no tuberculosis among my cattle, no to insure a living colt. cholera hogs and no roup in the, Sired by the noted jack{Monster, | out of a fine Kentuckyfjennet. | cannot | than to say that his mules have | been sold at from $75 tto $90 at years of John' weaning time out of 15§to 15% +) WBS & TUD- handmares. Noservice fee\charged if we fail to prove this, Your patronage respectfully solic- J. W. & J. S. WARNOCK. Phone 150, This well known Coa; d Road- | sire will make the Season of 1909 as usual at our stables in Butler, Mo., at $10 to insure a liv-| ing colt, or $8 the season. five o’clock p. m, train in morning. No freight billed for thie E, ©, Vanpervoort, Agent. The Missouri Pacitic have through |package car service which delivers | merchandise from New York in But |ler on the fifsh morning out, fourth morniog delivery from Cinciunatl and Cleveland, third morning from Indianapolis and Chicago, second morning from St. Loufs. Will be jglad to furnish you routeing orders which will insure quick time, E. C. Vandervoort, Agt. /; DRE. N. CHASTAIN. “I BurLer, Mo. Office over American Clothing House. Residence High Street. Residence Phone 195, As a of horses for all useSRoad Chief from§$150 to $300 as two | DR- J. Ms CHRISTY, Ottice over A. H. Culver Furniture Company, Butler, Mo. He wasJsired byjthe noted Attorney at Law and Justice, Omice over H. H. Nichols, East side square, Butler, Mo. DR, J. T. HOLL DENTIST. entrance, same that lead to R. L, Liddil’s studio, north side square. Butler, Mo. He was We} recommend him better Drs. Cannon & Sparr Dentists, BUTLER, - MISSOURI. 26-6t East Sideof Square Telephone No. 812 3 BUTLER, MO.