The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, July 15, 1909, Page 7

has ‘*The Daylight Store.’’ We are Offering Some Special Bargains in Knee Pants Suits Over 100 Suits formerly sold from $2.50 to $5.00 On Sale at just 4 Price CLOTHCRAFT shoulders and coat front have the fit and style that well dressed men demand. The Board of Managers of the Ne- vada asylum elected Miss Dora Dod- son Matron of this institution. Miss Dodson has been matron of the asy- lum for several years and is one of |the most popular and capable ladies who have ever been connected with the State Hospital for the Insane.— Mail. The Butler Elks ball team went to Ft. Scott, Kansas, on the early Sun- day morning train. It was the last | train out of Butier, owing to the wash- outin the Marias Des Cygnes river bottoms, and the boys were compell- ed to lay over. They reached home Monday night via Nevada, Sedalia and Pleasant Hill. A. E. Moore, of Pleasant Gap town- |ship, was a pleasant caller on Friday and as guardian for the minor heirs of Mrs. Ida Bryant, deceased, had bills struck for the sale of personal property of said deceased, at her late home in Pleasant Gap township, on Friday, July 16th 1909 at 2 o'clock p. Over 60 Suits, Mens and Young Mens im. Formerly sold at $5, $6, $7.50 and $10 Just Half Price Every Straw Hat in our Store CUT ONE HALF. A SPECIAL SALE OF LOW SHOES $4.00 Values all go at........... 445 $3.50 Values all go at.. American Clothing House ON THE CORNER Doug. Walden who recently had his leg crushed, while unloading heavy machinery from his dray wag- jon, is not gettirg along as well as could be hoped. The smaller bones in his leg were crushed and the /muscles badly bruised, and has given Mr. Walden intense pain. The wound jis such that it will be slow in healing. Oscar Medearis, of Big Cabin, Okla., was in Bates county the last of \the week settling up some business matters and visiting old friends. Mr. Medearis formerly owned the old! }George Price farm, near Ballard, CENTER OF TOWN | which he sold for $45 per acre, and went to eastern Oklahoma where he urchased 200 acres of prairie land at! Straw hats and oxfords cut prices. ; |—Black & Arnold Clothing Company. | G. B. Power orders his paper) changed from Reno, Nev., to Quiney, | Black & Arnold Clothing Co. George Williams, the hustling real- utler | Cal. Childrens $2.50 suits now $1.25 Joe Meyers. Butler’s popular barber, Alex. L. Cameron, places us under renewed obligations, Mrs. Jno. M. Coleman returned home from a visit to her sons in Spruce township. Mens $10.00 suits now $5.00 Joe Meyers. A bolt of lightning killed a valuable horse anda hog for Carl Decker, northeast of Butler last week. G. A. Knight, the popular carrier on Butler No. 2, called and had his | flame enrolled for The Times. This ycar trade with us. Black & Arnold Clothing Co. Clyde McFarland purchased four mules from Jesse Smith, of Summit, on Monday, for which he paid $600. One lot straw hats worth 75c and $1.00 now 25c Joe Myers. Miss Goldie “Hoke, who had been visiting Miss Sallie Hayes, refurned to her home in Kansas City on Mon- day. Boys $5.00 suits now $2.50 Jee Meyers. Will Barnhardt had a valuable horse gored to death by a vicious cow with a young calf, the first of the week. Wear Douglas “Gilt Edge’’ shoes. Black & Arnold Clothing Co. Mr. and Mrs. Dowell Ray, of Urich, came down the first of the week to visit,with John Ray’s family and oth- er relatives. : 50 mens suits half price Joe Meyers. Mrs. Stella Miller and daughter came down from Kansas City the first of the week to visit her sister, Mrs. Will Nix. 100 boys knee pant suits half price Joe Meyers. Circuit Clerk and Mrs. T. D. Em- bree drove out to Spruce township Sunday to spend the day with D. Teeter. Wear only “High Art’ clothes. Black & Arnold Clothing Co. Elder L. L. Wix, of;Deep Water, was in Butler Monday after coal for the thresher, which was to begin on his wheat at once. * Oxfords and straw hats big cut.— Black & Arnold Company. Mrs. J. B. Walton returned home Sunday from a three weeks’ visit to friends at Hobart, Okla. Brown met her at Kansas City. G. W. Cowley, one of Elkhart township’s substantial citizens and unwavering Democrats, was a busi- ness caller on Monday. A card from ex-sheriff D. A. Colyer of Nebraska, says he will try and pay| of the Ballard neighborhood, had a a visit to his old friends in Bates! horse and three m county this summer or fall. Wanted, a girl for general house- work, enquire of Mrs. Bert Allen. /estate man of Merwin, was in |Monday looking after business. George is a power in politics in his section. | J. Frank Craven and wife came in | Monday night from Ocean Park, Cal., ; where they have been for the past year. They will probably make their home here. | Mrs. Ray Heinlein, after a apne ed visit with her parents, Mr. and | Mrs. Charles Stewart, south of But- jler, returned to her home in Kansas | City the first of the week. | [have a number of inquiries for ‘farms. If you wish to sell, list with | me. C. W. HESS. | 28tf Butler, Mo. | Mrs. Rex Heinlein, of Kansas City, came down Sunday to visit her par- ents, Dr. and Mrs. A. E, Lyle. Fier sons, Lawrence and Ivers had been visiting their grandparents for sever- al weeks. All Ex-Confederates are requested to meet at the County Clerks office in Butler, Saturday, July 17, 1909 at 1 o’clock, to attend to business of im- portance. J. R. Ford, Com. W. M. Steffin, a substantial Lone Oak farmer, was a pleasant caller on Saturday. He said his corn was in splendid condition and was all laid by before these last heavy rains. Mrs. S. R. Young fell down the steps of a back porch at her home on West Pine street and broke both) bones of her left arm below the el- bow. We have an extra good steam coal that will give entire satisfaction to the thresher man. Only 10 cents per bushel—Peoples Elevator Co. 34-5t One farmer in the east part of the county said his ground was so thor- oughly soaked that he could stand on the edge of his field and see heavy corn stalks falling over of their own weight. Miss Gertrude Crowell entertained a party of young ladies, at the home of her parents Major and Mrs. F. H, Crowell, Thursday evening in honor of her guest, Miss Hazel Orris, of Rich Hiil. Miss Lelia Clark entertained a party of young ladies, at the home of her parents, Major and Mrs. Ed. Clark on High street Thursday evening in hon- or of her guest, Miss Eva Codgill, of Lamar, Mo. H. D. Chambers, of the Burdett country was transacting business in Butler the last of the week. Bud was formerly in business in this city and has a large acquaintance and many friends. James Welch reports a valuable 2- year-old mule killed by lightning Fri- ad evening, at his place east of But- er. per acre. He is well pleased with that country. | | Governor Hadley turned_a very |neat joke on the mayor of Trenton. The Governor called up over the long Sct ;. | distance phone and asked if the city sie, his | : } Susie, his j needed food, clothing or other assist- ~~ ance. Mayor Williams replied that’ ne o aXe . ) : came to examine | trenton was doing very well, but did jneed a car load of beer, The Mayor was greatly surprised few days later to receive a ¢ rent of a car load of beer from Qui John Hedger and Miss oldest daughter, were callers on Mon- day. Miss Susie our big printing press and folder. T. C. Robinson, at present located at Greenville, Ohio, who had been | here attending the Robinson vs Robin- | S ¢ “928A. p . q Sat. on 7 ‘ or gg case, left fer his home Sat Jesse Hall, of Pleasant ¢ brought ay. : ; 1a load of new wheat to town Monday Isaac Lockridge, Democratic com- | for which Power Bros. paid him $1.02 —— aoe gene ane oon Of} per bushel. He had 18 acres which he truest and best party workers in} a yoraced 19 1-2 bushels to the acre the county, was a pleasant caller |°Y" ed 19 1-2 bushels to the acre. ‘while in the city on Monday and had | Jesse said he threshed his wheat be- ithe bone of the leg near the thigh, | his dates set ahead. }tween showers and saved it in good - . ‘ ondition. Mr. Hall has many con- J. B. Rice, of Mound, was kicked | °°" ton tr Hall h = many CoN by a horse Friday afternoon and seri- | tracts for thrashing when the weather ously injured. The blow splintered | will permit. J. F. Kerns was so unfortunate as to lose 100 acres of wheat on his N hart bottom land, which was estima- |ted at 25 bushels to the acre. This The valuable race horse Cy Cox, | wasan exceptionally good piece of owned by Fred Hyatt, was killed by | wheat, had» been cut and put in lightning on his father, J. T. Hyatt’s | shocks and as a precaution, when the place last week. Cy Cox has made a’ river began to rise Mr. Kerns had pacing record on the track of 2:12, teams to haul it to the highest point and Mr. Hyatt had refused an offer of | that had not-been known to oyer flow $700 for him. He was a son of Dr. |for years. When Mr. Kerns went Cox. down the next morning most of his _ wheat had floated off. Judge A. D. Hyde was a pleasant caller while in Butler holding court last week. In company with engi- but did not break the leg. Mr. Rice | will be laid up for several weeks with the injury. Mrs. Frank McKibben and Mrs. Mabel Griffith were called to Bartles- ville, Okla., on Friday on account of the death of a cousin, Frank Morgan, which occurred in that town. The funeral took place Saturday. ditch and said the Fooheys lacked only a few days work of completing their contract, when the big flood overtook them and stopped work temporarily. Judge Hyde is sure making good as associate Judge and his friends are already talking him for presiding judge. The Times enrolls the following new subscribers on its growing list: Jas. H. Keeton, T. A. Frazee, G. A. Knight, C. B. Turpin, F. C. Williams, M. E. Shannon, A. 0. Yeomans, J. M. Rexroat, Lewis Dunsworth. James H. Keeton, of Elkhart town- ship, was a pleasant caller on Mon- day and had his name enrolled. st Some time ago Mr. Keeton stopped Week and favored us. “Young The Times to take another county Aaron’ has taken up the work of his paper. He,saw a copy: of this paper ‘lamented father and right well is he a few days ago, and 4 decided to re- | carrying it forward. The Times has turn to his first love. indeed been fortunate in having one ; ‘so admirably equipped to take J. Buford Duvall will leave the last Aaron’s place in that community. | of this week for a prospecting tour | We trust the people out there will as- through the west. He will make pe phen d i “| ; all the local happenings to the en stops sd Nebraska, Montana, Idaho, | that he may give them the very best Washington and California, and will | service. ie Sent Se eam. He William and Ralph Warner killed a! Senppenene Ye tie Boettie expos | young wolf, in the Island Saturday. | ae The boys were rowing in a boat and noticed two wolves swimming for the bluffs. They were near the long lakes. The boys overtook and killed one with an oar. The other one James H. Park, “Young Aaron,” was in from Virginia the last of the Miss Lora Fisher and Roscoe Ter- rant were married at Council Bluffs, Iowa, on July 8th. The bride is the charming daughter of the late ex- county treasurer Sam H. Fisher, and has been one of Bates county’s suc- | escaped. The one killed was about cessful and popular teachers. The the size of a full grown coon, They groom is a prominent young business |},44 ay; naa: Koh: dioeniall f man of Venita, Oklahoma, where the | "24 evidently been drowned out o oung couple will make their home. | their den by the overflow and were, Miss Fisher's host of friends in this | making for the high ground. neer Bell, he had viewed the bigvof the lake. Friend Carpenter came in from his| big ranch near Colby, Kansas, the last of the week. He said they had | laid by 350 acres of corn. their wheat five headers were used. The wheat is yielding big. The sea-| son is fine and they expect a good} corn crop. Wm. M. White, of this city, went | In saving} to Butler again Saturday to take treat-| ,. ment for his eyes, the serious nature of which has been previously men- tioned in these columns. We in com- mon with Mr. White's many iriends ! are pleased to note that he has receiv- ed some benefit from the treatment he has received from the specialist at that place, and it would afford us great pleasure to be able to report! him permanently cured from the ter-| rible malady from which he has been | suffering so long. He will remain at} Butler for a few weeks at least.—Ap- pleton City Journal. | Those who know a cyclone when; they see one, and there are several! such persons about Butler, declare that one passed over the city Monday morning, high up in the air, from northwest to southeast. It was be-j yond communication and none of the anxious people who were out watch- | ing it desired its nearer approach ir order to verify its identity. It a curious shaped mass of clouds and kept rolling over and tossing about in a manner that indicated ii wouldn't! stand for any foolishness, if it once got its dander up in good shape. As we haven't lost any cyclone, we didn’t take the trouble to follow itup. The Review tells of an exciting experience ‘‘Kid’’ Faussett had wit two tramp dogs at his piace last week. He noticed the dogs chasing his cattle and took his double barrel gun to square matters., It took both barrels to kill one dog, when the other and larger dog attacked him savagely. The “kid” defended himself with his gun used asa club until an unfortn- nate blow broke the stock, when he was apparently at the dog’s mercy. At that critical period George Here- ford, who had witnessed the fracas ata distance and vy stening to the rescue with a ber rifle, shot from a distance of 75 yards and killed | the dog. A good or lucky shot or both, J. H. Sacre, popular constable of Charlotte, a pleasant caller on! Tuesday. ives next the upper, or Marvel bridge on the river, and said they had kept a high water guage for years on the bridge piers and a} tree, and that the present overflow} was 12 inches above any other mark | made in previous ) He said the | neighbors for miles was down Sun-j day to view the bridge. Judges | Harper and Paddock came down, and the water then was lapping the floor. The judges had one end of the bridge cabled and would have cabled the | other, but they had nothing suitable to tie to. The levee around the Webster lake at Athol was reported broken on Thursday and the water from the Miami which had flooded the Murphy | bottoms rushed in and filled the lake which had been drained in the spring and acrop of corn planted which promised well. Mr. Webster had gone to a big expense to have a ditch dug and levee -thrown up from the railroad on the north, around the east and to the high ground on the south He expected to raise a big crop of corn off this land, seed it down in wild rice and by shutting the flood gates on the east, let the lake fill with water for fall and spring duck shooting. Robinson Deeds Upheld. In the circuit court last week Judge Denton handed down his opinion in the Robinson vs Robinson case in which he sustained the deeds by which Robinson had conveyed his property to his children, R. A. Robin- son deeded his land to his children at atime when he was threatened with damage suits, the trouble growing out of the notorious Daniels hanging case. Later Robinson had trouble | with his wife, and they separated, the children siding with their mother. Robinson sued to recover possession of his property. Notice of appeal was given. Much bitterness has been engendered. The value of the land in dispute is about $15,000. Romine Picking Up His Wheat. Jas. Romine, living north of Athol, whose 80-acre field of wheat was inundated by the flood waters from the Miami a_day or two ago, has had a force of men with teams and in boats at work ever since the flood picking up his wheat and taking it to high land. Nearly every shock in his field was washed away, a large quantity of The Peoples Elevator Co. have fill- sec bisa ed their large coal bins with an extra} steam coal for threshers. This coal’ will only cost you 10 cents per a | 1909 NEW CROP TURNIP SEED ALL KINDS Deacons el. 34-5t. It is reported that L. C. Redford, | ning, during a h Tea ee , dui a heavy e orm Charley Smizer has accepted a posi- in the rs and de- be t of the Jones Den oat: Store in Kansas City and South Side county extend congratulations and W. H. Ison, of Lone Oak, was in ' Butler Tuesday and favored us pleas- which lodged in underbrush or along antly. Two years ago this summer the Mo. Pac. railroad track. By hard Mr. Ison had a big span of mules he | work and at considerable expense, was working to knock him down and | Mr. Romine will in this way succeed drag a heavy mower over him. The, in saving at least a portion of his doctors pronounced his back broken, | wheat.—Friday’s Review. and that he could not possibly recov- | . cer. Mr. Ison displayed wonderful | Tornado Strikes Pana, Il. | nerve, and insisted-that he would get ; Pana, Ill, July 4.—A- tornado hit 'well. He was confined to his bed for | Pana this afternoon, demolishing about nine months. He now handles | houses, uprooting trees and doing himself remarkably well with the aid | damage to the extent of thousands of ‘of crutches, oversees his farm and | dollars. does considerable light work and on All of the electric light wires are a push handles a riding cultivator. | down and the city is in darkness. No one was injured, but traffic on a three-block-wide strip through the city is at a standstill. The wind laid fields of grain flat. It was followed by a deluge of rain. Convicts Aid in Saving Wheat Crop. Jefferson City, Mo., July 11, ts from the Missouri Sta Con- > Peniten- tiary were worked in the Callaway bottoms here to-day helping farmers jsave their wheat from the advancing waters of the Missouri River. All night last night and until late this evening men and teams worked in the fields that were not too badly submerged, saving what wheat -they could, Warden Andrae, of the Peni- tentiary, sent all the teams at the command of the State, and negro con- victs, under guard, to aid the farmers in saving their wheat. The convicts worked well and sav- ed several thousand dollars’ worth of grain. Every team and every man and boy who could be employed was busily engaged last night and to-day until late in the evening, when the ‘advance of the river drove them out ‘of the fields. | Storm Kills Half a Dozen. Ortonville, Minn., July 11.—A_ tor- nado here to-day demolished two Houses, killing Philip De Griff. The storm struck the Milwaukee depot, destroyed the roundhouse, coal sheds and five boarding cars, filled with Italian laborers, killing five of them and severely injuring fifteen others. A deluge of rain accompanied it. A New Profession. Did you ever think of selling life insurance as a profession? There are men located in county- seat town where the population does not exceed three thousand, who by devoting their entire time, talents and energy to the business, are making $1,200 to $1,500 per year I have a vacancy in the agency force in Missouri, If you are ina position to undertake the work to the exclusion of all other lines of work, I would be glad to hear fromtyou and would take pleasure in giving you full particulars as to the advantages to be derived from such a career. Address, Wm. Hughes, 312 New York Life Bldg., Kansas City, Mo. 85-4 Don’t Fail to Take Advantage of the Low Prices We are making on Mens, Boys AND Childrens Suits Odd Pants Money in your pocket to buy now. THE CLOTHIER. joe Moyer