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an te onan wetnlaasivaile Pe Ne pee LOV SR: Good Clothes area — Good Investment It pays to get stylish, not only w but also when they are o/d. It is an investment sure to bring handsome returns. clothes that -look hen they are mew, | Clothcraft All-Wool Clothes look spick and span and shapely as long as they last—and they cost no more than common clothes, A fine Clotheraft suit for $10— the finest for $25 and a Signed Guarantee of all wool, of long life and of shape-holding goes with each suit, You lose money and opportunity if you overlook Clotheraft, AMERICAN CLOTHING HOUSE A PIONEER SETTLER. One of the Earliest Residents of Appleton City Now Visiting. Appleton City Journal, | The St. Clair County Republican | has the following with reference to one of the earliest residents of Apple- ton City, who during the past week has been a guest at the home of his brother, J. B. Bachelor, one of Bates county’s pioneer and most highly esteemed citizens. The meeting of the brothers, which was the first in about thirty years, was very effecting and was witnessed by a few friends in the city, including Phil Klein and a few others who were residents of the | Prairie Queen at the time Dick! Bachelor was a familiar character | here. | D. N. Bachelor, formerly known by the old time residents of Osceola as “Dick” Bachelor, dropped in for alittle visit with old acquaintances | the first of the week. Mr. Bachelor | opened the first lumber yard that did | business in Osceola after the late un- | pleasantness, same having been lo- cated on the lot where the Baptist church now stands, and remained a resident of the city until in 1871 or 1872 when he removed to Appleton City where he conducted a milling business for'some time and eventual- ly drifted into Florida where he now resides and where he owns a_valu- ible orange orchard, He was mar- ried near Howard's Mill in the south part of the county and one purpose he had in view when he stopped in Osceola was to visit that neighbor- hood for the purpose of renewing old acquaintances, but being informed (the 16th. | Chillicothe. FOR A LOST TELEGRAM, $300 A Missouri Court Gave Damages to a Woman whose Mes- sage Went Astray. Chillicothe, Mo., Sept. 19.—The first case ever decided by a Missouri court coming under the law passed by the legislature of 1907 providing that a telegraph company which fails to deliver a message filed with it shall pay the sender $300 was passed on by Judge Arch B. Davis in the Livingston county Circuit Court on Mrs. Ida Grant filed a tel- egram in St. Lonis addressed to her brother, Justice A. M. Johnson, in’ It is said the telegram never reached the Chillicothe office. Mrs. Grant was awarded the $300 damages. The company has appealed, The Doctor Approves of it. We are in receipt of the following letter from the southeast part of the state from a practicing physician who has been practicing medicine for more than thirty years. He says: Let me congratulate you on your drinking cup conversion. I have yet to’hear of any one being caused any trouble by the public drinking cup. Now it is said that school children will each have to have their own cups. Won’t this make a merry jingle? Just think of it! I have been in the practice of medicine since ‘67 and know that about 99 3-4 per cent of this eating and drinking danger is all rot. I sometimes think that we jare all going crazy, judging by the laws that our legislators are passing *s Mail. LOOKING BACKWARD. Gleanings From THE TIMES|| Columns a Quarter of a Cen- tury Ago—Sept. 24th, 1884. J.M. Vaughn presented a petition to the city council, asking permit to conduct and operate a street car line within the city limits. Frank Winsett, living east of town left Monday for Chicago to attend medical lecturers. Miss Gertrude Hannah, attending school in Kansas City, visited home folks. The Butler Academy opened this | year with ninety-eight scholars. The Butler Carriage Works, of But- | lake) did? ler, has just completed a new car-| "9 clearly 88 }OU ever did f riage for Major Bradley. | If you cannot it is your Mr. Kaune shipped the last invoice own fault, for we have eye- of the thirty a dollars worth | olasses and spectacles to fit of cattle he bought of Walton Bros. fall eyes and all noses. We Rev. S. M. Brown, pastor of the; dt. teat aves t Baptist church, has returned from a ae DESPELE eU eee oy ene visit to North Carolina. jot charge and fit proper glass- A little son of W. H. Clinkendeard | cs at reasonable prices livikg just west of the city, had one | : . of his legs broken Sunday evening at | Our stock of the depot. | OPT farmer was shot and killed by WIl- | G00 liam Pierce, a young man of Foster, | during a personal difficulty. Republican ticket and requested that the name of W. O. Atkeson be placed on the Republican ticket for prosecu- Tuesday evening the Walnut hack, | Miss Mollie Blewitt returned home |i8 large and of the very best ting attorney. running between this city and Foster, | brought the news of a shooting scrape | froma visitto friends at Warrens-| quality, consisting of Smoked burg. Glasses, Fi Id, Opera, Read- at the latter place, in which Joseph Oliver, an old and highly respected | The greenback convention Satur-); Ny e ing and Eyeglas-es, ete, day passed resolutions endorsing the} © yes . Watch Inspector | N. B. JETER * MISSOURI | WEST SIDE Be | JEWELER Raliwa | Go With a Rush. The demand for that wonderful! Stone and Bryan Disagree. Stomach, Liver and Kidney cure, Dr.) | King’s New Life Pills—is astounding} Senator W. J. Stone and W. J. Frank T. Clays say they never saw | Bryan of Nebraska agree upon their the like. Its because they never fail | initials and on many party matters, to cure Sour Stomach, Constipation, | ‘, mein arift | Indigestion, _Biliousness, | but they do not agree upon the tariff Jaundice. | . Sick Headache, Chills and Malaria, |0n raw materials. The Missouri Sen- Only 25c. lator, who isa guest at the Planters ‘ Hotel, has taken occasion to express \his views. Stone declared that as long as there is a tariff on the manufactured arti- cles, it was useless to admit the raw the following property: material free of duty, as the manufac- 43 Head of Cattle: Consisting of | turer, controlling the finished pro- 25 two year old heifers, 5 one year|duct, would merely make the differ- old heifers, 2 two year old steers, 5| ence between the imported raw ma- one year old steers, 3 milk cows, 1 terial and the sale price of the taxed three year old bull. finished product. He maintains that 95 Head of Horses and Mules; 2|Where the finished product is con- good brood mares, 1 aged work trolled in price, free raw material horse, 4 three year old work mules, merely increases the profits of the 10 one year old mules, 1 mule colt, 3 finished product made from free raw two year old horse colts, 3 two year materials. And he declares the prof- Public Sale. I will sell at public sale at my place 2 miles due east of Butler on MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 27th, 1909, old filleys, 1 one year old filley, 1 horse colt. 30 Head of Sheep: +3 to 6 years old, 5 ewes one year old, '10 spring ewe lambs, 1 registered 14 ewes from its all go into the same men’s pock- ets. On the other hand, the Nebraskan stands for duty-free raw materials, and on this basis made a speech in that all the old timers who were in| Bryan is to Tour the Country. those days had either passed to their} Galveston, Tex., Sept.—William | reward or removed elsewhere, he Jennings Bryan announced he will! did not go to that place. His old ac- tour the country in the interest of , quaintances still in Osceola were few | tariff reform and will begin the cam- indeed. paign in Texas. He says he is great- ly concerned in the election of a Dem- Annual Reunion—Missouri Divis-| ocratic House of Representatives. He ’ ion—United Confederate Veterans, | says he will talk plain on the tariff Mexico, Mo., Sept. 28 and 29, 1909. | and quote a few things of particular , Open rate of fare and one-half for interest to the Democrats, from the the round trip. Tickets on sale Sept. | congressional records. 27 to 29 inclusive. Final return limit) Senator Joseph Bailey, who is in Sept. 30. Round trip rate from But- | the state delivering speeches, declines ler $9.15. J. F. GEIGER, Agt. | to attend the Bryan lectures. Stop and Read | | The Missouri State Fair for 1909 is | to be by far the best yet held. There| wagons, 1 spring wagon, 2 buggies, 1 WE CALL YOUR ATTENTION TO THE STUDEBAKER & WEBER Wagons, STUDEBAKER & HENNEY Buggies, Surreys and Spring Wagons GOODENOUGH Sulky and Gang Plows MAJESTIC and QUICK MEAL | Steel Ranges ST. CLAIR and PENINSULAR Cook Stoves ROYAL 3 Field Fence and a large variety of other well known lines of - which w Texas which is considered a bitter attack on Senator Bailey of that State. ___ Joint Public Sale. buck. Farming Implements: 1 mower, 1 hay rake, 1 six shovel cultivator, 1 Is it Worth While? Lincoln (Neb.) Journal editorial: | “Suppose it is true that Dr. Cook has| . set his heel on the axle of the earth, | No One in Butler Who Has aBad that the point where latitude ends,) pack Can Ignore This Double whence dangle all the lines of longi- | DOUBT DISAPPEARS. tude, has at last been discoved. Proof. ° What of it? Is man and the world ce back avenaaa? any better off? Originally there. was —— suspected your kidneys? H | a tangible object in northward adven- Batkache is kidney ache, ture. There was the northwest pas-| wit, it comes dizzy spells, sage, the long sought short cut to In- Sleepless nights, tired, dull days. dia, to be found. Only four years Dishrodstne uri diso Aa ago this was really found by Amund- sen, and of course is so blocked with perpetual ice as to be useless. But the pole was known in advance not - ing th th, lasting ' to be worth a sou. Yet money and} Bring Goreng —_ life have been poured out freely to! Leelee nt buy the bauble. The thirty-seven re-) ponewed testimony; tested by tie lief expeditions sent after Sir John! yee J ¢ Crutalnger, 412 y ered Frankling cost something like five | gp Butler Mo. says: “Doan’s Kid- million dollars, and the Franklin €X+| ney Pills have bien ah by myself pedition lost every life, 138 officers and two other members of my family and men. For half a century past |. “ : | t donot hesi- there has hardly been a year without! pela meine fh poe Pp its polar expedition and its tribute of | cure for pains in the back and other human life to that object. Was it i ids worth while. Measured by cash div-| ro cent: Wy Gheaynees. ES idends on the investment the answer : i ce : On Nov. 30, 1908 Mrs. Crutsinger is, it was not worth while. There| .adeq to the above: “It now gives have been some material gains, In- me pleasure, two years after having cidently to these efforts new whal-| jkon Doane Kidney Pills, to say ing fields have been discovered and that the results they brought have made available. Mineral deposits | },.6n permanent. This remedy is that may eventually be of value have occasionally used in our family and been found. But compared with| never fails to bring the best reliefs’ Columbus’ dash to the west, or of! For gale by all dealers. Price 50 Stanley's pathfinding in Africa the} oents Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, polar gains are insignificant. It is in} ie for th ; the less tangible but more real moral | cr, ork, euta agente for the Untied account that the profits of polar re- Remember the name—Doan'’s—and search appear in plentitude. Man is take no other, man and not monkey because he rete EES could not take a dare. His inability | Sleepy Girl Misses Lover to rest in the presence of the un-| known sent him across Europe, over! A pretty, well dressed and tearful the Atlantic, through Africay in-| young woman who declined to give to the air, and towards the poles. |her name, says the Carthage Press, Each achievment inspired to greater, |Stopped off in Carthage from the The fact that men kept throwing | South bound Missouri Pacific pas- themselves against the ice pack isa|Senger train and it soon developed sign that the human. soul is growing, |that she was in a peck of trouble. Were they to set supinely with the |She had come from the northern part northern blizzards mocking their im-|of the state expecting to get off at potence, we should know that man|Lamar to meet her fiance and get had reached his zenith and was| married, but she fell asleep on the starting back. The discovery of the |train, and was carried past Lamar be- pole, like the conquest of the air, the | fore she knew it. two-minute horse, or the discovery | The girl took the next train back to of radium is essentially a soul victory, | Lamar, but by the time she got there rich in moral spoils.’* the man to be met was no longer at , | the depot, he having departed, think- ing his girl had “gone back”’ on him. The young woman appealed to the police to find him, and it was then learned that the man had already ask- ed the officers to find her. Not until the Lamar police force Cure the kidneys to cure it all. Doan’s Kidney Pills bring quick re- Marriage Licenses. Sidney Hunziker, Freda Massey, Drexel, Mo. Merwin, Mo. Notice, Notice isshereby given, that letters of admin- istration upon the estate of Wilbur S Dagan, deceased, have been granted to the under- signed, by the Bates County Probate Court, in | had been busy all evening did the offi- Bates County, Missouri, bearing date the 8th day (0/ September, 1909. cers succeed in getting the two lovers ll persons having claims againet said estate . i are peaplret to exhibit {heat me for allow- together; but finally they found each ance, within one year from the date of said le’- | other and had a midnight wedding, A ded a 4 ‘ Seal cock ontaten and if Geld Gone be ae all the happier for the tribulations. fitof such estate; and if said claims not exhibited within two years from the date of the . * pubileation of this noties, they will be forever which had been surmounted in at- arred WESLEY DENTON, “AT Administrator, A FARMER’S taining their hearts’ desire. breaking plow, 1 harrow, 2 farm] wagons, 1 hay frame, 1 set 1 1-2 inch farm harness, 2 corn shellers, 1 cider mill and numerous other articles. Terms: All sums under $10 cash. On sums of $10 and over 12 months time will be given, notes with ap- proved security to bear 6 per cent We will sell at public sale, at the residence of Lewis McElroy, 5 miles southwest of Butler, 2 miles north of Cornland on Rich Hill road, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28th, 1909. The following property: 10 Head Horses and Mules, consist- ing of 5 brood mares, 2 work horses and 4 suckling mules. from date. 2 per cent off for cash on sums of $10 and over. Sale to begin promptly at 100’clock| 17 Head Cattle, consisting of 4 good am. N. B. MCFARLAND, |milk cows, 1 with calf by side, 10 C. F. Beard, Auctioneer. 47-2t| yearling heifers, three spring calves. MISSOURI STATE FAIR.| 36 Head floes. 8 brood sows, bal Sedalia, October 2-8. ance shoats, will weigh 40 or 50 pounds. Farming Implements,, 3 farm will be more speed events for larger | mowing machine, nearly new; 1 hay purses, more machinery, more horses, | rake, 2 walking cultivators, 1 riding cattle, swine, more agricultural and | cultivator, nearly new; 1 harrow, 1 horticulture exhibits, a better dairy|corn planter, 1 riding plow, one 16 display, and in all, a bigger Fair than|and 14 inch walking plow, hay frame, ever before. 1 folding saw, 2 sets work harness, The State Fair is better advertised, |2 sets single harness, 1 set double the railroads have been more liberal|driving harness, 200 posts, some in the way of rates and special trains|dimension lumber, 1 barrel cider and the special attractions are the| vinegar, 3 tons clover hay, 8 tons best. Some of the best performers|good cane hay, 10 dozen Leghorn in the country have been engaged.|hens. Household and" kitchen furni- Mulhall’s roping and Riding Exhibi-|ture, part of which is nearly new and tions in front of the grand stand ev-| other things. ery day. Lucile Mulhall, whom ex-| Terms:—All sums of $10 and un- PROFIT It’s not always what he makes but what he saves. is an easy way to save: Here Every building you paint lengthens its life and adds to the appearance of ee farm. In lengthening the life of your buildings by PAINTING them will save you inter- est on money invested in new buildings. E Every gallon of Sewall’s Pure Liquid Paint you use increases your saving, and also by incremaing the appearance of your farm by painting, INCREASE: THE PRICE PER ACRE, Many people are making for- tunes buying up old shabby-looking farms, painting up and selling them again at big profits. Now is an ideal time to paint—the wood is dry and the weather not too hot. Paint with Sewall’s Pure Liquid Paint before cold fall rains comes and you will make a good investment, Weare selling Galvanized Corrugated Iron Roofing that has the full weight: No. 28 weighs 85ths per 100 square feet; No. 26 wei 98hbs. loads and have it in coches an = lg sesh "And remember we handle the best RUBBER ROOFING pecipren + — buy. We have just waleaaer” another car and therefore have saved the middie man’s profit, foceane Se Yorea car loads we bu: direct from the ive factory, and 1 poncred poe bay local freight, ich all means a We are selling the é Good, Old Acme Plaster the kind that never TEE IT to do the ory abe gh ol rt President Roosevelt says is the best|cer cash. All over $10 a credit of 9 Prices. Retr fall to boo Our aeadn get prices " Naile Pumps, Stock Tan ie Corrugated Roading, ete: ey tié'wild steers in front of the grand-|8 per cent from date. 4 per cent dis- s ‘ Teount for cash. ° made. j We will be at the __-We wil have aoeneening 9 esboreae ragn tialbe ee us are here all the time bia