The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, February 17, 1910, Page 7

Black & Arnold Clothing Co. J. M. Livingston orders The Times to his address at Nebraska City, Neb. Our esteemed old friend Julius Mauk, of Hudson township, sends us remittance for renewal. ‘Sleeth” the Insurance Man. 13tf Milo Hill, of Lamar, Col., favors us with renewal through his father-in- law, Mr. Barber. Mrs. W. F. McKibben went to Kan- sas City Saturday to visit her daugter, Mrs. 0. W. Walker. “Sleeth’’ the Insurance Man. 13tf George Rogers, of Homer, called while in Butler the last of the week and had his difes\set ahead. Ladies Spring Tailor-made Suits and Skirts. —Walker-McKibbens. Robert B. Heddleson, a substantial citizen of Elkhart township, favored us with renewal while in the city on Friday. Ladies Spring Tailor-made Suits and Skirts. —Walker-McKibbens. L. H. Evilsizer, our. substantial Lone Oak farmer friend, called while in town Monday and had his dates set ahead. Ladies Spring Tailor-made Suits and Skirts-——Walker-McKibbens. S. S. Fox, a substantial farmer and active Democratic worker of Elkhart, favored us pleasantly while in the city the last of the week. Ladies Spring Tailor-made Suits and Skirts. —Walker-McKibbens. Will G. Dillon, Democratic commit- teeman for Mound, and a strong man in that section of the county favored us pleasantly. Mr. Dillon’s name is frequently mentioned in connection with some good county office. New Styles in QUALITY Charles Spillman, Democratic com- mitteeman of Spruce, and serving on the petit jury,had his name enrolled for The Times. Ladies Spring Tailor-made Suits and Skirts. —Walker-McKibbens. Our good friend G. H. Nuckols. out on Butler, No. 8, was a pleasant caller Saturday evening and favored us with renewal. Some good bargains in second hand wheels. T. W. Legg. 16-2t Our esteemed young friend A. C. Burkhart, of Pleasant Gap, was a pleasant caller, while in Butler the | last of the week. Shoes, shoes, shoes, shoes shoes Black & Arnold Clothing Co. Mrs. J. D. Allen went to Jefferson City on Monday to visit her son and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Robt. D. Allen. Mens wool underwear worth $2 cut to $1.25 per suit. Black & Arnold Clothing Co. William Spears, who recently pur- chased the McMullen feed yard, east of the square, took formal possession on Tuesday, February 15th. Arthur Payne, a sturdy young farm- er of Homer township, was in the city the last of the week, called and had his name enrolled for The Times. We are looking for all our old cus- tomers also many new ones. Black & Arnold Clothing Co. Ex- county treasurer Oscar Reeder and wife were in Butler on Tuesday and Mr. Reeder favored us pleasantly and renewed. They think some of selling their fine farm in Mound town- | ship and moving to Butler where the family formerly lived and have many friends. & ‘The Daylight Store.” — OOOO DON’T IT MAKE A FELLER THINK SOME— This Clothes Business? Style, Fit, Quality «— Combined with workmanship makes real value. The place to get a square deal is here. We are showing. SPRING 1910 We Invite YOU—Come! American Clo. House CORNER Crayton E. Henderson died at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Henderson, in Greeley, Colorado, where he went a few months ago in quest of health, The body was Lillian May Wright, wife of Frank Wright, colored, died at their home in the east part of the city, Sunday fevening, after a protracted illness. | Funeral services were held Tuesday | Hats Shirts |] | Shoes | Cut prices still prevail on corduroy suits and pants, childrens suits and | overcoats etc, at Black & Arnold Clothing Co. If the wéather reports are reliable, by the time this paper is out Bates county people will be shivering in the zard, farmer of Prairie township, called | while in the city Saturday and had {his name enrolled on our subscrip- | tion books. | :. soe Ihave a number of inquiries for farms. If you wish to sell, list with C. W. HES: me. Chas. S. Ewin, our popular asses- sor and realestate and insurance man, himself and his sister, Mrs. J. W. Stockton, in Oregon. FOR SALE.—An elevator, 3x4 feet is being used in private house. Will Easily worked.—W. M. Arnold. 13-tf Uncle Tom Heath yesterday cele- brated his 91st birthday, he being the only outside guest at the golden wed- ding supper of Mr. and Mrs. W. W. ‘oss, Feed McConnon’s Poultry Com- pound to your chickens, and they will do the rest.—L. A. Fuller, Butler, Mo. 14-5t:-: Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Kimble, of Spruce, were shopping in Butler Monday. Mrs. Kimble renewed for her father, J. V. Snodgrass, at Estan- cia, New Mexico. SEED CORN.—Boone Co. white grown from pure bred seed; choice seed that will grow. " Address, A. S. Millhorn, Butler, Mo. 12-tf The Big Fire Sale Still on ‘Rare Bargains to be Had 99c $2.19 All 1.00 Shirts. All 50c Shirts. ‘ 59¢ 100 Childrens Suits worth from " $1.75 to $2.50 150 Childrens Suits worth from Ree $3.50 to $5.00 All $1.50 Shirts... .... $1.1§ weeenee 200 pairs Boys Knee Pants worth from 75c to $1.50 $1.50 to $5.00 Worth from $4.00 to $12.00 Men’s, Boys’ and Children’s Overcoats 79 39 at ; Remember this Sale Closes Positively February 28th a = nse igen bases 300 Mens Coats All odd Dress Pants at less than cost. Suits for Men, Suits for Boys, Suits for Children AT ANY OLD PRICE. All Styles Eastern Cost. throes of a regular oldfashioned bliz- | J. V. Bradley a substantial young | Butler, Mo. | dropped in Saturday, renewed for | hoist four or five hundred pounds. | Elder. L. L. Wix, of Deep Water | | township, favored us pleasantly while | lin Butler Saturday and had The} |Times sent to his daughter, Mrs. Lillie Johnson, at Nezperses, Idaho. John Q. A. Cope was a pleasant caller while attending court the first of the week. John W. Dugan orders his paper changed from Wyoming, Ills., to | Amoret, Mo. | Born, to Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Ed- | wards early Monday morning, Febru- jary 14, 1910, a fine boy. J. M. Rosier returned froma two weeks visit with his sister, Mrs. Lizzie Ash, near Fredonia, Kansas. Henry Bradley and son, Bert, of | Sprague, who were over attending circuit court Wednesday, called to see us. Orchard Grove Christian Church.— Preaching by W. M. Mayfield in the school house at 3 p. m. Sunday, Feb. A big crowd was reported at Joe T. Smith’s sale on Tuesday and things sold at very satisfactory prices to Mr. Smith. Rev. Jared will preach Sunday morning on ‘‘How to Get Rich,”’ at/ night he will tell about ‘The Old Hypocrite.” Mrs. R. S. Nelson, of Springfield, after several days visit with the fam- | \ily of her brother, Jno Lotspeich, re- | turned home Sunday. FOR SALE—A No. 1 family cow 5} years old, will be fresh soon. En- quire of J. L. Fisher at Butler water works. 17-2t. Postmaster Clark Wix was called to Kansas City Sunday by the death of his nephew and name sake, Clark | Wix, of typhoid fever. Frank Swarens and J. G. Reed, of || the Foster neighborhood, were over | at Circuit court on Tuesday and Wed- nesday. We acknowledge a pleasant call. Frank T. Clay left Monday for San Antonia Texas, to join his wife, who has been in that city for several days visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. G. Bevington. SALESMEN WANTED to look af- ter our interest in Bates and adjacent counties. Salary or Commission. Address, The Victor Oil Company, Cleveland, 0. | pared. fand the body taken to Quick City, Mo., for burial. Farmers who have hogs and cattle ready for market are rushing them in ito take advantage of the high prices. | Monday was a busy day at the depot |handling hogs and we understand jeleven car loads went out that night for the Kansas City market. Washington's birthday will be cele- brated by the Presbyterian Sunday School next Sunday, Feb. 20th, A very pleasing program has been pre- All friends of the S. S. and church are urged to be present. The | exercises will begin at 9:30 a. m. and | continue to 11:30 a.m. At a meeting of the stockholders of the Bank of Amsterdam last week, |W. W. Badgely, former book keeper for that institution was elected cash- | ier, Amos Hall was made a director, jvice the resignation of C. A. Emer- | ‘son. Mr. Badgely is a Butler boy and tour people are much interested in his | success. Word comes from Jefferson City, thai Judge Graves was called to Gar- den City by the sudden death of his mother, Mrs. A. L. Graves, which oc- curred Tuesday, Feb'y 15th. Mr. and Mrs, A, L. Graves were early settlers of the western part of Bates county and moved to Garden City, Cass county, several years ago. The Times will publish an appropriate obituary later. Judge Hyde called Saturday even- ing and renewed for his son, Sam Hyde, at Pocahontas, Ills. Judge |Hyde confessed that he was being | importuned by Democrats from dif- |ferent sections of the county to be- {come a candidate for Presiding Judge and had about gained his own consent to run. Judge Hyde’s four years services as Associate Judge admira- bly equip him for that office. The county court on Tuesday de- cided to grant the petition of C. Meglasson, R. N. Montgomery et al fora new public road on the.town- ship line between Pleasant Gap and Prairie townships and that the peti- tioners pay the cost of opening said road and all damages assessed to the abutting property. This case occu- pied the attention of the court for several days, there being a largé num- ber of witnesses both for and against the road. Marshal John Stangel, of Rich Hill, brought R. R. Lee to Butler Tuesday and landed him in jail to serve a thir- ty days sentence from Justice Kim- brough’s court for petit larceny. Lee plead guilty to entering a room on the third floor in the Talmage hotel and taking three pairs of pants, a razor and other small articles, the whole amounting to about $12.00. He was arrested on suspicion and denied his guilt. The officers searched his room and found the goods, when he chadged his plea to guilty. Lee’s people live at Merwin, where it is said the young man had been under a Prices for hogs reached the highest seemed to have had only a temporary effect. C. C. Allman came in from Kansas last week and took charge of the feed yard, southwest corner of the square, which he recently purchased. Mr. Allman expects to devote his whole time and push the business to the full limit. - Frank Martin, a well known busi- neds man of Hume, died at his home was an old citizen of that section and was held in highest esteem by his neighbors. record price in Kansas City on Mon- ' There Are ee watiotes from others — the aristocracy Oren Every sey fabric gf erage charming. Ask to see -the Genuine All Wool Book and brought to Butler last Friday and burial was had in Oak Hill cemetery. Deceased was a Bates county boy, was 32 years of age, and leaves a widow and two small children. The widow and children are at present with the grandmother, Mrs. Hender- son in the west part of the county. A Pueblo, Colorodo, paper contain- ed an account of the serious injury to W. M. Walker, by an explosion in the machine shops in that city where he was working. His right eye was destroyed and grave fears are enter- tained that he will lose his left eye also. He was taken to the company’s hospital at Denver for treatment. Mr. Walker was a former well known citizen of our county and married a daughter of the late Colonel William Heath, of Butler. They have been living in the west for the past twenty years. Mr. Walker visited relatives and old friends in this county a short time ago. S. H. Moore a Missouri Pacific brakeman, was run over and killed at Harrisonville early Sunday morn- ing. Moore had orders to get off at that place, and climbed down from the side of the engine and aimed to step off on the depot platform. An- other brakeman’s attention was di- rected to him by his light going out and signaled the train to stop. He was found under the eighteenth car back from the engine, with his head on the pfatform, horribly mangled, but still Blive. He lived only a few minutes after being taken out. Moore was 28 years old and very popular with his associates. He leaves a wife and two step children. . Mrs. Moore was formerly Mrs. Frazelle, Her first husband was killed by a pile driver while working ona Missouri Pacific bridge near Butler a little over a year ago, Golden Wedding. Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Ross yester- day celebrated the fiftieth anniver- sary of their marriage with a family gathering and big dinner. W. W. Ross and Sarah J. Cunning- ham were married at Decatur, Ills., February 16th, 1860, by Rev. Benj. Thomas, a Baptist minister. To this union ten children were born, five of whom are living, viz: Mrs. Jane Rook, Mrs. Bell Sackett, Mrs. Kate Miller and Miss Lizzie Ross, all now living in Butler and one son, A. M. Ross, now in Arkansas. They mov- ed to Butler Sept. 15th, 1871, where they have since resided. Mr. Ross was born in Scotland Oct. 12, 1835. In the fall of 1845 he came with his parents to America. They had to go up the Hudson river to Albany and across to the lakes by canal, and then by boat to Chicago and by wagon to the interior of Illinois. Shortly after landing his mother died and the fam- ily was broken up. Mr. Ross cross- ed the plains in 1849 to California. He voted for Fillmore, the American candidate for President in 1856, his first_vote. Mr. Ross* was_made_a mason November 27th, 1857, in Logan Lodge 110, Lincoln, Ills. He is a Knight Templar -and a 32 degree Scottish rite mason. He was made an Odd Fellow in May, 1879, Bates Lodge 1801. O. O. F: Mrs. Ross was a Baptist when they married, and he joined that denomination two years later, and both have kept the faith all these years. They are both enjoying exceptionally good health for their ages. Mr. Ross is a brick mason and followed his trade to up the past few years, and is now a justice of the peace and conducting a loan agency. War Relic. J. W. Lewis, who was serving on the Grand Jury last week from West Point township, showed us a war relic of exceptional interest and value tohim. It was a stone pipe made from stone taken from the walls of the old McDowell College, in St. Louis, which was used as a Federal prison during the war. Mr. Lewis’ loths | ther, Rev. A. H. Lewis, had the pipe othe | made by a fellow prisoner, and sent to his wife. Itis made from a stone block about two inches square, round- ed on the bottom, with projection for stem. On the front opposite the in that town on Friday and was bur-| season is a dream ‘of Beauty| stem is engraved the court of Arms ied Saturday -afternoon. Deceased| and the Models are equally|of the Confederacy. On one side is the Confederate flag and opposite on the other is the following inscription: “A, H. [SRE Et CO ERE OS EY ae =