The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, September 22, 1910, Page 1

Mrs. Dr. Lamb and two sons, of Towa, are visiting her father, R. T. Judy. Miss Ethel Sutton, of Camden, Mo.; was the guest of Miss Merel Hensley | is the best lot of hogs we have ever | last week. lot of gilts ready to breed for early farrow and tryed brood sows, that you have ever seen on sale in Bates | county of this breed, There will be) some nice males ready for service. Choice young males. and gilts. This offered. Sale on farm 1-2 mile east of Virginia. Come and spend the | day with Young Aaron. | Frank Blough and family spent Mrs. N. A. Barr, of Greenfied, Kan., is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Clyde Denning, and her son, Bert Barr. | Everybody is rejoicing that a new | , bridge has been built'across the river) The standpat Republicans here are between Parktown and Virginia. The | at a loss to know which to pat Taft or young men can now: use both hands ) Roosevelt. to hold the lines. | Rev. Blalock filled his appointment Ed. Ray, wife and son, Russel, of | at the Christian Church Sabbath and Butler, Mrs. H. H. Fleisher, of Lamar, | at night. : and QO. M. Drysdale and wife, of! Roy Cuzick says an auto is not the Amoret, spent Sunday with Mrs. G. ‘best vehicle to take your girl to W. Park. | church in, | Mrs, Gussie Ayers, who was taken Major Crowell and wife, of Butler, | were in Parktown and Virginia Sab- quite sick at Virginia Sabbath, report- ed better Tuesday morning. bath in his big car. Miss Tilla Woody, of Butler, was! Miss Georgia Smith is on the sick the guest of Miss Mamie McKibben | jist, | Saturday and Sabbath. Everybody is sowing wheat this Roy Cuzick played with the Butler week. Band during the fair. ; | Mr. Crosswhite had the misfortune Walter Sage and wife, of Stockton, | to run a rusty spike nail into his foot Kan., visited Mrs. Sage’s sister, Mrs. | Tuesday of last week. Geo. Thompson, and attended the Mrs, Will Fry, of Council Bluffs, fair. | Towa, has been visiting her cousins, Albert Allen came home Saturday | rg, Brayton, Mrs, Burk, Mrs. Drys- and spent Sabbath with his parents, | dale and Mrs. Hardinger. Mr. and Mrs. Will Allen. Thomas . . .| Mrs, Ida Cowgill and son, Wallace, Famuliner, of Garden City, Cass Co., visited over Sake with Mr. Som came with him. ‘land family. Will Hensley, of Kansas City, came | Earle Osborne was on duty again down Thursday to attend the fair and | ' , visit his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John | SUndsy evening, after a few weeks vacation. Hensley. 7 ‘ ? | Rev. Stille began a protracted meet- eu “eng Jundy’s children is on ing at Mt. Carmel Monday evening. . | i Mrs, Will Durst’s horse hitched to| ,,Frank Vance left for Kansas City i Monday morning. the buggy, became frightened on the ; i ; ‘ Enterprise school began Monday John Zinn farm Friday and ran away. ‘ : The buggy was turned over, throw- with Miss Maggie McCann as teacher ing Durst’ out. She wag- not and seventeen pupils present. hurt except bruised. ‘The horse drag-| Work was begun Monday on the ged the buggy, until ittwas a wreck. | concrete bridge, which is to be built The horse was badly crippled by be- | south of Enterprise school. ing gouged by the broken shafts. YOUNG AARON. Bad luck hit Mr. Durst hard last : : week. Saturday morning he found' Ohio Street M. E. Church. his beet breed mere dead, _ | Sunday School 9:30 a. m. Junior The road overseers are pushing League 3:00 p. m. Senior League the road work now. 6:30 p.m. Preaching at 11 a. m. and If you are wanting a Duroc Jersey at 7:30 p.m. Subject for the morn- brood sow, come to J. H. Park’s sale|ing hour is “The Pulpit and the J. M. CARTER, Pastor. | bard. West Deepwater. A large crowd from this vicinity at- tended the fair at Butler last Thurs- day. Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Hubbard, of week at the home of Albert Hub- Born, to W. M. Graves and wife; a son, Sept. 15th. Rev. L. L. Wix and Rev. Swigger left Saturday evening to begin a series of meetings at Star church. Relatives gathered at the home of G. R, -Borum Sunday and had their pictures taken by Mr. Rich, the artist at Spruce. Mr. and Mrs. Marion Smith return- ed Monday to their home in Nebraska tives and friends. Albert Hubbard brought out from Butler a new cider press last week. J. T. Binns is plastering Andrew Black's house this week. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Culverson vis- ited at the home of 0. J. Radford Sunday. Frank Walters is doing some clean- ing for J. H. Baker at present. Wm. Kezzer moved in one of Arlie Drennon’s houses last week. Edgar Jennings baled hay last week for Homer and Herbert Clark. Wm. Nuckols, of the Brackney neighborhood, was out driving in this vicinity Sunday evening. Wonder what the attraction is. Mrs. Lizzie Clark, who was taken seriously sick Sunday night, we are glad to learn, is a little better at this writing. Miss Leora Duncan, of Butler, vis- ited the last of the week with Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Winans and E. J. Radford and family. Rev. Gather filled his appointment atthe Presbyterian Church at Spruce Sunday. a Ed. Smith has his large two-story dwelling almost completed. The wheat that has been sowed is up and looking fine, and some of the farmers are still busy sowing. Our road overseer of Compton dis- trict is doing some more work on the road this week. Mr. and Mrs. Del Lutzenhizer, of Summit, and Mrs. Sallie Lutzenhizer, of Kansas City, visited relatives and friends in this county Sunday. FARMER JOHN. Sept. 29, 1910. You will see the best Pew.” Kansas City, visited the last of the| te after a three weeks’ visit with rela-| BUTLER, MISSOURI, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1910. Well, Mr. Editor, we will try to be in the rounds for this week's issue. We have been losing out for awhile, but we will try to do better hereaf- e We are having fine weather at present. Wheat sowing and corn | cutting is the order of the day. | | appointment at Double Branches both has been doing some good work at this place. hood went to the Butler fair last week and just to look at them we would ;call them about all in. Everybody says the fair was fine, and they hada | fine time. night with the Misses Myrtle and Jesse Burch. Miss Jesse Burch is starting off fine with her school. The children like her well. Elmer Hall lost one of his big work | horses a few days ago. | Mrs. W. A. Baker's mother is vis- jiting her at present. She will stay | with her for a few weeks. Mrs. Gertie Hait!s sister, Mrs. Tay- \lor, and her husband are visiting | with her for awhile. C. Z. Baker and family got back from Texas all right. They had a | good time and saw lots of country. G. W. Baker has purchased an organ for his family. Prof. Morris is getting along fine with his singing school at Happy Hill. He has a large school, and we are jsure that he will do good with them. Boys! Boys! If you are looking ‘for school mams, come to Double |Branches. They are all good look- \ing, and we think they are looking good for some of the young fellows. “dhe: young foiks of the Sunday 'School went home with the Misses | Mary and Edna Hall last Sunday. Geo. Smith is working for W. A. Baker for a few days. Elmer Requa sold his big mules for $515.00. We think that is a pretty good price for a span of 3 year old mules. A gentleman from Illinois is buying up two car loads of suckling mules. He is paying good prices for them. Claude Baker left Tuesday morn- Double Branch Itemx NUMBER 48 ling for the Montrose Street Fair to Concord. The teacher and her best | show colts with the St. Clair people. fellow took in the fair at Butler. | Miss Grace Jobe. was baptized last Mrs. J. B. Moore bought her a Sunday noon. new range stove last week. W. A. Baker captured several) Manly Green and Miss Stillwell | prizes at the county fair, as did C. Z. were around last week soliciting votes | Baker also. RAINBOW. | for the piano contest that will come Brother Shelton filled his regular | Merwin Mention. W. J. Mudd, of Rich Hill, was here last week, repairing the roof of the The Kansas City Southern Railway near town last week. S. E. Smith spent Sunday at the home of Mark Todd, as the guest of | J. W. Moore. | Dr. Martin and wife, E. E. Shockey | Miss Edna Thomas spent Saturday | and wife and Fred Witter attended | | the fair at Butler on Thursday. They | made the trip in an automobile. | Superintendent Allison visited the schools here on Wednesday of last ; week. He reports the work moving along nicely. Leavitt Erwin and wife left for Ore- gon last Thursday, where they will) make their future home. We wish them success in their new location. The Reading Circle was not well} jattended last week. Teachers who are expecting to advance in their pro- ; fession will find this work a great | help to them | Merwin school organized a literary society last Friday afternoon. Such an organization will be the source of much benefit to all who help in the work, There was a lecture at Edgewood church Sunday night. They expect to secure a regular preaching service | soon, There was no school last Friday at | ‘ Fred Witter has the foundation for his silo completed. He finished it on | last Sunday. Ray Yingst will run the electric power plant at Drexel during the street fair. Quite a number from here will attend the fair this week. Elkhart. John Bafton and family visited Aunt Lou Scott last week. Mrs. I. L. Lockridge and Mrs. George Lockridge visited at Amoret one day last week. off at Amsterdam the 19th of No- vember. Mrs. Kershner and her daughter, Miss Lilia, returned from Western morning and night. Bro. Shelton | b@"; and also of some other build-| Kansas last week. Dick McGuire and Mrs. Emma Fortner were married in Butler one Most of the people of this neighbor-| "@9 4 man painting their sign posts day last week. Albert Daniels and wife took din- ner at W. F. Stephen's last Sunday. Will Park is seen going over in Elkhart most every week. Wonder what is the attraction. Wilber Park returned home from Western Kansas, where he has been | thrashing this summer. | The base ball game was pulled off last Sunday between Amsterdam and the Persimmon Nine of Elkhart. The Amsterdam Nine skinned the Elkhart | boys. Jake Eye and his best girl took in | the fair at Butler one day last week. Herbert Hewet and wife were vis- jiting Mrs. J. D. Clemments this | week, Will Durst had a runaway one day last week. His wife was thrown from the buggy. It shook her upa The pupils of the upper room of little. The buggy was badly worsted. Arthur Westover returned from Western Kansas the 19th, where he had been thrashing. Mrs, Fred Armentrout has a new way of finding hens’ nests when they lay out in the weeds. She bells the old hen and then tells the kids to follow her. She says it works all right. JOHNNY. |Who Can Beat These Potatoes? C. M. Middaugh brought five Irish potatoes to the Journal office Monday that weigh six pounds and eleven ounces. Mr. Middaugh says that if any one in this part of the country can produce tubers that out-class his, he would like to see them. 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