The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, January 5, 1911, Page 5

} he Daylight Store 33 | One More Slash in Prices on OVERCOATS — $10 Values $6.75 $15 Values $9.75 Only a Few Left. Hurry! Over 100 Suits Half Price “QLALITY Try us, Black-Arnold. Miss Irene Shafer has returned from a visit to Joplin. Prices always right at Black-Arnold. Rev. J. M. Carter returned the last of the week from atripto Springfield. Overcoats atdiscount. See usnow, Black-Arnold. Major Ed. S. Clarkeattended acon- gvention of travelin men in St. Jos- eph Saturday. Wool underwear $1.50 suit, wool shirts $1., Black-Arnold. C. W. Ray is attending the opening | Mrs. Thomas Walls died at her; Dr. J. M. Norris, specialist on the) Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Martin and |home in Kansas City Tuesday Decem- | ber 27, after a long illness with tuber- | culosis. Miss Minnie Bean has returned to her home in Kansas City after a short visit here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Bean. | Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Whipple, of | KaffSas City, are the proud parents of ‘a daughter, born December 29,.1910. Congratulations, Joe. | Mr.and Mrs. Will Badgley have returned to their home at Marshfield, |Mo., after a visit here at the home of ‘Mrs. Eliza Badgley. sessions of the legislature at Jeffer-: son City. 20 per cent discount on all dec- orated china and lamps at J. E. Williams. 11 It Coroner C. A. Lusk is in Jefferson City attending the opening of the legislature. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Fisk are spend- ing their vacation here with relatives and friends. A before we invoice sale on lamps and chinaware. 20 per cent discount, J. E; Williams, 1141 Joe Price left Sunday for Sedalia, , Mo., where he will enter the Central Business College. Chas. E. Mains returned to Quincy, Illinois, Monday after a short visit with friends in this city. Misses Minnie, Julia and Amner Bullock have returned from a visit with relatives at Kans City. Bruce Black left for Sedalia, Mo., Sunday where he will take a course at the Central Business College. We are giving a pre-inventory dis- count of 20 per cent on all decorated china and lamps, J. E. Williams. - W. S. James, cashier of the Farm- ers Bank of Walnut at Foster, Mo., was a county seat visitor Tuesday. Jas.. R. Angle went to Jefferson City the first of the week to attend the opening of the state legislature. We appreciate your making last year our banner year and want to see uw often in 1911, Black-Arnold Cloth- ing Co. Mr. and Mrs. Joe R. Morrigon have returned to Kansas City after a short visit here with relatives and friends. Mr. Morrison assumed his new duties in the office of Recorder of Deeds of Duke Simpson came in from Okla- ;homa the last of the week for a visit (with his brother ex-Sheriff Jas. Simpson of near Spruce. Mrs. Wm. Mayes, of Warrensburg, retuaned home Friday after a visit with the family of her brother H. A. Wayland, of east of this city. Mrs. H. W. Heinlein, of Kansas City, accompanied by her son Sam, returned home Friday after a visit here wtth relatives and friends. Clyde Sells and Everett Deweese | have returned to Columbia, Mo. tore- sum their studies at the University after spending the holidays here. | Miss Eleanor Lynch has returned ‘to Kansas City to resume her studies /after spending the holidays with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. I. Lynch of ' this city. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Rook, Mr. and Mrs. Ansel Rook and Clyde Rook left last Sunday onan overland trip to Humansville, Mo., for a two weeks visit with relatives. | Mrs. Harry Hale and son, who have | been visiting at the home of her par- | ents, Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Walker, of \ Lone Oak township, have returned to | their home at Nevada. | Mrs. Raybourn, who ‘has been vis- \iting with her parents, ‘Mr. and Mrs. M. H. Price, left Monday for her home jat Okemah, Oklahoma. She was ac- | companied by her father as far as Ne- | vada. C. K. Bothwell, District Passenger ; Agent of the Missouri Pacific Iron | Mountain, witn headquarters at Jop- \lin, Mo., was a Butler visitor Tuesday and made The Times a most pleasant jcall. Mr, Bothwell is a clever courte- ‘ous gentleman, and seems to be an| Jackson county the first of the week. | official of exceptional ability. American Clothing House CORNER” | | 'Marvel Smith Lloyd were united in being made by the State Board of | Popular Young Couple Wed. To Distribute Seed Corn. Edward Harper Armstrongand Miss Columbia, Mo., Jan. 2.—Plans are marriage at the home of the bride’s Agriculture and the State Corn Grow- | grand-mother, Mrs. Mary Elizabeth! ers’ Association to have special trains Smithin thiscity, Monday evening,Jan. on the Frisco, Wabash and the Mis- 2, 1911 at 70’clock, Rev. A. S. Gwinn souri, Kansas & Texas railroads dis- officiating, with the beautiful ring!tribute seed corn to the farmers ceremony. along those lines. } Mrs. Charles Burrows was matron | According to C. B. Hutchinson, of honor and Miss Francis Walsh, of | secretary of the Corn Growers’ Asso- Topeka, Kansas, Walton were bridesmaids. | brother of the groom acted as best! | man. | Miss Nelle Douglass played the wedding march, Mendelsohn’s im-| pressive composition and Miss Mar-! guerite Snider charmingly rendered aj |solo, the beautiful ballad, Annie | Laurie. After the ceremony arecep-| |tion was held. Those in the receiv-! ing line were the bridal party, F. H. | | Lloyd, the bride’s father, and her sis- jter, Mrs. F. Canning Schmidt. The; |handsome Smith home was tastefully | and beautifully decorated. Dainty refreshments were served’ ‘'andatthe cutting of the wedding cake |Miss Clara Hill got the ring, Miss | Prudence Trimble the dime and Miss ; eye, ear, nose and throat. Eyes test- ed free and glasses properly fitted. Office hours from 9 a. m. to 4p. m. Hazel Ludwick the darning needle. ‘family have returned to their home _ Tradition Among Hotel Men. |ot Webb City, Mo., after a visit here | rrom the Denver Times i ‘with the families of Mrs. Martin’s| Adolf C. Markham, a New Yorker} and Miss Lora ciation, the first special will leave Sam , Columbia January 25. Besides mem- Armstrong of Oklahoma City, Ok., a| bers of the association, officials of the State Board of Agriculture will make the trip and speak on the methods of corn growing, dairying and other phases of agricultural work. Every farmer who visits the seed- corn special will have the privilege of buying a quart of the finest quality of seed corn for 10 cents, the price that will be paid to the producer from whom it is received. S. M. Jordan, the ‘Missouri Corn Man,”’ will accompany the ‘special. Mr. Jordan believes that every farm- er should raise his own seed. The seed-corn specials will be on the road until about April 1. Petit Jury. The Petit Jury for the February term of the circuit court was drawn ‘by the county court Tuesday as fol- lows: Mingo, John Martin; Grand River, Office on South Side over Star Bak-| parents, Judge and Mrs. W. F. Hem- | traveling for a firm for a boot and |}. Murphy; Deer Creek, Phene ery, Butler, Mo. 11-4t Miss Classie Meyer, who has been spending the holidays with her par- ents, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Meyer, return- ed Monday night to St. Charles, Mo., where she will resume her studies at Lindenwood College. The A. E. Debow building on North Main street caught fire Wednesday morning at 9:30 o'clock, from a defec- tive flue. The fire department re- sponded promptly, extinguishing the blaze before much damage was done. Robt. Braden, of this city, was call- ed io Chicago, Illinois, Monday by a telegram informing him of the death of his sister, Mrs. Dr. M. A. Leech, formerly of Amoret, Mo. The re- mains will be brought here Friday for interment. Tha Philathea class of the Chris- tian Suriday School held an open ses- | sion last Thursday evening at the home of Miss Ora Hukel on Ft. Scott street. Delicious refreshments were served and a most enjoyable time was had by all present. H. H. Fleisher, a prominent mer- chant of Lamar, Mo., visited with ‘street, and Mr. and Mrs. W. M.jshoe manufacturers, thinks that! | Arnold. ;Denver hotel men are an awfully Miss Prudence Trimble and Miss | S¥Perstitious lot. He came into vio- Nellie Douglass, assisted by their lent contact with waat he terms their} friend. Misses "Marguerite Snider, | superstition when he registered at | Classie Meyer, Lora Walton, Leah | the Savoy tehete cently Weiner, Edith Campbell, Horterise After affixing his signature to the | Trimble and Dorothy Armstrong de- | page with a flourish he began to ex- lightfully. entertained at the home of | 2™7™UNne the register itself. This is a, thefformer Friday evening in honor Prand new affair, of the loose leaf | of Miss Marvel Lloyd. variety, bound handsomely in leather and velvet. To get a good look at! Hon. J. Wallis Lewis, representa- | the decorative exterior of the thing tive-elect, passed through this city Mr, Markham started to close it. He | [plein enroute for Jefferson City to) made no more than a start, however, | assume his official duties, and made} because the phone girl saw him and /us a most pleasant call. Wallis Lewis | jumped from her place lake a rabbit. is a thoroughly representative citizen | without waiting to explain to Mr. | of Bates county, an intelligent broad- Markham, she grabbed the register | }minded gentleman, who will ably! from him with both hands. * ,safeguard and advance the interests; “No! No!’’ she said, “you mustn’t | | of Bates county folks. close that register. It’s a sure Jonah| Fleet Starts Home as Enemy. | t© 0 that. | “What do you mean?’)- gasped. the | | Washington.—After a memorable’ startled Markham. <At this point! reception by England and France in| Head Clerk William D. Rector came | i which the United States and her navy to the rescue. When he was told! |were toasted, with every exhibition! what had happened he turned pale. | of frendliness, the Atlantic battle ship | “Great hevens!"”” he said, “if you| | fleet will leave foreign shores. had closed that register we'd all have | The vessels will approach this con- to get out. Don’t you know that to! Reeder; East Boone, W. J. Hardman; West Boone, Columbus Thompson; West Point, John Garber; Elkhart, J. R. Scott; Mound, S. A. Alfree; Shawnee, James Robinson; Spruce, E. E. Maupin; Deepwater, Claude Lampkin; Summit; W. P. Miller; Mt. Pleasant, J. A. Payne; Charlotte, John Hedges; Homer, Nelson Allman; Wal- nut, Rollie Bassett; New Home, Claude Berry; Lone Oak, TT. L. Harper; Pleasant Gap, Walter Nafus; Hudson, Jake Varnes; Prairie, Will Finklong; Rockville, C. <J. Yoss; Osage, Joe Lewis; Howard, Williard Trout. The newly elected county officiats were installed and assumed their re- spective official positions Monday morning. The incoming officers, Presiding Judge, R. B. Campbell; Associate Judges, W. F. Wolfe and Frank Fix; Clerk county court, C. G. Weeks; Probate Judge, Carl J. Henry, Recorder of Deeds, F. M. Wood; Cir- cuit Clerk, H. O. Maxey; Prosecuting Attorney, W. B. Dawson; all Demo- crats, are all serving their first terms in their respective offices with the relatives and friends in this city dur- tinent as a technical enemy and_ will’ close a hotel register means the worst | exception of C. G. Weeks and W. B. ing the holidays. Mr. Fleisher was attempt to elude the vigilance of the kind of bad luck? Why, if Mr. Alex- Dawson, -but everything is moving formerly in business in this city and | fast scout cruisers which will operate ander, the owner of this hotel, ever along as smoothly as though the in- at Virginia, and has a host of friends along the coast. All the conditions saw his register closed he’d have a cumbents thereof were veterans in in Bates county. We acknowledge a_ of actual warfare will be adopted and 'fit, That’s one of the oldest tradi-| public service. most pleasant call. Mrs. Chas. Zwahlen, of one and one-half miles north of Passaic, was badly burned last Thursday evening as the result of the explosion ofa quantity of coal oil. Returning from church,. Mrs. Zwahlen attemped to build up the fire by the use of coal oil when an explosion occurred which resulted in her sustaining painful burns on her head and hands. Our old friend Squire J. W. Darby of Foster, who has been on an ex- tended visit through Oklahoma, blew into town Tuesday afternoon, bring- ing with him a touch of the warmth and sunshine of the south. Squire Darby has become such a traveler of late that we are sometimes at a loss to exactly locate him, but on his re- turn home from a pilgrimage he al- ways drops in on The Times to see the boys and the boys are surealways glad to see him. /MEN’S, BOY’S and CHILDREN’S] Suits and Overcoats a Sold Regardiess of Profit Late buyers should take advantage of this Bi nd buy their next winters needs | \the fleet will make every attempt to) tions among hotel men.” | hide. 3 | The fourth division of the fleet de- Oldfield’s Speed Record Beaten. parted from Gravesend. The first C F Carter in Outing \ division will put out from Cherbourg, | The automobile is the swiftest ma- | the second from Portland and the | chine ever built by human hands. It! third from Brest... The fleet will as-| is So much swifter than its nearest! semble at the entrance of the English |competitor that those who read these Channel, probably Saturday, and from lines to-day are likely to be some! this rendezvouswill startacross. The | Years older before its speed is even | vessels a.e scheduled to arrive at| equaled, to say nothing of being sur-| Guantanamo, Cuba, January 16. | passed, by any other kind of vehicle. | The four divisions will be met in, Cuban ba LE Alanya ala Waminicn’ Wotiana ead Nath the beach at Daytona, Fla., on March Carolina, the scout cruisers Birming- | 16,1910. This solitary exception was ham, Chester and Salem, and the | @ Hindoo carrier who chanced to tum- seventh torpedo division. ‘ble off the brink of a chasm in the : Peery His name has not been eae se ied. preserved, he never made any claim Drainage Petition Denied ‘to the record, he was not officially County Court on Monday ‘denied | timed, and, altogether, the event has the petition presented by J. F. Kern fe oie ee. Still, fe i 2 Aa |the only man who is even.alleged to | etal for additional Rs UDINE done |have covered so great a distance as | on Drainage Ditch No. 1. The peti- 6 000 feet in an unobstructed fall, the | tion will be amended and again pre-| matter is not without interest; for, sented to the court. {according to the accepted rule for | /finding the velocity of a body falling | 'freely from rest, he must have been going at the rate of seven miles a sec- |ond when he reached the bottom. Smith-Keele. Mark L. Keele and Miss Idell Smith, | both of this city, were united in mar- | riage at the residence of Rev. L. W. | Keele Friday evening Dec. 30, 1910, , at 8 o'clock, Rev. Keele, a brother of | the groom officiating. The bride is the charming and ac- complished daughter of Col. and Mrs. | I. M. Smith, and the groom, who is connected with the Carpenter & Shafer Mfg. Co., is one of Butler’s honest and industrious young business men. Bates County Bar Lands Judge Denton. Resolutions commending Judge C. A. Denton in the highest'terms were introduced at a meeting of the Bates | County Bar Thursday afternoon. | Hon. W: O. Jackson presided over | the meeting, and the resolutions were presented by Judge J. F. Smith. | Judge Denton responded in a most | excellent address of appreciation. i So far as is known, but one human | eing ever traveled faster than Bar- ney Oldfield did in his racing auto on Bargain Sale The gy Clothier. Piano Contest. Standing of those who have enlist- ed in the piano contest at Hill’s Cash Store are as follows: ‘ Edna Thomas 6500 Agnes Arnold 5480 Mayme Hartwell 6510 Ruby Seese 2960 Anna Smiser 4210 Grace Kinney 3720 Minnie-Christie — 2140 | Ida Dillon * 2380 Carlie Howard 540 Double Branch Church 180 Summit Church 110 Schools Examined ‘for Scarlet Fever. Owing to the fact that a number of cases of scarlet fever had been report- ed in this city, a meeting of the school board was called last Saturday night and it was decided to examine children attending school for symptoms of this disease. A committee composed of Drs. Christy, Chastain and Lockwood was appointed for this duty and these gentlemen. made a thorough examina- tion of the-children at school Monday and Tuesday. Butchering Hogs on the Farm. A new bulletin just issued by the Missouri State Board of Agriculture is entitled ‘‘Butchering Hogs on the Farm.”’ This bulletin, in addition to dealing with butchering as ordinarily understood, tells how to make sugar- cured meat, mince meat, etc. It may be had free by addressing Secretary T. C. Wilson, Columbia, Missouri. Judge Silvers to Practice Law. Judge Jno. A. Silvers, who retires from the office of Probate Judge with {the incoming of the newly elected county officers, has announced his intentions to resume the practice of law, and is now located with his law rtner, W. B. Dawson in their of- ice on the west side of the square. Pie Supper. There will bea pie supper at the Tripp school house Saturday, Jan. 7, everybody invited. J. V. BELL, Teacher.