The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, January 12, 1911, Page 5

ij ‘ | ‘ ECS “The Daylight Store” As Pate! TO CLEAN UP ODD ENDS © $1.50 Dress Shirts Cut to $1. 15 $1.00 Dress Shirts Cut to $ 79 $i 50, $2.50 and a Few $3.50 Hats 98c * When we Say the Price is Cut You Know It’s True American Clothing House “QUALITY CORNER” Ralph Mills, of Foster, al Sun- day in this city. Clif Erhart and wife went to Amo- ret Sunday and returned same day. Special price on boys overcoats, $1 up, Black-Arnold. Fred Witter, of Merwin, was a county seat visitor the last of the week, Ed. Bailey, of Amsterdam, was a Mrs. J. H. Bratton, accompanied by her son, has returned to her home at Redfield, Kansas, after a short visit | here with her parents. J. A. Harrison, of the real estate firm of Harrison & Sleeth, has re- turned from a business trip to Okla- | homa. | Major F. H. Crowell and J. E.| Thompson are attending Farmers | Week at the State University at! Columbia. | Mr. and Mrs. G. P. Wyatt delight- ; business visitor to the county seat Friday. Get your corduroy coats and pants of Black-Arnold. P. S. Shelton, of Walnut township, was a business visitor to the county | seat the last of the week. Ed. Eckles was in from Lone Oak township on business the last of the week. : Big shipment of heavy shoes for bad weather, Black-Arnold. Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Walton are vis- iting relatives and friends at Hobart, Oklahoma. | Walter, the son of Dr. and Mrs. T. | W. Foster, is reported to be ill with . pneumonia. Boys underwear half re 25c | suit, Black-Arnold Clothing Co. | Mrs. Harry Traylor, of Tulsa, Okla- homa, is visiting at the home of Mr. | and Mrs. C. W. Hess. C. H. Dutcher has returned to his | home in Warrensburg after a short visit in this city. Cut prices on suits and overcoats, Black-Arnold Clothing Co. L. M. Stanley, who for the. past | three weeks has been seriously ill, is reported as improving. J. R. Tackett is visiting with rela- | tives and friends at Red Cloud, Nebraska. | ‘after a short visit with her parents. /ant call. |hogs, aged 7 months and 5 days fully entertained the Monday Even- ing Club at their beautiful home on! Pine street Monday evening. Sam Barr, the hustling manager of | the People’s Elevator Company, was | a business visitor to Rich Hill Mon-| day. Y. E. Winn, formerly a resident of| Summit township in this county, died at Lakemp, Oklahoma, last week as a result of a stroke of paralysis. M. D. Bradley, aged 50 years, died in Kansas City Monday, January 2nd. Deceased was a nephew of D. O. Bradley, president of the Commercial State Bank of Rich Hill. Queen Quality Shoes for Ladies. Star Brand Shoes for Men. West Side, T. W. Fisk. Mrs. C. C. Day left Thursday night for her home in Oklahoma City, Ok., Mrs. J. H. Smith accompanied her home for a several days visit. \ J. P. Hughes, living 11 miles north-| east of this city, was a Butler visitor, Thursday and made us a most pleas- | Mr. Hughes brought in five | exceptionally fine young Poland-China each averaging 212 pounds. A special engagement for Saturday afternoon matinee and night at the Electric Theatre, opera house block, lof the marvelous Talking Pictures. Special program for Saturday mati- nee. The admission for these feature programs will be only 10 cents. Queen Quality Shoes ’_» for Ladies. Star Brand Shoes for Men, West Side, T. W, Fisk. 2 “What a lot of kitchenfiresthat old | fellow kindled!’’ declares an Ozark | editor in commenting on the state-| ‘ment that a North Missourian had | been married seventy. years and had | never quarreled with his wife. The residence occupied by Henry ' | Burnett in the northeast part of this \eity was destroyed by fire Sunday inight at about eleven o'clock. The fire probably originated from a de-; fective flue. Our old friend Col. L. L. Judy, of | the’ Virginia neighborhood, was aj Butler visitor Saturday. Ever thought- ful of the newspaper boys, he brought us in some mighty fine eating apples and'gave us all the fresh cider we could drink. The Rev. J. T. Hartman, of the Sunday school of the Presbytery, of Kansas City, will deliver illustrated addresses on various phases of Sun- day school work, at Peru on the even- ings of Jan. 19-20-22, 1911. The public is invited to attend. G. W. WHITSETT. Mrs. Nancy McMahan, aged 78 years and 7 months, departed this life at the home of J. H. Hall in this city Tuesday, January 10, 1911, aftera few days’ illness of lagrippe, Wm. M. Mayfield were held at the residence Wednesday afternoon, and interment was made i in Oak Hill ceme- tery. One lot 75 Suits ONE PRICE $6.75 See them in window. - $15.00 suits....$10 37 $10.00 suits.... Worth $19,913. $15 | Cravenette THE BIG Reduction Sale $15 $13.50 All wool Worsted Suits Overcoats Nobby Styles $9.50 $10 $25.00 suits 18.50 One lot Mens and Boys $22.50 suits....$16 |. Boys Knee Boys Knicker suits $20.00 suits....$14 ; Pants Overcoats ‘sens 5 ‘ $18.00 suits 12.50 | Worth 75c, $1, $1.50 Without 45¢ a One lot Boys Knee Pants Suits Worth $3, $3.50 and $4 $1.45 NOW GOING ON AT| Profit Fun- | jeral services, conducted by the Rev. Mrs. Sam Levy was called to St. Louis the last of the week on account of the serious illness of a relative. Miss Cora Newton, of Rich Hill visited at the home of Robt. Braden in this city the last of the week. Frank Welch, accompanied by his ‘daughter, Miss Irene, is visiting at | Patriot, Indiana. | : Mrs. I. M. Boltinghouse is visiting |at the home of her niece, Mrs. Robt. | Atchison, at Archie, Mo. Miss Sallie Hays returned to Mexico, | Mo., Thursday to resume her studies jat Hardin College after a visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Hayes. Talking pictures at Electric Thea- ter, opera house block, Saturday af- | ternoon, admission 10 cents for this ‘special feature. Something every- one should see and hear. Milton H. Reeves and Miss Annie |Stanfill, both of Amsterdam were united in marriage in this city Thurs- day, January 5, 1911, Judge of Pro- bate, Carl J. Henry, officiating. Mrs. B. G. Culver and two children have returned from a visit with her father, J. Y. Whitsett, at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. W. E. Walton, President of the Walton Trust Co., of this city attend- ed a meeting of the directors of the Farmers Bank of Walnut at Foster, Mo., Friday. Frank -Oliphant and Lawson were married Monday after- noon at Ft. Scott, Probate Judge Russell performing the ceremony. Both bride and groom are among Rich Hill’s best young people, worthy, industrious and should make a suc- cess of married life.—Review. According to commission men, seed potatoes are going to be scarce and extremely high the coming spring, so if our farmer readers are- wise they 8 | will hold on to the best they have for | planting purposes, says the Rich Hill mi | Review. A § | seed will be worth from $1.65 to $2.00 | . @ | per bushel. It is stated that northern The farm of U. S. Ison, consisting § | of 120 acres which lies just northwest 5 | of this city, was sold Thursday to S. @|P. Evans, of Ballard, for a considera- | tion of $13,500, which places the price 5 | of the land at $112.50. per acre. S| sale was made by the well-known | real estate firm of Jno. F. Herrell & The Son. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Jones of Albia, Towa, came down on Dec. 21 and spent the holidays with Mrs. Jones’ parents, L. H. Erhart and wife, and other relatives and friends, and re- turned home Saturday morning. Mr. Jones is still in the contractors and building business and is doing well. The Mo. Pac. Ry. Co. is still figur- ing on putting in a reservoir near the site of the old zinc works, and work may be begun on the same at an early date, says the Rich Hill Review. It is claimed that the deep well water furnished by the city rusts out the boilers of the engines, and the com- pany therefore desires water which contains no mineral. The body of Mrs. M. A. Leech, who died in Chicago last week, was taken to Amsterdam Thursday, where funeral services were conducted by Rev. J. M. Carter, and interment was made in Mulbery cemetery. The remains were accompanied from Chicago by a brother, Robert ew of this city, and her daughter, Miss Mrs. F. J. Frazier, of Seattle, i Wash., is visiting at the home of her | parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Funk, of near Passaic. Ou Former Probate Judge. Judge Jno. A. Silvers, of Butler, | stopped off here on his return from a | trip to Pleasanton, Kansas, and favor- Homer J. Clark, circuit clerk elect | ‘ed the Review with a delightful social of Cass county has sold his paper, | the Cass County Democrat, to his) brother, Harlie T. Clark. Jesse Ray of this city, and Miss) Ruth Wilson, of Mexico, Mo., were) united in marriage at that city Wednesday evening, January 4, 1911. | James Orr, of Jefferson, Green county, Pennsylvania, arrived Wed- | nesday fora visit with the family of his niece, Mrs. R. D. Allen. Mr. Orr! is a brother of the late Thos. M. Orr. | Queen Quality Shoes for Ladies. Star Brand Shoes for Men. West Side, T. W. Fisk. James Dougherty, a young man/| residing in the country south of Pana- | | ma, while engaged in working on al bridge near his home, received a lick in the face that will be sufficient to | lay him up for some time, though his | injuries are not considered danger- , ous.—Review. Directors of the Farmers Bank of | Walnut, at Foster Friday evening, | January 6th, 1911, J. S. Doolittle was re-elected president and W. S. James, cashier. The statement shows this | institution to be in a most excellent condition. A dividend of 8 per cent was paid the stockholders. Queen Quality Shoes ‘28. At the meeting of the Board of | call. The Judge made a highly effi- cient official during his several terms las probate judge, but did not gather unto himself sufficient coin of the realm to enable him to retire from the jactive duties of life, or to engage in | winter tours of America’s southerff resorts, a trip to Cuba or the Ber- mudas. He is not putting on any style whatever, in fact, but will settle ‘down to the resumption of practicing law in his plain old clothes, augment- jed by a clean collar now and then and an occasional new shirt of the | John Hayes type, priced at 50¢ per— ‘and this only as needed. But while 'the Judge isn’t particularly up on | style, he’s a clean, honorable gentle- man, a capital good fellow and a good jlawyer—and tk that’s enough. —Review. |The Bates County Poultry Show. The officers and members of the 'Bates County Poultry Association are | keeping busy making extensive prep- arations for their first exhibition, to be held in this city January 26, 27 and The show will be held in the room |at the northeast corner of the Opera |House Block, the free use of this building having been donated the as- sociation by the Butler Loan and | Trust Company. The entry books will be open to the | public at the office of T. J. Day after January 23. Until that date all en- itries must be made to Mrs. A. R. for Ladies. | Guyton, Sec’y. Star Brand Shoes | A prominent poultry fancier of for Men. 'Parssons, Kansas, ina letter to Mrs. West Side, T. W. Fisk. ‘A, R. Guyton makes the following The directors of the Missouri State | Bank and Walton Trust Company | held a meeting Thursday, January | 5th, and proceeded to re-elect all the ‘comment upon E. C. Branch, who , has been secured as judge: “You will have one of the best judges of the West to place the awards, and a score card from old officers of both institutions. Jesse! him means something.”’ E. Smith and Clark Wix were added | to the board of directors of the bank. |Stockholders of Bates County During the past year the Missouri; - Fair Association Meet. State Bank paid dividends amounting At a meeting of the stockholders of oS per bei ced Walton Trust | the Bates County Fair Association, ompany 11 pi held at the court house in this city, Luther Bryant and Del Tomberline, | Saturday, January 7, the following both of Cass county, and Hick | gentlemen were named as a board of Gregory, Geo. Gragg and Earl Ward, | directors for the ensuing year: J. R. of this county, were arrested Thurs-! Baum, Mound twp.; W. G. Sellon, day, charged with a disturbance at | Charlotte twp.; W. A. Baker, Lone the Christmas entertainment at Mc- Oak twp.; R. N. Montgomery, Prai- Kinley school in Mingo township. | rie twp.; Sam Walls, Adrian; T. A. They were arraigned before Judge! Harrison, Altona; A. J. Erhart, B. F. Jeter and all entered a plea of Adrian; N. B. McFarland, Butler; W. Miss Letha| guilty. The two former were sen- the others were fined $1.00 and costs. J. W. Barnhart, of north east of this city, famous for his breeding of Registered Percheron horses, was a Butler visitor the first of the week | and made us a pleasant call. Mr. | Barnhart informs us that he has just, sold a 2 year old Percheron stallion | weighing 1700 pounds to Late | Williams of Girard, Kansas. He says he also has a two year old stallion on | hand which will tip the beam at 1900; pounds. county, now residing in northern Idaho, is in this city, the guest of his sister, Mrs. L. B. Allison. Mr. Gage, in company with Prof. Allison, ‘made us a most pleasant call. He bears | from Chicago, Illinois, to Idaho over- land by wagon. In company with; his father, Mr. Gage came, to this | county in 1869, and in 1879 removed | to the west. State Treasurer James Cowgill for! the first two years of his inqumbency of office amounted to $176,646.90. This represents the earnings on the surplus money of the State for the years 1909 and 1910. His Republican | predecessor, Jacob F. Gmelich, now | Lieutenant-Governor, collected for |! and 1908—$136, 191.71. more interest during the last two years that Treasurer Cowgill has ser- ved than it did during the last two years that Treasurer Gmelich occupi- | + ed the office. If you want to buy a farm of 70 acres—house, small barn and plenty of water on farm, school house across. the road from farm. This place is on Charlotte telephone line and on mail route No. 5 out of Butler. Write or call on J. H. Park, Butler, Mo., route No. 5. Farm for Trade. 160 acres excellent land, improved, lying in north central Iowa, to trade for Missouri farm. © C. S. EWIN, It -:- Butler, Mo. tenced to serve ten days in jail and! William Gage, formerly of this |i the distinction of having made a trip | The amount of interest collected by | the last two years of his term—1907 | Accordingly, | the State has received $40,455.19) W. Cannon, Butler; E. D. Waller, Foster; J. J. McKee, Mt. Pleasant twp.; Clyde McFarland, Butler; T. J. Day, Butler. Maj. F. H. Crowell was ‘chosen a delegate to attend the meet- ing of the officers of the county fairs which is being held at Columbia, Mo. | this week. Thought Court ftouee Was on Fire. | A fire scare in the County Clerk’s | office Saturday’ morning caused con- siderable excitement when live sparks | were discovered falling from the ceil- ing, where the steam pipes enter from the sheriff’s office. Will Weeks, Deputy Clerk, made a record run up- stairs, but failed to find any indica- tion of fire in the sheriff’s office, al- though the sparks continued to fall for some time. Mr. Weeks’ theory ‘is that a mouse must have built a nest touching the pipe and had de- | posited a match therein which ignited from the hot pipe. | Recorder’s Fees Amount to $14,- 222.87 in Four Years. Col. I. M. Smith, retiring Recorder |of Deeds, during the four years in ‘which he served in that office, col- lected fees to the amount of $14,- | 222.87. Total fees collected by years ‘are as follows: 1907, $8,393.05; 1908, $3,553.92; 1909, $3,764.95; 1910, | $3,511.55. \ Ex-Confederates Attention. A meeting of Marmaduke 615 U. C. V. will be held at the County Clerk’s office in this city Saturday afternoon >t 1 0’clock. All members requested to be present.—J. R. Ford, Com- mander. Marriage Licenses. MH Reeves, Amsterdam. Annie Stanfill, Amsterdam. J D Macaham, Worland. Maude A Remington, Worland. ‘ Butler Christian Church. Sunday, Jan. 15. Bible school, 9:30. Communion and‘ preaching 10:45. Christian Endeavor 6:90. Evening preaching 7:30. All are cor- dially invited. i Wm. M. MAYFIELD, Minister.