The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, February 9, 1911, Page 1

‘VOL. XXXII.” FOSTER. West Star Items. ‘Who says “‘Misouri’s dry.” A nite rain Sunday evening put a bright smile on people who had. to haul water. A. E. Perkins, of Hume, was in . our burg on business last week. Frank Badgett left Sunday on the ; noon passenger for Kansas City. The pie supper at Walnut Friday night was well attended. The pro- ceeds amounted to $20.25, which goes for a library. Aunt Mary Hawkins came in Wed- nesday on the east bound passenger from Mound City, Kansas. Howard E. Arbogast returned to Worland, Tuesday, after a week’s Sunday.. evening, but has cleared off fine. a fine 9-pound girl. » had by all. county. body. visit with home folks. Mrs. tke Daniels visit Mrs. Geo. J. W. Darby was a county seat/Daniels Saturday, and quite an ex- © — business visitor Monday. citing accident happend to their little Mrs. Ethel Kaiser was in Foster, Wednesday, ona short visit to her uncle, D. H. Arbogast. She reports her brother, Sherman Hecka quite poorly. Deputy Sheriff Wallace was in this neck of the woods Monday subpoena- ing witnesses in the damage suit of Wiley Woods vs. Mo. Pacific Ry. Mrs. Hiram Bassett is quite poorly at her home in the west part of town. Jim Vaughn moved his large barn tothe farm he recently bought of Judge Sullens. Uncle Lewis Jones who has been quite poorly with lagrippe, we are glad to note is able to be around. The Times can hold itself in readi- ness to change the address of Esquire Darby’s paper again, as he is billed for Arkansas next week. The- Esq. is about the only real traveler Fos- G. W. Daniels Sunday. Willie Floyd yisited Ethel Searful Sunday. Sunday. visit her aunt, Mrs. Neta Aliman. out” improving his new home. doesn’t look like the same place. A. Thomas’ at work at some carpen- of Butler, to begin on their new house. Well, the weather looked a little bit threatening Saturday night and A fine shower fell Sunday Mrs. Geo. Lawrence, Fern Thomas and Lucile Geneva are on the sick list. Charles and wife are rejoicing over A surprise party was given in honor of the McKennea girls. A large crowd attended and a fine time was We are sorry to lose the girls out of our couiitry. They will move in a short time to Johnson Thede Floyd and family moved Tuesday. We hate to see them go as they will be'greaty missed by every son Monroe. As they started home, a sheep nearby butted him over, but the accident didn’t prove to be serious. Mr. and Mrs, Neff Blough visited Willie Floyd visited Ethel Searfus Molly Blough went to Amoret to Jesse Warren is ‘‘tearing his bones It James Thomas returned from Mar- ionsville Saturday. He is now at L. ter work, but the last of the week he}. expects to go to Fred Wishart’s north It seems as though some of the young men have founda new road ite a} Cin |g S, BUTLER, MISSOURI, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1911. no preaching or Sunday School at the Christian church Sunday. Miss Grace Jenkins spent Saturday night and Sunday wlth Bins Olive Brown. On account of Mrs. a s failing health Miss Ethel had to stop school. She had been attending high school at Clinton all winter. Miss Elsie McCleeney will begin her school again Monday. She has beeh sick with lagrippe and rheuma- tism for about three weeks. Mrs. Tan White’s mother, Mrs. B. the latter part of the week. Weare sorry to hear Mr. Hibbs has pneumonia again. ~ Miss Minnie Harnes and Mrs. Dale visited at Mrs. Pearl Simpson’g one day last week. Mr. Brown, who has had lagrippe for some time, is improving slowly. Mr. Hagen and wife are moving ‘in Billie Clinton’s house at Maysburg. Mr. and Mrs. McAnther have gone from our midst. They moved over near Montrose. Tan White called on Brown Sunday afternoon. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Albert Ed- rington a little daughter, Feb. 5. A NEIGHBOR. Pleasant Gap. The dry weather still continues and is a little cooler at present writing. Dr. Cumpton is on the sick list. Mrs. Alex Nafus is on the sick list this week. Joe Williams spent one day and night last week with Hasking and then went-to Titus sale. Jess Campbell went to Appleton City after freight Saturday. Me Hae, Hey .,:|down to Mr. Floyd’s. Walter Henry went to Butler Bas Nora Potts: Liedy orted quite James Marstellar and Mrs. Myrtle|Saturday in his auto. Mrs. W. M. pools ee Thomas visited G. W. Daniels, Tues-|.Leeper went with them. Hewhnr Arbogast san his Basilio,’ gay The National Annunity met at Ira Craig, attended church at Worland Sunday to hear the little Japanese preacher. T. S. McHenry, one of Foster’s leading merchants says he can’t ac- count for Esquire Darby coming in his store and eating so much brown sugar.” The Squire’s trip to Arkansas next week will solve the problem. ; Don’t forget the H. W. Seig & Son stock sale, Feb. 14, three miles south of Foster. This will be one of the largest stock sales held in this part of the country. There will be offered for sale 17 head of horses, 29 head of mules, 40 head of cattle, 75 head of hogs and 500 bushels of corn. Mr. Seig has a fine lot of stock. Don’t forget the date, Feb. 14. The new steel bridge that spans Gillen creek, southwest of town, is nearing completion. Walnut town- ship is well fixed on the bridge ques- tion. Now for better roads which are badly needed, and Walnut town- ship will be in the front rank of grand old Bates. oe Train service an the interstate has been very poor for several days on account of a bridge being burned out near Mound City. The engine of the west bound freight broke town Satur- day at Foster, and had to take a trip to Nevada for repairs before it could proceed on its journey. W. J.. Parlier received the sad mes- sage Friday that his father, George Wesley Parlier, died Jan. 30, at his home in Wilkes county, North Caro- lina, at the age of 78 years; was born and reared on the farm where he died When the Civil War broke out he cast.his lot with the South and served. two years for the good old Southern. cause. He leaves an aged widow rd seven children to mourn their awfully low. Summer’s Sawmill Burned. In and Around Maysburg. The S. S. Summer sawmill, located Well, at last the drouth is broken; a northwest of town on the Fred Laugh-| fine rain fell in this section of the lin land, burned Monday night. The) country Saturday night -and Sunday inthe sawdust. ~ - ‘Misfortunes surely come hard to ¥ \ | 4 { Arganbright last week. Mrs: week. She walked from Butler, we are thinking she certainly was awful- ly home-sick. The meeting at Star closed last week with fiveadditions. They were babtized last Sunday a week ago. Mr. and Mrs. Stewart visited J. O. Roggers Sunday evening. Arthur Geneva killed hogs Monday. Thede Floyd and Neff Blough assist- him. Newton Wright and W. A. Searfus delivered hogs to market last week. Rome Daniels and Charley Law- rence is powing. { Mrs. Lucy Wishart last week. Grandma Wishart is slowly recov- ering from a hard sick spell. She is still at C. M. Thomas’. John Roggers killed hogs Monday. Neff Frrzee gathered corn out of the shock Monday. Frank Davis and Fred Wright of Butler, have gone to Nevada to hunt work : We will live fatfor a long time now as the old hens have gone to laying. We are sorry to hear that Archie Thomas is having such bad luck with his hogs. Molly Bough visited Mrs. Bing Wright, of Butler Laturday. Mrs. Elridge who has been visiting his niece Mrs. Ike Daniels has left. Emma Heart visited her Aunt Etta Daniels last week. Lots of the peoples wells are getting Mrs. R. K. Godwin and children Archie Thomas, Ross Williams and Rob Thomas shreaded for Charley Gladys Blough visited her home folks Mr. and Mrs. Geneva last Bertha Williams visited her sister |* Pfeasant Gap Saturday night. Lee and George Scifers set fire out last week and it got away from them and burned some hay stacks for Lee Wix. Jim Culver and John Deffenbaugh were at Pleasant Gap Saturday. Bert Haskins went down to Double Branches to spend Saturday night with his relatives. Frank Roof and wife made a_busi- ness trip to Butler Friday. John Diehl’s family is on the sick list this week. Ewing Bassett was at Pleasant Gap Saturday night. We see that Clay Cumpton has been visiting his brother, Doctor very often here lately. I wonder what the attraction is? Arthur Burkhart was at Pleasant Gap Sunday. R. B. Campbell and wife and their son, Jesse, went to Rockville to a Masonic funernal and Jesse’s wife will meet them there, as she has been at Montrose. Albert Brown and .family were through Pleasant Gap Sunday on their road to his father’s. Abe Brown was at Pleasant Gap Saturday evening. MISSOURI BOY. Circuit Court Convenes. Circuit’ Court convened Monday, February 6, 1911, with Judge C. A. Calvird on the bench and H. O. Maxey Circuit Clerk and Sheriff W. J. Bullock in attendance. The open- ing days of the court were taken up in setting the docket and filing F. Richards, of Butler, visited them} NUMBER 16 VIRGINIA. .' J. W. Archers’ sale was well at- tended, Clyde Robbins was at his best and made everything sell quick- ly and at a good price. After the sale was over Morgan, the dress pat- tern man, auctioned off a lot of dress patterns. Nearly every lady in this locality is the proud owner of a new dress. ‘Dr. J. J. Mitchell came in Thurs- day from Texas, and Saturday sold his 80-acre farm at Virginia to D. C. Wolfe. Prof. Maxwell Park, of Foster, ate dinner with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Park, Sunday. Grandpa and Grandma McCanns are as proud of their new name as they are of their first grandson. They believe their grandson, when old enough to vote, will be a stronger Prohibition-Democrat than W. J. Bryan. Remember Charley Wort's sale, February 13. 3-4 mile north of Vir- ginia.« See bills. The Christian church has employed Elder J. W. Rog, of Hume, to preach the coming year. Services Saturday night, Sunday and Sunday night the third Sunday of each month. At the punch. bowl’s brink, Lot the thirsty think, What they say in Japan— “First the man takes a drink, Then the drink takes a drink, Then the drink takes the man.” J. I. Wolfe, of Burlington, Kan., arrived Wednesday of last week in his car. He returned home Thurs- day. His father, C. W. Wolfe, went home with him. 70-acre Farm for Sale:—10 acres blue grass pasture; 6-room house; small stable; some.apple and peach trees and plenty of water on farm. Rural mail route 5 from Butler and Charlotte telephone line* goes ~ by house.—J. H. Park, Route 5, Butler, Mo. The wedding bells will ring before this paper reaches its readers. Elder Hunt will preach at the M. E. next Sunday night. Will Gartt, of Amoret, took dinner with Young Aaron Monday. Joe Whinery moved to the Judge Harper farm Monday. Miss Blount, of Butler, dinnered with the family D. C. Wolfe Friday of last week. She was around get- ting up a music class. Miss Emma Pahlman is on the sick list. Mr. Walker, of K. C., has moved in Willie Rubel’s house at Virginia, and willl work for him this summer. Nearly all the farmers are turning the soil over getting ready to put their crops in early. The ground is very dry and the wells \are beginning to fail. “Politically Missouri is very wet, but earthly very dry. Acalf knocked Grandma Minton ‘There will be apie supper at the Grandview school house Tuesday night Feb. 14th 1911 to raise money to paper the school house. The spring term of school in the Crook district commenced Monday with Miss Parish, of Adrian as teacher. YOUNG AARON. On the Wing. Lewis Porter has commenced saw- ing on Root Branch for Jim Welch, Mr. Lou Williams at the saw. Charley Titus’ sale went off like hot cakes. Wm. Dewese is having logs cut for a fine big barn. E C. D. Bailey sold his farm to Wm. Welch for $50 per acre. Master Perry Nance is plowing with a 3-horse plow like-a man. C. D. Bailey has bought a farm at Topeka, Kans., for $180 per acre and expects to move there soon. Mr. Ira Wiser has built a fine large hennery and expects to have it paint- ed up in style and have it photo- graphed and send it back to Nebraska to show them that what he expects to live on the balance of his days is ham and eggs. | Will and Frank Graves and family of near Pleasant Ridge left Monday for Tulsa, Okla. We wish them a pleasant journey and hope they will like their new home. Fannie, the little daughter of Fran- cis Bellomy, is pretty low with the typhoid fever, but is improving some. The school at Pleasant Ridge is progressing very nicely. The teacher and pupils tried the patience of Nestlerode, the picture man, and also tried the metal of his camera. We know that we will get good pictures because he always makes them good. T. McGuire who lives on the farm known as the Athol Herrell farm brought home a fresh milk cow. He purchased her from a gentleman liv- ing near the Tygard school house just west of Butler. The price paid was ‘fifty dollars. The little infant baby of Jesse Smith afew miles southeast of town was buried a few days ago and the mother is very low with the fever. As soon as Mrs. Smith recovers they are thinking of having a sale and going to Montana. Doc. Philpot of near Papinville is visiting his sister, Mrs. Will Purkey, near Orchard Grove. Will Purkey of Orchard Grove is baling hay for George Utley. N. Smiley of Pleasant Gap has moved to Appleton City and has gone into the blacksmith business. Mr. Charley Campbell living on the Max Weiner farm east of Butler is moving on his father-in-law’s place near Passaic, Mo. Ira Brown, the funny man at the Pleasant Ridge literary society, is loaded with funny songs and comic recitations. If we had a few more over her soshe has to walk witha cruch. The would-like-to-be township can- didates have puton that big broad smile and they are so kind and so anxious about you that you wonder if they really have been born again. Miss Myrtle McCann, who is teach- ing school at Worland, visitedat home Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Crosswhite vis- ited relatives in Rich Hill Sunday. W. M. Hardinger hauled coal from Foster, Friday. Mrs. E. E. Eggleson, Mrs. J. C. Crosswhite and Mrs. W. M. Harding- :| motions. Judge Calvird was most agreeably surprised when he was made the re- cipent of a handsome applewood gavel whibh some modest party or a| parties left in his desk Monday even- ing. Butler Christian Church. Sunday, Feb. 12. Bible school, 9:30, preceeded by orchestra concert. Communion and’ preaching, 10:45. ‘Christian Endeavor 6:30. Evening 7:30. Allare cor- -— toattend these meetings. —“l Saturday. Tuesday night last week with her Moet Mrs. E. F. Burk and’ family. nll peiamabas rei im- proving. er visited the Enterprise school Fri- day evening. Mrs. Osborne and Mrs. Stroeber have been on the sick list the past week. like him our society would be a grand success. H. H. McClendon of Route 1, Rock- ville has such demand for his coal that he had to quit furnishing coal for the steam shovel to take the rock out of the dredge ditch south of Prairie City. A man at Ed Merchants has a team wagon and harness for sale cheap. Born to the wife of H. H. McClen- don a fine baby girl. Harry is so well pleased he has pulled all the hair out of the top of his head. Geo. Roberts of Papinville is around selling or taking orders for farm and different centers are shipping in labor with almost every train, some to Rockville and others to Rich Hill, thereby keeping a full quota of help at all times. They pay from 20c to 30c per hour and keep a regular vil- lage hotel and transient labor of all descriptions, employing from 15 to 25 men every day and using immense quantities of high explosives. This. largest ditch in the state is a wonder in more ways than one as it reflects great ideas put into execution by per- sistent efforts. Reclaiming an area of land of land of astonishing pro- ductiveness and adding untold wealth ‘to our already rich commonwealth. X. Double Branch Items. Well, we had a fine rain Sunday evening. It was certainly needed and was fine_or the wheat and grass. Homer Jenkins delivered hogs at Butler, Monday. F. L. Blankenbaker was sawing wood for W. A. Baker and Elmer Requa the first of the week. Chas. Baker went to St. Joseph, Ma., to attend a hog sale. He bought four big, fine sows. Charley is cer- tainly getting a fine bunch of hogs on his farm, George Utley has been hauling hay to Butler, He says the hay market is not as good as it was. E. E. Morillia and H. G. Requa have been buying up a few calvesain this part of the county. Stock water is very scarce with most of the people. We hear that Miss Edna Thomas has been heart broken for a week since the departure of one of her friends. Edna has our sympathy and best wishes. Harry Walters is working for the Thomas Bros. at their saw mill. They are nearly through at C. K. Miller's, and from there they will move up by Pleasant Gap? C. K. Miller, Elmer Robins and L. Bently have purchased them a wood saw. Cliff Nafus seems to have some- thing very interesting up in this neighborhood. Ed Hall has cleaned out his big pond. J. T. Baker sold his cattle to Chas. Baker. The cattle market is certain- ly moving along. S. W. Nafus sold a few calves to H. G. Requa. George Jobe has hired to G. W. Baker for the summer. There was not a very good crowd at Sunday school on account of the weather. Miss Lizzie Walters is staying with Mrs. W. A. Baker for a few days. Mrs. Baker, is on the sick list. Opal Hereford spent Saturday night and Sunday with home folks. J. H. Ferrell spent Sunday with H. G. Requa. G. W. Baker and family Sunday with W. A. Baker and family. Mrs. A. M. Allison received two Barred Rock cockerels from Lamont, Mo., recently. The price paid was $10. Mrs. Magstiah is on the sick list this week. Miss Edna Thomas spent Friday night with Misses Jessie and Myrtle Burch. RAINBOW. » Notice. — The Democratic County Central Committee is hereby called to meet garden seeds. Geo. isa good sales- man and can talk you blind. Arch Long went fishing one day last week and caught a bad cold and a 15 pound channel cat fish. How’s W. M. Hardinger and son, Lee, | that boys? went to Rich Hill on business Satur-} John R. Edwards has a pecan . : grove near Prairie. He has already - Pete Tharp.and daughter, Pearl, of Summit visited H. P. Tharp and fam- Mrs. J. R. Baum, of Passaic visited parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robt. McCann. ‘W. A. McElroy spent Monday night gathered 28 hundred pounds of pecans which he has weighed and sold for 8 1-2c, besides what he has given away. J. R. E. has more to gather, and he has sold $55 worth of hickory nuts. 1-2 of his land isin cultivation. | 8 Tom Henderson has $90 worth of} Grace furs for sale. - ‘Thedredge ditch crew is doing some loward great work with their monster steam | Double Branch Church shovel. Employment bureaus from |Summit Church _ fom rey: Eeb. Ry) 1911, a r the purpose of nami the big and method of mimics & county school superintendent and the transaction of other business. . Williams, Chairman. Ww. G Dillon, Secretary. Piano Contest. Standing of those who have enlist- ed in the piano contest at Hill’s Cash Store are as follows: Edna Thomas 8 Minnie Christie Ida Dillon Carlie H sachlSeede?