The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, February 23, 1911, Page 8

v4 Be » day with J. Oeenne price.. Crawford's Spring Styles of Shoes and Oxfords for Men are Here. Samuel Levy Mercantile Company Double Branch Items. : It looks like our bad weather has | reached us at last. We certainly) hada big rain. It rained all night Friday night and all day Saturday, | and turned into snow Saturday night and snowed all day Sunday. The| river is out into the low places on the bottoms. Stock water will cer-/ tainly be plentiful for a while. The mail carriers certainly hada bad day of it Saturday. | The preaching and roll call was: knocked out entirely on account of! the bad weather. Tom Ison is going to move in one of Dr. Whipple’s houses up at Pleas- | ant Gap. Elmer Requa is fencing part of his | farm hog tight. | Gid Williams has sold his farm to H. G Requa. Hubert intends to im- | prove the place and move on it. Gid} Williams and wife have purchased a, farm near Nevada, Mo., and will! move there soon. We are sorry to, lose our old friends and neighbors. Mrs. W. A. Baker’s sisters from! Harwood, Mo., were up last week, spending a few days. W. A. Baker is still selling some of his fine hogs. There seeme to al-' ways be a good sale for all good | stock. | J. T. Baker is going to build an, addition to his house. \ G. W. Baker had a house burn last | Sunday night. The house that burned is where Claude Woods.-has+ been living. Claude had his house-' hold furniture fo burn. The cause of | the fire is not known. A few of our Double Branch young ; folks went to a box supper over | southeast of Rich Hill. Of course | going over to Rich Hill they were; not able to get back till the next day. , They left on Friday evening and nev- er got back until Saturday eve. The .girls all took boxes and they enjoyed themselves ‘fine. They had some good friends who kept them in good | shape. Claude and Edna Thomas and Claude Baker spent Saturday night with Mr. Walters. Frank and wife spent Sun- Walters and family. jua spent Sunday with HG. All $15 to $18 mens nobby suits and overcoats, final clearing price All $10 to $13 nobby suits and overcoats, final clearing price... ‘ port a fine time. P. M. Allison was out in Elkhart! Walker, Beulah Medley and Irene FINAL CL Of all Mens. Suits, Overcoats, shoes, Purniatings, Etc., at Astonishing Low Prices $9.98 $7.50 All $4.00 corduroy pent, final $2 75 ee ey oe e ¥, Off All Mens | Dress Pants up to ($1.00... weer e see Come While the Selection is Good. Elkhart. Talk about your spring weather, how was last Sunday for spring. This has been one of the worst, blizzards that we have had in a ent) time. The hog cholera is still raging in! this part yet. Arthur Westover has! 15 sick and one died. Jeff Clements hogs are all sick and one died. The farewell dance J. B. Moore’s; last week was reported to be one of) They all re-| the largest of the year. one day last week and stayed all night ; with the writer. Mrs. J. B. Moore and her children; itook the train at Amsterdam last | Thursday for western Kansas to make that their future home. We are sorry to lose the family out of our) community. We wish them the best | of luck in their new home. Mrs. J. E. Dubes was called to) Iowa one day last week to attend the funeral of her sister-in-law. There is a good many of the kids! around here who have the mumps, | but they are getting along all right. | Well, wasn’t last Sunday a good day to stay at home? Too bad to £0) anywhere. Ed Bailey transacted business in, Butler last Thursday. | Will McClure and Will Smith have | gone to Joplin. eee: Col. Lockridge has got a new dog and he says that he neither borrows | \nor lends now. The mail carrier on Route 2 didn’t) make his round on last Saturday on ; account of high water. Vie Barnett is stopping at col. | | ' Lockridge’s at present. Judge Paddock was over in Elk- hart last week. Clem Custer has rented the McClure farm, south of Concord school house. Mrs. Herbert Hewett of Amster- dam is visiting at her father’s this week. They are going to move to Amoret this spring. The teachers and patrons meeting at Concord was rather small last Thursday hight on account of the weather. There was some good talk- -He said he was going toa wedding | gent, about Wednesday. We wonder 3g IW. ~~ Standing of those who have enlist- They report a very good time. All $2.00 and $2.50 corduroy pants, final clearing price...... One lot of mens hats, worth up to $2.00, final clearing price....... ’ .,. 98e One lot of mens dress shirts worth $1.65 65c W. W. Huismann had a closing out} Fred Ewbank is kept busy these sale Monday. He expects to move to| days looking after his flock of Shrop- Woodward, Oklahoma, about the|shire ewes that are bringing some first of March. \fine lambs. He has built an incuba- Dan Garren has moved into the tor to keep the little ones warm these house lately occupied by his brother, |‘chilly days. L. R. and family. | The young people spent. a very Charley Weller and Merel Smalley, | pleasant evening at the Charley Bow- | who are running a saw mill over in| man home Monday. | Kansas, spent Saturday and Sunday at home. his household goods and farming _Mr. and Mrs. John R, Knox gave a | tools and live stock for North Dakota birthday party Thursday, Feb. 16, inj where ke expects to make their honor of their daughter, Mary, it be-| home. ing her tenth birthday. Those pres-| Q.-ar Harris will move to the place ent were: Mona Bowman, Loretta vacated by Mr. Heyne and family. Ewbank. |Oscar is a charter member of the Little Marie Grimsley the title Homer BEE RIDE VADs daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jack | Look out for a big wedding at an Grimsley is reported very sick. | j early date. Dode Worley of Afton, Oklahoma, | is visiting at the Frank Stilwell home. | Rambler was a caller at the M. M. Walker home Thursday. , Mr. Walker| ‘I finished my seventh year as spent a month this winter in Wash | erat mail carrier,’ said Walter ington and colorado and was very! Adams, Wednesday evening, ‘‘and much taken up with the western | during that time I have never seen so country. |many changes among my patrons as RAMBLER. Hume Notes. From The Telephone. Dick Heyne is loading a car with | this spring. After they all get located after the first of March, I will have almost a new route.” Hume now has three autos, owned | by Holland Bros., J. E. Foote and H. |L. Curtis. Several others have the ;auto fever which may break out mést any day with a brand splinter new joy wagon. Sheehy Bros., last week, shipped ten fine sows and one boar, all regis- tered Poland-Chinas, to John Mc- Laughlin, of Marmaduke, Ark. J. T. Dunn has purchased the Han- na farm of 240 acres, south of town, known as the Hogan Brothers farm, and will take possession March 1. The M. W. A building on the north side is not to remain vacantlong. H. M. Craig, from La Cygne, Kas., will open up a new stock of racket goods about the-first of March. | Born—David A., to Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Fitzgerald, February 14, 1911. The S. S. Summers sawmill, located here, was destroyed by fire, last Mon- day night. Sparks catching in the sawdust started the fire. on the old -Laughlin. farm, north of|: Pleasant Gap. ~ Our pretty weather was broke up by a severe rain storm and followed by a snow storm, which I suppose water haulers were glad to see. It was very bad on stock that had to be out in the weather. The bad weather will go against the preaching at the Pleasant Gap Baptist church! It will be bad on the movers next week they can move on their sleds in- stead of their autos. Fecal Brown, the hardware man 4 pel roan City, and, Edgar Hen cashier of the First’ National Bai were over at Pleasant Gap al Bank, in Brown’s auto. There will be a box supper out at beet Ridge church the 22d of the mon Jim Steel, John Diehl, Henry Min- nick, Oscar N Nafus, George Wolfe, Gus and Fred Bearce, Charley Burch, Herman, Fischer, Jim Handcock were at Pleasant Gap Sunday. Joe Williams was at Pleasant Gap Monday of last week. News is very scarce this week. “MISSOURI BOY. To the Public! We are adding a full line of for the benefit of our country customers who have produce to exchance for goods. WE WILL SELL THESE GROCERIES Only for Cash or Produce We will run no delivery wagon, but will be glad to sell all who come with the understandin; : a that we cannot deliver the goods. We, however, will sell you the goods at such a price carry the goods away. We will also at all times pay the " ee ee Highest Market Price for your Peatisas We hope to have all of our goods on the sheives and be ready for you by Saturday Wes and Millinery, and will have the : ceiving and opening up our New ‘Spring all lines to show you. in ea manhak We tek GROCERIES picked up many good bar pe ont cele eee the eae twill pay u better than ever to trade with ‘ ee