The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, August 17, 1911, Page 4

Thursday, Friday and Saturday--August 17, 18, 19 AT WALKER-McKIBBEN'’S---THE QUALITY STORE It is a well known fact that we carry the finest and most extensive stock of fresh, up-to- date Dry Goods in this county. For these three days we offer the following goods at prices never before quoted. The quantities are not limited to a few yards to each customer—you can buy all you need. . Best 10c Hope bleached muslin for 64%c yard Best standard calico for 2%c yard Best 8c unbleached muslin tor 6%c yard Best 7%c apron checked gingham for 4%c yard Best 7%c percales for 5c yard . Best 10c dress ginghams for 6c yard Best 25c and 35c waistings for 15c yard Best 50c fancy colored silks for 29c yard Best 18c sheer fine white India linon for 10c yard Best 20c lawns for 10c yard Best 5c laces and insertions for 2}4c yard Best 50c dress shirts for 35c; three for $1 Splendid lot of Remnants of Table Linen at very low prices This is the last week of our Blanket Sale--a big saving here. Broken lots of Shoes at Reduced Prices =» WALKER-McKIBBEN’S = The Butler Weekly Times Printed on Thursday of each week J. D. ALLEN, Proprietor ROBT, D, ALLEN, Kditor and Manager | been badly hurt, but others are a suc- During the past week a number of CHAUTAUQUA A | cess and every farmer in the county our friends have dropped into our! owes it to himself and the community official “bake oven’’to register a kick | lto make an exhibit of some kind. on the weather. We are always gladt Apacer sd Pick out the best you have and enter to see our friends but want it dis- | F ee lit at the fair. It may not be up to the’ tinctly understood that we have noth-| Attendance Exceeded Expectations, | “Why Has the Peoples Bank of Butler BIG SUCCESS Essay Contest. Following is the essay receiving 'fifth premium in the Peoples Bank | | essay contest. | Succeeded?”’ DEMOCRATS LEADING IN BENCH CONTEST. Balloting for Supreme Judges Exceeds the Vote on Prohibition. Tuesday’s session of the contest earing on the State Supreme judge- Entered ne ae of Butler, Mo., as| Standard you have set for yourself’ ing whatever to do with the weather. (eRe but it may win a prize and serve to If we had control of the pesky stuff—_ sc Tasgs 01.2 seen oe \ raise the standards of your neighbors. or thing—or whatever it is, we would i PRICE, $1.00 PER YEAR aoe | = = (gather it into one large bundle and Butler’s maiden venture in the| Se |NOT FAIR TO HOME MERCHANTS ship it over into Kansas. : : | The president of the Peoples Bank’! o¢ schools had received more votes = | Chautauqua field was indeed a tre- | has long been known as one of Mis- BATES COUNTY'S SEVENTH AN.| OR THE COMMUNITY. i —_— : | 5 jthan were cast on the prohibition They are paying aviators at the rate Mendous success, both from a finan- | Souri’s most able bankers. NUAL FAIR. T hier of thi ful b: y | 2mendment. haven inl thed pane heaniiwroriedt ts of $2 per minute for each minute they | cial standpoint and in fhe pleasing of | he cashier of this successful bank | It aiso developed the fact that in ET enti) Bes i ., are in the airin Chicago this week. | the large audiences in attendance each | Fair, which will held at this city Sep- death with bankrupt sales and quit | (4 i lite: : The average newspaper man would| A U ‘ preme Judges J. C. Brown and John tember 19-22, 1911, bids fair to make| business sales, conducted not by the ben teinpredl thier ie nimesltat hae ce and_night. When the Chautau- | | grown upin Butler and has gotten | . ag the banner year in the existence of | home merchants, but by out-side rate, that is, provided the Interstate | 4U# opened Saturday, August 5th, the | his business experience in this Ha bixtcisag oe Fin heap the Fair Association. parties, to the detriment of the com- Commerce commission would allow shoulder of every enterprising citizen and people would rather do business | ouive larger majorities than shown b The drouth, which has been gen- ™Unity at large in our opinion. him a special dispensation allowing f Butler was at the, wheel, and with | with a man who has grown up in the| the first count. ¢ eral, has shown Bates county to be) From a general observation of the yi 4, reach Chicago without being Undiminished vigor the enterprise city in which he,does business. He} The evidence was adduced in ie the garden spot of the middle west, results of such sales we believe them foroad towaleit was pushed along with steadily gain- does not forget his courtesy outside | contest now being conducted by forging to the front with excellent | be very unsatisfactory, not only in Sephiaeieinanemesieae ing momentum until the lights were | of business hours but is always pleas- Judge William C. Marshall for Judge taking a considerable amount of A Montgomery City minister has turned off after the final session Sun- jant when he meets you on the street] }. mos B, Gantt and Henry C. Tim. Every Audience Enthusiastic. | Home Talent Contributes | Has the Peoples Bank pucceededy ‘h It certainly has. But why so? Listen | ship showed the candidates for those to Success, d hall h Se een urea ;two places and State Superintendent Bates county, and especially Butler, ' Annual prospects of making big crops while | ‘ihe surrounding counties are in straits|OMey out of the community, but in publicly stated that the automobile is which are almost desperate. Mis- |3 failure to satisfy purchasers as well. the most dangerous machine ever souri produces nothing finer from her| Butler’s home merchants whose turned loose upon the world. If the day night, August 13. | and acts glad to see you. To the Commercial Club and espec- ially to the executive committee ap- | The Peoples Bank does not scorn a small deposit and allows interest on fertile farms than Bates county con- | establishments have stood the test of | good man will investigate Governor pointed therefrom to manage the a deposit as small as a dollar. tributes in the shape of farm products | time ace in position and do make as Hadley’s St. Louis machine we are Chautauqua is due the credit for its. The Peoples Bank is willing to dis- and no stock is bred anywhere which | 204 Prices on standard, up-to-date satisfied that he will modify his state- undisputed success. No effort was play its adding machine and burglar will surpass the hogs, cattle, mules |™erchandise as can be made any-' ment, and horses bred by Bates county’s where by anyone, and coupled with ~— = stockmen whose fame as breeders has | this remains the fact that your home; Some men have powerful mean spread throughout the nation. | merchant is not here today and gone dispositions. A Mo. Pacific section Bates county has the goods, and |tomorrow,, but is always at the same hand practiced marksmanship with a the Bates County Fair is her show | old stand, ready and willing to make target rifle, using watermelons in a room, open to and visited by those | good any thing unsatisfactory, or per- nearby patch for targets. We believe interested in the products of the poate pict 2 pecscainaegttl in capital punishment. ; lations impossible for a stranger who — = co. A he pin | is in the community only temporarily. BONDS HAD VOTES TOSPARE and the success of the Fair is wholly; The Times derives a considerable | too great for these gentlemen to make | and no stone but what was moved from the path of the monster enter-} | tainment. { of the Chautauqua was of the best | talent the world offers and each num- | ber on the program was enjoyed’ and | appreciated by all fortunate enough to attend. In mentioning the pro- gram, too much credit cannot be in the hands of Bates county’s farm- ers and stockmen and they alone, by their co-operation with the manage- ment of the Association may make for | Bates county an exhibition this year which no county in the state may surpass. The Fair Association is not an or- ganization for pecuniary profit and the management expects only that the fair pay expenses. Any surplus which may ever exist is turned in to the general fund and used to make improvements in the succeeding fairs. The gentlemen at the head of the association are among the stronges and most substantial farmers, breed- ers, stockmen and business men in the county, and they have or should have the confidence and hearty sup- port of every citizen who has the welfare of the county at heart. Some of our crops of course have |tising columns, but in refusing to, publish certain advertising this week we believe that we are acting only just to our many readers whose interests we feel at all times are| | identical with our own. That benevolent old police judge over in Iola, Kansas, who was so in- sistent that a woman be worked on the streets in the chain gang that jhe had her re-arrested for contempt of court after she had been pardoned by the mayor is indeed a Solomon at |judgment and should have lived in !Solomon’s time. We sympathize deeply with Iola in her affliction—or infliction—as the case may be. , to Congress until Wednesday. portion af its revenue from its adver- | Missouri’s Capitol Returns Show 144,- given the home talent participating, 664 for and 45,468 Against. Jefferson City—The secretary the state cast up the returns from the | gentlemen and ladies willingly con- new capitol bond election Thursday. | tributed to the enjoyment of each The canvass showed that 144,664 session. voted for the bonds and 45,468 against them. This is 8,260 more than | large and appreciative, the largest three to one. An affirmative vote of | number being present on Bryan day, 90,936 would have vee the neces-| there being about 2,700 in attendance he majority for|at his lecture. The average session sary two thirds. the bonds was 99,196. Thirteen counties gave a majori against the proposition. They are: | of 2,000. Ginstan, Crawford, Doug- Benton, Christian, Cra las, Hickory, Oregon, Ozark, Pet Ripley, Stoddard, Stone, Howell and | toe who boosted this one to a suc- Taney. a Laclede, : several hundred season tickets have| es resis” Shamma: | already been pledged for next year’s entertainment. Texas, Vernon, Wayne, Wright. These counties failed to give the cess have the satisfaction of enrolling not only the Butler Band taking a| of|prominent part, but many other: The audiences at each session were ty attendance was in the neighborhood Arrangements are being made for another Chautauqua next year and in their assistance many who had been , | this movement was put on foot and proof safe. This safe is another rea- son for the great success of this bank. It makes people feel that they are fi isafe in depositing their savings, | The attractions offered the patrons | whether they are great or small, with | the Peoples Bank. § This successful bank is clean and pleasant inside and it is a pleas- ure for people to enter it. The Peoples Bank is rightly named and it is certainly “The bank on} which you can always bank.’”’ Thelma A. Hill, Butler, Missouri, Age 13. Stricken With Paralysis. J. B. Batchelor, aged 74 years, was stricken with paralysis Friday after- noon, August 11, at his home in Deepwater township, his left arm and leg being afflicted. Mr. Batchelor is very active for a man of his years and it is supposed that the stroke was brought on by over-exertion. For a time his left leg and arm ;monds, Democratic candidate for the | Supreme judgeship, and Howard A. Gass, Democratic candidate for State | Superintendent of Schools. The con- test is being directed against Judges | Kennish and Brown, and State School | Superintendent Evans, who won the | office on the returns of the last gen- ‘eral election. Horace G. Beedle, Republican sec- ‘retary of the Board of Election Com- ‘missioners, occupied the witness \chair the greater part of Tuesday, | when the hearing was resumed at the | Office of the Board of Election Com- missioners. : With the facts brought out at yes- terday’s session, Judge Marshall be- lieves that he could go before the Su- jpreme Court and receive a decision favorable to the contestants in the case.—Republic. Charged With Violating Local Option Law. : C. H. Arfman of this city, was placed under arrest Monday after- noon charged with violating the local him with committing and tm n a public nuisance and runk