The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, November 2, 1911, Page 1

e Buller - eekly @ State Historical ety, Soci- INS, VOL, XXXIV. BUTLER, MISSOURI, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1911. NUMBER 2 of last week after coal we noticed that T. S. Harper had built concrete posts VIRGINIA. Wm. Ayers’ sale will be Nov. 8-/ and was putting up a lot of fence Mr. Ayers, with his family expects to! .14 1, Judy still ‘cone bottom start to Montana soon after the sale. hay, and Ike Dawson and gon on the Albert Johnson and Earnest Night-| way to the bottom to make hay, War- wine spent Sunday with Wm. and/ren Ayres hurrying around getting his Oliver Nightwine of near Passaic. work done up, and Judge Harper Powell Enge! farm that Bert Barr has just vacate for the coming year. : Earl Osborne has rented the J. J. Wolfe farm for the coming year. Charley Flannery is Jess Williams.’ Herman Hill and family spent Sun- day with Thad Harper. 4 Col. Robbins pulled Andrew Simp- son’s sale off in good shape Thursday of last week. There was a large crowd present and most everything sold well. Mr. Simpson moved to Butler Monday and Mr. Barr of _ sas moved on his place Monday. But, few of the old settlers in the Virginia neighborhood are left, but as fast as the old ones move away their places ‘are taken by new ones, and thus time keeps marching on and not waiting for anyone. Mrs. Frank Oldham and children of Mindon, Mo., came Wednesday of last week to be present at the big dinner Thursday at Grant Oldham’s in honor of her brother, James Old- ham of Colorado, who has been visit- ing his father and brothers, Frank, Henry and Grant. He has been away 14 years and he says it makes’ him feel sad to come back and learn that so many of his old acquaintances have crossed the river Death. He told us that he had one hundred and twenty acres of land under ditch and he would raise good crops if it does not rain. He is looking hale. He told us that he was not married yet. He re- turned to his home Monday. Going across the river Wednesday he | hauling brush and filling washed at ae reat a ditches, he has trimmed the hedge fences on his farm ard cut the brush that had grown up along them, which makes his farm look fine; Emery put- ting a roof on his barn; Mr. Engle- working for| hart and son, Willie, Lige and Lee Ison, William Allen and son, Vivian, S. N. Kinion, Lawrence Darr, Joe Whinery, Carl Jones, W. W. Park, each with a load of coal. ' Mrs. Henry Oldham’s niece, Miss Sunquist, of near Amsterdam is spending a few days with her. The teachers from this township who attended the Association at But- ler last week were Grace and Iva Darr, Bonnie Wolfe, James and Helen | Park, Maud Martin, Myrtle and Maggie McCann, Olive and Una Judy, Mayme McKibbeh, Iva Ayres, T. J. Wheeler, Charley Crosswhite. J. L. Blake and Miss Knave of Kan- sas City spent Sunday night with his uncle, Robert McCann. John Sellon of Kansas City is paint- ing and repairing his brother, Will Sellon’s house. _ Harley Warderman is digging a new well. Earl Osborne has rented J. J. Wolfe’s south farm. : T. J. Wheeler moved his family to Butler last week and Mr. Roberts of | b Grandma Judy has returned from Pittsburg, Kan. John Zinn is thrashing cane and millet. ~ The Young Peoples Union of Mt. Carmel church will entertain at a measuring-social Thursday evening, Nov. 30, 7:30 p. m., at the church. Admission, three cents a foot and one cent extra fortheinches. Everybody cordially invited to attend. Do not forget J. H. Park’s Duroc Jersey hog sale Friday, Nov. 3rd. Hallowe’en crowds got in their work around Virginia some of which was out of order. The crowd of ladies played only innocent jokes which were enjoyed by all. YOUNG AARON. POLAND-CHINA SALE AT ‘APPLETON CITY. C. Z. and W. Z. Baker to Sell Fine Bunch of Poland-Chinas. Farmers and hog men in this sec- tion of the state are looking forward with pleasure to the sale of big bone Poland-China hogs to be held by C. Z. and W. Z. Baker at Appleton City, Missouri, Friday, November 10, 1911. The Baker brothers announce this sale in response to the demands of the farmers and breeders of Apple- ton City and vicinity and their offer- ing will undoubtedly be welcomed by those who know hogs when they see them. The hogs selected for this sale are| sired by such well known herd boars as John Ex. 53411, King Hadley 57722, King Blain, Jr., Big Hadley FOSTER. Henry Briscoe and wife were out of town visitors Sunday, eating birth- day dinner. Howard E. Arbogast spent several days at home last week. Presiding Elder Jones commenced a protracted meeting at the M. E. church Monday night. Paul Laughlin went to the Univers- ity Hospital of Kansas City last week to have an operation performed on one of his eyes. The little scrap that took place in town Saturday ‘was stopped before the militia was called out. Therefore, i funeral sermon was preached Sun- lay. Will Frankenfield and wife, who have been visiting his parents south of town, returned Sunday to their home in Pittsburg, Kansas. Coal operator, D. L. Hughes, came down from Burdett, and was a home visitor Saturday and Sunday. J.C. Biggs, cashier of the Hume bank, and R. S. Humphrey, vice pres- | ident of the same bank, came over | (Thursday to view the wreck of the Farmers Bank. The merchants of Foster received | a carload of northern potatoes last) week which they are disposing of at 90c per bushel. ' Harry Martin is slowly recovering | from his recent illness. Prof. A. C. Moreland and the Misses | Emma Parlier, Una Judy, Vera Mc- | Henry, and other teachers whose | names we failed to learn, attended | the teachers’ meeting at Butler Thurs- | went to Nebraska. He reports crops good in the sucker state, but says in Nebraska they are very poor an badly damaged by rain. G W. R. Moore, road overseer of districts one and four, has the roads in the best condition they have ever been, we are glad to report. The road running south of town, which has been for a long time in a danger- ous condition, has been widened and splendid work done, which speaks well for the overseer. MARRIED—In Butler Oct. 27, 1911, by Esq. Jeter, Miss Viola Queen to Mr. Charlie Cox, both of this vicinity. The bride is the youngest daughter of Mrs. M. A. Queen living west of this city, and isa highly cultured young lady, while the groom is a young man of good habits and_ industrious. Dinah joins their many friends in wishing Mr. and Mrs. Cox a life of sunshine and bliss. Jay Hair, wife and baby left Sun- day for Scammon, Kansas, which place they will make their home. W. S. James was an overland pas- senger south Sunday. He returned Monday morning. W. G. Huff has been on the sick list for a few days but is improving at this writing. DINAH. Butler Christian Church. Sunday, Nov. 5. Bible School, 9:30. Communion and Preaching, 10:45. Junior Endeavor, 3 p. m. Christian Endeavor Consecration Service, 6:30 p. m. Evening Preaching, 7:30. Best, and these hogs are sufficient: 4ay, Friday and Saturday. They re-| The revival is starting out well and Amoret moved on his place. Little Harry Stephens who has been very sick for several days with guarantee that their pedigrees are right. | Those attending the sale will do so | senger. turned on Saturaay’s evening pas-| we hope to make Sunday a day of ‘special value in that connection. Pat Cone was an arrival on Thurs-| Preaching each evening during the lockjaw was reported as holding his own and, they thought, improving a little.’ as guests of the Baker brothers and as they tersely put it, ‘everything day’s morning train. Pat left some) time ago for Illinois, but was there | free but the hogs.” only a short time. From there he | SALE OF BIG BONED POLAND-CHINA HOG TO BE HELD AT John Ex 53411 TERMS CASH week, except Saturday, at 7:30. All are cordially invited to attend. WM. M. MAYFIELD, Minister. Along the Miami. Miss Louise Allison has returned home, after a visit of several weeks with relatives and friends in Inde- pendence and Kansas City. Mr. Hughes, of Kirksville, visited several days of last week at the home of Byron Clossen and family. The stormy weather Sunday after- noon did not prevent the members of the Tygard Sunday School having their regular meeting. There were 25 present, the collection was good, the singing spirited and the lesson well learned by all. Singing will be Friday evening at the school house. A contribution will be given for the state and county work. The pie supper given at the school house last Friday night was very well attended, everything being consid- ered. A very neat little sum was realized. Miss Margaret Meinen was the fortunate young lady who got the cake. Dick Martin and wife are thé par- ents of a boy, born recently. The children enjoyed a vacation while their teachers attended the as- sociation last Thursday and Friday. G. B. Watson and wife, R. D. Bond and wife, J. L. Fisher and wife attended the entertainment and banquet given by the ‘‘Husbands of. the La Palma Christi’’ class last Fri- dar evening. Friends here received news from Mrs. Herring and fainily. They are in their new home in Los Angeles and like their situation. George was very ill when they wrote. Many friends had hoped his health might improve. MIAMI. Elizabeth Chapel. Sunday, Nov. 5. Preaching at 3 p. m. by William Mayfield. Sunday School at 10:30 a. m. TYPE Boars, Sows dnd Gilts, Selected from the Famous Herd of 450 Head, Sired by King Hadley 57722 Two of the Most Prolific and Best Known Boars of the Breed All hogs offered are in good breeding and healthy condition, not too fat, but just right to go on and do the bu icke: d ; 5 yer good. They are picked f: head, and everything in the sale will be first-class. These are the hogs for the farmer because they grow large in a very short > toe dae ommniee *4 ae will be in the dry, and be our guest whether you buy or not. Free entertainment to all parties attending the sale. Write for catalog as we have no mailing list AUCTIONEERS:—Col. C, F. Beard and Col. Jas. W. Sparks CHAS. Z. & W. Z. BAKER “W. Z. BAKER, Rich Hil, Missouri al Js : e \ a = 7 W. Z. BAKER, Rich Hill, Missouri 10,