The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, November 30, 1911, Page 1

‘ | VOL. XXXIV. In and Around Maysburg. Mr. Guy moved Wednesday with his family to Appleton City. Mr. Farmer expects to move soon to the farm Mr. ‘Guy is just leaving. We regret to see Mr. Guy leave butknow our loss will be Appleton City’s gain. Mr. Brown’s son-in-law and family, Sam Staton and family visited Mr. Brown Sunday. Wirt Anderson is very poorly with appendicitis. They expect to leave with him Wednesday for Kansas City where he will undergo an operation. Mrs. John Martin is suffering with an attack of rheumatism. There will- be preaching Friday night, Dec. ist, at the Christian church. Mr. and Mrs. Montie Simpson and son, Emmet, and Homer Cheetem visited at Tan Whites Sunday. The surprise on Mr. Gump Friday night was a complete success in every respect. The supper was immense. Each and every one seemed to enjoy themselves to the fullest extent. ‘There were about seventy present. There is to be a box supper and nice program at Freezeout’ school house Wednesday night. Mr. and Mrs. Carney visited at Mr. R. K. Godwin’s Sunday. Tan White marketed turkeys at Creighton Wednesday. ° Mr. and Mrs. Robinson went home | with Mr.‘Dales from Sunday school Sunday. The meeting that had been in progress at the Baptist chijrch closed last Tuesday night with twaadditions. Andy Doll has purchased the farm You get the best goods, the price and the best service. Gat ASE cs t' you can give is something to wear... . Sete SS .The best place to buy it is here. ae The Butler 1 where Sam Farmer lives and expects to move there soon. Grandpa Jacobs.remains about the same. Mrs. Dudney and Mrs. White went to Creighton Tuesday. Jake Barth and oldest son started for Arkansas Tuesday. Mrs. Barth and the other children left Thnrsday. We hope they will like their new home and that their health will beim- proved. A NEIGHBOR. Amoret. Dr. Smith and family arrived last Friday from Stansbury where they had gone from Virgina, Mo. They did not like that place and did not un- load their car. They came from there to Amoret and have located here. Mrs. G. W. Park and son, James, | of Virginia, visited O. M. Drysdale and family Sunday. D. E. Keller’s house caught fire from a spark from the flue last Tues- day. Dr. Smith has rented Geo. Pahl- man’s new house. J. W. Payton left last week for Delta, Iowa. Preaching was held by R. A. Er- don, the U. P. preacher, at the R. R. station Sunday. Porter Bros’. steam shovel is at work cutting the hill down for the K.C. S. R. R. Co., south: of the depot. Isaac Bowerson has his new con- crete cellar completed. J. T. Whinery went to Butler Sun- day and returned Monday. Mrs. James Strait was on the sick ligt Jast week. WHEN YOU THINK OF Clothing, Shoes or Furnishings for Men and Boys think of - The Store That Satisfies. ety, 79_.=«ON State Historicaj Soci- cgay % BUTLER, MISSOURI, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1911. NUMBER 6 There was a baptizing. last Sunday FOSTER. near the Beall farm north of town. A. G. Metzler returned from the Miss Mame Kiser of Drexel visited | city Wednesday. sis i T. Whinery’s Monday of Newkirk, our city butcler, is pers kept busy these days. Peter Denning and wife came over FA; Gabollew'n cow passed over S ight and called on Dr. Smith Spe unday night and called on Dr. Smit Jordan Thuraday nigtit and family. The Virginia Endeavor Society met} Mr. Arnold of Hume, shipped a car with the Amoret society last Sunday | Of hogs from this place Thursday. night. They furnished some good] Milton Journey has opened a but- music. cher shop at the old stand on Sixth Dr. J. M. Smith went to K. C.-Sun-| street. day and brought his auto home. P. L. Shelton and wife went to D. A. Bean of the county farm, in| Pleasanton Thursday after powder. company with his daughter, Mrs. J.| Miss Eula Hughes left Sunday for T. Harper, was in our town Monday. | Kansas City to visit her sister, Mrs. REPORTER. | Ray Lockhart. a City Marshall Lloyd was transacting Along the Miami. - | business'at the county seat the last of Miss Stella Nesbit returned to Kan-|the week. thinks Mr. Crawford will soon re- cover. His father, when he came to town for the doctor, was greatly excited, and said: ‘‘Edem, the durned fool, has shot himself, is not dead yet, but I don’t know how bad he is hurt.’”’ Mrs. W. H. Reed Hurt. Sunday evening Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Reed and three children living east of New Home, were driving to Foster in their wagon. When near the J. R. Bangs home, they were passed by A. G. Metzler in his auto, at which the team took fright, be- came unmanagable and ran away, throwing Mr. and Mrs. Reed and the baby to the ground. Mrs. Reed was badly hurt, her knee cap being dislocated, and receiving other bruises, but she saved the baby which she held in her arms from in- jury. After the team had crossed the sas City Friday, after a visit with her] Mrs. Hiram Bassect is reported sister, Mrs. Critchfield. “| quite poorly at her home in the west Mrs. Rankin of California arrived] part of town. Thursday night to visit with her sis-) Uncle Mat Gray is still improving, ters, Mrs. R. D. Bond and Mrs. J. K.| which his many friends will be glad Berry. to learn. George Hoyle entertained Gordon Chappell, Sunday. -|her home at Bradyville, Iowa. Miss Mayme McKibben taught Sat*} A, Frankenfield was a Rich Hill urday at the Tygard school. ‘| visitor Sunday. Emmett Young from near Spruce) Gid Holland who was stricken with was a guest of A. G. Hoyt and family) paralysis last week, is reported some Saturday night and Sunday. -. Thetter: Miss Josephine Simpson, Lyle and} Mrs, Ela Merril and son Mathew, Walter. Fisher were: visitors at‘ the} léf¢Monday for their home at Shaw- Tygard school Saturday. ' dnee, Oklahoma. R. A. Piggott and family, Denni&} ‘1, H. Scrivner has finished paper- Thralls and. family, John Huffmaitling his restaurant and now has a neat and family were guests of Mr. an@land cozy: little parlor, where: the Mrs. Henry Eiler Sunday. ‘hungry can get lunch at any hour. MIAMI. - 4 Mies Emma Parleir was a guest of ae | Miss Una Judy at her country home ‘"}}neaf, Virginia Saturday and Sunday. bridge, the wagon box, and two children were thrown ihto the ditch, but fortunately the children were un- injured. Mrs. Reed, who is the eldest daugh- neighborhood, was taken to the home of her grandmother, Aunt Rachel Welch, where medical aid was sum- moned. At this writing (Monday "VIRGINIA. Dan Chase and family of Pleasanton spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Thompson, Mrs. R. Poe and Mrs. F. Medley of Athol are spending the week with their sister, Mrs. T. Flanery, helping care for their mother, Mrs. Poe, who is very low. P. H. Engelhardt has moved his family to the farm he has rented for the coming year. Dr. Smith reports a fine big boy at Dave Nestlerode’s Saturday night. Miss Ida Englehardt went to Kan- sas City Friday. Una Judy who is teaching the Foster school spent Sunday with home folks. Geo. Jackson is building a new barn. ; Mr. and Mrs. Smiser expect to help their daughter, Mrs. Claud Brummit, eat Thanksgiving turkey at her home at Iola, Kan. Mrs. Billie Dudley, who has been sick for some time expected to go to Mrs. Church Wort left Saturday for | ter of Col. W. M. Welch, of the Metz| Kansas City Tuesday to be operated on. Emmet Burke was sick Monday. ~ Mrs. Dr. Smith was in Virginia Monday. She says she came all the morning) she is getting along as well] way from Stansbury, Mo., after a as can be expected, but it wasamiri-| pound of butter. They came back to cle that some of the family were not] Amoret Saturday and have located killed. there and the Dr. wishes us to tell A. L. Livingston Dead. the people that he is ready to prac- A. L. Livingston, departed this | tice again. ‘ life Sunday noon at his home at Old/ The Christian Endeavors dismissed Walnut, after an illness of three| their gervices Sunday evening and week of typhoid fever. “| went tp Amoret to attend a special He was born at Lawrence, Kangag, | meeting to which they had been in- Jan. 17, 1860, died Nov. 26, 1911, age vited and which was very instructive 51 years, 9 months and 10 days. He was married to Miss Maggie f|. The meeting at the Christian church ‘eonducted by Evangelist . Cockell, ‘sHil tontinues and good interest is H being: manifested, ; Mr. and Mrs. Stohr, who have been visiting relatives and friends the past week, returned to their Warrens- burg home the first of the week. ! Walter Jennings arrived Friday from Ft. Lumpton, Colorado, to see his father, C. F. Jennings, who is still quite poorly. Dr. Rhoades reports a boy at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lem Anderson at Worland, Nov. 23, and a girl at the } home of Mr. and Mrs. Elmar White- | head, Nov. 24. Jim Miller was called to his old home at Knobnoster Thursday by a message announcing the serious ill- ness of his father at that place. He wired for his wife who left Friday on the noon train. Bee and Walter Jennings who are here from Ft. Lupton, Colorado, informed us that they hauled 510 ton of sugar beets to market this fall. Sugar beet raising is quite an industry ;around Ft. Lumpton. W. J. Parlier has moved the build- ing he recently purchased of the Hurley Lumber Co., to the rear of his shoe shop on the north side of Sixth street. W. M. Lyle returned home from Kansas City Friday where he had been visiting his parents and other relatives for a few days. He reports a fine visit and an enjoyable tim, Born, Nov. 26, to Mr. and Mrs. George Bobo, a girl, and Nov. 26, to Mr. and Mrs. John Craig a boy. Thomas at their country home north- east of town last Friday. Mr, and Mrs, Trussell spent Sunday with Miss Clara Staker northwest of town. Mrs. Charley Elgin of Wyoming, is visiting her sister-in-law. Ed. Crawford Accidently Shoots Himself. Sunday morning while Ed. Craw- Shive, at Butler, Noy. 11, 1891]. To this union were born seven children, three-girls and four boys ranging in age from three to seventeen who with their mother survive him. This is one of the saddest funerals that has ever been held in J this section of the country. The family being in poor circum- stances, and to make it doubly, sad, the wife and mother, who is mentally deranged was sent to the insane asy- lum at Nevada some three months ago. Since then the father with the father with the seven little ones has battled for existence the ‘best they | could. Who will care for the little ones now? Probably they will be placed in an orphan’s home. Interment was made at Foster in the cemetery at Salem, Monday. DINAH. County Court to Occupy New Quarters. County Clerk C. G. Weeks has been busy the first of the week su- perintending the remodeling of his suite of offices. Considerable change has been made in the interior arrang- ment which will result in the county court occupying more commodious and comfortable quarters and which will allow Mr. Weeks more conven- ience in reaching and handling the numerous records which his duties require, A raised platform; entirely énéios- and thoroughly enjoyed by all. Everybody attend C, E. at the Christian church next Sunday even- ing at 7 o’clack, Topic lessons from great lives!’ ‘Paul 2d, Tim. 4, 1-8. Miss Emma Parlier the primary teacher at Foster spent Saturday and Sunday with Misses Olive and Una udy. J. I. Wolfe, C. W. Wolfe and Squire Hemstreet and wife of Butler called at the homes of D. C. Wolfe and W. F. McKibben Sunday. 3 Last Thursday evening about 30 persons masked in different costumes suddenly dropped in at the home of Vane Walkers to help him finish cele- brating his 38th birthday. After a | time he discovered that the party con- | sisted only of a number of his neigh- bors and friends. The young ladies from Africa afforded much amuse- | ment throughout the evening. At a late hour delicious refreshments were iserved. Of course everyone left wishing him many returns of the day. Ray Towers has just returned from Texas and was shaking hands with old friends in Virginia Sunday. Mrs. Jas. Cuzick returned from Sedalia last week where she had been visiting her daughter, Mrs. Meda Williamson. She also visited Milton Fleisher at Windsor. Her son, Roy, of Kansas City is home on a visit. Snow commenced falling in Park- town Monday afternoon, Vergil Jenkins is prepared to shoe your horses any time or any other work in the blacksmith line. J. W, Park who has lived in Park- ed by a high ‘ailiig, fids been con-| town for many years has moved to structed in the northwest quarter of] Virginia. of the west room of the offices, and Mrs. Gus Trussell and Mrs. Ed.|here the county court will hold its] the Doke spent the day with Mrs. Lester regular monthly sessions. This room| Sun is much more commodious and suit- Prof. Smith of Merwin, Mo., was quest of W. W. Park and family y. A fine big boy arrived at the hottie able for this purpose that the room | of Dave Nestlerode Satutday night formerly used. Mr. Weeks and his deputies will occupy the room on the extreme east from which the vault opens. Democratie Meeting in Butler Saturday, Jan. 6, 1912. Hon. J. E. Williams of this city, ford was looking after his traps along | chairman of the Democratic County the river he slipped and fell down the| Central Committee, working in con- bank. In the fall his gun, a 22 rifle,| junction of State Chairman, J. B. was discharged and the bullet entered | Shannon of Kansas City, is -’ Dr; Mason was summoned and on/|held in this city, according to present examination found the ball had en- on Saturday, Oo f Loveland’; i on the pod list. Ae eee If you have corn to sell it will pay you to see J. H. Park before selling. Corn picking is about completed. It is reported that Governor Hadley will visit this part in the near future; the guest of game warden Harper. _ Seme of the politicions feel sure they ave called to be elected to office in 1912, Emanuel Nestlerode lost a hinge if arrangements, : tered his back near the spine, and|6, 1912. Prominent speakers from | end-gate, lost between Miami and his aaa welt | home. we