The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, July 18, 1912, Page 5

| i } VanDyke, southeast of this city. Odd Ends in $3 and $3.50 Ladies Oxfords and Pumps....... QGGbBMUS OA VAIS eae ce sc cess ceed goles ce nelnsiie dee eieepe tinea ny tls 3.15 Men’s Oxfords, $5 values........... SPECIAL REDUCTION In Dry Goods The Up-to-Date Store “QUALITY JULY CLEAN-UP SALE Straw Hats at Half Price (NONE RESERVED) IN SUMMER GOODS Department American Clothing Hous CORNER’’ At the Center of Town Commercial Club Ata meeting of the Butler Com- mercial Club Thursday evening the following business was transacted: $50 donated for concrete bridge 7 miles east of Butler on Spruce road and Good Roads Committee ordered to take matter in hand. Matter of reducing grade on hills south of W. M. Rice farm referred to Good Roads Committee. Proposition to build bridge over First Branch discussed. J. A. DeArmond elected a member. Chautauqua Committee reports sale of 600 season tickets. Decide to hold Chautauqua on West School grounds same as last year. Try to Wreck Mo. Pac. Train. Holden, Mo., July 15.-—An attempt was made to wreck the Missouri Pa- cific train, No. 4, last night before midnight. Two spikes had been driven between the rails, one on each side of the track, one mile east of here. The place of the attempted | wreck was at the top of the hill. The train was going at slow speed and kept the track. The mail train, No. J. J. Richardson of Rich Hill trans- acted business in the county seat the | last of the week. Miss Edith Riley of Kansas City left | Monday for Rich Hill after a pleasant visit here with Miss Rolive Crabb. Miss Aileen Arnold has returned to Kansas City, after enjoying a visit here with homefolks. T. J. Day has purchased a Model T Ford commercial roadster through the W. W. Henry garage. Mayor C. N. McFarland and J. A. Trimble transacted business in Joplin Thursday. Mrs. J. D. Allen has returned to Jefferson City after a visit here with homefolks. Mrs. Earl McGaughey and baby of Kansas City are enjoying a visit here; at the home of Mrs. D. T. McGaughey. Henry Gardner returned Monday to Newton, Kansas, after a visit here | jat the home of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. | Keep coming in, Black-Arnold. Fred Spillman, of Rockville, spent Sunday in this city. Straw hats, Black-Arnold. G. W. Stith has returned home from a visit at Latour, Mo. Low cut shoes, Black-Arnold. Miss Grace Tyler has returned from a visit to Kansas City. Cool underwear, Black-Arnold. Mrs. O. E. Griffin and baby are visiting relatives at Fontouelle, Iowa. Cut prices, Black-Arnold. L. H. Steele and wife of Eldorado, Ark., are visiting at the home of John Steele. Mr. and Mrs. Claude Hoots are re- joicing over the birth of a fine boy Sunday, July 14th. State Pardon Attorney C. A Denton enjoyed a visit here with homefolks the latter part of the week. Dr. T. W. Foster has returned d from Chicago where he spent sever- | (eaters al weeks on professional business. | Sam Armstrong of Oklahoma City, | \Oklo., is enjoying his vacation here: Mrs. Susan Thrall, of Joplin, is en-| vith his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. | joying a two-weeks’ visit here with | 4 pmstrong. her son, Dennis. Miss Euna Dickensheets of Enid, A barn on the John Beckett farm, | 419. , visited at the home of J. S. south of Adrian, was destroyed by | | Pierce, southwest of this city, the last fire Sunday evening. | of the week. Mr. and Mrs. M. S. Clay are enjoy-| 4g, Miller, aged 72 years, an old ing a visit with relatives and friends! ,.cident of Bates county, died at his at Ft. Morgan, Colo. ‘home southeast of Rich Hill Wednes- Mrs. A. O. Yeoman and children | day morning. have returned home from a visit at} wre RA, Belt, accompanied by Mound City, Kansas. | her daughter, Miss Florence, are Chas. R. Holloway of Marshall vis-| visiting relatives at Greenview, Illi- ited the last of the week at the home nois. of Clark Wix. | Dr. Jonas Knight and Dan McKin- Walter VanDyke and family of Cof- ney of McKinney, Texas, arrived in feyville, Kans., spent the last of the this city Thursday after a motor car week visiting at the home of Harry trip through the west and are visiting | at the home of Dr. W. E. Lampton. IN FULL BLAST The Big Cleaning Up SALE Men’s Boys’ and Children’s Light Colored SUITS $12.75 Sige 91500 $0.50 3 lots Mens $10.00 Big reduction in all light colored Dress Pants. 75 Boys straight Knee Pants Suits worth cot $5, choice........ $1.45 4 lots Mens $18 and $20 Ce STRAW HATS AT COST Joe Meyer R. E. Mooney and family are visit- ing at Bridgeport, Kansas. Mrs. G. B. Wade, of Kansas City, | is the guest of Mrs. A. A. Seese. E. H. McVey, of Kansas City, was in the city Tuesday on legal business. | Bruce Black visited the latter part) of the week in St. Louis. J. H. Bratton has purchased a five passenger Overland touring car. Judge and Mrs. W. T. Cole left | Friday for Kansas City for a visit at the homes of their daughters. H. W. Heinlein has returned to | Kansas City after a several days visit | A. P. Geneva, accompanied by his little daughter returned home Mon- day from a visit with his brother at | Metz. Frank Adams, an employe of the Bennett-Wheeler Merc. Co., crushed |the forefinger on his right hand Fri- day morning while at work in the implement department. Squire J. W. Darby, of Foster, candidate for the Democratic nomina- tion for Judge of the Southern Dis- trict of the county court, was in the city Tuesday on a business mission. Geo. Gilkeson, accompanied by Dr. J. M. Christy and Judge J. S. Fran- here with relatives and friends. \cisco returned to Warrensburg Fri- Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Campbell have | returned home from a four weeks’ trip through eastern states. Mrs. R. E. Crabtree left Tuesday for a visit with relatives and friends at Sprague. Clyde Vantrees returned Sunday to | Kansas City after a visit here with the | family of J. C. Vantrees. Mrs. Ed Culver has returned home from a visit with Mrs. Ira Tiffany and} Mrs. Paul Preston in Kansas City. Mr. and Mrs, P. M. Famuliner have | an extended | returned home from visit at El Dorado Springs. E. C. Vandervoort, agent for the Missouri Pacific-Iron Mountain, made a business trip to Kansas City Tues- day. Miss Virgie McConnell, accompan- ied by Master Lyle Hemstreet left} Monday for Kansas City after a pleas- ant visit here with relatives and friends. Chas. A. Gill of Kansas City, re- ceiver of the Butler Water Co., was} in the city on a business mission the | day morning in his touring car after a visit here with the family of Dr. Christy. Jim Welch of Summit was in Wednesday and made us a pleasant call. Jim informs us that the first jack colt born on his farm came Sun- day and that he named the youngster Woodrow Wilson. Harry Garard of northwest of this city was painfully injured last week ‘as the result of a binder falling upon him while he was under the machine ‘making repairs. was dislocated and he bruised. was badly Clarence Atkeson, a son of Hon. W. O. Atkeson and one of The Times’ staff, had the misfortune to break his arm late Thursday evening as the re- sult of a fall upon a pavement. Both bones in his right arm were broken just above the wrist. Our ofd friend, J. C. Vermillion, of Charlotte, extends us an invitation to come out the last of the week and frolic with the festive Miami catfish, land we are sure going to try it a whirl if we can talk Bill Bullock out first of the week. : |of a hunk of liver for bait. Joe Price of St. Louis who has been visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Price of this city, left Thursday for Creighton, Mo. V. R. Combs, of Salem, a member of the State Food and Drug Commis- mission, was in the city the last of the week on.a-trip-of inspection.— Eugene F. Chafin of Arizona is the | nominee for president on the prohi- | bition ticket, and Aaron S. Watkins of Ohio the vice presidential nominee. Directors of the Bank of Adrian were elected as follows at a meeting of the stockholders Saturday: A. N. Moles, L. A. Ferrell, W. F. Wolfe, P. Ferraris. Julius Levy of the Sam Levy Mer-; cantile Co., and R. F. Lisle of the Duvall-Percival Trust Co., are spend- ing their vacation at Excelsior Springs. M. V. Carroll and daughter of Se- dalia enjoyed a several days visit with relatives near Spruce the last of the week. Mr. Carroll favored us witha most pleasant call Monday morning. All members of Marmaduke U. C. V., are requested to meet at County Clerk’s office, Saturday, July 20, to arrange fora picnic sometime in September. The Pleasanton, Kans., ball team “put the skids’’ to the Butler boys at Pleasanton Sunday, winning from them by a score of 18 to 11. Local fans lay the boys’ defeat to the fact that the regular line-up was broken. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Riley and family of son and three daughters are here on a visit to Mrs. Edward Crabb and family of the country, and are oe tainly having a jolly good time.—Re-! ‘ THE CLOTHIER view. | The Bates Co. Poultry Association will hold a special business meeting in Court House Saturday, July 20, at 2 o'clock. Business pertaining to both Fair and November show must be attended to. Mrs. A. R. Guyton, Sec’y. in the city Monday attending the meet- ing of the district clerks, and favored us with a most pleasant call. He in- forms us that he has been kept pretty close to home for several weeks past repairing damages done at his place by the tornado the latter part of May. Some unknown party or parties broke into the cottage at the Christy jlake southeast of the city, Sunday with the sole _ intent and damaged the Christy seemingly to destroy, interior considerably. Dr. has offered a ward for the arrest and conviction of the guilty parties. Missouri has become the banner strawberry state in May and has won the July distinction of having pro- duced the first bale of 1912 cotton ginned in the United States. Mis- souri will perform other feats in August, September and October, and on the first Tuesday following the first Monday in November this State will establish a new record.—Republic. Colored K. of P. The district Grand Lodge of the colored K. of P. which was in ses- sion in this city Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of last week, adjourned Thursday night. Mayor McFarland addressed the Lodge welcoming them to the city Wednesday evening. Thursday a big picnic was held at the Fair Grounds, with a big dance at night. His left shoulder Hon. JW. Lewis, of Merwin, was} 5, due here twenty minutes later, runs at high speed, and had it struck the spikes, a wreck probably would have resulted. Sees Name on Hobos’ Paper. Jefferson City, Mo., July 10.— Secretary of State Cornelius Roach, in counting the signatures upon the petitions filed by the Brotherhood Welfare Association, also known as “How’s Hobos,”’ for a constitutional amendment providing for employ- ment by the State for all the unem- ployed, was surprised to find his own name and that of his chief clerk, Fred Park, attached to the petitions. The names of the other prominent; citizens also appear. Secretary Roach is making a careful examination. W. F. M’Combs is Chairman. Chicago, July 15.—The Democrat- ic national committee today elected William F. McCombs chairman and Joseph E. Davis of Wisconsin secre- tary and John I. Martin of St. sergeant- at-arms. | Pays Bounty on 23,000 Rabbits. Brownwood, Tex., July 16.—The “Jack rabbit fund’ is exhausted in Brown county, the county treasurer having paid out $1100 for 23000 pairs of rabbit ears w ithin four months. Hay Wanted. The very best prices paid. 161, residence 150. 39-tf J. S. WARNOCK. Chas. E. year has been with the Chicago Tire and Repair Company, came in Friday from Chicago and will spend the summer here looking after local busi- ness interests. While here he will introduce a clever household novelty in the shape of Ready-to-Stick-On la- bels which are manufactured in Chi- cago, Jesse E. Smith, cashier of the Mis- souri State Bank of this city and A. J. Erhart of Adrian, one of Bates county’s foremost breeders of live stock, made one of the biggest real estate trades Monday everconsumated jin the county. 1486 acres of land and {some city property were involved in the trade, wherein Mr. Erhart ex- Louis | 200 tons or more of good timothy | or light clover and timothy mixed. | Phone | Mulberry and Western Bates. Attorneys W. O. Jackson and W. B. Dawson, of Butler, were in Amo- ret on professional business Thurs- day. Mrs. J. H. Stilwell visited her sis- | ter, Mrs. Ida Gray, in Kansas City She returned home Friday evening. Miss Lula Smiser, of Butler, is vis- iting her uncle, T. H. Smiser. Little Marie Stilwell, who has been in a hospital in Kansas City having an eye treated, returned home the latter part of the week. Her many friends will be pleased to learn that her eye is fully restored, ~ ‘Squire Henry Dykman was trad- ing in Amoret Saturday. The business men of Amoret are planning to have a street fair in Octo- ber. Keep your eyes on our notes for the date. Ecke Taute lost the endgate of his wagon July 6th between Amoret and ‘Mulberry. It is a Napheide make, Finder leave at N. G. Rowe’s hard- ware store. The Misses Fayetta Stilwell, Stella and Ola Nichols; Messrs. Mack Bra- jden, Claude and Stanley Norwood were guests at Sam Roberts’ Sunday. Henry Kaufmann and family, Hen- ry Leiners and family, J. H. Leiner and wife visited M. Welmer’s Sunday. Edgar Smiser, of Amsterdam, spent Sunday with homefolks. ing Frank Stilwell with his farm work, Ed Rush and family, of Amsterdam, visited Dr. J. C. Sageser’s Monday. R. Bohlken and wife invited a num- ber of their relatives to spend Sunday with them. Those present were: 'H. K. Dykman and family, A. J. ) Meintz and family, John Dykman and family, Fred Meintz and family, Oli- | ver Beherus and family, Bernie Bohl- ‘ken and family, Frank Bohlken and wife and baby, Prof. John Hagen, Will M. Chris and Anna Meinz, Geo. H., Will H. and Sena Bohlken. — All enjoyed a very pleasant time and will long remember the day. | i | Ecke Taute and wife and children, Harlan Porter and wife and three children visited J. H. Leiner's Sun- day evening. ‘Kom Schmall and wife visited John Taute’s Sunday. Uncle George B. Bohlken is re- / ported on the sick list. The weather favored us with a good shower this morning (Tuesday. ) Ok my! How the eorn grows. RAMBLER. a At the Baptist Church. Mains, who for the past | Two interesting sermons by the pastor next Sunday. At 11 o'clock the subject will be, “The Church— Its Ordinances,’’ a fresh treatment of this important theme. At 8 p. m. the subject will be, ‘‘Mormonism—Its Facts and Fancies."’ Many people are ignorant of the true nature of this system. Mr. Elliott has first-hand information on the subject. Special music. Bible school at 9:30 a.m. B. Y. P. U. at 7 p. m. We had a good at- tendance and an interesting program last meeting. The Ladies’ Aid will meet at the church house on Friday at 3 p. m. for their first mission study. Sub- James Sproul, of Rich Hill, is help- - 1086—aeres—of fine land in Elkhart township for Mr. Smith’s 400 acre farm near Adair, Oklahoma, his residence property in this city and the vacant lot west of the Opera House block. Mr. Smith valued his Oklahoma land city prop- | erty at $33,000. Mr. Erhart’s ranch was valued at $65 per acre. With C. C. Dickinson as a candi- ject, “Mexico.” An instructive pro- gram is ready for this meeting. Strangers and visitors always wel- come. Don’t stay away because of the heat. The fans will keep you comfor table. District C lerks. “Meet. The clerks of the various school districts of the county met in the cir- substantial _re- | date for congress, and with Woodrow cuit court room in this city Monday. Wilson as a candidate for president, | A purely business session was held the old Sixth District will roll up one | in the morning during which time of the greatest Democratic victories | routine work was attended to. The in its history. During the period of | afternoon session was devoted to in- his incumbency Mr. Dickinson has/ struction and entertainment and 2 tency and a faithful and conscientious performance of every official duty that has won hin, in fullest measure, the confidence and admiration of the make him stronger than ever before at the approaching election. The high character of Woodrow Wilson as a scholar, a profound thinker, a man who has a broad and compres hensive grasp of the great and vital problems of government, are consid- erations that will appeal tothat class of voters who want to see the affairs of the government administered in conformity to the primitive doctrines of the constitution—to that class of voters who want to see the affairs. of government administered in a man- ner that will mean an equal opportu§ nity to all in the struggle of life.—El Dorado Sun. made a record for honesty, compe-, people; and it is a record that wil) number of interesting talks were ;made. Among those who addressed the meeting were: Hon. J. |Wallis Lewis, of Merwin, Mr. McClure, of Warrensburg, and Mr. Emb>rson, of the State University. Helton Case to Circuit Court The case of the State vs Dr. Helton, charged with rape, will be taken up at the October term of the circuit court. Helton’s preliminary hearing was set for Friday morning but at that time his attorneys appeared be- fore Judge Jeter and waived a hear- ing. Bond was fixed in the sum of $1000 and being unable to give same he was committed to jail. Tornado and Fire Insurance. For reiiable tornado and fire insur- rance see F. SMITH, Butler, Mo. Room 10 Mo. State Bank Bldg. 4 sy <a a 4 i + SS ao a S e Se ee oe pS