The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, February 27, 1913, Page 5

On Sale Oupyright 1988 ‘The TI, Black On, Mabare of Woeltex Garments, ‘The Daylight Store” Some Winter? Some Winter Clothes--Yes We have about thirty suits left of Ladies Fall Suits—Al1l Wool Serges, Whipcords, Etc., worth from $15 to $25 Your unrestricted choice...... Mens Overcoats Formerly Sold from $10 to $20 at.. SPECIAL FOR SATURDAY, MARCH 1st, “Public Sale Day” SOc Mens Underwear 35c. 50 pairs Ladies Shoes worth $2.50 to $3.50 for.. Siaatad AMERICAN CLOTHING HOUSE. Hart, Schaffner €&» Marx Suits for Men. Wooltex Suits for Women. On Sale this Week $9.75 Slickers etc., Black-Arnold. Miss Gertrude Hern of Hume spent Sunday here the guest of friends. Mrs. Dr. Wilson of Foster spent the day in Butler Tuesday. Joseph Groves of Adrian transacted business in the county seat Tuesday. Stetson hats, Black-Arnold. J. B. Duvall returned home Thurs- day from a trip to Kansas City. F. E. Stroeber of Nynart was in Tuesday on a business mission. - County Superintendent_of Schools| ~P. M. Allison was in Rich Hill Tues- day on a business mission. W. and Mrs. A. M. Rogers left Tuesday for Eldorado after enjoying a visit with the family of Chas. Stew- art south of this city. Men’s easy shoes, Black-Arnold. F. C. Ream, of Norfleet & Ream, returned home Thursday from a bus- iness trip to Kansas City. Miss Nelle Fuhrman went to St. Louis Thursday on a visit to the mil- inery markets. Big Values LOT 1 Childrens Suits Ages 3to 5 WORTH $2.50 to $4.00 $1.29 LOT 2 Boys Knee Suits Ages 10 to 15 WORTH $2.50 to $5.00 $1.45 LOT 3 Boys Long Pants - Suits WORTH $7.00 to $12.00 - $4.95 LOT 4 Mens. Suits WORTH $9.00 to $13.50 $5.75 Meyer | have returned home from a visit to | Kansas City. J. E. Crowder of Adrian transacted business in this city the last of the week. W. Z. Baker Poland-China Hog Sale at Rich Hill Friday. Charles Yancy came in Wednes- day noon from Chicago and is visit-' ing his uncle Lon Dixon west of! town. George Cobb, formerly of this city, now residing at Lucia, New Mexico, has been elected Justice of the Peace of the township in which he resides. | Trunks, suit cases, Black-Arnold. | Lewis Moore and M. L. Beadles, both of Hume, were in the city Fri- ‘day attending the meeting held to ‘discuss the Farm Expert proposition. D. B. Reist and A. J. Walters, both of Adrian, spent Friday here attend- ling the meeting held to discuss the proposition of employing a farm ex- pert. The Elks held a delightful social { evening. About twenty couples were served. Charley Scott, who is in the em-' turned to his duties Tuesday after a! visit at the home of his parents, Mr. | and Mrs. Ben Scott of this city. Dress shirts, Black-Arnold. The residence of William Simpson, completely destroyed by fire early Tuesday morning, the flames origi- nating, it is presumed, from a defec- ; tive flue. The loss is partially covered | by insurance. |monthly real estate publication, pub- lished by F. R. Allen, the land man, is one of the most comprehensive of its nature in this section of the coun- try and its merits are being rapidly {recognized. Mr. Allen informs us: that the second number, which will} make its appearance March Ist, will | be enlarged from four to six pages. | The Young People’s Society of the; Ohio street Baptist church oe \fully entertained at a George Wash- jington party at the home of Mr. and | ing. Dainty and delicious refresh- | | ments were served and the Holloway | home was artistically decorated with | |flags. Candy hatchets were given as | fauors. About fifty were present. | Col. Clyde Robbins, one of the auc- | tioneers at the Baker sale Friday, i | stated in a talk he made before the, ' sale started that he had visited many | sections of Missouri and Kansas re-| cently where it was a common thing’ to find farm after farm without a hog | on them. This condition, together | with the price of corn, he predicted | would make fat hogs worth 10 cents a pound within the next six months. | —Rich Hill Revicw. | All wool suits, Black-Arnold. i remains were brought to this county | for interment. Funeral services were | ald at Poaenls’ Teesiay snodeing ond | east of this city mpg afternoon. Siecea tes Charley Argenbright attended the | Mr. and Mrs. Harley Warderman | Mrs. T. A. Black is suffering a se- vere attack of the la grippe. Mrs. Dora Fulkerson is very ill at her home on North Main street. ; Keep coming in, Black-Arnold. Geo. Bird was down from Harri- sonvilleon a business mission the first of the week. Miss Katherine Turner and Miss! May Hofsess of Nevada were guests of Miss Myrtle Smith Sunday. Uriah Ayres of Rich Hill was in the county seat Friday on a business mis- We make your dollars have more cents, Black-Arnold. Judge Carl Henry is having the in- terior of the Probate Court rooms re- modeled. R. G. Warren and J. A. Marstellar transacted business in Rich Hill the latter part of the week. Trunks, suit cases, Black-Arnold. T. W. Silvers spent Saturday even- | ing in Adrian attending to legal busi- ness. John H. Stene of Adrian county, session at their club rooms Thursday treasurer-elect, transacted business | in this city the first of the week. present. Delicious refreshments were Mrs, Robert Atchison of Archie is'ing having in custody Harve Cone of a guest at the home of Mr. and Mrs. I. M. Boltinghouse. ploy of the postal railway service, re-; Mrs. Osborne Leedy returned home | leged that Cone forged the name of Sunday from a pleasant visit with relatives at Rich Hill. Keep your dry. Black-Arnold sells the goods. Mrs. W. S. Ferrell of north of this six miles northwest of this city was city received notification Saturday of | held at Rich Hill Monday. the death of her mother at Newby, Kentucky. Miss Delia Young, accompanied by Master Newton Young, left Sunday \for a visit with her brother Ed Young Part of his live stock and personal “The Homeseekers Help,” the |at LaPlata Mo. Keep us busy, Black-Arnold. Johnson county’s new farm expert ‘has been selected in the person of! with C. R. Brady. 'C. M.Long who has for some time|the agency for the ‘‘National,’’ one , been employed as manager of a dairy of the finest cars on the market, and | farm near Pleasant Hill. Rev. King Stark of Harrisonville filled the pulpit of the Christian church ‘here Sunday in the absence of Rev. and we wish him every success in Prewitt, who was conducting a revival meeting at Harrisonville. S. C. Rhode Island Red eggs for Mrs. J. W. Holloway Monday even-/| incubator $3.00 per 100, 40 cents per! 15. Call 18 on 10 or address Mrs. W. P. Bolin. Route 7, Butler, Mo.-:- 19-4t. James A. DeArmond is attending to the duties in the .circuit clerk's office in the absence of Clerk, H. O. ey, who is in Jefferson City to appear before the Senate committee on behalf of the county unit bill. New 25c ties, Black-Arnold. A cold wave accompanied by a heavy snowfall, visited the western part of the state Saturday and Sun- day, continuing very cold until Tues- | years, a bride of a month, committed | accepted the position of manager of day when the thermomerter showed | suicide by taking bichloride of mer-|the Neihoff Wholesale Grocery Co. a decided moderation in the temper- ature. John W. Coleman, who for the | son street in Kansas City last Wednes-| went to Jefferson City some years | Loraine Nelson the daughter of | past four years has served as deputy day evening. Her husband, Jas. L.|agoin the employ of the Missouri Mr. and Mrs. J. I. Nelson, died some |county treasurer under his father, Browning, can give no motive for the | Pacific railway and during his ser- days ago.at Lewiston, Idaho, and the /Sam’l. L. Coleman, has purchased suicide of his wife than she did not| vice with that company achieved the the one-third interest of Jas. W. Hol-| want to leave her sister. The couple | enviable reputation of being one of loway in the insurance and real es-' were preparing to remove to Ken-|the best men in the service. At the tate firm of Holloway, Choate & Mc-|tucky. The deceased is a daughter |time of his resignation to accept his _of Mrs. Mary Bishop of this city and | present position, he was local agent | the remains were brought here for|for the company in that city. The interment in Oak Hilll Cemetery. | Nichoff Company at Jefferson City is Funeral services were held Saturday |one of three big branches of that Combs. Mr. Coleman will assume his new duties with the Company on March the first. Mr. Holloway the robably e a real estate brok- C. O. Bussinger, the genial Mis- souri Pacific conductor who sustain- eda broken leg while on duty at Mound City, Kansas, some days ago, is convalescing rapidly and has so far recovered as to be able to be re- moved to his home in Madison, Kan- Sas, New rubber boots, Black-Arnold. Mr. E. F. Kearney, General Super- intendent of the Missouri Pacific-Iron Mountain, has announced the appoint- ment of Mr. J. A. Summerville, to be | Superintendent of Transportation for the System, vice Mr. Kearney, re- /cently promoted to the office of Gen- jeral Superintendent of Transporta- ition. | ' Judge C. A. Denton and Circuit | Clerk H. O. Maxey have been select- ‘ed as delegates to appear before the |Senate Committee in Jefferson City | Wednesday on behalf of the county | unit bill which is pending in the leg- islature. The selection of delegates was made at a mass meeting held at \the M. E. church south Sunday after- noon. Black & Arnold Clothing Co. Jos. W. Baker, constable of Osage township, came in Wednesday morn- Rich Hill, whom he lodged in jail here charged with forgery. It is al- “Uncle Bobby’’ Burns of Rich Hill toa check for $11.50. The check ; was cashed by F. H. Steucks, who, suspecting that all was not as it |should be, communicated with Mr. ‘Burns. Cone’s preliminary will be | Sweaters, 50c, Black-Arnold. | A. D. Brixner, of southeast of this |city, is preparing to sell the greater | ‘effects at public sale March 3, 1913, preparatory to moving to Kansas | City where he expects to enter the ,automobile business in partnership They now have {expect to handle several other makes | covering a wide scope in price. Mr. 'Brixner is a very capable gentleman his new business venture. L. M. Griffith was painfully injured Tuesday in a rather peculiar manner. Together with several others he was at'his old home place, now occupied by R. W. James, watching some | workmen engaged in trimming trees. "gas it only costs $1.00 per month A large limb sawed from the top of a tree fell, the butt end hitting Mr. Griffith in the left eye, inflicting an ugly wound. Dr. Delameter was called to dress the injury and for some time it was thought Mr. G. would lose the sight of his eye, but |this morning the physician believes the eye ball uninjured.—Rich Hill Re- | View. : Mrs. Lillian Browning, aged 22 |nose and throat and the fitting of Mrs. E. C. Mudd of Adrian. visited | here the latter part of the week. E. A. Cherry of Adrian transacted business here the latter part of the week, G. E. Cantrell and family of Adrian visited here the latter part of the week. W. F. Duvall and Dr. E. N. Chas- tain were among those who attended the automobile show in Kansas City last week. J. A Patterson of Nyhart was in the latter part of the week, ‘‘snoop- ing”’ around trying to cook up another wolf hunt. Mrs. J. E. Forbes and two daugh- ters of Kansas City arrived the last of the week for a visit here at the home of her parents, Judge and Mrs. W. T. Cole. Dr. J. S. Newlon gives special at- tention to diseases of the eye, ear, glasses. Farmers Bank Building, 18-tf Butler, Mo. Dr. C. A. Lusk of Virginia made a business trip to St. Louis the latter part of the week, stopping in Jeffer- son City fora visit with friends on his trip home. Major G. I. Lynch made a several days trip to St. Louis the last of the week. The Major, who is somewhat of a sportsman carried a mess of five ducks with him for the “‘boys’’ in the city. Dr. D. T. Brooks died at Pleasant- 1913. Dr. Brooks formerly practiced at Amoret and will be well remem- bered by many in the western sec- tion of the county. At the quarterly conference held at the Ohio Street ME. Chureh—Friday night, it was unanimously voted to request the return for another year of Rev. C. S. Hanby with a $200 in- crease in salary. District Superin- tendent W. F. Jones presided. The annual conference will be held at Carthage March 6th. Charley Argenbright, one of the well known stock men of Southwest Missouri, has purchased the fine young Erhart boar, Greenlawn Had- ley, and will use him as one of the headers of his already good . herd. Green Lawn Hadley is sired by Major B. Hadley 55422 and his dam is Lily (119348) Bert Gibson and Miss Etta Duke were married at the home of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. H. Duke, in Grand River township, Sunday, February 16th, 1913. Rev. R. L. Wood, pastor of the Adrian Baptist Church, said the words which made the happy couple man and wife.—Adrian Journal. Mr. and Mrs. Henry C. Rowland of near Paris, France, have announc- ed the birth of a son and heir. Mrs. Rowland who is the daughter of Judge Parkinson, formerly of this city, is a sister to Miss Elizabeth Parkinson, known in operatic circles as ‘‘Parkina.”” Mr. Rowland is one of the better known writers of popu- lar fiction. Free U. S. Homesteads in Arkansas. 500,000 acres productive lands now vacant under three-year act of Con- gress of June 6, 1912. Our Home- steader’s Guidebook tells how to lo-} cate and acqiuire title; gives acres va- cant by counties and full text of new law. Price 25c, stamps or silver. Farm Pub. Co., Little Rock, Ark. 19-2t. The Butler Building and Loan As- sociation is opening a new series, and it will pay you to improve this oppor- tunity tomake a profitable investment, ona share of $200. $1.00 per month is all that a share requires you to in- vest. Building & Loan associations are conceded to be the best and the most profitable savings institutions in the United States, and it requires no capital to make a beginning. For par- ticulars, enquire of the secretary T. J. | Day. Frank Curry, formerly of this city now residing at Jefferson City, has | cury tablets at the home of her sister, | Mrs. Dollie McFarland at 1334 Harri- of Jefferson City. Mr. Curry, who grew up in the railroad business on, Kansas, Monday, February 17, | “A Count of No Account.” “A Count of No Account,’’ the three act farce comedy presented at the Fiske theater Tuesday evening under the direction of Miss Catron, for the benefit of the Alumni Associ- ation was without doubt one of the best home talent productions ever staged in this city. The house was filled practically to its entire capacity by an audience who enjoyed every moment of the side splitting production, and after the final fall of the curtain were almost unanimous in expressing surprise and delight at the histronic ability dis- played by the ladies and gentlemen taking part. One of the prettiest features of the production was the shadowgraph song, “Row, Row, Row’’ by Misses Lampton, Fiske and Snyder and Messrs. Holloway, Bynum and Fiske. Following is the cast of characters: Archibald Waring, called Weary for short, Mr. Sleeth. James J. Long, of the firm of Long & Short, Mr. Catterlin. Marvin Short, of the firm of Long & Short, Mr. Vail. Johann Kramer, proprietor of “Lions Inn,’’ Mr. Kenney. Count Henri Nogoodio of Paris, France, Mr. Bynum, General Iama Terror, retired from active service, Mr. Walker. Si Perkins, sheriff of Boone coun- ty, Mr. Canterbury. Hans, Mr. Wyatt. Otto, Mr. Sells. Mrs. Maria Goodley, Terrors wid- owed sister, Mrs. Kenney. Bessie Long, daughter of Mr. Long, Mrs. Williams. Jessie Short, Short, Miss Nix. Louise, French maid at the Inn, daughter of Mr. Miss Fisk. =< Baker Has Good Sale in Spite of Inclement Weather. W. Z. Baker, proprietor of the Ma- ple Grove Stock Farm, held his an- nual sale of the big type Poland-Chin- as at Rich Hill Friday, February 21. In spite of the extremely inclement weather conditions a large crpwd of well known breeders and farmers were present and contested hotly for Mr. Baker’s excellent offering. Forty-three head of fine brood sows, gilts and boars were sold foran average of over $42 per head to the enthusiastic hog men, many of whom had come hundreds of miles to pro- cure some of the Baker breeding. Mr. Baker is one of Bates county's most enterprising young stockmen and he is rapidly making a name for himself in the hog business. Program of Bates County Poultry Association ‘To be held in circuit court room Sat- urday, March 8, at 2 p. m.: Three breeds of poultry will be lectured on and live birds will be used to demon- strate with, Plymouth Rocks, Wyan- dotts, Rhode Island Reds. L. C. Culbertson will tell us which pays best, Mongrels or Standard fowls. We expect to continue discussion of incubators and broodérs, as sickness prevented some of our speakers from the February meeting. New Firm. Having sold my interest in the firm of Holloway, Choate & McComb to Jehn W. Coleman, I hereby take this opportunity of extending my thanks to.the public for their patronage du- ring ‘my* association with the firm and recommend my successor to the public as a gentleman competent and worthy of their patronage. All those indebted to the old firm please call at the office and settle. Feb. 26, 1913. 19-1t. J. W. Holloway. Mrs. J. H. Baker, of Deepwater township, who is as deeply interested in fine poultry as her husband is in fine stock, is making quite a record raising Partridge Plymouth Rock chickens, and it has recently been an- nounced that she won first on pullets ina special contest inaugurated by {one of the foremost of the breeders | of that strain of poultry. In acknowl- | edgement of her winning in this class she has received a handsome silk badge appropriately lettered. Saturday, Feb. 15, being the birth- day of Mrs. R. A. Batchelor, about fifty of the neighbors and friends gave her a pleasant surprise by taking well filled baskets and going to her home at the noon hour. A good dinnerand pleasant time was enjoyed by all. It will bea day ever remembered by those present.—Appleton City Journal. Barred Rock eggs from vigorous farm raised birds of the choicest morning at the residence of Mrs.|Company and was established there | breeding, $1.00 for 15 or $5.50 per séveral years ago. hundred. Mrs. A. S. Millhorn, 18¢f