The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, May 15, 1913, Page 5

a LADIES WHI going to be Keep coming in, Black-Arnold. The Mo. Pacific has installed a tele- phone in their freight depot. Cool underwear, Black-Arnold. Constable Joe Baker of Rich Hill was in the city on official business Friday. Next suit of us, Black-Arnold. Mrs. R. R. Deacon is the guest of Mrs. Judge W. W. Graves in Jeffer- son City. Mrs. S. N. Wood of Denver, Colo., is enjoying a visit here with relatives and friends. ‘ Herbert Bottoms has returned to ‘Kansas City after a several days’ visit here with home folks. Any small purchase you want to make get it at Black & Arnold. They ‘count in a days business. H. L. Curtis, Dr. W. A. Williams and W. W. Hofsess of Hume spent .Monday at the county seat. Boys extra pants, Black-Arnold. J. S. Bryerly an attorney of Harri- sonvillé transacted legal business in Butler the first of the week. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Crutsinger are the proud parents of a fine son, born Wednesday, May 7, 1913. Joe Meyer, the clothier, is having the front and show windows of his building handsomely remodeled. Mrs. Thos. M. Orr and little grand- daughter Jeanette Allen are enjoying | a week’s visit at the home of John Speer near Adrain. |] ARE YOU TAKING ADVANTAGE Of the Deep Cut RELIABLE $22.50 Suits fer STYLISH CL SHOULD MAKE THIS STORE THEIR SHOPPING PLACE -~-|Summer Underwear In Unionsuits—Long or Short Sleeves, Knee or Ankle Length or Two Piece Suits are here in great variety. i showing WHIT ICAN Clothing House The Home of Hart, Schaffner & Marx Clothes il wool ITHES 0. wery large line of E SHOES...... great White Season $2.90 to $5.00 for Men Mrs. Everett Zwahlen has returned} ' Boys suits $2.50 up, Black-Arnold. home from a two weeks visit with} wy EF, pe, rie . ‘ ‘ i . F. Perry one of The Times relatives and friends in Passaic. staunch Shawnee township friends W. B. Catterlin of the Mo. State | Was in Tuesday and made us a brief Bank force spent several days in| though pleasant call. Kansas City the first of the week. 50c Panama hats, Black-Arnold. Ladies buy your men’s clothes of| Ben Grose, residing four miles us. Only one price, Black-Arnold. | south of Harrisonville, was caught in “Curley” Miller of the Rich Hili|* @#soline engine which he was Review was in Butler Saturday even- | 0Perating and killed Tuesday. ing and made us a brief fraternal call.| Mr. Geo. Kimberlin of Harrison- Mrs. Jessie Smith and Miss Agnes ville, son-in-law of James Angle and Copyright Hart Scha@ner & Marx County Court Road petitions of J: T. Ackerman et al between Section 3 and4; Town- ship 38, Range 23 accepted and high- way engineer instructed to survey locate, make estimate of cost of pro- posed road, provided, that sufficient money is deposited . with county treasurer to defray expense of same. . Highway Engineer ordered to es- timate cost of bridge over Huffman branch and report at the June meet- ing. Highway Engineer ordered to esti- mate bridges across creeks in sections 17 and 18 East Boone township, across Mulberry Creek, sections 28 and 38, West Point township, over ||Pecan branch, sections 19 and 30, Charlotte township. : County Treasurer Stone presented warrants for cancellation: Drainage No. 1............ $ 120.00 Drainage No. 2.........:.. County Fund.............. Election and Jury.......... Pauper Fund.............. County road fund.. Salary road fund. Fi Drainage No. 1 .. 7042.50 COB TEES 63 ccc ccseesesess 297.30 County treasurer authorized and instructed to advertise and pay the following Mt. Pleasant railroad:bonds W. W. Ruble, cashier of the Am-|of the denomination of $1000 each: sterdam Bank, transacted business in | Nos. 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68 and 69 this city Friday. and also pay all interest to date on Mr. and Mrs. John Coleman are |all interest to date on all railroad enjoying a several weeks’ visit with bonds. f relatives at Decatur, Illinois. Ordered that the levies for taxes C. B, Warner of Nyhart, was ar- for the year 1913 be made and ex- ._ |tended as follows: State.19c, county rested Tuesday and brought to this 40c, township 10c, road and bridge city charged with violating the game 25c. Mt. Pleasant railroad 50c on laws of the state. the $100 valuation. Mr. and Mrs. Vance Johnson and} County revenue for the ensuing little daughter, of Bisbee, Arizona,are | year was apportioned as follows: guests at the home of Capt. and Mrs. | Contingent fund 25 per cent, salary . 1571.72 YOU WIN! In the Clothes Game $25.00 Salts fer.........$18.50 $20.00 Suits fer......... 13.50 $18.00 Suits fer......... 11.50 ce $10.00 Suits fer......... 6.25 Ahaset his father, Judge Kimberlin, of Day- Arnold are visiting at the home of doniiMelssnent Monday here onlepal| business. Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Nichols cele- brated their fiftieth wedding anniver- | sary last Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. | Mrs. John Southern in Independence. Robert Valentine and family of | Lafayette, Ind., are guests at the home of J. E. Thompson north of this | city. Special Deputy Grand Chancellor | |Steele, K.P. of Kansas City spent the day here Tuesday on fraternal business. O. J. Radford, Spruce’s popular merchant was in town Tuesday on a business mission and made us a pleasant call. J. B. Duvall ofthe Duvall-Percival Trust Co., made a business trip to Waggoner, Oklahoma, the latter part of the week. sah W. A. Chamberlin of Foster was in Tuesday on Probate Court busi- ness and made The Times a most pleasant call. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Fuller of southwest of this city, are rejoicing | over the birth of afine boy, Friday, May 9th, 1913. we are making on CLOTHES? V. L. Johnson. Uncle John Hedger and Henry Kauffman of Elkhart township were | Nichols have been residents of Butler | since 1870. Sam Armstrong, book-keeper for the American National Bank at Okla- homa City, is spending his vacation here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Armstrong. Black & Arnold Clothing Co. Vernon county, outside of Nevada, voted “‘dry’”’ Tuesday by a majority of 1,313. In 1907 the ‘“‘dry’’ majority was only 925. Nevada will vote on the proposition June 10. T. A. Black left Thursday for Ex- celsior Springs to spend a few days with Mrs. Black, who is there for her health. Miss Christine, who is now at Excelsior Springs, will return home for commencement exercises. Wanted: Lady or gentleman of good education to travel as General Manager. We train those employed. Salary $18 per week and expenses. Experience unnecessary. Address Alexander Supply Co., Morgan Park Il. Rev. Ogden will preach a sermon in behalf of Passaic Ladies Aid next Sunday morning, May 18th. Come and hear and see what a few faithful women have done. The aid will serve a free lunch immediately after Continues services. * W. W. Cannon sustained a painful wound in his foot Thursday after- noon as the result of stepping on a nail. The accident occurred while Mr. Cannon was superintending the work on his new residence on north High street. All ex-Confederates of Marmaduke Camp No. 615, are hereby notified to be present at the regular meeting to be held Saturday, May 17, 1913, at the County Clerk’s office, at 10’clock. Business of special importance and arrangements for Decoration Day. z J. R. Ford, Com. : R. S. Catron, Adjt. } We understand that Congressman Dickinson js asking the democratic | the Bates county agency for the Ford. in on business the first of the week and made us a pleasant call. Sheriff Harve Johnson has pur- chased a five-passenger Ford tour- ing car from W. W. Henry, who has | The marriage of Miss Nita Hurt, | daughter of Richard Hurt of thiscity, to JohnF. Kolher, of Paola, Kansas, has |been announced. Mr. Kolher is a traveling salesman with the Askew Saddlery Co., of Kansas City. » old fashioned Vernon county stock and agricultural product fair is now assured and everybody should now begin to get ready for this big event. The committee met today and found that all the capital stock had been subscribed and in the near future a meeting of the stockholders fund 20 per cent, election and salary fund 15 per cent. : : County Clerk Weeks presented the financial statement for the year end- ing May 1, 1913 Highway engineer ordered to make ; estimate of construction of bridge over Bennett Creek on line_running north and south through Section 21 of New Home township and make report at August meeting. Court adjourned Friday afternoon. Badly Hurt in Runaway. Miss Levi Pippin, who resides on the old Hamilton place in Summit township, was seriously injured Tuesday morning as the result of a runaway and is now in a critical con- dition. Mrs. Pippin and several of her} children were driving to town in a heavy farm wagon and when near the Thomas place, east of this city, one of the singletrees came loose, will be held to perfect the organiza- tion and formulate plans for the big- gest fair ever held in Vernon county. —Nevada Mail. The J. Doug Morgan shows which are making atwo weeks’ stand in this city, are putting on some excel- lent plays and are drawing good ‘ 5 ae cach “nfo; —Onechnit th | was badly bruised. It is feared _that receipts of Saturday’s matinee were donated to the Ladies’ Cemetery As- sociation by Mr. Morgan’and he has announced that the Association will be given one-half of the proceeds again ‘next Saturday. Mr. Morgan, who is an old Butler boy surrounded himself with an excellent company of high class artists who effectively stage the plays in their repertoire. If Hume can’t have a wedding of its own, it can no the next best thing —import one. Tuesday evening at six o’clock, Mr. Edgar A. Smiser of Amsterdam, and Miss Grace Darr of Virginia, were married at the home of Elder and Mrs. J. W. Rogers, the Elder performing the ceremony. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Laughlin, Miss Ida Smiser and Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Harris were present. After the ceremony the wedding party sat down to an el- egant supper prepared by Mrs. Rog- ers. The happy couple are members of the Elder’s church at Virginia, and excellent young people.—Hume hone. — The record price for a saddle horse, in Missouri or Kentucky, was Saturday when R. A. Long of City, father of Miss Loula rown of Paris, Mo., $10,000 for “My or Dare,” the celebrated bought by the latter ; Ray of Bowling Green, frightening the team and causing them to run away. Mrs. Pippin grasped one of the smaller children in her arms and attempted to leap from the wagon, but fell beneath the front wheels, the heavy wagon pas- sing over her right side. Both pelvic bones were broken and her abdomen GIRL PUPIL SPELLS DOWN STATES. BEST Bates County Girl Makes High Grade. Jefferson City, Mo., May 12.—Cor- rectly spelling 197 words out of a list of 200, Miss Opal Mitchell, an eighth grade pupil of Licking, Texas county, won first prize in the state spelling contest today over fifty-eight other contestants, = She misspelled chalice, besiege and weasel, spelling them as follows: “Challis,’’ ‘‘weasele’’ and “‘beseige.”’ Her grade was 98% per cent. Miss Levenia Moore of High Point, Moniteau county, was a close second with a grade of 98 per cent. She missed four words. She received $50 in gold. Shirley Gilliland of Novinger, Adair county, pulled down the third prize, $25 in gold, with a grade of 97 per cent. He missed six words out of the 200. Mayonnaise proved too tough for Shirley, also palliate, emi- nent, interfere, synovial and clavicle. Butler County’s representative, ~ Miss Sweetie Pace of Poplar Bluff, won the prize of $10 in gold put up by Gov. Major on a grade of 954 per cent. Honorable mention was won by Misses Katherine Burch of Wheeling, and Linn and Lotta Mitchell of Frank- lin County. These tied with an aver- age grade of 95 per cent. Ola L. Ayers of Butler, Bates County, won the next highest average with 914 per cent. Miss Ayers who is the daugh- ter of Warren Ayers of Charlotte township, was the youngest girl par- ticipating in the contest. She is but 12 years of age. Great Railroad Has A Big Heart ‘The sudden illness of Mrs. W. P. Abell, wife of Conductor Abell of the Missouri Pacific caused prompt con- sideration of the case by -Superin- teudent Sommers, who upon being notified, sent Conductor Abell from Sedan to Nevada by special engine in order that he might be at the bed- side of his wife at their home on East Walnut. This humane action of a great cor- poration will be long remembered. That a great company can have a big heart is evidenced by this message, which Superintendent Sommers sent: “Arouse Conductor Abell and his crew. Tell them to take engine No. 307 and go as fast as they can at com- pany’s expense, to bedside of dying wife.”’ The cost of the trip, 141 miles, is estimated at a dollara mile for fuel alone.—Nevada Post. Conductor Abell was for many years a resident of Butler and has a host of friends here. Farm Insurance Iam still writing farm insurance.. J. F. Smith, ' Butler, Mo. Office over Mo. State Bank. John C. Hayes was down from Kansas City on legal business the first of the week. she may be injured internally. The children all escaped with but few slight bruises. The Good Roads Committee of the Commercial Club, which by agree- ment with the township board has assumed the management of the road dragging in the township, are making rapid progress along systematiclines. The township board has made an ap- propriation of $500 to be used for this purpose which will be expended by Good Roads committee upon con- tract, it being the intention of the committee to pay 75 cents per mile per dragging. Contracts are nowbe- ing prepared and will be ready for signing the latter part of the week. Every road in the township will be kept dragged, and in first class shape. The roads will be divided into two classes, the classification being made in accordance with the volume of travel, and amount of dragging upon i will depend upon its John Sacre of Charlotte township was in the first of the week and called on The Times’ force. The Rich Hill ball team defeated the Butler team at Rich Hill Sunday to the tune of 10 to 1. Miss Genevieve Childs of Kansas City is visiting at the home of her sister, Mrs. J. B. Adair. Chas. Fiske has purchased a hand- some model 24 Buick roadster through Chas. W. McFarland of this city. Miss Mamie Sacre of Charlette township is visiting her aunt, Mrs. F; C. Williams in Franklin county, Kan- sas. Mrs. Anna Forbes, who has been visiting her parents, Judge and Mrs. Cole, returned Monday to her home in Kansas City. Jas. Clack, a paving engineer of Nevada, spent the first of the week in the city establishing a grade level on Ohio street. will be used to keep tab on the work and the condition of the roads. Sam Patterson Loses Hand Sam Pattereon, a son of former cir- cuit clerk, J. A. Patterson of Nyhart, ing which cost him his left hand. drainage canal 34 miles west of Ny- Silver Walnut, a fine pacing stal- lion, the property of Dr. J. F. Rob- inson, died at the fair grounds here last Thursday night. Dr. V. C. Compton of Pleasant Gap g of horse show fame, gave Paul | met with an accident Saturday morn-| passed through this city Monday en- route to St. Louis where he goes as @ saddle} Young Patterson was employed on | delegate to the State Medical Associa- from | the dredge which is working on the/| tion. ~