The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, November 6, 1913, Page 1

VOL. XXXVI. ee y Cimes, BUTLER, MISSOURI, THU ON THE WING. -Judge Hedger, went to Cass county to John Cordell’s gle. and bought a pair of fine driving horses. Pete Peterson went to Butler Sat- urday and took his children and gave them a holiday. Oldham Brothers delivered cattle to Morewood’s Monday. _. Jesse Dudley has returned from his western'trip. He also went to Cana- da, but thinks that country a little too cold for him. Grant Oldham has some shoats for sale. : Glenn Smith is visiting his -sister, Mrs. Grace Burns this week. Uncle Tom Hockett finished head- ing kaffir corn Monday. He has twelve big loads with sideboards on. He lost about 50 bushels by it going down and the birds taking it. Uncle Jolin Wuooters and son from near Black school house in Summit township were visiting Spart Adams. Mr. Wuooters and Uncle Nick Adams were boys together. He also visited with Mrs. Jim Vermillion, who is a daughter of Uncle Nick Adams. He brought his music along and they had a splendid visit. Isaac Park an old resident of Bates county, was. at Amoret visiting his daughter, Miss Mattie. Mr. and Mrs. Hughes and daughter Lucile, Jim'Zortman and wife, visited at John Zortman’s Sunday. Mrs. Grant Oldham and mother visited Mrs. Sadie Smiley Monday. Mr. McFadden,s sister, Mrs. Mary Lamb and daughter Bertha of Cali- fornia, visited with him from Thurs- day till Monday. Mrs. Anna Lamb of Iowa, attended her -father’s funeral, R. L. Judy. Also Ernest Judy of Kansas City. Mrs. Shesler wasin‘Butler Monday. Mulberry and Western Bates. Charley Robbins made a business trip to the county seat Friday. Bud Jones and family and Elmer McKee left Saturday for Oregon to make their future home. Anumber of young people from this vicinity attended ‘the Hallowe’en party at Charles Read’s. All report a jolly good time. : There will be a short program and handkerchief party at the Mulberry school house Wednesday evening November 12.. Everybody come. Girls bring lunches tied up in red bandannas, Boys come hungry. Terry Hays spent Sunday evening with friends in Butler. John D. Mathews was a caller on W. N. Allman Sunday evening. Charley Goode and family of Am- sterdam visited at R. L. Nichols Sun- day. Fred McCall and wife visited at L. R. Garren’s Sunday. Mesdames L. M. Braden and Myr- tle Welton visited at the Joe Bishop home across the state line Saturday. Louie F. Curtis went down to Hume Friday evening on a short visit. We hope to see a number of the parents from Mulberry district at the Amoret Teachers meeting Nov..14. Charles R. Bowman is building a new office to replace the one destroy- ed by the Amoret fire. The new building is located between N. G. Rowe’s hardware and Carl F. Hall’s general store. John Taute made a business trip to Pleasanton Monday. Paul Gray who has been visiting his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. John Phibbs, left for his home at. Kansas City Saturday. ; George B. Bohlken and sons are re-roofing their barn. eat to Mr. and Mrs. Ray’ McCann |’ a girl. x. Ethelalbert Hughes spent Monday - night with Ralph Scott. ; John Taute made a business trip to Butler Monday. Ed Barnes expects to move to his new home this week, known as the George Maloney place. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Oldham left Monday for a visit to her sister, Mrs. John Backut of Sloan, Iowa. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Preston Por- tera girl, Thursday. Lookout folks, for Marion Hedger got his license at Butler the other y. Wm. Ewing is on the sick list. Gifford Terry left Wednesday for Towa to shuck corn. Friday night, after the services at the Christian church, a Hallowe’en party was given at the home of Mrs. G. F, Ruble for the League members and some of their friends. . After the evening was spent in games and music they were invited to the dining room where refreshments were served. Those present were Misses Ida Englehardt, Luella Conard, Viva Jarvis, Oval and Vera Kinion, Mar- garet Greenup, Irene Lusk, Ruth Leonard, Martha Park, Emma Pahl- man, Georgia Smith, Ruth and Ruby : Orear, Marie Jensen and Miss Short. Messrs Joe Gromwaller, Mack Smith, Albert and Howard Leonard, Rev. Haynes, Jones Nestlerode, Holly and Silk Stripes and Silk Checks ARE THE THING IN - Fall Suits «Men The Stripes and Checks are Suppressed Mr. and Mrs. Ike’ Booi and son Herman ate dinner at Nels Allman’s Monday. Henry K. Dykman and family, Mr. and Mrs. R. Bohlken and son Bert visited‘at John Dykman’s Sunday. Jokn Hensley shipped 4 car of hogs tothe Kansas City market Monday night. ' Fred Bowman and John Dykman traded horses Thursday. RAMBLER. ‘Pleasant Gap Items Pleasant Gap’s old bachelor’s are still on the job. Mrs, Lee Wix has not returned from visiting her mother at El Dorado and Mr. Wix and children are batch- ing. Mrs. Jim Merchant and little daugh- ters, Iva, Cloe and Goldie, have not returned from visiting her mother who is ill at Iola, Kans. Mr. Mer- chant and children are batching. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Durst have been visiting his parents in Kansas. Durst brothers have been batching. Charley Makinson of Rich Hill was in this neighborhood buying wheat for fall seed one day this week. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Baker spent Sunday night with her sister. Ed Adams and Dan’! Stubbs went to Appleton City Friday. Little Susie Leeper the little daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. Bill Leeper had the misfortune to get her collar bone broken, the cap knocked off of her shoulder blade and her arm sprained while at school one day this week. She was sitting in a chair and one of the children jerked the chair out from under her. She will be unable to go to school for probably a couple of months. There was a dance at Walter Nafus’ Friday night. Pleasant Gap attended. Quite a few around RSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 191 3. . Mrs. Dan’l Stubbs has 5 little chick- | ens which werehatched Friday. They will keep Mrs. Stubbs and the girls/ busy knitting stockings for them. | The mother of the-chicks is a bantam. Mr. and Mrs. Charley Morgan were Butler visitors Thursday. Miss Myrtle Makinson of Rich Hill is visiting Miss Goldia Scifers this week. i : Look out for that wedding. Walter Henry and two little sons, Walter and Robert, motored out to his farm 4 mile south of the Gap Sat-| urday morning. B. Wix has’ his store completed and it is certainly a dandy. Really the} best country store we ever visited, | “Hurrah for B.” Ed Moore had a sick horse Friday night. Mrs. John’ Pike, daughter and son, Viola and Johnnie, were down view- ing their new home Saturday evening. We are glad to hear from Cornland and Athol every week as we appre-| ciate their writing. | PUG and TOBBIE. | | Elkhart | Well, the writer from this part} failed to show up last week on ac-| count of bad weather. There wasn’t | any news, but the writer and wife} visited at Col. Lockridge’s last Sun-, day and you bet we got a square! meal, so feel more like hunting up, something to write about this week. | W. H. Hart lost a valuable horse | one day last week. | John Stephens and wife was pleas- | ant callersat the writer’s one night/ last week. ~ \ A. Westover is fixing to build an-! other big barn. \ Some of the neighbors are begin-| | | killed a pig. in Soft Wool Cashmeres. -The effect is rich and fashionable. WE ARE SHOWING THEM IN Kuppenheimer Fine Clothes $15 to $25 Other Fine Clothes - Nobby Chinchilla Overcoats for men and young men, all wool, at Kuppenheimer Made Overcoats - $15 to $25 Such as “Crawford and Thompson Fine Shoes” : “Western Made Heavy Work Shoes” _and “Wales Goodyear Rubbers” $10 to $15 tile ning to live pretty high, They have | W. H. Keeton and family called at the writers last Sunday night. Mrs. Spiker of Pittsburg, - Kansas, sister of Mrs. S. T. Brown who was here on a visit, returned home a few days ago. We hear it reported that W. H. Stephens is going to kill a pig. We are watching and if we heara pig squeal we are going over. Dick McGuire and wife are rejoic- ing over the arrival of a fine girl at their home a few days ago. Durst. Bailey was thrown from a horse a few days ago.’ We failed to learn how bad he was hurt. R. L. Scott and wife are the proud parents of a fine girl. Uncle Jim Coughlin reports that the boys shucking corn up their way carry rocks in their pockets. If they see anyone coming, they throw arock against the bang board to make it sound like they have found an ear of corn. Miss Alice Keeton received a letter from Orafino Idaho, stating that Mar- ian Frear who formerly lived at Pas- saic and who will be remembered by many of the old neighbors, was dead. He used to run a blacksmith shop there. He started out to hunt the cows but didn’treturn. After hunting ten days for’him, he was found dead sitting by a rock. He was buried in the Orafino cemetery, Idaho, on Oct. 21st, 1913. Dick McGuire is going to have a sale in a few days. There will be preaching at Concord next Sunday. Mrs. Maggie Keeton received a let- ter from Mrs. Moore from western Kansas. She reports that they are getting along very well. She says their wheat looks fine. Emett Wymer has got a new’ girl at his house. All parties doing well NUMBER 3 they can pull him through all right. Charley Henderson. sold a fine bunch of hogs one day last week. . Emery Crumley and Miss Goldie Fritts called on Miss Alice Keeton last Sunday night. JOHNNY. FOSTER. Mr. Hartsock was a passenger east Sunday. ’ Miss Goldie Swarens returned to Butler Sunday noon on the motor car. N. L. Caton and wife of near Sprague, visited their daughter and family, Mrs. Henry Briscoe Sunday. Grandma Scott went to Kansas City Sunday. Mrs. Ed Borron and children were passengers to Albia, Mo., to visit her father. E. E. Laughlin went up to Kansas serve on the federal jury. Mrs. J. W. Parleir and daughter Emma, were the guests of Miss Salia Arbogast Sunday evening. ' W. H. Clouse and wife of Shawnee, Oklahoma, we arrivals Friday on a visit to their children and families. W. B. Arbogast of Knob Noster, spent a few days the first of the week visiting his brother, D. H. Ar- bogast. cs S. S. Summers of Worland, and a friend, Mr. Lockridge of Southern Iowa, were brief visitors here be- tween trains Saturday. Mrs. L. Crawford returned home from Butler Saturday where she had been to see a sick relative. Mrs. G. B. Plymell and sister, Mrs. B. Jennings, left Saturday for Coffee, Mo., to see their father who is dan- gerously ill at that place. F. R. Swarens is building a new residence east of town. | but Emett. The neighbors think that P. L. Shelton returned home from Kansas City Monday where he had been to see his little daughter, who underwent an operation for appendi- citis. He reports her doing fine. Dr. Rhoades was’ a brief business visitor to Butler Thursday. Jint West was a passenger to But- ler Saturday morning. Mrs. Bessie McFealy, who has been visiting her parents, returned to her home in Nevada Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. I. H. Botkins returned Sunday from Archie, where they had been the guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. S. James. C. E. West and Jim Vaughn went up to Butler Monday noon. J. G. Doolittle and cousin, Wood- son Campbell were county seat visit- ors Monday. Miss Salia Arbogast, who was called home to attend the funeral of her brother, Fred Arbogast, returned to Colorado Springs Monday. A. H. Lloyd went up to Butler on Friday evening’s local. Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Metzler were at Butler Thursday shopping. Misses Ada and Salia Arbogast visited relatives at Reavely Friday and Saturday. Woodson Campbell of Kansas City, was an arrival Sunday from Wagner, Oklahoma, where he had been visit- ing his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Campbell. He reports his parents well, which their many Foster friends will be glad to know. DINAH. Along the Miami Philip Herman and family visited Company omen and Children at the home of Adam Coleman and family Sunday. K. M. Couch, wife and two small sons visited relatives at the Duvall ranch Tuesday of last week. Miss Marguerite Wright celebrated her birthday Wednesday of last week by visiting with Miss Vivian Wolf. Miss Wolfe made a birthday cake and placed the thirteen candles on it Games, music and a good time gen- erally was enjoyed. Miss Marguerite will remember her thirteenth birth- day in spite of the fact that the num- ber is generally thought to be un- lucky. W. D. McCullough was.a_ business caller in this vicinity, Friday. City on Sunday’s train, where he will Something new, Black-Arnold.