The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, July 30, 1914, Page 1

i | Mate ae "etOricg s ) Gaines, VOL. . XXXVI ” James Moran of Grunday county, Illinois, celebrated his one. hundred and eleventh birthday the latter part of the week. sorta Gera eae Garret T. Johnson, 16 years old,-of near Hannibal, mistook his father, W. R. Johnsen, for a watermelon thief and shot him. He will recover. Joseph Beeler, a milk dealer. of St. Louis, accused. of selling impure ‘milk, was found guilty in Judge Mil- ler’s court recently and fined $200 and costs. Prosecuting Attorney facot Wat- tenberger has filed an injunction suit) for the Democratic candidates for the and playgrounds which will maketie against the Q. @. & K. C. Ry. to pre- vent it from a liquor to Milan, Missouri. Louis Walker, 22 years old, sila: ‘bly was mortally wotinded at Sedalia by George Bohling, after a quarrel in ‘asaloon Monday. Bohling fled, but later was shot by the police and cap- tured. St. Louis-mule buyers have-opened ~ ‘the purchasing season there by buy- ing three carloads of animals at an aggregate price of $15,000. A good deal of the farm work is finished and more sales are expected to follow. Albert Timmins, negro, who shot and dangerously wounded Arthur Allen at Hannibal, Sunday morning, ig believed to be hiding four miles west of Hannibal. Bloodhounds lost the trail. County officers are contin- uing the search. Herman Joseph is one of the fun- niest clowns with Barnum’& Bailey’s circus. Incidentally, he is a Kansas City-man, residing at J011 East Twenty-fifth Street. Monday night he entertained thirty-six of his fellow clowns at a a party. TEL guests were arrested in Kansas City early Sunday morning when the po-/|| lice descended on two of the princi- pal cafes. The raids followed a re- cent order: decreeing that drinking must stop at 12 o’clock Saturday night. A case involving the smallest judg- ment ever appealed to the Springfield Court of Appeals has been received by Clerk George H. Daniel. The judgment is for 40 cents. The suit was originally tried in Ripley county, the plaintiffs being J. W. Sewell and Al. Lassiter and the defendant J. M. Stencil. James Frank Campbell, 86 years old, believed to be the oldest graduate of the University of Missouri, died at Higginsville last week. . Campbell was graduated in 1849. He' was born in Huntsville, Ala., but. came to. Mis- souri with his parents when a child, . traveling by boat to the old river _ town of Dover. Ozark, the county seat of Christian |] County since its formation in 1858, is thoroughly aroused by the fight be- ing waged for the removal of the county seat to Nixa. Sparta, the first town to stat the agitation, is support- ing Nixa following a joint meeting between citizens of the two towns in which the numerical strength of each was compared and Nixa was found to ~ Missouri News i In Brief inches in ‘diameter and weighing BUTLER, MISSOURI, THURSDAY, JULY 30, 1914. . NUMBER 41 Fmile from the mouth, preventing Along the Miami boats ‘from going farther, visitors’ must wade through the water to the well. A temperature of 58 degrees the year around makes this: experi- ence an exciting one. H.E. Fisher, owner of the cave, has hundreds of A giant cactus, 11 feet high, 21 more than 1,000 pounds, has been re- Frank B. Bowman, an attorney | ceived at Shaw’s Garden in St. Louis from East St. Louis spent last week|from Tucson, Ariz. Another. inter at Knobnoster trying to find the home | esting specimen just in is a date palm where he was born and the graves of |from Yuma, Ariz., a small tree with his parents; who died there sixty/more than 150 almost full-grown years ago. He interrogated the old- | fruits of the kind now being exten- est inhabitants, but no-one remem- sively raised in the former desert re- bered where his parents were buried. | gions of Southern California and Ari- He left for his home despairing of | Zona. ever finding’ their last resting place.| The first public shower baths and Estimates of the ‘number of votes|>@thing beach in Springfield have that will be cast by the Democrats in | bee? opened, President E. E. E. Me- state primary a week from Tuesday Jimsey of the Park Board and other vary from 200,000 to 225,000. The spellbinders supplying oratory. It is te given out that this is merely the be- otal vote in the state primary of 1912 ginning of a system of public baths out fishing Saturday. with J. D. Chappell and family. He gathers them | Wall. mushroom spores. twice a day, and is at present supply- ing many of the large hotels of -St. Louis and Kansas City. In an Around Maysburg. Mrs. Godwin and mother left, Fri- day night for Berriesville, Arkansas, to see Mrs. Barth, who is quite sick with heart trouble. Mrs, Gertie Harness tnd Mrs. Coon- rod went blackberrying “Monday. Fan White hauled wheat to Creigh- ton Manday. Sam Farmer is savage up hay. Carl Nix Sunday. brother. Death of William Newell. nomination for governor was only 225,387, and it is eatinated in many Queen City of the Ozarks unique among towns below the 50,000 popu- plone bed tia sche lation class. An abandoned quarry a will supply, one lake for bathing. In compliance with a petition bear-| Wells are planned for fresh water ing more than the required number|supply at other places in the city of signatures, the county court of | where public baths are to be estabe Jackson county has ordered a local-| lished. Evidently Springfield has option election in rural Jackson coun- designs on ‘approaching godliness ty, August 22. “All of the county | Republic. outside of Kansas City and Indepen-| Rowing to the bottom of a 15-foot dence will participate. Bight saloons | y,¢1) in a boat is a feat somewhat out in Independence will close next Jan- of the ordinary. At Fisher’s cave, uary as the result of a local-option | seven miles southeast of Springfield, | election held there last Tuesday. it is being done, however. The cave Mrs Alice McMasters, who shot to) has a large opening. A body ‘of death James Miller, son of Morris| water: follows its underground pas- Miller, former sheriff of Dade Coun-| sage. It is navigable by boat for al- ty, July 20, at Seybert, was bound | most a half mile. Close to this point over to the criminal court ona charge | the enterprising farmer who owned aaronit of first degree murder. Mrs. Mc-|the land’above the cave bored a well. | °Perated on for tumor. — Masters alleges that Miller had en-|When the drill struck the cave it Fi Scott is back with her aunt, tered her home and had forced his at- | dropped to the bottom. An everlast-| "8. *armer. tentions upon her. : She drove him| ing well of wrter was obtained, but ‘ A from her house with a revolver and| it was not until some time’ later that ean and taken she declares that when he picked up| visitors in the cave, though seeing a chair to throw at her she shot. | rays of light in it, made the discovery Shirley Kirby, who was with Miller, | that the farmer was pumping water \ testified that he fell over the chair| from the flowing river in the cave, and had stooped to pick it up. As it contains a fallg a quarter of a Chautauqua Will before his demise. to ButlerSaturday, returning Sunday. with there grand parents for a visit. | around Butler. Their little cousin, Edith Freeman, was also visiting there. Sterling Harness, Mr. Heart, Mr. meeting him once. School. up to ‘see them Sunday from near | lost a friend. Clinton. is car so she could leave Friday} night for Arkansas. Her son Francis: went with her. Some that have not threshed are | Faces.” stacking their grain. A NEIGHBOR. |Sunday afternoon. low, Iowa. BE IN BUTLER AUGUST 10th It’s a good time right now to get ready for this big event. We know that you want to supply your needs at the store ‘ where you can find the best selection of reliable merchan- dise.and the most value for a dollar, our store is, and has been this kind of a place since 1876. One Half Price on all Ladies and Misses arene Suits, Skirts, Fancy Parasols -and one lot of Waists 100. pieces of dark Dress Ginghams at a Special Price of 10c per yard. Fancy Voiles, Crepes and Satins, 50c, 35c, 25c values at 18c.__ Mens all wool suits, $15.00 values at $11.00 : 5 - Mens all wool suits, ‘$12.50 values at $8.50... ve at 25 per: cent discount on all Boys Wool and Wash Suits = __ . Saal Mens Straw Hats at one halt the rer price : Judge J. F. Smith and wife were John Shipp and wife spent Sunday beds of mushrooms on the shelves|and Miss Mary Wall of Kansas City, of the cavern, built up by carrying | Spent the latter part of the week with | bushels of oats. in soil from the outside and planting relatives at tre-home of Mrs. James Dan Newell arrived from Winslow, Towa, to attend the funeral of his! of melons Monday. Middleton with their families visited | neighbor who will be greatly missed. | _ ! at Ernest Middleton’s after Sunday We have mingled our tears with the | nicely with her broken ankle. bereaved ones not only in heatfelt Mrs. Ernest Clarie’s parents came |Sympathy, but also because we have | sale. ON THE WING. . W. N. Westover’s barn is complete and ready for the paint Mr. Winn of Drexel is staying with his daughter, Mrs. Frank Baker near Mrs. York and son Abby of Archie, | West Point. - H. Coffman thrashed over 1,000 The report is Mrs. George Maloney died in Rich Hill last week. She was Ronald Jackson was a guest of raised in this netghborhood. Ed Bailey has purchased an auto. Wm. Ewing marketed his first load Mrs. Jake Jundy and Mrs. Lige Ison visited relatives southeast of Wm. Newell died at his home Sat-| Butler Sunday. urday evening at 11 o’clock. This message saddened the hearts of the entire community. He had been in : ‘ failing health for some time, but none Perio ale io except those vety near realized his eg serious condition until about a week : : All that willing Mrs. Tan White and children went/ hands and loving hearts could do was dond to alleviate his suffering. Mr. Ermine and Mildred Stayton are|Newell' had many friends in and Mr. and Mrs. C, S. Grape and child- ren eat i¢e cream with S. N. Ison and family eat ice cream at E. C. Ison’s Friday night. S. N. Kinion has leased his farm and will try something else for awhile. Peter Denning says he had a Cali- His was_a_most pleasing manner fornia trip planned but if it don’t rain which none failed to remark after|$00n his silo will have to be filledand He was a good that will delay the trip. Mrs. Clif Anderson is getting along John Hussey has a éorn binder for Tom Grimsley, our assessor, is Mrs. Newell and four children sur-|around finding out the value of his Mrs. Clarie had the doctor last Fri-| vives; two sons, Harry and Ray; two] township. day. He thinks she will have to be| daughters, Mrs. Ed. Culver of Butler, and Mrs. Paul Preston of Kansas City. All were present at the funeral ; _ | which was conducted in a most im- Mr. Gilbert went to Butler Friday | pressive and sympathetic manner by Mrs. Godwin in| py. Ticknor at the family residence The text was, | “(God will wipe away tears from off all The remains were taken to ‘Mr, Newell’s former home in Wins- MIAMI. Mrs. dno. Hedger, Jr.,, is getting better. We hear that Luther Judy is get- ting better. Mrs. Dr. Lamb of Iowa, is visiting relatives and friends around Virginia. : N. M. N. Mulberry and Western Bates. Frank Holland of Summit town- ship, was in this neighborhood Mon- day shaking hands with his friends and reminding them that he is asking for the nomination for county clerk. Mr. and Mrs. Fred C. Ewbank and son, Walter, R. C. Ferguson, and the writer were county seat visitors Fri- day evening. ; Andy Owen of Butler, candidate for Presiding Judge, was in Homer township Friday. George T. Williams of Amoret, was” a caller at Harlan Porter’s Thursday. Squire H. K. Dykman and sons de- livered fat cattle in Amoret Monday. Saturday evening about fifty young people spent a very pleasant evening at the Luke and Ed Booi home. Cecil Phibbs of Kansas City, is vis- iting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Phibbs. Mesdames John and H. K. Dyk- man, Frank and Bernie Bohiken helped Mrs. R. Bohlken cook for thrashers Thursday and Friday. George ‘‘Shorty’’ Bohlken has the best yield of oats per acre reported to us so far this season. Say, are you intending to havea public sale this fall. or winter? If so see Porter & Son before you engage an auctioneer. " Mrs. Alex Lopeman of Amoret, vis- ited at the R. L. Nichols home Satur- day and Sunday. The Mulberry School Board met at Harlan Porter’s Saturday evening and decided to have a cistern .built at the school house before school Opens. Mr. and Mrs. George Thompson, Mr. Chase and family of Pleasanton, were visitors at W. J. Bard’s Sunday evening. Dr. and Mrs. Amick, Amos Hall and family of Amsterdam, Misses May and Anna Bard, Mrs. L. L. Judy and children, Mrs. Anna Lamb, and Ernest Judy of Kansas City, were- guests at Judge J. W. McFadden’s Sunday. Rev. Carl Webber spent Saturday and Sunday with friends at Rich Hill. ““W. D. Herbst of Kansas City, bought the Frank Hennon eight acre farm, three miles north of Amoret. Charles R. Bowmam, thé land man, made the deal. RAMBLER. . -Seulley Lease for Sale. For sale or trade, one.of Soulley’s: |