The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, September 24, 1914, Page 1

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Tan White wea to Montrose Fri-|M#°% Harper Saturday vi Ten Whe wat the boys a new| Annie Lusk spent Saturday night | bugey- and Sunday: "Migs Ola Ayers vated with Miss | with his uncle, Sylvester NUMBER 49 John Stephens and wife are rejoic- ing over the afrival of a fine girl, Uncle Jim Sattertee of Fort Scott Missouri News in Brief One of the European countries now The reward for information leading ‘Several ‘attended the Street Fair ee ie a wore frends and old’) volved in.war has placed an order | to the return of Jacob Silverman, 14 oe at Montrose from this vicinity last largie Greenup, wi 7 for 10,000 saddles and 10,000 sets of| years old, whé disappeared Sept. 3, L t, Wa gta ictre card from| week. ‘ Betarday cod Guage eihgs spent iredion is aoe ee ie oka with’a St. Louis saddlery | from his home in St. Louis, was in- ; junday Amsterdam Ouse. creased yesterday by his mother, epi hea ie oe in Tone Miss Anna W heeler of Kansas | 48 years’ ago the 20th of this month Ida O'Neill, 22 years old, of Cali- Mrs. Minnie Bilvarinan, to $1,200. It |ehe underwent an operatin’ for ap- | 8 visiting her perents, Mr. and cae the ysl ogi Bates County. It! fornia, Mo., died at Sedalia Sept. 14,|18 believed the boy may be in the - She is getting along T. J, Wheeler. d Wes dl ey a a Aa from poison, taken a week ago with hands of tramps. fe rae po be ag spent; it coms tp thes te thesia one veel ati while despondent over It may be that a man with some Sept bene visiting bee pk 3 anal pages : "| of the best counties in thestate. ‘Un-|° air other name might do better work as = County aunt, Farmer, ' the past’ week, atteadin tla cle Schuyler Ebart and the writer | Neal Kennen, 17 years old, son of|night watchman at the Governor’s 49 years. He saw Bates county when | She went home Suinday. * Miss Irene Lusk spent Sunday with} i 4, goto the timber, when we|E-C. Kennen; committed suicide at|Mansion in Jefferson City, but Frank, it-was.a wild part of the ‘world. and] Mr. Linsey and family visited at| Miss Mary Harper. needed meat, and get a wild hog, |Laddonia, Mo., by shooting himself | Fiend has kept nine Chief Executives has seen it grow to'be one of the best] Mr. Grosebarts Sunday. Mr, ‘and Mrs. Sylvester Bell“of | yncte ‘Schuyler had an old blind mare | through the-head. He left a note|of Missouri out of nocturnal trouble counties inthe state. | MreAlbert Barth and age Mr, bigs at Brig scene: ds and we would tie the hog to her tail| telling of despondency in a schoolboy |in his twenty-five years’ service. Mack ‘Braden and Cyras: Nestie- | Harve Harve Harness and family and Mr. Vi cd gg te and such rejoicing when the women | #4 schoolgirl love affair. enn ; Pai cap} ania eae irge increases in the enrollment rode brought a new wheat, grass.and|and:Mrs, Coonrod and daughter, vis- ; {and children saw us coming in with| The registration in the regular term iverai , j __ fertilizer drill trom Amoret. Monday. |ited with Stetting Harness Sunday. | Born to Mr. and Mrs. Jobmaie| that hog. JOHNNY. fot the University of Missouri on Mon-| that of lnct yore ve pesos aga cays. It. teins ‘every Mr.. Dale and wife, and little Hedger Jr., Saturday, Sept..12, 19%, —_____— da hed 2,365 ; : Aleng the Miami . -|day reached 2,365, a gain of 130 over|onening day of the’ regular term. n hay. daughter Mabel, and Mr, and Mrs, anice little @-pound girl. 0. last year. The total, including the The registration was 1078, hae ae Dr. ‘Lusk, Jolin Harper and J.‘ W. | Robinson and Erman Coonrod visited Elkhart Preise re ee sae appr session, is 3,125, a gain of | pared with 888 on the first day last ui ear. An especially noticeable in- MeFadden ler Tuesda at cae after Sunday school & : - EO eae 7 ce ¥ | Sunda On the Wing attended the Lock-|tended the reception given at the “In an electrical storm Sunday night ae is expected in the College’ of Agriculture., nies Lee Godwin visited Goldie| idee dinner last Sunday. He'took #/Christian church, Wednesday even-|at Chillicothe, W. C. Sterling, a Statons Sunday. © : picture of the crowd. ing. g : farmer, 40 years‘old, was struck by} a Rev. Smith filled his. regular ap- John Hedger and wife are rejoice Errett McCann of Kansas City was lightning and killed. His wife and| It is expected that immediately af- pointment Sunday. ing over the arrival of a fine girl. a guest at the home of his uncle, dau zhter were standing in the house|ter his return from the East _ this Wa. ‘Durst is thinking of going West on account of his wife’s health and expects te ‘have a sale in the near future. Kennedy Re-Elected, Eddie and Elsie Pratt visited. with For the’ tenth consecutive year their uncle, Tan White, Sunday. Marion Kennédy, ‘the blind operator] . Mr. R. K. Godwin and wife visited ‘at Trowbridge has been ejected to|at Earnest Middleton’s Sunday. that position by the Trowbridge | Ben Harrison is putting up a silo. Mutual Telephone Company, which|’ Mr, and Mrs. Snow visited their held its annual stockholders meeting) daughter, Mrs. Zela Dale, Sunday. - ‘Saturday. Mr. Kennedy's a the grid . A FEIGHBOR. and capable service is appreciat BCH pee Re ve RSE LETT EPILS < the company and its patrons of the| Virginia-Grand View Pick-Upe. lines and his re-election was accom-| The W. C. T. U. met with Mrs. R. plished by the unanimous vote of the| F. Harper Thursday of last week. A stockholders.—Shelbyville ‘| good meeting was held. Mr. Kennedy went blind whlla in} Mr. and Mrs. Jack Grimsley, who my-employ at Virginia in 1807, be hgye been- visiting in Harrisonville, certainly was a; agi helper in- the { - Store. k “Geo, Jactslon-and: ‘Phikey Siti sold _ . There was a pled dinner on Ike Lockridge, Sunday, Sept. 20th, -it ‘be-| ‘ing his 58th birthday..- Those present Ww Will Durst and family, Lewis ibben and family, E. Heavilin . and wife, John Fritts‘ and wife, W. P. Fritts and family, Turner Hender- son and wife, Geo. Lockridge and| family, Douglass Browning and fami- ] _ ‘ly, John Hedger Sr., and family, George Finley-and wife called. at| Charlie Blake, Saturday and Sunday. | looking out of a window and saw him | week, Gov. Major will issue a proc- the home of the writer last Monday. Mrs. (rah Adams, living southeast of Butler was visiting out in Elkhart last week. Uncle John Blake, our mail* car- rier, has gone to Western Kansas on a visit. Miss Hazel McDonald i: is car- rying the mail. Miss Cora Spillman returned last week from Colorado. Mrs. Lizzie Kershner and Mrs. Gus Bruner called.at John Stephens last Saturday to see that new baby. We had the pleasure of meeting ree old iend, P. C. Burns, last Sun- ‘e.think that he is — Mr. McCann came down in his car two weeks ago and had to leave it on account of the rain. He drove home Sunday. Mrs. Nevell went to Kansas. City Saturday for a visit with her daugh- ter, Mrs. Preston and her sister Mrs. Tiffiny. W. D. McCullough was a business visitor in this section Saturday. ‘Mr. and Mrs. Harp returned to their home in Oklahoma, Friday. They wére visitors at the home of Win. Jackson and were favorably impress- ed with Bates county and may return to make their home here. We will |frn” welcome them when they re- struck. While a freight train was pulling into the yards at Poplar Bluff, an un- identified man walked to the track, got down on his hands and knees and placed his neck on the rail. was severed. He had been in town for the last week. dressed. Secretary J John T. Stinson: of the Missouri State Fair at Sedalia, says he hopes to get Theodore Roosevelt as one of the attractions for Monday, Inasmuch as there will be champion bulls, mules, hogs September 28. and other live stock, it is fitting that the biggest Bull Moose be on hand. _ Exchange. Clothes Than ‘ hagpeaielner and lamation, in which he will call upun |each citizen of Missouri to buy a bale of cotton. Private Secretary A. Z. Patterson said that the proclamation would be issued as soon as the Gov- ernor returned. Two Missouri coun- ties Pemiscot and Dunklin, are fam- ous for the quantity and quality of cotton they produce. Jefferson City is elated over an ane nouncement that a new city directory shows a 35 per cent increase in popu- lation during the last four years. Ac- cording to the directory, inhabitants number 16,850. This is an increase of 4,325 over the figures found in a directory issued issued i in May, 1911. The-annual aj apportionment of the State school fund is well under way and several hundred thousand dollara ons are being sent daily to the several ph. Hughes, wife an ler = : < ‘ ties by State Ti Deal and vated Henty otesanday. Do Not Look'for Better |[zuie se: true: de! ans a a aR Rt ace hoch gs Da alee to be distributed this year is approxi- mately $1,900,000, of which St. Louis will get nearly $300,000 and Jackson county a little more than $150,000 Roland G. Usher, professor of his- tory at Washington University, who hag just returned from England, be- lieves the war may last several years. Prof. Usher is the author of the book “Pan-Germanic,”” which attracted ‘Clint Burns, Jas. Satterlee and Vergil \ much attention at the outbreak of the f Henderson, \Wn % \ war, in that his book, published a The rain interfered with bt ie i year before, foretold many of the folks’ pichic at White’s Grove Tues- ( conditions that have developed. -day. i Armed with a pistol, but unmasked, b & Dr. R.-Wendleton-of.near Merwin rs ‘visited his father, A. Wendleton, of ry ' Butler Monday and Tuesday. - % 1. Tansy Smith is doing.eome good ‘ “road work on the mail routes. It F makes the mail:men.smile. 2 The fad is “if you.can't:help me, I i -can not help you.” ‘How can this bé, bs *--changed? -- Do -unto others -as- you would -have othere:do: ‘unto:you. Jim Satterlee of. Ft. Scott, oo is visiting his brother-in-law, .P.. C. Burns, this week." Uncle Jim is in: poor health but is getting stronger. : ‘We nave at oor mare . — SilePhs SUITS ‘and OVERCOATS | Sb, S17, $90, $95) WE ARE NOW SHOWING THE wew ONES FOR FALL _ The Nobby Stetson Hats For Fall are Different from those shown in previous seasons ‘SEE OURS BEFORE YOU BUY - a bandit entered the People’s State Bank at Dodson,- Mo., a suburb of this city, Sept. 21, locked Hugh Moore the assistant cashier, ina vault, and escaped in a motor car with $1,300 of the bank’s funds. A customer of the bank released Moore, who shouted the combination of the lock through the vault door. Moore was alone in the bank when the bandit forced him into the vault. Twenty-seven persons are knowna to have been drowned and eighteen injured in a cloudburst which washed out the embankment of the Frisco Railroad two miles east of Lebanon, Mo., and ditched the road’s crack passenger train, known as the St. Louis and Texas Limited, southbound from St. Louis. Sixteen of the dead had been identified, according to in- formation given out at the Frisco of- ag and only. descriptions could be furnished for the elevenn un- named dead. The national and State banks and