The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, April 15, 1915, Page 1

Coggins, old, was convicted in St, Louis of. killing: his stepmother and given a life sentence Wiley 0. Cox, 57 years old, former banker-and police commissioner and at one time owner of the Kansas City Times died in Chicago Wednesday: John Kresse, a farmer, 60 years old, was killed by lightning ‘while harrowing on his farm in Northwest- ern Pettis County late Friday. survived by a widow and four chil- i dren. : Speaker Champ Clark was in St. Louis Monday after a tour of the South and he spoke of the prosperity of that section and the splendid op- portunities it offered. Sam Hines, a farmer near Neely- ville; was drowned Sunday afternoon while crossing a small stream on his way home. He was stricken witn an epileptic fit while on a foot bridge and fell into the water. The resignation of E. Y. Foster of Nevada as a member of the Board of -Regents of the Fourth District State Normal School at Springfield, was announced Monday. He will become a member of the faculty. Miss Birdie La Palett of Oak Grove Jackson county, has been selected as pastor of the Cumberland Presby- terian church of Sedalia for the en- suing year. She will preach her introductory sermon next Sunday. Spring poetry and snake stories are now ripe. Howard county comes to snakes at ofe sitting last week, and| he did not gonsider it a good day for snakes after all. Strawberry growers of the Ozark |} fruit belt have been advised of a new Federal law which requires that all containers of foodstuffs be labeled, showing their contents. The shippers will be required to specify full meas- ure dry quart or wine measure quart. Carl Busch, the invalid son of the late Adolphus Busch the multi million- aire brewer of St. Louis, died Thurs- day at Pasadena, Cal. His death oc- curred just a few hours after the marriage of his.niece,, Miss Marie Busch, to Drummond Jones o} Louis. Dr.. W. E.° Webb, 60 years old, died at his home in Macon. Thursday. He had long been a widely known physician of Macon County. He was particularly prominent as a member of the Knights of Pythias, having held the position of grand chancellor of the state, commander of the uniform While reading a paper in. afternoan, : f Vaughn spent. the day Miss Sylvia Ira Hart and family of near Peru Sundayed at A. W. Shay’s. | ‘Mr. and Mrs, Willie Simpson. visit- Mrs. Sallie Nickell isthe owner of a new Free sewing machine. Miss Clara Morrison spent the day. Monday with Miss Retta Kelly. - Mr, Adams, west of the school- house, had the misfortune to get his big collie dog shot by some young- sters. who were passing by. Our opinion of a trick like that is not very vorable. Mr. and Mrs. Ila Medley, Mrs. Sal- lie Nickell, Messrs. Lawrence Galvin, and Frank Smith took dinner at Mor- rison’s Sunday.” Mrs. Shay has a new washing ma- chine and cream separator. Writer of'the Special Correspond- ence of Cornland and Athol, come again. We miss the news from there when they are not in the paper. Mr. and Mrs. W. I. Cooper of But- ler came down on the noon train Sun- day to visit her sister, Mrs. J. J.. Nickell. Mr. Cooper returned on the morning train Monday, while Mrs. Cooper and Mrs. Nickell drdve .in to do some shopping. Mr. and Mrs. Bert Galvin and little daughter, Fraiicis, Sundayed at Mr. Shay’s. Merwin Items. Miss Jessie Hayes returned home from Kansas City Wednesday. Mrg. D. M. Corbin and son Tom, : . | works, argon visited ‘Mr. and re, J. H. Hayes Saturday night. Mr. Chapple gave the young folke a Saturday night at the bottling: “Everyone present reported a "Mr. and Mrs. John Hussy, Mr. and 3 Mrs. Ed Yarkey took Sunday dinner Thnreday, with Mra. Margaret) vith Mr. and Mrs. King. measels in this vicinity now. list Lots of Mrs, J. H, Hayes is on-the sick this week. ‘ Brothcr Thomas filled the pulpit at} the Christian Church Sunday. Mrs. Thayer of Prescott, Kansas’ visited with J..M..Curnutte and fam-}. ily last week. Mrs. George Peeper returned to her home in Kansas City last week. The. public school is closed this week on account of measels. Glenn Yingst is in bed with the -| measles this week. D. M. Corbin is in the hospital at Kansas City having his eyes treated. He is getting along nicely. " VIRGINIA. Along the Miami. Walter Jones visited Lyle and Wal- ter Fisher Saturday. Miss Margurite Wright was a guest -| of Miss-Vivian Wolf Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. John Shipp were visi- tors at the home of J. D. Chappell and family Sunday. A. G. Hoyt and family spent seve- ral days, recently, visiting relatives near Appleton City and Spruce. The schvol election in this part of the country was a’ very quiet’ affair. If the voters present were the only persons allowed to pass judgment on the management of the schools very few could speak. F. S, Wolf was re- elected in the Tygard district and J. L. Fisher in the Bethel district. The Bethel directors made arrangement for ‘the beginning of another school year. There was plenty of room in both phool houses for all the voters pres- ent. MIAMI. Christian Church. -. Next Sunday evening we will have the first evening service we have had for several weeks. Wo hope to make this a great meeting. The sermon :gubject will be ‘The Lion of the Tribe of Judah.” There will be special ‘music and everyone is invited. Eight o'clock is the hour. ‘The other services of the day will |be as usual. The Bible School broke the record again last Sunday. It ‘meets at 9:45 a. m. and any who are not in other schools will find it profit- ‘able to attend. The morning sermon will be ‘‘An Earth-filling Gospel.” The Endeavor Societies meet at 2:30 and 7 o'clock. R. M: Talbert, Minister. | “Snow” Bledsoe Arrested Again. “Snowball” Bledsoe (colored) was -|arrested Wednesday evening by Sher- iff Johnson at the Missouri Pacific de- pot when he alighted from the train from Rich Hill carrying a suspicious looking suitcase. On examination the suitcase disclosed about 20 bottles of beer, which '‘Snowball’’ protested was for his mother who is about 80 years of ageand in a serious condition. He claimed the beer had been pre-! scribed by a physician which fact was substituted by telephoning the physi- cian. However “‘Snowball’’ will be prosecuted for bootlegging, his previ- ous record not being in his favor. Dr. J. S. Newlon. Physician and surgeon. Special at- tention to diseases and surgery, of the eye, ear, nose and-throat. NUMBER 26 all needed improvements before Virginia-Grand View Pick-Ups Well, after a few weeks of irregu- lar correspondence we will again make’ an effort to be prompt and regular. We are having very nice weather at present. J. W. Greenup’s sale was held last Wednesday. Mr. Greenup has trad- ed his farm to Col. Robbins for some property in town where he will move some time in June. Warren Ayres of Jefferson City spent a few days last week with home folks. John T. Harper, R. F. Harper and Mrs. Katie Judy motored to Nevada Tuesday of last week in the formers car, i Mrs. Bragg and children moved to Butler last week. Roy Cuzick and Doc Harper spent Saturday and part of Sunday at the home of the former’s sister, Mrs. B. E. : Parker at Adrian. Mr. and Mrs. John Harper and daughter were Butler visitors Satur- day. at Bert Carpenter spent a few days last week in Pleasanton, Kas., with his sister. | George Burke, who recently re- turned from Iowa, has decided to | stay with his sister, Mrs. Rosa Steele, | this summer and farm her land, also some land at Mr. Tracy’s. Miss Bertha Shert spent Sunday night and part of Monday with rela- tives in Amoret. At the recent school meeting at Grand View, T. S. Grimsley was jelected director to succeed George | Lewellen. : | ©. A. Gray hauled posts for Dr. | Lusk last week. | Mrs. J. T. Harper and daughter, Mary, spent Sunday at the T. S. Farmers Bank Building. 12-3m Harper home. Oo. We Have the Most Com- plete Stock of Clothes in Bates County Every garment sold bears our own, as well as the manufacturer‘s guarantee, our stock is clean and up-to-date and we sell Good Clothes at a Moderate Cost -’ All wool Suits new and up- to-date........... : Kuppenheimer Clothes $18to$25 | All Wool Boys’ Suits....... ‘R. & M. Shirts---Percales Madras---Silk and ithers and Sons .50c to $1.50 East Lone Oak. The last week’s items were given in over the telephone and the result seems to be. far from satisfactory. The announcement that Jess Cham- ber's house got afire was much of a surprise to us. We don’t know him, but G. .W. Thomas’ house did get afire, and in the next item: it should have been Gilbert.and Fay Blanken- baker started to visit Katie and Fred Wheaton, and in the next item Grover McCoy was elected school director. Hope we won’t make so many mis- takes next time. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Latham and little son, Charles, visited with Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Slyter last Sunday. E. E. Eckles has employed Lloyd McGinnis to assist him with his farm work this season. Robert E. Thomas delivered to But- ler last Monday 9 head of cattle. Mar- ion Thomas delivered 20 head and Ernest Gough delivered two fat cows. They sold them to Lyman Hensley. Grover McCoy sawed wood for J. W. McCoy last Monday. H. H. Evilsizer purchased 26 acres of timber land adjoining the Marais des Cygnes river, of Harry Latham. The consideration was about $800. A very heavy rainfall visited this section of the country last Friday night causing the farmers to stop their farm work for a few days. It seems the spring did not begin early as we had hoped it would. We learned early Tuesday morning of the death of Master Lloyd Claunch, son of the man who is laboring for Charley, Thomas. He died about one o'clock Tuesday morning of pneu- monia. He was taken to the Culver undertaking rooms at Butler awaiting the arrival of relatives, when he will be taken to Mount Olivet where the funeral will be preached some time. Thursday. PUSSY WILLOW. J. W. Riley Dead. J. W. Riley died suddenly at the home of his son Victor Riley on East Dakota street Thursday, April 8, 1915, of pneumonia. Mr. Riley was born May 19, 1846, in Edgar county, Illinois, and came to Butler in 1869 and remained here until 1891 when he went to Chilicothe Ohio, and Woodbury, N. J., where he lived’a short time when he return- ed to Butler where he has since re- sided. He is survived by one son, Victor, with whom he has made his home since the death of his wife about five years ago, four brothers, Rev. L. Riley, Wichita, Kas. O. D. Riley, Edgar county, Ill., Geo. W. Riley, Kansas City, Ning Riley, Emporia, Kas., and oné sister, Mrs. Kate Tetrick of Terre Haute, Ind. Mr. Riley first came west when a young man and at the close of the war taught school in Ft. Scott, Kas. He was always a lover of fine horses and was for a long time .en- gaged in the livery business in this city and was superintendent of the speed ring of the Bates County Fair until forced to retire on account of failing health a few years ago. He had seen Butler grow from a™ little hamlet to a bustling prosperous city and during that time he had been identified with every movement look- ing toward its upbuilding. Funeral services were conducted by the Rev. R. M. Webdell at the Baptist church Saturday afternoon and interment made in Oak Hill cemetery. Death of Leo F. Cloud. Leo F. Cloud, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph L. Cloud, met a tragic end at the University of Arizona, Saturday, April 3 when he came in contact with alive wire while engaged in painting cement tank on the Mechanical Arts building and i