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Quite a nice crowd . attended unday school at the Crooks ‘gehool house Sunday . afternoon. ‘Come everybody. peu ne -. Cyrus Nestlerode was a county ‘géat visitor Monday. . Frank Jones has a bad case of ‘the measles, : ‘Mrs. Ike Dawson.is making gar- den at the Crooks place. : Mrs. Peterson and Mrs. Hockett -were shopping in Amsterdam (Cricket). Frank Hedger, Mar- ion Hedger, Edith and Ruby Walker, Hazel McGuire and Miss Mauger joined the Christian “Church Sunday and were baptised Sunday afternoon. 2 Cyrus Nestlerode’s team ran -away in Amsterdam. Very little. ‘damage was done. E Ed Bailey has.a new Ford and it is chugging right along. Pete Peterson lost a good mare ‘one day last week. os ° The neighbors of Frank Jones came in and put in his crops Tues- day. Frank has a bad case of the measles., A ts Earnest Lihn came in for ‘short. Visit aware Street, Butler, Mo. Rev. L. W, Keele preached two Yew Hope church ie - Chas.’ Weist wants a man by the month on his farm, Single or imarried man, aes) Mell Campbell, the wide awake merchant of Nyhart is at his post with an up-to-date line of grocer- ies and hardware.. Miss Maggie McCann closed her school last Friday with a big din- ner and one of the best programs you ever listened to. _ Father and Mother Sellers are very feeble, : Childrens Day at New Hope the first Sunday in J : ’ Mat: Hinson has 17. head of fat cattle on full feed since the ninth of March to sell June 1. He also has 20 head of 2-year-old steers on grass to put on full feed this fall. They are fine ones. ; N, MN. Holstein Cattle Sale. . Col. Harlan Porter, the live wire auctioneer of Western Bates was in the city Wednesday making ar- rangements to hold a big Holstein- Freisian cattle sale ‘in this city in the near future. : The cattle, about 25 in number, pepon the well known herd of witir Pete Peterson | hi ; i ~ ‘Longview, the R. A. Long £ King ‘of Kansas City, who big stock farm adjoining ing someimprov-|near Kansas Cit iit -| Bates. n’s Tuesday evening. ter, Ruby, were shopping in The farmers in this vicinity wel- wmed a fine shower Saturday aght, which was a great benefit em, FF. J. Wynn is able to be about farm work again, after a siege measles, vw am there} Several from this vicinity at- are over 100 head of horses, wauleg|temded the rural graduation ex- and cattle kept on this place. ises at Butler Saturday. Mise- Mrs; Harriet Payne wea treding| es Mary Harper and Ethel Grims- in Butler Thureday and visiting at/tey were the eighth graduates the home of her daughter, Mra,|from Grand View. Charles R. Bowman. ~ Lester Ayres returned home one David L. Clark and family. vie-}@ay last week from a two weeks ited at the Geo. A: Jones home|stay in Joplin and Webb City. Sunday. Ag the old song goes, ‘‘There’s Rambler was taking in- the] ®@ place like home.’”’ sights of Jackson county Sanday} John Harper and family are rid- and taking notes on how some offing in a new Ford. They also the big dairy farms are managed. }have had a phone installed on the Harry Porter, who helps Claude] Foster line. Morwood with his farm work! The following students of B. H. spent Sunday with home folks, {S. returned home the latter part Charley Goode, wife, sons, Kar-jof last week for the summer va- nest, Stanley and Louis. of Am-jeation: Misses Carrie Harper, sterdam were guests at the R. L,|Qla Ayres, Ruth Orear, Pearl and Nichols home Sunday. . ‘Edith Walker and Emma Pahl- Mrs, P.-H. Corlett and soa,}man and Ralph Harper. Merwin, who have been visiting at} The following persons were bap- the Claude Cooper home left Sat-jtized near Virginia Sunday: Mar- urday for their home at Blwejion Hedger and brother, Misses Mound, Kansas. Hazel McGuire, Lillie Mager, and Miss Doris Fail visited with her] Ruby and Edith Walker. sister, Mrs. Claude Morwood, Sat-| Mrs. J. G. Cuzick and Dorothy urday and Sunday. and Thaddeus Harper attended Pearl Bowman of Butler is vis-|the dinner at Nyhart school Fri- iting with relatives in Western/ day, it being the last day of school, hi Mim Maggie McCann is teacher id Mrs. Fred: C. Ewhankjthere. 0, L. night. and was the right kind. The home coming week at, aad Branches waa well attend- e Mr. and Mrs. Joe B. Albin and} W. A. Baker was a business vis- itor at Maryville last week, re- turning Saturday night. ‘ B. M. Wix and Claude Baker went on a business mission to Rich Hill and also Butler last ‘Wednesday. Cal Beshore and daughters spent Saturday evening in Adrian. I. N. Earsom will teach the Scifers school. J. C. Nafus of Butler was at Double Branches Sunday. J. F. Dillon and family of Par- sons, Kas., are here visiting rel- atives. Mrs. C. F. Beard of Parsons, Kas., is here visiting relatives. Mrs. W. A. Baker’s sister of Harwood, Mo., is spending a few days with her. Mr. Will Nuckols and wife are the proud parents of a new boy born Sunday, May. 21. All par- ties:doing well. Claude Baker went to Rockville Monday. Plowing corn is almost the or- der of the day. * PIONEER. North New Home. Linlie Ehart caught three young wolves one day last week. Friday was the last day of Miss Maggie McCann’s school. The patrons of the school came in and surprised Miss McCann with a big dinner. N. M. Nestlerode took their pictures. Albert Linendoll and Frank Boules attended band concert at Butler Friday night. i Jim Herrell and wife, Mrs. L. W. Keele of Butler attended NUMBER 32 preaching at New Hope Sunday. Orland Eggleson-and wife and little’ daughter of Johnstown, Earl Osborne and family and Wil- : lie Simpson and wife spent Sun- day at Mat Simpson’s. Jack Skaggs and family and John Heinz and Miss Hazel Board | and Miss Daisy Flinn and Miss Broyles spent Sunday at John Phelp’s. J. W. Jones and family and Al- bert Linendoll and Frank Bowles visited at Henry Ehart’s Sunday. Ike Kelley received a letter. from Fred Medley stating that their little son, Lester, was able to be up some. : Bud Berry and family visited Sunday at Harve Morris’. _ Mrs. Frank Miller and children visited Monday with her mother, Mrs. Lamasters. Mrs. Willie Simpson spent Mon- day with her sister, Mrs. Jess Fleming. ~ Miss Thelma Richmond spent Sunday night with Miss Nellie Skaggs. i ~ Bi ee coR. ' Bids for School House. Sealed bids for the construction of a school building at Cornland, School District 89, will be received by H. 0. Maxey at the circuit clerk’s office im Butler where plans and specifications are on file, up to Saturday, June 3, 1916, at 12 0’clock m, ; fr O. Morrison, wy School Board 32-2 J. J.’ Nichols, Gus Soderstrom. Marriage Licenses Cecil G. 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