The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, June 22, 1916, Page 5

“THE DAYLIG Closing Black & Arnold Clothing Co. [ Lloyd Gaines was a Warrens- burg visitor over Sunday. We know we save you money. Do you know Black & Arnold? Miss Bessie Jackson was a Kan- sas City visitor the first of the week. Ladies white silk hats 50c, ladies picnic hats, 25c, Black & Arnold. : Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Reeder, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, are v1s- iting relatives.in this city. - The cool wet season has HT STORE” - LATE SEASON BARGAINS! 35c Crepes, Voiles and Batistées on sale at............... 15c Tissues, Crepes, Batistes, etc.,...... -..-- IT WILL PAY\YOU TO WALK DOWN THE AISLE IN OUR DRY GOODS DEP’T. our Millinery Department UNTRIMMED : Up to $3.50 values on sale at.........;..98¢ American Clothing House out Mrs. James Petty left Saturday morning for _Monegaw Springs, where she will spend a month vis- iting her brother, M. T. Long. New style Panama hats at a lower price, Black & Arnold. - Your suit ready, Black & Arn- old. Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester Dent, who have been visiting relatives and friends in this city have re- turned to their home in Iola, Kan- sas. Some underwear, Black & Arn-! old. ‘E. Church, South, Sunday school eft us with too many summer goods and we wil! put the knife in early to Clear our Counters of Hot Weather Fabrics 50c and 35c values in Voiles, Tissues, etc., on sale at.........- SHAPES Up to $1.50 values on sale Squire Henry Burkhart, of Pleasant Gap, was in. the. city Wednesday attending a meeting of the officers of the Old Settlers Association of which he is presi- dent. The Evergreen class of the M. was entertained Thursday after- noon of last week by Mrs. Frank Wright at her home on North Ha- vana street. After the regular business session the hostess served a most delicious lunch. J. A. Trimble returned Friday from Excelsior Springs, where he attended the state convention of Your suit case is here., Please get it soon, Black & Armoid> 4 Miss Mamie Hartwell, of the Farmers Bank force was a Joplin visitor the first of the week. “Mrs. Clyde Johnson and little son of Bartlesville, Oklahoma, are in the city visiting relatives. Odd pants, Black & Arnold. Miss Carrie McCaughey _ re- turned the first of the week from an extended visit to Kansas City. Mrs. Arthur WeMott returned the last of the week from a visit to her son, Theodore, in Kansas City. : Keep coming in, Black & Arn- old. Donald C. Burrage, of Kansas City, who has been visiting Wal- ter Lynch, has returned to his home. c Wallace Moore spent Saturday and Sunday in Kansas City visit- ing his parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. F, Moore. : _ F. B, Walton of the Walton Trust Company, was a visitor to Kingfisher, Oklahoma, the last of the week. Extra good hosiery at Walker- McKibben. Mrs. W. F. Keasling and daugh- ter, Avis, who have been spending the winter in California, have re- turned home. : : Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Coberly mo- tored over to Amsterdam Sunday and spent the day with Mr. Cob- erly’s parents. Leslie Clinkenbeard, local sup- erintendent of the Western Union Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Black, Miss Agnes Arnold and T. A. Black motered jto ‘Kansas City Sunday and heard two sermons by Billy Sunday. Robert Maddox, who is attend- ing Central Business College in Kansas City, spent Sunday in this city with his parents, Mr. and} Mrs. Chas. Maddox. Dr. R. E. Crabtree has moved his office from over the Gench Brothers store to the rooms over the Star Theatre formerly occu- pied by Dr. Cannon. Mr. and Mrs. P. L. Shelton, Wm. Webb and Bud Swarens mo- tored over from Foster Saturday and spent the day visiting friends and taking in the town. The Pleasanton base ball team was so badly defeated by the Ne- braska Indians one day last week that the Pleaseanton papers did not publish the score. Rey. W. F. Jones, of Carthage, District Superintendent of the Methodist church, conducted quarterly conference at the Ohio street M. E. Church Sunday. At Appleton City last week two automobile speeders were fined $50 each. A few fines like that would have a tendency to put a stop to some of the speed maniacs in this town. New Palm Beach suits, Walker- McKibben. J. B. March, of Osage township, was in the city Saturday. Mr. March: is a candidate for the Dem- ocratic nomination for representa- tive in the state legislature from Bates county. Telegraph Company, was & Kan- sas City visitor. Dainty new pumps $2.50 up, ‘Walker-MeKibben. - W. G.Cumpton and daughter, Mrs. Clara Batchelor, of Eastern Bates, Visited relatives in Butler Friday of last week. Mrs. M. T. Duncan. ‘city the last of the week. “goods, Walker-McKibben. visitors to Butler Monday. _Mr. and Mra. : i Mrs. R. G. Trickett, of Arkan- t sas, spent a few days last week visiting at the home of her sister, A. L, Humphrey of Pleasanton, Kansas, made a short visit to his sister, Mrs. Lida Henry, in this Very latest ideas in wash dress R. C. Peters-and J. F. Broad- stead of the Peters Publishing Company, of Joplin, were business Frank Tuttle, who is working on the Marian Pabgor sag toga — day; in this” wil parent Ellis Tuttle. ter, | J. E. Dowell, the senior editor of the Adrian Journal was in the city attending the press associa- tion meeting Friday. is a pretty busy man these days as his son, who is the junior editor, is spending the summer attending school at Columbia. Mr. Dowell |: the Pharmaceutical Associati Missouri, Mrs. ‘Trimble and daughter, Miss Hortense, stopped off in Kansas City where they vis- ited friends until Saturday. Dog Butler celebrate Fourth of July this year? So far there have beén no preparations made to that end and the time is getting short. Hume, Appleton | City’ and other towns are making preparations for a big time and Butler should not de behind. Lets celebrate. Judge W. T. Cole returned Sat- urday from a ten days trip to Toledo, Ohio, where he attended a meeting of the Grand Council of the, Knights and Ladies of Secur- ity, as a delegate from Butler Council No. 19. He made the trip by way of the lakes and reports a mighty fine time. Newton Brannock and_ three small sons, of Kansas City, spent a°few days the first of the week’ visiting at the home of his father, Robert Brannock. While in the city hé dropped into The Times of- fice and ordered the paper sent to him for a year so that he may keep track of the ‘doins’’ in old Bates. . J. W. Suddath, of Warrensbur, was in the city Friday evenn:: and Saturday forenvon in the in terest of his candiuacy for the Democratic nomination for judze of the Kansas City Court of A)- peals. Mr. Suddath is an eminent lawyer and a clever gentlein3n and will poll a large vote in tins county. ‘ Mr. and Mrs. Frank Pattee and Miss Cora Cheshire, all of the Am- sterdam Enterprise were pleasant callers at this office Friday while in the city to attend a meeting of his daughter, i the! nsual. / Boys suits with extra pants, belt, cap $5. ~Black & Arnold. - ~ Arthur Kellar, of the Frank Clay Drug Store, was a Kansas City visitor Sunday. \ 1. L. Beach, the South Side Jew- eler, made a business trip to Kan- sas City the first of the week. Former Butler Girl Married. Miss Gladys Atkeson, formerly of this city and,James Wesley Mc- Creery of Holliday, Missouri, were united in marriage Sunday, June 18, at three o’clock at: the “ Westport Presbyterian church at Kansas City, Rev. George P. Baity officiating. _ Atietss soe esse FOC Miss Margaret Harper vis friends in Rich Hill Sunday. Mrs. Hal Travis was called to Pleasanton, Kansas, Monday by the serious illness of her father. Prof, L. F, Robinson and family motored down to Rich Hill Sun- day:and spent the afternoon visit- ing friends. W. I. Wilson, a prominent far- mer of Mound township, was in the city Wednesday and made this office an appreciated call. W. I. Hupp left the first of the week for Colorado, where he ex- pects to spend some time visiting al There will be Childrens Day ser- vive at the M. E, Chureh Sunday j d of the regular preaching service. The other services are as Mrs. E. A. Seott, who has been spending the last week in this city at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Vease Price, hae returned to her home at Eureka, Kansas. At a meeting of the officers of the Bates County Old Settlers As- sociation Wednesday it was de- cided to hold the Old Settlers Re- union this year Wednesday, Oc- tober 4. Mrs. T. IL. Harper and daugh- ter, Miss Margaret, left the first of the week for Trinidad, Colo- rado, where they will spend some time. with Mrs. Harper’s sons, Doe- tors John and Clyde Harper. R. P. Reynolds, Robert, Lewis and Elmer Smith and Haskell Henderson, prominent young far- mers of the Merwin neighborhood, were in the city Tuesday and made this office a pleasant and appreciated call. Children’s Day exercises were held Sunday morning at the Chris- weight elk Have Arnold. Can’t keep our easy shoes from them, selling. ou tried Black & James Horace Emmons of Calla- sea eneene 25c way county, candidate for the Wie. Sc oe 15c Democratie nomination for secre- 10c tary of state -was in the city eee 2) tute 81) Soh ¢ wushe edueatyane © 4948 < Wednesday getting acquainted with the voters. J. M. Reeder, of Adrian, was in the city one day the last of the week in the interest of his eandi- daey for the Democratic nomina- tion for Court from the North district. Barker to Speak in Bates County Judge of the County r, a candidate for a The he nomination for governor on ‘Good Clothes the Demoeratic ticket will be in Store Bates and St. Clair counties and make speeches at the following places on Thursday, June 29: Adrian, 9:00 a. m.; Butler, 10:30 a. m.; Appleton City, 1:00 p. m.; Rockville, 2:15 p.m. Mr. Barker is the attorney general of Missouri and is a convineing speaker, Come out and hear him. To Have Chautauqua This Year. The LadiesCemetery Associa- tion have taken the Chautauqua situation in hand and are prepar- ing the advertising matter and in other ways getting ready for the light | The bride is the daughter of W. QO. Atkeson, editor of the Bates County Record, and was born and grew to young womanhood in this city. She is a graduate of the Butler High School class of 1907 and until about two years ago was in the employ of the Walton Trust Company of this city. About -two years ago she went to Columbia where she has been acting as stenographer ‘for Dean J. C. Jones of the College of Arts and Sciences of the Missouri Univer- sity. She was one of Butler’s most popular young women and has the best wishes of a host of triends for a long and happy mar- ried life. c Mr, McCreery is a graduate of the University of Missouri of the class of 1915 and for the past year was teacher of manual arts at Mexico, Missouri. ‘oats Mr. and Mrs. McCreery will go to Madison, Wisconsin, where they will attend the summer session of the University of | Wisconsin, where they will each take special work, Those present at the ceremony were; W. 0, Atkeson, and sons, | Wendell and Clarence, of this city, ‘and Floyd Atkeson of Liberty, Missouri, Miss Bula Boggess, of Kansas City,,Chas. Mains, of Jet- ferson City; Miss Bertha Me- Creery, of Holiday, Missouri, and Mr. Martin Meyers of Mexico, best chautauqua ever held jn this city. An unusually strong pro- al reputation will deliver lectures on subjects of general interest. There will be an Agricultural Day perts in the United States will have something of importance to tell the farmers. Charlotte Township Sunday Schoo] Convention. at Virginia Sunday, June 18, ing officers were elected: President, Lee M. Hardinger ent, Miss Myrtle McCann; class, Mrs. W. M. teacher tri wick; missionary, Mrs. dee Wolfe. Notice. Leannah Coffelt, deceased, have by the Probate Court of County, Missouri, bearing the 10th day of June, 1916 All persons — having date tian church. The youngsters, who had been drilled by Miss Fannie Catron, were dressed in the cos- tumes of different countries and put on a very interesting enter- tainment. W. J. White, of Deepwater township, was in the city Wednes- day. Mr. White has a fine herd of Tamworth hogs and since the first of the year has shipped hogs all over the United States, ship- ping as far west as Oregon, as far east as New Jersey, as far knorth as Michigan and south to the Bates county press association. The Pattees are wide awake news- paper folks and get out one of the newsiest country papers in this section of the state. Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Smith and son, Arnold, and daughter, Agnes, Special Palm Beach, Suits $3.50, Walker-McKibben. Mr. and Mrs. Will Smith and lit- tle son of Coffeyville, Kansas, who have been visiting in this city at the home of Mr. Smith’s parents, Mr .and Mrs. Frank Smith, and Mrs. Smith’s mother, ‘Mrs. John Endres, have returned home. Saturday. was another dul! {iy for the Butler merchants. The weather was fine and the farmers put in full time in their corn fields, some of which had gotten pretty weedy on account of the wet weather of last week. returned Saturday from a_ ten days trip to White River. They were on what is valled Presbyter- ian Hill, between Hollister and Branson. Mr. Smith says that the fish were not biting very good but that they had a fine time any- how—they | were all able to sleep good every night and eat three full-meals every day. Your size in white skirts $1.25 up, Walker-McKibben. Those from Butler and vicinity who attneded the Democrati¢ na- ecuting Attorney D. C. Chastain, cuit Clerk H. 0. Maxey and R. D.| forced to stay in Colorado Springs | where ‘he di Gita “Mr Mexey wes the delc-gn secount of the health of the|” heaton gate from this district. They all who is badly afflicted with For Rent. 117 acres three miles north of tional convention at St. Louis last week were: Dr. C. A. Lusk, Pros- Probate Jadge Carl J. Henry, Cir- report a very enthusiastic and har- 'monious convention and are cer- is New Mexico. Isaac Fowler, who was former- ly a merchant in this city, but who left here about 15 years ago and who has been for some years in Kansas City, has been visiting friends in this vicinity for the last week. He informs us that Mrs. Fowler, who has been an invalid for some time, is much improved and if he ean find a suitable house for rent in this city he intends to move here again and make Butler his home. Mr. and Mrs. A:lie Drennan and little daughter, Arlene re turned Saturday from an automo- bile tip to Colorado. On_ the homeward trip they had to make some detours on account of high water. They had a pleasant trip with no automobile trouble to feak of. Mr. and Mrs. James phenson and son, Leslie, who de the trip with them were ism, His parents intend fain that ‘President Wilson will be | airmoc 1 by a big majority. t ay ? r¢ him, to Phoenix, Arizona, as he ‘is able to stand the to exhibit them to the undersigned for allowance within six months after the date of said letters, or they may be precluded from any benefit of such estate, and if such claims be not exhibited within one year from the date of the last in- sertion of this publication, they shall be forever barred, Daté of last insertion, July 6, 1916. : ¢. A. Denton, Administrator with Will. Doc Yancey Dead. Word was received in this city last week that Henry Yancey, (colored) had died at the home of relatives in Paola, Kansas. Doe Yancey, as he was generally called was for many years a char- acter in this city. Dressed in a Prince Albert coat with an old silk hat on one side of his head he will be long remembered by some of the older residents. In the early days in Butler, Aunt Marg, the mother of Henry, used to hitch up a team of oxen to an old wagon on which she loaded Henry and a brother, John, and walking beside the team she would drive to the country where she would work in the fields all day and returned home again at night. i Aunt Marg and John have been dead for many years and some years ago Henry was stricken 36-3t gram is promised. Men of nation- | The convention of the Charlotte township Sunday schools was held | in| the Methodist church. The follow- | | 31 vice president, James Park ; secre- | tary and treasurer, Miss Maggie McCann; elementary superintend- | home Hardinger ; ning, Mrs. Marion Sed- James Greenup; temperance, Miss Bur- Notice is hereby given that let- ters: of administration with the will annexed upon ‘the estate of claims | against said estate are required | Missouri. Death of Mrs. 8. L. Coleman. | Mrs. Martha Alice Coleman, \ wife of Samuel Ll, Coleman, died the home of her son, John W: }Coleman, on North High street. [Sunday mornning, June 18, at jnine o'clock after an illness* of about three years. Martha Alice Eads was born in | Sangamon county, Tlinois, De- 'cember 7, 1860, and at an early age moved with her parents to this state and settled in Bates county. She was united in| marriage in 1880 to Samuel LL. Coleman, at Johnstown, Besides her husband, she is survived by one son, John |W. Coleman of this city, and one daughter, Mrs. J. M. Kash, of the east part of the county. Two brothers, W. A. and F, E. Eads, of department superintendent, Mrs. | ¢ ‘ Es Carrie Henderson; — organized Spruce and three sisters, Mrs. Will White, of Appleton City, Mrs. Frank Peacock, Schell City, and Mrs. Mary Purcell, of Springfield, Illinois, also survive. At the age of thirteen she unit- ed with the Presbyterian church and lived an. earnest, christian, useful life and when the call came she was ready to go. With the exception of years, when Mr. Coleman county treasurer of Bates county, four was 2 een granted to the adormahed she has lived the greater part of her life on a farm in the eastern part of this county, where she en- joyed the love and esteem of the entire community. Funeral _ services, conducted Monday afternoon at two o’eloek lat the Johnstown church by Rev. | J: M. Shelton assisted by Dr. 8. Ww. | Maxey and the remains were laid \to rest in the Johnstown cemetery, Earl Fox Dead. | Karl Fox was born in Bradford county, Pa., Nov: 11, 1858, passed away at his home near Cornland June 17, 1916. Being at the time of his death 57 years, 7 months and 6 days of age. Fle was married Novy. 5, 1891, at Vinita, Okla., to Miss Lucy Car- ter. To this union were born 6 children, 5 of whom still survive. They are Guy, Bessie, Bart, Ethel and Carter. Besides his bereaved wife and family, Mr. Fox leaves a brother, Geo. Fox, of Butler, and a host_of friends to mourn his de- parture. : Funeral services were held at the family residence Sunday, June 18, at 10 o'clock conducted by Rev. L. W. Keele and the body laid to rest in Oak Hill cemetery. The family has the sympathy of the entire community in this tine of sorrow. Billy Sunday Bids Farewell to Kansas City. With sobs and cheers the great- est religious meeting the west has ever known was closed in Kansas City Sunday evening when Billy with paralysis and taken to the home of relatives in Kansas, Sunday closed his seven weeks meeting. 80,000 people attended the meet- ings Sunday. 20,000 persons were converted during the meetings. $43,000 was raised for current ex- Butler. penses and a free will offering ‘Wesley Denton, |amounting.to $32,000 was taken 22-tf - Butler, Mo.|Sunday for the evangelist.