The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, February 15, 1917, Page 5

‘ LA Shoe Come in while Mens overalls 75c, $1.00, $1.25. Extra weights, Black & Arnold. Black & Black & Arnold Clothing Co. Mrs. W. E. Welton and Mrs. C. C. Oliver spent Monday'in Kansas| Get your suit now, The Daylight Store ST CALL TO BUY SUITS and COATS We Are Offering a number of Lines of s at Former Prices we have your size, and save money AMERICAN CLOTHING HOUSE The Good Clothes Store Joseph S. Walker, of Sheridan, If you want to save money, | Meyer, of trade with us this year, Black &1 Wyoming, and Elsie Arnold. | Rockville, were united in’ mar- ane 0 ; ‘riage Saturday, February 10, at J. 1. Wolfe, of Burlington, i). yf, . church, South, parson- Kansas, and Mr. and Mrs, J. de! ou wR OK Wolfe port, Wolfe, of Richland, Missouri, })<" Rey. E. K. Wolfe performed City. Arnold. \ Mens overshoes $1.50, Black &| Several Butler motor ‘fans’’ Arnold. are attending the big automobile J. B. Duvall made a_ business trip to Barton county one day the last of the week. Why not buy goods at the old price, Black & Arnold. , Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Cable spent * Sunday in Harrisonville visiting | relatives and old friends. Sweaters 75c, $1.00, $1.50 to’ close out, Black & Arnold. Miss Mildred Lyneh spent a few days the last of the week with friends at Excelsior Springs. Mrs. Howard James, Hill, spent Sunday in this city with her sister, Mrs. H. G, Cook. R. W. Vail, of the Welton Jew- elry Company, visited relatives in Kansas City Sunday and Mon- day. ‘ J. W. Anderson, the Rockville of Rich Mame ithe ceremony. show in Kansas City this week. were called to this city Saturday | 1 °°"? M Work shirts 50c, 75e, $1.00,|C. Wolfe. | Etna © Arnold; ’ Mr. and Mrs, Chas. Reichel, of | TA. Black spent a few days! Rieh Hill, moved to this city the the Jast of the week in Kansas} jast of the week and expect to City visiting his daughter, Mrs, J.) make this city their home. Mr. C, upp, and Mr. Hupp. | Reichel is connected with the Mis- AML overcoats at a discount, S0urt Pacific railroad, | Black & Arnold. Mr. and Mrs. Don’ Kinney, of | Kansas City, were in the city Monday attending the funeral of Mrs. Kinney’s mother, = Mrs. Sarah Douglass. Mrs. Hattie Levy, of St. Louis, who has been visiting her nephews, Paul and Julius Levy, went up to Pleasant Hill last week to spend a few days visiting | Mrs. Minnie Oppenheimer, Mens work shoes $2.50, $3.00, ‘I. Ed Britt, a prominent farmer Black & Arnold. ‘of the Rockville neighborhood, ‘was a business caller at this of- Volney McFadden, 8. A. Handy] tice Monday. Mr. Britt is walk- and O, If, Swearingen, of Kansas} ing with a cane as a result of an City, and Judge W. M. Young, of attack of seiatie rheumatism. Morehead, Kentucky, were at- \tending the Bates county eireuit} J. B. Fall sizes, Lotspeich, \by the death of their brother, D., one of the lty start | Friday Joe Burda, who lives a few miles north of town, brought in a small load of flax whieh he ‘sold to Cannon Bros., and receiv- fed a check for $114. Rather ‘a neat sun for a small load which would have brought half that amount a few years ago. 1 Perey ‘Tyler was up from Par- | !sons, Kansas, last week looking ‘after his farm in Deepwater town- ship. Friday, February 9, he held a sale and disposed of his live isteck and farm machinery. He cholds a good position with . the} Missouri, Kansas & ‘Texas rail- road and thinks that he will not} vo back to farming. The good roads and the uncer: | itain shipments of coal have caus- ‘eda large number of — teamsters hauling coal from the court the first of the week. | ‘Times’ oldest and most valued | ah WUE Wien ‘friends, was business caller at this HOMO GItIOn that th With the roads ey oar “night for Chicago to buy goods ’ tor his firm. i islature has at. last. got down to —eonnected with the company. druggist, was a business visitor’ Rev, L. W. Keele was called to to the county seat Friday of last; Archie Sunday to preach the! \[p, Lotspiech has been a constant funeral of Robert TH. Anderson,! peader of G. M. Hargett, of the Walten, who died at his home in Chicago, | than thirty years. uur | week, spent Sunday | 1l.. Thursday, February 8. his ial in Crescent TH cemetery, The Trust Company, and Monday in Versailes with family. Democrats — of the Spruce neighborhood, visitors to this office one the last of the week. i A | e pu : ‘nominating a township ticket. Paul Levy, of the Sam Levy | 1s.2¢ A.B. Edrington, Mercantile Company, left Sunday | Township Committeeman. | Mrs. Charles Gardner and little idaughter, Genevieve, who have Wesley Denton, cashier of the;jeen spending some time in this! Peoples Bank, was a. business vig-| city with her parents, Mr. itor to Kansas City one day the) Mrs. A. M. Campbell, first of the week. ‘turned to their home at Newton, ; John Coleman of the Denton | ansas. Coleman Loan and Title Company | Buy your work clothes and be | was a business visitor to Clinton | ready for spring work, Black &| players of that town that would | Arnold. ‘make most any team go to heat one day last week. Mrs. John Murphy returned the | Harvey Clinkenbeard, of Ne-| vada, was shaking hands with old friends and visiting relatives in| Where she had undergbne an op-| this city last week. ‘eration for the removal of aj; Freeman B. Walton went to Ok- ; goiter. She steod the operation ; lahoma the last of the week on! Well and her friends are hopeful: business connected with the Wal-/ of au early recovery. ton Trust company. '. Charles Cobb, of the Foster | i we. neighborhood, was in the city An emebanyy e679 het the lee | Friday getting bills printed for al eo Whit he will have February Mr. Cobb and his famly will! business. A Jim Crow bill wa i e week. H Saeemeneee 1 move te Glasgow, Oregon, where! Mr. andMrs. Prentice Bolin left they will reside in the future. the last of the week for Garden: : es Ree ota | City, Kansas, where they expect | Word was. reeeived in this city ; to make their future home. jlast week of the death of F. B.| : Fay, which oceurred - at Wilsey, Suit cases $1.00 up. Traveling} Kansas. Mr. Fay many years ago! hags, trunks, Black & Arnold. ;condueted a flour mill on Mill | From Judge Clark Wix, who Street. He lived on the lot on; was in town Saturday, we learn jwhich the Webster school now; that Mrs. Wix is confined to her; stands. i home with a severe attack of; If you want to spend a pleasant {concert five reels of first class, not face it to get back and laid pneumonia. levening drop into the Opera | pictures were shown as the dona-; down in the open field, where she ‘House and see some of those fine!tion of Manager Fisk .of the} was found frozen stiff the next} Dr. J: S. Newlon attended ai. : * =| . " _ rs tures th n ger Fisk 1 meeting of the Cass County Med-| Tien i. at Manager Fisk inj : Siar fi ae There is a Bragly spe-?} ical association at Harrisonville | 41 every Saturday night. Com- last week. He was on the PPO"! sortable seats and the price is gram for an adress. 1 ole Five canith Philli | Mr. and Mrs. Joe pera ood Ed Grout, who has been hold- spent a few cy he “re A sie ing down an express run between last of the wee hase and ee park Kansas City and Springfield, on! and es 7 abe = © | the Friseo railroad, has. severed | their. home in vepiin. his connection with the express, John S. Walker, agent for the;company and is working at the! New York Life Insurance Com-| Rhodes Pharmacy. Ed was a; pany, spent Thursday in Kansasjregistered pharmacist before, City and St. Joseph on business| working for the express vom-! i pany. Spruce: this office Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Ellis Kimble, of | township will hold a convention! has concluded to quit’ farming were /#t the Enterprise school house; and go back to his old trade, that Saturday, February 24, 1917, at 2) of railroading. ‘o’vlock p. mm. for the purpose of! publie sale February 19. and} them next fall at the Old Settlers have re-) meeting. caused some hard work to be ‘them. Some of the boys are pret-{ wasted. G MN De: s they can; " ot old, —but—pemiaps—tley can Charles and John Pharis, of first of the week from Ft. Scott, ;: ‘a team this year? ‘back on the road. 'this office one day last week. % i pretty good wages, which is an- this paper for aye “The Isle of Life.’ is the title of the Red Feather feature to be shown at the Electric Theater! next Monday — afternoon — and] inght. This is one of the classiest plays that has been shown on the Isereen in this city for a long time, y {Roberta Wilson and Haywood | In a letter enclosing a check for} Mack are in’ the leading — roles, his renewal A. M. Pritze, of Ponca] which insures it being one of the ‘ity, Oklahoma, says that The} hest. mes is always the first paper read at his honse and to tell his friends that he will meet with northwest caller at Mr. Haas F. C. Haas, of town, was a business He will havea Several industrious citizens of Butler, with the idea of. beating the high cost of living, about two weeks ago planted some of the ‘earlier varieties of garden ‘*sass.’"| The baseball fever ‘has struck Tt is hard-to say just what the; Rich Hill early this year. The Re-| zero weather that we have been view suggests a.line up of the bill! having did to these gardens, but it is a safe het that Jack Frost Does Butler have: ! y | Deepwater township, loaded their) ‘goods and with their families left O. J. Seribner, Who sells silos} for Alberta, Canada, where they for the Indiana Silo Company, intend making their future home.! came in off the road the last of] They have a brother, Leslie, who! the week and spent a few days}lives in Canada and he pictured with home folks. He left Tuesday | the wonders of that country in! morning for Kansas City where! such glowing terms that they had he will. spend.a.conple of days. #t} a. sale and. sold off their super- the automobile show before going! flous farm machinery and stock ‘ahd will try thet country them. | selves. ‘*eome back.”’ The concert by the Harmony | Club at the opera house Saturday) (©. H. Letton, of the Home Pro- night, for the benefit of the city! duce Company, received word the | * Welfare Board, was a success ini last of the week that a valuable every way. Some of the best) Shorthorn cow had been frozen musicians in the city took part.;to death on his farm in Vernon A neat sum of money was raised| county, Thursday night. It and donated to the Welfare: seemed that the eow had walked Board, who have more calls thanjaway from the sheds and when they ean eare for. Besides the!the cold wind commeneed would | | i Spruce town bills; Opera House. morning. About 11:30 o’eloek Sunday; night the fire department re-; neighborhood, sponded to an alarm of fire from) Wednesday the home of Frank Watson, on! printed for a sale Friday, -Feb- Harrison street. The fire badiruary 23. Mr. Snodgrass has gained such a headway before the Jived on the same farm for 47 alarm was turned in that there: years, and he would not leave was little that . the department! now but for his wife’s health, ! could and the house was entirely! which has been poor for some destroyed. The fire was suppos-' time. They will go to Loveland, ; ed to have been caused by a de folorado, where their many, fective flue. There was some in: 4. EB. Snodgrass, of the was in having= sale how # man and a team can inake}! More! other argument for better roads.|csque methods to hold a crowd, ip ison’s daughter, Mrs. W. EL Os- | borne and family. lon the 23. Spruce Pick Ups. Mrs. Mattie Hill and daughter, Mrs. Elva Jones, spent Thursday with Mrs. George Vanhoy. Mrs. Rosa Cumpton called on Mrs. Talmage Raybourn one af- ternoon this weck. Mrs. Lee Reese and: Mrs, Jim Jones called on Mrs, Art Gilmore Wednesday ‘afternoon. Mrs. Mollie Borland — spent Tuesday with Mrs. George . Van- hoy. Misses Gladys Barnes and Christie Sargent spent Friday with Mrs, Tal Raybourn, Mrs. Frank Rich called on Mrs. Tom Parker Friday afternoon. Clark and Roy Smith called on Chester” and Aubrey — Sargent Thursday evening. Mr. and Mrs, George Vanhoy entertained the following at din- ner Sunday, Mr. and Mrs, Del Lutsenhizer and children, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Dickison and children, Mr. Walter Snodgrass and daugh- ter, Mable. The sale at John Pharis’ Tues- day was well attended and every- thing sold well. : Mr. and Mrs, Lee Reese enter- tained the following Friday even- ing, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Rich, Mr. and Mrs, Tom Cumpton, Mrs. Mattie Hill, Mr. and) Mrs, Jim Jones, Mr. Carl Hill, Myr. Frank Rich. Mr. Carl Hill and Mr. Tom Cumpton rendered music which was enjoyed by all. Chester Sargent and sister vis- ited Cumpton school Thursday afternoon, Mrs. Clark pnewmnonia, Miss Christie Sargent spent Sunday with Miss Gladys Barnes. Mr. and Mrs. Lee Reese spent Sanday with Mr, and Mrs. Tal Raybonrn. BROWN EYES. Revival. in Progress. Wix is sick with Revival services, whieh it is ex- pected will continue for a month, commenced at the Ohio Street M. RK. charch Sunday night. meeting is in charge of Dr. Frank Ss. Arnold, of Wansas City, assist- ed by J.B. Grambling, who has charge of the music. Jr, Arnold, who for ten years i stor of the First Preshy- ter church of Kansas City, is entirely unlike the ordinary evan- velist. At the first meeting Sun- yo night the chureh was filled md several were heard to say uv Dr. Arnold said things that e them think and did not de- pend on slang, abuse and pictur. but preached snre enongh, old fashioned religion, leaving vande- ville stunts for those who were in that line of business. Mr. Grambling is a musician and soloist of ability and is training up a choir that it wil! be well worth going to hear. The revival is being eonducted by the Ohio Street M. KE. Chareh, the M. E, Church Seuth and the Presbyterian ehurehs and the rs of these churehes will as- Services will and sist in the meeting. be held every afternoon night. Mt. Carmel News. Mrs." M.S. Simpson of nea: Cornland and her mother Mrs. Dunbarr of Kansas spent a few days last week with Mrs, Simp- Mr. Barr sold a span of mules to a man in Butler Saturday and W. M. Hardinger sold one mule to Chas Argenbright the same day. Bud Berry has been doing suine carpenter work for W. A. Turner the past week, Everett Drysdale was renorted on the sick list Monday. Dr. Lusk vated ta-see him. ; James Simpson of Butler spent Thursday night with his — sister Mrs. W. E. Osborne and family. Charley Wolfe who has been ick for some time is mending and as able to be out of doors a little Monday. He is still with his sis- ter Mrs. Lee M. Hardinger. Ray MeCann was taken to Kan- sas City Friday for an operation. He was operated on Saturday morning and we understand he stood the operation well. Dr. Lusk seecompanied him to the city. Mrs. C. G. Porter and children spent Friday night and Saturday with her parents Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Eggleson in Butler. There was no Sunday School at Mt. Carmel Sunday on account of the funeral of Mr. Wolfe at Vir- ginia. W. F. MeKibben will have a sale February ‘20 and Roy Burke Come ard help things sell for the right prices. = Mr. Absolum Hedrick of Harlan tiends hope that she will be re-j county, Ohio has been visiting the surance but not enough to cover ‘stored to health and return to her the loss. eld friends in Bates county. past week with his sister Mrs. N. A. Barr. UNCLE HENRY. The | years Judge G. Claybourn Miller Dead. Judge G, Claybourn Miller, one of Bates county’s best known and highly respected citizens, died at his home on South Mechanic street, in this city Saturday night, February 10, 1917, about 8:30 o'clock, as the result of an attack of heart failure. While he had been in poor health for a long time his death was unexpected and came as a shock to the whole community. He was sittingtalk- ing with his wife and a neighbor who had dropped in when, without the least) avarning, he fell bael dead. ; JIndge Miller was born in Polke, Putinan county, West) Virginia, November 16, 1846, and when nine years. old came with his payents to this county, The trip from West Virginia was made by hoat down the Ohio and up the Missis sippi and Missouri rivers to West- port Landing, now Kansas City, and from there by wagon to the farm where they lived for many Years, about three miles southeast of this city. During the Civil war they lived for two vears in Henry county, being driven there by the notorious Order No. 11. At the conclusion of the war they return- ed to the old farm whieh they found a desolate waste, only a few sections of fence and an old eot- ton wood tree being left to mark the site of the home that they left. November 8, 1869. he was unit ed in marriage to Miss Virginia Hoffman, of this county. Besides his wife he is survived by one daughter, Alice, the wife of E. A Hardin, of this city; one grand daughter, Miss Doris Miller; three sons, J. O, Miller, L. C. Miller and Newton Miller, allot Kansas City One son, Charles died when six years of age. Judge Miller was of the highest type of citizen, Honest, fearless and an inveterate enemy of hy- rnd sham, Te was for 44 member of the First Bap- tist church of this city and for more than 20 years one of its Dea- eons. To him religion meant something. It was not a thing to be pat off when convenient. Te his business and in his home he lived it all the time. He enjoyed the respect and esteem of his neighbors to a marked degree and in 1890 he was eleéted a member of the vounty court, where he served for two years withshonor to himself and to the satisfaction of his constituents. Buneral services, conducted hy Rev. J. BE. Alexander, of the Bap tist chureh, were held at the Pres byterian church, Monday after noon, Febraary 12, 1917, and the body placed in the family vault pe Oak Hill cemetery, Christian Science Services. Christian Science Serviees anid Sunday sehool will be held each Sunday in the chureh, corner of t. Seott and Delaware streets. Subject, “Soul.” All are cordially invited to at- tend, The Concert Talking Machine A high class cabinet machine— Plays all makes disc records— Comes in either Mahogany or Polished Oak Finish—Not excell- ed in any essential’ feature by others sold for $100.00. Price Only $35.00 Come in and see it. Terms if desired. Walker-McKibben’s The Quality Store 5