The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, August 30, 1917, Page 5

The Daylight Store Fall suits now arriving. Very lat- est models, Black & Sons. week on a short business trip to Springfield. ~ Overalls and khaki pants work shirts 65c, Black..& Sons. $1.25, Alex Cameron left the first of the Fall Suits arid Coats for. alaten cos ", Inall the Late Model and Fabries. '.. See the New Belt-all-round Suits for Young Men _ $15.00 to, $25.00 YOUR NEW STESTSON IS HERE-$4.00 and $5.00 WE SHOE THE FAMILY - SELBY’S for Ladies BILLIKENS for the Little Folks - ‘ WALK-OVERS for Men AMERICAN CLOTHING HOUSE ‘tm Outfitters" — New fall ‘skirts, Walker-McKibben.| W. O. Atkeson, editor of the Rec- ord, spent Friday afternoon in Rich Mr. and Mrs. Otis Baker; Mrs. Je} gin F, Isley, of Rich Hill and Miss Let.) i Bush, of Sprague, motored over to| Gus Bennert, of Springfield, was in Holden Sunday. Mr. Baker returned |the city the first of the week on a that evening. The ladies are spend-| business mission. ing the week with Mrs. L. Maloney, | Ste | M. Jay Gordinier and Orville Ray Mrs. L. A. Porter an old and es- teemed resident of Rich Hill, died at the home of her son, Henry Porter, in that city, Friday afternoon, August 24. Joe Kash and family of the Johns- town neighborhood moved to Butler -Black & Sons-Clothing Company. tf ‘ Cireuit Clerk H. O. Maxey was a Nevada visitor Saturday. New fall shoes, Walker-McKibben. L. B. Gench made a brief business visit to Rich Hill Thursday after- noon. last week, ‘They have rented. the| Mrs. Isley’s sister. y Judge Cole property on Harrison wi t ie : made a business trip to St. Louis the Douglass Shoes, Black & Sons. ti | street. : First Lieutenant J. W. Wainwright | latter part of the week. of the regular army, who hasbeen | Charley ‘and J. V. Thomas left spending the last two weeks in this | John Green and Dode Abell cap- city visiting his brother, Tom Wain- Buy your groceries from the Pleas- the ant Gap and Lone Oak Grocery Tuesday for Sedalia, where they will tured a 70 pouund catfish in remain until after the State Fair. Store. 46-It|Marias des Cygnes drainage ditch| wright, and other relatives, left Sai- ‘ . , one day last week, says the Rich Hilljurday for Camp _ Sherman, QOhio,| . Sa oes Pd hes lot skirts | $2.48, Walker- | review, : where he has been assigned to duty Mrs. Maria. Lindsay, wid has been cKibben. with the Ohio troops. visiting relatives at Liberal for the last two weeks, returned home Mon- day. Mrs. A. F. Hickman and daughter, Miss Mamie, who have been ‘spend- ing the last three months visiting Butler relatives, returned to their home in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Mrs. I. H. Suffecool and daughter, Anna May, of Garden City, visited at the homes of Thomas Wainwright and A. EL; Rook for a few days the last of the week. Dr. and Mrs. J. W. Helton, of Hillsdale, Kansas, were in the city Dr. and Mrs. W. H. Allen, of Maysburg, made .a business trip to Butler Friday. Mrs, John Lane returned Saturday from Rich Hill, where she had been visiting relatives. ... : Two cars loaded with hay were burned in the Rich Hill yards Friday night. The hay- was being shipped from Sheldon and Boston to Kansis City and was valued at about: $300. The loss on the cars will be about $2,000 or $3,000, says the Rich Hill th fi : Mthe last of the week, being called here * Wednesday. , teas te shoe is-yours for $3| by the death,of Mrs, Helton’s father, Revicw es “ ‘i 5 BH ok & Sona.’ att Chas. H. Cooper. i Extra good school hose, Walker- D. K. Walker, of the Walker-Mc- where, dad . - 4 McKibben. ~ Kibben Mercantile Company, _ re- turned the first of the week from St. louis, where he had been looking over the winter styles and buying new goods for his store. Miss Marion;Sackett returned to her.home in Kansas City Friday after a visit in this city with her aunts, Miss Lizzie Ross, Mrs. Chas. Miller and Mrs. John Rook. Mrs. C. M. Leedy and daughter, Mrs. Byron Anderson andj. little daughter, Wilma, spent.a few days in. this city ‘the last ‘of ‘the week with ‘Mr. and Mrs. Osborne Leedy. Among the callers at’ this office the Deputy Postmaster _Elmer Camp-/} bell and Mrs. Campbell and Miss! ‘Mamie Campbell returned the Jast of the week from an extended automo- bile tour through the east. They made the trip in their Ford and, re- port a very pleasant trip. They were gone a month. Aas bone The colored churches of, Butler’ are holding a union revival this wéek. Very, interesting services. are held each day in an arbor erected for that purpose., The .white pastors of the various city churches have been help- ing their colored brothers out by o¢- cupying the pulpit occasionally. Scott Wilson, ‘of Belton, was among those commissioned a lieu- tenant at the Ft. Riley officers train- ing school. Lieutenant Wilson trav- els for a large dry goods house: and has many friends in Butler who hope that he will come out of the war with at least a brigadier general's commis-| Mfr, and Mrs. Chester Sleeth. Rev. zeny Hanby is now stationed at Rolla, but | Gentry Walton has sold his bunga- is spending the month of August 02 low on High street to J. S. Taylor,|a lecture tour. He lectured at Drexel of Shawnee township, who will move | Tuesday night. pee ot teas epegea Large numbers of Butler and Bates ler High School. Ira Rockhold who oe SE pig ee occup: + the 4 yu Ww ice se) the eo henarag agne Clark. There are about ten thousand Havana street. |in the camp now and it is well worth “\the trip to see just how soldiers: are C. H. Burgess, who recently came!being made from the raw material, hefe to take charge of the Walton/and how the government cares for Trust Co. loan business, resigned in) its soldiers. The camp is open to the favor of John O. Burson, who has] public every day. represented that company in Barton county, Mo., and Crawford county,| Mr. and Mrs. S. F, Warnock and Kas. He is a very pleasant gentle- ~ooeriatl eta and ee LW. F. : man and: a ‘thorough business man, |Keasling an jaughter, Avis, re- Reived orders last week to report at and we gladly wencoee kita to Clin- turned Saturday from a months au- tomobile trip through Colorado. Mr. Ft. Riley, Kansas, for duty. He vol- FonsiCliatea Eve tintedred his services some time ago/ ~~ ve: Keasling, who started with'them was and received a commission in the reg- ular army as surgeon. Mr. and Mrs, T. E. Morgan, who jhave been spending the week -with Butler relatives, returned to their ‘home in. Ft. Smith, Arkansas, Mon- day. Mr. Morgan is a prosperous laundryman of that city. The Hume stock show will be held this year the second week in October. ‘Hume is a hustling little burg and always has something going on OF 6 preparing for some sort of: celebra- |tion, fair or stock show. - » Chas. Ewin and Agnes, returned Friday of last week from Excelsior Springs. W..E. Walton returned» Monday E from a two months stay in-Colorado| 1 Springs and Denver, Colorado, ~ *” "4 Produce-.wanted at the Pleasant “Ga pand ILoné Oak Grocery store. | 46-1t 'W. C, Doane, Manager. Mrs. C.‘C. Catterlin and daughter, Miss Péarl, returned the last of the/ last of the week was our good friend, week from a visit with friends at, Ne-|C. H, Fouts, of north of town. He vada. , says that everything looks fine and nee in r he county. Gears Cable of the Cable Cla Phat partial: the /eneny ing Company, spent a few days in St.) Lieut. Warren Duvall left the last Louis last week buying winter goods| of the week for Kansas City-. where for his store. 2 he, will visit a few. days before ‘re- ss Gee | porting at Ft. Riley, where he will A High Art suit will wear from) help to get the new national army in -three to five years. To be convinc : ed | shape. ; try one, Black & Sons, tf if ; Miss Helen Chastain, who has been ” Irwin Hickman and his mother, | cpending the last two months with Mrs. G. B. Hickman, came down | relatives in Colorado, returned home from Drexel Friday to attend the/ the first of the week. Miss Chastain funeral of Charley Cooper. is a teacher in the Butler ‘High Thomas Akrigg, 51 years old, one j School. ; ¢ of the best known business men of Tom Graves, son of Judge and Rich Hill, died at his home in that/ys,, w, W. Graves, of Jefferson city Wednesday of last week. City, has received an appointment to H ; demy Gladys Morgan, who has been the United States military acacemy inde the lagt five weeks at the’ at: West Point. He will report at the home of her brother, R. E. Morgan, academy next June, ey returned home the last of the week. Conard Popp was in Butier Satur- ‘ day and called at this office and of- dered his paper. changed from Rich Hilt route one to Butler route seven. He has rented one of the Duvall farms south of town. “pr. C. A. Lusk, of Virginia, _re- Mrs. J. E.» Smith and erates \ Mrs. W. E. Lampton left the first of the week for Oklahoma City, Ok- lahoma, where she will spend a few Armstrong. Dr. :,Lampton .accom- panied her as far.as Kannsas City. Mrs, Frank Wells and Lieutenant Leo J. McCarthy, who have been vis- iting at the home of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. McCarthy, left Fri- day, Mrs, Wells for her home in Kan- sas City and Lieutenant McCarthy to join his regiment, the 36th United States infantry, at Ft. Snelling, Min- nesota. Rev. Claude S, Hanby, former pas- tor of the Ohio Street M. E. church spent from Saturday until Tuesday in this city as a guest at the home of - |School Days ‘| are Here supplies now. Tablets, Slate Buy your school of the week in Jefferson City with) the time touring Colorado and not- Mr. Allen’s parents; Mr. and Mrs. J.| withstanding lots of rain had a very D. Allen. Mr. Allen’s two brothers, | enjoyable trip. William H., and Jacob W.; who hold y Deputy United States Marshal commissions in the officers reserve, | Thomas Mitchum Tuesday brought left the first of the week for 4 Riley, Kansas, to take their places in| to Butler Fred Watson and Hina Kunzwiler, two young men the new, National army. ‘ «| charged with robbing the Little Blue The Times’ good friend Col. J.|postoffice, and placed them in the ‘Harlan Porter, the auctioneer who/Batcs county jail as Federal prison- Saturday and called at this o Col. Porter is one of the greatest be-/here with his parents when about lievers in high grade ‘cattle in Bates}years old. They will remain in jail izabeth,, left the . About a year ago he start-|until next November unless they give rip | ed ‘a Small way in the Holstein} bait for their appearance at he next 'Freisian cattle business and now is|term of the United States Court at ‘of the opinion that that is about the Kansas City. _ ly way to make money that there) 71) Nevada folks are throwing fits ~ é because the Missouri Pacific will not Mr, and Mrs. H.--E; Barton, of|put-on a shuttle train between Camp fouston, Texas county, arrived the/Clark and town so that the soldiers Mr. age daughter, Miss . 2 last of the week on an overland trip to visit relatives in Oklahoma. They will stop-# in for a brief visit with Mr. and Mrs. Everett Ewin. weeks with her daughter, Mrs, Sam Mr. and Mrs. R. D.° Allen and|calied to St. Louis on business and daughter, Jean, spent the latter’ part|/did not return. They spent most of gets the “high dollar” was in the cityjers. Young Watson, who is about 19 ffice. | years old, was born in Butler and left to spend a few days}can come in and sce the town,. and, of |; iss Amanda Garrett, of Kansas City, is visiting her friend, Miss Kate Hardin, near Butler. New fall shoes, hats, caps. want to sell you, Black & Sons. We School: teachers ‘should buy “Ken- yon Raincoats,” they are guaranteed. $5.00 up, Walker-McKibben. The Kansas City police got busy one afternoon this week and arrested 108 motorists who, were running without a license. The “Trench Model” mens new fall suits. See us before buying, Black & Sons. Barnett Adair, who has been spend- ing some time in Butler at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Duvall, left Saturday for his home at Columbia. Mrs. C. Reynolds and little daugh- ters, of Leeton, Missouri, are visiting at the home of Mrs, Reynolds par- ents, Mr. and Mrs. Asbury, southwest of town. still Our prices on work clothes Black low. Call and: be convinced. & Sons Clo. Co, "Lee Hardinger went to Kansas City Sunday and Tuesday returned with his wife, who underwent a sur- gical operation at the Christian hos- pital about two weeks ago. Keep coming in, Black & Sons. tf The annual reunion of the Clinton district of the Re-organized church of Latter Day Saints is being held in East Park, Rich Hill, The meeting commenced Friday, the 24th. J. J. Richardson, general manager of the Red Arrow Oil and Gas Com- pany, of Kansas City and Nowata, Oklahoma, was in the city Tuesday and Wednesday in the interest of his company. 43-tt Stetson hats, Black & Sons. Miss Dottie Owen, of Warrens- burg, is a guest at the home of her uncle, Judge A.B, Owen and Mrs. Owen. She is attending the teach- ers institute and will teach in Bates county the coming winter. J. A. Trimble left Tuesday for Kress, Texas, where he will spend a few weeks with C. N. McFarland on the big McFarland ranch. Jess says he will be a full fledged cow puncher before he has been in Texas a week. Mr. and Mrs. Frank. Gench and daughter, Miss Selma, and Miss Na- omi Johnson returned the first of the week from an automobile trip to Bartlesville, Oklahoma, where they visited at the home of Miss Johnson's brother, Clyde Johnson. Judge Allen Southern, of the Jack- son county circuit court, spent Mon- his cousin, Dr. and Mrs. T. W. Arn- old, The Judge and family were re- turning from a motor tour in the south part of the state and stopped off for a brief visit with his Butler relatives. Merlin Fields, who enlisted in the navy last April, arrived in the city Tuesday on a brief furlough which he will spend with his parents in the west part of the county. He is 2 member of the crew of the battle- ship Connecticut and it is probable that he will see foreign service in a short time. J. W. Taylor of Loveland, Colo- rado, was in the city the first of the week. Mr. Taylor is looking for a place to locate and may conclude to come to Bates county. He says that Colorado is all right, but that he does not like to depend on irrigation, as sometimes you get water and some- times you don’t. Monday morning James Hurt, the carpenter got up and went to the de- through on the early morning train. On his return he found the room. in flames. It is supposed that a lamp which he left burning had exploded. The fire department was. called and soon had the fire put out, but not be- fore some valuable carpenter tools had been destroyed. The damage to the house was small. Tuesday evening the Red Cross of Charlotte township gave a supper for the boys who were called in the draft for the national army. The ladies had donated chicken and many other good things to eat and the boys showed that Uncle Sam will have to be a good provider if he keeps up with their appetite. There was a very interesting patriotic program and a vety enjoyable time was had. About day night in this city at the home of, pot to meet a friend who was going Major and Mrs. Sam Walls of Adrian spent Wednesday in Butler. Col. Sam Walls was’ down from Adrian on a brief business visit Wednesday afternoon. Our good friend J. W. Maddy of near Adrian was in Butler Wednesday nd—-made-us—a-_pleasant—cal,—_—_— Our: good friend, J. S. Franklin, of Worland was in Butler’ Wednesday, looking after business matters, | Mrs. Thos. K, Stout, ate Bartles- ville, Okla., who has been visiting in California arrived here the first of the week for-a visit. with home folks. Grover C. Ratcliff, of Shawnee, this county, and Miss Gertie M. Ray, of Hamburg, Ilinois, ‘were united in marriage in this city Tuesday, Aug- ust 23, 1917. Justice of the Peace B. F. Jeter officiating. . Will Smith, who travels for the National Refining Company, will. in the near future move his family froin Coffeyville to this city. They will occupy the McFarland property on South Main street, where Major F. H. Crowell now lives. Major B. Evans and Miss Mary L. 3urk, of this city, were united in mar- riage by Rev. George R. Scroggs, of the Presbyterian church, at his home on South Delaware street, Tuesday afternoon at four o'clock, Mrs. Alma Huffaker of Rockville, spent several days here this week at- tending the county teachers meeting. Mrs. Huffaker is the daughter of Clark Smith, one of the leading stock- men of this section of the state. Roadmaster L. Mead, of the Mis- souri Pacific, returned the last of the week from Kansas, where he had been in charge of some work on the Nevada and Coffeyville division of the road. The roadmaster of that di- vision was sick and Mr, Mead was doing some of his work, Our good friend, J. S. Brown, one of the leading watermelon growers of ' the state brought us in a fine. melon Tuesday evening of the Elsie Lee variety. The “Elsie Lee” which is named for his daughter is a delight- ful melon, of rare flavor and sweet- ness. ° C. M. Walker has been down from Kansas City for several days digging the potato crop on his farm east of town. So far he has dug about four acres and is well satisfied with the yield, his only trouble being to get a suitable tool with which to do the digging. 5 * Mrs. W. W. Henry and children, Mrs. Thos, M. Orr, Mrs. R. D. Allen and daughter, Mrs. J. T. Hull and daughter, Mrs. Bertha Francisco: and children, Mr. and Mrs, John Speer and Mr. and Mrs. Denton dtove to Nevada Wednesday and spent the day visiting at Camp Clark. Some time ago the Missouri Pa- cific took off their morning train to Kansas City and the south bound one that arrived in Butler at 8 o'clock in the evening, and as these trains were the ones most used by Butler peo- ple spending the day in Kansas City, naturally there was a protest. A pe- tition was circulated in Butler and other towns along the road between Kansas City and Nevada protesting against the taking off the trains. Wednesday E. B. Silvers received no- tice that Commissioner Bain, of the State Public Service Commission, woulud hear the protests at a meet- ing to be held at Pleasant Hill, Sep- tember 6, at 9 a.m, It is expected that delegations will be present from Nevada, Rich Hill, Butler, Adrian and Pleasant Hill. _ 8 SMITHS’