The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1882-03-22
ADRIAN HOO-DOO.
A Times Special Drops Down
on the Burg and Chronicles
A Thing or Two.

eraI boom starts up all along the
lime as the Spring time approaches.
Business is good, merchants are hap
py and the Carpenters hammer
makes the welkin ring from one
end of the town to the other.
The reporter was surprised to
notice such large stocks of goods
carried by the merchants in Adrian,
and his natural inquisitiveness led
him to ask where the trade came
from to support or justify such
| stocks, when he was acquainted
with the fact that Adrian controls
scope OF country from ten to
twenty miles in diameter
Mr.. A. J. Satterlee is snugly
quartered in his new building to
which he is making an addition. He
is having boxes ETC., arranged in
good style for the Post Office which
will be turned over to vim on April
1st, by Mr. Moudy who resigned
the position, and Mr.. Satterlee hav-
ing been appointed his successor.
MIR. Moudy has made sn accepta-
ble postmaster, and no one doubts
that the trust has not been we'll
placed in the hands of Mr.. Satter-
lee.
s. P. Cox is doing splendid
business in the grocery and hard
ware line, of which he carries COM
plete and choice stock. MIR. Cox is
an industrious and popular young
| man.
D. c. Edwards & Co. are doing
a good business under the skiliful
management of Capt. E. A. Stolp,
whose experience is that of a life
time, and whose reputation extends
to every fireside in north Bates.
Messrs. Taggart Il Woods, hard
ware and implement merchants are
rushed to death with demands tor
machinery, with which to do the
| spring work. They also employ
good timer and as result are cap
turing lots of custom.
Among the deserving and enter
prising merchants of Adrian, is to
be classed the firm OF McCory & Co.
They carry a splendid stock of dry
goods, clothing, hats, caps, grocer
les ETC., and they are kept busy from
morning till night, fact that is sig
nifiicant within itself. Messrs.
Hamilton & Shepherd, members of
the firm, are jolly good fellows and
are up to business. They are the
kind that will succeed.
One of the towns most enterpris-
ing and hence successful firms is
the Moudy Bros. They begun
with Adrian and we assure you
that they are keeping pace with its
progress. They arc men who en-
10Y the confidence of the people,
and we'll do they deserve that conf
dence, tor there is nothing little or
unbusinessllke about them
Mr.. o. Satterlee's furniture es-
tab.ishment is doing large and sue
cessful business.
Mr.. M. O. Smith, the popular
jeweier and general genus of the
place is still on top.
John Duncan, will begin sub
scription school in the new church
in about a week. or ten days.
The Adrian band talk of giving a
concert soon.
Mrs. 7, S. Weaver, sister to the
Moudy Bros, died on Wednesday
of p pneumonia after brief illness of
five days. Mrs. Weaver was resi-
dent of Rich Hill. and was visiting
her family at the time of her death.
The reporter learned, while at
Adrian. That Mr.. S. P. -Halven.
who re sides near Vnton. lost his
house and contents hv fire on Thurs
day morning. There was no one at
home at the time. and the suppo-
sition is. the fire started from the
kitchen flue. Too great care can
not be taken in regard to fire this
sort of weather.
A new school house VIII be erect
ed III Adrian this spring.
The Adrian depot clerk s1ill lives
! in the fullness of his ambition, pride.
unod locks aud usefulness