The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1899-01-26
Virginia Items.

( new OHcers as 1ollOWs bresldent,
Will Cope; yice-pres, Miss Sadie
Millinery; organist, Mrs Charles
HenslSy; assistant organist, Miss
Leona Biggs; sec'y, Miss Mary Rape;
asst sec'y, Miss Media Quick.
Mr. Maugsr is having the timber
cut of Of some of his land, getting it
ready TO plant corn.
Julius Heckadon has rented Uncle
Peter Crooks farm and will build a
new house on the place TO live in.
Geo Jenkins hauled corn to VIII
McKibben's last week.
Ben Malonsy has let his whiskers
grow this winter
p s Cope Joined the Woodmen
Thursday night Of last week.
Some of our people went to Butler
Friday TO hear John G Woolley
speak, but were disappointed, as he
could not be there on account of
sickness.
Misses Verna Cook and Icy Jenkins
visited the family of Mr. Hines at
Merwin.
Mrs Geo Pilgrim and daughter,
Miss Ella North of Vinton, visited
the family of Albert Pilgrim last
/ week.
w p Ayers and wife are visiting
| friends in Kansas City.
Arthur West of Pinchum has 800
| bushels Of coal for sale.
John Foster has a large brood SOW
strayed from home, been gone about
two weeks.
G A Wallace was at Virginia Sat
urday night for the first time since
he was hurt. He has 10 use crutches.
Jerd Flemming has the measles.
Chas Cope and wife, who have
been visiting relatives at Eureka,
Kan, returned home last week.
Washington Park, who is climbing
to so years, is complaining that the
corns on his feet hurt him badly.
Clate Wolfe is still talking populism
Geo Jenkins is not done husking
corn. Henry Fsebeck will move
north of Vinton. w w Park is en-
joying himself with his little family.
Isaac Park is talking Of selling his
hogs, and his two daughters are
thinking about the measles. Albert |
Pilgrim is talking of farming. Frank !
Jenkins stays in the postofIice when |
not at work. Walter Dow, Katie,
Bessie and Joe Wolfe are waiting for |
the measles. Geo Ruble is kept busy |
looking after his stock. Miss ley |
Jenkins says che" will not come |
home before fall. J w McFadden |
and o II Drysdale are busy selling !
goods TO the farmers. Steve Cook |
SAYS this warm weather makes him |
feel like summer was here. Will Vogt |
and family are all we'll again. John |
Foster is better. Mat Hinson has not /
been in Virginia for sometime. Dick |
Wolf is proud of his new barn. CIV |
Wolfe is in Virginia nearly every |
day. Grant Garner spent an hour at /
Cooks last week. Ben Biggs is out /
OF work. Mrs Amanzar Hensley saws 1
she is not feeling well. Miss Ida /
Quick is looking better than for /
years. Andrew Simpson had a good 4
looking girl at church Sabbath for /
the first time. Chas Hensley SAYS
has wife Is going TO raise ducks this
summer. p III Famuliner has fixed /
MS yard fence. 5 + Jones is hauling /
hay to Butler. Will McKibben is 4
looking for better times. Henry Es- ,
vein Is feeding a lot Of hogs. Cliff |
Jackson i making fence. VT Cowan /
Is feeding cattle. Philip Heckadon /
does not get out on the prairie very
often. Uncle Peter Crooks Is work /
ing every day. Peter Denning's fam
lily have not had the measles yet. Ed .
Dudley is buying poultry Arthur F.
jenkins Is busy trapping. Will 4
Durest has not gone 10 the city yet.
Elmer Garner is hauling rails. Geo
Crooks is hauling wood. Isaac Lock
ridge is proud Of his new son-in-law.
Ar Helmer finished husking corn last
week. Arthur and Gus Rape are
wood. Luther Judy is
hauling coal TO Butler. Frank Wat
kiHs Of Passaic, passed through viz
ginia Monday. Marquis McCan end
Walter Woody cf near Passaic, at
tended church a. Virginia Sunday
night
The other day we were az the Mis-
souri, State banh,J L jenkins was
telling Us he had jus. purchased q
fine Duroc-J ersey hog; he said it was
dandy. Well, we thought he might
be little excited over the red hog. I
We knew he could Sell how 70 run a
bank, but about the qualities Of a
hog we were not 50 sure We went
u see rhe hoor- su-a ernnr-h IL. ~ l