The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1899-06-22
Mrs. Robert johnson 10 visiting
relatives and friends in Rich Hill.

Mrs. Robert johnson is visiting
relatives and friends in Rich Hill
The Clifford Matthews case set
for trial in justice court at Rich |
Hill Monday will come up before
Judge Hemstrest, of Butler, on
change of venue.
Miss Josephine Mitchell, of But.
Ter, who has been visiting her uncle, |
James T. Mitchell. near Ionia, left
Yesterday morning for a visit in
Deep Water.-Windsor Review
There is little or no change in |
mine matters at Rich Hill, from last |
week. Saturday was pay day and |
about $4,000 changed hands with
the operators and miners.
Charlie Scott has returned from !
his trip to Iowa, where he spent |
several weeks visiting friends and |
relatives. The report put in circula- |
ton that he had gone TO get married |
proved erroneous, and it now looks |
as though Charlie is to be a con-
trmed old batch.
Frederick Brown, aged Is, and
Edith Vaughan, aged II, both of
prominent families of Columbia, Mo,
eloped to Mexico, Ne, Saturday and
were married. Both were students
at the state university in the same
class and made love while the pro.
fessor's back was turned
John Trimble secured the contract
from the county court to level the
gutter with macadam at the hitch
rack around the public square. In
muddy weather the gutter has been
a great nuisance, especially to the
farmers in hitching their teams, and
the TIMES eommends the court for
the action taken.
OF course patent outside papers
are Lost in the woods when it comes
to bucking the booming TIMES,
which is all home print and As COL
umns weekly, and most of the time
60 and ~ columns. The TIMES
circulation is hummer and no
wonder it gives the patent fellows
that tired feeling
Walter Rowe, lad IL years old,
and of good family, was arrested at
Rich Hill Sunday for the theft of
couple of pipes which he stole from
the show case at Heck & Ruble's
cigar factory. The boy appears to
be an incorrigible and it is thought
will have to be sent to the reform
school, so the Review states.
Our old friend NJ. L Wolfe drop
ped in to see US Monday and had
his paper changed from Passaic to
Ono, Wyoming, for which place he
} leaves the last of this week. He
SAID he would probably go by way
! of California, in which state he has a
son located. Mr.. Wolfe has large
property interests in Wyoming and
/ expects to be there most of the
i time. His family will remain in
, Bates county for the present
Mr.. Frank Porter, living in the
, southwest part of the city, who has
been quite sick fer the past two or
three weeks, is gradually getting
, weaker and there are now grave
doubts about his recovery. MIR.
Porter had severe sun stroke last
summer, from the effects of which
he has never fully recovered and Lis
present sickness is attributed to
: that. His nervous system is shatter-
ed and for the past two weeks his
mind has been badly affected.
Judge and Mrs. L. ID. Wimsatt,
with their SONY. l. Wimsa and wife,
a graced the TINES sanctum on Mon
I day. Judge Wlmsatt Is making one
of the best and most conservative
associate judges the county ever
, had Ali questions that come be-
/ fore the court receives his careful
. attention and best Judgment In
p fact it is the expression OF all who
: have business before 1t, that we
. have a most excellent county court.
Albert Lind the young man stole
a team OF horses near Garden City
the first week in April and who came
!, so near being filled with buckshot
2 by the vigilance committee who cap
J. tured him, was discharged last week
( by the ciicuit court on the ground
t of insanity and sent to his folks II
n Independence. There can be no
q doubt but that the weakness OF this
;, bows mind was caused by excessive
q cigarette smoking and his experience
J. should be a terrible example to the
Young men who make a practice OF