The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1899-05-04

armGFs are uSId al VIVA 40 $500
fields when the weather will permit
A special train of eighteen cars
loaded with sewer pipe was shipped
from Deepwater, Henry county, Sun
day for Old Mexico.
George Davis was tried. in the
federal court at Kansas City for rob-
bing the post Office at Rich Hill,
plead guilty and was sentenced to
six months il the Bates county Jail.
Miss Clara Dugan, pretty and
popular young lady of Charlotte
township, has her name enrolled for
the TIMES. Her father is one OF the
best citizens of that township.
The 225 prisoners confined in jail
at Kansas City were vaecinated
Monday. The jail has been under
quarantine for the past week and
visitors have not been allowed to
enter the building on account of the
presence of email pox in the city.
George W. Pharis was in the city
the city the last of the week on bust
ness and favored us pleasantly and
substantially. He reports consider
able corn planted but much ground
yet to break. Said he saw three
wagons in corn fields gathering corn
as he came in, a rather unusual
sight for the last of April. Mr..
Pharis is one of the substantial citi-
zsns of our county, has a fine farm
in Hudson township, is an old settler
and true blue democrat.
A little boy about six years of age
got on the morning train today. He
had paper pinned to his waist,
which had written on it: Il am 60
ing to Garden City, Mo-, where I
will meet my uncle, E F. Pierce,
with whom I am going to live"
Upon investigation it was learned
that the little fellow was brought
here from Cedar county and that his
parents were dead, and having no
relatives here he was going to his
uncle's home to ve.-Nevada Mail.
Kansas City, Mo, April % DR..
". S Wheeler, state grand master
of the Odd Fellows, has returned
from Liberty, where he inspected
the Orphans home, an institution
where the widows and orphans of
Odd Fellows are taken care of. The
home was built at cost of $4,000
and is surrounded by tract of 240
acres of fine land. The home has 81
inmates and is in fourishing con.
dition.
Capt. J. d. Allen, editor of the
Butler TIMES, favored the Review
with fraternal call while in the city
last evening. From his lnquisitive-
ness into all the processes, and his
close observation of our press room,
we infer that friend Allen is very
seriously contemplating the launch
ing of another daily paper in Butler
We want to inform Bro. Allen right
now, however, that while there is
lots of fun connected with the pub
lication of village daily, there is
whole lot of hard work also OF
course, if he has his mind made up
to start one, he'll do so. regardless
of our advice, and no doubt he'll
start a hummer!-R. 81. Review.
The pranks played by the cyclone
in Kirksville last week were numer-
Gus and wonderful The following
remarkable escapes are reported in
Ed. Patterson's family: When the
gale came Patterson's mother, his
sister and his sister-in law were
alone in the house. The sister was
blown clear through a hardwood
door. along long entry, and smash
ed door at the other end Of the
house, and was yet not even bruised
The sister-in law was pinned TO a
door jamb by the force of the wind
but was not hurt. Finally, the
mother, IS years old the 9Th of last
month, sat in parlor and was fairly
buried in the fragments of four big
windows and yet she did not even
get a scratch.
Our venerable friend George ".
Pierce made US a pleasant call on
Monday and renewed. Mr. Pierce