The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1899-05-18

Mr.. and Mrs. W. o. Atkeson went
to Kansas City Tuesday to attend q
meeting of the Reform Press Associ.
alton The meeting will not be held
in convention hall, but We predict
the boys will keep in the middle-of-
the road and have a good time all
the same.
L. ". Jones, one of Fosters best
and most enterprislng citizens, fsv.
ored us pleasantly while in the city
Wednesday and renewed for the
TINES. He showed his faith in Eos.
ter by purchasing a full block of
ground last week. He already had
nice home in that city with modern
improvements and conYeniences.
We have one hundred pairs of
fancy heavy denim mems overalls,
all sizes, goods that generally sell at
Csc per pair. They do not seem to
move fast enough for us, we do not
wish to keep them any longer and
therefore offer them at 40c per pair.
We warrant them not to rip, except
the price, which we almost ripped in
two. LEWIS.
We call special attention to the
new professional card of Drs Christy
& Roe. The former is an old and
experienced physician, with a large
and paying practice in which he has
been wonderfully successful. DR..
Roe is a graduate in medicine and
has taken a postgraduate course in
the hos pitfalls of New York. He has
made specially in the study of the
eye, ear and throat and is we'll equip
ped to successfully practice his pro-
fession.
Robert Mcdonald. local editor of
the Democrat, and Miss Jennie
Graves were married at the home of
the brides parents, Mr.. and Mrs j.
T. Graves, on Tuesday evening May
10th. Only the near relatives and
friends of the contracting parties
being present. Mr.. Mcdonald is an
industrious, sober young man, of
frugal habits, while the bride is a
very pretty and amiable lady. They
moved into their own home which
the groom had prepared on East
Dakota street
We are called upon to record the
death of another good man, and
worth citizen, Albert Tucker, which
occurred at his home in this city
Monday morning at o'clock, of
pneumonia fever. Mr.. Tucker has
been a resident of this city about
three years, coming here from KAN
sas, where he still owns a large
estate. He was born in New York
state in 1929 He leaves a widow
and three daughters, two single and
one married, Mrs. John Leonard, of
Charlotte township. Funeral serv-
ices were conducted from the home
on Tuesday by Revs. Jones and
Jewell and interment in Oak Hill
cemetery.
W. A. Johnson, better known to
our people as Bert" who as a mem
Der Of the Sixth Mo. Reg, was sta
toned in Cuba for the past four
months, and mustered out at Savan-
nah, Ga, on the 10th, arrived in
Butler on Monday He made US a
pleasant call and related some of his
experiences in and about Havana.
He doesn't have a very high regard
for the Cubans as a race. Thinks
them an ignorant, INDECENT set; the
women all look alike and go dirty
and unkempt. On the other hand
Bert was highly pleased with the
Spanish residents, and especially the
black eyed Senoritas. Says they are
the handsomest women he ever saw.
He doesn't believe the Cubans will
ever vote for annexation. They want
to run things themselves and are
very much dissatisfied with American
rule. The 9th Mo, was camped 8
miles from Havana, on a railroad
The boys could ride into the city for
10 cents and back to camp for
cents Says the streets are made of
rough stone and the business houses
are adobe and one story. Says the
boys all liked Major j. j. Dickinson,
but that Lieut. Colonel II. O. Clark
was general favorite with them and
all regretted that he did not go to
Cuba with the regiment Bert said
that hardly day passed that come
of the boys did not enquire of Col.