The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1900-07-12
Virginia Items.
We heard it and iotted it down,
What happens in and out of town.

Mrs. Jas. Drysdale and son Harley.
of Butler. took dinner with o. NJ.
Drysdale Sabbath.
John Nance returned from the big
wheat fields in Kansas last week.
Ben Parker and wife and Miss
Media Quick are spending a few days
with Sam Cowan and family at
| Walker. Vernon county.
Miss May Cams, who had been Wis
| iting relatives near. PaOla. Kan, for
several months, has returned home.
Some our young folks who attend
| ed the fireworks at Pleasanton, Kan,
got home early next morning.
Presiding Elder Anderson of the
NJ. Z. church, will hold quarterly
meeting July y and -, will preach
at .. IN. on the Dist The meeting
will continue.
DIR. J. J. Mitchell of Basco, H.,
spent a few days here last week visit
ing relatives and looking after his
farm. He attended church and met
many of his old neighbors. The DIR.
is looking we'll He told us that his
eyes had been very bad for two years.
He turned home Monday.
Ben Biggs and wife spent Sunday
with his brother John at Hume.
Mrs. J. T. Henslev and daughter
visited relatives in Kansas City last
week.
John Bosnia, of Butler. visited his
little daughter, who is living at Geo.
Ruble's, Monday
The first wheat threshed in this
township was threshed on the Fa-
muliner place Monday, by Jim Jones
with his new machine. John Mckee
of Amsterdam helped to handle the
wheat.
Flax cutting, oat stacking and hay
making is the order of business this
week.
The prospect for a big corn crop is
good just now.
Miss Ella Dillon of Amorett, spent
several days last week with Miss
Dawn Crooks and Grandma Dudley.
Miss Xix Harper OF Butler, is visit
ing her sister Mrs. Frank McElroy
c. A. Wallace attended the conven-
ton last week and visited his two
sons, Gordon and Walter and his
brother Sam.
From Virginia we could see fire.
works in four directions: On Quality
Hill in Butler. Adrian, Pleasanton.
Kan, and Trading Post, Kan. The
German people northwest of Virginia
celebrated the 4th in their Old-time
way, eating, singing, running, jump
ing and falling: seeing who could
cover the biggest piece OF ground in
fall.
Capt. Nickel and j. W McFadden
took in the X. c. convention and had
good time.
The democrats are walking around
They appear to feel in their bones
that victory is soon to perch upon
their heads. The republicans are
looking out from under their hats
with but little to say, have not heard
from the boss yet; the prohibition
lists are taking things calmly.
J. ". McFadden's brother of Full
lerton. Cal, delegate to the national
convention at Kansas City, spent a
few days with him and Virginia peo
pie. Nr. McFadden told Us that
where he lives they raise fruit and
vegetables. They shipped a large
amount of cabbage to Kansas City.
They do not let the grass grow by
the roadside nor in the fields. Every
foot of land is cultivated. He said
his brother-in-law paid 1900 for
20 acres, but he would make money
out of it. We believe if the people in
Bates county would clean every cor
ner on their farms they would make
money.
Keep your eyes open and listen
the new dishes have been bought, and
they are nice ones, too; something is
going to happen soon. AARON