The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1900-02-22

The natives are feeling the pressure
OF war in Laydsmith. Eggs are
quoted at 50 dozen, pumpkins 30
each and tobacco $22. so a pound
Mrs. Fanny Billings has been pro-
NOTED from Hartwell to the station
agency at Daugherty, Mo, and has
her paper changed to that address.
Burr Kitchener and Miss Matte
Smith, OF Spruce were united in mar
riage at the NJ. +. church parsonage
in this city Wednesday evening of last
week
Misses Nina Prickett and Addie
Brabant, two populsr and handsome
young ladies OF Pleasanton. Kansas,
are visiting Judge and Mrs. J. F.
Smith.
difficulties give way to diligence,
and disease germs and blood humOrs
disappear when Hoods Sarsaparilla
is faithfully taken
Nell Cambell has gone to Drexel
Cass county, to take charge of the
grocery department in the store re
Gently opened out in that town by
W s. Mudd.
Andrew Jackson, OF Rockville, as
good man as the name implies. ia
vored Us on Saturday. He was serv
ing on the jury and went home tC
spend Sunday with his family.
W. NJ. Campbell, President of the
Foster Bank, was in the city last
week on business before the court anC
made us a pleasant call. If all mel
We're as upright citizens as Mort
| Campbell. there would be small neeC
| for courts.
Miss kittie f.. Whitsett and Mr.
Chas Briden, OF Butler, were united
in marrige at the home of the bride,
parents, Mr.. and Mrs NJ r. Whitset1
of DR.. Boulware's farm four miles
south OF this city Wednesday evening
of last week
Our esteemed friend W A. McBur
ney, of amsterdam, one of the lead
ing citizens of northwest Bates, called
| and renewed He is on the regulaI
panel of the petit Jury. He says h
thinks the great ma lority of his PEG
pie favor the court house PROPOSE
| ton
| Ed. Heavilin called to see us Tues
day He lives in Elkhart township
and is a strong advocate of the prop
ositiOn to build Il new court house al
the county seat Mr. Heaviln is 6
tip top good man and thinks well o
his county seat town. Every m1
ought To be a friend to his countvseat
Carter Wallace was in and had hi,
son &. H. Wallace's paper changed
to Kansas City, where he holds {
good position on the electric stree
car line He writes that he was quar-
antined in his boarding house TO
twenty-one days on account of TIN
SIN IL pox scare.
The Amsterdam Breeze says som'
disease supposed to be a mild form o
measles, has broken out in thu
schools at that place and about hal
the children have been afflicted, bu
no serious results have followed ant
that in a few days the youngsters ar
out again.
Mrs j. NJ Walker, OF Saratoga
Wyo., sends us q renewal. They for
merly lived i'll this county and thei
many friends will be glad to know
they are prosperous and contented
They have not lost interest in oil
Bates, as Mrs Walker writes tina
THE TINES is like letter from hOm
each week
Nine cases of smallpox exists a
Arthur, a station on the Mo. Paciti
ten miles south of Rich Hill. Rich Hi
and Nevada avequarntined agains
the town. The town of Arthur ha
also been strictly quarantined am
although many persons in the littl
burg have been exposed to the diseas
it is thought there will be no spread
ing of the disease.
An official report, ISSUES at London
! this week, gives the English losse
since the beginning of the war i
| South Africa as follows: Officer
killed 152. wounded $50. missing