The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1900-09-27

Governor on the prohibition ticket,
will speak in the Christian church in
this city. on the night OF Oct Bird.
Public invited.
VI. & y. Evans wish to announce
to their customers and trade in gen
eral. that they are now ready 10
show the most complete stock of
millinery TO be had, they having Wis
tied the very best markets 45-2t
An S-year-old boy at Poplar Bluffs
complained for several days Of n Sc
we're headache His parents finally
took him To- a doctor who removed
ninety-siX black spiders from his ear.
That's pretty good spider story if
true.
Mrs. u. ". Drummond who has
been with her husband for the past
two months at Estes Park, Colorado,
has returned home. She said Mr..
Drummond was improvingin health,
but will remain in Colorado during
he winter.
Lete Sackett is making prepara-
tions to light his restaurant with
incaudescent electric lights. The gas
oline engine to run the dynamo has
arrived and in Il few days he expects
TO turn on the lights. This is enter
prise.
The Free Press says Mr. Barker ;
speech in the court yard the 18th
inst. is worth reading. Mr.. Barker
is a pleasant looking old gentleman.
He talked very deliberate but so low
he could not be heard more than
twenty steps away.
Rev. Cobb, pastor of the South
Methodist church of this city for the
past year, delivered his farewell ser
mon Sunday night and LETT Monday
for Kansas City to attend the annua
conference of his church which meet.
in that city this week.
The public schools of this city shu
down Monday for the week to givt
the children chance to take i'll TIN
street fair. The board did the RICH
thing in Diminishing the schools 10
t he week as under the circumstance
they would have done no good.
DR.. BOulware has one of the fines
young apple orchards in this county
on his farm in Lone Oak township
\ part OF it is bearing this year an
some OF the trees are literally break
ing down under their load OF big re,
apples. Last year apples from thi
orchard took the premium at til
Butler street fair.
= Ed r. Long, through his attorne
o ". q. Jackson, says the Nevad
d Mail, filed suit in Circuit clerk otfic
\ n Monday for 50, 900 damages agains
the Arthur Coal Mining Co. Th
plaintiff claims to have been perma
nently injured by slate falling upo
: him while working in defendant
mine.
n Mrs. {. W. Proctor, we are sorry
learn, is dangerously sick. Nj
Proctor informed us that her ailmen
% was OF such a nature as to require
surgical operation which was to hay
&c been performed Monday by the "a
tending physicians, but the inclen
II ent weather prevented.
o. Judge DeArmOnd, accompanied b
m the next sheriff of Bates county. JC
:. L. Smith, were at Rockville Frida,
where Judge DeArmond made an e,
cellent speech at night. The demo
= Gratis in that section are enthusiast
for the entire ticket. national, stat
- and county, and the speaking Wa
attended by a large audience.
40 Major Reed OF Kansas City. one {
ro the best speakers in the state Wi
- address the citizens of Adrian at
O'Clock p. M, Oct. II. The san
day he will speak at Butler al nigh
I'll Oct Is. Hon. Edgar z. Mann,
d. Greenfield, democratic candidate fC
~ elector. will address the citizens
H. Foster at O'Clock p. m, at nigl
of the same day he will speak
Of Putlar