The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1901-08-22
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want poultry and egg. We can pay
top prices at all times. Get our
prices before selling We will not be
Overbid in cash.
2l-tf Yours for business,
CARPENTER < SHAFER MFG Co.
The Cumberland Presbyterian as
sembly of Missouri in session at Per-
tie Springs, adjourned Sunday.
John Marens, for twenty years in
newspaper work at Hamilton, Mis-
souri,, owning the News-Graphic, and
now the Democrat, at Harrisonville,
drew an Okla, farm and thinks of
changing his profession.-Pointers.
Mothers who have always so
dreaded the approach OF hot weather
when they have "a teethlng babe,
should not forget that Teethenia
counteracts and overcones the effects
of hot weather on children, keeps
them in healthy condition and makes
teething easy. Teethina costs only
% cents box at druggists, or mail
20 cents to c. j Moffett, NJ. d., st.
Louis, Mo. 41.2t.
VT, Flourney of Marionville, Mo,
sold his crop of apples on ninety
acres to the ConradSchopp Fruit
company of st. Louis, for IS, 600. b.
Logan of the same place, sold his
crop off of twenty acres to the same
parties for $1,75O.-Sedalia Demo-
crat.
Former Secretary of State A. A.
Lesueur, it is said, is arranging to
embark in the banking business in
Arkansas He was formerly editor
of the Kansas City Times. Capt.
Lesueur is very popular in this state.
-Intelligencer.
Elder Laynan, of Butler, who is
holding services at the Christian
church this week, made the Enter
prise an appreciated call Tuesday.
Mr.. Layman is very entertaining
talker and an excellent conversations
alist. He served under Curtis at Pea
Ridge, and received six bullets in that
memorable, fght.-Sheldon Enter
prise.
When you find man finding fault
with the local paper, says the Upton,
Mo, Times, open it and ten to one
he hasn't an advertisement in it; five
to one he never gave it a Job; three
to one he doesn't take the paper; two
to one he is a delinquent; even odds
he never does anything that will as
sist the publisher to run a good news
paper, and forty to one ii the paper
is good one and full of life, he is the
most eager to borrow it when it
comes out.
Mrs. X. V. Williams won the s.
cash prize offered by John Cowdery
to the person bringing in the most
eggs between the LIST day OF March
and the LIST day of July. She mark
eted 435 dozeas during that period.
besides she sold twenty settings and
set enough eggs to hatch out six
hundred chickens. Mrs. Williams
deals extensively in pure bred fowls,
and this record shows the superior
merit of thoroughbred poultry. We
have not learned the names of the
parties who own the other prizes
Adrian journal.
A hog shortage is predicted for
Kansas, says the Kansas City Times.
Corn is too expensive to feed to the
porkers, and from present Indications
it is a case of root hog. or die"
with them. Ert Miller of Savonberc.
Kansas, regular shipper TO the
Kansas City market, posed as hog
prophet at the stock yards yester-
day. "Allthe raisers are working off
their light stock" said he. why?
Because they can't afford to feed
them. Corn in our vicinity is selling
at rs cents. Farmers are. therefore
not prodigal with that cereal. Many
shoats will be sent to this market
this fall and the result will be that
few hogs viii be carried over this win
ter. A good hog will be worth mon
ey in the spring OF 1902