The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1901-05-09
Virginia Items.
" heard it and jotted it down.
What happens in and out of town

What happens in and out of town.
Alfred Jackson of Wall Street
Nam visited his son Clifton last
week.
Prof. Thornbrough had To close
his school at Concord last week on
account OF the mumps among the
scholars.
Prof. Aaxey had the mumps last
week and could not teach his school
at Virginia
The whooping cough is still on the
go.
Glen Biggs OF Hume visited his
grandpa, Cole Hensley. last week
and went to Butler Saturday TO have
his picture taken with his old :. :.
class.
Mrs. W j. Bard lost her nose
glasses last week between Butler and
Virginia Will the finder he kind
enough To leave them at Virginia
postoffiee.
Misses Ada Smith and Jessie Win
termute OF Amsterdam, attended ;.
S. at the Christian church Sabbath.
Walter Rising of Tisdale. Kan,
who spent several days visiting the
Park families, returned home Sab
bath. MIR. Rising is one of the peace
officers of Tisdale township. How
ever, he was not looking after crimi-
mails, but 'one" that could make a
good pie.
Thomas Hocket's new shop is up
and he has been sharpening plows.
| Virginia now has two blacksmith
shops, an oil well, and Judge Wolfe
has appointed W " Park associate
Judge and there is talk of running a
street car line from Virginia to Park
vile. Kansas City and other cities
are watching the growth of Virginia
with fear and trembling.
Mat Hinson has got too old to
walk and plow corn, but he can ride
on that new plow and do as much as
when he was boy.
A L. Porter has concluded that
corn grows better planted with a new
planter.
Mrs. Joe T. Whinnery took her 3
S. class to Butler Saturday and had
their pictures taken.
Corn which has been planted ap-
pears to be coming up good.
Lyman Hensley saws that he and
all his neighbors have been busy
planting corn.
| Uncle John Furgeson, who has been
quite sick, is some better.
Somebody told Frank NcElrOy
that family of girls were more eN-
pensive than boys. From 16 and up
it costs money to buy hats and fine
dresses and sometimes horses have
to be fed Sunday nights. Frank says
there are two girls at his house now,
and no boys.
The Misses Classify and Dock BOlin
of Butler, spent Sabbath at Capt.
Nickells
Lewis MeElroy is always glad when
May comes The ladies put on their
May flowers and all look sogay, and
on the Sabbath the young folks
could be seen in their buggles with
their beautiful May flowers on the
ladies hat there is nothing like May
flowers. In May the grass looks so
beautiful. There is nothing like May.
Preaching at the NJ. f. church Sab
bath at / a. IN.
o. Nj. Drysday spent Monday and
Tuesday in Kansas City.
ID. C. Wolfe has found rock quar-
ry on his new farm.
Andrew Simpson was out looking
at his corn Sunday morning and
saw a wolf: went to the house and
got a gun, but when he returned 1t
had disappeared, but he saw another
sitting in hole. He shot it and
after he pulled it out he discovered
that it was mother wolf and there
were nine cabs in the den with her.
John Harris died at his home 10
miles southeast of Butler, last We'd
nesday morning. He had several
strokes of the palsy. Heand his son
Oscar and daughter Viola, lived to-
lgether He lived near Virginia
about II years and was well respect
ed by ALL Buried at Double Branch
graveyard.
Some of our widowers have caught
the spirit Of taking the young folks
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