The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1901-08-08


The teachers institute will meet a
Adrian the 18th and continue te
days.
Bert Johnson has started in tn
barber business for himself at Am
sterdam.
Home grown watermelOns are OF
market. The crop which has just
begun TO ripen.
The apple and peach crops nc
doubt have been greatly benefited
by the rains.
Mrs. Goodwin, wife of constable
Goodwin of this township, we are
sorry to learn, is seriously sick.
Sam Weddell, one of Pap Price :
soldier boys, living west OF town, has
gone to Springfield to attend the re-
union.
The Hume Telephone sends up a
wall against the Illegal sale of whisky
in that town, and if half it says be
true the matter certainly needs in
vestigation.
The people of Galloway county will
vote on proposition 20 issue bonds
to the amount of $50, 900 for build
ing rock roads in the county. There
is sense in this proposition as well as
benefit to the entire county
j. f. and J. V. Snodgrass, promi-
nent farmers OF Deepwater, were in
the city Saturday and favored us
with "a pleasant call. J. V. Snod-
grass was making preparation to at
tend the confederate reunion, now in
session at Springfield
Brown Walton shipped 100 head
of cattle to the Indian territory
Monday evening where he will put
them on pasture. He bought them
at bargain counter prices during the
drouth and there is no doubt hut
that he will make money on his pur-
chase
The Webb City Register finds that
the merchants do not complain so
much of their patrons buying abroad
when the Webb City merchants are
advertising freely The only way to
keep the buyers at home is to attract
their attention to home business and
hold it there by continuous advertis-
ing-Nevada Post
g. W. Park and son J. H. of Vir-
ginia, shipped two thoroughbred red
hogs to purchasers in Madison Kan,
last week and OOe this week to Alva, |
Oklahoma. The Duroc Jersey is hard |
to beat, in fact there is none better |
G. w. and j H. Park have nearly |
100 head of these hogs which they |
are selling at very reasonable prices.
l. NJ. Smith, of Deepwater, favored
us pleasantly while in the city on
Thursday. He informed us that a
fine little girl had come to bless his
home. This is not the first, but the
fifth by this marriage and thirteenth
in direct descent of the house of
Smith, and he says he is as proud of
it as he was the first and will not
stop on the unlucky number 13
A practical feeder and stockman
said in our presence, that good water
than plenty of feed. That in feeding
a bunch of cattle if he had to be
stinted on either water or feed he
would accept the reduction in feed.
We would like to impress this upon
our farmers, see that your stock has
COED water and plenty of it, and
that they are sheltered from the
storms in winter and they will pros
per on much less feed.
Senator John B. Newberry's pre-,
diction (speaking for the east
part OF the county, is, that a good
half crop of corn will be raised, and
that II seasonable from now on the
greatest surplus of feed stuff ever
seen in the county will be produced.
The farmers have abundantly plant
ed cane, millet, kattir corn, turnips
and other seeds suitable TO be grown
at this season of the year and should
the season be right, with the half
crop of corn and abundance offodder
there is certain to be an over produc-
ton in this kind OF feed stuff for