The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1901-07-04
Corn is selling at 5Ocents a bushel.

II this weather continues the insti-
tute at adrian will have Il warm
time.
Forty cents a gallon is the price
asked for cherries in this market. By
the time YOU pay Mckinley prices
for sugar and 40 cents a gallon for
cherries YOU have pretty dear pre-
serves.
The Nevada Herald reports the
death from hydrophobia, in that city
OF Beulah Harding. the little seven
year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs
Ora Harding. The child was bitten
on May LIST by Il Newfoundland pup.
The Cass County Democrat says
that {. r Gilbert, of Archie. lost
three OF his premium Berkshire hogs
last week from being Overheated.
Two of these hogs would have weigh
ed 1,725 pounds. The three were
valued at $500.
Notwithstanding the hot dry
weather we are told the water melon
vines are doing we'll and the crop Of
melons promises to be very good.
This is "a piece OF news that will make
the average coon show his teeth.
Guess The TIMES will have to
throw its tow line out for shower
of rain. When THE TINES fails to
bring things through its advertising
columns, you can depend upon it
there is something radically wrong
The Cannon-Weiner Elevator Co.
has established downtown offices in
Ross Hotel building, second door
west from corner, where they invite
customers. They are now making
a call for fax, grain, hay and seeds.
See their ad. in another column.
The North side ball team did up the
South side team in great shape. The
game was played at the lake park
afternoon and resulted, "A
to 10 The South side is not salts
fed and will give the boys another
90 at a future date.
Harrison Jones, who lives 4 miles
south of Versailles, Mo, heard Il dis
turbance among his dogs Sunday
night and on going out to locate the
trouble found a huge rattlesnake
lying in bed with a pup while the
mother was standing barking at it.
The snake was shot and killed but
not until after it had bitten the pup
According to the TT. Scott Tribune
Prof. g. Stockmeyer predicts that
there will be terrific thunder storms
and heavy rains the 9TH and 18th of
July and the same will occur in some
locations on the 18th of July. He
says that the hot weather during
June is caused by the reflection from
the planet Jupiter; that the reflection
from Jupiter will continue until the
LIST of August.
Judge Miller. living south of town,
was in the city early Tuesday morn
ing with a load of poultry. The
1routh has scared him, and he said
be was going to make a general clean
up of all surplus stock, etc, on his
place The Judge is perhaps as well
fixed as any farmer in the county TO
stand siege OF a year and he ought
not to lose his head. because the
weather is a little against him Just
now.
Contracts for the complete light
plant were let by the city council for
1890. divided as follows: Plant
to J. 5. Tritle, OF st Louis for So
$50; power house to c. Z. Robinson
,or s.. 40. The contract calls for a
$50 horse power Ideal compound
engine; two so X. W. Westinghouse
lynamos, and $50 horse power water
tube boiler. of the Babcock & " ilcox
type; the plant TO be ofthe three wire
system. The work is to begin in 30
lays and completed in four months.
The apple crop in this county has
been seriously damaged by the
lrouth. Nearly all the fruit has
dropped from the trees. The peaches
nave also begun to drop and few
more days of intense heat of the past
5wo weeks will destroy this crop
which was very promising. Black