The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1901-09-19

Colorado Friday, where he had been
spending several weeks on business.
The school board met Tuesday
night and dismissed the schools for
to-day out OF respect for the funeral
of President Mckinley.
Miss Nellie Kinney left the first Of
the week for Higgins, Texas. TO spend
the winter with her uncle. Lon. She
goes for the benefit of her health.
Mrs. Evaline Wilson. of st. Joseph,
a bride OF few weeks. told a friend
her life had been blighted by an uE-
fortunate union. and drank a cup Of
concentrated I've.
J. NJ Green. a prosperous farmer
OF Mingo, while in the city last week
attending baptist association, called
and had THE TINES sent to his son.
Claud, who holds a position with a
mining company at Idaho Springs,
Colo.
Our young friend Elmer NOris or
ders THE TINES to his address at
Nathewson, Kansas, near which place
he purchased d farm, on which he and
his young wife have moved. We
trust they will have bountiful crops,
which will insure them happiness.
The gold dollar premium offered
by the Butler Cash Department Store
to the school boy or girl drawing the
most comical black cat was won by
Mr.. Vantree's little boy. There were
some horrible looking eats on exhi-
bition, and it was hard to decide
which was the most meritOriOus.
The little three-year-old son OF Mr..
and Mrs. Mcknight, of Nevada, came
near losing his life from eating the
seed of the jamestown weed. The
little fellow was playing at house
keeping and being invited out to dine
he ate enough of the seed to poison
him, saws the Post, and he was deliri-
Gus for six or eight hours.
C. n. Teeter, than whom no more
honest, upright citizen lives in the
county, dropped in to pay his re-
spects, and other things, on Thurs
day. Besides being a number one
farmer he is an author and poet He
published book of poems which
reached large edition. He is now
at work on an autobiography OF
himself, which he thinks will make
between three and four hundred
pages.
4 panic was created in the opera
house at Higginsville Friday night
during the progress of a dramatic
caused by a fight in
lunch room under the hall The peo-
pie under the impression that the
was on fire made stampede
for the outside, and several persons
were badly hurt in the jam at the
door. Mrs. Charles Mitchell was
thrown into commissions by the ex-
Aaron Elliott, AN old soldier, was
dragged from his home to the band
stand in the courthouse square at
Oregon, Illinois, Sunday by indgnant
citizens and made to publicly apollo
gize before ,000peoplefor expressing
delight over the death of Mckinley.
His age probably saved him from be-
ing mobbed Elliott few years ago
received 81 900 in back pension from
the government, and now draws a
pension OF $24.
Our aged and highly esteem citizen
John Rossen. Sr.. 81 year. OF age,
THE TINES regrets very much to
learn, is dangerously sick. due prin-
to the infermities of Old age.
He has been in bed for a week
or so, and his condition at the pres
ent time Is such that his death at any
moment would not be unexpected to
the family who have reconciled them
selves to the law of nature
James |. Ferguson, aged 40, shot
in the chest and neck with a charge
OF duck shot from shotgun III the
hands OF his neighbor, Hiram Bates,
aged IS and an old soldier, at Neva-
da. Thursday of last week, is report
ed to be about out OF danger. At
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