The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1901-07-25
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The contractors began laying the
Carthage stone on the foundation OF
the new court house Monday after
noon.
W. j. Kelley, living four miles east
OF Lowry City. is seeing the worst
side of the drouth which has ruined
his crops and fire has recently de
stroyed his house and contents.
W. H. Caldwell, OF Summit town
ship, was in the city Monday with
about eleven tons of broom corn.
The price he had received for it We
understand, was about S7O ton.
Rev. ). NJ. Atterton, 81 years OF
age and an active minister in the NJ.
Z. Church for more than thirty years,
dropped dead in his chair at his home
in Nevada Saturday. while talking to
a neighbOr.
j. T. Moon, arrested ut the in
stance of his daughter Amanda,
whom he had slapped i'll the face Tor
calling him ugly names, was tried IN
Squire Hemstreet' ) court Monday
and fined S150 An appeal was
taken.
Harrison county has come to the
front with the larest tree on record.
1t is on the farm of W. \. Rucker, ii We
miles southwest of Bethany The
tree measures twenty-One feet and
eight inches in circumference. The
lower limbs are larger than ordinary
saw logs.
Cd. Adair. clerk in the Butler Cash
Department store, and brother of }.
5. Adair, manager OF the establish
ment, left for his home at Upton,
Mo. Monday. He has been under
the weather Tor several days and
goes home for "a few days to recruit
up.
The case, State of Missouri VS.
Etchew for assault with intent to kill
one Chris Nicholson was cOntin-
ued from Friday to Wednesday
in Justice Stephenson's court and
then dismissed and information filed
in the circuit court Mr.. Etchew is
under a $500 bond to keep the peace
-AmOret Beacon.
Henry Wiseman, the negro charged
with the murder OF Nellie Allen, 16
years of age, at Knob Noster, John
sor county, March 4th last had his
trial at arrensburg last week and
was given ten years in the peniten-
tiary The evidence against the ne
gro was circumstantial and the Jury
took a merciful view OF the matter
and found him guilty of murder in
the second degree.
Before the editor of the Rich Hill
Tribune criticises the construction of
the court house, he should come up
be convinced that the building has a
foundation and a substantial one at
that. Concrete and mammoth lime
rock. There is nothing shoddy about
the foundation and from all appear
ances, when it gives way Gabriel will
be blowing his horn and the sea will
be giving up its dead. Don't get eN-
cited this hot weather, Bro. Geo. p.
Huckeby The county court is all
right even if it is democratic to the
core So is the superintendent Ofthe
building and SO is the foundation.
John Sears, the only cOlOred man
in this county who can lay claim to
be called a big and prosperous far
mer, recently planted, on a venture,
about $50 acres of corn in the Dickey
bottom. which he says is up about
six inches high, is even. green and
growing nicely, and if the good Lord
will give him a few good rains, not
withstanding it is late this Niger
will show the white folks how TO raise
100 bushels to the acre. This fine
body of land is owned by DR.. Green,
the patent medicine man. who has
spent several thousand dollars in
levee work to protect it from over
flow by backwater from the river. it
is the most fertile land in Bates cOun-
ty, and if John gets the rain, we
don't doubt his prediction of loo
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