The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1903-09-17

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Horse thieves are at work again.
A lew days ago q valuable hav mar
was stolen from the Falor farm six
miles southwest Of Rich Hill.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mark Graves havsrs-
turned from st. Louis, and are re-
ceiving the congratulation and best
wishes OF their Butler friends.
The Basar to be held BY the Ed
worth League OF the Ohio st. M. E.
Church Just before the holidays will
b q success, II work can accomplish
that result.
Business Of all kinds In Butler this
summer has been exceptionally good
In the mercantile line. In the build.
Ing and improvement line the town
has never Witnessed . more prosper.
Gus season.
VIM. E. Walton, president Of the
Missouri State Bank and Walton
Tut Co., left Tuesday for Hober.,
and other points In Oklahoma, where
his company Is making extensive
loans on real estate.
The Sedalia conferences has ap.
pointed Rev. A. G. Dinwiddie to the
South Methodist charge IN this city
for the ensuing year. Rev. Dinwid.
die ia an eloquent speaker and hard
worker and We have no doubt the
church will prosper under his charge.
Mrs. Elmer Voris, accompanied by
the Misses vorls, called and had their
paper changed from Mathewson,
Kansas, to Amorett, Mo-, where Mr..
voris has accepted a position with
the Enterprise Coal Co. as weighmas-
ter.
Speaking OF the Joplin Log Roll.
ing the Review says; " There were six
competing teams and the contest
was spirited. Rich Hill won first
prize class A contest-$50 In money
and the association cup. The bows
have held the cup fer the past year
and the city Is prond Of the fact that
1t will remain here during the year to
come"
Mrs.J. T. Butler has returned from
California, where she went after her
husbands death to visit a daughter,
and will live with her son on the old
home place, southwest OF Butler.
She complimented The TIMES office
and ordered her paper changed back
to this delivery.
Frank James, with the Cole
Younger, James Wild West show
which exhibits In Butler Saturday,
announces that at the end OF the
season he will quit the show business
and retire to farm life. He said, II
have had enough excitement in nv
time, and hereafter it will be Frank
james, farmer" Frank is now 60
years OF age.
Robt. Feeley, who shot and killed
Mark Hoots at Burdett Tuesday OF
last week, and was brought to jail
Wednesday, gave bond in the sum Of
$5, 900 and returned home Thursday
night about IL O'Clock. Feeley re-
fused to discuss the killing further
than to say he had acted in self-de-
tense to protect his own life.
Circuit Clerk j. A. Patterson at
tended the Kansas gun club shoot at
Pleasanton, Kan, the first Of the
past week, and just cleaned the gang
out, carrying off first money iu all
the entries. Some OF the Kansas
shooters became disguised and quit
the tournament the first day.
Hundreds OF Iowa people are said
to have been duped by Martin Mason,
who, it is alleged, in answer to adver-
tisements offering to tell how "to get
fat for S." wrote to his inquirers to
"get 1t at the butchers. The &C.
cused is under arrest at Marshall.
town on a charge OF using the mails
to defraud.
Robert Springer, the 11.year- old
son OF Mrs. W. M. Springer, OF Schell
City, met with q painful accident
Wednesday. While the boy was in a
lot, a vicious COW hooked him, the
horn becoming fastened in the side OF
his mouth, throwing him several feet
away. His mouth was quite badly
lacerated, but be is getting along as
well as could be expected. Nevada
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