The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1903-01-29

paper the spportionment ofrailroad,
telegraph and telephone school mon
les due each school district in the
county, as made out by County
/ Clerk Herrell.
Chief OF Police -Miewald, of Rich
Hill, spent Tuesday in the city. Said
he was not on official business, but
lust up to take look at the hub.
However, the reporter caught him in
close consultation with Prosecuting
Attorney Ludwick.
The heaviest snow storm Of the
winter prevailed in Butler Friday az
ternoon. Flakes OF snow as large as
silver half dollar rained down, and
the ground was soon covered to
depth Of three inches, and the sleigh
bells soon began to jingle.
In boreing well at Hume on DR..
Williams premises strong flow OF
gas has been struck. Advices to the
Rich Hill Review say at depth OF
175 there was a pressure OF 20
pounds and later in the evening a
gas pressure OF 200 pounds. When
lighted the blaze shot up 30 feet.
The capacity of the elevators at
the depot have been tested the past
two weeks, and Cannon ( Weiner
have been forced to utilize the Can.
non feed lot up town al storage
ground for corn. The cause of this
is the elevator men have been unable
to get cars to ship their grain.
Rev, Earl Sims, who has been at
tending a Baptist college in Louis.
vile for the past three years, spent
Sunday in town with relatives and
friends. Rev, Sims has been ap-
pointed by his church state evange-
list for Oregon, and is on his way
there to take up the work.
I've were pleased to meet Geo. NJ.
Canterbury in Kansas City last week.
He is the same genial, clever gentle.
man as when young man in our
city everyone was his friend. He
expressed great interest in our people
still. He is engaged in the real estate
and brokerage business in Kansas
City and is doing we'll.
We congratulate our young friend
Mark Graves on his appointment as
superintendent Of the laundry plant
at the new State Hospital for Insane
No. 4, at Pennington, Mo. He took
charge the last Of the week, and We
have no doubt will make a splendid
man for the position.
Mr.. and Mrs. Vim. E. Walton left
Monday for an extensive tour OF Old
Mexico. They join Tourist Associa-
tion, and their train will be equipped
with every convenience. 1t will take
them probably month to make the
trip. On an excursion OF this kind
allexpenses even to the handling and
seeing after baggage is paid, and the
tourist has nothing to do but look
after a good time.
Mrs. Lieut. Edward DeArmond and
infant son and sister, Miss Tim Han
nah, of San Antonio, Texas, arrived
in the city one day last week, and it
/ is expected will remain at the resi-
dence Of Judge DeArmond during the
absence of her husband, Lieut.. Dear
m ond, of the regular army, who has
gone to the Philippine Islands, where
he expects to remain for at least two
years.
j Captain Holly P. Nickel was down
from Lees Summit on Friday and
fav ored us with pleasant call. He
had The TINES sent to r. 2. C. Jen-
sen, Calvary, Ills. Mr.. Jensen bought
the south quarter Of Capt. Nickell's
fine farm in Homer township and
contemplates moving to our county
in the spring.
In the good roads line, agitation is
all right, but agitation don't build
good roads like rock crusher and a
determined community. II two or
three townships would get together
and buy rock crusher and begin the
work of macadamizing, other town
ships would soon follow suit. They
couldn't help it.
Two men we're shot and killed in
Kansas City the latter part OF last