The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1903-09-10

THE TIMES office hasn't received
that prize watermelon yet this year.
Surely the record is not to be broken
Have all the Ewin boys quit farming
or left the county? They have not
failed US for many, many years
We learn there were fifty converts !
at the camp meeting at Spruce. IL
was intended to close on last Sun,
day, but increased, interest induced
| itscontinuance this week. Themeet-
ing has been productive oimuch good
and all denominations have been
benefited
Our popular and efticieut circuit
clerk, Jno. A. Patterson, made a
record at the shoot in this city last
week which would have done credit to
a champion. He broke 81 clay pig
cons out OF 100, the first 76s,raight.
He killed 33 out OF 81 live birds and
knocked the 34th one down, but 1T
fell out OF bounds.
Cal. Robinson, one Of the best all
round blacksmiths in this section OF
the state after an absence OF four
years, has returned to Butler and
opened u shop at his old stand--the
brick shop at the southeast corner
OF the square, and asks his old GUS
TONERS to call and zee him again.
HIS workmanship is too well known
to need recommendation from US.
We learn that j. M. Graves and
So Kate Caruthers were married i'll
st. Louis last Saturday. Mr.. GRAY s
is prominent young business man
OF OR city, one of the proprietors OF
the Bon-Ton Laundry. The bride is
a pretty and charming young lady,
daughter OF George Caruthers, a
prominent farmer west Of town and
has been in the millinery business
for a number OF years. The TIMES
extends congratulations and best
wishes.
A rural reader OF the Carthage
Press has handed in the following &C
count OF an awful explosion which
took place lately near Carthage: "a
terabie explosion happened to q
farmer, CRATE damadge He threw q
hog some corn and by some means
there was a stick of powder mixed up
with the corn and the hog eat the
powder, and the hog went to the
! barn where the mule was and the
mule kicked the hog and the powder
> exploded and killed the mule and the
. hog and blew the barn to pieces, the
I last be saw OF his mule and hog was
, going toward Carthage"
From Judge Kemper, of. Prairie
: City, the Rich Hill Review learned
t that Mrs. John B. Durand had been
r stricken with paralysis on last Sun.
o day morning. Mrs. Durand was ap'
= parently as we'll as ever in her life.
time when suddenly stricken by this
awful disease. While In cheerful con.
/ yersation with her husband she fell
!. without warning in q helpless hear
I. on the floor. 1t was shortly thereaf
It ter discovered that her entire right
d side was paralysed, and q physician
a was quickly sent for, but yet as nc
: Improvement is apparent in her con
: dition, the poor woman being utter
ely helpless and speechless Mrs
Il Durand is lady about so years o
a age and is the mother Of four chill
II dren, all grown.
10 William B Smith, better known al
is CROOKED neck Bill" was found dea(
D. in the rear Of Oak saloon, on Nortl
= Main street, Saturday morning. Il,
ihad been on q protracted spree ant
: was very drunk at q late hour Fri
1t day night. Bill was q harmless
r good-natured character, but va
sure to get drunk whenever be coul,
get any money, and stay in tha
" condition as long as il lasted. h
u had q quaint sense ofhumor. Agen
" tleman passed him one day and salut
II ed him, with 'thello, Bill. he stoppe,
d. and 10 a digniaed way, sometimes a.
y sumed by inebriated individuals sal,
y "How much longer would II hav
Z taken you to have said Mr.. Smith.
r A brother IN ElDorado springs tele
10 graphed to give him q decent buria
and be would pay the account.