The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1903-05-28

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Mr.. and Mrs. ]. F. Stith OF Kansas
City, accompanied by their son and
his wife, spent Sunday with Mrs ].
D. Hill and family, OF this city.
The imported Clydesdsle stallion
owned by Atkinson & Atkeson, died
at Nyhart last week, after a short
illness. 1t was very fine horse.
valued at one thousand dollars, and
is total loss to those gentlemen, as
they carried no insurance.
Miss Edith Lindsay, of Fl. Scott,
Kansas, is visiting friends in the
city. She reports her grandfather,
F. NJ. Wyatt, who has been suffering
for several months with severe
stroke OF paralysis, as remaining in
about the same condition.
The doctors over in Clinton have
organized and arranged a scale OF
charges for services, for city and
country practice. The agreement
they have entered into binds the as.
ISOLATION firmly. The rules OF no
trust could be more iron clad.
Ex-County Clerk W. NJ. Crawford
and sister, Miss May, who was his
efficient deputy, came down from
Kansas City on the excursion on
Sunday. MIR Crawford compliment
ed us pleasantly, They are living in
Kansas City, where they are pros
pering.
Memorial services were held in the
Ohio street NJ. E. church Sunday al
ternoon at 2 o'clock. The sermon
was preached by Rev. Jewell, pastor
OF the First Presbyterian church.
The members OF the g. A. h. post oc.
cupied reserved seats and with the
large audience present nieyed the
magnificent sermon delivered by Rev.
Jewell.
The funeral Of Mrs. Nick Haynes,
who died at her home, about five
miles southwest of this city, OF com.
plication OF diseases, took place Mon.
day afternoon from the Catholic
church, and interment was made in
Oak Hill cemetery. Deceased was
about 40 years Of age and leaves a
husband, one son and two daugh-
tiers. -
During his recent visit to Hot
Springs, Arkansas, county treasurer
W. L. johnson, captured and brought
back with him q centiped which
measured seven inches. He had the
ugly looking creature Gagged in a bot
tie and was exhibiting it on the
streets. MIR. Johnson captured it
while strolling through the cemetery
at Hot Springs.
J The mystery surrounding the sud-
den disappearance Of William Stuck.
the Richmond Jeweler, was solved on
the 10th inst, when his body was
found in the waterworks pond near
that city by fisherman. Mr.. Stuck
disappeared last November, and all
efforts to locate him failed until his
body was found in the pond. 1t is
thought that he committed suicide.
Prof. Fl. 0. Maxey, who had been
rusticating on the river for a few
days, fishing, shooting frogs and
young squirrels, was in Butler on
Tuesday with his wife on his way
home. He was a pleasant caller at
The TINES office on Tuesday. Prof.
Maxey is very much gratified over
his increased majority for school
commissioner at the late election.
Judge John H. Sul1ens and Hender-
son Miller, two old settlers and ster-
ling citizens Of near Foster, were in
the city on Thursday and favored us
pleasantly. Judge Sullens entered
the land on which he now lives in
1856 from the government. Men
like these are the ones who have
borne the brunt OF the battle in
bringing this county to it's present
magnificent condition.
A man who made millions by his
mechanical inventions, q man whose
Inventions have changed the daily
life Of every American, told me, says
Edward Everett Hale, in the June
Cosmopolitan, that he asked fifty
boys what handiwork they would
prefer; and that, in every instance,
the boy replied that he would like to
be a plumber. The curious truth was
that plumbing was the only mechcan-