The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1904-05-26

! Miss Alice Roosevelt, daughter Of
the President, will arrive in ST.
Louis to day, and during her stay in
the city will be the guest OF Miss
Irene Catlin, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. James Catlin, vanderventer
Place
Brigadier General II. C. Clark, COM
manding the National Guard of Mis-.
souri,, has issued an order instructing
the Second, Third and Fourth regi-
ments, infantry and Sixth battalion
to encamp within the exposition
grounds at st. Louis October 2 to
II.
A. c. Vantrees returned from trip
to Oklahoma Friday, and reports
the wheat crop in that section over
which he Travelled as greatly damag.
ed by the long drouth which has pre-.
vailed, AID farmers told him not
more than third to a half crop
would be raised.
Bonnie Kate Wolfe accompanied
her grandfather q. W. Park, on a
visit to the editorial rooms Of THE
TIMES last week. Miss Bonnie Kate
is winsome little lassie, with rosy
cheeks and roguish eyes, and delights
in looking after her old grand dad to
keep him out of trouble.
BY order OF the city council test
was made OF the water pressure at
Clinton, Mo-, the other day. With
six hydrants open water was thrown
to the top Of an S0ioot pole The
test was satisfactory, and then the
fire department was presented with
the high pressure nozzle used by Il e
W tier company III the test,
The Methodist people mt Peru VIII
hold their quarterly meeting at the
| Willow Branch church the first Sun
day in June Preaching by the Pre-.
siding Elder Anderson on Saturday
and Sunday morning at ! | n. IN, The
children $ day services will be held in
the afternoon at 3 O'Clock. Basket
dinner and every body invited to come
and bring their baskets we'll filed
Drs. Boulware. Lockwood and
Foster returned Saturday night from
st. Louis, where they attended Il
meeting Of the state medical associa-
tion, and incidentally took in the
fair. Said DR.. Boulware, II took in
as much OF the fair as my spare time
from the association would permit,
and while saw great deal, the fair
is yet far from being complete in ex-
hibits. Many OF the big buildings
are not ready to be opened aud it
was the opinion OF those with whom
| talked that the fair would not be
complete and in full blast under a
month. y
Onlast Thursday some twenty-five
or more OF our most prominent and
active business and professional men
went to Nevada to Join the Elks OF
that city.-A like number became
members at a former meeting, 50
that we now have fully fifty Elks In
our county, members of the Nevada
lodge. Those who went to Nevada
Thursday were: RUDE Marshall, DR..
Arnold, W. & Shaier, Henry Fulker-
son, B. F. Moore, Harry Smith, Vir-
gil Galley, G. |. Lynch, T. J. Day,
Jess Williams, Will Ruble, A. B. Ow-
en-, d. X. Walker, John Armstrong,
Ray McCulloch, Frank Allen, Roy
Kious and Wesley Denton. The
party returned yesterday morning
well pleased with their trip'and the
courtesies extended by the Nevada
brethren OF the order Record.
THE TINES job office has just COM
pleted a full and complete directory
of the rural routes leading out from
Butler and the Spruce routes supplied
from the Butler delivery. This direc-
tory is published in pamphlet form,
the names alphabetically arranged,
with all members of the family as
given in to the rural route carriers.
These names were secured from the
postmaster, under a former ruling OF
the Department, instructing him to
give such list to any one making
application for same and to post
them In q conspicuous place In the