The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1905-09-21

included Alaska. They spent some
time at the Portland Exposition.
An order has been promulgated |
from the department requiring the
rural route boxes TO be numbered
eonsecutively from No. 1. up. Ii Is
provided that each owner is to affix
the number.
The ex.coniederates OF Missouri
hold their annual convention at Kan
sss City October 3 and 4. Thisis the
week OF the fall festivities at that
place and special rates on all rail.
roads.
Robert Deacon left Monday morn
ing to join his wife at Fon Dulac,
Wis where she has been spending
the heated term. Mr.. Deacon expects
to be back by the first Of the month,
Mrs. Deacon will no. return before
frost.
Some crane and wild geese went
south i,w days ago. They were, no
doubt, the advanced guard spying
out the land OF Canaan for the flight
to follow. There will probably be
good shooting on the lakes this fall.
This is an unprecedented wet sea.
son and more bard winds than usual
" occur at this time OF year. The
corn Is about matured, but when the
stalk Is blown down and the wet
weather continues it is most sure to
rot.
d. b. Swezy, prominent farmer OF
Pleasant Gap township, favored us
pleasantly while in the city the last
OF the week, MIR. Swezy was the Re.
publican nominee for Representative
a few years ago and received his full
Iparty's support at the polls.
A Missouri Pacific railway steel
bridge, 100 feet long over the Lamine
river at Otterville, Mo-, was carried
down by the floods Sunday morning.
The high water also stopped railroad
business over the Warsaw & South
western Tor Sunday and Monday.
s. II Calvin, Of Clinton, brooding
over his loss in the Salmon bank hail
ure, lost his mind and had to be tax
IN to the asylum at Nevada. Mr..
Calvin lost $4,000 and his wife 81,
goo in money they had saved up for
support in old age.
Parish Nickel returned home Sun
day from Kansas City, where he had
been in hospital for several weeks
and underwent a severe surgical
Operation. He is looking we'll and II
is hoped his troubles have been per-
manently relieved.
Elsewherein this issue will befound
an advertisement OF a large tract OF
land, Just the place to get rich in the
sheep business, Is is probably the
cheapest land On the market In the
county. There is more profit In o
sheep now than in an OK.
During the heavy rains last week,
q railroad camp was washed away
near Maxon. Kan. A woman and
her three children, names unknown,
were drowned and man and an
other child, members of the some
family, we're compelled to spend the
night in tree.
Rev. Atkeson, Of Fayette, who at
tended the conference last week, per
iormed the marriage ceremony fol
Mr.. and Mrs. Preston Argenbright
forty-fve years ago. On Monday
their daughters, Mrs. j. E. Geigel
and Miss Argenbright entertained
Rev. Atkeson at dinner.
All the lowlands In Carroll county
say the dispatches, are under watel
, and thousands of acres OF hne cornii
ruined, and many families have hat
to leave their homes. The rsinfs
) in that locality from Thursday o
last week to Sunday was seven Inches
sending all the streams out OF thoil
banks.
, C. G. Weeks favored US pleasantly
/ while in Butler last week. Mr.. Weeks
/ has been for a number Of years con
, nected with the Rich Hill Bank, Il
very popular where known and recog
nized as being competent. He is
southerner, having come to thi
, county from Georgia years ago. Mr.
! Weeks is meeting the Democrats o
III Il