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

Tuesday, Sept y, 1905, the friend.
of NJ. X. Lyle gathered ut his resi-
dence to surprise him aud celebrat.
his 10th birthday. Those present
were Mrs. Maggie Cornett, Aaron
Thomas, wife and daughter, Ella, G
G. Blankenbaker, Mr.. Ryan and wife,
Jim Marsteller and CD ildren, Dick
Warren, wife and son, Ivan, G. G
Lyle, Mrs. Ed. Hall, Mrs. Elmer Hall
Mrs. Lizzie McGiness, Mrs. Erkles,
Mrs c. NJ Thomas, j. W. McCaughey
Schuyler Ison and wife, Mr. FewRa and
wife, George Baker, Mrs Lizzie Ger.
kin, Mrs. George Chimney, Mr.. Nc.
Kenna and vile, John Thomas, Miss
Minnie McCaugney, Miss Ollie Jen-
kins and Fred Mckolay. All came
with we'll filled baskets and stayed
till a late hour and wishing him many
more such birthdays. The next day
otter he was 20 years old. He went
to old settlers day and run In the old
mans foot race and won the prize.
Homer jenkins and Ethel Belt are
on the sick list this week.
These continuing rains have filled
the river banks and some overflow
ing.
Dan Smith was seen gathering corn
In water up to his knees.
L. G. Thomas has invested in a
cream separator and is patronizing
Carpenter & Shafer.
Sunday School and League were
rained out last Sunday.
The rain has checked the wheat
sowing and is hurting the corn that
ia cut and all 40 that on the stalk.
Miss Nola Cough was given a sur
prise Saturday night IN the way OF a
pie supper by the young people of
the neighborhood, it being her eigh-
teenth birthday. Those present were
Ned Eckles, Miss Minnie McGoughey,
Grover McGoughey, Mis- Ollie Jen-
kins, Will Carroll, Miss Edna Shack
ley. Grover Carroll, Miss Mary Walk
or, Ernest Cough, Tom Brook, Har.
vey Rogers. Miss V. Thomas, Archie
Thomas, Miss Bertha Thomas and
Miss Susie Rogers and staid till a
late hour. Wishing Miss Nola Cough
many more such occasions
UNCLE ABB.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1905-09-21
MURDER CHARGE.
A. z. Shrum Held For Death Of
Ollie King, a Bates County
Girl, at SCheIl City.

Miss Ollie King, u domestic In the
home of Mrs. Duck, living near Schell
City, died Thursday night after a
short illness. Suspicious circum
stances attending the case caused DR.
Yates, coroner Of Vernon county, to
hold an inquest, which deyelaiPy
thai death was caused from nm ~.
tempted abortion. \. l. Sh-um. IA
young man OF the neighborhood, who
had been keeping company with Miss
King, lift with - man named Tai
mage, They drove through the rouu
try to Rich Hill, when Shrum took
the train for Kansas City, while
Ta'mrge returned t. Schell City.
Saturday Talmage denied all knnwt
edge oi the affair, even to takirr
Shrum to Rich Hill
S"rum wa captured at Clinton'nte
Saturday evening by Constable Har
vey, OF Schell City. His bond wa
placed at s., 1000,
Miss King was Bates county girl,
her parents living east OF R;ch Hill
near the wire bridge. She was %
years Cf age, very pretty and had
borac good reputation.
The funeral was held at Papinyl'lc
Saturday.
The Nevada Post says: "The
crime was produced by the use OF in
struments and the prosecuting at.
torney is led to believe that young
Shrum secured the Instruments for
the girl. 1t is said that Shrum ca He'd
to secure the instruments Thursday
evening, and when they were refused
him, he Immediately skipped out
The case, on its face, seems to be a
very cruel and dirty one, and 1t is to
be hoped, for the good name OF Yer
non county, that the guilty party
will be smoked out and punished"
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1905-09-21
Mt. Zion.

There were quite number OF per-
SONS from this part OF the county
who attended the conference at
Butler last week.
There was no league last Sunday
night on account OF rainy weather
and no Sunday School.
Mr.. kerns, son Frank, daughter
and husband are here on visit and
last Saturday night a number OF
their neigbbors came in to spend the
evening and listen to the monograph,
and there were several who also
sang.
The people are fearing another
overflow as the river is still rising.
MIR. and Mrs. Cliff Lane returned
home from their extended visit.
Thornburg 4 Brunson are making
some fine molasses.
The cad news was received from
Schell City OF the death OF MI. Kings
youngest daughter, who was work
ing there. She was found dead ir
her bed. ~
Quite a number are taking their
apples to Mr.. Rays cider mill and
making cider.
Bob Holt and Geo. Hinton are
shocking for Mr.. Lowry.
| shall come again il | don't hit
the waste basket as l have been do
ing here OF late. DAISY.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1905-09-21

Program Of the county meeting OF,
the Christian church OF Bates county
Mt Foster, Mo, Sept. ~ and %,
1905.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1905-09-21

Wesley Badgett, OF the Sprague
neighborhod, was in Rich Hill and
dropped in on the Review.
"You have been Dragging on Ell.
Crabb's 90 bushels to the acre and
Wally Cheverton's making 100 bush.
els to the acre." he said, but we fsl.
lows in Howard township can beat
that. Arthur and Eugene Franklin,
SONS of your old friend j. j. Frank
lin, in our township, have piece OF
corn that measures out 10S bushels
to the acre as far as gathered" con.
tinued Mr.. Badeett. "They have GO
acres in corn, at least three OF whicu
will come up tu this average, 20
acres more will be almost as good in
my judgment, ard all the balance is
good. The Franklin brothers have
shurked out two rows of their corn,
and allowing 80 pounds to the bushel
It showed the above average OF 108
bushels to the acre"
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1905-09-21
Fight Will Be Bitter.

Those who will persist in closing
their ears against the continual
recommendation OF DR.. Kings New
Discovery for Consumption, will
have a long and bitter. fight with
their troubles, II not ended earlier by
fatal termination. Read what T. X.
Beall OF Beall, Miss. has to say;
Last fall my wife had every symp.
tom of consumption. She took DR..
Kings New Discovery after every
thing else had failed. Improvement
came at once and four bottles entire
ly cured her. Guaranteed by Frank
T. Clay, Druggist. Price SOC and 81.
Tria, bottles free.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1905-09-21
Virginia Items.

Elder Ishmel baptized four persons
last Sunday afternoon in Clate VOLTS
pond.
Rev. Baker will preach next Sun
day at the NJ. +, Church
Charley Wirt's mother and sister
left last week for their home in
Nebraska.
The river Is very high at this writ
ing. The water ia on the road, south
OF George ThemPseR's.
The people OF Virginia are keeping
out OF the water the last few days.
Cornfields are pretty soft.
The Virginia people had to 60 by
Mulberry to get to Amoret Tuesday
OF this week.
The ditch surveyors can now rest
about ten days till the water gets
down.
Thomas Huffman and Miss Pearl
Porter were married week before
last.
A piece was taken from the Kansas
Leader OF September IS: Last Sat
urday night and all day, Sunday
we're times OF good things to the peo-
ple> in and around Virginia who
tn ought it worth their time to go
and receive them. Chas. Stokes and
wife, OF Kansas City, we're here and
spoke to the people against the liquor
traffic. Both spoke Saturday night.
Mr.. Stokes SPOKE SUNDAY at II q. m
Mrs. Stokes In the afternoon. Both
again at night. Mrs. Stokes also
spoke fifteen minutes to the M. E.
Sunday School in the morning. Mr..
Stokes represented the Prohibitions
and Mrs Stokes the W. e. T. U. We
think Mrs. Stokes is as fine q temper
ance lecturer as we ever heard"
Aaron goes too much OF old set.
tiers day aud to keep himself in the
several days, but able to be out
again.
A number went from here to the
pumpkin show at Amsterdam last
week to speak we'll OF it. AARON.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1905-09-21

Harry Adams shipped in two cars
OF sheep to eat his fall pasture. The
sheep proposition is Il paying one.
Sheep are great scaveDgers, aud will
make their own way the year round
in this mild climate. In the spring.
time they give up q crop Of wool and
lambs. Wool is worth money and
she lambs make you new herd to
clean up more weeds in the fence
corners. Put some sheep on your
farm.-Hume Telephone.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1905-09-21

the rich soil OF a Bates county farm
The Journal say: During the frs.
day OF the street fair Mr.. VIM. Laney
one of the best known and most
successful iaImars OF Hudson town.
ship, lifted hill Of corn, containing
five stalks and bearing seven large
cars, deposited it With ga! ! about
the roots and brought the same to
the Journal Office where it was
placed on exhibition with a placard
that it was the product OF grain Of
corn.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1905-09-21
Revolution Imminent.

A sure syn nj nror"nt''t; revolt
and serious trouble IN your system
ls nervousness, sleeplessness, or
stomach upsets. Electric Bitters
will quickly dismember the trouble
some causes. 1t never fails to tone
the stomach, regulate the Kidneys
and Bowels. stimulate the liver, and
clarity the blood. Ran down systems
benefit particularly and all the usual
attending aches vanish under. it's
searching and thorough effective.
mesa. Electric Bitters is ouly SOC,
Rand that Ia returned il it don't give
perfect satisfaction. Guaranteed BY
Frank T. Clay, Druggist.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1905-09-21
Christian Church Convention.

Program Of the county meeting OF
the Christian church OF Bates county
Mt Foster, Mo. Sept. ~ and %,
1905
WEDNESDAY, SEPT, "a,
7:30 Praise service. I'll. W. Hunter,
elizabeth Chapel,
800 Sermon, r, A. Blalock, Nevada.
THURSDAY. SEPT. %.
$50 Devotional, j. W. Rogers,
Hume.
300 Appointment of Committees.
$40 Reports from churches.
$50 Address, dealing the Bread
to the Hungry, Leslie Lucus,
Lee Summit.
1000 How to Influence the Young
People OF the Country, Il. W,
Hunter, Elizabeth Chapel.
1890 Discussion Lead by Fred
Pontius, Double Branches.
HOO Symposium, The Greatest
Need for the County work
and the Workers, j. W.
Rogers, r. A. Blslock, A. II.
Peach, Mrs. Lindsay, Mrs.
Hart.
Adjournment.
C. W. B. M.
1:3O Devotional. Script. Rom 10;
1.1S, Miss lula Davis. Foster,
~ Prayer, Mrs. II. j. Crockett,
Butler.
special music.
200 Paper, Mrs. j. T. Smith,
Butler.
2:15 Items OF interest to the c. W.
b. M. workers
$50 Address, Mrs. N. A. Fowler
district manager, Nevada.
300 Reports OF county work, Mrs.
Marie Lindsay, Butler.
3:15 Call for organization and Re
marks by district president.
Song, "Blest be the Tie"
$3.50 Symposium on Sund a y
School Work "The Officers
R. Blalock,-t teachers,
H.J. Crockett; the music, A.
Fl. Peach. The little ones,
Miss Mable Bailey. Its money
W. B. Miller.
700 Devotional.
IT'S Report of Committees.
7:3O Address, H. ]. Crockett,
Butler.
II. J. CRoCkETT, President,
Mrs JULIA GAINES, Secretary.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1905-09-21
Agonizing Burns

are instantly relieved, and perfectly
healed, by Bucklens Arnica Salve c.
Rivenbark, DR., Of Norfolk, Va,
writes: l burnt my knee dreadfully;
that it blistered all over. Bucklen's
Arnica Salve stopped the pain, and
hes led it without q scar" Also
heals wounds and sores. 25c at
Frank T. Clays, druggist.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1905-09-21
A Warming.

Positive warning is hereby given
to all parties who trespass upon my
premises, known as the Dickey or
Green farm, composing about 1000
acres enclosed by fence. Notices are
posted so all may know.
At Pm. E. Z. WEBSTER.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1905-09-21
A Guaranteed Cure For Piles

Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Protrud'
inp Piles. Druggists refund money
II PAZO OINTMENT fails to cure
any case, no matter Of how long
standing, in 6 to IA days. Fret ap.
plicstion gives ease and rest. SOC. II
your druggist hasn't il send SOC In
stamps and 1t Will be forwards d post
paid BY Paris Medicine Co., st. Louis,
Mo.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1905-09-21
Coal.

Now is the time to haul your coal
Hunt is prepared to accommodate al
corners. Hudson township.
Respectfully,
Att G. q. HUNT,
Appleton City, Mo.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1905-09-21

Charley Hilton, in his Appleton
City Journal, lays claim to having
found Ave stalks OF corn bearing
seven large ears. all the product Of
one grain OF corn The truth Of this.
ia readily accepted, when it is ex
plsined that the hill was taken. fro m
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-06
Oriental Rugs. G snzHst

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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-06

LOT 8-Consists of Serebends, Trans, Fer
aghans, Kurdistans, Bokharas, etc.; for
m sas od priG ss,s s49 epioa to S37. so
LOT e-Consists of a fine collection Of
Persians which sold from $500 ~
fsG;ee. Sale S42,s0
LOT 10-Consists Of many Of the choicest
Rugs in our collection; these rugs sold
from $1,000 to $500 each. CT kn
SAFE Frlce.. INV
In addition to the above ten lots there ara
many Rugs which we were unable to
classify, ranging in price from $500 to
$3.50 each. These Rugs range in sizes
from 3-6x5-e to 4-ox7-o, and include
beautiful Kermans, Saruks Silk Rugs.
Serebends, KAYAKS and many other very
choice Persians. These Rugs will be
s sold at ), uniform 10 per cent OF
Hall Runners go PER CENT DISCOUNT
kHIvAS-Our stock of these popular
Rugs was never more complete. It
consists of only choice, silky, antique
pieces. ranging in sizes from IKE to
= S-3x12-0. Former prices from $500
to $4,000 These Rugs will be sold at
e ,,nIfo OF dis Is per cont ef
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-06
Small Oriental Rugs
we have divided in 10 lots, as follows;

LOT Includes Hamadans, Kazakjas,
Beloochistans and Carabagh; former
griceg $50 to $3.50 Sc 90
Sale Price. ..... VWuSS
LOT 2-1ncludes Mousulas, Carabaghs,
Beloochistans, Shirvans, ETC.; former
prices $1,000 to $500 $9.7s
Sale Price. -
LOT a-consists of Mousulas, Bellochis
tans, Shirvans, Daghestans, ETC.; for
Smer prices $500 to $4,000. ei4 6
Sale Price. .V1Ou ~
LOT +Consists Of Shirvans. Mousulas.
Beloochistans, Kurdistans. ETC.; former
griIees $50 $1,000 to $500. Sl8, SO
LoT Consists Of Trans. Feraghans,
Mousulas Cabistans, Bokaras, ETC.; for
rner prices $4,000 to $4,000. go Ell
LOT 6-serebends, Bokharas, Cabistans.
Trans, Feraghans, Mousulas. etc; for
mer prices $500 to $4,000. 397 60
Sale Price. y. ..... ..... =. - = ssWO
LOT Consists, Of Shirvans, Kurdis-
tans, Trans, Bokharas. Cabistans, ETC.:
former prices $500 to can m
$4,000. Sale Price. ......... &OOaOU
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1905-04-03
rbe Indians in the uprising OF 1862

the Indians in the uprising OF 1862.
Major William H. Bailhache, promi-
nent in Illinois journalism fifty years
ago, died March II from pneumonia
in San Diego, Cal. From 1855 to 1873
he was business manager and part
owner of the Illinois State Journal at
Springfield He went west and held
several federal positions among them
the post of special agent for the
treasury department at San Diego.
Major Bailhache was 70 years old.
A GAINESVILLE dispatch tells of the
death of DR.. J. B. Whiting DR..
Whiting was born in 1922 in Con.
necticut, and came to Wisconsin in
1860. On the breaking out OF the
civil war he offered his services
gratuitously to the state. He was
sent to the front and was in charge
of hospitals at different points. DR..
Whiting served as president of the
Wisconsin Medical society.
Mrs. Jane l.. Stanford, who died re
Gently in Honolulu, was laid at rest
between the bodies of her husband
and her son in the Stanford mausole-
UNI, near the Leland Stanford, Jr..
, University of California. Simple sery-
ices were held in the great memorial
church erected by her in memory OF
her husband, thousands coming from,
a distance to attend. Participating in
the services were clerglymen rep
resenting all denominations. In the
funeral procession were 1900 under
graduate students.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1905-04-03
WASHINGTON.

The foreign bondholders maintain
the Venezuelan agreement is valid
Republican senators think Castro
should be whipped, but the president
will delay action.
America will rush the Dominican
treaty hoping to keep Europeans
from Selling ports on the island
President Roosevelt is firm in
Dominican affairs and will, if neces-
sary, send marines to check revolu-
tiOnists.
Senator Cullom declares the islands
in the south Atlantic are big trouble
makers anu favors supervision by
United States government
Government appraisers hold that
Roosevelt's proclamation on Cuban
reciprocity, delaying its effect ten
days, was without authority
Horace G. Burt, former president of
Union Pacific railroad is understood
to be President Roosevelt's 100000
man. for the Panama canal work.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1905-04-03
DOMESTIC.

Winter wheat in Nebraska is report
ed to be in very fine condition.
An Ohio youth found $500 pounds of
silver left by Indians at Silver lake.
A train wreck at Lincoln, Neb.,
caused injury to thirty-three persons.
A bank messenger at Oakland Cal,
was held UP and robbed of 100000
The Mohawk river cut into the Erie
canal and did damage at Schenectady
N Y.
Mrs. Cassie l.. Chadwick was SEN
fenced to ten years in the Ohio peni-
Tertiary.
The postoffice of Vanpetten, ILL.,,
was robbed, the thieves getting all of
the stamps.
David Copenhaver of Sloan, Iowa,
while cutting down a tree, was crush
ed to death.
Margaret Martin Little York, an
Illinois singer who went insane in
Paris, was adjudged insane.
Directors of Equitable Life Assur-
ance society adopted a plan to admit
the policy holders to control
Governor Hoch declared the battle
ship Kansas shall be christened with
a bottle of the states crude OIL
Dynamiter Rosseau who sent an in
fernal machine to the steamer Umbria
In New York, was found guilty.
A little Wyoming girl stuffed her
baby sister with cotton to make her
fatter and nearly killed the infant.
Congregational ministers of New
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1905-04-03
FOREIGN.

The pretender TO the French throne
appealed to the clericals, saying that
religious liberty depends on a restora
ton of the monarchy.
Allan Johnson has been gazetted
British minister at Copenhagen in
succession to Sir Edward Goschen,
transferred to Vienna.
The earl of Rosslyn's marriage to
Miss Anna Robinson, the American
the nobleman's closest friends.
Gen. Miasoredoff, governor OF
Viborg, Finland, was shot three times
and seriously wounded by Is year old
boy, who claimed to be revolutionist.
Emperor William started on his
Mediterranean cruise on the steamer
Hamburg, which was escorted by the
armored cruiser Prinz Friedrich Karl.
The pope received twelve American
parish priests and forty-five laymen.
w. Nolle of Indian Territory present
eG his holiness with a walking stick
carved by Indians.
Germany, having become convinced
mines through the war in the far
east, has decided to train special
company of 200 seamen in layina
mines.
Replying to questions in the house
of commons Mr.. Brodrick, secretary
Of state for India, said that the total
number of deaths from the plague in
India from Jan. / to March II was
346,S99.
Castro defed the United States
refusing in an offensive way the re
quest of Minister Bowen for the
arbitration of American claims. The
president will take no immediate &C
ton, as he prefers to have congress
in session should the use Of force be
necessary
Privy Councillor Goldberger, author
Of The Land of Unlimited Pos
sibilities, is about to publish stimuli
taneously in Berlin and Brussels {
pamphlet entitled The American
Danger, in which he contends that thu
commercial relations Of the Unitel
States and Germany ought to be
readjusted by reciprocity treaty.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1905-04-03
N. K. Elliott died in Dallas, Ore.
He was general superintendent OF the
VandaIia railroad from 1885 to 1896.

N. K. Elliott died in Dallas, Ore.
He was general superintendent OF the
Vandalia railroad from 1885 to 1896.
Mrs. S. T. Bennett, wife OF the
author of In the Sweet BY and BY
died at Richmond, ILL.,, at the age OF
10.
Attorney John w Bashford OF Hud-
son, Wis, is dead of consumption.
At one time he was member OF the
board of university regents.
Father John Roquie, an aged retired
priest, for many years a missionary
in French Guinea and other French
possessions, died at Peoria.
MIS-. Adams Earl widow OF mil
lionaire merchant, railroad builder
and pioneer, died at her home, Earl
hurst, just outside Lafayette, Ind,
She was "a years old.
Captain William w. Smith, who
went to Freeport, ILL.,, in 1885 and who
served as provost marshal under
General Benjamin F. Butler at Nor
folk, Va, died, aged 80 years.
William Henry Smith, who bore
such a strong resemblance to James
G.. Blaine that he was known as the
statesman's double, died at his Chi
cago home, at the age OF IA years
General Charles Tracey died at his
home in Albany, N. Y, at the age OF
81. He served as a member of con
gress from 1887 to 1895 In congress
!! he was one Of the leading demo
cratic opponents Of free silver.
Andrew c. Merryman Of the Hamil
tDn 6 Merryman Lumber company OF
Narinette, died al Eureka, Cal His
estate is valued at several millions
He was "A years old and prominent in
| Wisconsin for forty-seven years.
! Henry Clay Dodge one OF the
lblest lawyers in El1hart, Ind, died
at the age Of 81 of Bright's disease
with which he was attacked after re
Turning from visit to his son at
ICulbera Panama.
/ Major Charles B. Hinton, IT, S. A.,
was found dead in bed in Daven
port, Iowa, hotel. The coroner de-
cided that death was due to paralysis
Of the heart. Deceased went to
Davenport three weeks ago to take
charge of a recruiting station
Mrs. Abigail Osborn died at the
home Of her daughter, Mrs. C. M.
Chaffee, in Columbus, Ohio, aged 81
years. Mrs. Osborn was a sister or
the mother of the late President Nc
Kinley and was the mother of Gen
eral Joseph Osborn, U. S. A, de-
ceased, and Consul General William
Mckinley Osborn, deceased.
William Stringer, one of the Oldest
citizens Of Minneapolis, died. He was
born in 1924 on Prince Edward
island. He served in the navy in the
Mexican war and was with Scott at
Vera Cruz. He spent three years in
the civil war in the Seventh Mime
sofa volunteers, serving not only in
the south, but in Minnesota against