The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1906-07-05

What improvements just complet-
ed at a cost Of about $4,000 Pratt
Wyatt now has one OF the hand.
soonest and most comfortable homes
in the city.
The government is letting con-
tracts for carrying the mail from
Butler TO Madison, Kansas. Mr..
Hardin has secured the contract to
carry the mail from this city to
Nyhart.
]. Ogden Armour, who has Just
returned from Europe, says the for
eign meat market has been damaged
hundreds of millions of dollars by
discrediting the packing industry of
this country.
The Record and Republican Press
should be careful 10 not get over
heated in their anxiety for q defeat
ed candidate Of the Democratic pri-
mary, through fear that there were
a great many illeged votes cast.
Mr.. and Mrs, B. NJ. Young, OF Clin-
ton county,. Ky, are here on visit
to thelr son, s. R Young. Mr.. Young
owns a farm In Deep Water town.
ship which he purchased In 1871.
He is brother OF j. C. NJ. Young, OF
that township. He is 81 years OF
age, but active and In good health.
Ex-Sheriffa and Recorder ]. r. Slmp.
son, Of Deep Water, was In Butler
Monday and favored US pleasantly.
he said 80 far as he could learn there
is no disaffection in Democrat tic ranks
In his section and that old time ma
iorities will be rolled up In Novem-
Ger.
Luke Underwood, a small boy OF
Prescott, Kans., is dead from in
iuries received while handling Fourth
Of July fireworks. The boy had his
pockets filed with the explosives
when they caught fire from some
powder. The body was burned to q
crisp.
Dug Walden, who visited his old
Kentucky home during the home
coming week, for the first time since
he left there thirty.iour years ago,
says there were many changes and
few knew him, although the local pa
per published the fact OF his presence.
He was a small boy when he left there.
He visited many relatives and boy.
hood friends. He said there was lit
tie change in the old homestead, ex
cept the rivers he knew are now
creeks and the hills have apparently
slipped up nearer the front door
Fields OF growing grain now occupy
the sites where he remem bered ioreste
Of giant trees.
DR.. j. T. Hull met with painful
accident on Monday evening. A
board had been erected by workmeu
to prevent outsiders from entering
the new Frnternal Iun building. DR.
Hull, be 1t known, In his younger
days was an athlete OF no mean pre-
tensions, and he concluded to show
the boys he was just as young as hs
used to be. BE attempted to jump
the hurdle, when bis heels caught, and
he fell forward, alighting on his face
on the sidewalk. Now the doctor
can lay just claim to being "heavy
weight," and there was a mighty
fall. The face he got on him as q re-
suit would make one OF Sells Bros
funny men turn green with envy
The Doctor was carried home in q
carriage and his injuries dressed by q
physician. It is thought he will be
presentable after q beauty doctor
has worked on him for q few weeks.
Chas. E. Scott, after q continuous
service OF twenty years as mail clerl
on the Interstate Division, made hill
last trip on Friday, returning Satur
day evening, owing to the order o
the department. disseminating mai
service on that line July 1st Mr.
Scott entered the mail service as 6
clerk in the Butler postoffice under
Col. o. D. Austin. He succeeded E
A. Ewing as R. P. o. clerk on thai
run. Several times the department
has been on the eve OF transferring
him, but each time his Butler friends
and the patrons along the line, witt
whom be is very popular, have sue
ceeded In retaining him. We hops
Mr.. Scott will be given q run thai
| will be In every agreeable to him, al
he IL deserving II.
Up at Clinton monthly sale day
will be held. The commercial clut
has taken hold of the matter and thu
flYat sale day will be held Monday