The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1906-07-26

The Butler ball players smote the
Rich Hill ball players hip and thigh
In yesterdays game, aud then some.
White Sox is q better name than
Invincitle. They can wash theirso
or perhaps turn 'em in the next
game,-Rlch Hill Review.
AL. Lindsey is having the old F. NJ,
Wyats house, on TT, Scott street,
renovated and repaired, preparatory
to moving back to Butler, Mr.,
Wyatt, who is hopeless paralytic,
Is anxious to spend his REMAINING
years Ia his old home.
A two days picnic will be held AZ
Rockville, Friday and Saturday OF
this week. Inis picnic is held AL
nually and has always proven big
success. II is kind Of u harvest ie-ti.
val, 1T the close OF the wheat ami
oats harvest and the laying by VI she
corn. This year they have made
special arrangements for b big time.
Quite u number OF Butler people will
go down, especially on Saturday
The Charlotte Telephone Company,
Incorporated, bought OF II. Rein.
beimer his line from Amoret to the
Miami, with the provision that they
are to have free Butler connection,
until the expiration Of Mr.. Rein-
heimer's franchise. This puts the
people west Of town who have tele.
phones in direct communication with
the Butler business men and citizsns.
1t is announced from st. Peters
burg that "Ths Terrorist" u revolu-
tionary and socialistlc organization
that has never failed to have it's
sen fences carried out, has condemned
the car to death, together with q
number OF bis ministers and cabinet
officers. 1t would not be very sur.
prising il within a short time the
world is informed OF the assassina-
ton OF the Russian Emperor.
Sheriff Morris took an old man
namedJ j. R. Harper to the peoria
on Monday. Harper had been living
alone in q bar room over the old Pyle
building, formerly occupied by a
laundry on South Delaware. He has
grown too feeble to support himself.
He formerly owned q farm and was
quite prosperous, but met with re-
verses and his wife and children are
dead. He IL about so years old.
Elk State Senator B. G. Thurman,
OF Lamar, was nominated for Circuit
Judge, at the Judicial convention at
Greenfield last Monday. The nomi.
nation came on the second ballot
when four votes from Cedar county
went to him. The vote stood: For
Thurman: Barton 6, Dade 5 and
Cedar 4. johnson, Vernon IL, Cedar
2. Barry Thurman will be elected
and will be an honor to his district.
The Appleton Journal is authority
for the statement that John Baldwin,
q wealthy farmer Of Hudson town.
ship, is projecting an electric railroad
from that city to Monegsw Springs,
by way Of Lowry city. Mr.. Baldwin
Is one OF the chief agitators OF the
proposition to move the county seat
OF S.. Clair county from Osceola to
Monegaw. This capital removal
talk is all very we'll for town to get
q little cheap advertising, but the
property owners and health resort
promoters will find they will have to
put up very many hard earned dol
lars and then some on proposition
OF that kind. People, as a rule, are
slow to move their permanent seats
OF government in county, state or
nation. We have heard OF q great
many such agitations and have never
known OF them to result in any great,
bowling success. We would like to
see Monegaw secure her electric rail.
road when some Of US would run
down and take q drink of her odoriier-
GUS liquid, but thecounty seat remov.
al will occur at the time the nation.
al capital is moved to the Ozarks.