The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1906-04-05

Coal has advanced $l.0O q son IN
Kansas City on account OF thestrike.
The candidates will probably keep |
the roads hot until the 18th OF May. |
Mrs. l. N. Mains returned Sstur-
day from q months visit to her
mother at Coldwster, Michigan.
I'M. Smith, Deep Waters candi.
date for Recorder, was In Butler
Monday and called to see rs.
W. F. Hill, proprietor Of Hills
Cash Store, has purchased the Geo.
Newberry residence on South Main
street.
For SALE:-50 or 100 tons Of
timothy hay. Eight miles due east
of Butler, NO., on R. F. d. No l.
DEWITT MCDANIEL.
Ed. Crabb, from Rich Hill, was in
the city the last OF the week In the
interest OF his canvas for Recorder
and favored us pleasantly.
Thos. Flannery and Miss Jessie
McCorkle we're married at the Rest
Rooms in the court house on Friday
afternoon by Judge Boxley.
Delegate convention was held in
Fulton Monday, in which ITO dele.
Igates from the different townships OF
the county took part to discuss the
1purpose OF building a system OF rock
roads through the county.
The supreme court Friday decided
that the Exchange Bank OF Webb
lCity was liable for the SO 900 that
the Buckioot Racing gang swindled
lR, f Hobbs, OF Oklahoma, out ot
The court holds that the bank is Ii
able as it cashed these checks. The
transaction was known TO be fraud
at the time.
Pansy Middleton, a minor, has
brought suit at Carthage through
her curator, W. Fl. Waters, against
the Missouri Pacific railroad iol
, SO, 900 damages on account OF thu
death of her father Lewis Middleton
who was killed last month while ride
Ing q railroad 'velocipede near Lake
side, on the Mo, Pacific railroad, be
: ing struck by al engine.
John Willis, Daniel Hutton and W
W. Hutton, OF Pleasant Gap town
Z ship, left the last OF the week will
d their families for Odds, province o
b Alberta, Canada, where they expect
J. to each take homestead under
9 Canadian laws. That is regarded al
= q coming wheat country and Is get
l. ting a big emigration from tht
7 United States.
!. S.P. Utley and wife have fled suit
D In the Vernon county circuit court
), against the M, K. & T. railroad iol
' $4,000 damages for the death o.
their son, John Utley, fireman or
a the NJ, K. & T. railroad, who wal
g killed at Kincaid, Kansas, Novem
1 Der End. 1904 The engine jumped
|. the track, and he was so badly injur
a ed that he died within few hours
0 | It Is alleged the accident was due ia
7 negligence on the part OF the compa'
i ny in not properly bsllasting the
track. That the ballast covered thu
rails causing the engine to slip from
the track.
I'll Luther C. Caldwell departed thi
v life at the home Of his mother, Mrs
{, W. II. Caldwell, on South Mai
street, on last Friday. He had BEEF
: afflicted from childhood, but wa
cheerful and bright under all advers
circumstances and always did hi
duty to his family and society as b
saw it. He bore his affections wit
great iortitude, and had host {
friends who deeply sympsthized wit
him Funeral services were conduc
ed from the family residence, Sunda
afternoon by Rev Swanson, and III
der the auspices OF Modern Woodme
LOT America and interment In Ga
,,Hill cemetery.
Hi Butler Lodge No. 958 B. P. Q
- Elks elected the following officers 4
the ensuing year: ] T. Hull, Exal
ed Ruler; s. F. Warnock, LeadiI
. Knight; W. W. Cannon, Roy
Knight; R. w Allen, Lecturir
. Knight; E. B. Childs reelected secr
tary; ]. E. Argenbright, Tyler; B.
< Moore, Trustee, and Fl. G. Cook
8 representative to Grand Lodge
8 Denver this summer. Mr.. Cot
2 represented the lodge at Buffa
y last summer, but under the law on
\ q past Exalted Ruler is entitled to
\ seat in the Grand Lodge, and COM