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

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Fluffy was formerly a substantial
citizen OF Bates county.
The bids for the site for the new
government postof1ce building at
Clinton will be opened in Washington
st she Office Of the supervising arehi.
tect August 10th.
The families OF Mayor A. B. Owen.
A.V. Hancock, T. W. Legg and A o.
Welton are day camping at the Wei
ton lake. They go out for breakfast
and return home after SUPP er each
day.
M. 81. Fox, who Ia conducting an
zee plant and cold storage at Cleve-
land, Okla, was up the last OF the
week on a visit to relatives and old
friends and looking alter business
matters.
Postmaster Clark Wiz and John
Armstrong circulated subscription
paper among our business men and
raised money to deiray the necessary
expenses Of the old settlers picnic on
August Both.
Through the kindness OF M. Fl.
Fox, A. l.. Fisher, oiClevelsnd, Okla,
sends remittance for renewal. Mr..
Fisher Is an expert engineer. Hewas
formerly with the Carpenter & Shsier
company In this city.
A. l.. Scholl, popular citizen and
successful druggist at Hume, sends
us remittance to set his subscription
ahead into 1908. DR.. Scholl Is close
to the head OF our roll OF honor. He
repor us the best rain OF the season
on Thursday.
j. Is. Raddy, postmaster at Roscoe,
ST. Clair county, was arrested on the
charge Of embezxling SIG OF money
order funds from the government
and taken TO Clinton Friday, where
he admitted bis guilt when arraigned
before Judge Jeifries.
Mrs. George ". Blankenbaker died
at the Nevada Asylum on Tuesday.
The remains were brought to Butler
on the lao train Wednesday and
taken to the home OF Mr.. Blanken.
baker In Lone Oak township. Fun
eral services will be held at Willow
Branch church to. day.
Sheriff Andrew P. Wymore has re-.
ceived the 800 reward for the cap.
ture OF Edward Duncan, alias Leon
ard Belt, the Missouri City bank
robber, whom he captured recently
after an attempt had been made to
burglarize the bank OF Missouri City.
Mrs. Sarah Jones, OF this city, re-.
ceived q message Saturday snnounc-
ing the death of her brother, Miles
Burns, at his home near Lamar. Mr..
Burns resided In shawnee township,
Bates county, for many years and
was widely known here.-Adrian
Journal
Our old friend Frank Oldaker be.
gan with The TIMES with it's first ie.
sue twenty.eight years ago and has
never missed an issue or been in the
red. He has the dates set ahead to
1907 making twenty-nine payments.
Such friends are appreciated by a
publisher.
William Jackson, Of YOUNGSTOWN,
left the last OF the week to select his
land in the Crow Indian reservation,
In Montana, he having drawn a prize
10 the recent government land lot
terry. His number GAG. Whether it
will really prove a prize In the end,
Inc 20 10 aAn,
Robert Sieg came very dearly los
log his right hand few days ago,
says the Hume Telephone. The
needle on q sell. binder went through
bis hand. Luckily the machine was
stopped before any bones we're bro
ken. He has pretty bad hand and
It will be sometime before he can use
It.
A vicious dog attacked the four
year old daughter Of Mrs. A. o.
Kelley, and severely lacerated her
right cheek with its teeth last Thur
day afternoon. Mrs. Kelley WAS
picking berries at the Sells farm,