The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1907-12-19

The local option law does not pro-
hibit any person from shipping case
Of beer or liquor into their home for
personal or family use. There seems
to be some misunderstanding on this
point, especially over In our sister
county on the west, where wet"
and "dry" campaign Is red hot.
Such, however, are the facts In the
CAGE, and the temperance people have
NO desire to misrepresent the law
Appleton City Journal.
In about six weeks the dredge boat
OF the big drainage ditch will reach
the Mo. Pacific railway and slltrafic
will be suspended until it passes there
and a temporary bridge Of 100 foot
span is placed In position. The con-
tract with the railroad company
calls for the crossing OF the track In
five hours, which will require expedi-
tious work,-Wessern Enterprise.
Butler polled five more votes in the
late election than Rich Hill, her total
being 600 and ours 6S5, which indi-
Gates that the voting population Of
thetwo towns Is about the same. IL
Is scarcely probable that a full vote
was polled In either town, as the
writer personally knows of several
here who did not vote on either side,
and the same is no doubt true OF
Butler.-Review.
George E. Eldridge died at his
home a few miles north OF Butler, last
Wednesday night, after long suffer
ing with malignant cancer. Mr..
Eldridge was an old settler OF Bates
county. He was about rs years OF
age and leaves family OF grown up
sons. Funeral services were held
from the home Saturday morning,
and interment was made In Oak Hill
cemetery.
The county court OF johnson coun-
ty has ordered that county prisoners
OF that county be placed upon the
rock pile and made to work while
confined In jail for offenses. The
order was made last week upon the
recommendation Of the prosecuting
attorney Of the county. The law
provides that this can be::done and
every county In the state ought to
follow the lead OF Johnson:county.-
Higginsville Jeffersonian.
Mrs. Mary Brooks, Of Coldwater,
Mich, and Miss Florence Ellington,
Of Buffalo, Illinois, sister and niece
OF Isaac F. Ellington, Of Pleasant
! Gap, are visiting the family Of Mr..
Ellington. II has been nineteen
years since brother and .:::sister met
and 1t was q joyous reunion. Mrs.
Brooks has many old friends in But
Ter and Bates county. After spend
ing Christmas here, SIZE will 20 to
. Oklahoma to visit B. F. Glover's
family and to Mclean, Texas, to
, visit G. W. Ellington, another BROTH
or.
, Luman F. Parker, general solicit
D tor Of the Frisco system and late
} candidate for the United States Sem
| ate before the republican legislature,
: was found dead In his bath, by his
! housekeeper, at bis home in st. Louis
3 on Monday last. General Parker
was 60 years old and had been az
fiicted with heart trouble for some
time. He was buried at Rolls, Mo-,
by the side OF his wife, who died four
years ago.
l The county court is called session
, on Tuesday adiudged Pink Hyatt.
I insane and ordered him sent to the
t State Hospital for insane, at Nevada,
Mo. Hyatt, who is about 81 years
years old, has been failing intellec-
tually for some time. He has been
making his home with his parents,
who live on the old Roster place,
north OF Butler. Pink was In Butler
late Saturday night and arrived
home about three O'Clock In the
! morning. He raised racket and
: then demanded money OF his father.
4 He then went to the barn, loaded up
some corn and started to Butler,
p but was stopped by the father. The
o family was afraid OF him.
W. II. Hupp was notified by tele-
gram on Sunday evening that his