The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1907-07-04

Smith went up 30 Pleasant Hill on
Thursday to meet her.
Clyde Robbins was In Saturday TO
meet bis wife and Miss Mamie Ham,
mond, who had been visiting the
latter's brother, Charlie Hassig, q
druggist at Sehell City.
| Ex-Sheriff Nose B. Morris, who is
holding a position at the peniten-
iisry, came up from Jefferson City
Tuesday to join his wife and baby
here, who had been visiting relatives
and friends since Saturday.
The city council OF Clinton last
week granted the Bell Telephone Co.
a franchise Tor ten years, TO put In
ten toll stations at an annual license
cost Of $50 For some time Clinton
has been wlshous the Bell long dis.
tame.
Thara will be no distinctive Fourth
: July celebration In Rich Hill this
year, but there will be all sorts OF fun
nv the carnival crew and anybody
else that wants It. There will also
he an interesting game OF base ball
I the lovers cf this sport. Review.
Mr.. o K. Davis, who recently pur
,ased Mayor A. B Ovens farm In
Mound township, has moved hisism
liy to Butler from Knox City, Mo.
He expects to make Butler his future
home, and will purchase property
here,
II Is reported that E A. Bennett,
on his trip to Canada last month,
purchased n large tract Of land In
Saskatchewan, paying $12 90 per
acre. He says the land lays we'll and
s very rich. Ii Is a great wheat
country.
Harry Wright and Miss Lizzie
Dunn were married at the home oil
the groom's mother, Mrs. John Nor
fleet, Sunday afternoon. The bride
is the daughter OF John Dunn, and
is only fourteen years old, while the
groom is nineteen.
On last Sunday, June 30th, Gen,
eral and Mrs. Fl c. Clark celebrated
) their tenth wedding anniversary
with a family dinner. They were
: married at the Episcopal church 10
this city June 30th 1897, at O'Clock
4 lip. m.
Judge Wallace, OF Kansas City, an.
nounces be will send "gun toters" to
Ijail for six months and make no ex
:. captions. President Roosevelt will
, do we'll to decline Kansas City in vita
. tions 80 long as Wallace is on the
nch.-Clinton Democrat.
. Mrs. John Brooks, and two chill.
, dren. Eugenis and Ben, OF Texas
| visited Mrs. j. d. Allen the first OF
: the week. They came up from Rich
Hill where Mrs. Brooks is spending
a vacation with her parents, DR.. anC
? Mrs. W. Ii. Allen.
MI Emma Fletcher, OF Burling
. ton, Kan, who is visiting at the
home OF her uncle, j. j. Richardson,
fell from shed, on which she had
: climbed In play with some children,
r and sustained a fracture OF her arm.
DR.. Christy was called and reduced
the fracture,
Arch Stone caught scat fish a day
or two ago which weighed a little
! better than so pounds reports the
d Review. The arrival was too big for
? Arch to manage, so he sold it at Geo,
Watson's lunch room. The fish was
taken from the back water OF the
, Marias des Cygnes.
8 We had the pleasure OF meeting
t Samuel Wheeler, prominent attor
ney of Grand Junction, Cal, who wat
In Butler Thursday with his brother
+ Thos. J. Wheeler, OF Homer. Mr.
:. Wheeler, like his brother, formerly
3 taught school In Bates county, bu'
= went west and became q disciple o
u Blackstone.
We were complimented by q pleas
ant call from Mrs. M. 4. Murphy, Of
Altoona, who had The TIMES sent Il
her son 81. E. Murphy. Mrs. Murphy
is relative of the late Judge Bal
i, lard, and OF ex- Warden ]. d. Starke
F, OF Cooper county. She came Of goot
old Virginia stock which is shown II
her gracious manners.
About one O'Clock Tuesday morn
Ing this section was visited by one
the hardest wind storms which ha
visited this section In years. Itlook
ed for awhile as though some dam
d age would be done but rain sool
le set In and all was serene. No dam
r. age was reported. 1t lasted abou
:. 80 minutes -Amoret Post.
It J.K. Martin, OF Rich Hill, Dlstrict
!. Deputy Grand Master l. o. 0. F
:, was In Butler Monday night and 10
q stalled the officers for Bates lodg'
y No. $50 as follows: G. A. Allen
i Noble Grand; B. G. Culver, Vic