The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1908-01-02

w. l.. Hooper orders his paper
changed to Martin City, Mo near
which place he has moved his family
and thinks they will like she change
DR.. Martin took Mrs. Warren White
TO the city yesterday, where she will
be placed in hospital for an opera
ton. Ii Is hoped shat she will with
stand the ordeal and return home in
good health -Merwin Clipper.
| George Dixon purchased the Pentzer
building on North Main street OF Miss
Kate Canterbury, and will use f. for
his furniture store. Mr.. Pentzer
built the building for tina. especial
purpose II has u frontage on North
Main OF 40 ieet and runs back 90
feet, with southeast corner front.
Professor John Morgan Bailey, gu.
perintendent OF she Public Schools OF
Carterville, stopped over TO sea bis
old friend Rev. o. E Vivion on Sat
urday. He had spent the Christmas
holidays with his parents, near Mar
shall, Mo. The TIMES acknowledges
n very pleasant call from Prot
Bailey.
The bottoms threatened to drop
out OF the roads last week bus n few
days hard wind without rain, has
I bridged them over for awhile. The
main thoroughiares throughout the
county will have to be rocked and
made permanent before we viii ever
be blessed with good roads the year
round.
DR.. W. A Robinson was taken to
Kansas City again Saturday and an.
other operation performed on him
for gall stone. This is the third time
he has been operated on IN she past
three months, He Is reported as
resting easy and having an excellent
chance for recovery Amsterdam
Enterprise.
Hon. 7. j. Smith, superintendent
Of the Baptist Sunday School, WAS
presented a handsome teachers Bible
by the teachers and officers n "A token
OF appreciation Of his long service
and uniformly kind and considerate
treatment OF all. Mr.. Smith has
served in that capacity for more than
| Is years.
Isaac Ellington has the following
solution for the financial troubles. q
pamela for all the panicy Ills that
have been worrying Republican
Statesmen. Increase the tariff. II
high tariff has heretoior caused
good times, why, add on some more
tariff and have good times. Why
won't that work, according to Re-
publican theories.
John Garrison, Charles Tellers and
lC Steuck, Rich Hill saloon men, were
arrested the last OF the week on inior-
nation charging them with selling
whiskey to minors. They came to
Butler Saturday and appeared before
Judge Denton and gave bond for
ttheir appearance at the February
term'oi circuit court.
We see from the dispatches that
W. j. Butler has been appointed re.
ceiver for the First National Bank at
Hamilton, Ohio. He Is serving in
Ike capacity for the Bates National
Bank here. 1t appears that Mr..
Butler has a pull In the right
direction and might be termed o
professional receiver.
A large number OF Bates county
teachers, headed by County Superin.
tendent Ives, attended the meeting
OF the State Teachers Association at
Joplin last week. They report a
pleasant and profitable meeting with
large attendance. The next meet
Ing OF the association goes to Kan
sss City during the Christmas holi
days OF 1908.
Mrs. C. A. Hedges, who has been
visiting relatives and friends In But.
Ter, was q pleasant caller at THE
Times office on Tuesday accompanied
by her son Roy, and favored us
with renewal. Mrs. Hedges says that
while she likes to live in Kansas City,
no place seems so much like home "a
old Butler and she is much interested
In the local happenings.
II. H. Wyse Was in the first of the
: week and remembered us. Mr.. Wyse
had just returned from bis annual
hunt In Texas. He was down on Red
River, just over the border from the
Indian Territory. 1t was his old
! stamping ground, having been born
and raised in that locality. Mr..
: Wyse said he and his party killed
. four fat deer, aud he contracted a
bad case OF rheumatism, pretty good
, for one hunt
B. W. Lansdown, former Butler
boy, who, by indomitable grit and
energy, has grown rich and Is now
the leading merchant OF bis town and
,, president OF the Centertown, Mo-,
Bank, sends remittance to set bis
dates ahead into 1911, making him
hiOh mn on THE TINFs roll of honor