The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1908-02-13

MTs. alUd Alker, Oh DlsDee, ArlZ
Is visiting Mrs C. W. Daniels, four
miles south OF Butler.
George Herrell was down from Adj
rian spending Sunday with his par
ents. Mr.. and Mrs John F. Herrell.
Don't forget she Jubilee Singers at
the Opera House on Wednesday even
ing, February Josh. II you like old
Southern plantation songs, they will
please you.
Trenton, in Grundy county, voted
wet last week by majority of 241,
after a very strenuous campaign
Grundy county outside OF Trenton
voted dry some time ago.
The Farmers Bank has on display
an old Spanish coin, near she size OF
a silver dol ar, p we'd up by George
Rains on his farm In Pleasant Gap
township. Ii was coined in 1908.
W. A. Ephlapd OF Shawnee, Okla,
passed th-ough Butler the last Of the
week on his way to visit old friends
In Foster. He was formerly cashier
OF the Farmers Bank OF that town.
On the ground that a dog has no
real value, the supreme court has de.
clared unconstitutional she dog law,
passed by the last legislature, taxing
male dogs 81 per head and female
dogs 80 per head.
Columbia went "dry" at a local
option electionlast We lnesday by a
majority oi>42. The vote was 99S
"drys"955 "wets" The election was
hotly contested on both sides, and Il
Is said much bitterness was engend-
cred.
De C. Mize, trustee for New Home
township, came In the last OF the
week TO make his semi-annual settle.
ment with the county court, but ar
rived too late, court having adjourn
ed. He reports much sickness In and
about Foster.
| Winterstein, the asylum attendant,
who was cut with an axe by patient
named Sykes last week, continues TO
improve and Ia now out of danger.
The patient who assaulted Winter
: stein,- was-not- captured az stated,
n butts still at large Nevada Herald.
Among the strange things develop
ed In these piping times OF political
;. progress are the leaders who ARE
!. promoted, because they are greater
s than the party they profess to repre-
}. sent. There Is only one statesman
. who can be so classed, and his name
r is Theodore Roosevelt, but he is now
r very decidedly out OF favor with his
/. party.-New Madrid Record.
Mrs. Manda Johnson, widow OF
. George johnson, early settlers in
Bates county, died at her home In
Deep Water township on Sunday al.
ser an Illness OF short duration, of
\ disease incident to old age. She was
r making her home with her daughter.
Funeral services were conducted on
Monday afternoon at the home by
Elder Lewis Wix, and interment was
made at Union church.
r VIII G Reed, OF Amorett, Mo-, Was
: In Paola last Wednesday on his way
! to GAINESVILLE, Texas, with the body
! of his grandfather, Jefferson Robert
: son, for burial. Mr.. Robertson was
I the father OF Mrs. Matt Reed, of
3 Louisburg, Kansas. He fell last
] Sunday and broke the bones in his
right hip, and being over 90 years OF
age he could not recover from the
shock, but died last Monday West.
ern Spirit.
Mrs. Willis, an aged woman, died
+. at the home OF her daughter, Mrs. c.
: G. Pitchford, early Thursday morn
9 ing last. At noon OF the same day
Everett Pitchiord, aged "a years,
son OF Mr.. and Mrs. Pitchiord, died
OF pneumonia. 4 double funeral was
3 held Friday afternoon, and the bod
r les were inferred In Double Branches
: cemetery. Mrs. Pritchiord was re-
, ported very III at the time.
, U. 6 Robinson the superintendent
: OF the state anti saloon lesgueiroths
at the mouth when he thinks OF Cow.
I herd being elected governor Of Mis-
, souri,. Robinson will find that he
! cannot run state politics. In fact he
is not necessary in any sense, moral
or political. Warrensburg preferred
to conduct It's own campaign and let
: Mr.. Robinson, who Is at best but
8 hsir-brsined trouble maker and SLAM
derer OF good men, stay away War
resburg Star.
At a mass meeting OF citizens held
= In Hume last week the following d.
\ rectors were 81, cted for the Hume
/ Stock Show Association for 1908: F.
' L. Martin, j. L. Mcdonnell, j. Casa
uoy n pakto 9 n uu,nphray n