The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1909-09-30
VIRGINIA.

Dlek Holloway and grandson OF
near Blue Mound, Kansas, are spend
ing few days with his old neighbors
and friends.
Miss Effie Mitchell, of ILL.,, is visit
ing her mother Mrs. 0rear and sister
Mrs. John Henley.
Oscar Heinlein, of Butler, was in
Virginia Friday of last week.
Miss Elsie Park who is teaching
near Rich Hill spent Saturday and
Sabbath with her parents Mr.. and
Mrs. w. w. Park.
Last Friday 'young Aaron took
his mother and uncle and aunt, of
Kidder, Mo-, to Amoret to spend the
day with o. M. Drysdale and family,
We found Mr.. Drysdale confined to
the house nursing sore foot caused
by stepping on nail on the streets of
the rapidly growing city. Young
Aaron met many of his old time neigh
bors who have retired from farming
and have moved to Amoret to spend
the rest of their days watching the
city grow, Among them were Thom-
as Lackey, Dave Cheser, Pierce
.Hackett, Car Dudley, Geo. Cybert.
They were discussing who was the
first man at the North Pole. Uncle
Geo. Cybert says the first man there
was the man that put up the pole
that Cook and Perry nailed their flags
to. Young Aaron called on Will
Jones the pioneer merchant of Amo-
ret and purchased a pocket knife to
keep his item pencil in trim. We al
so called at Mr.. Halls, another pio-
neer merchant, and purchased sack
of graham flour to make us healthy
and strong. In the afternoon we
took our guests sightseeing over the
city. We noticed several new store
buildings and dwelling houses being
built. We took a drive over the
Darby fruit farm and red apples could
be seen hanging on the trees in every
direction, it is a sight worth going to
see. We found Ed. Ray, of Butler,
ihard at work putting up wind pump
to Alpply the farm with water. They
have sold the apples to an Eastern
Co. and they are there now packing
them ready for shipping. Young
Aaron was told that the farm would
produce about $780, worth of fruit
this year.
Charley Simons Thrashing Co.
have been thrashing flax, wheat and
oats in the suburbs of Parktown for
2 days.
Everett Drysdale, of Butler, is fix
ing up his farm south east of Vir-
ginia, the w. A. McElroy farm,
where he will move in the spring
and try his hand at farming again.
Baily Beckett has returned home
from near Appleton City where he
has been all summer building an up
to-date residence for Charley Lee.
Mr.. and Mrs. Smidt returned to
their farm 2 miles east ef Virginia
Friday. Mrs. Smidt is in very poor
health, she had to be carried from the
carriage to the house. They Travelled
in the west this summer hoping it
would restore her health.
Young Aaron has 2 choice yearling
Duroc Jersey males for sale at a bar
gain.
j. w. Archer, Charley Grape,
Henry Ison, Mr.. Loveland and Mr..
Blough are hauling their winter coal
from across the river.
The Mulberry Hay Seed Band will
meet every Saturday night at Oscar
Harris.
Geo. Pahlman had sheep killed
by dogs.
Abe Park and wife, of Kidder, Mo-,
who have been visiting Mrs. G. w.
Park and other relatives for 2 weeks
left Wednesday for Moundville, Mo-,
to visit his brother Isaac Park, and
they will go from there to Lamar to
visit his sister Mrs. H. H. Fleisher.
Leslie Brayton and family, of
Henry county came last week to visit
his brother Fred Brayton and her
brother Louis McElroy who has sold
out and expects to leave for Montana
in short time. Mr.. Brayton's sister
and family are here visiting also.
Mrs. Chas. Burk and daughter