The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1909-08-19

Jno. Rlddick, OF Harden City, CaSS
county, was visiting his old friend P
NJ. Famuliner the last of the week,
and together they complimented The
Times. Mr.. Riddick is loyal to his
home section, thinks il the greatest
country ever, and says the corn pros
poets are very flattering, but like this
section, is needing rain right now.
Commander j. R. Ford wants to
say to the old confederateS that next
Saturday is the regular meeting day
of Marmaduke Camp, and that among
other matters, representatives will
have to be selected to the state en-
campment, to be held at Mexico the
last of September and also to discuss
the matter Of the Bates County Home
Coming Week Celebration at Butler.
Dewitt Mcdaniel was in to collect
a claim from us. We gave him some
government seed this spring and
from the packages he selected some
watermelon seed, prepared the
ground carefully and tended them
diligently, and he has a bountiful crop
of pumpkins. Only four hills out of
the whole patch brought forth water
melon vines,
o. NJ. Burkhart and H. L, Allen,
were pleasant callers Saturday. Prof.
Allen is assistant principal of the An
adarko, Okla, High Schools, and has
been takinga special course at the
Summer Normal at Warrensburg. He
stopped over to spend a few days
. with Mr.. Burkhart and other old
neighbors and friends in Pleasant Gap
township, He is a son of Rev. Henry
J Allen, now of Weatherford, Okla.
, A large and practically new barn,
on the John Kithcart farm, a mile
and half south of Rich Hill, was burn
ed to the ground Sunday, The heat
was so intense that ii set fire to a
! house a quarter of a mile distant, but
: that fire was put out with but slight
damage to the building A Mr.. Keener
is on the kithcart place, and he lost
about 20 tons of baled hay.
Superintendent Burke, who return
ed with his family from Warrensburg
the last of the week, is hard at work
preparing for school opening on Mon
day, September 9Th. Prof. Burke
said he gained many pointers that
will prove advantageous to him in
8 experimenting his schools, and es-
r pecially in the primary department
, from his summer work in the Nor
NAL.
Clark Smith tells us that he sowed
cane seed Saturday and by the follow
,, ing Monday noon it was coming up
: in fine shape. Our farmers had bet
ter be careful that no gravel is allow
ed to be scattered on their farms or
, the next thing it will be covered with
flint boulders. This soil in this coun-
try would sprout china gg.-Rock-
vile Booster.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. w. Blankenbaker,
: : of Pleasant Gap township called at
The Times office last Wednesday
evening to see the big press, the
! folder and the mailing department of
a modern newspaper plant in opera
ton. Our facilities are such that in a
few minutes after the last paper is
run through the press the mail is
+ ready to put on the trucks and wheel
t ed over to the post office.
:. Hugh Campbell Ward, prominent
and successful lawyer of Kansas City,
senior member of the law firm tC
which Gov Hadley belonged, died in
private sanitarium in New York
j Sunday. A stroke of apoplexy, fol
lowing an attack of Indigestion, was
d the cause. Mr. Ward was strong
a Democrat, and it is said voted against
z. his law partner, Gov. Hadley.
= Clarence Kinney and Miss Nina
= Warnock were married in Kansas
. :, City last Saturday evening by Rev
Il Wyatt, of the First Presbyterian
church. The bride is the charming
. and accomplished daughter of Mr.
d and Mrs. S. F. Warnock. The groom
:. is worthy young man and recently
is entered into business in Coffeyville
d Kansas, where they expect to make
# their home. I
:, A Jury in Probate last Saturday af
fornoon raturnad verdict finding