The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1909-09-02

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Commercial College.
o. L. Morris, of The Times force,
attended the Deaf Mute State Conven-
ton at Kansas City Thursday, Friday
and Saturday of last week. /
Glenn, the five year old son of Mr.. |
and Mrs. Richardson, had the ends Of
three fingers on his right hand cut off
in some farm machinery, at the NJ. S.
Keirsey home, where he was visiting
with his mother last Thursday.
Henry Bradley, of the Sprague
neighborhood was pleasant caller,
while in the city Tuesday on business.
He reports his crop cut mighty short
by the heavy rains in July, followed
by the August drouth.
w. M. Arnold and Jas. S. Combs
traded residence properties in Butler
the first of the week. This moves
Mr.. Combs to the northwest part of
town, while Mr.. Arnold goes down
on Fl. Scott street.
Charley Lawrence, living south of
Butler, was brought to town Sunday
for medical treatment, his foot being
laid open from an AK cut. He was
cutting bee tree when the AK slip
ped and entered his foot, making
bad and painful cut.
While a thresher was at work on
the farm of d. Teeter, near Ballard
last week the straw rick was set on
fire by "a spark from the engine.
The machinery was hastily pulled out
of danger by the hands and the grain
was all saved.
George Green, who was in Satur-
day, informed us of a very successful
meeting being conducted by Rev.
Prevo, of Liberty, at Culver. % con-
versions have been made in the past
two weeks. The meetings were ex-
pected to close the middle of this
| week.
Lucian Baskerville, of Chicago, is
in the county for a vacation visit with
relatives and friends. Mr.. BaSkcr-
vile is graduate of the University
law school, but owing to an impede
ment of speech, accepted a lucrative
position in Chicago, where he has
been undergoing treatment, with
marked beneficial results.
w. A. Baker and brother, Charley,
came in Tuesday from north Kansas,
where they had been after some fine
hogs. At Beattie, Kansas, they
bought one boar and two sows, the
pick of the herd, and had them ex-
pressed to Butler. Mr.. Baker has
the big bone Poland Chinas, and also
has a fine herd of Aberdeen-Angus
cattle.
During the game between Amoret
and Merwin at the Woodman Picnic
"Wednesday, Rees Barton was hit Just
over the left eye by foul tip, cutting
a cash that necessitated four stitches
being taken. The injury was not
serious, but was painful one. AM
sterdam Enterprise.
Elmer Caldwell and DR.. Mulkey
got mixed up in a runaway last
Thursday afternoon, in which Elmer
received number of cuts and bruis-
es, one cut on the scalp necesSitating
several stitches to close. They were
driving young horse to a light
wagon, when the horse took fright
at the southeast corner of the square,
and turned the wagon over at the
Mulkey feed yard.
T. w. Kennedy through his attor-
ney w. o. Jackson has filed suit
against M. G. Schauer, the Amoret
merchant, for $500 actual and s., 900
punitive damage resulting from the
severe beating administered by Mr..
Schauer and DR.. Powers two weeks
ago, because Kennedy was trying to
entice Schauer's young daughter
away from home. Kennedy is now
serving Jail sentence for vagrancy.
Two men, two ladies and a three
year old boy were killed near Creve
Occur Lake, ST. Louis county, when
a Rock Island passenger train, run
ming IS miles, crashed into an auto
mobile in which the five were riding.
The five killed were Miss Halcyon
Campbell, Mrs. Carl Klinger, Fred
erick 0. Witte, Theodore Witte and
his son Theodor jr; The men were
members of the Witte Hardware Co.
of St. Louis.
John Gish, from the Foster neigh
borhood, reports the country home
Of E. j. Dunsworth, a few miles
northeast of Foster, together with its
contents, was consumed by fire Sat-
urday, which originated from defec-
tive kitchen flue. Mr.. Dunsworth,
our informant stated, lost his entire
crop in the recent flood, He carried
no insurance on his household effects,
and the double disaster had left him
and his family almost destitute. The
farm on which Mr.. Dunsworth resid-
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