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The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1909-12-23

The following new names are add
ed to our subscription this week: L.
A. Poteet, Butler; C. A. Bearce, APP
pleton City; R. P. Harper, Adrian;
w. H. White, Newtonia; Milburn
Tharp, Butler. .r.
Mrs. W. D. Keirsey graced our Of
flee on Tuesday, and favored us with
renewal for her own subscription and
for her two brothers, N. S. Cole, OF
Fresno, CAL, and c. R. Cole, OF
Armstrong. Ark.
have a number Of inquiries for
farms. If you wish to sell, list with
me. U. w. HESS.
28tf Butler, Mo.
Mrs. H. G. Walton after protract-
ed illness of many months died. early
Wednesday morning. Mrs. Walton
has been paralized for long time
and has always been patient. She
was a most excellent lady and had
many friends,
A bad freight wreck occurred south
of Butler, at what is known as third
trestle on Friday night, in which
three freight trains were badly mix
ed. O. w. Hardin, conductor and
John Higgins, engineer, were injur.
ed, but neither dangerous.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edgar Purintan and
little son, Richard Samuel, Of Long.
fellow, Texas, are visiting the family
of C. B. Mcfarland. Richard Samuel
holds the distinction Of having taken
first premium in the baby ring Of the
Texas State Fair this fall.
Mrs. Elsie Stout, Of Bartlesville,
Oklahoma, arrived in Butler Wednes'
day to visit at the home Of her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. ]. S. Brown
Mrs. Stout is just recovering from
severe siege with inflammatory rheu
matism, which confined her to hel
bed for many weeks.
A johnson county farmer about
month ago, sold his farm, and ther
started out to buy another, but find
ing none that suited, returned ant
paid $500 to get his old home back
Experience comes high, and as the
old saying goes, better "look before
you leap!"
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1909-12-23
Black & Arnold Clothing Co.

See Williams china ware before
you buy Christmas gifts.
Thinking Of Christmas gift2 See
those parlor lamps at ]. E. Williams.
w. B. Johnson, a substantial young
farmer Of Amsterdam neighborhood,
called and favored us with renewal.
Elizabeth Chapel Christian church
Sunday, Dec. 26, Bible School 1880
and preaching at 800 by VIM. May
field.
''Sleeth" the Insurance Man. 46tf
Six dollar parlor lamp for "a. 95 at
Williams.
A. H. Bell and niece, Miss Thomas,
were in Saturday and complimented
uE Miss Thomas was acontestant in
the spelling match.
Luther Wilson, constable at Ne
vada, an old Hudson county boy was
up attending the county and congress
sional conventions and favored us.
FOR RENT -Four nice rooms to
rent, close in. Viola Harris, 903 West
Ohio street Butler, Mo, 49,. III
O. W. Keeton. and Miss Eunice
Clifton. Of West Point township,
were married by Judge ,Silvers in the
probate office on Wednesday after
noon.
David Smitherman, Of Nyhart, and
Mrs. Elizabeth Pitcher, trained nurse
Of Chicago, were married by Rev. H.
L Ofle at his home at midnight Tues
day.
c. H. Bryant and daughter, Miss
Maggie, came in from Ohio, Mo-, the
first Of the week. Miss Maggie will
visit some of her school girl friends,
while Mr.. Bryant attended to bust
ness matters.
Weare after your fall suit and over
coat Black & Arnold Clothing Co.
The Times was complimented by a
large number Of Democratic friends
who were here representing their re-
spective townships in the county con.
venti0n last Monday.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1909-12-23
Real Estate Transfers.
Warranty Deeds.

TIC Britt to j S Roach 20 acres sec
Is Hudson twp $500.
Al Lentz to E o Twyman part sec
SO Adrian 800.
Chrest Lee to Leta Howard lot IL
blk los Rich Hill 1926.
Ava A Doolittle to Jesse G Doolit-
tie 81 acres sec % Walnut $3.50.
Thomas P Campbell to G W Scrib-
ner 1870 a sec 2 Walnut twp 5000.
Francis M Kerns to Edward c
Kerns 20 sec II Usage twp $500.
Mary M Cullison to Luella L Bow
man lot "a Adrian $3.50.
Ray Kershner to Frank Norman pit
blk | Amsterdam go.
Edward A Smith to Frank s Craig
So sec 80 Deep Water t120o. :
John Kithcart to N A Moreland pt
blk 1 Sperry's add Rich Hill 1776.
Frank A Wood to Jeremiah Bowen
10 q sec Il Rockville $500. il
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1909-12-23

On next Sunday at II q. m. the
pastor of the N. E. Church, South,
viii discourse on ''The Larger Christ
mas" He would like to have every
member of the church and Sunday
School present to catch the spirit and
inspiration of the occasion and get an
enlarged idea Of ''The Larger Christ
mas"
Missouri's big farmers conven-
ton, now generally spoken of as
farmers Week." viii be held at
the Agricultural College at Columbia
on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
and Friday, of Christmas week, the
exercises beginning at 10 o'clock on
the morning Of December Is and con-
GLIDING with the Agricultural College
banquet Friday night. The exercises
this year will be in the nature of a
great agricultural school or farmers
short course, with lectures and dem
onstrations by members of the Agri-
cultural College faculty and by others
Of national reputation. Most of the
"class work" will be done in the new
Agricultural Building, which will be
dedicated Friday afternoon, when
Governor Herbert S. Hadley will be
the principal speaker. Each evening
except Friday evening, when the
banquet takes place, popular, enter
tanning lectures will be heard in the
large auditorium of Academic Hall.
Does a man know when he is
deadp" queries one paper, which the
Atlanta Constitution answers tersely,
"Ask Speaker Cannon. To Can
mons declaration of war on the Gin
surgents" Senator LaFollette eagerly
throws down the gage Of battle and
says, eff Cannon is a Republican,
Tammany is a Republican, and so is
Cox, of Cincinnati, Sullivan, Bath
House John and 'Hinky Dink' Of
Chicago and the powers that prey ev-
erywhere." And he might have add.
ed if Cannon is, so is Taft, and if Taft
is, so is Cannon, but it's worth while
to have Tammany and some of the
other big municipal organization
crooks classified. LaFollette says
further that Cannon's "pronuncia.
mentos are but the snarlings Of grim
old wolf who hears the heaters in the
woods and scents them closing in.
} He is still at large, but the days Of his
depredations within the sheepfolds Of
the people are surely numbered.
There is something behind Speaker
Cannon's drastic rulings in the House
besides his desire to play that part o.
car. He represents Interests" JUS
, the same as numerous other Of hi.
: compatriots do, more or less in pro
, portion to the heartiness with which
, they vote and work for the measure.
, that bear the mark of Cannon's ap
, proval, and were he ousted and the
( House still made up of Republicans
. another would be raised to WELD thu
gavel in the same lordly, arbitrar,
, manner. Joe Cannon would be deat
/. as Speaker, but Cannonism woult
still live. A Democratic House ant
, Democratic Senator's in 1910 ant
y Champ Clark welding the gavel il
, only the preliminary steps to tn
| solution of the problem. Then
r Democratic President and Congress
lin 1912. Democrats, do not slip-le
us begin rallying right now here il
!. the Sixth District. AT them to tn
finish!-Cass Co. Democrat.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1909-12-23

Mrs. Alkaline Smith, Of Kansas City,
favors us with renewal.
Henry Donovan was a pleasant call
err and favored us with renewal.
Spend your money with Black &
Arnold this year for Christmas goods.
r.. M. Perry, who has been with
The Times from its beginning, has
his dates set ahead for another year.
Highest suits and overcoats for
your Christmas dressup.-Black &
Arnold Clothing Co.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wix Elledge, Of Den
yer, Colo, are spending the Christ
mas holiday visiting her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. j. w. Thomas.
Silk and knit mufflers, kid gloves,
ties, cuff buttons and tie pins to
match, collar bags.-Black & Arnold
Clothing Co..
]. w.. Wheatley will leave this
week for Illinois to spend the holi'
days with. relatives and old friends,
before joining his family at Kalispell,
Montana. 4,
The Knights and Ladies Of Securit,
will have pound and pie supper a
their hall in Butler on December
18th, 1909. Initiatory work. All
members are requested to be present
The Sunday School of the M. E.
Church, South, will render Christ
mas program on Friday evening, Dec
Oath at 1880 O'Clock. Also they viii
give a treat to every member Of thu
Sunday School.
Farm for rent for 8 years. 3N
acres good land 6 miles from Butler
2 from good R. R. town. About ont
half in grass, balance new sod land
IS acres fall wheat included. Call a
or address The Times. 9N:-:
Frank Swearens and Mark Thorn
as were in to see us Saturday and in
formed us of a birthday oyster sup
per at the home Of James Vaughan
in New Home township, attended b,
about forty neighbors. The occasion
celebrated Mr.. Vaughan's 46th ami
versary and he was the recipient of ;
number of presents. The compan,
was RECALLED with some delightful
music on guitar, piano and violin.
Mrs. VIM. E. Walton was badl,
burned about her face and arm
Tuesday morning. She threw a Cal
Of refuse into the furnace of he
home, and the grease in the cal
caused it to explode, scattering tn
burning oil over her. Fortunately |
servant was near, who smotheret
out the flames before serious burn
were inflicted.
See Sleeth for that Insurance. 46t
A new, commodious burgulal
proof safe has been installed in thu
Peoples Bank. The officers hav'
taken time to thoroughly famihariz'
themselves on that subject and ate
| much investigation decided on th'
Ely-Norris make and think they havt
one Of the best manufactured, and q
near burglar proof as the ingenuit.
81 man can devise.
A woman starting in hurry to
STORE the other day to buy peck o
| potatoes picked up what she suppos
/ ed was Z newly Numbered flour sack
| She held the sick and Sam Duval
5&ss& . 4 ~
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1909-12-23

At the M. E. Church, South, on
next Sunday, Dec. 18th, at 7:30 p. m.
the pastor, j. A. Jared, will deliver a
discourse on Friendship and Frater-
nalism," in which he will emphasize
the Fatherhood Of God and Brother
hood of Men. He will also enlarge
upon the increasing fraternal spirit
existing among men and in the
churches to-day.
John @. A. Cope, who was in the
last of the week, informed us of the
Cope family gathering, at the home
of Sam Cope in Enid, on Thanksgiv-
ing Day. There are three boys and
one girl living, viz: John @. A. IA
years, Seth 65, of Bates county, Sam
rs, of Enid, Okla, and Mrs. Trip 70,
of Meridian, Kansas. They were all
present at this reunion and enjoyed
good time. They expect to meet ev-
cry thanksgiving, if possible. The
combined ages Of the three brothers
and sister are 285 years.
= The Cass County Leader says:
mo business man can be perma-
nently successful who permits him
self to be controlled by little spites
and petty jealousy. It is an exceed
ingly small man that permits every
small annoyance to make an impress
sion on him, in fact men do not, it is
only grown-up children, but the
world is full Of persons whose minds
have not grown since they were ten
years old, except the one faculty Of
making a living or holding onto a lit
tie property Inherited. The success
full man bears no i'll will and has no
time to brood over fancied wrongs.
To him the past is gone and he can
not load himself down with its little
vexations, but carries with him only
the memories that will be useful to
him in his advancement and that will
help him to a higher and broader
life."
A. C. Kincaid told in the Richmond
Missourian of school days in Missouri
before the Civil War. In winter time
when the SHOWS were deep and the
zero weather was on we had hard
time to keep warm. At times we
had to shift about to keep from freez-
ing. Those on the front bench next
to the fire had to change with those
on the back seat every hour. This
was kept up all day long. It took
about four young men to chop wood
and keep the old fireplace going.
Our teacher would hold the "speller''
in his right hand with yarn mitten
on while pronouncing for the spelling
class. It was nothing strange to see
q boy or girl Is years old in the Sec
6nd reader class. It would seem odd
to-day to see young men and girls
bordering over a spelling lesson Of
two syllables. We did not think il
out Of date then.
Over in johnson county they work
the prisoners. The Warrensbure
Journal Democrat says: 'Sorrency
nays the boys under him put in "a
days Of honest toll, as hard as they
ever worked in their lives. Not q
man gave him any trouble. They
showed surprising industry and this
accounts for their early release. Dur.
ing their time they performed labor
that would have cost at least 800.
Ten rocky hills were cut down and
many 4 brushy piece Of road was
cleared. This experience in working
prisoners proves to be a good thing.
| not only In amount Of work accom-
The Prescott daily news., 1909-02-12
INTERESTING ITEMS
 FROM LITTLE ROCK
An Interesting Batch Of Items From the Capital City by Special Cores
 pOndent.

Little Rock, February 12.- Today an expert Of the United States interstate Commerce Commission is taking evidence in the Federal Court room on rebat- ing charges and discriminatiOns alleged to have been made by the Iron Mountain Railroad in fav- or of T. Howard Bunch. Con- missioner C. $. Harlan was to preside over the investigation here but he teiegraphed yester- day afternoon that it would be impossible for him to attend so an expert was sent in his stead The object of the investigation is to settle the question of the ownership of the Bunch elevator in Argenta. Those who have ask ed for the investigation claim this elevator, an investment of many thousands of dollars, was erected and equipped by the railroad and leased to Bunch at the rate of $1 per annum, and he refused to mill grain for his competitors, thus receiving a valuable discrimination at the hands of the railroad.
 According to, Capt. F. W. Tuck CT it will probably be a month before the Republican State Executive Committee meets to recommend a successor for James K Barnes, the district attorney for the Western District Of Ar kansas, who died in Fort Smith Wednesday. Capt. Tucker says there is no need for haste and the office is now being cOmpet etentiy filled The recommenda tion will not be made to Pres. Taft. It is almost a certainty that Frank A. YOumans one of the leading Republican attor- neys of Fort Smith, and form er assistant to Col Barnes, will receive the appointment, as he was slated for the appointment at the expiration of the term of Col. Barnes. There is a report that Mr. Youmans will appoint Ed. Mechem a young attorney Of Fort Smith, as his assistant, but members oi the committee are of the opinion that Assistant Dis- trict Attorney Gregg will con- tinue with the change of admin istratiOn
The Prescott daily news., 1909-02-12
LINCOLN DAY AT
 HIS BIRTHPLACE.
Kentucky Farm Scene Of Cele-
 hratiOn Today.
PRESIDENT DELIVERS ADDRESS

Extols Career of Great Liberator In
 Speech at Laying of Cornerstone of
 the Lincoln Memorial-Distingu
 Men Present - Escort of Former
 Wearers of Blue and Gray For Mr.
 Roosevelt-Exercises Under Auspices
 of the Lincoln Farm Association.
 Hodgenville, Ky, Feb. 12.-At Amer ica's Bethlehem, near this town, where her savior was born 100 years ago, the nation paid tribute today to the mem ory of Abraham Lincoln. Eloquent speakers eXtolled his fame, and on the spot where stands the cabin in which he first saw the light the cornerstone of the Lincoln memorial was laid. The principal figure at the laying of the cornerstone was President Roosevelt who delivered the main address.
 The services at the Lincoln farm were held under the auspices of the Lincoln Farm association. which has labored long and assiduously in the effort. now crowned with success, to mark vorthily the scene of Lincoln's birth. The association was represent ed by it's president, former Governor
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THE LINCOLN MEMORlAL.
 Joseph W. Folk of Missouri; its inde- fatigable secretary, Richard Lloyd Jones. who had active charge of the arrangements for today's ceremonies, and other officers and members
 Man Who Saved Cabin Present.
 prominent figure in the crowd of distinguished men at the ceremonies was Robert J. Collier of New York, to whom the country owes the preserva- tion of the cabin in which the great liberator was born. In 1860 the cabin was removed from its original site to another a mile and a half distant, near Davenport. There it served as spring house until the early eighties, when it was bought by an enterprising show man and carted around the country to serve as an attraction at worlds fairs and elsewhere. From this ignominious fate 1t was rescued by Mir. Collier. The outgrowth of his efforts to preserve it as perpetual memorial for the nation was the Lincoln Farm association, whose labors will take concrete form in the marble memorial which will be built around and over the shack in which Lincoln was born.
 Acting as escort for President Roose- welt and lending very picturesque touch to the occasion were the mem bers of the Louisville post of the Grand Army of the Republic and the mem nf ha I af United Confederate Veterans. The minging of the blue and the gray on this occasion elicited from President Roosevelt many expressions of delight
 The Men Who Spoke.
 The exercises at the Lincoln farm began at noon. The opening address was delivered by eX-Governor Folk, who spoke on 'The Lincoln Farm As sociation.' He was followed by Gov ernor Wilson, whose theme was Lin coln's Mother State" Then came Pres ident Roosevelt, whose "Lincoln Gen. tennial Address was received with great applause. The presidents suc- cessOr as orator was Secretary Wright, who spoke for "The Confederate Vet eran." Last on the list of speakers was General James Grant Wilson, the well known writer and orator, who spoke for "The Federal Veteran" The lay ing of the cornerstone followed the ad- dresses.
 President Roosevelt spoke as follows:
 We have met here to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of the birth of one of the two greatest Americans; of one of the two or three greatest men of the nineteenth century; of one of the greatest men in the worlds history. This rail splitter. this boy who passed his ungainly youth in
The Prescott daily news., 1909-02-12


 education" Though n member of the sterner sex, We believe l. is much more becoming to wear the little white ribbon than the big red nose"
 IL every weacher who is or ought to be the exponent oi all that is helpful and good, would talk that way. it would make it eas CT for the WCT.U. to build up its membership. So many WO- men have not had an opportunity to give the subject much thought and i1 their preacher never ag- iudes to the good work, they atand alool, thinking that il it amounted to much he would cer- tainly say something about it.
 Dear women, did you know that it was a few brave souls (WCmeu), who broke away from the conventionalists Of their day and blazed the way for your dau- ghters to enjoy tine school ad- vantages that lie thick, and fast about you? Did you know it was the women who broke away from the regular routine of church work, and blaZed the way for this magnificent onslaught that the church is making on the dead iy foe of the home, the liquor traffic? Some of the good Bis hops and D. DIS advised the wo men ito go home, bathe their feet and go to bed" but f.hey Gid not go. Of course the women have always had the comradeship of a few brave men, preachers in particular. but they were not in the majority, as they themsel- yes now respectfully testify. Thank God that day has passed The clergy has seen the grand results of our labOrS and are brave enough and generous en- na to acknowledge their short slghtedness and Iare more than anA,Ous to unite their efforts with those of the consecrated wo .n' ] of the W.C.T.U. a1d face the deedly onslaught of the enem"
 Ard nobody dreads this union ?f ',Tces more than t.le .:3u ,r fraternity. In one of thcir ua- tional papers, appeared, not long since, an article entitled, Great God! Has 1t come to this?" And oh! how they lamented the de- iuded preachers and the fana tical women and children" entering into the fight They know when these forces unite they had as well write Ichabod' over the doors CT their places of business for with our banners streaming with the cross Of Christ as our conqueror, they can indeed well know that their glory is depart cd" Hail, all hai, to the awaken ing church! We say awakening advlsediy for she has not aroused to her full strength yet Hef eyes are not quite wide open But they will open and then - and then-what an avalanche will sweep down on liquordom It will be "a great crashing of bones and gnashing of teeth, and the liquor forces will indeed be i calling on the rocks to hide them
 When the history of this vic l. tory is written woman will have an honored place in it's records and those following after will have the courage to face any foo seeing the glorious successes won against such fearful odds. Praise the Lord
The Prescott daily news., 1909-02-12

The W.C.T.U. of this city will give a Valentine party at the home of MT. and Mrs. Chas. Pittman tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock. Everybody has a cord ial invitation to attend this party An admission fee of 15c. will be charged.
The Prescott daily news., 1909-02-12

with cool headed sanity. We can nros. by the way in which Lincoln used both these traits as he strove for reforn, We can learn much of value from tbe very attacks which following tbot course brought upon his head. attocks alike by the extremists of revolution and by the extremists of reaction. uo never wavered in devotion to his nrin ciples. in his love for the Union and in his abhorrence of slavery. Timid and lukewarm people were always denounc. ing him because he was too extreme but, as a matter of fact, he never Went to extremes.
 Yet perhaps the most wonderfu, thing of all and, from the standpoint of the America of today and of tbo future, the most vitally important was the extraordinary way in which Lin. coin could fight valiantly against what he deemed wrong and yet pre. serve undiminished his love and re. spect for the brother from whom he differed. In the hour of a triumnh that would have turned any weaker mans head. in the heat of a struggle which Spurred many a good man to dreadful vindictiveness, he said truth. fully that so long as he had been in his office he had never willingly plant ed a thorn in any mans bosom and { besought his supporters to study the incidents of the trial through which they were passing as philosophy from which to learn wisdom and not as wrongs to be avenged ending with the solemn exhortation that, as the strife was over, all should reunite in a common effort to save their common country.
 "Mightiest of Americans"
 He lived in days that were great and terrible, when brother fought against brother for what each sincere ly deemed to be the right, in a con- test so grim the strong men who alone can carry it through are rarely able to do justice to the deep convictions of those with whom they grapple in mor- tai strife. At such times men see through a glass darkly. To only the rareSt and loftiest spirits is vouch safed that clear vision which gradually comes to all, even to the lesser, as the struggle fades into distance and wounds are forgotten and peace creeps back to the hearts that were hurt But to Lincoln was given this supreme vii sion. He did not hate the man from whom he differed. Weakness was as foreign as wickedness to his strong, gentle nature. But his courage was of q quality so high that it needed no bolstering of dark passion. He saw clearly that the same high qualities, the same courage and willingness for self sacrifice and devotion to the right as 1t was given them to see the right, belonged both to the men of the north and to the men of the south. AS the years roll by and as all of us, wher- ever we dwell, grow to feel an equal pride in the valOr and self devotion, alike of the men who wore the blue and the men who wore the gray, so this whole nation will grow to feel peculiar sense of pride in the mightiest of the mighty men who mastered the mighty days. the lover of his country and of all mankind, the man whose blood was shed for the union of his people and for the freedom of race. Abraham Lincoln.