The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1909-07-29

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acre. He had ten acres and got $50
bushels, for which Power Bros. paid
him $l.03 per bushel.
A meeting of Marmaduke camp is
hereby called for Saturday afternoon,
July 3lst, at the county clerks office.
Business of great importance will be
presented, and every member is urg-
ed TO attend. j. r. FORD,
Commander.
Judge A. D. Hyde, of the Prairie
City neighborhood, was in town trad
ing He stated the high waters had
subsidized and the river was about nor
NAL again after having done all the
destruction it could. Judge Hyde is
looking fine and appears in excellent
health. Rich Hill Review.
II. |. Ogle, living a short distance
southwest of Butler, had his right
hand badly lacerated, and one end of
finger cut off in the pully of a horse
power fork, with which he was stow
ling hay in the NOW on Saturday
moning, He came to town and had
Dr. Lockwood dress the injured
hand.
Harry L. Curtis quit the Hume
Commercial Bank Friday, selling his
stock in that institution and resigning
his position as assistant cashier. He
expects to spend the remainder of the
summer in the mountains of Colora-
do, He will locate in a business of
his own in the fall. We hope that he
may settle down not far from Hume.
Telephone.
viii Russell, five miles east of
Arcadia, Indiana, has invented a corn
huSking machine, which he says can
be constructed for $3.50. 1t is of
simple design and can be built for
huSking one or two rows at a time,
as desired. The machine, after taxi
ing the corn from the stalk, removes
the husk and drops the bare ear into
the wagon alongside the machine.
A separator owned by Charley and
Walter Henry, while threshing flax
on the Henry place, northeast of the
city limits, caught fire Thursday az
ternoon and was completely destroy
ed, together with the straw rick.
The fire was caused by friction heat
in the machine, only the belts and
self feeder We're saved The loss
was about $1,000, No insurance.
/ Benz. }. Richards left Monday
evening and Charley Earsom will
leave next week for Lexington, Ken
lucky, where they will matriculate in
the Pennsylvania University and Bible
College for an eight year course to
fit them for the ministry. These are
thoughtful, studious young men, with
ambitions to do much good for man.
kind and society. They are worthy
sons of B. F. Richards, of Butler and
R. R. Carson, of Pleasant Gap,
Two weeks ago we made notice
that Mrs. Lille Moore and her niece,
Miss Irene Payne, of Johnstown,
were called to California by the seri-
Gus illness of Travis Payne. He was
operated on in Los Angeles hospital
and has so far recovered as to be able
to leave the hospital. Mr.. Payne's
old friends and neighbors in the east
part of the county will be glad to
know that he is on fair way to a
complete recovery.
R. c. Wright, working on the
Titus ranch, in Summit township met
with a peculiar accident on Friday,
which resulted in the loss of the right
eye. A young man, assisting him
about the place, was pulling tangled
wire from some grass, when it flew
out, the end striking Mr.. Wright in
the eye, breaking the ball and de-
Stroying the sight. VIZ. Wright came
to town Saturday morning and had
the wound dressed.
A Missouri Pacific official at Neva-
da told Post reporter that there was
no truth in the report that his COM
pany would raise the roadbed across
the Marias DIES Cygnes river bottoms.
"Of course" said he, "the Missouri
Pacific will improve the track through |
the Marias des Cygnes bottoms as
much as possible; but it would make
no difference how much we raised
the track. the water Would do dam /