The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1909-08-05

dausutCi VI OuO AASAAg PAOPAACNOa
Henry Hotel, met with painful acct
dent by fracturing her ankle while
at the Union Sunday School picnic.
Bates county medical society met
at the court house in Butler at 2:S0
O'Clock Thursday afternoon, when an
interesting program prepared by the
secretary, DR.. E. N. Chastain was
carried out.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry B. Meek came
down from Kansas City Friday even
ing on visit to his mother, Mrs. Jno.
Pharis and sister, Mrs. C. R. Home,
and old friends in Butler. Henry is
the youngest son of ex-Sheriff Meek.
Circuit Clerk and Mrs. T. d. En-
bree, went out to Ballard Saturday
to visit Mrs. E.. father, D. Teeter
Dan returned home Monday, but Mrs.
Embree stayed out on the farm for a
protracted visit.
Misses Lola, Blanche and Cora Nc
Farland, daughters of DR.. j. P. Nc
Farland, formerly of Ballard, Bates
county, returned to their home in
Kansas City, Kansas, after pleasant
visit with the family of w. S. Griffith
and other relatives and friend.
7. Ed. Britt, John and Ralp Mock
and Clarence Young, prominent farm
ers of Hudson township, were in But
Ter Monday, before the Probate court
in the T. J. Mock estate. We ac-
knowledge pleasant call from these
gentlemen.
County court convened on Monday
with all Judges and court officers
present. The court will settle with
the township trustees besides having
a large docket of business to dispose
of. It will probably be in session the
full week.
A kicker on the River Drainage
Ditch from Bates county, informed a
number of interested auditors in Kan
sas City the other day that it was the
"goldarndest fraudulate ever pene-
trated on the people of the county,"
This party was formerly prominent
real estate agent in Rich Hill.
Probate Judge Jno. A. Silvers, re-
turned Friday from weeks visit to
his brother Albert's sheep ranch
down in the Ozarks, near Lebanon.
He was accompanied home by his
two daughters, Misses Elsie and
Birdie, who had been there since
school was out. Judge said he put
in most of his time down there wad-
ing in the mountain streams, and en-.
joying the ozone.
Hume will hold her Fifth Annua
Stock Show on September 23rd 1909
The following directors have been
elected: w. M. Thompson, j. o.
Bolts, Fred Barton, j. T. Tuder, j.
T. Lee, j. F. Futhey, G. A, Mack.
These stock shows have been very
interesting and profitable to the PEG.
pie of Hume, and have always beer
| very well patronized. They expect
to eclipse all former efforts this time.
Babe" Card was arraigned before
Squire Jeter on Monday, on an infor
nation filed by Prosecuting Attorney
: Dawson charging him with being
drunk on Sunday, and with malicious
, destruction of property, in throwing
a rock through window of a houS,
occupied by Mrs. Burnett, on Eas
Pine. He plead guilty and Judg'
Jeter gave him 30 days in jail, will
the provision under the late law tina
he was to be worked on the rock pile
DR.. G. Wise Robinson, recently
Superintendent of State Hospital fo
the Insane No. 3 at Nevada, has beer
, elected Superintendent of the genera
hospital at Kansas City and the salar.
raised from So, 400 to So, 800 per year
as an inducement to him to accept
4 DR.. Robinson is 81 years old, st
l Clair county boy and has won his wa,
t to prominence in his profession b!
, industry and merit His many friends
in this county will be pleased at hi
preferment.
Homer Mann and Police Commits
a sioner Marks, of Kansas City, wer,
S at the Butler Lake Sunday. This per
sonal notice is given added ihteres
by the fact that the local Republican