The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1909-07-08

Igineer Bell put in the day making
measurements on the Foohey work
on the big ditch. He met with the
court on Wednesday.
j. S. Pierce has sold his fire inSur-
ance business to DR.. j. w. Choate
and James w, Holloway, who will
occupy the same office, in rear of
Peoples Bank fronting on Ohio street
and will do an insurance and real
estate business. Mr.. Pierce had been
in the insurance business for a long
time, and is retiring owing to i'll
health.
DR.. c. A. Lusk, of Nyhart, Bates
county's coroner, was in Butler Tues
day on business. The doctor is much
pleased pit the action of the big ditch,
and thinks il prevented three bad
overflows this spring. He says the
water goes through the ditch much
faster than through the old channel,
and consequently carries off large
volume.
| w. B. Dawson and family came
over from Butler to spend Sunday
with his mother. Our friend Watt is
making one of the best prosecuting
attorneys we have ever had. He is a
terror to lawbreakers and seeks to do
his duty without fear or favor.
Watts Hume friends are mighty
proud of him.-Hume Telephone.
| Miss Nellie Smith left for Kansas
City the last of the week to Join a
party of fifty young people from this
section of the state on a trip to st.
Paul, MINI. The party goes to at
tend the international Christian En-
deavor convention held in that city
this month. Miss Nellie will spend
some time at the summer resorts of
the north before returning home.
J w. A. Baker and young son, Fred
erick H., were pleasant callers at
The Times office on Saturday. Mr..
Bakeris proprietor of Blue Grass VAL
ley Stock Farm, in Pleasant Gap town.
ship and breeder of big bone Poland
China hogs and Aberdeen Angus cat
tie. He said his hay would be ready
to cut the first of this week, had cav
ed his wheat, which was very good
and his corn is looking fine.
The manager of the Water Com
pany desires us to call attention to
condition of the water now and for
several months past, since the repairs
at the pumping station were made in
the early spring. Notwithstanding
the excessive rains which have kept
the Miami very muddy, the water has
been clear and wholesome, and the
company promise that it will be kept
up to this high standard.
Joe Geiger has been appointed
agent at the Mo. Pac. depot in this
city vice E. c. Vandervoort resigned.
Mr.. Geiger has been operator at this
station for many years, has proven a
competent, faithful official and his
promotion was well merited. Mr..
Vandervoort has held this position for
many years, and was held in high
esteem by our business men and citi-
zens generally, and he leaves with the
best wishes of all for his success and
happiness.
The Record has Just discovered a
crying need for a new five million
dollar state house. Aus could never
exactly see the need for new State
house SO long as the state had a
Democratic governor. These Repub-
licans do love to handle the public
money, and the more they have to
handle the farther it goes around
among the faithful, but the average
Republican gets mighty light pickin',
but they appear to be satisfied with a
few crumbs, just so it comes easy.
Peter Randall died at the home of
his daughter, Mrs. John w. White,
in Cashion, Okla, where he was
visiting last Thursday. The remains
were brought to Bates county Friday,
Funeral services were held in the
Bethel church Saturday afternoon
and interment in Bethel cemetery.
Mr.. Randall was born in Kentucky
and came to Bates county in 1869,
He was y years old and had been in
failing health for some time. He
was highly respected citizen of his
section of the county.
P. H. Holcomb made us business
call and talked over old times in But
Ter. Next to Judge Boxley, he is the
Oldest practitioner at this bar, coming
here in 1867. He first went to Green
field, to locate, but had occasion to
drive through to Kansas City, there
being do railroads through this Sec
ton then. When he reached Butler
he was so impressed with the sur
rounding country and the possibilities
of the town, just struggling to over
come the effects of the war, that he
concluded to locate and hung out his
single, and has never had any cause
to seriously regret his action.