The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1909-08-26

ed US with renewal. Mr.. Lewis is an
effective Democratic worker in his |
section, an old and substantial citizen, |
and his name is in the pot for some
thing good in the future.
G. H. Spicer, wife and babies left |
Saturday for Jacksonville, where
they will visit his brother, Mayor Lee
Spicer, for few days and then go to
Nashua, Clay county, where they will
probably make their home. These
excellent young people leave many
friends here who wish them we'll.
Rev. A. B. Elsie has resigned as
pastor of the Baptist church in this
city to accept pastorate at Spring
field, Missouri He is now in that
city making arrangements to move
his family. Rev. Elsie came to this
charge from Oklahoma City a year
and half ago, did good work here
and made many warm friends among
our people.
H. F. Teeter, a merchant of Hol-
brook, Nebraska, son of Frank Tee
ter, of that state, visited relatives and
old friends about Ballard last week.
Mr.. Teeter was born in that neigh
borhood but moved to Nebraska with
his parents when quite young and
this is his first visit back to old
Bates.
Our old friend T. j. Wilson writes
from Seattle, his present home, that
the Foster items in The Times each
i week is like getting letter direct
from home. He says the A. Y. p.
II Fair is in full blast, and those best
i able to Judge think it will be a finan-
cial success. Mr.. Wilson for many
years was a prominent citizen of Wal
nut township,
!, The members of the l.. o. 7. II.
IL Girls Club delightfully."- surprised Mrs.
g Clarence Kinney, at the home of her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. S. F. Warnock,
Monday evening, the occasion being
the recent joining of the matrimonial
club by this popular member. Mrs.
Is Kinney was given substantial remem-
n brances by the club. A delightful
1t evening was spent and delicious re-
ID freShments served.
~ The meeting Of the Bates county
teachers and members of School
I'd Boards, called by Superintendent of
so county schools Allison, in conformity
an to a new law, opened Wednesday in
the court room, with a large enroll.
ment, and will continue to-day. This
o. meeting of the teachers is for the
i purpose of better preparing course
. Of procedure for the coming school
a year. A splendid program had been
h. prepared in advance by Supt. Allison
N which is being carried out.
The engagement of Miss Anna Day
, Smith TO Dewitt C.. Chastain, was
vi announced at party given by her
sister, Miss Naomi Smith, at the
home of their parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
y T. J. Smith. The bride-to-be is a
charming and talented Butler girl,
u the groom prominent young attor-
lie ney who is fast winning his spurs,
'. both are popular young society peo-
OF Pile.
Mayor Pierce Hackett, of Amoret,
was in Bntler Saturday to attend the
I'll ex-Confederate meeting. He was
'r called to Fl. Scott Kansas, last week,
T. by an accident which befell his broth
I. er Richard Hackett, who is confined
a' to the hospital in that city with a
broken leg. His home is in Fulton,
~ Kansas, and while assisting in unload
III ing a car of ice, fell and a wagon
wheel passed over his leg, crushing
, the bone. He was taken to Fl Scott
for hospital treatment.
- 1t is now nearly four hundred
years since the first proposal was
- made for the panama canal. A canal
~ was suggested as early as 1920 by
= Angel Sravedra, but for long time
all such suggestions met with deter
mined opposition from Spain, who
S. made it a capital offense to seek or
:, make known any improvement on
,. the existing route from Porto Bello
" to Panama. More recently Louis
it Napoleon, when prisoner at Ham,
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