The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1909-07-01

county Monday. Papers found in
their clothing showed one was named
Chas Brown, 81 years old, of Wichita,
Kansas, and the other Allen Wilson,
20 years old, of Chicago. They are
the same young men who were put
off the Sunday evening passenger
train at Deerfield. II is supposed.
they stopped on the track to rest
and went to sleep. The bodies were
taken to Fl. Scott, Kansas.
Thos. j. Wheeler, the veteran
school teacher of the west part of the
county, was a pleasant caller while in
Butler Saturday. Mr.. Wheeler had
just been notified by Superintendent
Allison that one of his pupils Miss
Ruby Isaackson, at Willow Branch,
in West Point township, had been
awarded the silk flag for the best
grades made in the rural graduates
class. Mr.. Wheeler is very proud of
the work of his pupil and well he
may be, as she is an exceptionally
bright young girl and shows the eff
feet of good training.
G. w. Sealey, proprietor of the old
Hoagland farm, near Nyhart, cut and
saved so acres of wheat last week in
two and one half days. He had a
galvanized iron box made to COM
pletely encase the working parts of
the reaper, to protect them from the
mud, and used four horses. In places
it is said the water followed in the
track of the big wheel. The plan
used by Mr.. Sealey to prevent the
mud from clogging up the machine
is good one, and many farmers who
have ripe grain in muddy fields would
do well to investigate it.
A freight wreck occurred near
Archie early Sunday morning, which
blocked traffic the entire day, the
morning mail did not reach Butler
until o'clock in the afternoon and
then was transferred. The train while
running at lively clip went into the
ditch on reverse curve, owing to
the sinking of the track, caused by
the continued wet weather. About a
dozen cars loaded with valuable mer-
chandise, lumber, etc, were derailed
and the goods scattered over the
right of way. The property loss will
be severe on the company.
Alton C. Burlington, of the firm of
C. d. Darnell C Co., prominent real
estate firm of Kansas City, was in
Butler Sunday seeing his old friends.
The report reached Butler Satur-
day that the streets of Rich Hill were
inundated by back water from the bot
toms, but later it was learned that it
was surplus water running off after a
heavy shower, and water being little
used in that old town, its appearance
in any considerable quantities caused
commotion.
Rich Hill Tribune, the Republican
paper, owned by George Huckeby,
has changed managers, George Dow
ell retiring and Bert Madison and
Luther Fry, Jr., taking control.
These young men have both been
connected with The Tribune under
Mr.. Dowell's management, they are
Rich Hill boys, active and energetic,
they promise to make the paper a
hummer.
The body of Edna p. Cason, who
died at the st. Mary's Hospital in
Kansas City Sunday afternoon, was
brought to Butler on the noon train
Tuesday, and interment was made in
Oak Hill cemetery by the side of her
mother. Deceased was daughter
of J. L. Cason and niece of VIM.
Young, formerly in the livery bust
ness here. She was at one time tele-
phone girl in the Butler exchange.
She was 81 years old.
The ElDorado Sun tells beautiful
story with a moral of how Joplin
man on July 4th, 1908, while in the
vicinity of that health resort, lost a
valuable watch, and how a poor but
honest youth found the watch the fol-
lywing March, unchanged and still
running, and how he spent his good
coin of the realm in calling the Joplin
man up over the long distance tele-
phone, who was so overioyed at re-
gaining the valuable time piece, and
finding an honest youth at the same
time, that he bought the boy new
gold watch and had inscribed in the
case 'For Honesty" Wonder what
kind of mineral water Bro. Smith is
drinking these sultry days, to make
him have such beautiful Sunday
School dreams.
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