The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1910-11-03

Bonnie Wolfe, Mayme McKibben,
Elsie and Helen Park, Minnie Kelly,
Anna Bard and Profs. James and
George Pahlman, James and Maxwell
Park.
The Virginia Christian S. S. has
entered into a contest to be conduct
ed through the month of November.
Its purpose is to increase the attend
ance.
There will be preaching at the
Christian Church next Sunday morn
ing by Rev, Blaylock. In the even
ing temperance rally will be held at
that place. Rev. Mayfield, of Butler,
will speak, and everyone is requested
to be present.
Next Tuesday the voters will cast
their votes for a wet or u dry Mis-
souri,. AS they SOW their votes, they
will expect to reap. The dry voter
will expect to reap soberness and all
the blessings that will come to a
sober people of dry state. The wet
voter will expect to reap drinking
and drunkenness and all the misery
and woe that comes to a drinking
people of a wet state. Next Tuesday
the voter will chose, which he will
serve the liquor power and all the
evil that follows its reign in a wet
state or sobriety and all the blessings
that God bestows upon a sobriety
people in dry state. Next Tuesday
the wet voter will vote ioE the drunk.
ards wife to keep pN starving and
wearing rags, her husband to keep
on getting drunk and filling her heart
full Of sorrow. The dry voter will
vote for the drunkard's wife to be
fed and clothed, her husband to quit
drinking, filling her heart full of the
sunshine Of gladness of o sober hus-
band. Next Tuesday the recording
angel will have the book open early
TO record the wet and the dry.
'Be not deceived. God isnot mock
ed; whatsoever we sow that shall ye
also reap. The Bible.
"The traffic in strong drink has eff.
! Z .ectea more more avil to the human race
than war pestilence anu lani,ne COM
bined. Gladstone.
Every dollar received in revenue
from the liquor traffic cast the gov
ernment $2l.OO. Carroll D. Wright,
United States Labor Commissioner,
magnitude of the waste the money
was,c,, for liquor during 1894 would
purchase every v.,lnce Of silver mined
in the United States iii the past feFty-
two years at its present market value:
Evelyn Smizer, wife and DAUGHTER.
Claud Brummett and wife visited the
family of T. H. Smizer Saturday fiighi
and Sunday.
A fine l0-pound girl arrived at the
nome OF Virgil jenkins Friday night.
Zera Raybourn passed through
Parktown Tuesday.
Mr.. Deptwater, of Amoret, passed
through our neighborhood SUNDAY in
ms auto car, accompanied by Jess
Short, also of Amoret.
We notice E. T. Burge is hauling
lumber. He expects to build an adj |
dition to his barn.
Qnite few of the neighbors has
been helping Dave Nestlerode move |
his house this week. The family ex-
,ects to move as soon as the house is
Monroe and AL Burk hauled hogs
o Butler Monday.
Mrs. Osborne and two daughters,
trace and Lille, visited the latter
'art OF last week with Mrs. Osborne's
'rother, P. j. Cowgirl, and family, of
AltOna.
Mrs. Fred Stroeber and children
eturned home from Leroy, Kansas,
where she had been visiting her par
nts Thursday.
Rev. William MayfieId, of Butler,
'ill speak on Statewide Prohibi-
on at the Christian Church at Vir-
inia Sunday night, Nov. 6, at 7:3O {
clock. Everybody come and hear
i'm.
Karl Jones, salesman for the Raleigh ,
emedies, was around in the Mt.
armel church neighborhood Friday.
Frank Vance, who is working in
ansas City, spent Sunday with his 7
arents, Mr.. and Mrs. j. S. Vance.
Harley Warderman received word
lnday night that his father, who v
yes in Butler, had died. s
Rev. Carter made a most evcoIIapt