The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1910-07-14

visiting with the family of L. L. Rock
hold at Adrian. 4
Charles Peacock and John Wilson
of Spruce were in this city WedneS-
day on business.
John McElwain of the Chapel
neighborhood was in this city on bus
mess Wednesday.
Mrs. H. H. Holloway and son,
Billy, arg visiting Mrs. Holloway's
parents al Nevada.
A special session of the county
court will be held to-day to inquire
into the sanity of Wyley Carson, of
this city.
A tool house on the farm of Win
Dillon, northeast of this city, was
struck by lightning Sunday morning,
and several fine hogs were killed.
County Clerk C. G. Weeks mailed
special notices Saturday as required
by law to each Judge of election APP
pointed by the county court this
term.
Mr., and Mrs. j. E. Arnold celebrat-
ed their fifty-fifth wedding ami
versary at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
j. f. Smith Sunday evening. Thirty
five members of the family were
present.
A. NJ. Fritze, a successful live stock
dealer of Ponca City, Oklahoma,
mailed us copy of the Ponca City
Democrat containing commentary
upon speech delivered in that city
by Governor Hadley, which we pub
lish in another column.
The work of excavating for the
paving of the square is being rapidly
pushed to completion. The iron
posts of the hitch racks have been
set in concrete on the east side OF
the square and force is employed
making preparations to reset those
on the other three sides of the square
At a meeting of the board of drec.
tors Tuesday w. W. Rubel was for
mally given the cashiership of the
Bank of Amsterdam to succeed W.
w. Badgley, who rendered his resig
nation last month. The directors ar
rived at the bank early and after ;
thorough examination of the books
which consumed the greater part o
the day, pronounced them to be in
highly satisfactory condition,-Am
sterdam Enterprise.
A large hay barn on the Chas Falo
farm, several miles southwest of RicI
r Hill, was struck by lightning durin
e the storm Thursday evening and wa
= completely destroyed by fire, say
the Review. The building stooC
only a short distance from MI
8 Falor's horse barn and big corn cribs
! but these were unchanged. Tn
barn destroyed contained only
small quantity of hay, which loss wa
e fully covered by insurance.
Charges of cooperating with tn
interests not unlike those Anne
at Secretary Ballinger, which led t
: the prolonged Ballinger-Pinchot cor
: troversy, are now leveled at Charlie
Nagel, the st. Louis member of tn
Cabinet. The charges deal with MI
. Nagel's policy as Secretary of Con
a merce and Labor in regulating sea
r ing operations in the Pribilof Island
in the Boring Sea. However, MI
Nagel has left Washington to b
> absent for at least three months.
+ Uriah Aver of the country nOrtl
is one farmer who made good wit
4 his bottom land this year. Last ia
he sowed a large acreage of land alon
:, the Marias des Cygnes, near Nyhar
: to wheat, and he has just finishe
threshing and shipping his grain.
j is reported by one who assisted i
i the work, that Mr.. Ayers shippe
It 1929 bushels of wheat from this DO
S tom land, which at the prevailin
price would bring in the neighbol
q hood of $4,000. Rich Hill Review.
= Rollo, the eight year old son of
S H. Blood, had the misfortune to ia
# from tree and break his right arr
Sunday afternoon.
r w. H. Charters, Jr., shipped a fin
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