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

tagious among the farmers this spring
like weather.
Bert Barr moved to a farm two
miles east Of Virginia, the first of the
week.
Miss Mary Nance was through
Parktown canvassing Monday.
Rev. Gilbreath filled his appoint
ment at the M. E. church Sunday
morning and night.
Harley Warderman delivered hogs
at Butler Monday of last week.
Bird Barr who cut his foot last
week is at home again.
While making sausage one day last
week Willie Tharp caught his thumb
in the sausage mill and cut and mash
ed it. II has been a very painful
wound but is getting better at this
writing.
Jim Clark, Harley Warderman and
j. S. Malone hauled lumber from
Daniels Mill Friday of last week.
The Mt. Carmel Young Peoples
Union will commence again next
Sunday night. Charley Crosswhite
will be leader.
Mrs. Hardinger is in Butler being
treated by DR.. Foster for erysipelaS.
Lee, Elmer and Arthur Hardinger
spent Sunday with their grandparents
and mother in Butler.
II was announced at the New Hope
Baptist church Sunday night that the
meeting would continue until We'd
nesday night. They have had one
conversion and five additions to the
church.
Bird Barr is moving to the John
Sparks place, two and one half miles
east of Virginia.
Albert Leonard says if he can't
catch skunks he can catch hawks.
He set steel trap last Monday and
caught a hawk that measured four
feet and four inches from the tip of
one wing to the tip of the other.
Judge Paddock Writes:
| have been asked several ques-
tons lately regarding our controversy
with the Drainage Ditch problem and
for the benefit of the tax payers of
Bates county will endeavor to an
swer few of them. The construc-
ton of the entire main ditch was let
to Timothy Foohey & Sons. They
sublet the east division from Papins-
vile to the Usage river to A. V. Wills
& Sons. The balance of the ditch was
let at eight cents per cubic yard. But
the part that is in controversy was
let at twenty cents per cubic yard, il
being at a higher price on account of
the coal, stone and shale in part of
this district. When Wills encountered
the coal, stone and shale he raised
above the stone and took the dirt off
of the rock, which is about l-2 mile in
length and from two #. to nine #.
high. Wills said as soon as he pass
ed over the rock he would turn and
take them out the other way as he
could do it better, but instead he
dropped down to grade line and went
on to the Usage river. Now you can
readily see Mr., Wills done consider
able work after leaving the rock that
we did not pay him for, the contract
reading we were to pay on estimates
furnished by the engineer on COM
pleted work. So when Wills default
ed the engineer did not put in any
estimates so of course we did not pay,
hence he brought suit-then we ad-
vertised and received bids for taking
out the rock that Wills left and let it
to a Joplin firm at ninety cents per
cubic yard, there being about $4,000
yards. Mr.. Wills seeing the dilema
he was getting into undertook to re-
strain us from using the money we
had on hand for the construction of
the ditch, by running an injunction on
the money in the Federal court, but
he failed, SO we are proceeding to
lake the rock out of the ditch with
the money that was raised for that
purpose. The ditch is entirely paid
for, except the part in controversy,
with the money raised by the bonded
Indebtedness that portion of the coun-
+y supposed to be benefited.
YOUNG AARON.