The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1910-10-06


Kansas City and is quite an expert at
the business.
Presiding Judge K. F. Harper,
from across the river, was in our
burg Friday. All the Judge likes of
being a perfect man is being a Demo-
crat.
Charley Neil came down from Kan
sas City Monday of last week on a
combine pleasure and business trip.
Mr.. Neil was raised near Foster, and
is here looking after the old home
place.
}. l.. Moorehouse moved his stock
of groceries to the X. G. Gather build
ing. There is quite change in buSi-
ness lately, and when our concrete
sidewalks are completed, which the
city fathers have ordered, there will
be no flies on Foster.
j. H, Mccullough and W. T.
Slower were Butler visitors Saturday.
Howard E. Arbogast came down
from Worland Sunday to visit home
folks.
Miss Winnie Frankenfield and
brother, Guy, visited with their sis
ters in Rich Hill Saturday and sun
day.
), l.. Doke and wife, of Kansas
City, visited their son, Ed. Doke, and
wife and his sister, Mrs. B. b. Writ,
of this place.
Messrs. Collie Collier, Walker
Steele and Paul Laughlin left on the
east bound passenger for Sedalia Il
attend the State Fair.
D. H. Arbogast left Saturday for
Knob Noster to visit his brother, W.
Arbogast. He and his brother will
attend the State Fair while there.
Foster would be an excellent place
for some first-class harness man tC
start in business with big coal field
and good farming country around
it. There is nothing to keep the
right kind Of a man from doing well
Rent and living are cheap. Mr.. Hart
who is here for a few days visit anC
has been touring the country through
Oklahoma and Kansas, informed Il;
he could live in Foster for one-hal
what it cost him in Texas and many
place he had been,
We learn John Belk and Delmal
Webb have rented the store building
recently vacated by j. L. Moore.
house, and will put in a stock of gro.
ceries. We wish the new firm sue.
cess.
Mrs. Ethel Kaiser returned from
Mound City, Kansas, where she has
been visiting her uncle, viii Hecka-
don.
Another Happy Birthday Surprise.
Friends and relatives gathered al
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Ed. Shell
ton Oct. End, it being Mrs. Shelton S
thirty-third birthday. While she was
attending church, quite a number of
friends and relatives gathered at the
home with well-filled baskets, and an
elegant dinner was spread, waiting
for her return. Those present were:
MeSsrs. Barton Briscoe, Henry BriS-
coe, L. E. Deaton, Robert Briscoe,
Lee Shelton, Logan Briscoe, Will
Briscoe and families, c. B. BriScoe
and wife, Delmar Webb and wife,
Mrs. Nora Burns, Misses Jennie
Stevenson, Margette and Katie Ken
ME, Dee Arbogast, Mrs. Bassett and
son, Rollie, Mrs. Davis, Mrs. Smalley,
Paul Collier, Jessie Briscoe and j.
W. Darby. All departed for their
homes at late hour, merry and
happy wishing Mrs. Shelton many
more happy birthdays.
Mrs. Alice Henry Sackett Dead.
Mrs. Alice c. Sackett died at the
home on South Washington street,
Tiffon, Ohio, at 5 O'Clock Tuesday
evening, September 10th, 1910, aged
aged As years. Death was due to
sarcoma. For thirty-nine days she
had no nourishment except water.
And as her case was a very excep-
tional one, a postmortem examina-
ton was held, and it was found that