The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1910-03-24


: Allen and Mrs. Max Weiner enter
tanned about sixty lady guests at the
Armstrong home one North Main
street. at Euchre on 81. Patrick's
day. The color scheme was green,
and fine lunch was served.
We are sorry to learn of the death
of c. c. Goodrich, which occurred at
his home in Kansas City, March 10Th,
from dropsy. Mr.. Goodrich was the
blacksmith in Aaron for a number of
years, but recently sold his home and
moved to Kansas City.-Urich Her.
aid
Mrs. Jas. T. Williams has been
very low at their home in this city for
the past week or ten day. A turn
was taken for the better the first of
the week, we are glad to report. Mr..
and Mrs. Williams are pioneer set
tiers of Bates county, and owing to
her extreme age her case is regarded
as critical.
The Butler Produce Company and
the Harrisonville Produce Company,
both formerly owned by the Fell
Produce Co., were sold last week to
the Frank Hyde Commission Com
pany. Joe W. Whipple will manage
the Butler and Harrisonville houses.
Mr.. Whipple is a Butler "boy" and
is business man of marked ability.
| He will make his headquarters at
Harrsonville.
Ex-mayor A. B. Owen spent sew
eral days last week in Adrian, and
informs us that the town has a decid-
ed boom on. John Reeder is build
ing a block of five new store rooms;
seven or eight new residences are UNI
t der construction and five or six more
/ talked of. Property is high and SELL
r ing readily. improvements are APP
parent on every hand. Mr.. Owen
says our thriving neighbor to the
north shows every evidence of pros
pering.
/, AT call meeting of Marmaduke
Camp, ex-confederates, held at the
court house last Saturday, Robert S.
Catron and John Keirsey were elect
ed delegates to the National Encamp-
3 ment to be held at Mobile, Ala, April
4 6-28. AT the regular meeting of the
amp, April 10Th, vote will be taken
pom the place for holding the next
ational Encampment, 1911, Chatta-
1ooga, Tenn, and Little Rock, Ar
. ',ansas, being the competing points.
: C. G. Weeks, county clerk, who
has been down from Butler to-day,
stated that he was in receipt of let
2 ter from his daughter, Miss Eula,
( who is attending Bryn Mawr College,
e Pa, in which she stated she was
S progressing nicely and had been Of
fered position in the preparatory
q school. We mention this because of
: the young lady's many friends here,
, all of whom feel lively interest in
|, her. -Review.
: R. X. Goodwin and wife, one of the
prominent young couples doing sue
i cessful farming near Mayesburg, hon
: ored US with an agreeable call. While
T they run the farm and are making it
y pay, we also note that they find time
a each year to take a little vacation
from work. We think this is right
: and when more do likewise they will
). find the farm less place of drudgery
and more place of real comfort and
joy.-Urich Herald.
= The American Clothing House
Company will open a branch store at
: Adrian. The company purchased the
!. Hiram Nichols Shoe Co. S stock of
i goods at that place last week, and
purpose putting in full line Of cloth
+. ing, gents furnish goods and shoes.
II is the cOmpany'S intention to have
this store in full readiness to open up
: for business next Saturday morning.
The American is a strong company
and the unqualified success its man.
e ayers have made here, argues well
r for success in this enterprise.
"A rumor has reached this city,
h through conversation with railroad
D men, that the company is planning to
put on daily passenger train from
. Butler to Madison. The train to make
two trips daily between the two
points. A recent ruling Of the su-
|, preme court ordered that a passenger
5 train must be run from Madison to
: the Missouri line and this will cause
/. the extension Of the run to this city,
This feature will better the mail SER
vice throughout the Kansas towns.
Mrs. Ollie Kendall Patten died at
: the home Of her mother, Mrs. Ken
: dali, on Mechanic street, this city,
9 Monday at midnight. She had been
q an invalid for many years, and suf-
fered a stroke of paralysis six or sew
en- years ago, from which she never
n recovered. Deceased was born at
e Piqua, Ohio, June IL, 1858. She
q came to Butler about IS years ago.
d She was a member Of the Presbyte-
rian church. She leaves a son ten
years old, besides an aged mother
:, and one brother, M. G. Kendall, of
St. Louis.