The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1911-09-28
FOSTER.

MeSOdUcS INcWkIIh dl4u AnuCA SIoAI-
ed Mrs. D. H. Arbogast "Wednesday
evening of last week.
Quite number of Foster people
attended the stock show at Hume.
They reported big crowd in the
border city.
Mrs. Burge returned Thursday
from lola, Kansas, where she had
been visiting her daughter.
Will Lancaster and wife were pas
sengers to Eldorado Springs Sunday
noon.
Ed Shelton and family moved to
Kansas City this week.
Miss Edyth Lyle returned to Kansas
City Sunday after brief visit with
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. W. M.
Lyle.
Ezra Burge and wife Sundayed
with his mother and sister in the east
part of town.
Harry Martin, we are sorry to learn,
is sick with typhoid fever at the
: home of his parents in the east part
of town.
w. D. Steele came down from Kan
sas City last week and spent few
days on the old camp ground.
Mrs. Hiram Bassett visited Sunday
evening with Mrs. D. H. Arbogast.
Prof. j. V. Bell and wife came
down from Burdette, where he is
teaching, to visit his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. J. L. Bell. They returned home
Sunday.
Miss Minnie Shelton was an arrival
on the noon passenger from Pittsburg
Saturday and will visit her mother in
the east part of town.
Aunt Jane Arbogast and daughter,
Mrs. Maggie Heckadon of near Rich
Hill, is visiting her brother-in-law,
D. H. Arbogast and family. Aunt
Jane is 6S years old and is getting
quite feeble.
Allie Parlier of Wilkesboro, North
Carolina, came in on Friday morn
ing's local from Decatur, Illinois,
. where he had been for few months.
Mr.. Parlier is a nephew of our honor
able townsman, w. j. Parlier.
Pat Cone and Mark Thomas mule
colt were the only ones that took the
blue ribbon at the the Hume stock
show Thursday. Pat won the blue
ribbon in the foot race contest and
the mule on being a Missourian and
its good qualities.
Pat Cone left Monday for Morrison
vile, III. Pat will be missed in base
ball circles here.
Delmar Webb had his sale of house
hold goods Saturday. He left Sun
day for Springfield, Oregon. He will
visit points in Colorado before he
reaches his destination. He was ac-
conpanied by his mother as far as
Kansas City, who has been spending
week with her daughter, Mrs. P.
L. Shelton.
NOTICE-Joe Roberts wishes to
announce to the public that he has
good coal for sale at the old Cation
bank five miles northwest of Foster
7c per bushel at the bank. This will
be handy for the people across the
river to get their winters coal.
Mrs. Perry Jennings Hurt.
Thursday evening about 8 o'clock,
while returning from the Hume stock
show, Mrs. Perry Jennings in COM
pany with her mother, Mrs. Havely,
Mr.. and Mrs. Gus Trussell, Delmar
Webb and Henry Briscoe, the vehicle
in which they were riding turned
turtle into ditch about mile south
of Foster.
The occupants were piled into the
ditch. Mrs. Jennings forehead was
badly cut and otherwise bruised on
the rock. Her mother, Mrs. Havely,
received a sprained wrist. The other
members Of the party escaped with
slight bruises. 1t was close call and
miracle some one of the parties
were not killed.
Mrs. jennings was taken to the
home of her mother and medical aid
summoned. DR.. Rhoades dressed the
wound, which required several stitch
es, and the patient made as comfort
able as possible. At this writing she