The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1911-12-14

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Empire Tire Co. of New Jersey, Wis
tied home folks here the first of the
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. w. Mcfarland
are the proud parents of fine boy,
Clinton Bennett, born Friday, Deem
Der 8, 1911.
Mrs. Thos. K. Stout returned Tues.
day night to her home in Bartlesville,
Oklahoma, after an extended visit
here with her parents.
1t is rumored that Judge W. T.
Cole intends erecting modern hotel
building on the old Laclede lot west
of the opera house block.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Mcconnell, oil
the Sprague neighborhood, visited
the last of the week at the home OF
j. F. Ludwick in this city.
H. D. bud" Chambers and H.
Edwards of Adrian transacted bust.
ness in the county seat Tuesday and
made us a most pleasant call.
The Delta Kappa Society of the
Butler High School gave their regular
literary and musical entertainment in
the auditorium Friday evening.
Nuts, fruits and candy-at Williams.
Mrs. Sarah Bullock, of Butte,
Montana, accompanied by her broth
eS, Dave Covington, is the guest of
the family of DR.. w. E. Hampton.
Herman Guyant has announced that
he will open tailor shop in the new
Ray building which is nearing COM
pletion on the south side of the square.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jas. H. Smith, form
erly OF this city, now residing at Me-
vada, are the proud parents of fine
boy, born Monday, December II,
ls11.
E. C. Mudd of Adrian and Arthur
Mudd of Drexel have returned home
from Rocky Ford, Colorado, where
they were called by the death of their
sister, Mrs. Will Anderson.
Christmas chinaware at prices that
are all right at Williams.
Walker M. Carr, aged years, died
at Roswell, New Mexico, Dec. 4, 1911.
Mr.. Carr was a resident of Rich Hill
for more than 20 years. He is sur
vived by widow and a daughter.
Mrs. A R. Guyton has returned
home from the State District Poultry
Show at Fulton where she attended
as delegate from the Butler Com
mercial Club and the Bates County
Poultry Association.
Felt boots, corduroy
pants at cost,
T. w. Fisk.
There seems to be a regular cpl
demic of appendicitis in the Hume
neighborhood, says the Rich Hill Re-
view. The statement is made that
half dozen operations have been
performed and the indications are
that half a dozen others are ready for
the knife.
You want to know what we have
in Christmas candy, nuts and fruits?
Come and see and the price will
simply take your breath.-J. E.
Williams.
H. H. Wyse of Adrian, Route 1,
transacted business in the county seat
Saturday and made us most pleas
ant call. Mr.. Wyse is an enthusiastic
sportsman and informs us that he has
just returned from his annual deer
hunt in Texas, where he had some
fine shooting.
G. w. Ellis the optician will be in
Adrian at Boswell Hotel, Saturday,
Dec. l6, and atFarmers Bank, Foster,
NO., Dec. 10.
;, The Butler Athletes basket ball
team defeated the Adrian high school |
team to the tune of So to 81 in an ex-
citing game in the Loyal Sons hall
night. The Senior and
Sophomore girls of the Butler High |
School played a preliminary resulting
in a score of IA to 9 in favor of the
Senior girls.
Judge A. M. Woodson, Marshal j. |
H. Fink and Clerk of the Supreme
Court j. D. Allen arrived in Jeffer-
son City Tuesday morning after a
successful hunting trip in Shannon
county. One deer, several turkeys
and a considerable amount of smaller II