The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1911-02-09
On the Wing.

Lewis FOrteF mas commenced saw
ing on Root Branch for Jim Welch
Mr.. Lou Williams at the saw.
Charley Titus sale went off like
hot cakes.
VIM. Dewese is having logs cut TO-
a fine big barn.
C. D. Bailey sold his farm to VIM
Welch for $50 per acre.
Master Perry Nance is blowing will
a 3-horse plow Ikea man.
C. D. Bailey has bought a farm a
Topeka, Kans., for $3.50 per acre ane
expects to move there soon.
Mr.. Ira Wiser has built a fine large
hennery and expects to have it paint
ed up in style and have it photo
graphed and send it back to Nebraska
to show them that what he expects tt
live on the balance Of his days is ham
and eggs.
Will and Frank Graves and family
Of near Pleasant Ridge left Monday
for Tulsa, Okla. We wish them q
pleasant journey and hope they will
like their new home.
Fannie, the little daughter of Fran
els Bellomy, is pretty low with the
typhoid fever, but is improving some.
The school at Pleasant Ridge is
progressing very nicely. The teacher
and pupils tried the patience of
Nestlerode, the picture man, and also
tried the metal of his camera. We
know that we will get good pictures
because he always makes them good.
T. Mcclure who lives on the farm
known as the Athol Herrell farm
brought home a fresh milk COW. He
purchased her from a gentleman liv-
ing near the Tygard school house just
west of Butler. The price paid was
fifty dollars.
The little infant baby of Jesse Smith
a few miles southeast of town was
buried few days ago and the mother
is very low with the fever. AS soon
as Mrs. Smith recovers they are
of having a sale and going
to Montana.
Doc. Philpot of near Papinville is
visiting his sister, Mrs. Will Purkey,
near Orchard Grove.
Will Purkey of Orchard Grove is
baling hay for George Utley.
N. Smiley Of Pleasant Gap has
moved to Appleton City and has gone
into the blacksmith business.
Mr.. Charley Campbell living on the
Max Weiner farm east of Butler is
on his father-in-law's place
near Passaic, Mo.
Ira Brown, the funny man at the
Pleasant Ridge literary society, is
loaded with funny songs and comic
recitations. If we had a few more
like him our society would be a grand
success.
H. H. McClendon Of Route 1, Rock
vile has such demand for his coal
that he had to quit furnishing coal for
The steam shovel to take the rock out
Of the dredge ditch south of Prairie
City.
A man at Ed Merchants has a team
wagon and harness for sale cheap.
Born to the wife of H. H. McClen-
Ion fine baby girl. Harry is so
we'll pleased he has pulled all the hair
,ut of the top of his head.
Geo. Roberts of Papinville is around
selling or taking orders for farm and
,arden seeds. Geo. is a good sales
nan and can talk you blind.
Arch Long went fishing one day
asst week and caught a bad cold and
! IS pound channel cat fish. How's
hat boys?
John R. Edwards has a pecan
rove near Prairie. He has already |
.athered % hundred pounds of pecans
which he has weighed and sold for
1-2c, besides what he has given
way. j. R. E. has more to gather,
nd he has sold $55 worth of hickory
luts. l-2 of his land is in cultivation.
Tom Henderson has $50 worth of
urs for sale. |
Thedredge ditch crew is doing some
,reat work with their monster steam
hovel. Employment bureaus from