The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1911-01-12
VIRGINIA..


day Of last week.
Frank Walker, of Kansas City, is
visiting relatives in this neighbor.
4 hood.
# Rev. Stille preached at Mt. Carmel
Sunday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. C. Crosswhite Wis
4 tied friends near Passaic Sunday.
The Mt. Carmel Young Peoples
Union elected the following officers
Sunday night: Lee Hardinger, Presi.
dent; Edward Stroeber, Vice-Presi-
dent; Belle Burk, Organist; Clarence
Welch, Secretary and Treasurer, and
Ada Craven, Assistant,
The box supper at Enterprise
school, which was postponed, will be
held Saturday night, Jan. IA. Every
body come and all ladies requested
to bring boxes.
F. Belmony, Of Pleasant Gap, spent
Sunday night at the home of c. S.
Robertson and family.
Geo. Wiemers sends The Times to
his brother, Henry Wiemers, at
Palmer, Kan., to keep him posted on
what happens in and around Virginia.
Most all who have lived near Virginia
and have moved to other states, say
the Virginia items in The Times are
better than a letter, and they get
them every week, and we are sure
Henry will be thankful to his brother,
George, for his gift.
Jasper Bowman was born in Logan
Co., ILL.,, Dec. 18th, 1852. In the fall
of1se5 he moved to Bates Co., NO.,
with his parents, where he has spent
most of his life. He was married to
Miss Annie B. Mills at Topeka, Kan.,
in 1865, who died in 1892. To this
union six children were born, all boys;
three died while small. He was
married to Mrs. Lucinda Archie in
1907, who, with the three boys, Fred,
Charley and Henry, were living with
him, when his death occurred Dec.
31th, 1910, at his home on the John
Wesley Park farm, southwest of Vir-
ginia. He was member of the
Christian Church. He was loved and
respected by all who knew him.
Funeral services were held at the
residence at II o'clock a. m. Sabbath
by Rev. T. B. Jones, of Worland.
The remains were laid to rest in the
old Jackssn cemetery near Amoret to
await until the resurrection morn.
One by one the old settlers are an
swering the roll call.
Miss Helen Park, who got her arm
broken Xmas eve, commenced her
school at Plain View again Monday.
Andrew Simpson and wife were on
the sick list last week, also Robert
Wolfe.
w. H. Meinen, of near Butler, was
the guest of Carl Whistler Sabbath.
Frank Beigler, of Amsterdam, was
in Parktown Saturday.
Rev. Still filled his appointment at
the M. E. Church Sabbath.
The young ladies can tell while a
long way off if it is their fellow COM
ing by. the color of the horse he
drives, and the inhabitants. have learn
ed also where the sorrel the gray,
the bay the black and the white horse
goes. But recently new sorrel
with white streak on forehead is on
the road, and all the young ladies but
one as we'll as the natives are won
dering wins hitching post he is
being ltied. To the stranger will
surely be located in the near future.
The dear people around Virginia
are missing Uncle Truman Gilbert.
They are wondering when it will
rain. Uncle Truman could always
tell them when it would come. |
Miss Martha Park was on the sick
list Monday.
John Allen Compton, of Smith
lake, Wis, spent Sunday with his
Dld friend Thomas Hockett.
Uncle Mart Nelson's neighbors
gathered at his home Saturday. The
women prepared a big dinner, and
Ihemen chopped wood enough tolast
Uncle Mart all winter and summer,
lor which Uncle Mart says words