The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1912-05-16
FOSTER.

Butler Saturday noon.
T. P. Hines and two daughters left
Saturday for Kansas City.
Born, May 7th to Mr.. and Mrs.
Harley Incl, boy.
A. G. Metzler was Kansas City
business visitor the last of the week.
w. M. Thompson and family of the
country west, were city visitors Sun
day.
Jesse Trimble and daughter came
down from Butler Friday, the guests
of w. M. Mills and family.
Miss Mae Cobb came home Sunday
from Parsons, Kansas, to spend a few
days with home folks.
Dave Hughes was transacting busi-
ness in Rich Hill the last of the week.
Sherman and Henry Heckadon and
sisters, Ethel and Margaret, visited
their uncle, D. H. Arbogast and fam
lily Sunday evening. They were ac-
companied by little Miss Evangeline
Axtell of the Reavely neighborhood.
M. C. Campbell of Kansas City,
came in Sunday on a brief visit to
Foster Friends. He was accompanied
from Butler by his sister-in-law,
Miss Nora Potts.
Bee Jennings returned home from
Cass county on brief visit with
home folks.
Those who left for Butler Saturday
on the noon train to attend the gradu-
ating exercises were: The Misses
Vera McHenry, Ina Martin, Nora
Potts, Lula Hamilton, Inez Ramsey
and Goldie Swarens, Willie Scholes
and Ross Vaughn.
See That Her Grave is Kept Green.
Last week one of the ladies' of the
cemetery association received letter
from Rev. L. R. Nicholas, formerly
pastor of the Presbyterian church in
which he, said in part: Gas l am far
away. will you see. that my wife's
grave is properly cared for and kept
green"
Rev. Nicholas will be rendered by
many people of Foster.
In 1898 his wife died at this place
of typhoid fever, and since that time
he has drifted to the Dakotas, but
still has a warm place in his heart for
the people Of Foster, and the little
cemetery at Salem which place we
we all hold dear.
Friday Evenings Storm.
One of the most severe storms that
has visited this section Of the country
passed through here, about 7 o'clock
Friday evening. The storm came
from the southwest accompanied by
a heavy downpour of rain:
The wind was straight one and
very severe, but fortunately no dam
age was done at this place.
The top house and engine house of
the Holland Coal Co., two miles south
was completely destroyed, two silos
on the farm of o. T. Holland were
blown down and one on the farm of
Frank Mcconnell.
Two miles east of town the storm
was in the nature of a twister, and
considerable damage was done in its
path. Your correspondent viewed
the wreck the storm had made at the
Atlas coal mining camp, two miles
southeast of Foster, Sunday evening,
and we found considerable damage
had been done. Almost every house
in the camp was more or less damag-
ed. Some houses were completely
demolished while others were moved
from their foundations or unroofed.
The school house, a frame building
24x6O which was used for school and
church purposes, was completely de-
and scattered several hun
dred yards to the northeast.
The commissary building of the
Atlas Coal Co., was badly careened
and the glass front badly broken.
The large smokestacks at the mine
were blown down; small stable be-
longing to John LADDER, in which
were cow and cali, was blown over
a fence into cornfield. The stable
was blown to pieces but the cow and
calf were unhurt.
We were informed while the storm
was raging and shingles and boards
flying between heaven and earth, the
stork left a baby bow at the home of