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The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1912-01-25
AmOret.

Mr.. Conard of Mt. Vernon neigh.
borhood visited his daughter Sunday,
who is teaching school at the johnson
school house. They called on DR..
Smith Sunday night.
Rev. Phost OF Harrisonville, preach
ed at the Christian church Sunday
morning and night.
DR.. Peck invited some of his
friends to eat possum with him
him Wednesday night. Don't need
to say they enjoyed it as there was
no 'possum left.
Mr. Beall and son Ora left Sunday
morning for Iowa where they will at
tend a sale and return in few days.
The township board met last Satur-
day in the rear room of the bank
building.
Drs. Corn and Smith were called to
see Mrs. w. B. Shackelford Sunday
night.
c. E. Longwell and wife went to
Kansas City Tuesday to attend the
lumbermen's convention.
DR.. Moore of Altoona, Kas., has
bought the W. R. Jones drug stock
and has took charge of same. His
family will be here in few days.
REPORTER,
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Our good German friend Herman
Steuck' says his family is increasing
so rapidly that he'll soon be obliged
to build an addition to his Steuckville
mansion. Recently his son Herman
was united in marriage to a daughter
of Judge Frank Fix, and now his
eldest son, Fritz, has seen fit to take
unto himself wife. He was married
to Miss Kate Depple at her home in
Lutheruille, Ark, a day or two ago,
and the "old man" is expecting them
home most any day now.-Review.
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FOSTER.

D. w. Steele, was an arrival on the
noon passenger from Kansas City
Sunday.
Esquire j. w. Darby arrived home
Friday from Clinton, NO., where he
had been visiting his sister, Mrs. Du-
vail.
Miss Pearl Badgett came in on the
las o'clock passenger from Kansas
City Sunday to visit her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. N. T. Badgett.
Pof. A. c. Moreland visited with
home folks at Fairview, NO., Satur-
day and Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Briscoe visited
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. N. L.
Cation, of near Reavely, Sunday.
The Reading Circle of Walnut
township will meet at VIM. Parleir's
Wednesday evening, Feb. IA, at 7:30.
The lesson assigned is pages 92-173
in Reading in public schools.
F. A. Scholler arrived Friday from
his visit with relatives at Burlington,
Kansas. He was accompanied home
by his father, who is 80 years old.
They experienced some very rough
weather on their return, being snow
bound on the Interstate on the Kan
sas plains. He reports very pleas
ant visit.
W. S. James and family have bid
Foster farewell, and left for Hamil-
ton, NO., their future home.
Frank Swarens has moved onto his
farm that he recently purchased of
w. S. James.
Willie Rowland, after a weeks
visit with relati> es at this place, de-
parted Thursday for a visit with his
mother and sisters at Lawrence, Kan
sas.
In reading the West Star items last
week we noticed an item which reads
thus: "Well, we are still alive after
all this cold weather. l tell you you
don't know what cold weather is un-
till you live in the region Aunt Sallie
does: 1t even froze all of her brass
horns off. This is the coldest winter
we have had in many year." We
regret very much to know that the
recent cold spell had been. so severe
as to dehorn "Aunt Sallie." While
the cold weather has been boon to
the ice men, it surely has been severe
on "Sallie Ann" I
Wednesday Evening Blaze.
Late Wednesday evening the resi- I
dence of Frank and David Williams
was discovered to be on fire, by Her. 8
aid Cobb, a neighbor boy, who gave
he alarm. ::
The men were away from home at
he time. The fire was started from
defective flue and was gaining quite :
start when the south ward fire de- Il
)artment arrived. q
But after playing a stream Of water
IN the flames they were soon exiting d
lished without much damage to the
louse or contents. E
DINAH.
Let us save you money throughout IL
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Eastern Bates.

Frank Smith of near Hudson solo
his place to an Iowa man. He and
his family moved to Butler Saturday
for the present. From there they
contemplate moving to Oklahoma.
Ruby, the l2-year-old daughter Of
Henry Cook, fell Saturday evening
and broke both bones in her arm.
Several delivered fat hogs to But
ler last week.
Frank Craig and wife and Mrs.
Vansant visited Sunday at the home
of Jessie Grimes.
Mrs. Ike Barnett was very sick last
week but is reported better at this
writing. Mr.. Barnett intends to have
a sale in about three months when
they will move to California for the
benefit of Mrs. Barnett's health.
Mrs. John Swagger fell and sprained
her back several days ago. She has
been unable to be up.
w. B. Young moved Monday to
the Jake Doll place where he has
bought the improvements.
Mrs. Mary Wiggins and daughter,
who had been at Pueblo, Colo,
stopped off on their way to their
home in New York to visit Mrs. B.
Rich and two sons, Fred and Frank
Rich. Mrs. Wiggins has been seri-
ously ill for several days.
The ladies of the Missionary Society
of the M. E. church, South, will have
a supper at Spruce Thursday night,
January 25th. They will serve oys-
tiers, pickles, cake and pie. Every
one is cordially invited to attend.
Come young and old. The proceeds
will be used for the benefit of the
church.
Miss Dolores Reece left on the
noon train at Butler Saturday for
Hume where she was the guest of
Miss Lillian Livingston. We think
our tax collector was also a guest
Sunday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Cook enter
tained about so of their friends and
Friday night, january 10,
It being their fifteenth wedding anni-
versary. The evening was spent in
music and social games. When the
proper time arrived the guests were
invited into the dining room where
most excellent supper was spread.
1t a late hour all the guests departed
Or their homes thanking Mr.. and
1rs. Cook for very pleasant even
ng.
w. f. Vansant hauled hogs to But
er Monday
Albert Hubbard purchased new ,,
pring wagon in Butler Saturday. !;
LIBERTY.
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East Lone Oak,

F. L. Blankenbaker is shreddine
fodder for Stokes Bros. and Calvin
Wood this week.
Since the snow is thawing so rapid.
ly the creeks are running and the ma.
jority of the people will be glad as
they will not have to draw water for
their stock.
Mrs G. R. Daniel of lines, Kansas,
is here for a visit with relatives.
They have been in Western Kansas
for some years but moved to their
new home in lines about the first of
December. They are certainly glad
they did not have to spent the winter
in Greeley county as the storms have
been so severe that great many
have nearly frozen to death and some
lost their lives while caring for their
stock. A great many have had to
use all their fence posts and have
torn down their out buildings to use
for fuel
E. E. Eckles and wife spent Sum-
day at the home of T. j. Booth and
family.
G. w. Thomas delivered hogs to
VIM. Hubbard last Monday.
The little son of Elmer Requa has
scarlet fever at this writing, but it is
in mild form.
PUSSY WILLOW.
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will readily recognize the already
famous boars at the head of their
herd. Included in their herd headers
are John Ex 53411; John Hadley
$3.50; King Elk Sd 5089O; King Had
ley 57722; Long John I'd 49898; Mis-
souri, Wonder 55408; King Blain Jr.
and Governor Expansion.
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Real Estate Firm in New Offices.

Canterbury & Travis, the real es-
tate and insurance firm, spent the
first of the week in removing their
furniture and fixtures from their old
rooms in the Farmers Bank building
into their new offices over the Mis-
souri, State Bank. They will occupy
rooms IL and IL.
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will be offered to the public at this
sale, as one of the largest and best
selection of pure bred stock ever pre-
sented to discriminating buyers.
The Baker breeding is rapidly be-
coming well and favorably known to
the hog men throughout the country,
and every lover of pure bred hogs
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JOHNNY.
Along the Miami.

1AAOuS VIC Nld1uls
Miss Mary Martin is recovering
from an attack of chickenpox.
A little boy came to bless the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Fleming, Janu.
ary 18th.
A number of friends surprised Mr..
and Mrs. R. D. Bond, Friday even.
ing. The invitations said keep
num-" They were in rhyme and
the children learned them, so they
said, Bring all the children" No
one told, even over the phone.
There were So present. Refresh
merits were served. A most pleas
ant evening was enjoyed by all pres
ent Mr.. and Mrs. Bond are going
West soon. They have rented their
farm.
j. W. Wheatley was a guest of R.
Piggott Friday night.
Bethel school closed Friday. They
will have a vacation for month.
Miss Myrtle McCann was successful
teacher. We were fortunate to have
the benefit of her teaching.
A party of friends gave Roy Burke
surprise Monday evening of last
week. They gathered at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. Allison and sent for
him. After he came he talked to the
family and some visiting friend for
awhile. Presently about 26 friends
came in, but they were not known to
him for they were masked. Music
and games were indulged in. De-
licious refreshments were served.
Surprises were in order last week.
Wednesday was Mrs. Meinen's birth
day and she was completely surprised
by neighbors and friends. A most
enjoyable time was had, and Mrs.
Meinen will ever remain youthful if
her neighbors will always remember
her as we'll.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clyde Sutton and son
rom Clinton, ILL.,, are visiting j. P.
Sutton and family and other relatives.
Mrs. R. D. Bond served as superin-
endent of the Tygard Sunday school
asst Sunday. Mrs. Bond is an excel
ent leader. There were IS present
md the lesson we'll learned by young
md old.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed. Kennedy of Ad-
ian, were guests at the home of
ohm Allison and family Monday and
tuesday, of last week.
Miss Carrie Wright returned home
rom independence, Sunday. after an
bsence of several months.
Ira Sutton, wife and baby, Mr.. and ,
frs. Wright and baby, Mr.. and Mrs. 6
[erman Hill and baby, Dennis Ball s
nd wife were guests of their parents
lr. and Mrs. Sutton, Sunday.
E. L. Cain, wife and son Arthur r
isited Joe Fleming and family Sum
ay. MIAMI.
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w. A. Baker of Pleasant Gap and
w. z. Baker of Rich Hill, Route s,
have announced their intention of
holding bred SOW sale in this city
>on Saturday, February 8. 1912.
Eighty brood sows and gifts, select
ed with care from their herd of over
400 pure bred Poland China hogs,
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West Star Items.

W WV ~sS~e AS~Aes~@s
Fine weather we are having again.
It is getting more like good old sum.
mer time.
The roads were awfully icy Thurs
day and Friday, but are getting thaw-
ed out again.
We hear Dick Warren intends to
get his engine out again to saw wood.
Frank Daniels and family visited at
the home of Mrs. Liza Frazel Sunday.
Arthur Geneva, Charley Stewart
and Charley Daniels hauled coal from
Pierce's bank last week.
We are sorry to hear of Charley
Doan being so poorly with rheuma-
tism. Hope he will be better soon.
Mrs. Geo. r. Daniels and her two
children of lines, Kans., are here
visiting with relatives.
Rome Daniels lost fine mare last
week.
VIM. Searfus delivered cattle to
market Monday.
Frank Daniels butchered hogs last
week.
Mrs. Visa Cough, Marie and Earn
est Cough, Nellie Thomas, Joe Rog-
ers and Paul Rogers, May McGinnis,
L. G. Thomas and family, Mr.. and
Mrs. James Marstellar and Mrs. Kate
Daniels and two children spent Sum
day at G. w. Daniels.
Gertie Daniels and family, Neff
Frazier and family visited at Neff
Blough's Monday.
We hear the scarlet fever is getting
in the country again. We are sorry
10 hear of this on account of the little
folks.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Rogers, Mr.. and
Mrs. Glen Dewese spent Saturday at
The home of Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Rog-
srs.
Katie Daniels is now visiting with t
sisters and brother at Peru.
Mrs. Maud Estes and children are
visiting in Kansas City. a.
The Medley children visited with
he Searfus children Sunday.
C. M. Thomas is getting along fine.
lie was able to be out to Sunday
chool Sunday.
Mrs. Jeff Morgan is real sick at
his writing.
Geo. Lawrence is not much better
heumatism.
Grandma Marstellar is up again
ceiling young and foxy as you please.
Grandpa Lampkin is still here visit
lg.
There has been quite a lot of COM ]
laint about the telephones not ring
lg good. Guess its on the account
the bad weather and winds.
Mrs. Rogers butchered hogs Mon y
ay.
Mrs. Andrews visited Mrs. Joe
eckmon Monday. !,
Frank Blough returned to his c
ome in Iowa, Monday. o
AI1NT SAIJJE
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Elkhart.

A. Westover sold fine bunch O
calves last week to the Jundy broth
ers.
W. A. Crumley and wife wert
around one day last week visiting
some of the sick.
Miss Flossie Fritts visited with
Mrs. I. Lockridge last week.
j. H. Keeton sold fine lot oI
porkers to Norwood one day last
week.
A. Westover's baby has the whoop.
ing cough.
Mrs. Lockridge spent last Saturday
at Mrs. E Heavlin's.
Miss Hazel Dubes attended Sunday
School and preaching at Mt. Vernon
school house last Sunday. She re-
ports good time.
The literaries are all running in full
blast and al! report having good
time.
The Royal Neighbors met at Elk
hart last Saturday. 3.
The Deacon, w. D. Fritts, lost a
valuable mare one day last week.
There was quite crowd at Elkhart
Saturday and politics was talked from
start to finish and if the ears of the
candidates for sheriff didn't burn we
don't know the reason.
We see that Folk and Clark have
agreed to leave it to the convention
to be held at Joplin on the Goth, who
will be the nominee for president and
they agree to abide by the decision of
that convention. s.
Ed Bailey was a county seat visitor
Saturday.
The dance at John Hedgers was
pulled off in good style Saturday
night. They all report good time.
Emmett Wymer is going to farm
for Mrs. S. T. Brown this summer.
He is all o. X.
Joe Raybourn and George Allen
say they are for Folk. We believe.
that the boys are on the wrong trail.
Col. Lockridge got his wrist knocKsI
ed out of place one day last week
while milking. We think the COW
Kicked him over. John Foster was
,alled on and he fixed him all right.
John Stephens baby is reported
quite poorly with whooping cough.
j. E. Dubes returned from Colo
ado one day last week. He reports
ONE cold weather out there and
'lenty of snow.
Will and Earl Dubes are getting ;
oal out of the Dubes bank.
The writer and his wife spent Sat
rday evening at the home of j. E.
)ubes. We had pleasant visit.
Mrs. Maggie Kershner visited at
ohm Stephens Sunday evening.
John Messick, the Elkhart mer- &
hant, had quite sick spell Friday
light. \
Miss Hook reports that her school !
doing all right. Considering the a
Did weather the attendance is very \
ood.
Mrs. Inez Weaver returned to her '
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home at Knoxville, Iowa last Thurs
day.
We are glad to report that R. B.
Huddleson is able to be around again.
Mrs. Sarah Adams of Charlotte
township visited at w. H. Keeton's S
last Sunday.
JOHNNY
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Mulberry and Western Bates.

Mr.. and Mrs. John Dykman, Mr..
l and Mrs. Henry Dykman and son,
George, visited at the r. Bohlken
home Wednesday and helped with
the hog butchering.
Wednesday was hog killing time
at j. H. Leiners and Messrs. George
B. Bohlken and Ecke Taute helped
D. II. get the next summers "speck"
dressed.
Cecil Phibbs who has been visiting
relatives left Tuesday for his home
at Denver, Col.
Messrs. W. A. Walden and F. A.
Gabby made a business trip to the
county seat Saturday. Mr.. and Mrs.
Will Bragg of Sigournia, Iowa, who
are visiting at the Gabby home ac-
companied them to see what our
county seat looked like.
Zinn Brothers finished up the saw
ing at the DR.. Sageser farm and start
ed out through the snow drifts for
their next set on the Forbes farm
Thursday.
Homer township board had cal
meeting Saturday in Amoret. All
members were present. The bach
elor clerk was very anxious to get
home early as he said his ma was ex-
pecting him home before dark, but
the other members expect it was one
of Bates county's school mans that
was expecting him.
D. w. Beall and son, Ora, left Sat-
urday morning for Sigournia, Iowa,
on business trip.
Fritz, the jolly good natured thrash
er and saw mill man, expects to start
his saw buzzing on the A. w. Towers
farm at an early date. If you are go
ing to get that saving done, get your
logs in at once.
Misses Jessie Coffin and Etha Word
of Amoret were guests of Eloa and
Grace Beall Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. Bohlken spent
Sunday at the Frank Bohlken home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Ewbank and
daughters, Stella and Hazel, visited
at the Rambler home Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. H. Leiner visited
at Ecke Taute's home Sunday.
George Porter of the Crook neigh
borhood visited with Grover Moore
A. B. Mech of Amsterdam was
caller at the James Hayse home Mon
day.
Col. C.. f. Robbins of Butler was
caller at our place Monday morning.
He was on his way to VIM. Laws over
in Kansas, where he had sale. Ev-
sold exceptionally we'll.
A. j. Scrivner of Amoret was
business caller at our office Monday
evening.
Rev. and Mrs. T. Maschoff are en-
tertaining a bright young man that
called at their home early Monday
morning, having just arrived on the
'tork route. His little sister, Miss
Esther, will have something to keep
Ter out OF mischief by helping shake
he baby buggy.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. j. Bard and
laughter, Miss May, were guests at
he Harry Clark home across the state
inc Monday.
Ira Beall and family visited at the
v. A. Downey home Saturday even
ng.
Miss Hazel Caldwell visited with
larry Knox in the Hot Water neigh
orhOOd.
We were sorry to learn of the death
Hazel, the little three year old
aughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Robert
lkins, who died Sunday morning
fter short Illness Funeral services
ere held at the Amoret Presbyterian
nurch Monday afternoon and inter-
tent made in the State Line cemetery.
Henry Dykman and family visited
the John Dykman home Monday.
Nels Altman left Monday for Rich
i'll and Butler to meet his old friends
I'd remind them that he was in the
I'D for sheriff. RAMBLER.
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Fine weather we are having again.
It is getting more like good old sum-
mer time.
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A. Westover sold a fine bunch of
calves last week to the Jundy broth
erS,
The Hawaiian gazette., 1912-03-12
REBUILDING HANKOW
ON GRAND SCALE

TOXIC, February 15.-Mr. Percy Til
ley, Shanghai architect, has gone to
Hankow to assist in the drafting of
plans for the rebuilding of the burned
district into a modern model city. Since
the political upheaval at Wuchang and
the subsequent burning of the native
city of Hankow, that part of China,
once the commercial center of the in
terror, has been reduced to ruins and
deserted
AS Hankow is not likely to be ex-
posed by renewal of hostilities, the
board of industry of the Wuchang
provisional government, President Sun
Vat Sen and the Chinese merchants of
Hankow, notably Messrs. Chang Chan,
Wu Pay Ling and Sun Wei Chung, have
formulated elaborate plans to trans.
form the deserted city of Hankow into
commercial seat.
A new Bund, with lofty buildings,
wharves, broad roads and other com.
mercial facilities will be the principal
features of the reconstruction.
Despite the suffering brought upon
the people by the destruction of their
bones the promoters of tho reconstrue
tion project consider the burning Of
the city blessing in disguise and com,
pare it to the memorable London con-
iagration which occurred in the seven;
teenth century. They say the new
Hankow will be a model city.
Thirty,four roads win be laid out.
The landowners will contribute ten per
cent. of their acreage for these high
ways and for sites for public buildings
and parks. The land owners have been
instructed to establish their claims to
their respective holdings in the burned
area and new title deeds will be issued.
The Commercial Building Corpora
tion viii float a loan of fifteen million
taels, guaranteed by the Republican
government, ii is said, and this will pro-
vide for the erection of thirty thousand
houses.
Prospective merchants and land
owners viii be permitted 70 use the
funds realized in this way for building
purposes, pledging their land as secur-
iiY for repayment within a prescribed
time.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1912-03-12
BIC SUM STOLEN
FROM MEMBER OF
CALIFORNIA CREW

"Touched" by apparently one of his
own shipmates, seaman on the U. 8.
$. California lost four hundred dollars
last week and the officers of that vessel
are now making every effort to locate
the man responsible.
The news of the theft was suppressed
officially, but announced by one of the
officers Saturday. The local police
know nothing of the matter as the navy
people are handling it themselves con-
fident that the man they are after is
on one Of the vessels of the fleet.
The sailor had four hundred dollars
in twenty-dollar gold pieces and about
eighty dollars in silver in his locker.
The thief must have known it, for he
picked the right locker, springing the
lock off it. He took only the gold, how.
ever. The victim intended to send II
to the subtreasury in the mail the day
following. He was carrying several
hundred dollars on his person in smaller
gold and was about TO put that in the
locker when he discovered the theft.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1912-03-12
A STITCH IN TINE
Honolulu People Should not Neglect
Their Kidneys.

No kidney ailment is unlmportant.
Don't overlook the slightest backache
or urinary irregularity. Nature may
be warning you of approaching dropsy,
or fatal Bright's disease. Kidney lis.
ease is seldom fatal if treated in time,
but neglect paves the way for serious
kidney troubles. Don't neglect lame
or aching back another day. Don't
ignore dizzy spells irregular or dIscolor.
ed urine, headaches, weariness or de.
preston. Begin treating the kidneys
with the reliable, time.tried remedy,
Doan's Backache Kidney Pills. For rs
years, Doan's have been curing sick
kidneys and curing permanently. En-
dorsed by Honolulu people.
b. It. White, Pearl City, Oahu, Ho
nolulu, Hawaii, says: 81 am ninety
two years of age and Suffered from
backache and kidney disease for eight
years l have given Doan Is Backache
Kidney Pills fair trial and have been
SO greatly benefited that / cheerfully
recommend them to other kidney suf-
fcTers.''
Doan's Backache Kidney Pills are
sold by all druggists and storekeepers az
so cents per box (six boxes $2.50) or
will be mailed on receipt of price by
the Hollister Drug Co., Honolulu. whole.
sale agents for the Hawaiian Islands.
Remember the name. Doan's and take
no substitute.