The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1912-02-22
FOSTER.


Mrs. E. E. Laughlin was passen'
ger to Blue Mound Sunday.
J. H. Mccullough was county
seat visitor Friday and Saturday.
A. G. Metzler came down from
Pleasanton on Sundays train.
Rev. Cockrell preached Sunday al
the Christian church.
The Laughlin-W Waller sale, on the
14th, was we'll attended and every
thing sold we'll. ..
Mrs. w. M. Collins is still quite
poorly at her home in east Foster.
Uncle Charley Briscoe and wife, Of
the independence neighborhood, Wis
tied in Foster Sunday.
We learn that the school at New
Home has closed on account of scar
let fever which prevails in that vicin-
ity.
Ed Doke was an arrival from Kan
sas City Saturday, where he had been
visiting his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. S.
L. Doke. of that place.
We learn that o. j. Shofner has
sold his farm, west of town, to ex-
Sheriff, Joe T. Smith, of Butler.
The infant child of Mr.. and Mrs.
Coyet MULES died Wednesday night
and was buried at the Woodfin ceme-
terry Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Grow, of But
Ter, visited over Sunday with relatives
at this place.
Grover Arbogast and Esq. White
Davis were arrivals from Radley,
Kansas, Saturday on a visit to home
folks. They were accompanied by
their friend, Fredrick Bookman of
Radley.
j. w. Darby was passenger west
on Mondays local for Pittsburg, Kan
sas, to visit E. R. Collins. They at
tended the convention at Joplin Tues
day.
L. P. Shelton left Monday on the
noon train for Joplin, where he was
sent as delegate to the state conven-
ton, which convened Tuesday.
sTm- teacher meeting of Walnut
township will be held in Foster Sat-
urday afternoon, March 9, beginning
at loo o'clock. The following pro-
gram will be rendered.: "How Teach
Reading and Literature in the Gram
mar Grades" Vera McHenry. "Story
Telling in the Grades" Emma Parlier.
Teaching Pupils How to Study"
Una Judy. 'Libraries-Their Use
and Value" George Moore. "Punctu-
ality and Regular Attendance" Ellen
Mullies. 'How Interest Pupils"
Grace Galloway. Importance Of Ag-
riculture in the Grades" Elsie Nc
Kinzie. Course of Study-Use and
Value" Edith Dark. "Games as a
Factor in School Work." Lillian Liv-
ingston. All are most cordially in
vited to be present at this meeting.
A. C. Moreland, Chairman.
The Reading Circle Of Walnut
township will meet at Z S McHea-
rvs Wednesday evening, March 9, at
7:3O. The lesson assigned is chapters
1922.
Leap Year Day Wedding Anniversary.
Mr.. and Mrs. D. H. Arbogast will
celebrate their 32nd wedding ami
on next Thursday, leap year
lay, and they know their friends will
them with postal shower.
They were married at Knob Noster,
No., Feb. %, 1880, by Rev. w. M.
3ewley, pastor of the NJ. E. church,
South, of La Monte, Mo.
They have been blessed with nine
;hildren, seven boys and two girls,
ii living stout and hearty, unless it
5 Fred; the eseldest son, who left them (
n April, 1893, when the war broke s
'ut in Spain, and his whereabouts
re unknown to the family. f
But as thay celebrate their wedding
ay they must look on one vacant $
hair and wonder where is our wan
ering boy today, that is gone. "Will \
e ever return?" Or has he gone r
rom them like the ship that never
eturned.
As they review the past 80 years =
1ey have sailed the matrimonial sea u
ne time seems short. They have
pen MANY relatives m both sides X