The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1914-08-27

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Witter of Merwin was held in this
city Thursday afternoon before Judge
B. F. Jeter, and Witter. was bound
over to the circuit court iii the sum
of $500.
Mrs. Chas. Holloway and children
who have been visiting at the home
Of Clarke Wix in Deepwater township
left the first Of the week for their
home in Portland, Ore.
P.J. Jewett Of Summit township
has purchased twelve horsepower
Bull Traction Engine. The machine
weighs about three thousand pounds
and is capable of pulling two fourteen
inch plows.
Hon. Peyton A. Parks, chairman Of
the Sixth District Congressional Com
mittee, was in Butler Monday on pro-
fessional business and made The
Times most pleasant call. Mr.. Parks
is most enthusiastic over the political
outlook this fall. ..-.-
Arlington, the sixteen-year-old son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Walker (colored)
died at the home of his parents in this
city early Tuesday morning after a
two weeks illness. Funeral services,
conducted by Rev. Mccormick, were
held at the African M. E. church
Wednesday and interment made in
Oak Hill cemetery!
Those canned editorial" sent out
by high-tariff journals kept up by
manufacturers and others specially
4 interested warning the American far
mer of the danger from imported
Chinese eggs will be useless. One
ship is carrying $4,000 dozen Ameri-
; can eggs to England now-Republic,
Charles Cough, farmer residing
fifteen miles south of Rich Hill, met
with peculiar accident one day last
week. While helping unload bundles
of wheat from wagon the dust from
the straw caused him to sneeze sc
violently that his right arm was dis
located at the shoulder. Hume Tele'
phone.
Among those who were in from the
Merwin neighborhood attending the
Witter trial were: DR.. j. R. Martin
, Vim. Tucker, w. Rowden, j. E.. Fer
guson, H. Robinson, Clay Payton, c.
Grayson, E. Bryant, c. Jackson, &
Sheppard, B. G. Shelby, M. Stultz
C. Paulk, E. w. Crumley, j. Hayer
t E. Housen.
!, w. T.. Richardson is worried {?
nearing to death over huge jok
|. some one has played on him. On en-
7 tering his hay NOW Friday night HI
/, found it filled with bottom hay. A.
he had not ordered the product, he i:
1 at loss to know who has treated
y him so kindly, and has made an effor
! all day to find the friend. Let tn,
e other fellow worry, Bill.-Rich Hill
Review.
An Oklahoma dispatch says tina
@ since the European war, the farmer!
of that state have moved the furniture
out of their spare bedrooms and art
using them as bins in which to store
3, wheat. Hardly bushel of wheat ha!
been sold since the declaration O
war. The granaries are all full. Tht
farmers are holding their wheat ex
pecting to get 81. so bushel later il
S the season.
What will probably be the las
great sale of government lands will
take place in Oklahoma in November
. A total of 100000 acres, a veritablt
t fempire Of forests and fields, will b.
I sold at the county seats of four Okla
homa counties-Latimer, Pushmata
. ha, lie Flore and McCurtain. Tit
land is what is left OF the Choctaw
timber lands, some "a per cent O
which were sold last year.
The work of moving the Katy de-
t pot is in progress this week, in fac
r the building has been moved from it:
$ old site but it will require severa
! days to get it in place and convenient
for the public as there was much ex
cavating and repairing to be done
An effort was made to induce the
! railroad officials to put up new de-
pot, but they claim they cannot do SC
! at this time. Appleton City Journal.