The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1915-04-29

iety Store.
Rev. w. S. Courtney Of Adrian was
in the city Tuesday.
Aluminium and Guernsey ware at
Hits Variety Store.
Chas. Ewin left Tuesday for south
Missouri on business.
Neckwear, hand bags and other
novelties at Hits Variety Store.
Mrs. William Durrill of Kansas
City is visiting friends in the city.
Miss Dora Sheppard, spent Sunday
in Warrensburg visiting relatives.
Mrs. G. S. Lewis of Merwin was in
the City Tuesday visiting relatives
and shopping.
Ben Ireland and j. R. Radford of
Johnstown were business visitors to
Butler Tuesday.
DR.. J. M. Christy visited his daugh-
ter, Mrs. George Gilkerson, in Kan
sas City Sunday.
Henry Harrison, one of the leading
stockmen of Grand River township,
was in town Tuesday.
E. B. Boron of New Home town.
ship, formerly county surveyor, was
county seat visitor Tuesday.
Roy Long came in off the road
Tuesday on visit to home folks and
of course to take in the carnival.
Mrs. VS.. Montgomery of SPRING
field, NO., who has been visiting her
sister, Mrs. Forrest -Kerrens, re-
turned to her home Tuesday.
Rev. w. j. Snow and Judge w.
T. Cole attended the district confer
ence of the M. E. Church South at
Rich Hill the first of the week.
The lower house of the Florida
legislature Monday rejected a reso-
luton to submit an equal suffrage
amendment to the voters in 1916.
The cabinet of the Epworth League
entertained DR.. Sheridan at a six
o'clock dinner at the home of Artie
Fox on Pine street Tuesday evening.
Hal Travis, of the United Drug
Company, who has been confined to
his room for some days by an attack
of acute indigestion, is much i'm
proved, we are glad to say.
The ladies quartette of the M. E.
Church South, composed of Mrs.
Veaze Price, Mrs. Sam Barr, Mrs.
Frank Ream and Mrs. j. w. Norman
are in Rich Hill attending the district
conference, which is in session at
that place.
Frank White of c Chattanooga, Tenn,
a lion trainer appearing with a circus
at Olive Hill, KY, Monday was killed
by one of the lions. White entered
the cage and was attacked from be-
hind by lion, which paved and
chewed him almost to pieces. The
trainer was decapitated.
Nicholas Bitterman and Albert
Schiltz dashed down a steep hill Mon
day on motorcycle approaching the
Illinois avenue bridge across the Fox
river at Aurora, ILL.,, and ran into
passing Chicago e. Northwestern
passenger train. Both were killed.
Rev. w. T. Sheridan D. D., general
secretary Of the Epworth Leagues of
The United States, delivered an ad-
dress to the Epworth Leaguers at the
Ohio Street M. E. Church Tuesday
evening. DR.. Sheridan is an eloquent
.alker and was listened to with inter-
est by large audience. Quite
4 number of of out of town ministers
and Epworth Leaguers were in at
.endence.
Some time ago H. P. Farris of
Clinton presented the National Prohi-
oition Committee with the Artesian
Park, located in that city, with the ex-
oectation that it would be made the
site of training school for prohibi-
ion workers. AT recent meeting
If committee held in Chicago it was
voted to return the property to Mr..
Farris, as the need of such school is
argely thing of the past.
The school board met Friday night
ind elected Prof. j. o. Henderson
of schools, Prof. w.