The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1916-10-05
SHORT STORIES
OF Local Interest Clipped From
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Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Kettcrman Of
Montrose, celebrated their golden
wedding anniversary last Wednes'
day.
fhp KANSAS city Southern has
promised Amsterdam a new depot
some time next summer. says the
Enterprise.
Miss Nellie McColley and Mr.,
Edward Wycoff, well known
young people of Appleton City,
were married in Clinton Monday
of last week.
Jim Zortman and wife have
purchased the l.. c. Blake resi-
dence and bakery. They took pos
session last Wednesday. Mr. Fort
man will have public sale soon
and dispose of his stock and farm
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Enter
prise.
P. F. Warner has purchased a
half interest in the Amoret Realty
Company from l.. l.. Carpenter
and after the first of October will
assist in handling the business
Mr.. Carpenter is to be comgratu-
lated on securing so able an as
sistant. Leader.
Judge and Mrs. Wilson Adams
of Adrian, We're married in Iowa,
Sept. q, 1855. says the Adrian
journal, and last Wednesday the
members of the Crescent Hill Aid
Society with well filled baskets,
descended on the Adams home and
helped them celebrate the sixty
first anniversary of their wedding,
James Lanman, aged 81 years.
departed this life at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. r. II. Goodrum. in
New Home township, September
10, 1916. Funeral services were
conducted from the Salem church,
Thursday, by Rev. 0. r. Sides and
intermcnt was made in the Salem
-bttryitfg ground at at 4F,estet-lllttsstttstr
Telephone.
Presiding Elder C. V. Crisis was
painfully injured Saturday even
ing when he left his train. which
was stopped on account Of a
breakdown, just north of Apple |
ton City and proceeded to walk |
to town. In passing over a cattle
guard he fell, badly cutting his
face and hands, says the Appleton
City journal.
The old Washington hand press.
used for years in the office Of the
Montrosc Recorder. was last week
shipped to parties in Louisiana.
The Recorder says that it is still
good enough to wear out half a
dozen printcrs,- which everyone
who has ever used one will know
to be fact.
Grandma Ingersoll, who has
been spending the summer at
Hume with her son. Il. II. Inger-
soil and wife left for her home in
Milwaukee, Thursday. The ladies
of the NJ. f. church gave her
farewell surprise party, Tuesday
afternoon, in token of the high es-
TEEN in which she is held by them.
She was presented handsome
volume, "Heroines of the Bible,
as a memento of the OCCASION
Hume Telephone.
E. w. Darnell, of Salina, Kan
sas, arrived in Adrian last
Wednesday night and on Thurs
day morning drove out to the
home of his uncle, Ellis Hand III
Elkhart township. This was the
first time Uncle Ellis and his
nephew had met in forty eight
years. In 1868 they separated in
Knox county, Illinois. Uncle Ellis
coming to Missouri and Mr.. OAR
nell went to Iowa, later he moved
to Kansas.-Adrian Journal.
Beadles & Adams have sold
their real estate, loan and insur-
ance business to Chas. Coleman.
who will take possession October
l. Mr.. Beadles also sold his resi-
dence property on West Hume
street to Mr.. Coleman. and will
move to Wichita about the first
of November and engage in the
real estate and loan business. Mr..
II. V. Adams, his sOn-in-law, will
be associated with him. NJ. l..
Beadles came to Hume fifteen
years ago and bought an interest
in the real estate business with