The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1916-08-24
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Prof. E. l.. Lounsbury, who i,
now a teacher in the University
of Oklahoma, at Norman, is here
| on a visit visit with his his father sffft
mother, Mr.. and Mrs. M. j. Louns
bury.-Hume Telephone.
Alf Barnes fell from a scaffold
while building a garage at his
farm home one day last week cut
ting a deep cash in the back of his
head, breaking a rib and severely
straining his back.-Amoret Lead
or.
The George Meters home about
three miles east of town, was de-
stroyed by fire Monday forenoon.
The house and nearly all the con-
tents were lost. The loss on the
house is partially covered by in
surance.-Amsterdam Enterprise
Mrs. C. w. McAninch is having
new building erected on her lot
Just south of the Turner-Penny
store. 1t will be 20x30 and when
completed will be used for her
Millinery store. 1t will be com
pleted in a couple of weeks or 50.
-Amorct Leader.
Despite the hot weather, or per-
haps because Of it, the statistical
expert of the Merwin Sun has tax
en- his pencil and figured that if
the trenches dug by the Allies in
the present war were placed end
to end they would reach around
the world at the equator.
T. II. Barbce returned the lat
ter part OF last week from an over
land trip through North Missouri,
he travelled six hundred miles. Mr..
Barbee says that he found no
place that looked better than
Bates county looks and thinks we
are in better condition so far as
crops are concerned than they are
in most places he V1slTed.-AdriaH
journal.
Charley. the s year old son of
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. McBath, was
taken to a Kansas City hospital
Friday, where it is likely he will
have one of his arms amputated
to forestall blood poisoning. The
little fellow bruised a toe from
which poisoning settled in one of
his arms. Charley is a bright lad,
and it is to be hoped that amputa-
ton may be averted.-1Iume Tele-
phone. -!
c. W. Remington and Miss Min
ME Anderson, both of Hume, were
at Nevada Monday. The
bride graduated from the Hume
High School last spring and is
the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
John Anderson, residing east of
town. The groom is one Of our
hest boys, honest and industrious.
The young couple have the best
wishes of all for a happy married
life.-Tlume Telephone.
The marriage of Flossie Hays
to John p. Miller, took place at
high noon Wednesday, August 9,
at the home Of the brides brother
and sister, Mr.. and Mrs. b. S.
Graham. About fifty guests were
present. Immediately after the
ceremony a delicious luncheon
was served after which Mr.. and
Mrs. Miller left on visit to Kan
sas City and Warrensburg. They
will be at home in Columbia, Mo-,
after September 1.-Urich Herald.
Last Friday freight train set
fire to seventy acre meadow on
R. II. Rush's farm, one mile
south of Adrian, and burned over
the entire field, besides it burned
over mile of hedge fence. The
grass was so dry that all efforts
to check the flames were futile.
The loss to Mr.. Rush was quite
heavy but we understand that the
has adjusted the loss in
! satisfactory manner.-Adrian
Journal.
Mr.. Christy T. Plank, one Of
Cass county's most trusted citi-
zens cashier Of the Comercial
State Bank of East Lynne, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. G. c. Plank, es-
citizens of the Garden
City neighborhood, and brother of
Emery NJ. Plank of Harrisonville,
and Miss Edith Walker, daughter
If Mr.. and Mrs. w. A. Walker of