The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1916-05-04
SHORT STORIES
OF Local Interest, Clipped from
Our Exchanges.

a base ball club has been or
ganized at Merwin with J. F. Nc
Gonagle as manager.
The Merwin Sun says that the
mail carriers out of Merwin were
treated to egg showers on Satur-
day before Easter.
ut is an ill wind that blows no.
body good" During the storm
Of last week a bolt of calico was
dropped into the chicken yard OF
q Hume lady.
According to the Sheldon En-
terprise the scourge Of measles.
which that town has been suffer
ing, is subsiding for "sheer lack
Of new material on which to
feed"
Raymond A. Jenkins and Miss
Leila Pearl White were married
at the home of the brides par
cnts, one and a half miles south
of Adrian, Sunday, April %, at 10
"a. M, Rev. Pfost officiating
Adrian journal.
Tuesday night there was an ad-
ded attraction at the big taber-
nacle meeting in Nevada. Just
before the regular services
couple We're united in marriage
before the altar. A woman preach
er performed the ceremony.
A. j. Cash sold a Poland China
hog to Palmer & Lawson Mon
day that weighed 610 pounds and
brought $54.90. Mr.. Palmer says
this is the most he ever paid for
4 single hog and Mr. Cash never
before got so much money for a
hog.--Adrian journal.
Richards district, or CONSOLE
dated District No. 2, voted last
Saturday to issue bonds in the
sum Of $4,000 to build a new
school house. The vote was 1876
for to 81 against, or Is votes more
than the required two-thirds.-
Metz Times.
Sylvan j. Prettyman and Miss
Elsie Faults, prominent young
couple of Mound township were
married in Adrian Sunday after
noon by Rev. j. w. McAtee. The
groom is the son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Jas. Prettyman and is hustler.
The bride is the daughter of Mrs.
Ed Fouts and is an excellent
young ady.-Adrian Journal.
Professor Jos. v. Hanna, the
Merwin high school principal,
whom we have all learned to ad-
nire and esteem, leaves us after
his weeks school. He will first
'eturn to Hume, visit his mother
few days, then depart for Craig
lille, w. Va, and enter the teach
RS training school there.-Mer-
vim Sun.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Lobaugh and
1r. and Mrs. Pete Carter, were
II injured when the automobile
f Mr.. Lobaugh in which they
we're riding struck a high culvert
nd turned over twice. Mrs. Lo-
augh was the most seriously in
ured, her legs being broken and
he bones driven through the flesh
nd into the ground says the Hen
= County Democrat.
An agent of the state public
tilities commission has been in
Varrensburg taking testimony in
case involving thirty cents. A +.
'ealthy stock man refused to pay
charge of thirty cents to a tel
phone company and the matter
as taken before the utilities
oard. The salary and expenses
the agent will doubtless be sew
al times thirty cents but red
Ipe cannot be broken. \
Mrs. Libbie Wood, wife of Rev.
oward Wood. died at the family
,me in Joplin, Tuesday at noon.
he body will be brought to Hume I
rednesday afternoon, and the
neral will be conducted from the
:. e. Church, South, Thursday at
80 o'clock. Interment will be
ade in the family plot at the
ume cemetery. Deceased grew
womanhood in our midst, q
re, sweet Christian character,
ID her death which came in the