The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1916-12-21
sHoRT STORIES
Of Local Interest-Clpped From
Our Exchanges.

The Amsterdam Enterprise is
another paper that put out big
Christmas edition. It is an eight
| page paper with colored cover
! and reflects great credit on the
| editors.
| Mr. and Mrs. Emmett Hook are
| re-. icing over the arrival Of
| l,!!c daughtcr at their home or
| Tuesday, Dec. r. The little ono
/ is named Ruth V La Mae.--RoclS
Vile Booster.
Mrs. Geo. Long marketed IS
pound turkey at Hume, Thurs
day, for which she received $500,
! which is the highest priced tur-
key of the year She sold II
turkeys for $49.60.-Border Tele-
phone. ..-
VIM. Thompson raised a span
of 2-ycar-old Mules and sold them
to Orcn Thompson for $3.50, the
highest priced young mules that
have changed hands in Hume for
some time. They weighed 1880
pounds and brought over IA
cents per pound.-11ume Tele-
phone.
A. n. IIuntsman and family
have left us and will make their
home in Scdalia. Mr. Huntsman
will continue with the railroad
company. Their home address is
SIS East 18th street. Angus has
The best wishes of many friends
herc.--Rockvillc Booster II
Mr. and Mrs. J. j. Emery and
son Roy spent Sunday night with
Mr.. and Mrs. J. r. Mccall and
family. They took the early train
Monday for Harrison. County, this
State, where Mr.. and Mrs. Emery
will spend the winter, their SON
going on to Dubois, Idaho. where
he has a overwhelmingly
Leader.
i !, j. sStorir has sold his lease
and furniture of the Hotel Speir
to W. 7. Young. who took charge =
Of the business last Saturday
morning. Mr.. Speir and family I
left Tuesday morning for Butler
where they expect to reside, all
though he has not decided what
business he will engage III 6
t'rich Herald.
The Montrose Recorder issued
a great big souvenir Christmas
edition. It contained twelve |
pages and colorcd cover, with y
picture on the front page of "
Santa Claus about to descend in tt
to a chimney. The business men b.
of Montrosc show that they know IL
Il good thing when they see it Fl
by patronizing it freely. It is II
well edited and printed.
A number of animals have been =,
reported killed and injured this -
season at the hands Of careless ~.
hunters, the latest coming to our ~
notice was a good COW owned by a. ~.
j. \. Benson, just east of town, ~
which was killed last week. We ~
do not wonder that so many PEG ~
pie are posting their farms ~
against hunters when so many Of ~
them are so reckless as to kill e. e.
stock. --.Appleton City journal. ~
The special election held in st. so
Clair County Tuesday to vote on "a
the railroad compromise was
very quiet affair generally and sci
'esulted in an overwhelming de- tn
Feat of the measure. In Appleton SCI
township there were 1856 votes ISL
EAST and every one of them was to
against the compromise, which pa
indicates that the sentiment in
his part Of the county is unani- Ro
nous against compromise.-Ap an
'leton City journal. wi
George s. App. owner of the is
Grand River FARMS" in Austin a.,
ownship, returned home last FIJI
week from his Montana ranch. n,
LAST Saturday he sold James a rt
Pullman of near Altoona, Mo-, a "
lassy Is months old registered 90,
'horthorn bull. Mr.. App has a mo
oted herd of Shorthorns, con- oa 40,
listing of As cows and number tr,1
f bulls. Mr.. Pulliam is a splen- IN
id young farmer and showed on,
God Judgment in choosing a cr no