The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1916-12-07
SHORT STORIES
Of Local Interest-Clipped From
Our Exchanges.

Amoret has a jcwcler with the
appropriate name of Gold.
Fire of unknown origin caused
$50, 900 damage to four buildings
on the town square at Neosho Sat
urday morning.
j. j. Ridgeway, a prominent cit
izen of the Appleton City neigh
borhood died at his home near
that city Saturday of last week.
4 ('rich man took week to
decide whether to buy a Thanks
giving turkey or to buy Ford.
He finally decided that he could
afford neither,
Dairy cattle are in great de-
mand along the border Nine eat
tie sold at J. f. Footr $ sale. Mon
day. brought an average of over
%75 per head. One. cow was bid
in at SOB. Hume Telephone
The Amsterdam Produce Co.. OF
Amsterdam shipped out, APPS
pounds Of dressed turkeys one
day last week, There were 42S
head in the shipment, says the
Amsterdam Enterprise. Several
turkey dinners in that shipment.
The WINERY Millinery to..-of
Amorct, will open their doors for
business Saturday, Dee. 9. They
are now unpacking and arrang-
ing their goods on their shelves as
fast as they arrive. says the Am
orct Leader.
Miss Faye Miller, who few
weeks ago went to New Orleans
to attend the musical department
Of Tonlane University, returned
home last Thursday, being unable
to endure the damp weather at
This season of the ycar.-urlrh
4t'4-1,, + 4
At Saline County s second an
nual corn show and seed corn
auction held Saturday, one bushcl
of Boone County White corn,
grown by Henry Akcman Of Mi
ami. brought 500. Three hun
bred and Sevrnty-fivc bushels
sold averaged - a blshcl.
G. II. Bryant and son, Edwin,
returned home Friday from Miles
City. Mont, making the trip in
their Ford car and came through
in nice shape They had been out
in the Ohio vicinity and were on
their way back to Butler. where
they are making their homr.-Ap-
plcton City Journal.
With the. issue, Of NOV. 80. the
Adrian journal passed the TWEEN
ty-srvrnth milestone, The Jour
nal is one of the best country
weck!vS in this section of the
state and it is to be hoped that it
will continue to prosper for anoth-
or twenty seven years. and then
some.
George p. kimbcrlin, th" Cass
county boy who is now chief
deputy in the office of William
A. Shelton. United States Mar
shall, at Kansas City, was married
Thursday. November 30, 1916, to
Mrs. Bertha I>argrr Angle, the
widow of the late DR.. John Will
lam Angle, says the Cass county
Democrat.
The machinery for the new
cheese factory at Adrian has ar
rived and is being placed in po-
sition ready for business, accord
ing to the journal. Mr.. Murray
expects to have everything ready
20 open the factory the early part
of December. The building and
machinery are new and the plant
will be thoroughly equipped for
business.
There have been several thou
sand dollars worth Of pccans
shipped from this city the past
few weeks and they are bringing
an exceptional price, 13c per
pound. One day the past week
there were over 100000 worth
Ct pecans Oh the truck at the de-
pot for shipment and the truck
was not overloaded lat that
Schcll City News.
Early Tuesday morning of last
week robbers entered the Amos
Hall store at Amsterdam and stole
over ninety pairs of mems shoes
says the Enterprise. Over ninety