The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1916-09-07
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Sargent, died at the home Of it,
parents northwest of Appleton
City, Tuesday. The funeral ser.
vice was held at Montrose
Wednesday afternoon and the
body brought to Appleton City
for interment.-Appleton City
journal.
At meeting Of the directors of
the Hume Stock Show and Agri-
cultural Exhibit, Monday, it was
decided to postpone the annual
meeting. until 1917. After a
thorough canvass of the situation
the directors were convinced that
it would be unwise to undertake
to pull off a show this fall on &C.
count of crop conditions. mas
much as the Hume Stock Show
has always proved such big af-
fair, a. small half-hearted exhibit
would be a greater detriment than
to call it off altogether.-Border
Telephone.
j. j. Bloomfield has sold his
residence on Walnut street to G.
E. McNamer, and expects to leave
next week for Great Falls, Mon
tana, where he will locate.-Bor-
der Telephone.
Rev. j. w. McAtee left this
week for Anderson, Mo-, where he
has been employed as pastor of
the Baptist church. Mr.. McAtee
has been pastor of the Adrian
Baptist church for several months
and has proven himself an eff
cient worker.-Adrian Journal.
Ira Witmore informs us that
Mr. Murray has definitely decided
to locate a cheese factory in
Adrian. Mr.. Murray has had this
matter under advisement for sew
eral months but not until last
week were the plans completed.
We understand that he contem-
plates having the plant in opera
tion at an early date.-Adrian
Journal.
G.. w. Fail and family are mov-
ing to Butler this week, Claude
Kinion has rented Mr.. Fails
farm and will move there as soon
as he gets away. Owing to i'll
health Mr.. Fail was forced to re-
tire from active farm work.-Am-
oret Leader.
Albert Braden and wife mo-
tored down from Kansas City
Tuesday morning to spend a few
days with his mother, Mrs. Laura
Braden, his sister, Miss Belle
Braden.-Amoret Leader.
TIE big revival is still going at
Amoret. Up to last Sunday there
lad been nearly 300 conversions.
Rev. DeLaye is a very powerful
preacher and is getting converts
laily. Rev. DeLaye and his sing
r, Mr.. Pfaffenberger, have held
meetings. in Virginia and Foster
Turing the last week. They have I;
eld very successful meetings in {
)rexel and Adrian. i
One night last week man y
vas seen to stealthily approach 9
he Mccall eating house at AM j
ret, remove screen and climb /
I the window. The marshal was i
otified and he rushed to the
Gene and carefully climbed in the u
pened window and caught the .
ad burglar cred handed" who Il
lrned out to be the proprietor, I,
T. Mccall, who said his family +,
ad gone to the revival meeting Y
nd taken the keys to the store "
18th them and wishing to visit the 81
ore he had to climb in the win g.
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A e. A. r. veteran 70 years d
d, was in a motor car which was
rocked, last week, but was only
lightly injured. D. M. Finch of
amsterdam, Mo-, a member of the :,
NTH Kansas Cavalry, was the a."
'teran. He was being driven by +
H. Stipp, real estate dealer,
hen motor car struck the car CT
Twelfth and jefferson streets. az
le pleasure car was badly
ushed. John Drew, negro, who az
owe the truck, was taken to the ~
neteenth Police Station and N
arge of careless driving placed '''
ainst him.-Amsterdam Enter -,