The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1916-10-19

| Miss Eta Denny spent the HIS
of the week visiting friends il
Adrian.
J. |. Wolfe, of Burlington, Kan
saS. is in the city visiting relatives
and meeting old friends.
Mrs. Joe II. Smith and Mrs. Will
Mills. of Foster, were visiting rel.
ativcs in Butler Tuesday.
Mrs. J. II. Stone is spending
the week at the home of her Son,
DR.. W. II. Stone, at Hiawatha,
Kansas.
Ivan Rccder returned to his
home in Oklahoma City, Okla
honla, Tuesday after ii visit to
relatives in tins city. Mrs. Reed
or will remain for Il longer visit.
Ed Circuit. the accommodating
driver of the Wells Fargo express
wagon in this city is taking va
cation. lie and Mrs. Grout are
visiting relatives in Kansas City.
&. +. Cable went to Kansas Cny
Tuesday to buy goods for his
store. Mrs. Cable accompanied
him as far as Adrian where she
stopped off to visit her sister, Mrs.
Lyon
Toulouse Grrsr--Fine fullblood-
ed Toulouse geese. also some
Rhode island Red pullets, at my
s~placc two miles north of town.
Its Mrs. +. $. Adams,
Phone LBS Il. +. ID. No. +.
Mrs, \. II. Culver, Mrs. Glenn
.llaggard, Mrs. Clarence I}olin ANA
Mrs. c. +. Griffin went up to
Adrian Monday where they at
tended IL district meeting Of the
Daughters Of R"h"kah, l. O. O. f.
lodge.
LEROY Chambers. who has been.
visiting friends and relatives near
Butler fri' the past two weeks,
will return to his home at Glllrtt,
Wyoming, the last of this week.
Mrs. VhumNrrS VIII FNMlaIM fOT a
longer visit.
Fire, lightning and tornadoes
have no rules of warfare, they
come as a thief in the night. You
should prepare to meet them at
any time. Place your insurance
with Choate & Fulbright an old
and reliable agency with sixteen
of the leading old line companies,
having a total capital stock of
over $780, 00,0O0.00. stiff
Joe Ree,ler, who came in last
week from Casper City, Wyoming,
says that a few days before he
left there Ed Blcvins, better
known as "York' blew into that
town. Blrvins told Mr.. Recder
that he had made a couple OF
trips to Europe on cattle boats in
the last year. "York' was a well
known character around Butler
several years ago.
The home of j. NJ. Miller. Of
Nyhart, was entirely destroyed by
fire Thursday morning OF last
week. Some strange noise aWak-
rncd Mr.. Miller about 3 :3O O clock
and he found the entire house m
flames. by the time he reused the
rest Of the family it was too late
to save any Of the household al
tccts. and everything was burned.
The entire family had narrow
escape from being burned to
death. The origin Of the fire is
unknown. There was no insur-
ance.
First Sergeant VIM. Petty, VIII"
has been serving with Company Il
on the Mexican border, returned
home Saturday. Sergeant Petty
said that he stayed as long as
there was any prospect OF real
but that things had
quoted down on the border, so
that there was nothing but camp
duty, which was mighty monot-
onous, so he applied for IA dis
charge which Was granted. He
reports the Butler boys as getting
along fine and making an enviable
record as soldiers, but they arc
all anxious to come home.
About a month ago l.. Classify.
who lives few miles southeast
of town missed one of the hogs
that he was fattening for his win
ter supply of meat. He searched