The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1916-10-26
Nyha1t Sunbeanas.

on them. Quite a few people are
wanting to know who Sunny Jim
is-seems he has become a motor
ious character. But until ! find
out what their intentions are /
prefer to be known only as "Sun-
ny jim. safety first-quite so.
Our very efficient Democratic
Committee on social hand grab
bing and vote catching in arrang-
ing places and dates for speakers
left Nyhart out in the cold.
"'Spose' they thought Mayor
Campbell could handle the situa-
ton. Well, by jimminy, if the
Mayor has to make a speech he
can "sho' do it. He may make
the hair curl on the backs of Of
flee seekers for he always says
what he thinks where he thinks it.
N. B.-Send us speaker. 49,.
don't aim to deal in PERSONAL
ties, not much. Nor do I aim to
hurt any ones "feclin s" but if
any one feels offended at the
items which flow so glibly from
my versatile pencil and will come
to me and ask me to apologize.
why, well, I-won't do it, that's
all.
read an article, or rather I
read two articles in a daily paper
which devotes a column Of it's
space to the 'kickers. Some
stunt that. Any way one fellow
signed himself "No Service" and
the other signed Satisfied" from
which | gather that one was sat
isfied he had "no service" and
the other chad no service" and
was satisfied-clear as mud, amt
it.
r. J. Smith, of Butler (Fowlers
meat. peddler) accompanied by his
wife, passed through our village
last week Ell route to Foster, Wor-
land and Amoret, making his reg
ular weekly business visit. They
travelled in their "jitney''. Bob
is some hustler and gets the bust
ness.
A house on the farm of j. S.
Bell, Jr., south Of Nyhart, occu-
pied pied by M. Miller burned to
the ground at one O'Clock a. M,
Thursday. This house stood al
most on the bank of the river, but
as often happens in towns sup
piled with water works, while an
abundance of water was near it
was not possible to reach the fire
with it. Most of the contents
We're lost.
A fellow asked me the other
day if ! thought Mr.. G. Whiskers
Hughes would get any votes i'll
this bailawick-think of it-and
me a Democrat. Well 1 didn't
say anything just looked at
him. and he threw up both hands
and said don't shoot and iii give
you a bill of sale of all my earthly
possessions and promise to leave
the state and not come back. So
L "figger" | made one vote for
Wilson. Er-what?
Hank Sellers big "Meteor'
auto died near Nyhart the other
day. Mayor Campbell was mott
fled and Immediately rushed to
the scene with his "pulmotor-gas-
cline" apparatus and soon had the
big heart Of the engine pounding
along as usual. Hank says a
friend in need, etc.
Prosperity under a Democratic
administration may be purely &C.
cidental. But did anybody ever
hear of such an accident under a
Republican manipulation of ma
tional affairsY
Sam Flanders and family and
Mrs. Flanders brother, Geo. Nc
Daniel of Spokane, Wash, are
visiting at the home Of Mrs.
Flanders parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
J. B. H. Mcdaniel, at Nyhart. Mr..
Flanders left Bates county several
years ago. He likes the west, but
likes to come back to old Missouri
occasionally. l don't blame him
'ither.
One day my wife said to me, 81
notice you sign yourself Sunny
Jim,' why the misnomer9" l
,sked her to explain and she re-
,lied "you aren't always sunny
It home. So I just said to her,
lays I, "Mrs. Sunny jim when
come home l find it all alight
With more sunshine than l could
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