The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1916-11-09
SHORT STORIES
Of Local Interest-Clipped From
Our Exchanges.

ana MOltfOSe prayed the L4udi
game Of the season Sunday.
Leonard IIcgnaucr, a prominent
citizen of Appleton City, died in
that city Tuesday of last week as
a result Of a stroke of paralysis.
The nine-year-old son Of w. F..
Heyle, banker Of Rockville, died
Thursday, Nov. 2, 1916, from an
attack of quincy. The funeral SER
vices were held at Rockville Fri
day.-Rockvillc Booster.
O. l.. Wright Of Pattonsburg,
was in Appleton City last week
looking over the city with view
to putting in an ice plant, says the
journal. Appleton City has need
ed an ice plant for long time.
William a. Vest died at the
home of his son, j. p. Vest, in
Shawnee townshi p at 2 o'clock
this morning. Funeral services
will be hch from the Mt. Olivet
church Friday morning at 10
o'clock, conducted by Rev. j. 7.
Cowan. Of Warrcnsburg. Adrian
journal.
Grandma Morrison started to
climb through the wire fence be-
tween her home and the Col. Hill
ton home Monday forenoon, as
was her usual habit. and tripped
on wire falling on her left arm
and breaking it just above the
wrist. Merwin Sun.
A Ford car is a handy appara !
tuS to- have about the farm. Sun +
day two cattle on the John Coon
farm in the Underwood neighbour
hood fell into well A rope tied
around the animals and lritched to
the Ford. THROWN 'cr in low
they were yanked out without a
scratch. Hume Telephone. I
The annual banquet for former
Ohioans and near relatives, now
living in the Appleton City neigh
borhood,- will be held at the Dur
ley Hotel, Friday, November 10TH.
according to the Appleton City
journal. \ most cordial invita-,
ton is extended to every native
Ohioan and near relative to at
tend and participation the event.
l.. G. Freeze, who lives on the
&. {. McGcnnis ranch east Of the
city, was here Tuesday with $500
pounds of pecans gathered on this
ranch for shipment to the Kansas
City market. While here he re-
rcivcd Il telegram to the effect
that prcans had advanced in price
from : to II cents per pound
Rich Hill Review.
Uncle Ed Taylor, the livPryman
Of this city, was found in semi
condition in his barn
here late Wednesday evening with
his face and head bruised conSid-
crably. He is also suffering with
one arm Whether he was kicked
by horse; fell from the barn loft
or Just how the accident occurred
is not KNOWN ontrosr Record
Pf.
Joe Duvall was caught under ii /
big rock that fell from the roof
in the lead in which he was work
ing at the Good Brothers mine
Tuesday afternoon. In. trying to
get away from the rock as it came
down, he fell in a low place in
the floor and it was to this that
he owes his life, for though the
rock fell squarely on him this hole
in the floor kept part of the
weight off of him.-Amsterdam
,
Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar Repder, of
Mound township, entertained all |
IF their children and grandchil- t
1ren at their home last Friday ]
night. 1t was the first time they |
had ever enjoyed this privilege :
and the parents were glad of the {
opportunity of being with their ]
Owed ones. Those present were: J
ivan Reeder, Of Oklahoma City; c
Jos. Reeder and children, of Cas- !
Der, Wyoming; Mrs. Howard
Smith and children and Carl
Reeder, of Adrian.-Adrian Jour- {
nal. ]
The Ladies Aid Society of the {
n. f. Church shipped 1880
pounds of old paper to Kansas
City last week for which they re-
.eived $116.4l. They sold to the