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

body else last Sunday. What
worries me is who will eat din
her with next Sunday. Don't all
ask me at once, my capacity is
limited. I'm not an editor.
I.guess the reason why the stuff
| send in don't go into the waste
basket is because l amt "charg-
in " anything for it and they use
it to fill space that would other
wise be blank. Anything is bet
FER than a blank. Even Jim s
stuff.
Chester Smith of near Virginia
died Oct. 5th after a brief illness.
He leaves a wife and two little
children. Funeral was held at
New Hope church Friday at II
Il, IN. and burial made at Morris
cemetery. Chess was a good
steady boy, good worker and a
kind father. We will miss him.
Gentry Walton and family and
Mr.. and Mrs. Fullbright came out
one day last week to- fish and
hunt. They were jolly company.
Had fishing tackle enough to
catch all the fish between here
and the Mississippi River.
don't know whether I will live
to be nine hundred and sixty-nine
years old or not. Don't care
much if | don't Folks who live
to that age are apt to become af-
flicted with swell head and think
they know it all. But l do know
that the fellow who puts his wor-
ry and troubles behind him and
with smile on his face looks
hopefully to the future will live
a blamed sight longer and happier
than the fellow who carries a
Crouch on both shoulders and a
look on his face that would stop
Il clock "Yessir.'
Uncle Jim Mcdaniel is having
his house newly papered. VIM.
Dunlap l. Son are doing tue work
Like Sunny Jim, Uncle Mack is
awfully proud. and likes to
have his place neat and clean.
John j. Ehart has hauled his
crop of cane to Mr.. Hamilton s
sorghum factory and has promised
U.S. a gallon of the very best
cver--think of it. Pan cakes and
sorghum. Go way trouble, can't
see you.
Things are looking sq.lally"
down on the Rio Grande again.
I'm glad | wasn't raised to be a
soldier ] would rather live for
my country than die for it. Eth?
What makes our nation great !?
Having Woodrow Wilson at the
head of national affairs of course.
In what does greatness of state
consist? Why, in always being a
democratic state like old Missouri.
What makes Bates county great?
Having two of the best and most
generally read county newspapers.
And what makes a county news
paper great? Well, modesty for
bids that speak out loud but
| would say that if Sunny Jim
to either one or both
that would make great paper,
how bout it?
Amy man who drives a car and
whose bosom, | mean the mans
bosom, don't swell with pride for
the farmers who have built such
splendid. roads. That man has
no more bosom than "coal
shovel" i
Successful business men remind
us that to make the people think
we are still engaged in business
we must use some printer ink.
Thanks, no boqucts.
Mayor Campbell and wife and
Mr.. Pyle spent Sunday afternoon
it the lawmakers Bridge on the
river near Foster. 1t was beau
.iful day and Grandpa Pyle says
The trip did him lots of good.
How much pleasure we may give
The old folks if we try.
N. J. Day of near .Nyhart has
lad his brother who lives at Ash
Grove, Mo-. visiting with him the
,ast few days. Mr.. Day reports
slightly more favorable
n Green county than here in
Bates. They had more rain it
'eems than we got here. Mr.. Day
'eturned Tuesday to his home,
caving Nyhart on the 10 :O5 train.
Life is just one good thing after
mother. Think of the pleasure
# dumping coal into your coal
lin and from then on fill the mid.