The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1916-11-02
SHORT STORIES
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Mrs. Edwin s. Teel was calle'
to Kansas City Wednesday nigh
by the illness and death Of he
sister, Mrs. Esther Railey.-Am
sterdam Enterprise.
Several acres of dry pasture OF
the Tracy farm east of towl
burned one day last week, alst
quite bit Of fence. Mr.. Tracy
is unable to explain how the fir,
started.-.Amoret Leader.
Drumeller Bros. shipped live
skunk to Walter Lamb, Princeton
ILL.,. Monday. The skunk industry
is another source of revenue fol
the border country that little is
said about.--Iumc Telephone.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Schubert
and NJ. W. Bradshaw, drove by
auto from Shawnee, Ohio, to
Hume, Il distance of over 900 miles
without Il puncture and did not
even have to stop and fill their
tires with air,-EIume Telephone.
Pearl Vannostrr went to
Creighton Monday where he load
ed two ears with walnut logs for
Dick Weston. Mr.. Weston has
loaded and shipped numerous cars
OF logs from this and other points
near here the past season.-Mont-
rose Recorder.
Schcll City has Just completed
new hitch racks that look like
they might stay for some time to
come says the Schcll City News.
They are built of four inch boiler
tubes set in concrete and filled
with the same. with heavy welded
chain for the hitchins line.
Mrs. Mary Simpson Cling,nan
died at her honr in Cedarville,
illinois, Last -Mnn.iaX- She lacked
but 80 days of being l07 years
old. Mrs, tlingman was Il sister
of the late Grandma Huston. and
an aunt Of Mes;tancs II. l.. Fair
and Z. Il. Tuttlr. OF this city, and
+. I. Huston, of Kansas City
Adrian Journal.
Last Monday evening Lewis
Hartley fell on a board containing
three rusty nails. The nails in
flicted Il painful wound in his !
right knee. DIR. Floyd Bates was
called and gave the necessary |
Treatment and Lewis is getting
along as well as conld be expect
ed, although he has suffered much I
as result of his iniurics.-Adrian
Journal.
Rev. Spencer has been appoint !.
ed to the .Amoret and Amsterdam
Methodist churches for the en-
suing year He viii room ut Am
oret. but expects TO spend an
equal share of his time at Amstcr-
lam. Mrs. Spencer was com
,r!lea by i'll health to return to the
bid HON" in Euy,land. Re-.
Spencer delivered his first sermon
It Amsterdam Sun!ay.-Am>trr-
lam Enterprise.
A force of men and teams are ,
'usy unloading the material for ;
he drcdge boat that is to be used l
II digging the ditch for the pio-
lcer Drainage District and haul
ne same to the place where the
'oat is to be built on Grand
liver near. the month of Cove
'rcrk. There are four ear loads
+ material. which makes some
oh of unloading and transport
ng. We understand that the
oat will work upgrade to the
'cstern limit of the district. then
eturn and work eastward. 1t is
bought the work will require Il
ear. or more. to cosnpletc.-Crich
|erald.
l.. l.. Carpenter and Clyde Hoke
cnt hunting Friday afternoon
fter hagging a few squirrels they
cnt to the river to see if there
ere any ducks in evidence. AZ
II prOwling around for Il short
lille Mr.. Carpenter sighted the
ggest duck he ever saw, accord
& to his statement. He drew
'wn on it and down went Me
nifty Roy got his kill and it
rned out to be a large blue
ane. The bird was the largest
ecimen ever seen around here.
easuring 5 feet and ten inches
ON tip to tip and weighed 6