The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1916-01-20
SHORT STORIES


II The Montrose Recorder say
that The roads are so bad in Her
| ~ county that several rural mai
carriers on routes out. of Uric
were forced to make Their trips o.
| foot one day last week.
| The Henry County Poultry AS
ISOLATION has abandoned its plal
to hold a poultry show in Clintol
this month, on account Of start
ing too late to properly advertis,
it and inability to get State aid
Clinton Democrat.
Since our last issue the Armour
branch house at Clinton has re-
vised it's rabbit directory and now
reports the handling Of 10000
rabbits during holiday week, in.
stead Of $4,000 as reported by us
last week.-Urich Herald.
During the cloudy weather last
week the Appleton City mayor
ordered the Municipal light plant
to turn on the day current. The
consumers found it SO handy that
now it will be hard to make them
| do without it all the time,
i Last week, Elmer Braden sold
q half interest Of his Blacksmith
Shop to Mr.. H, M. Fields, of But
Ter, who took possession the first
Of the week. Mr.. Fields comes
to Amoret, an experienced hand
at the business, having owned
blacksmith shop in Butler for
number of years.-Amoret Lead
er
Lewis Moore has been conduct
! ing a voting contest to determine
the ten best Hume boosters. The
contest has ended and the Tele-
phone publishes the following list
as nine Of the ten: John B. Bry-
ant, M. L. Beadles, w. w. Hof-
sess, Elmer Martin, j. G. Biggs,
Chas. Coleman, Ray Mcconnell,
DR.. A. L. Billings, w. H. Schoe-
ber.e
At the meeting of. the. State
Board of Agriculture at Column
bia last week the sixteen men,
bers, all newly appointed by the |
Governor, drew lots to deter
mine who would take the respec-
tive terms of one, two, three and
four years. M. V. Thralls, of
Urich, was one Of the four who
drew three years term.-Urich
Herald.
Mrs. Jane Barton, mother of w.
G. and L. G. Barton, of near
Adrian, died at the home of her
near Adrian, Sunday
at 500 o'clock, at the
age of rs years 2 months and Is
days. She leaves five children to
mourn her loss. The funeral was
held at the home of her son, L. G..
Barton, at 8 o'clock Tuesday af-
ternoon, burial at Newton Burial
Park.-Adrian journal.
An unusual theft is reported
from Barton county where the
argest cedar tree in the Shady ,
3len cemetery was cut down and )
'emoved during the night of De- ,
'ember 23rd, presumably for use :
IS Christmas tree. Two of Shell y
Ions churches had considerable !;
difficulty in locating a Christmas q
rec last year, but as yet no one
las accused either Of stealing z
heir tree from a cemetery
sheldon Enterprise. =
John Yoss died at his home in I
'rairie City about six o'clock in d
he morning, Monday, January d
9th. He was rs years, 8 months N
nd III days old and his death was u
ne to old age and paralysis. On t!
Wednesday the funeral service tt
as held at the Evangelist Luth-
ran church and the remains were
i'd to rest in the cemetery near
le church. Rev. Heinke preached =
le funeral sermon which was
lard by many heavy hearted Z j:
'latives and friends Of the de- q
'ased. Rockville Booster. y
Word comes to ~ that Mr.. ",
lnderwirth Of the Prairie City pl
heese factory has taken over all )
e stock and that he intends to tn
It in . cold storage and make re
her improvements. The cheese hs
sker now in charge win con- It
lue with the factory. The tn
eese from this factory Il un- tn
the best produced in pc