The Butler weekly times., 1917-11-29
Suit cases, Black & Sons.

Suit cases, Black & Sons.
Mrs. James Nafus visited her moth
er, Mrs. A. S. Dcller, in Rich Hill
Thursday of last week.
Mrs. J. c. Hayes, Of Kansas City
who had been visiting her sister, Mrs
]. X. Jenkins, returne dhome Satur-
day.
Overshocs, Black g. Sons.
Oscar Claunch has returned to his
home at Lucy, New Mexico, after a
visit in this city at the home of his
brother, Bert Claunch.
J. u. Walton LEFT Monday for Chi.
cago to attend a meeting OF the Board
Of Governors OF the Farm Mortgage
Bankers Association, of which he is
a director.
Keep coming in. We are glad to
see YOU, Black & Sons
Mrs. Finley Porter and daughter,
Minnie Lois, who have been visiting
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. c. c.
Wood, returned to their home in St.
Louis Saturday.
Mrs. Lucille Georner, of St. Jo-
scph arrived Saturday to spend few
days with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
w. =. Sewer, at their home few
miles cast of town.
Get your new suit and overcoat at
Black 4 Sons before the advance
price goes on, Black & Sons.
n. A. Stanton has been transferred
by the Wells Fargo express company
from their Butler office to Auburn,
Nebraska. T.. \. Reid takes the place
made vacant by the transfer OF Mr..
Stanton
Mrs. Fannie Smith and sons, Jess
and Charles Smith, of Lenark, Mon
tana, arrived in the city Thursday of
last week to attend the funeral OF
Mrs. Smiths daughter, Mrs. Troy
Bottoms.
I'D Council, son of H. H. Council,
arrived in the city last week from New
York, where he is sailor on one OF
Uncle Sans war vessels, to spend
few days furlough with his father and
other relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lewellyn Smith, OF
the Republican, Press, we're made glad
last week by the arrival of their son,
Dexter Smith, of the United States
stationed at Jefferson Bar
racks. who spent short furlough
with them.
The Times good friends, Elliot.
nurk and son, Earl Burk, of the Amo-
ret ncighborhood, made this office a
pleasant call while in the city Mon
day. Earl Burk orders the address
OF his paper changed from Louis
burg. Kansas, to Amoret He has
for some time been living in Kansas,
near I.nuisburg, but is glad to get
back to old Bates county again.
Fred Gilbert. who has for the last
lew years been farming IN Oklahoma,
has returned to Bates county. The
first of the week he purchased the
inc farm owned by Otis Andrews, a
lew miles southeast of town, and will
lake possession as soon as Mr.. An
lrcws can find another home. Mr..
,iilbert's old friends will be glad to
Welcome him back to Bates county.
IS cars and their contents, all
marked government property, were
destroyed by fire and traffic on the
City Southern railroad near
Swartz, in Vernon county, blocked
me day last week when terrific cX-
,losion occurred in a car about the
middle of the train on that road, says
he Nevada Mail. The cause of the
explosion is mystery and there are
umors that a time bomb may have
'een placed in one of the cars.
A very pleasant family reunion was
eld at the home of Bert Claunch.
N East Fl. Scott street, Saturday af-
ernoon. A big dinner had been pre-
ared by Mrs. Claunch in honor of
he brothers and sisters Of her hus-
and. Those present were Mrs.
;eoree Argenbright. Altona; Mrs.
Iddie Wilcox. Jerico Springs; Mr.
nd Mrs. Bert Claunch and James
launch Of this city, and Oscar
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