The Butler weekly times., 1917-08-09
SHORT STORIES



registration day, july "a.
Hume is to have a Chautauqua
this year August 1926 They have
some good talent on their program.
Geo. Gebhart, who had lived on
farm few miles northeast of Adrian
died Tuesday, July 81, after a brief
illness OF lung trouble, says the
Adrian journal.
The Foster base ball team went
over to Montrose last week expect
ing to have an easy. time defeating
the Montrose team. The score was
II to 7 with Foster on the short end.
| Adrian women did not crowd the
| registration office Saturday to offer
their services in the cause of their
country. The total number of regis
trants was forty-four.-AdSian Jour
nal.
J.R. Ford and daughter, Mrs. Rich
ard Keele, attended the golden we'd
ding OF Mr.. and Mrs B. B. Wist at
Foster last Saturday night. A boun-
tiful supper was served to thirty-one
guests.
Died-Sunday afternoon at 3:I5,
the 2-week-old daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Harve Ferguson, on w. Second
street, where the funeral services
were conducted Monday afternoon
and burial took place at Sharon Gem
| etery.-Merwin Sun.
Joe Palmer and Miss Evelyn
Payne completely surprised their
many friends Sunday morning by 60
ing to Clinton in an automobile
where they were married, says the
IMontrose Recorder They went
from Clinton to Windsor where they
visited several days.
Esther May, the seventeen months
old daughter of Rev. and Mrs. c. A.
Pollock, after several weeks illness
of summer complaint died Saturday
evening, July 2s After a short SER
vice here the remains were taken to
Garnett, Kansas, Sunday for inter-
ment.-Amoret Leader.
O. T. Holland reports a paying
oat crop. He threshed something
like 5000 bushels from So acres. Ten
acres of this made around hundred
bushels per acre. He only sowed a
Ibushel Of seed to the acre and plant
ed clover with it.-Hume Telephone.
Mr.. Rock, of Butler, the contract
or on the bank building, is over here
this week with his men laying the
tile floor in the building. The plas-
tering is finished and it will not be
many weeks before it will be ready
to move into.-Amsterdam Enter
prise.
A new flag. 6xo feet now waves at
the top of the 6o-foot flag pole in the
SQUARE in Montrose. The cash neces-
sary for the purchase of the flag was
easily secured from number OF our
citizens Friday afternoon. 1t is the
duty of the Boy Scouts of Montrose
to raise and lower the flag each
morning and evening. and they are
faithful workers.-Montrose Record
er.
The remains OF Fred Thomas. a
former Hume citizen. killed in a
bridge accident in Kansas City last
Friday, were buried at Paramount
Church, Sunday afternoon, Rev. I'd
l.. Hunt conducting the funeral SER
vice. He was 20 years OF age and
leaves wife and 4-year-old daugh-
ter. While working with construc-
ton gang on bridge at Kansas City,
falling timber struck him, knocking
him from the bridge into the water
He died on the way to the hospital
Hume Telephone.
Floyd f. White, of Butler, and
Miss Vera Verona Daniels. accom-
penied by her mother, Mrs. VIM:
Daniels, sister. Fannie Belle and
brother, Oliver, motored to Fort
Scott, Sunday. where they were unit
ed in marriage at high noon at the
NJ. f. South parsonage. Rev. Jones
officiating. The bride was dressed
in white satin covered in shell lace.
The groom wore blue broadcloth.
The wedding party took dinner at
the Goodlander, returning to the
daniels home east of Hume in the
evening, the happy couple driving on
to Butler, where they took the train
for New York and other Eastern
points to spend their honeymoon.
They expect to be at home to their
friends at Butler in about three
months where Mr.. White is engaged
| in the furniture business. The BRIDE
is one of our best girls, was born
and raised in our midst, and has
many friends. The groom is one OF 7
Buffers leading business men ana
bears a reputation for strict integri-
ty and industry. We wish them a