The Butler weekly times., 1917-08-23

business trip ana 10 meet OIO
friends. He says that the family is
all well and like their new home in
Kansas City very much.
Misses Judith, Matte and Jennie
Baskerville left Tuesday for Roches,
ter, Minnesota, where the former
will take treatment for the removal
of goitre at he famous Mayo Broth
ers hospital. Miss Jennie will visit
at St. Paul and will be joined later
by her sisters. They expect to be
gone for a -month.-Appleton City
Journal.
]. S. Brown, the Watermelon King,
OF south of town was in the city
Monday and in talking to The Times
man he said that the recent fine rain
that this part Of the country has been
enjoying, are mighty fine for most
of the farm crops but were hard on
melons, which require dry, hot wealth
er to arrive at just the right degree
of sweetness.
Paul Levy of the Sam Levy Mer-
camille Company, returned Sunday
from New York, where he had been
to- buy goods for his firm. He says
that military operations are on the
hum throughout the east, several
New York and Brooklyn regiments
were leaving New York for the train
ing camps while he was there, be-
sides several others that he saw on
trains going and coming.
Capt. w. P. Able, the veteran Mis-
souri, Pacific conductor, is again rum
ming out of Butler. For long time
the Captain has had the run from
Nevada to Pleasant Hill, going north
in the morning and south at night.
When those trains were taken off he
took the run on the Interstate,
where he ran more than twenty
years ago. He is the same smiling,
genial gentleman as of old.
]. P. Arnold arrived in the city
Saturday from Fl. Niagara, New
York. on a brief visit to his grand
mother, Mrs. J. P. Edwards, and 9th
er relatives. Lieut. Arnold has just
finished three months course OF IN
tensive work at the training camp
and was commissioned a first lieu
tenant in the army. Among the
Young men from Butler who have
received commissions none are more
qualified than Lieut.. Arnold, Be-
sides service in Company B, he at
tended the Kemper Military Acad-
emy, at Bonneville, and the Swarth-
more College, near Philadelphia
Pennsylvania. He expects to see ser
vice in France in the near future
where there is no doubt that ne
will make good.
Congressman c. c. Dickinson, OF
the sixth district, spent last week al
his home in Clinton. He has two
lsons, both of whom are members O.
the Clinton company in the Seconi
regiment, one lieutenant and the
other a private, and as the lower
house of congress had all their work
done and were waiting until the SEN
ate finished up with the revenue bill
he took occasion to come home tor
4 visit with them before they were
called away. In Congressman Dick
inson, the Sixth district has a repre-
sentative that takes rank with the
best Of them. He is thoroughly post
| ed on all public questions and ne
knows the needs and wishes OF his
constituents and his votes never need
explaining or apologizing for.
Lieut.. and Mrs James Bellwood
OF Marshall, Missouri, spent Monday
and Tuesday in this city as the guest
of Mrs. Bellwood's aunt, Mrs. A. S
Travis. Mrs. Bellwood, who was
Miss Gegee Flemming, is we'll known
in this city, having made. several Wis
it's here. Lieut.. Bellwood was q
young business man of Marshall and
attended that officers training camp
at Fl. Riley, Kansas, and on receiv-
ing his commission as a lieutenant OF
artillery went back to Marshall and
induced Miss Flemming to advance
the date of their wedding. They
were married Friday and are now en-
joying their honeymoon by taking
an automobile trip to the homes OF
their relatives. Lieutenant Bellwood
has been ordered to report for duty
at Ft Riley August 27th.
Mrs. frankie McCleary and daugh
ter, Francis, returned to their home
in Lawrence, Kansas, Sunday after
a visit here with Mrs. McClearys
mother, Mrs. c. c. Duke.
, The male members of the congrc-
CATION of the M. E. church of this
city some time ago organized So
cial society among themselves and
called it the Brotherhood of the M.
E. church, South. The Rich Hill
folks heard of it and about a month
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