The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1917-08-30
SHORT STORIES

SHORT STORIES
OF LEGAL Interest-clipped from Our
Exchanges.
J. Harlan Porter last Thursday re-
ceived a registered o. l. c. gilt from
the Maplegrove Dairy and Stock
Farm at Grandview, Jackson County.
this state.-Amoret Leader.
Twenty years ago wheat sold for
90 cents in Hume, according to the
Telephone and the 90 cents would
buy more than the two dollars and
something that the farmer gets now.
The Recorder says that one of the
attractions at the Montrose fair this
week will be three legged pig. II
hogs get much higher any sort of .
pig will be big attraction in short
time.
Austin. for some reason, perhaps
the high cost of beans, has called oft
their annual Bean Eatin' this
year. The event. which had become
an institution, was extensively ad-
vertised for August 28 to 81.
DR.. Martin and family departed
Tuesday morning in their auto for
Manhattan, Kas., where the family
will remain temporarily. and Mr..
Martin went on to Fl. Riley into
training in rank of First Lieut.. OF
ficers Medical Corps.-Merwin Sun.
DR.. G. c. Bates, OF Appleton City,
has accepted commission as First
Lieutenant, in the medical corps OF
the second regiment and is now on
duty at Nevada. The position was
made vacant by the death of his
brother, DR.. Floyd Bates, of Adrian;
who was killed by lightning at Fl.
Riley about three weeks ago.
Mrs. John Hurdlebrink, for num-
Der of years a resident of Hudson
township, but who has been making
her home with her daughter. Mrs.
A. w. Conrad, in this city for the
past several weeks, died at that place
Monday afternoon. She had been .
sufferer from asthma and compli-
cation OF other diseases. Her condi-
ton was not regarded as being SER
ious until short time before her
death.-Appleton- City Journal.
Chas. Oglesby, representing E. B.
Bruce & Co., of Kansas City. has.
been in Rich Hill and vicinity the
past week buying bottom land
prairie hay for shipment. He reports
purcha sing 100 car loads at an av-
erage price of So to $40 per ton, 50
cars of which he bought of Frank
Strickland east of this city. He also
purchased 400 acres of hay north OF
Adrian, which he estimates will make
r2 car loads.-Rich Hill Review.
w. P. Jones OF Drexel received
$685.. 20 as the rent from "a acres of
his farm near that city this season.
He furnished the seed to sow the
field in wheat for one-half OF the
crop delivered in town. His share
amounted to $865.2o, which was pref
ty good rent for 81 acres OF land.
When you consider that the rest of
the land also has fine crops growing.
it can be readily seen that farm land
in the Drexel section is as valuable az
an Oklahoma oil well.-The Drexel
Star.
The barn on M. v. Ovens home
farm, just north of Adrian, was
struck by lightning during the cleo
trical storm Monday and the build
ing and its contents were burned be-
fore the fire company could get there.
The lightning put all of the phones
out of commission in that immediate
vicinity and it was impossible to get
the alarm turned in for several min
utes. The loss on the building and
contents is about $I.1oo. on which
there was an insurance of $500, max
ing the net loss above the insurance
about $6oo.-Adrian Journal.
]. G. White, of Phoenix, Arizona.
was the guest of his nephew, Prof.
B. E. Parker, last week. Mr.. White
came to Bates county from Illinois
in 1857, and settled in Summit town
ship, east of Butler, where he con-
tinued to reside until 1883, when he
went west, first locating in Oregon,
thence to California and finally
moved to Phoenix, where he has re-
sided for the past twenty-five years.
This is his first visit to Bates coun-
ty since he left and he notes mar
velous change.-Adrian Journal.