The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1917-09-13

Boys night shirts, Black & Sons.
Mrs. Maude' Reinheimer and son,
Wood, have returned from visit to
Sloan Springs, Arkansas.
| We have good stock of choice
seed wheat and seed rye for sale.
48-2o-3t Butler Roller Mills.
Mrs. J. Harlan Smith has returned
from an extended motor trip with
Mr.. and Mrs. Orville Stansbury.
Claude Edwards, who has been iii
the city for several days visiting his
mother, Mrs. J. P Edwards, left the
first of the week for his home in
Oakland, California.
Arriving daily. new fall suits, shoes,
hats. caps, Black & Sons.
Rev. E. K. Wolfe, of the M. Z.
church, South, left Wednesday for
Neosho to attend the conference of
the Southwest Missouri conference.
Rev. w. J. Snow. of the Epworth
NJ. F. church, South, of Kansas City,
spent Tuesday in this city visiting
with old friends. He was on his way
to the Southwest Missouri confer
ence at Neosho.
Sweater time. We have them i'll
all prices, Black & Sons.
Lieutenant T. w. Duvall, of this
city, who reported last week for duty
at Camp Funston, TT. Riley, Kansas,
has been assigned to the 342nd ma
chine gun battalion. Lieutenants J.
w. and W. Fl. Allen of Jefferson City
were assigned to the depot Brigade.
Work was commenced Tuesday
morning on the new Mcfarland
garage on South Main street. The
building which is to be one story high
is being constructed of concrete and
will be as nearly fire proof as it is
possible to make it. Wilson & Fer
guson are the contractors. MIR. Nc
Farland has purchased the lot inn
mediately south OF the garage from
Lon Ray and will fill it in and use it
for parking space for automobiles.
A suit. to collect subscription, 16
years in arrears, ended last week at
Rock Port in favor of the Atchison
County Mail. Chas. Traup had re-
fuused to pay the S24 overdue on his
paper. declaring he tried repeatedly
to have it stopped. The court de-
cided that he had no right to ask the
discrimination of his paper until all
arrears were paid and granted a |
Judgment against him for the So
on account and for cost of the legal |
action amounting to $roo more
Wright County Republican.
It's your business we want. We
appreciate it, Black & Sons.
The retirement of the Rev. DR.. c.
G. Woods. editor of the St. Louis
Christian Advocate. at the age of 70,
is of state wide interest says the st.
Louis Republic. The retirement OF
DR.. Woods will be regretted by his
many friend in this city. In the early
days he was the presiding elder, OF
the M. E. Church South, of this dis
trict. At that time Butler was in the
Kansas City district. For several
years before he went to the Chris
tian Advocate he was president of
the Scarrett Collegiate Institute, at
Neosho. He is very high in Masonic
circles and has been for many years
The secretary of the Southwest Mis- II
souri conference of the Nee. Church
South. Ii
The usual big crowd of Butler and
Bates county folks went to Nevada
Sunday to visit the soldier boys and !,
/ was a sight we'll worth long trip. !,
There are about ten thousand soldiers
n the camp and they are as fine look
ny body Of men as one could find {
anywhere and every one of them !
SENS to be thoroughly satisfied with
older life and only anxious to get I
nto aetion. Sunday was Company II
81 day for: guard duty and they did I
~ have q much time to spend with !
Ikeir friends q they would like tot
i've had. They don't know how 4
~ they will be in Nevada but e
- about two & weeks. General 3
er Murphy, Of the Misso.ti1 r
1j1rQeA says that Il Nh take4 I
E = .1o.move them 20 n 6ll K
sset - - stasieast r. 6