The Butler weekly times., 1917-08-02

w. c. Doane left Saturday night
for Kansas City to buy fixtures and
stock of groceries and general mer-
chandise for a new store which he
will open soon one mile west of Hap
py Hill. He will build new build
ing, put in new fixtures and start
business with a new and up-to-date
stocA !,
Mr.. and Mrs. Win Hickman. of
near Drexel, motored down to Butler
Sunday and made brief visit with
old friends. Mr.. Hickman was for
many years in the furniture and un-
dertaking business in this city, leav-
ing here several years ago for east
ern Kansas, where he has good
farm and is doing well. , ~
Thomas Wainwright, rural route
mail carrier, was taken sick while out
on his route Monday. He stopped at
the house of one of his patrons and
telephoned to the Butler postoffice-
for some one to take his route the
rest of the way. E. Smiser drove
out in his car and completed the route
and Mr.. Wainwright was brought
back to Butler, where he is still con-
fined to his home.
Hot weather is here-Get ready tor
ice boxes. Second Hand Store,
North Main Street.
Wesley Denton, Miss Rachel
Tingle, T. A. Black, Rev. E. X.
Wolfe, W. f. Welton, J. E. Harper,
| c. c. Rhodes. A. H. Culver, w. B.
Catterlin, E. B. Silvers, John Krinn,
and Sam Barr have been appointed
by the president of the Commercial
Club as a committee to solicit new
members of the Red Cross in Butler
and Mt. Pleasant township.
Mrs. Elizabeth Grimes, former
we'll known resident of this county,
died at her home near Vinita, Okla
homa, last week. The body was
brought to this city Thursday and
taken to Bethel cemetery where IN
terment was made. Funeral services
were held at Vinita. She is survived
by son, S. 3. Grimes, Of the Bethel
| neighborhood.
- Coleman Snodgrass, prominent
young farmer of Deepwater township,
was in the city Monday and made
this office a pleasant call. Mr.. Snod-
grass had left home at one o'clock IN
the morning with some cattle that
he was bringing to market and had
to make an early start to get them
here before it got too hot to drive
them.
Local agent Stanton, OF the Wells
Fargo express company, "Wednesday
morning received notice from the
headquarters of his company that the
Bone Dry" law was in effect, and
gave list of the counties in Nilsson
RI in which the delivery OF intoxicat
ing liquors was prohibited. Agents
were instructed to return any liquo
which might be in their charge to tn
senders.
r. D. Radford, OF the Spruce neigh.
lhorhood was in the city Monday ano
of course found time to make TINS
office pleasant cali. He reports IT
as getting pretty dry in that part o'
the country the corn especially be-
ing badly in need of rain. While
| Mr.. Radford is one of the younges'
old men in his part of the country hi
saws that he hardly thinks that HI
j will be drafted for the war in Europe
! r. w. Vail, matchmaker and en-
xraver with Waton Jewery Com
apany, went to Kansas City one da,
/ the last of the week to take an 'ex
Iamination for admission to the sec
aond officers training school to b
held at Fl. Riley as soon as the pres
ent school is finished. Mr. Walls pa
pers will be graded by the regula
Jarmy officers and he will rot know
l4or about two weeks whf1her n
passed wr not.
With the temperature hanging
aroupd the hundred mark and witt
a hot wind blowing the last Few day
Ekave been very hard on the corr
Icuop and unless there is a good rai,
Evafhin the next feU days the crop vii
be very short. In many parts OF tn
county >ssock water is getfmg yer!
lshort and the pastures are beginninl
to dry up but reports from all part
of the county Indicate that the whea
land oats crop is The best the count,
lever produced.
The Evergreen class of the M. E
church. South, spent a very udeassn
Afternoon Thursday of last week a
i'the home of Mrs. C2aas. Hupp, OF
| E.e< e. CcCxt sfreefN-After the reg