The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1917-03-15
SHORT sToR11s
Of Local Interest Clipped from
Our Exchanges. 49,

T. E. Britt,who has lived for
many years on a farm near Rock
vile has rented his farm and NOV
ed to Appleton City says the Ap=
pleton City Journal.
Hazel, the S months old child OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Duke, died
at the family home, two miles
west of Adrian, Tuesday morning,
March 6, of pneumonia fever
Adrian journal.
John Spence, a highly respect
ed citizen of Schell City died at
the home of his daughter, Mrs. E.
II. jackson, at Ell Dorado Springs
last week after short illness. He
was Is years of age and had lived
in Schell City about six years.
The Merwin Sun has the follow
ing to say about news handed in
late. We do not care to publish
birth after the child is weaned,
marriage after the honeymoon
is over,or the death of a man
after his widow is married again.
A mass meeting was held in APP
pleton City last week to discuss
plans for drilling deep we'll near
the light plant to secure sup
ply of water. They have been
compelled to haul wafer for some
time to run the plant.
Mrs. Anna Lcepcr of Pleasant
Gap has in operation a 1900 egg in
cubator, says the Hume Telephone.
1t is divided in four sections so
that 300 chicks come off at one
time. That is some old hen. 1t is
enough to discourage all hens and
make them refuse to lay.
Mr.. w. l.. Briscoe, of Foster,
and Miss IIilma Fortsch, of East
Boone township, drove to Adrian
Saturday of last week and were
married . Ret+ty-p@++-M s Court
ney, pastor of the Methodist
church otficiated says the Adrian
journal.
Rcist and Walton sold two hogs
last week that weighed 1410 lbs.
and brought OH the Kansas City
market $174.1O. This is an unusual
weight record, also above the
ordinary cash record. One of the
animals was not so fat and could
easily have been made to weigh
200 pounds more than he did
Adrian journal.
The dredge boat ditch is tenn
porairly hug up" in the mud.
When the start was made to cross
the river the water in the ditch
was turned into the river, which
reduced the depth to such an ex-
tent that the boat could not float.
They have damned the river just
below the crossing point, but the
water is so low that it will take
perhaps a week to catch enough
water to enable the boat to get
out Of the hole.-Urich Herald.
Here is a sure 'nough honest
bean story. When our
friend, w. II. Johnston, Of the
Sprague Fruit Farm went into a
grocery store early last spring and
purchased bushel of navy beans,
paying six cents pound for them,
the wags that infest the regulation
small town, treated it as a joke.
and wanted to know if he was go
ing to live on beah SOUP But he
didn't eat the beans; he planted
them and sold the crop (abont II
bushel) to the town fellers at $500
per bushel. This was sort of rub
bing it i'm on the jokers. What
Hume Telephone.
Merwin is to have a new saw
mill and an ELEVATOR before many
weeks says the Merwin Sun. The
Il large steel structure,
will be erected on the east side
Of the railroad track along the
spur to be laid just south of the
r. j. Hurley lumber yard, and
work will commence on the same
rs soon as winter is over. The
men of the enterprise are II. b.
B, Owen and George Groves. MIR.
Groves moved here form Drexel
TWO week ago and bought half in
.erest in the mill becoming effec-
i've March LIST, and now the two
gentlemen are going to give the
farmers what they need and what
hey have long wished for, and