The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-08-14
Buy Stetsonc Hats at Black & Sons,
Mrs. J. O Wells left last week for
Kansas City where she spent a few
days with relatives.

Gays with relatives.
]. E. Keller left last week for
Terre Haute, Indiana, where he is
visiting at the home of his son. A. L.
Keller.
This is the season when you need
lightning rods. Hayden Ray has the
best ones. 43-4t
Walter WeMott has accepted a
position with the Choate & Son in
surance agency as solicitor and Oh
flee man.
The Amoret Leader says that the
machinery for the new light plant
has arrived and will be installed inn
mediately.
The Adrian Journal has been COM
PEELED to lengthen its columns in
order to get in all the news OF that
busy little burg.
Misses Mae Dea and Delma Riley.
of Kansas City, came down last
week and made their Butler friends a
visit, of few days.
The copper cable lightning rods as
installed by Hayden Ray have been
in use in this county for the past Il
years and there has never been loss
to building on which they were. 1t
Mr.. and Mrs. J. L. Smith and chill
dren, Arnold and Agnes. have re-
turned from an automobile trip
through Kansas and Colorado.
OF all the tented attractions to
visit Monet this season none will
be more welcomed than Crawford's
Comedians the old reliable show
that will begin weeks engagement
in this city Monday, June 10TH
Monett Journal.-Adv. 44-It*
According to the Rich Hill Review
the old Talmage hotel in that city
will soon be reopened by w. b. Will
liams, the proprietor of the Tavern.
an eating house of that city. Mr..
Williams will move the fixtures Of
the Tavern to the ,Talmage.
The Amsterdam Enterprise has
come to the conclusion that Amstsr-
d 4is rs IN need OF ca1aboosc SO that
the marshal will have a place to put
the Wandering Willies who persist
in going from place to place waiting
for chance to break into a bank or
store.
Wednesday of last week Rublc
Whinnery, accompanied by DR..
Lusk, was taken to Kansas City to "a
hospital for treatment, says the
Amoret Leader, team which he was
driving ran away with him and he
jumped from the wagon suffering in
ternal injuries.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. c. Mehaffey, Of
Pleasant Gap township have named
their little daughter, born July os.
Helen Irene. Grandma w. G. Me-
haffey, who, by the way, it is hard
to believe is grandmother at all.
insists that Helen Irene is the very
finest girl i'll the world.
Prof. l.. S. Wright and family lett
last week for Waleeteka, Oklahoma.
where Prof. Wright has accepted !
position as superintendent of the
public schools of that place. Last
year he taught at Bolton and since
school was out he has been connect
cd with the Choate & Son insurance
agency.
J. F. Paterson and Mrs. Alpha
Russell, both of Roswell, New
Mexico, were united in marriase~:rr
the home of the BRIDES parehts, Mr..
and Mrs. r. w. James, in Rich Hill,
Thursday night of last week, says
the Review. Mrs. Patterson was
Miss Alpha James, who several years
ago was one of Buffers most popu-
lar young ladies.
Waller w. Graves, son of Judge
w. w. Graves, of Jefferson City, has
been appointed deputy probation Of
ficer in tlfe-Kansas City Juvenile
court of. Kansas City to Succeed
Harry Y. Hall, who resigned to ac-
cept a position with the state food
and dairy department. Lieut.. Graves
has recently been relieved from
active duty with the Marines but re-
tains his commission in the Reserves.
Private VIM. J. Burns, a former
Hume boy reported missing in the
battle of the Argonne, has at last
been accounted for. His parents at
Wichita, Kansas, have received a
telegram from the war department
stating that he was killed in action
September 80, 1913 says the Hume
Telephone.
Seven stacks of hay on the -
farm, a few miles west of town, be-
longing to Joe Piggott and Harry
Eiler, were burned Friday afternoon.
There were 81 acres of wheat that it
was thought would yield 20 bushels
to the acre in the stacks. The origin
of the fire is rather mysterious, as, SO
far as known, there was no fire in
the vicinity at the time. The loss is
covered, by insurance.
Edison Snyder was down from
Passaic last week looking after BUSH
ness matters. Mr.. Snyder is cashier
of the Farmers Bank of Passaic
which was opened short time ago,
and says the volume of business be-
ing handled by the bank is remark
able for so young an institution.
Some of the most substantial men of