The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-06-26
Root Branch.

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The Eddy boys sold Jas. E.. Weichh
fine big span Of 3 year old mules
last week.
| Uncle Jno. Hedger has built fine
square topped kitchen to his squsfc
topped house on route S. 81! 4,
Peter Peterson has built shed oA
the south side of his big barn. There
! is room for 20 Holstein cows. re
sure is a Holstein man. His hefd
Il are thoroughbreds. n
The Westover boys with their o.
horsepower gasoline engine pulling
two o-foot binders makes the wheat
fall when they 60 two rounds through
| a wheat field. 1t makes it look like
public road through the wheat field.
Sunny Jim was out the other DAY
showing a man his 100 acre farm on
Fl. Scott street in Butler. Expect he
wanted to borrow a few thousand on
it.
DR.. C. A. Lusk has a new auto.
You ought to just see him 60.
Harvest hands are asking cent 9
minute for their labor and they want
to work ID hours for day.
w. A. Groutsch is the foreman in
the Independent Bakery on the west
side Of the square in Butler. l
Well, we had wind and rain Thsfrs-
day night that flattened the wheat
and oats and it is so heavy can't see
how it can ever straighten up again.
No. indeed.
Harley Wells has put in new flood
gates on Mound Branch and they
are substantial.
w. H. Plunkett on route I says he
has his thresher oiled up and ready
to run.
There are six FRITZ brothers and
each one is running a thresher. It is
fun to see the boys work for big jobs.
Their father has offered them a prize
at the end of the season. They are
all going to try to get it. They are
not going to fight each other.
Farmers, it is high time you were
thinking of fuel to thresh with.
! saw two binders at work on w.
w. Parks ranch Thursday.
Say, Ethel Grimsley, it Is danger
Gus to teach the Enterprise school.
Three girls out of five marry in the
first term. l see by the good Times
that you have that school for Sept.
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The farmers have got added over
the small grain. They have bought
more binders than they can find help
to run them. The wind Thursday
evening flattened the wheat so that
mowers will have to be used to get
it. They will have to go over it
with binders and then take mowers
to get the down wheat. At the price
they are going to get, they are trying
to save it.
JIM. Green and wife and son, L. P.
Green and wife visited w. c. Green,
a son of J. M, Sunday
The rain Sunday morning rained
the Sunday school out at the Black
school house.
l see some of the oats are ripe
enough to cut and the blooms are
falling off of the tame hay.
By the way, l met Thorn Ph2ris
Sunday. He is brother to c. F., on
Mound Branch south of Butler five
miles. He has come to help Charley
take care of his harvest. Tom and
Charley IS years ago ran grocery
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south side of the square. Tom
moved to Clinton in 1901 and since
that time he has been operating a
coal mine. He closed his works until
after harvest as his miners struck on
him for harvest wages. He is mar
ried. The Pharis brothers did fine
business in Butler for many years.
w. H. Plunkett is ready with his |
thresher on first call. He knows
his business.
The wild blackberries are getting
ripe.
A great many of the farmers took
of the sunshine Sunday
and worked in their wheat.
When you want to sell anything
see Pink Ellington. He's stock
buyer.
Be wise and sign for the Butler
Weekly Times.