The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-07-31

Let us write yor auto collision in
surance. L. w. Keele,
IT Agent U. S. Fidelity & Guaranty.
John Argenbright, who has been
spending the past year in Little
Rock, Arkansas, returned home the
last of the week.
The Rich Hill ball team also lost
a game Sunday. The Nevada team
beat them in an exciting Thinning
contest. But then Rich Hill has been
winning lately and they could afford
to drop one.
Warren Harrison, formerly of this
county, who is now living on his farm
I'm Texas county is spending several
days here with his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. James Harrison. Warren owns
100 acres near Clara, Mo-, and says
that section of the state is ideal for
stock raising and dairy farming.
Miss Goldie Blizzard returned the
last of the week from Colorado,
where she had been enjoying the
mountain breezes. Monday she went
to Kansas City where she is spend
ing couple of weeks purchasing the
fall stock for the Empress Millinery
store, of which she is the proprie-
,tress,
! Several from Butler attended the
big picnic at Rockville Friday. c! L.
Fisk, Ed Hawley and Carl Norfleet
assisted the band in making music
for the occasion. Despite the hot
weather a big time was reported. .but
the attendance was somewhat cut
down by the farmers keeping to the
wheat fields.
4 Dr. and Mrs. Z. G. ley and sons,
Edward and Gordon, and DR.. and
Mrs. ]. T. Hull and daughter, Miss
Gertrude, left Monday for St. Paul
Minnesota. They are making the
trip by motor car and from St
Paul they will make trips to the lakes
in that vicinity. They expect to be
| gone about month.
II Spontaneous combustion caused q
fire in one of the coal bins of the
Peoples Elevator Thursday morning
The fire department was called out
but concluded that the fire would
burn itself out with less loss thar
would have been occasioned by the
turning on of the water and the tear
ing I'D of the coal bin
II Lieutenant Clyde Sells, who ha
spent the past Is months with thu
American army in France, has beer
discharged from the service and ar
rived the last of the week to visi
with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. c. }
Sells. Previous to his entering tn
. army Lieut.. Sells was in business a
Horshoe Bend, Idaho.
Mr.. Wilson, representing Hoove
& Allison, Irvine manufacturers, wa
in the city last week trying to inter
.. est the officers of the Bates Count.
Farmers Clubs in a 1920 Irvine con
tract Hoover. & Allison are anon
the big Irvine manufacturers and thi
year sold Irvine to majority OF tn
{ farasers clubs in the state.
DR.. and Mrs J. S. Newton left las
week for Rochester, Minnesot'
Ewhere he will take post gradual
I work m the Mayo Brothers hospita
Before his return he also expects +
axo to Chicago for further post grad
uate work They were accompanie
las far as Kansas City by Dr. New
Hons sister, Miss Selma Newton.
4 Misses Agnes Walker and Mih,n
Moore entertained about twenty {
their young lady friends at the hon,
of Miss Walker, ON West Pine stree
Thursday evening in honor of Mhsse
Lorise Bastain and Mildred Surge
1,of Independence, and Ruth Burnt.
j of Harrisonville, and Gladys -lohl
' soc, of A1ayfield. Kentucky, who ar
' visiting friends in this city
James Moles ard Miss Ruth Dyke
both of Adrian, were married in )
!. Joseph. Mo-. Thursday, July !. I7tl
t 1910, at = o'clock p. H., by a Meti
lodist minister. The groom Eecentl
returned from verseas service and
new working for an undertaking fir
in St. Joe. The bride is daughtt
= of Mr.. and Mrs r.. B. Dykes {
: Grand River township-Adria
Journal.
81 For some time the folks over
the ..Montrose neighborhood hav
been taking the automobile parts tina
they picked up on the road to tn
: Tidings office to be kept until calle
= for. Finally the editor got to look
r ing them over and wishing that som
one would bring the few more part
| necessary to have a complete Cal
But nothing of the kind happene
and he announces that he could nc
stand the pressure any longer an
has bought himself q tin Elizabeth
land a lot of troubles
A. c. Alexander and {. f. Hens
ley, former Bates county boys. bu
now in the grain business at Grea
Falls, Montana, arrived last vice.
with a car load of horses and colt
, which they will offer for sale at pub
lie auction at the Brown feed yar'
lne$t Saturday. Mi. Alexander wa
raised in the Johnstown neighbor
hood and. Mr.. Hensley was from
Amoret. They have prospered in thu
grain business in Montana until thu!