The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1921-07-14
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/ seat visitors Sunday. a. ss5 81
H Presley Price Of Summit 81 visit
/ ing in illinois this week SS.'s H,
1 Lete Sackett and wife former res-
idents here were Sunday visitors Al
1 the home Of ]. w, Rock and family.
| Y. r. Boone Of pleasant Gap town
ship was county seat visitor the
first of the week sss.s:s
H F. A. Arfman and family attended
the union church services here Sum
day night. s5ss .f t II M 3l
Squirrel. B. H. Mcdaniel Of Ny
hart, is visiting relatives. in North
Missouri and will be absent several
days.
J. w. Alder, cashier Of the Mer-
| win Bank, Was in the city this week
on business. 4a
| Butler and Harrisonville played a
good game Of base ball last Sunday
t and Butler won BY score Of to o.
Mrs. Cena Sturgeon has gone to
Lincoln, Nebraska, where she will
visi. for the summer.
Don Downey Of Pueblo, Colo. and
| Claude Downey of Montana are Wis
iting their father, w. A. Downey, at
| Amoret and will stay for some time.
n Geo. Rogers of the Amoret neigh
borhood lost valuable horse few
days ago and the disease was tenta-
nus.
The residence Of DR.. H. F. Mulkey
was destroyed by fire few nights
ago. The house was owned by FL
mer E. Miller.
G. NJ. Hughes residing on South
Fulton street is very sick. His son
Z. E. Hughes of Pittsburg Kansas,
came in Sunday on visit.
,,I Xefmillion Of Charlotte e., was vas.
Monday visitor and says things are
little dry in his neighborhood. Need
shower.
MIR. and Mrs. Baldwin of Gales
burg, Ill are in. the city visiting MIR.
and Mrs. H. ]. Travis. Mr.. Baldwin
is an uncle of Mrs. Travis.
The combined resources of the
three banks and two trust companies
as rendered by their statement few
. days ago show an aggregate of ST.
&554 ,64o,o oo This is fine statement
: and shows our financial institutions
to be in good shape.
The Loyal Sons had fine meet
ing at the court house last Sunday.
, The Phillathea class OF ladies were
guests and a fine program was enjoy
ed.
J. P. Arnold Post of the American
Legion are making campaign for
: the state bonus bill to be voted on
/ August I'd, 1921. II. Fl. Heck menl-
Der of the state executive committee
is making a campaign i'll the interests
of the measure. We are for it and
believe the boys should have what
they desire.
r. ]. Warren and family and Ivan
Warren and family left this week for
Stafford, Kansas, where they will OPP
crate threshing outfit for the sea-
son. ...
4 A deed of unusual importance was
filed few days ago with Recorder
c. Z. Fortune in which Jules and
julian Masure executed a deed to
Edward Masure for forty acres Of
land mile north of Rich Hill. The
deed was executed June 3rd, in Brus-
SETS, Belgium, where the grzutors re-
sided. The acknowledgment was
made before Edward w. Schiller,
Vice Consul of the United States,
and his seal attached and a consulate
stamp also was attached charging a
fee OF $z.oo for the stamp. 1t was
the first acknowledgment of its kind
ever filed in the office.
/ The union services held last Sum
day night were we'll attended. The
meeting was in the court house yard
and it was the first time that the new
band stand was used. The Choral
Club was present and rendered fine
program. Hon. ]. K. Codding, for
mer warden of the Kansas pcniten-
! tiary was the speaker of the evening
and made splendid address. He
spoke about the, social conditions and
& stated that more young men were in
the prisons now than ever before, He
| attributed this to the lax training Of
their parents at hcme. That the child
was not properly looked after and
that children were growing up in idle
mess. He made several valuable sug-
Egestions and his address was well re-