The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1922-02-16
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Quite a number of Nevada citizen
attended court here last week. Thu
case of the old lake park compan,
of that city had suit against Har,
Moore which was brought here on ;
change of venue. The jury disa
greed. Among the attorneys in a,
tendance were w. NJ Bowker, M
T. January. L. L. Dial, H. M. Poagu'
and Irwin Gordon.
Judge A. A. Whitsett and w. y
Summers, two OF this leading attorn
eys of Jacksonville were in attend
ance last week at the circuit court
Clarence Morris the popular loca
agent of the American Central Life
Insurance company attended ban
quet of the officers of the comptny
at Kansas City Wednesday night
All of the high officials of the COM
pany were present and the affair was
quite an important event as we'll as
being very delightful. We presume
that Clarence wore his full dress SUIT
and looked very dignified and was
probably during the evening taken tor
one of the big men of the company.
We hope he played his part we'll
when it came to the banquet and used
his fork in the right manner and
omitted the use of the knife when
proper and drank his soup in Dig
nified fashion and did not mistake
the finger bowl for a drinking vessel.
A good meeting was held at the
Baptist Church last Friday night to
organize for law enforcement and
clean up the town. The movement
is good one and should be Endorsed
by every good citizen.
Col. Robbins proved himself some
auctioneer at hog sale here sew
eral days ago, when he sold
SIS hogs in IS minutes, av-
eraging a sale of one hog every one
and one half minutes. This is some
record and Col. Robbins is some auc-
tioneer. We doubt if this record has
been equaled by any auctioneer IN
Missouri, Kansas or Oklahoma.
Circuit Court has been in session
for the past ten days and consider.
able business has been transacted
Two OF the busiest officers around
the court house have been Circuit
Clerk {. c. Swarens and Sheriff |.
A. Petty They have been right on
the job and all OF the business OF
their offices have been handled in
highly satisfactory manner.
John Carpenter has brought SUIT
before Judge D. +. Jetcr against J.
W. Dawes for possession OF his farm
located in Section Pleasant Gap
ownship. The suit is brought under
hc a:nlawful detainer act and is set
or hearing next Saturday, Feb. 18th,
I922. DeArmond and Maxey repre-
sent Carpenter as his attorneys.
Our good friend w. p. Sewer wnl
IN next Friday, April 18th, 1922, cer-
'brate the seventy-ninth anniversary
ot his birth. Mr.. Sewer was born in
Jacksonville, Ills, Feb. 18TH, 1913, his
parents having just moved there from
Tennessee. When child he moved |
o Kentucky with his parents and IN
S54 came with his parents 10 Henry
'ounty, Mo. He remained in Henry
-ounty until 1873 when he moved TO
safes county. settling in Summit
ownshlp. Mr.. Sewer sold out few
ears ago and purchased a home in
'utlcr, where he now resides. We
wish Mr.. Sewer many more anniver-
aries and also much health and hap
'iness.
Circuit Court is now in the second
week OF the February term and much
business has been transacted MANY
asses of Importance have been tried
nd many more will be disposed OF
e:ore court adjourns. The Petit
lrors have been on duty nearly every
ay OF the term and are kept pretty
usy. In looking over the personnel
t that body we find that practically
very member that was regularly
rawn reported for duty and only
"o were excused The oldest MEM
er of the panel is Uncle Ben Ireland
I Spruce township and the young
st is Glen Deweese of Summit. The
est looking member on the jury p
. r. Ewing of Mingo with J. M. Nc
iovern of Mt. Pleasant a close Sec
nd. The best known member as
'ell as the most pleasant entertainer
Judge r. B. Campbell of Pleasant
Jap. The most popular member is
Willard Trout of Howard and we be-
eve he has served on every panel
uring the term. The homliest men,
er of the Oane1 &c Dave = Meet ~