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fOL. XIX
BUTLER, MISSOURI, THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 1(3,1897.
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Missouri
OF BUTLER, MO.
Announces to the public, that its deposits are lrge, whilj
tie demand of borrowers is light. Result, a large auouut
of idle money.
Persona -wishing to e til notes or to bDirow money, are in
vited to call. Tbia Bank loans money, receives deposit.-, an. I
doea a general banking business. With large experience
and anpla Capital, it solicits the business of thq general
rublic
R JENKINS, Wm. E. WALTON,
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Cashier.
Virginia Items.
Kiadfrlentls if yon wish the Virginia newi
another year,
00 for Aaron what he does Tor yon, tell him all
the new i you hear.
The Tin is t-oes to friends In other states that
et op 'till eleven.
To read what happens yon and what other folks
do lnlS7.
Lost A letter Tuesday, Aus 31,
addressed to Mr Motesworth, Hills
dale, Iowa. Tinder please leave at
P O and oblige Mrs Coulter.
C W Wolfe and grandson, Walter
Wolfe, were in Linn county, Kansas,
Wednesday of last week on business.
- Mr Kinuey went to K C the first of
last week to see nis uaugnter, Mrs
Buxton, who is lying very low with
consumption. Mrs Jap Pierce left
Sunday to be by her bed side.
Mrs James Cuzick has ordered the
booming Times sent to her daughter,
Miss Mattie, who is attending school
at Warrensburg.
Morton Jenkins, who was on the
- sick list a few days last week, is able
lo ue at wurit nuiu.
Carr Dudley stepped on a nail one
day last week, making a bad wound.
Ilia foot is very painful and acts like
blood poison had set in. lie is con
lined to his bed most of the time.
Mrs V T Pyle and son, Miner, who
have been visiting her father, Wash
ington Park for two weeks, returned
to their home at Carterville, Mo, last
Thursday.
Two weddings last week, U W
Irvia and Miss Emma Cobb; A J
Evans and Miss Martha Johnson.
Dr J J Mitchell s new house was
plastered and painted last week.
John llussey hauled water from
Clark Vermillion's spring to () M
Drytdale's well Monday.
The other day we were in the P ()
at Butler and saw a large portly man
controlling. At Virginia P O how
changed the sight, there is a young
lady 23 years of age, weighs about
180 lbs, dark hair, blue eyes, 4 feet 11
inches high, with quickness and ease
she gets around and says before a
person has time to think "here is
your mail." Miss Icy is very careful
with the mail, but some fear that she
is looking further ahead than staying
in the P O. Why not have all the
post offices controlled by the young
ladies of our country? We say give
them a chance and let them develop
their mental ability to excel their
fathers and brothers.
K P Slade, of near Amsterdam, was
in our city one day last week, talking
to friends.
I The talk is there will be Another
. blacksmith in Virginia soon. He has
rented a house of Luther Judy, three
fourth miles west of town.
Alfred Jackson was working in a
well Saturday and had to betaken
out on account of the bad air, which
; made him sick for a part of the day.
Mrs Milburn Jackson will leave
Wednesday for her home in Denver.
W T 'owan is digging a well.
James Porter, who has been stay
ing with his brother, Cornelius, for
some time, left for Cedar Co Saturday.
He is making his home with his son,
Isaac, near Eldorado.
Report says Thos McF.lrny and Miss
Caswell will be married Wednesday
of this week.
Julius Heck ad on and wife, of the
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DUVALL & PERCIVAL,
BCTLEK.IMO:
xi. twx iio Aarsi
Manev to loan on farms at reduced rates. of
rfwut. Tonr baIm in DiTthln it nn, nrtWut
5- st Joa find them ben when doe. We give
v privilege to pay an? time. Money, ready
Jaomaptpers are tlgart.
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President.
Hill, visited kin folks here Saturday
ami Sunday.
Wallace Roland, of Cass county, is
visiting old friends around Virginia
and wilt take in the wedding this
week.
Steve Cook and wife and Mrs C's
sister, of Ills, visited relatives at
Merwin Saturday and Sunday.
Win Cope went to Clinton to attend
the state campmeetins of the Ad
vents from the 9th to the 20th.
MrAl Burke, who has been visit
ing relatives in J.,alavette i.o, aio,
returned home Saturday,
Last Friday afternoon an enjoyable
luncheon was given at Mrs Charles
Hensley's. Those present were Mes
daines Mary Jackson, Bertha Cope,
Zetta Henderson, Ella Jackson, Lesta
Heckadon, Milburn Jackson and Miss
Clema Jackson.
John Huffman, wife and daughter,
Mattie, and Clema Jackson, left to
attend the G A R reunion at Nevada
Monday.
The suit from Ainoret before Squire
Dudley Monday, Geo Wilson against
R W Endicot," ended with a hung
jury.
J W Park and Geo Thompson went
to K C Tuesday with hogs.
Mrs J J Mitchell, of Peoria, 111, who
has been visiting her father, W D
Orear, for several weeks, returned
home Tuesday.
Little Francis Lorenzo Asher was
born Tuesday August 17th, 18U7, and
departed this life feept 3d, same year.
Funeral services were conducted by
Rev Harper Batemen at the home of
Mrs Alice Lents Saturday: text used.
"And I heard -a voice from heaven
saying unto nie write, Blessed are
the dead which die in the Lord from
henceforth."
We loved this precious little life;
Sorry it was so brief;
But glad he's free from strife,
All sorrow, pain and grief.
We love the Lord who gave,
And kindly takes away;
Who died our souls to save
In heaven's Eternal day.
Eliza C Witherspoox.
Uncle Peter Crook cut his foot with
a corn cutter, making a very painful
wound. AARON.
Passaic items-
Onr lives are like the little vine.
Whoso name's with thought replete.
For It writes onr history with two words,
It is the Bttter-Sweet.
And he who gathers lor the piess
The events of to-dav
Will And tti rale will not dicress.
Hut keep it's wonted way.
In m -Xing with the bitterness
The sweets that can allay.
But sbontd the fates with stern decree
Their dispensations make.
And give the sweetness now to thee,
Tnen I'll the bitter take.
And hope, i-hould mue the tables tnrn,
Good humor you'll not forsake.
The spirit of improvement has taken
hold of liillv Conklm and he is busv
at work on a new houoe. Charles W
Conklin, his father, is helping with a
willing hand and soon we will see an
other permanent improvement added
to the growing viciuitv of 1'assaic,
something like a dozen of new houses
having been built around here in the
last two years. By the way, Win
Crews is putting up a good barn with
the assistance of L nele Le wis Eichler,
"Straws point the way the wind
blows," and this shows Mr Crew's
prosperity.
Ed Boswell who, with a threshin
outfit and crew of hands went out in
western Kansas a few weeks ago to
find employment, is expected home
next week. Mr Craig, who also took
a similar outfit to Oklahoma, is .not
expected home for some time and is
reported doing well.
Robt Settles and wife, of Kansas
Citv, are out on a visit to his sister,
Mrs Doc Jenkins, and family, who
live a short distance northeast of
here.
Mrs Walter Mosier left on the noon
train to join her husband at Larned,
Kan, where they expect to make
their future home. We wish them
success in the land of the golden
grain.
Uncle Dick Wilcox is now in the
toils of "batching it," his wife and
two pretty little daughters having
gone on a montu s visit to mends in
Portsmouth. Ohio.
We wonder if there is such a thing
as the Witness-Jury-Fee-Shaving
Commission Co m Butler, borne
things have happened of late to make
one suspect That some long-chinned
gent was trying to gain alivlihood in
that way, and we fear that the proud
boast or grand old Hates, that
she harbors no political bosses within
her borders, will be of naught unless
souietmng is done to stop this
poleon ot nnance.
The Christian brethren are engag
cd in a two-weeks protracted meeting
here. Revs Ishuael and Bush are
dispensing the Word to large, intelli
gent and appreciative audiences, and
we truly hope that some life may be
made better and the contact of social
intercourse may be sueh that all may
bhare in an elevated spiiit, to the end
that we may the more love our
neighbors.
J W Packer, who owns and con
ducts one of the largest general mer
chandise stores here, is entertaining
his mother, Mrs Mary E Packer, of
Illinois.
A new baby girl is announced at
the lniine of Allen Kennedy.
tiny, don't it look like there was
something decayed in Copenhagen
for h ciri.ei), who is summoned by the
.iM,i-r ullirrers to serve as a juror in a
jusi i. -'.-. c.iiuf iu Butler, to be suni
muri! eien.-ed because he was not a
reHir-iit ot 21 1 J'leasant townnp,
ana in tiie same trial taue anotner
iti.n lroui the same township as
he former and let him try the case?
Although it has been over 200 years
ince Samuel Johnson wrote "Rasse-
as, one or tiie most toucmng events
of liis life, a task undertaken to de
fray the expenses of his mother's
uneral, I saw the Orst copy of it this
morning, having received it through
the mail.
We were surprised to find so many
people around 1'assaic taking the
J imks, ou ve only to shake the
brush and the Times readers shell
out en masse.
Most all of the cattle are being sold,
it being impossible to keep them
without water.
Miss Elva Church took in the horse
show in Kansas City.
les sir, said Ben Walls, 1 had a
glo-rve-us time in Kansas City. I saw
a great many old acquaintances that
never saw before and all in all, 1
don't mind the money I spent. S.
Elkhart Items.
Rev Bennett, of Liberty, Mo., is
holding a protraced meeting at Lone
Star school house.
A large crowd attended the bap
tizing at Vinton Sunday.
The Elkhart boys played ball at
Fairview Saturday; the score was 21
to 4 in favor of Fairview.
Frank and Ed Wyatt and Oakley
Johnson have gone to Colorado on a
hunting expedition.
Mrs Wilkinson and daughter, of
Merwin, spent Sunday visiting rela
tives in our village.
Elmer Lane and family spent Sun
day at Mr Neafus'.
Anyone wanting to buy a "bike
call on Al Wyatt.
John burton has got a wheel.
This neighborhood can boast of
two new bicycles.
Several of our farmers are out of
stock water and are digging wells.
Frank Lee says he is going to
Klondike in the spring.
Will Gifford got his hand badly
cut with a corn knife one day last
week.
Charles McKee and Tom Wilson
are attending school at Warrensburg
this winter.
E A Telford will teach the Lone
Star school this winter.
Threshing is about all done in this
part of the country.
Ballets Flew
HopkinBvilJe, Ky., Sept. 11. Win
Pace quarreled with several persons
at woik on a farm south of this city
this morniDg at a remark made by
Albert Smith, a young farmer, and
seizing a heavy wagen standard.
struck Smith acroes the head with
it, crushing his skull and inflicting
otbtr fatal iujunes.
A wairant wa9 sworn oui for
Pace's arrest later in the day. Meet
ing tne orncers he openea lire on
them and escaped, but he was shot
in several places,, and received eeri
ous if not flital iojurie?.
BucUen's Arnica SaWe
The Best Salve in the world fcr
cuts, bruises. Bores, ulctr?, salt
rheum, fever sorep, tetter, chapped
hands, cliilblains, corns, and all skin
eruptions, and positively cures piles
or no pay required. It is guaran
teed to give perfect satisfaction or
money refunded. Price 25 cents
per box. For sale by H. L. Tucker.
How to Find Out.
Fill a bottle or common glass with
urine and let it stand twenty-four
hours; a sediment or settlingindicates
an unhealthy condition of the kid
neys. When urine stains linen it is
positive evidence of kidney trouble.
Too frequent desire to urinate or pain
in the back, is also convincing proof
that the kidneys and bladder are out
of order.
WHAT TO DO.
There is comfort in the knowledge
so often expressed, that Dr. Kilmer's
Swamp Root, the great kidney rem
edy, fulfills every wish in relieving
pain in the back, kidneys, liver, blad
der and every part of the urinary
passages. It corrects inability to hold
urine and scalding pain in passing it,
or bad effects following use of liquor,
wine or beer, and overcomes that un
pleasant necessity of being compelled
to get up many times during the
night to urinate! The mild and the
extraordinary effect of Swamp Root
is soon realized. It stands the highest
for its wonderful cures of the most
distressing cases. If you need a medi
cine you should have the best. Sold
by druggists, .price fifty cents and one
dollar. Yon may have a sample bottle
and pamphlet both sent free by mail.
Mention Bctlxr Weekly Times and
send your address to Dr. Kilmer fi; Go.,
Binghampton, X. T.
Negro Jno. Long may pay the Death Penalty
Paris, Mo., Sept. 11. Near Stouts -ville,
this csuuty, to-day, John Long,
a Legro, attempted to assault Miss
Conley, a white girl. This is the
first instance of the crime in Monroe
county with its large negro popula
tion. The ngro is cow in j -ail at
Paris. There is the usual cry of
"Hang him."
Cubit is Lost.
London, Sept. 11. The Daily
Chronicle say 6 that it is plain that
Cuba can not be rtCDnquered. If
the Madrid Cabinet is unwilliug to
face the facts and confess that Cuba
is lost, there will by a worse humili
ation for Spiin. President McKinley
will be less than an American or
more than mortal if li9 abstains from
throwing au ultimatum into the
scales.
Did You Ever
Try Electric Bitters as a remedy fcr
your (roubles? If tot, get a bottle
now and get relief. This medicine
has been found to be peculiarly
adapted to the relief and cure of all
Female Complaints, exerting a won
derful direct influence ja giving
strength and tone to the organs If
you have loss of appetite, constipa
tion, heaJache, fainting spells, or
are nervous, sleepless, excitable,
melancbdly or troubled with dizzy
pells, Electric Bitters is the medi
cine you seed. Heilth and strength
are guarantee 1 by its use Fifty
cent3 and SI, at H. L. Tucker's
drug store.
WILLIAM
Gasi Grocery
Have bought two cars of flour to ar
rive in a few days and in order to
clean out our stock and make room,
will sail what we have on bands at
about cost. Now is your time to
get good flour at a cheap price Re
member we handle the JOPLIN
FLOUR which is the finest soft
wheat flour in the state. Don't for
get we are handling a full lina of
pumps, can furnish you with any
kind you want and guarantee to sell
you cheaper than anyone; get our
prices then you will known. We al
so handle the Model Fence machine
which is considered the best made,
at about balf what you can buv it
from anyone else
We want t call your attention
again to our bulk roasted coffee,
pure Mocha and Java at 2oc pound;
have sold thousands of pounds of it
at 35c; pure African Java at 25c lb.,
Crown Blend at 15c lb; pure Rio
12c lb. We know that all the
above coffees are being sold in But
ler at oc pound higher than our
prices. Everybody may have 15c
coffee but not the quality of ours;
try it and you will know. We also
sell the best and purest teas for lees
money than anyone. We carry
nothing but pure teas. Another
thing we ask you to compare the
quality of our epicea with others,
and see the difference; cur doll soap
2 for 6c i3 the best evtr sold in But
ler fcr the money; we handle the
pure Dwight's so3a in bulk, best
mad. "We pride ourselves on the
best quality of goods, we claim we
sail the best quality of goods for
less money than anv firm in Butler
and this with our squire dealing
the people, i what has made us our
large trade. We do our beat to
treat the people right and sell them
good goods, a3 low as we possibly
can, and make everything right that
goes wrosg.
W sell the best Priest End -rat?,
fcr farm wsgona that was ever made,
will fit oa any wagon. Call and let
us show it to you, only 82 35.
We will pay you at all times, the
highest price we possibly can for
your produce, and most of the tiuie,
more thin we can get for it.
-, yours Resp'ct'.,
: WILLIAMS BROS.
Farmers
Bank
CASH CAPITAL
SlaWXS
A GENERAL BASKING BUSINESS
IKANSAOKL).
This bank offers the business
public a reliable permanent conserva
tive and accommodating banking in
stitntion. We solicit yoor business with the
assurance of honorable trestment
and appreciation of yonr patronage.
if we can serve von al any time,
we shall be glad to have yoa call a:td
see ca.
LIBERAL ACCOMMODATIONS
TO CLSTOliEliS.
O. S. THOMPSON, Pres.
K. A. BENNETT, V. Pre.
E. l. KIPP, Cashier.
Under State Supervision.
PORT ARTHUR IN RUINS.
Cyclone and Tidal Wave Play
Havoc on the Gulf
Coast.'
Six Dead at Port Arthur Three-Fourths of
the Town Said to be i
Demolished.
Kansas City Times.
New Orleme, Sept. 13. Port Ar- j
thur, Sabine City aad Winnie have
beeu practically destroyed by a hur
ricine which swept the sea at Sabine !
and passing over the lake demolish
ed Port Arthur. The number of i
dead and wounded is diffisult to as
certain. The te!egraph wires have i
bsen down since Sunday night, but
the meager reports received along
the line of the Soutiitrn Pacific
would indicate the loss of life has
been great and tli9 destruction to
property limited only to the value
of the buildings in the towns which
have been wiped away. The hurri
cane which swept the Texas-Louisiana
coast blew up about 6 o'clock,
and resulted in a tidal wave which
was equally as damaging as the
wind
This was the second tropical cy
clone which had devastated this sec
tion. Oa October 12, 1886, Sabine
City, located at Sabine Pass, was
literally swept from the faca of the
earth by a terrific tropical cyclone,
which resulted ia a tidal wave. The
loss of life in the wave of 1886 was
fully 250 persons, the low, flat lands
of the coast being entirely inun
dated. Sabine City is located at Sabine
Pass, where tli9 goverrment jetties
have been constructed. The huiri
cane swept away the tchoonf rs and
ships which were at anchor. Port
Arthur, located on the Texas coast,
about seven miles around Sabine
lake, is almost a total wreck. The
reports now coming in increasa the
Port Arthur death list.
At present it is utterly impossible
to ascertain the fall extent of tha
damage done at the several towns,
but it is evident that the destruc
tion ha? been extensive One dis
patch states that the people of the
towns named and in their vicinity
who are not now helping the wound
ed or caring for their dead, are
busy seeking homes on the almost
barren prairie.
Dr. Barrow Clough an$ his family
residing at Port Arthur, Which town
is located some fifteen or eighteen
miles from Sabine Pass and the
town of that name, reached Beau
mont today. Dr. Barrow Clough
stated that he and his family wt ra
driven from their home by the vio
lence of the storm and wandered
from plaea to place seeking safety
from the faliiag timbers. Thy
sought the lake front to avoid this
posaitle danger, but the rising wa
ter from Sabine lake soon drove
them from the front and they wrre
prostrated by the wind, and fcr ssr
eral hours lay upon tha ground
fearing to move They fina'ly dreg
ged themselves to the Kansas City,
Pittsbaror and Golf railroad depot
and boarded a train which wa jast
pulling O'J
; Jse'
The doctor Eaid he had not the
slightest idea as to the extent of the
damage. The roof of the b:g SablDe
hotel was blown away, and several
people were severely injarad Short
ly after, hia home was torn to pieces
He says he intends to return to
Port Arthur to assist ia relieving
the Buffering of hia unfortunate
neighbors. The Port Arthur Daily
1
$.W,Wi(),W
4,0ti0.tit
Herald office, with Ub contents, was
wrecked, and the large two story
building property of Albert Wolf
was blown to pieces and two mem
bers of his family killed. The Kan
sas City, Pittsburg & Gulf round
house was blown down, au engine
wrecked, and nine white men em
ployed in the round house are re
ported as beicg dead. In the wreck
of the Sabine hotel several of the
employees are also reported dead.
The train tn route to Sabine Pass
could not get closer than nine miles
on account of the wreojkage. Part
of the relief party guarded the train
and the others went to Sabine Pass
and a man named LeBlauc of Sabine
Pass told them tlis story of the
storm and repoited what casualties
he knew.
He said that in the wreck of the
hotel seveial men were reported
killed, two ladies had their shoulder
broken and several men bad their
legs broken. A Norwegian bark, he
said, bad been lost with all her crew.
The shore is strewn with wreckage
end lumber. W. C. Wylieand some
companions in an oyster sloop were
rescued by the life saving crew.
At Winnie the information was given'
out that all of the houses had been
blown away xcept two, and thirty
three people killed. Those of C. A.
Guy aod Mr. TJpdefrove were the
only houses that stood the tempest.
The party visited a small restaurant
and fruit stand and found that it
bad collapsed and killed three men.
Two dead men and five or six
wounded were found in the round
house. The following is a list of
those known to be dead at Port
Arthur: Frank Albiight, 35; George
Martin, 40; Mary AnBwortb, 13; T.
Mitchell, 40; infant of M- Johnson;
unknown, aged about 40
Up to dUe fourteen fatalities bava
been reported, and it is thought that
by to-mcrrow it wdl be found that
there are twice that number.
Pays Us Annual Visits.
Kansas Clt? Star.
An old mm, tall, lean and lank
his yellowish gray laTr thincei by
years and falling in straggly
locks to his thiulders, ia riding '
through the southern put of the
State on a small white mu'e, putting
up at farm bouses on the way and
"heiling" the eiek and ailing He is
Jacob Tyler, fourth cousin to John--,
Tyler, who supported old William
Henry Harrison ia that remarkable
campaign of wLich "Tippecanoe and
Tyler too" wa the battle cry, and
who became President when William
Henry passed t the great b?yocd a
month aftu his election. He hair
been ridiDg the Ranae little male for
sixteen yeirs and i9 nearly 70 years
old timsfl, Iminc: tffen hern
Kentucky in te '30s and came tc
Johnson eonrtr. Mo. in 1838.
Royal makes the food pare,
wholesome aad delicioa.
fsveir
Absolutely Pure
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