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i i r loots and Shoes. While green bides have advanced some seven cents higher and leather in consequence, lias advanced in price. We were email enough to anticipate it by making our purchases in plenty of time to enable us to soil at last year's prices. We are still exclusive agents agents fcr Selz, Scbawb & Co "a famous line that have been eel i bo long in this town that such names as ' Smasher," ''Brother Jona thon," "Uncle Sam," "Farm Hand," '-Me-chanic," and "Perfecto," are as familiar as the names of our children and a guarantee of good leather an 3 honest work. , We carry a most excellent line of SCHOOL SHOES, our leader being the "Little Giant' which we assert has no equal as a wear re sister. We show a much stronger line of LADIES' SHOES than heretofore in Lace and Button, light and heavy. Let us save you 25 cents on the next pair you purcsase. 1 The funeral of Miss Mattie Orr, who died cf complication of diseases, at the heme cf her mother io West I Buller. took place Friday. The re mains were taken to Johnstown for ! burial. The deceased was 25 rears of age and Lad been sick along time. Horse thieves are raiding Vein n county again. Saturday three ani mals were stolen from Harman . Weberdaen, of Hartison township. The farmers 8ia excited over the matter and raised $75 iu short order i to run the thieves down. A passenger and freight tram tunning at full spetd undertook to pass each other on the pame track near Edwardaville, Kansas. Monday night aud iu cotstqueuce both en gineers are dead aud the two en gines a total wreck None of the passengers were Lurt. We print on another pane cf tb s paper the apportionment ot stat county and township school money as made by the county clerk. Parties wishing to know the amount of money their dnttist will receive in the distribution can inform them selves by looking over the appor tionment. The coal miners at R:cb Hill and Panama hive received a slight ad vanca from the ccmpany Their demand fcr hisher wage h added 2c to the bu&hel for mining. The ad vance wa4 not as much as they asked, but rather than have trouble was accepted and all hauls are at work. At Warrensburg Monday evening Maud Brockman. a white eirl aged The Times' esteemed lady friend, Mrs. Mary Ison, of Summit town ship, oce of the pioneer mothers of the county, will accept the thanks of the Times for a renewal of her sub sertptioi', and bst wishes for her future good health. Elmer Davis, of Webster City, Iowo, age! 5 vears, takes front rank a-t a bad boy, and is the youngest criminal ever dealt with cfEeiilly in the state He was arrested the ether day for stealing a horse and buggy, a bicycle, a tricycle and a quantity of household goods By request of bU parents, who can do nothing j with him, he was sent to the State Reform School. Line & Adair. Butler's popular dry goods merchant, whodtfy com- p-titon in display of fine goods, the latest acd nit er popular etjl-s. lav. est assortment to select from, and price that are the lowest ever made j in Butler, refresh the memory of the readers of the Times tais week with a half page advertisement calling at tention t their elegant stock cf fall goods jut received. They invite you to call and see them and take a look through. Be 6ure 6nd call and see them when in the city making j our purchases. WE RECOGNIZE NO COMPETITION . . IN . . UNDERWEAR. BuyiDg in great quantities and setting estra trade discounts enables us to offer Men's aud Boys' Underwear at prices never be fore quoted. Y- u can buy a fall heavy ribbed or random shirt or drawers, cut full wide and full loug, for 25j a garment. For 40c we give you a heavy, flVeee lined garment, a heavy white Merino, or 75c buya a suit In 50a goods we've just iivurEi) ourselves. 6 STYLES, 3 colors of deeee lined and 3 colors ribbed. These are beyond doubt the b-et values evr offered at the price, are satin faced, eilk stitched, pearl buttons, and every garment is full long. Bed Wool Underwear at 75c a garment, that can't be matched at anything like the price. Light weight and extra fine woolen underwear at very low prices Remember Underwear has advanced 10 to 20 per cent since we bought. MeKIBBEN'S. The Times' friend. Judge J. town, gave us a substantial farmer L. Porter, of John pleasant and sub stantial call the other day, renewing his subscription and also sending a I copy of the paper to his daughter in the west. The Judge said he was making arrangements and would ljave about the first of the month for a visit to relatives and friends at his old heme, Withville, Vireiuia His brothers and sisters are anxious for him to come, he said, and as it I 11 years, was severely flatbed acroes bad bean 12 years sines he had been Bring In Your Feet . . "1 M.EX3 BuJRorS OUTFITTERS BUTLER WEEKLY TIMES LOCAL ITEMS 4 At t McQovern, Butler, a gcod subscriber, renews. Mrs Pierce Haclett is reported to be critically ill at her home tear Mulberry. G. M. Tve renews and has bis ad- dress changed from Belton to Pow- 11 Springs. Mo. Dell Welton caught the plum. He a good fellow socially, and will make an accommodating postmaster. The 36th annual celebration of the battle at Lexington, Mo , of the Mnt nn nrov tnnlr nlrfl TnesdftV. We know the great cures by Aood's Sareaoarilla are genuine be cause the people themselves write about them. Paul Grote, 17 years of age, son of Prof. Grote, of St. Lonis, hap none crazy from excessive cigarette imoking. 1 Tmrt Mam rt f lonrnav tinVfViPpn iscovered in Welsh county. North Dakota. The victims are Scandina vians. Mrs. Oldbam, one of the Times j - - 1' aiding near Virginia, called and rt wed. J. L. Shaw, has his address chang- & from Aaron to Waukomis, Okla homa lie says n is very wei uown there and everything lcoks green and pretty. The Sunday Republic paid Miss Kate Harper a hansome compliment by publishing her picture, as one of the wealthy and prominent milliners of the Southwest. Lon Kinney, of Virginia, renews hit subscription. Lcn thinks the TniES is the bett paper published in Missouri, and we can see where he is ab:ut right. J. D. 11 wood, of Butler, is a new abacriber to the booming Times. Ha is a member of the real estate firm of Clardy, Elwcod k Co.. clever ociable gentleman and good demo Mitchell Warford, of Ballard, one oi the substantial iarmers and best citizens of eastern part of the county, and a pioneer subscriber to the booming Times, called and renewed. Atthur Trader, a former citizen cf this plac6 now residing at Independ ence, Mo , has the Times sent to his address. Arthur now holds a pesi tion as traveling sa'esman snd he makes a good one. An attempt was made by thieves to enter the residence of Squire Hemstreet, on Ohio street, Friday night. The Ecreens to a back window and door were cut, but the robbers failed to get in the house. Miss Laura Trammel, of Mexico, Mo , who sued Edward Vaughn, of Calloway county, fcr $10,000 for breach of promise, was awarded a the face with am)r in the hands of la demented negro tamed Owens. The little girl was returning from Electric Springs with a bucket of water when the negro jumped from behind a bush and attacked. The phytiaians in Kansas City fear they have case cf yellow fever on their hands in the city hospital in the person of a t year old negro boy, who arrived a few days ego frcrn Memphis, Tenn. The little fellow is quite sick, but the doctors were unable to determine Saturday the nature of Lis disease. J. M. McAnnuity, editor of the Republican at Nevada, has bsen ap pointed postmaster- of that town. He will take charge about the first of the month, as the democratic inoumbent's term expires at that time The people of Nevada, ac cording to the papers, ora pleased with the appointment. Everett Moirilia aod wife, C!ar ence Morrill ana wne ana i-ihk Ellington acd wife left the city when near the east fchool the team became unmanageable, ran away, throwing the occupants out and de molifhinEr the wagon. Dr. Christy informs us that Mrs. Everett Mor rillo was bally hurt, tin otheis escaped with a few bruises Sam 1 Levy v Co., edit one page of the booming Times this week. In the:r line thess gentleman know ex to see tbem he thought b.9 would take a lay-off and spend a couple of months or 60 at the old Virginia homestead There are co better men in Bates couuty than Judge Porter, and the Tiems wights him a pleasant visit and safe return. I ! 0 Sell is We'll make 'em glad. We'll make 'em feel good and easy. We'll make 'em look nice. A Fair Of Our $2.50 Shoes. In pointed, in coin, in broad toe we'll put them into a pair as nice as a 3 yes, even a 4 pair, and charge yen but $2.50 For tbem. Simply because Good Shoes cheap. That's why. we sell Zn Bates County Have seen the day when it was impossible to find a large stock of Boots and Shoes in the county to select from, therefore it was hard to be fit properly. It is very different now, w ha. e many different kinds, styles and makes, at prices that please the old as well as the sew settlers. See our Boots and Shoes. fl ! its iin 1 1 Lnrlinv MAX WEINER. W L. West, a prominent farmer residing on the Isaac Conklin farm five or six miles northwest of town, called Saturday. He was accompan ied by his son, Lawrenc, a youn man 17 yeais of age, who has just recovered sufficiently from a severe Subscnba for the booming Timfs, i 1 00 a year. There seemed to be a regular organize 1 band of thieves and confi dence men following the show. We understated several persons had the short change game practiced on them during the day. Two of the men attempted to work the grocery of McKis9ick on the short change and were arresUd and are now serving a sentence in jail. In the circuit ccurt at Clinton Saturday, Elias Hughep, aged 63 years, and for fifty years a prominent and highly reepect?d farmer of Windsor township, Henry county, and danorproua oneration oerformed nlead ffuiltv to the crime of incest hv l)r and was sentenced to two years in . . . , . . th r.emtentiarv. JUr. iiusnes ior manv vAara haa nlun lippn rirnminpnt Passaic. Mr. West said hi son was h charch aQ(j temperance work in taken sick very suddenly. hie haa judgment of $4,000 by the jury The actly what is wanted to interest the case will be appealed. What anangements, if any, have the school beard made to get the children out cf the basement rooms which were condemned by the board of health, some two or three weeks go? . The Kansas City World last Sun day bad, as a sample cf the beautiful girls in Butler, the pictures of the reader, and if the ladies who buy i dress good, and the men and boys who buy clothing and furnishing goods, peruse carefully what Sam Levy & Co., have to say, they will find a Klondike right here in Butler. Go and see ths immense stock of dry goods, clothing, hats and caps, boots and shoes. A satchel containing a lot of men's following young ladies: Misses Edna clothing was foucd a few days ago Uoane, Uiditn fcvermgnam, &auie ,n n f-amlher's field iust west of u t 3 n . ri l t l ' nuft mm AlliA f!ntvAr. . - - , - Was new. xne grip uau uteu vptrueu The Johnson County Union, pub- an(j part of the contents were lying listed at Warrensburg and the only 0n the ground. From appearances populist paper in the county, has the clothes bad been where found climbed the golden stairs. Since the for several weeks Among the effects November election the populist party wa8 aa envelop postmarked Fuller over in Johnson has gone out of business, hence there was no need of a paper. Joe Meyer, Butler's popular and exclusive clothintr merchant, is ton, Neb . July 12, acd addressed to H. Diers, Uivssef, Neb. The return card on the envelop bore the name of Disrs Bros.. Fu'lertor. The mat ter of the find was placed in the throwing some solid slugs of bar- Ujanijs cf the sheriff for investigation, gams to buyers this week. Mr. migbt taT6 been sto!en aievcr nas ueen ia iue t-ioiuing uusi . - : q - .... . . . from a rassenger on a train ana car ness in this city too long to be out- "omvaoc o , done in quality of goods and low ried to the spot by the thief, who prices. He has one of the largest after going through it left it where stocks thia fall ever placed in hia founi. Or be might have been store room, and he means to give gcared away by someone passing tne puouc 8cm u.g u. u fidd h loot his advertisement and see his new nrouu tu goods. uig ttrOUgU Mi tuufccuw.j his cone to the bara to feed the stock and was seized with a vomiting speli which cantinued until he be gan to throw up the contents of his stomach. Dr. Sun was sent for and on examination pronounced the case either a serious obstruction of the stomach or . looked bowel. He in formed the father that nothing short of an operation would save the life of his son. Dr. Boulware was then called and performed the operation, and to the surprise of the phyeicians when an opening was made into the stomach, instead cf a lecked bowel, a large abscees was found neighborhood. Mr. Arthur Whitaker and Miss Nettie VanCamp were united in marriage the 14th ins t by Rev. S. P. Cayton. The wedding was a quiet affair onlv relatives and a few particular frieoda being pre3ent. The bride ia the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John VanCamp, and until recently was engaged in the millinery business with Miss Kate Harper. She is a most estimable lady and her many friends in this city join in wishiog her a happy wedded life. Mr. and Mr?. Whitaker will make their home in Kansas City. from which a quart or more of ccr- The Times had a pleasant visit ruption was taken out. Again in Saturday from its esteemed friend, three weeks the doctors were called G. D. Arnold. Mr. Arnold formerly to perform a second operation. I lived in Summit township, thia This time they found three distinct county. He owns a fine farm near pockets on the opposite tiie of the Holden. but for the past two years stomach filled with puss They were has been liviDg in Seymour, Indiana, op? ncd and cleacsrd and the voung on account of the health of hia wife. i . man soon began to improve. Mr. He wa back to look after bis farm West was oveijojed at the success- and to visit his daughter and many friends in t" is county. He said times were very hard in Indiana and there are lots of men out of work, knife has to be ued with the great- also when be left it was terrible dry j est of care and sliii. Young West and on account of the long dronth j was looking quite pale and thin but crops of all kinds Lai been cut said the wound had healed up nicely, short. We believe Gid would like and he felt no soreness or iccon- to get back to old Bates and noth- from the severe crdeal in" would please us Deuer man to fal results of tt e operations. The first opeiatior, cutting through the bowels is a dangerous risk and the Hamilton Win. The question as to who will be postmaster at Butler was settled Monday afternoon by the appoint ment of Dell Welton. The applicants for the position were A. O. Weiton, Wm. Page, Mi s. Freeman Davis, T. C. Copeland and O. D. Austin, edi tor of the Record. The fight for the place with the contestants has been quite animated, and for a time it wes thought a big row immi nent in the republican ranks over the matter. The acts of would-be congressman Hamilton, dispenser of patronage for the district was openly criticised by leading republi cans and the information was that the war on his authority to dictate appointments would be carried to Washington and a fight to a finish made before the department. How ever, Mr. Hamilton has got in his work so far as this place and Adrian are concerned and no doubt with the assistance of Col. Kerens, patronage disburser fcr the state, which he has, only anti Filley men need apply. Mr. Austin, who was second in the race, and who has made a bard fight for the office, spent the past week in Washington in his own behalf, bat he has always been a particular friend to Mr. Filley, and oo doubt the endorsement of "de old man" which he bad, induce Col. Kerens to recommend Mr. Welton. Subscribe for th Trass-, $1 a yetr. Awarded Highest Hooors World's Fair, Gold Medal, Midwinter Fair. -DEI; mm CHEAT.! warn venience through which he bad passed. I see him come. A Pare Grape Cre&a of Tartar Powder, 40 YEARS THE STANDARD, I."-. : . -