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Newspaper
Butler Weekly Times
Location
Butler, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1909
Page
1
Salem church service noted with Rev Wolfe leading. Ice cream supper draws crowds raising funds. Family visits, births and deaths recorded in Foster and nearby towns. Local weather, crop conditions, and community updates highlighted with church events and personal notices.
Farmers are plowing for wheat but dry ground risks delaying work if rain does not come soon. Mrs Belle Eckles Bales visits relatives. Mrs Lela Hart Reecer from Arkansas visits kin. Wm McGinnis family spent weekend at Rich Hill. Archie Thomas and Ross Williams bought a threshing machine from A G Williams of Summit township. The Hill near Altona helps move Blankenbaker's threshing machine. Most locals finished threshing. Pink Ellington family and Miss Emma Morrilla of Kansas City attended church at Peru and dined at St Hart's. L G Thomas and family and C M Thomas and family attended last Sunday. Mr and Mrs Hulick Bradley of the Latham farm left for Illinois.
Local notes from West Deepwater report hot dry weather and hog deliveries at Hubbard by Monday. Farmers haul grain. farmers thresh near Hudson. Community visits include Carrolls, Charters, Bakers, and Smiths. Protracted meeting at Double Branch church begins Aug 10 at Spruce with T. W. Shannon from Fredericktown assisting. basket dinner Sunday. several families mentioned. Obvious illness note: Mrs James Reynolds has breast cancer. Farmer John.
Mulberry and Western Bates dispatches report John H. Braden of Amsterdam visiting his mother and brothers, with Idaho and Chicago relatives traveling or returning. Miss Tressie’s typhoid illness concerns Willie Burnham’s family. Dr J C Sageser visits Appleton City. local transfers include Clyde E Robbins selling his blacksmith shop. Bates County families, church gathering, and resident contentment noted as Charles R Bowman returns pleased to stay.
Drysdale and Scheurich's Passaic shop was robbed on Wednesday night August 4. About 300 dollars in goods including watch chains rings knives razors shoes and shirts were taken. Four suspects loitered near a freight train. three were arrested after goods were found on them and in a yard box. Names given: James Wilkener 24 Springfield Missouri J Lawrence 18 Bates Arkansas Ed Winn 16 Homer Oklahoma. Sheriff Bullock recovered the goods and jailed the trio. reward money was issued and partly collected.
Major George S. Lynch visited Butler sportsmen to offer joining a hunting club for Athol Lake. Mr. Webster, who ended a Kansas City lake lease, plans a 100-member club serving Butler Rich Hill Nevada Jefferson City with limited St. Louis Kansas City slots. Membership $25 yearly plus board $2 daily. a club house is under construction for fall duck season. The site has sprig duck and wood duck presence, attracting duck shooters.
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