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Newspaper
Butler Weekly Times
Location
Butler, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1907
Page
5
The Plasa Chautauqua girls start a garter snake fad. A man spotted a striped snake near the bathing pavilion and learned its use. The girls claim the totem snakes are helpers, biting time for one day and then scarce. The tale hints at playful mischief and social gossip around the display.
In Macon Missouri on August 12 a special Grand Jury was named by the County Court to investigate charges of attempted bribery of the Textbook Commission by publishing agents. Three commissioners Moss Mabel M. and O L Cross recount offers of money to favor a firm with one agent allegedly offering 800 dollars. If indictments are retained Circuit Judge will order process served on the parties charged. The Grand Jury will convene in Macon.
Real estate transfers list multiple warranty deeds with buyer seller and property details including layouts like lot numbers blocks and townships in towns such as Rich Hill Amoret Mound Rockville and Summit with prices ranging from 1 to 5000 dollars. A quitclaim deed transfers Benjamin Barnes to Henry Heckter detailing tracts in Homer with a 100 dollar consideration.
Captain Charles B. Maus of Jefferson City Missouri aged eighty four died in the city He was born in Germany and came to St Louis as a boy He settled in the capital in 1844 and ran a mercantile business for fifty years He also served in both the Mexican War and the Civil War and rose to Captain He leaves seven children and his wife is deceased He was a charter member of the Odd Fellows Lodge for fifty eight years The body will be buried in Jefferson City.
Washington reports tell of Vice-President Fairbanks rescuing a waitress from a pond in Yellowstone park. He stood on the hotel porch when a cry arose and, despite others helping, he did not touch the woman and did not wet his shoes as she was pulled to shore.
Governor Polk increases the reward to 300 dollars for the capture of George Taylor and 150 dollars for John Hartley. Taylor, convicted with his brother Bill, in the Meeks family murder in Linn County thirteen years ago, remains at large with officers hopeful of a capture. Hartley is indicted for killing ferryman William Lark in Gasconade County in 1805 and fled the state.
A Poland China pig sold for $5,125 at Eldon Missouri, about $26 a pound, amid a sale that also moved six pigs for $13,060 and 44 more for $24,160. The pig heads to B M Chambers stock farm in Oswego Kansas, while pork chops would bring $933 per cut if marketed.
In St Joseph Missouri August 12 officers of the Monroe Club the Democratic organization declared hostility to Gov Folk's presidential candidacy and planned to meet William J Bryan August 10 to escort him to Wathena Kansas where he would speak State Senator Charles Mayer doubted any club member would support Folk for any future nomination
Osceola Mo Aug 12 Miss Bessie Emerson daughter of T A Emerson long time resident was killed in Los Angeles Cal when thrown from a street car during a visit to her sister Mrs Harry Lamb. She was a grandniece of former Missouri Circuit Judge Burr Emerson. The body will be brought home for burial Tuesday.
Samuel Dodson, conductor for the St. Louis and San Francisco, rigged a revolver in a car box to fire when the lid was raised, aiming to catch a recurring thief aboard the train near Clinton Missouri. The incident details the inventive defense against theft aboard the line.
A literary reprint fragment questions the man with the hoe, lamenting labor’s toll on humanity and challenging those who shaped society. The piece, attributed to Epwit Mankitas, contrasts art with industrial greed and ends with a drugstore advertising line for a indigestion remedy.
Novoe Vremya argues against rebuilding the Russian navy citing German British and Japanese superiority in their respective seas. The paper says ten to fifteen years will not yield a fleet able to challenge command of either ocean and warships would need coast battery shelter. It favors fortresses torpedo boats and submarines instead.
Washington report quotes Georgia Democrat James M. Griggs predicting William Jennings Bryan will be nominated if he desires. Griggs argues Bryan’s broad party appeal across regions would secure the nomination, contingent on party interests and electability. The piece also references Swanty Laxative Cough Syrup as a medical ad note.
Richmond Mo Aug 12 Ellis Phillips rural mail carrier bought a motor car and plans to use it for delivering mail. Before purchase a department official raised four questions about using a motor car for rural mail service.
News from Galveston reports that after a black man attacked a white woman at Range, Karnes County residents lynched him and forced over 300 black residents to flee Range and surrounding towns under death threats. A white man’s league forms to keep the area free of black people. no arrests after the lynching.
In Miller county Missouri Aurora Springs the first town to repudiate municipal debts since the Civil War may be forced to sell its schoolhouse after a $7000 judgment in favor of John W Heaton representing American Express. The town once planned to become a metropolis but lost the Missouri Pacific Railroad route and people moved away leaving the debt to Eldon.
Washington August 12 Efforts to post a $15,000 bail failed and Mrs Anna M Bradley a layer of ex senator Arthur Brown of Utah has been returned to the district jail to await trial in two months She had been in a hospital for three weeks for an operation and has been convalescent since leaving the district jail Mrs Bradley says Brown refused to marry her.
Topeka August 12 a drug store in Topeka admitted selling 4.50 worth of medicine on prescriptions in July and 1400 worth of beer wine and whisky The confession came to county attorney J J Schenck during a secret inquisition into the liquor trade Inquisition is secret but occasionally druggists examined are identified
Joseph Elsure, 80, arrived from a northwest township and sought admission to the poor house. He said he came from a German province ten years ago with 1,500 marks given to his son in law, worked on a farm, and was turned out when he could no longer labor.
New York aug 12 according to Herman Weeks and his wife who arrived aboard the steamship Colon from Panama the government has promised every man who brings his bride to the canal zone some benefit or marriage incentive demurred by officials while a rumor of civic matchmaking spreads among travelers and locals
Capt Tsunoda writes an open letter defending Gen Stoessel and Port Arthur. He says Russian food was exhausted and 20,000 under arms could not fight. He claims Stoessel could have held out two weeks longer, but would face massacre. Port Arthur cost 60,000 lives by gunfire and 40 kilometers of parallels were dug with 80,000,000 rounds expended.
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