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Newspaper
Butler Weekly Times
Location
Butler, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1907
Page
2
John Speer reports a satisfactory hog sale despite a market slump for thoroughbreds. Mrs. Marshall, recently operated on for a tumor in Kansas City, shows rapid improvement. Bates county youth are praised for unity. The mayor found no townspeople in destitute circumstances before Thanksgiving.
Ex bandit Emmett Dalton, just released from the Kansas penitentiary, is in Tulea Oklahoma en route to a Kansas City hospital for treatment of a wounded arm from the Coffeyville bank raid. He is visiting cousin Scout Younger of the Younger family in his boyhood Tulsa.
Paducah Kentucky December 8 Practically stabbed to death by his own bones Isaac Johnson a mill man of Sharp Marshall county died as the result of being crushed under a falling tree last Wednesday The splintered bone of his left leg protruded two inches through the flesh and broken ends of ribs perforated his lungs.
A series of warranty deeds recorded transferring parcels of land from buyers to sellers. Notable transfers include W M Thompson to J D Clements for 20 acres in section 20 Elkhart at 700 dollars and Benj F Watkins to Henry Gordon for 250 acres in sections 36 and 35 Homer at 12,000 dollars. Other transfers cover New Home, Walnut, Butler, Deepwater, Adrian, Weat Boone, Standish, Rockville, Shawnee, Spruce, and Homer, with prices ranging from 50 to 12,000 dollars.
The county clerk records show bar licenses expiring in 1908. Beese and Mabbott on March 21, George Cobb on May 16, J J Richardson on May 18, and R M Wells on May 23.
William Stewart restaurant keeper in East Iola was found dead beside a railroad track from multiple stab wounds and throat cuts. W H Crevinton, his partner, confessed to murdering Stewart to marry the wife.
Loren Williams bought a site in the north part of Homer township and will immediately open a coal mine and erect a residence on the property. The eight year old daughter of Mr and Mrs Jas Miller of the Jowett neighborhood died of diphtheria and was buried in Trading Post cemetery. Doctors Martin Sparr Powers and Hall attended a Masonic lodge meeting in Butler after driving from Amsterdam Merwin and from here.
Thursday and Friday items note F J Caldwell and M A Hamilton appointed to Justice of the Peace and to two boards to fill unexpired terms. W J Bard and F O Olin named to Homer township board to fill vacancies. River drainage bonds signed. county property transferred. warrants issued for expenses.
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