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Newspaper
Butler Weekly Times
Location
Butler, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1907
Page
3
Bates county items cover paper changes of residents, local sales, school events, church dinners, and social notes. Notables include changes of subscriptions, a farmers bank opening, a cemetery committee, a public sale notice, a basketball team result, a marriage, a death, and local political and legal briefs.
Mrs Thurston Showalter of Spokane visits relatives here. Mrs Ella Timmons returns to St Louis after visiting C B McFarland family. Judge Denton attends court in Warsaw and Boonville. J P Ervin of El Dorado visits brother T N Ervin near Butler after twenty years. S A Kemper in Butler on business. Mulberry schoolhouse hosts a box supper for library fund with Miss Maggie McCann as teacher. Greek laborers refuse reduced pay in Rich Hill area. Mrs Robert A Hurt returns from visiting Addie Seelinger in Uranfield, Kan. Mayor W J Marriott of Rockville in Butler for probate business. D A Atchison visits. brother Stewart Atchison at Long Beach, Cal, welcomes new daughter. Edo Hardin returns to Butler with family to farm Bates County. National Bank of Commerce in Kansas City closes doors. stock at $300. Dr Everingham holds 23 shares. bank may resume or pay depositors. W H Tilly reports dredge boat south of Rich Hill awaiting rain. Excerpt questions about wealth and poverty. Missouri State Teachers Association 46th annual session in Joplin Dec 26–28. program details sought from E M Carter. S T A Baker to provide information.
Oklahoma would become the first state to guarantee depositors against losses in insolvent state banks and compliant banks under a proposed law by Governor Haskell. A state levy of 1 percent of each bank’s deposits would fund a guarantee, controlled by a banking board, with additional levies as losses occur to maintain the fund. Payments would create a lien on the insolvent bank’s assets, while the state disclaims responsibility for fund safety or losses.
Foster Missouri December 10 1907 A large wolf caught near Mat Adams place on November 21 1907 by Brisco Bros hounds John Miller Roller Hinsley and Willard Whitely with about twenty dogs. The chase ran three hours through Brashy Mound and Island areas before the wolf led the pack northwest and evaded them. Sheep men paid five dollars, challenging claims that local hounds were outlaws.
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