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Newspaper
Butler Weekly Times
Location
Butler, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1916
Page
5
Butler Bates County items list Christmas shopping prompts many ads. Notes include Walker McKibben goods, local births deaths and social visits, road and car trouble fines, school piano gift, Masons funeral, Kansas City trips, and families visiting relatives with several small business and real estate mentions.
Pleasant Gap residents prepared for winter as snow fell Sunday evening. Local folks planned rabbit hunting, hay hauling and barn improvements while traders bought and sold livestock. Sunday school at Pleasant Gap Baptist Church at 10 30 a m invited all residents.
Cannon Brothers mill on South Main street recently retooled by Wrights and machinists adding a combined bolter and purifier and a new whole wheat flour grinder. The upgrade sharpens grinding to pass only fine meal into sacks while poorer quality flour goes to feed. Wheat quality shifts with season, now trending hard and flinty, prompting machinery readjustment to produce better flour.
Snowy Sunday visits dot Mound area as Passaic and Amsterdam square off in a basketball game. Passaic wins 24 to 12 behind sharp passing and team effort. Local residents attend gathers, travel to Butler and Prairie Rowse, with multiple visitors noted.
Mrs. Mary VanCamp a Butler resident for nearly fifty years died Friday from diseases incident to old age. Born October 10 1881 in Grange county New York she moved with husband Olin VanCamp to Butler about 1870. Survived by three daughters Mrs Mary Wetzell Hill City Kansas Mrs Nettie Bennett and Mrs Hattie Wade and son J W Van Camp Kansas City. Funeral Tuesday at M E Church South with interment Oak Hill cemetery.
N B Peter a jeweler visited Kansas City earlier in the week. Miss Lorene Olive and Mr Bernard Cassidy of Rich Hill attended the Armory dance Saturday night. Ten young men from Prairie City visited the Loyal Sons Bible class Sunday morning and planned to organize a similar class there to learn how to run a class.
Lewis Culbertson hauls wood to town and Joe Clark with shock corse to Mr McFarlane. Sturgeon visits Standayv. A croon tense on Fath aedelle view near Kansas City. Joe likes Pine. Miss Helen Chirk with Milatia Surgeon Glentie Price sends five tirls to the literary. Snow four metres fell Sunday night. Mire Patrick Novrom has been ill. Miss Gatlin and Mr Maat visit at Riels Hill. Stieueon Stiomiday. 4 SUNSHINE.
A Senate vote of 42 to 0 approved a committee amendment to the immigration bill, excluding Asiatics from entering the United States. The action reflects legislative intent to restrict immigration based on nationality within the wartime era.
The Walker-McKibben Mercantile Co announces a new department to introduce the Artophone cabinet talking machine, designed to play standard phonograph records at moderate price. Mr. K A Walker will supervise demonstrations and oversee the department.
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