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Newspaper
Butler Weekly Times
Location
Butler, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1909
Page
2
Advertisement notes umbrellas designed for rain and protection from rain and danger. It promotes gifting for Christmas birthdays or weddings and suggests they help keep friends away from temptation. It highlights durability, non fading features, and personal designation options.
In Carthage Missouri fluctuating gas pressure caused a small gas stove to foul air while Ralph Holmes a ten year old boy slept. The flames rose after pressure increased and poisonous gas filled the room. His grandmother Mrs John Walker found him dead early this morning.
Walter Shofner visited Rich Hill and later butchered a 700 pound hog. Miss Minnie Shofner and Miss McCann visited friends in town. J W Lewis sold an 80 acre farm for 52.12 per acre. Miss Willia Carr taught Greenview. her father’s death cut her school term short. Grants Goodenough of Texas arrived for business. Thomas Campbell and family moved to Chatopa Kansas for mercantile work. Various road improvements praised by S N Kinion, new subscriber from North Missouri.
Richard Pulliam, carrier on route three, reports L. Q. Robards of East Boone township lost seven cattle last week after grazing in stalk fields. The notice urges care when shifting cattle from grass to dry feed.
A brief sale notice promotes stocking stuffer style gifts with prices on fine supporters ten to forty eight cents outing gowns fifty cents autograph albums ten to twenty five cents postcard albums five cents to nineteen eighty eight cents scrap books twenty five and fifty cents.
A church event is planned an oyster supper for Thursday night December 23 at Peru to raise funds for the church and its Sunday School. Everyone is invited to attend and support the benevolent effort.
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