Christmas Social Notes Across Butler Area
Many Butler residents celebrated Christmas with relatives and friends from Kansas City to Missouri towns. Visitors included Mr. and Mrs. Hupp, Miss Weeks, A L Freeman, Mr. and Mrs. Cole, and many others, sharing dinners and holiday greetings. Local business updates include new whole wheat flour at 50 cents per sack and notices of property rental and employment ads.
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Newton Miller
Loc. Miller
Kansas City
Judge
G. C. Miller
Judge Miller
Yeoman Elect Officers at Butler Homestead No 486
At a Butler Homestead No 486 American Yeoman meeting officers for the next term were elected. Foreman W S Charters Master of Ceremonies Evelyn Smiser Master of Accounts Clarence Rolin Chaplain Mrs Walter Burton Corrent Frank Allen Overseer Thos Wainwright.
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Butler Homestead No. 486
Foreman
W. S. Charters
Evelyn Smiser
Clarence Rolin
Walter Burton
Frank Allen
Thos. Wainwright
Hard Traveling Delays hit holiday train service in Missouri region
Just before Christmas trains out of St. Louis and eastern points ran four to twenty hours late. A freight wreck near Archie slowed schedules. Butler residents in Kansas City faced a last minute delay as Missouri Pacific service canceled to Butler Riehill and Nevada. Passengers walked to reach usable trains, carrying Christmas packages amid the disruption before finally reaching home for the holiday.
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St. Louis
Archie
Kansas City
Erier
Butler
Riehill
Nevada
Missouri Pacific
Butler Boys Defeat Nevada Team In Tight City Clash
Butler high school boys edged Nevada 23 to A after a 17 17 halftime tie in a close city game. Nevada, known for speed and coached by a former Missouri University player, faced a tougher second half. Nevada girls lost 48 to 8.
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Butler
Nevada High
Harper
Nevada
Missouri University
Nto
No'Good Will' in the Trenches in Europe
The piece notes that goodwill briefly appeared among soldiers in Europe during earlier winters but this year the Christmas day of December 25 did not soften hostilities. German efforts at fraternizing were discouraged by English and French troops who remained grimly focused on finishing the bloody war.
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Europe
Mrs Jannetta Price Dead in This City
Mrs Jannetta Price died Friday morning December 22 after a short illness at her sister’s home on Broadway. She was about 72 and survived by son Robert Price of Nevada, daughter Elizabeth Carson of Kansas City, and sisters BE Card A Cunningham and J Phillips of Nevada. Funeral services by Rev E K Wolfe of the M E church were held at Abs Card’s home and interment followed at Oak Hill cemetery.
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Jannetta Price
E. A. Card
Price
Robert Price
Nevada
Elizabeth Carson
Kansas City
BE. A. Card
A. Cunningham
This City
J. Phillips
E. K. Wolfe
M. E. Eliarch
South
Abs
Card
Oak Hill Cemetery
Weddings Slow In Bates County This Holiday Season
The high cost of living appears to curb marriages in Bates County with few couples seeking license from Recorder Fortune. Names listed include Verne B Burgess and Margie Rogers, Ross W Stevenson, Amelia Gilbert, Ewing B Kenney, Alice L Baker among others from Rieh Hill Adrian Jefferson City with locations noted.
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Dan Cupid
Bates County
Recorder Fortune
Verne B. Burgess
Rieh Hill
Margie Rogers
Ross W. Stevenson
Adrian
Amelia Gilbert
Ewing B. Kenney
Jefferson City
Alice L. Baker
Christian Science Services At New Fort Scott Church
Christian Science Services and Sunday school will be held each Sunday in the Society's new church at the corner of Ft. Scott and Delaware streets. Subject, Christian Science. All are cordially invited to attend.
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Christian Science
Society
Cornty
Ft. Scott
Delaware Streets
Samuel Strain Dead in Fairplay milling era
Samuel D Strain died at his West Ohio Street home Sunday night December 24 1916 aged 28 born in Tennessee October 19 1888. He lived mostly in the state and long served in the Fairplay Polk county milling trade. Survived by widow daughter Mrs Lewis Bynum and five sons. Known for high character and quiet demeanor. Funeral Tuesday at Presbyterian church where he had been a deacon for sixty five years. Internment at Oak Pill Cemetery.
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Samuel D. Strain
West Ohio Street
Tennessee
Fairplay
Polk County
Lewis Bynum
Tie
Presbyterian Church
Miewhoro
Oak Pill Cemetery
Community Christmas Program Unites City Churches
The Ministerial Alliance moved Christmas exercises to a single Christian church for a joint program led by BL hi. fenel. A city chorus from local church choirs sang under his direction and the large audience enjoyed a thorough program. Afterward a collection for the city's poor was taken. A large evergreen with electric lights, donated by the city, stood in the courthouse yard and lit each evening.
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BL Hi. Fenel
Court House
Artophone Sound Box Reproducer Delivers Rich Tone
The Sound Box is the heart of the Talking Machine, determining sound reproduction quality. Elaborate cabinets cannot fix a flawed unit, while the Artophone Sound Box features exclusive design elements that produce exceptional tone. Its oversized build yields ample volume for large rooms and dance music.
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Coats
Hart Schalfner & Mars
THE
Good Clothes Store
Harry van Dyke
J. S. Pierce
Metz
W. F. Keasling
J. C. Hupp
Elizabeth Weeks
Rich Hill
A. L. Freeman
Houston
Texas
Frank
W. T. Cole
Dan Monahan
Harry Murphy
Times Force
Edward Fitzpatrick
A. McCracken
Ethel
John Ferguson
Oscar Keyser
John Boulware
LaPlata
Missouri
Butler Roller Mills
Finley Porter
C. C. Woods
W. P. Ayers
Virginia
Rosalie Funk
Daily Democrat
W. E. Harris
Fairfield
Iowa
MD Dillon
L. (. Shubert
Shubert
Mr. Shubert
Altoni
Paul Shelton
Peoples Junk
Auxvasse
Rr. M. Shelton
J. A. DeArmond
C. L. Daniels
Otis Baker
East Dakota Street
Mr Baker
Joe Baker
Verne
Floyd Holloway
Everett Deweese
Mr. Deweese
Lester Prost
Carthage
Z. F. Prost
Clinton High School
J. R. Prost
John Rogers
Miss Dora
Warrensburg
Mary Braden
Kensington
Robert Braden
Dr. Whipple
Pleasant Gap
O. P. Wilson
W. W. Gibson
Butler, Mo
J. I. Stone
Sam W. Davis
Democrat
Wichita
Kansas
Davis
Claude Cosgrove
Will Smith
Coffeyville, Kansas
Frank Smith
John Endres
Ben Johnson
Ashland
Central Petroleum (Co
Cleveland, Ohio
W. C. Atkeson
Record
Columbia
Hugh Hardin
John
Garret
Little Rock
Arkansas
Mr. Hardin
James Hardin
E. A. Hardin
Leslie Pharis
Alberta
Canada
Pharis
George Pharis
Hudson Township
Marguerite Jury
Oklahoma City
T. A. Black
High Street
Black
Chandina Arnold
Agnes Arnold
W. H. Hupp
George
Bruce Black
Floyd Atkeson
City
Wendell
Floyd
Thirley
State Board of Agriculture
Hume
Yours Truly
C. C. Rhodes
Christian Science Services
Samuel Strain
Walker
McKibben's
Artophone
K. A. Walker
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