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Newspaper
Butler Weekly Times
Location
Butler, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1908
Page
6
Local items report Surpluses in poultry purchases at Amsterdam and a village remark about DeWitt medicines. A Belton area death follows a fall from a loft, while readings mention a Town Clock Club show netting funds. Fire dangers, church attendance incentives, and a series of fights near Eldorado Springs are described with casualty notes and social scenes.
A Spokane schoolgirl wrote a 250 word essay about an automobile. She recounts her uncle buying a car and riding through the country when it burst going uphill. The remaining words are the uncle’s remarks, deemed unfit for publication.
David Rankin, a famed Missouri corn grower, turns 83 this month as the Cameron Observer notes. Born poor and barefoot much of each summer until age 28, he paid his last dollar to the preacher who married him in 1850. Now Rankin owns 95,000 acres of land, raised over 1,000,000 bushels of corn last year, and is valued at more than $3,000,000 through farming and cattle dealings.
E Purdy and wife return from Minnesota vacation with a remarkable 25-pound pickerel tale. Other rural clippings note odd catches and local curiosities, from a Garnett man with a fishmouth-like mouth to a windmill pumped basement cellar and a rustic verse about Hiney.
Mise Clara Howitt visits Gravette Arkansas friends. Mr and Mrs A O Thompson of Kansas City were guests of Mr and Mrs W H Bruce. Mrs Walken of Raytown Missouri undergoing treatment with Dr Bradford. Paschall, two years in Billings Montana, left for Moran Kansas to join a Baker Medicine Company wagon.
The six year old son of H. C. Foater was missing Saturday night, sparking a townwide search. A man near the opera house found the boy crying on a stairway late Sunday, revealing he had slept through the moving picture show and woke when the building was locked. He would have remained inside until morning if heard.
A city receives a step from Katy grown long ago used as a milking stool once owned by a farmer who found religion. J B Caldwell of Kirkaville gathered cherry fruit from a north Missouri tree with ten boys, collecting forty gallons in four hours, while other growers call it one of the country’s remarkable yields.
The timetable lists trains and routes for southbound services including Joplin Kansas City and St Louis routes, with several local freight and passenger connections. It notes the Interstate Division schedules and a Home Seekers Excursion offering discounted round trips to many western states on first and third Tuesdays, valid twenty one days from sale.
Summer tourist rates for 1908 list on sale from June to Sept 30 with final return by Oct 31. Pueblo Colorado Springs or Denver trips cost 18.50. San Francisco Los Angeles or San Diego direct lines 60.00. Ogden Salt Lake Utah 31.50. Mexico City 75. Portland Oregon direct 62.30. Trinidad Colorado 25.55. California Oregon and Washington rates include expenses 15th. E. Vandervoort
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