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Newspaper
Butler Weekly Times
Location
Butler, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1908
Page
6
Get in the Game offers cheap sporting gear including Bristol Steel Fishing Mee id cuianseat pas rrineenyis rods reels and bamboo rods with marked reductions. Minnow buckets mitts bats and children’s rubber tired vehicles advertised, plus a 20 percent discount on base balls. Seasonal sale urged.
Warranty deeds recorded including Frank Jones to Berton Sivils for new home valued at 4 dollars and Arthur Duvall to A M Swarts for 400. Homer 1 Martin Preeher to Paante Gang for 8 & OU block 4 Town Cos Jad aad to Kieh Tull Harries Sealch to I Winslow seca 15 and 22 East Boone for 4000. JL Porter to Hugh Gilliland for 40 acres in Ble. Arthur M Houry to Gus Truscell low T8410, 11 & 12 block 16 City of Walnut. Sab to DT for 200 dollars.
N. M. Nestlerode loses a valuable horse valued at 175 dollars when the animal’s neck breaks while tied by a neck rope in the stable overnight at Marion Smith’s near Rockville. He found the horse dead the next morning and notes he always used head halters, saying the neck rope experience was costly. A nearby farmer in Getmore’s neighborhood reportedly leaves a gate sign reading a busy message about electoral indifference and tool readiness. Additional notes reference dragon fly shipments to Brazil, local political chatter, a correction about an automatic burglar alarm, and a stockman’s son bitten by a rat-snake, with a big sale on base ball goods at Smitha.
August 1908 probate notices list executors administrators guardians and curators with dates from August 10 to August 26. Names include Lemaster Nave, Woodfin, Lyles, Thomas, Happ, Kamm, Hayes, Timmons, Drew, Kilns, Rucker, and many more. A note mentions Butler residents attending El Dorado picnic and concerns for Mrs Bullock’s illness.
Nelson Cooper was arrested behind Walnut street charged as an accomplice in robberies tied to the Burlington Railroad safe cracking in North Missouri. Constable Stangie says no bank robbery link. Cooper came from Iola Kansas and hails from a prominent family. Sheriff G. W. Anderson of Linn County returned him to custody, with a $50 reward offered for the arrest. John O. Long visited Butler urging Bates County Democrats to back him for State Auditor. he cites three terms as Washington County clerk and argues he is the only Southeast Missouri candidate who can carry one fourth of the Democratic votes.
T H Riffee manager of Kansas City Safe Co had his $100,000 damage suit against Mosler Safe Co dismissed. Petition claimed Mosler circulated false statements about a bank safe used by Farmers and Manufacturers Bank of Rich Hill Missouri. Mosler said depositions were not finished.
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