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Newspaper
Butler Weekly Times
Location
Butler, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1917
Page
2
A breezy column voice shares humor and resolve urging readers to shape their destiny. It blends Irish jest, weathered wisdom, and wartime tone, urging hope, grit, and civic sense while musing on June’s beauty and the duty to stay positive.
Readers record Sunday preaching at Concord and evening services with many local family visits. Several townsfolk, including Bruner, Kershner, and Westover, are noted at county seats and homes. Potatoes celebrated on June first. new baby carriage ownership and ongoing illness updates appear.
Sunday reports from Pleasant Gap and Double Branches detail hunts, farming tasks, and social events. Uncle Payton Burton killed two five pound snakes. Miss Williams and Wm Brown wed. children’s and band events drew crowds. sales of wheat at 3.20 per bushel. land and livestock plans noted across Route 5 and 8.
Farmers work in sunshine plowing corn while oats and wheat look well. The Ellingtons and daughter Juanita visit Henry Thomas. Utleys at Geo. Utley home. Fern Seifers visits aunt Cora Bentley and brother Lee Scifers. Pierre Braziéri children’s day program draws crowd and missions offering. Local youths attend Black Sunday exercises. Jobe suffers misfortune in a fine program. Walters visits with Mrs. C C Thomas and Mrs. White Nrsaddeunee. Blanche and others spend Sunday at A W Padley with Cliff Nafus family and others.
Vern Seifers and families gathered for a W C T U meeting at Mrs Pete Bartz on May 31 with Mrs Bartz joining and her son Eldo among volunteers. The group shared a feast of strawberries cake and cream and planned a June 14 meeting at Mrs Gen Utley. Clarence Baker and wife attended Butler program. Roy Baker hosted a family dinner near Spruce with several relatives.
Mrs Chester Smith visited with Fred Medley and wife last week. Mrs Ralph Warner and children Laura Seely and Earl Burk and wife stayed Thursday to Saturday with Charley Weiss and family. Grandma Pickett was taken sick one day but could go home Sunday. Mrs Abe Scholes returned to Kansas City after visiting her father Ida Clark. Lois Clark spent Sunday with Ruby and Grace Berry. Ray Thornbrough near Amsterdam was in the area Saturday likely wolf chasing. Mrs Jay Bright Mrs Lee Bright and their little son from Butler visited Henry Ehart Sunday. Mrs Ben Pickett spent Sunday afternoon with Mrs Linendell Perry Osborne and family visited Mr Chasier Sunday. Mrs Orland Eggleson and baby spent time with Dickerson’s wife at her father's John.
Miss Margaret Weimers and Otto Peterson unite in marriage at the Lutheran church with Rev Way master presiding. The couple move to Linn Kansas. Also Miss Maggie O Shonk weds Floyd Dawson at Edson Snyder’s with Rev R M Talbert officiating. Nearby visits and local notes include Grant Garner and Grant Oldham visiting Henry Oldham, Mrs. Wm. Lamar visiting Mrs. E M Sims, Virgil Jackson and wife with A Schesler, and farm pasture updates on Amsterdam route 2 near Concord schoolhouse. Fence posts and block wood offered by C S Nestlerode. N M N.
Mr. James B. Rand and Miss Irene Reese were united in marriage in Kansas City Sunday June 3 1917 at :30 o'clock by Dr. Monroe pastor of the First Cavalry Baptist Church. Rand is son of Mr and Mrs Ben Rand of the country west.
A bright and ambitious young man, graduate of Rich Hill High and the University of Missouri, now studying veterinary medicine at Centerville Town, wed the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. M. Reese of Arthur vicinity. The bride taught locally and both graduated in the same Rich Hill High School class. The Rand couple arrived Monday for a visit before settling in Centerville Iowa for the summer.
Washington June 4 leading manufacturers and the Society of Automotive Engineers announced agreed standard dimensions for motor truck engines and transmission machinery under army requirements after talks with army officers and the council of national defense. A weekly meeting of truck manufacturers and engineers will be held in Washington and Detroit to perfect the standardization code, with a June 15 conference in Washington to consider axles radiators and frames.
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