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Newspaper
Butler Weekly Times
Location
Butler, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1905
Page
2
The Werat Times issued weekly on Thursday offers a yearly subscription for 51.00. The Missouri Pacific Time Table at Butler Station lists corrected train times including southbound and northbound routes with connections to Kansas City and St. Louis, local freight, and intrastate divisions. Also noted are mixed freight and passenger services with timetable details and agent signs.
Walter Williams names ten best known Missourians including D. R. Francia Governor Folk Cham Clark Senator Stone J. M. Cockrell A. M. Dockery Senator Warner Lon V. Stephene Sam B. Cook and Judge B. J. Gunes in a published list.
A Dade County Advocate piece questions ambitions of rulers with no navy and warns of revolt insubordination in the army and civil society. It frames the simple life as preferable amid concerns about autocratic rule and unrest.
May receipts were 43 758 995 dollars and expenditures 46 719 055 dollars, producing a May deficit of 2 960 122 dollars. For the eleven months of the current fiscal year the cumulative deficit stands at 36 40 GSO.
Frank G. Bigelow former president of the First National Bank of Milwaukee was convicted of grain gambling theft totaling 1.25 million dollars. He began a ten year hard labor term at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, early this week.
Forty graduates from the State University law department were admitted to practice in the Missouri Supreme Court on motion by Judge Robinson, a law department teacher. The court convened to enroll them as practicing attorneys of Missouri.
Congressman Champ Clark spoke in Mexico Friday urging merchants to counter mail order houses with aggressive local advertising. He noted mail order firms grow via ads and urged home retailers to boost campaigns through the local press to protect trade.
Fred Kelsey notes that nine of sixteen honors students at Missouri faced severe poverty while earning their degrees. A valedictorian funded a year by scavenging for boarding clubs and later worked as a lab assistant. Two law prize winners, each $300, supported themselves by labor and teaching while pursuing studies. A mother accompanied a graduate, and two women in the honor roll supported themselves through clerical work.
The Clay county jury convict Agnes Myers of complicity in her husband’s murder, rejecting sentiment against hanging. The text notes self confessed killer Hottman’s corroborated testimony and urges the extreme penalty for this cold blooded crime, fearing no deal with the witness.
The Moberly Democrat summarizes Grover Cleveland and Senator West arguing that women should not rule or assume men's duties. It praises an ideal wife who loves husband and country and refrains from governing, noting such women influence households more than strong-minded ones.
A May 2 1905 county court review in Bates County Missouri centers on J F Kern and 32 others petitioning to drain and reclaim 30000 acres of wet lands along the Missouri Osage rivers. Viewers report supports practical ditching from Marvel Bridge toward the river intercep tion with precise section markers and routes, seeking public health and welfare benefits.
The Bates County Missouri County Court orders a hearing on a road petition and report for a 4th and Improvement route. The hearing will be held July 6, 1905 at the court house in Butler, with notice published in The Mich HU Review for two weeks, ending ten days before the hearing.
A dissenting county report argues the topographical survey is essential to gauge flood volumes and escape routes for the Marias DeaCygoe River project. It criticizes the drainage board's work as a farce, claiming inadequate analysis, miscalculations, and reliance on a proposed ditch without proper data.
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