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Newspaper
Butler Weekly Times
Location
Butler, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1905
Page
2
Terms of inscription announce weekly publication the Weext Limes prints every Thursday and will be mailed to any address for one year at one dollar postage paid.
The Butler Station time schedule lists railroad lines including Joplin and Southwest mail and several Kansas City to Joplin connections. It notes local freight and mixed service, with a 6:00 pm eastern region local freight and passenger movement under agent directions.
The Democratic Central Committee of Bates county is called to meet in the circuit court room in Butler on Saturday July lat at 2 o'clock p m. J A Dearmond is chairman. Other items include notes on local politics, a wheat shipment to Kansas City, and various court and race news.
The column reports Chairman DeArmond calls the Democratic Central Committee to meet on Saturday July 1 1905. It questions the meeting’s purpose, suspects a pretext to choose a new chairman, and contends DeArmond may seek to retain his township seat while reshaping the ticket and pushing for a primary election amid rumors of plots and conflicting loyalties.
William Jennings Bryan addressed about 5 000 people in Muskogee I T last Saturday night on radical Democracy. He said the nation is ready for change and that the Democratic party is adopting some Socialist and Populist ideas without endorsing socialism as a whole. He asserted President Roosevelt acts in line with Democratic principles and claimed the country is shifting toward Democratic ideas, with Republicans likely to follow.
The W. H. Ripley 410 acre land tract in Coal and Richland townships Vernon county was sold by partition sale at public auction, realized £10610. Horace Ripley, one of the heirs, attended the sale and is named in the proceedings.
R K E Johnson responds to Bell's claims about a proposed ditch to relieve the river. He disputes discharge calculations, velocity, and cross sectional area, arguing the plan is dangerously deficient and misleading. He questions the drainage area's handling and urges the County Court to reject the proposition.
Washington reports the President was granted extra pay for two months under a six year old act for Spanish War service outside the United States. No prior application was made. War Department officers filed the case. The warrant totals $583.34, $291.67 monthly, for his service as a colonel of volunteers.
A copper Spanish coin dated 1366 and inscribed De Real was found by a girl four miles south of Nevada Missouri, about 540 years old and predating Columbus discovery. The coin, from the era of Philip II, emerged while a Clemenson family member cleared land and burned stumps. The 1865 date appears on the piece, prompting questions how it ended up in a Missouri tree.
Judge Gray said the forthcoming grand jury will investigate Prosecutor William Andrews and also charges against Mayor C W Lyon and Marshal Joseph H Myers over their failure to close saloons on Sundays. The city imposed a strict Sunday closing order today for the first time in two months.
The Indian camp meeting at Watonga Oklahoma ended last night after a week of services. Ten tribes were represented and about five thousand Indians attended. Fifty one Arapahoes united with the gathering in a final proclamation of solidarity.
General Stephen D. Lee was unanimously reelected commander in chief of the United Confederate Veterans. Other officers chosen include W. L. Cabell for trans Mississippi, Clement A. Evans for the Tennessee department, and C. Irvine Walker for the Army of Northern Virginia. New Orleans hosted a light convention. greetings from Indiana were read. The history committee reports progress on school histories. the Battle Abbey will be built in Richmond. Subscriptions total $206,000 with a $16,000 claim by John C. Underwood under appeal. a further $60,000 is sought. The Davis Monument Association reports $69,000 in bank funds for the monument, to be unveiled in Richmond June 5, 1907.
Reinbold Kihm 86 filed a divorce suit in Leavenworth district court against Ottilia Kihm 87 alleging cruelty and interference by relatives. They lived together 45 years and own property valued around $10,000 with rent money disputes over property they once owned.
A 61 one hundredth inch rainfall fell last night across central Missouri, including Columbia. The rain, though late for meadows, will greatly help the growing oats crop, according to reports to the U S Weather Bureau.
A distressed mother fears for her child while an old time patent medicine advertises Dr Pierce's Favorite Medicine as a uterine and general tonic. The garbled copy touts bark roots and a century old formula claimed to support women’s health, birth, and recovery though the text is unclear.
Warrensburg Missouri June 21 Company E of the Third Regiment National Guard of Missouri stationed here has disbanded and its equipment restored to the state through Assistant Adjutant General Cusholm who was here yesterday. The company was organized during the Spanish American War.
American and European firms in Port Arthur have been ordered to depart and remove their merchandise. Many firms are arranging to charter steamers for the evacuation as of June 20.
In Vienna an interview with a Japanese embassy member quoted by Novoe Vremya suggests Japan’s peace terms will be moderate. They would follow prewar proposals plus indemnity to cover war costs, avoiding humiliating concessions like Saghalien cession or naval limits, and seek long term friendship with Russia.
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