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Newspaper
Butler Weekly Times
Location
Butler, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1911
Page
8
The Miami column reports a large turnout for Children's Day at the Tygard school house with songs, drills, recitations, and praise. Families from Butler and nearby areas attended, noting a green and white decoration scheme and inviting all to return weekly.
Bud Berry works on a barn for Mr Crosswhite. Taylor Linendell loses a horse Friday night killed by lightning. Miss Ruth Dark returns from Kansas visit. Mrs Mattie Richman visits home folks Sunday. Jack Skaggs and family visit Mrs Skaggs father Mr Heinz in Butler Sunday. Farmers cut wheat and plow corn after rain. Miss Jennie Linendell returns home from stay with Mrs R J Sproul. Mr McCoy helps Morris put up hay. New Home folks attend Children’s Day at Tygard Sunday. Mrs McCormie improving. two brothers and a sister visiting. Cliffhart to Rich Hill for wagon and coal. Abe Scholes to Foster after coal. R F Kerns via Nyhart Monday. Mrs Miller visits mother Mrs Lamasters Monday afternoon. Mr and Mrs Calvert and John Phelps at Mr Kelley Sunday. Claud Berry and R J Sproul ship a car of hogs from Nyhart Monday. COR.
Iowa farmer remarks on the popularity of scientific potato raising versus apples in West Virginia and Oregon. He notes potatoes as a staple crop, recounts Raleigh's role in introducing the potato to England, and mentions European demand for American potatoes. Also advertises coal at John Randall's coal bank near Esenborth, Montrose area.
Henry Lentz learned Saturday that James Hope died Friday night at his Nevada home from neuralgia of the heart. The funeral occurred Sunday in Nevada with Mr. and Mrs. Lentz traveling there Sunday morning. J. E. Conine, an esteemed Elkhart township citizen, died Friday night in University Hospital after being transported to Kansas City two weeks earlier for surgery. advanced age and prolonged illness limited recovery.
Jefferson City June 20: Democratic State Committee delays action to fill the vacancy on the National Committee caused by Moses Wetmore’s death. Six top vote-getters named for Election Commissioners of St. Louis are sent to Governor Hadley for selection of two. Contests over Supreme Court and State Schools continue with a goal of raising 30000 for investigations.
From November 1910 to March 1911 city registration totaled 150 916 and losses reached 96 440, prompting debate over whether St Louis could have gained 82 120 in 1908 10 while losing 82 120 from 1910 11. Senator Stone pledged 250 to support ongoing contests after Judge Marshall spoke.
The Experiment Station urges persistent shallow cultivation to save soil moisture as a drought threatens Missouri. A three inch mulch of loose dry soil, created with light shallow tools, helps retain water. Cultivate at least weekly and continue after corn is large, using a garden plow or weighted mower wheel between rows.
Jefferson City announces the Missouri Guard encampment at the state rifle range near Nevada from August 20 to 27. An interregional shoot will run August 28 to 31 with twelve men from each of six regiments, totaling 72 competitors for cost savings and extended practice. Light Battery A of St. Louis and Light Battery B of Kansas City will hold separate camps at Sparta, Wisconsin, September 1 to 10 and September 10 for ten days. New commissions include George M. Boteler and Thomas J. Lynch as Medical Corps lieutenants. Lieutenant John P. Hart of St. Louis joins Aviation Corps and will serve as Aidé Lieutenant Lahm in the international balloon races for the city.
The envelope was invented by a Frenchman in 1653. Chili spans eight hundred miles of telephone work by an English company. Great Britain imported wheat and wheat flour worth 1,079,739,955 dollars in the last five years. The beech is struck by lightning far less often than other trees, about fifty four oaks to one beech. Forty people work on one English farm in picking and preparing watercress. Freiburg silver mines in Saxony have closed after centuries of operation. Pincers that lock when closed and require force to open have been patented by a California inventor.
The Masonic lodge at Papinville invites every Mason in the county to a St. John’s day event on Saturday June 24 featuring a public installation of officers a picnic and a fish fry Dr Kuhn of Kansas City has been invited to attend and address attendees.
Judge James Cowgill state treasurer will undergo an operation for stomach related illness later this week after entering a Rochester sanitarium for examination. Doctor W A Clark and son in law W E Spratt accompanied him. Spratt reports an abdominal growth found but its nature awaits surgical findings. Cowgill has been in poor health recently but continued duties until departure.
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