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Newspaper
Butler Weekly Times
Location
Butler, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1905
Page
3
Willie Whinnery recovering after a near miss with a horse, church attendance resumed, and district teachers sought after successful terms. Virginia band, Elders, and local couples share sermons, visits, mine explosion concerns, and World’s Fair travels as community life continues amid varied happenings and weather notes.
In Parktown residents observe signs of aging youth metaphor with Rachel Park and late Wolfe presenting phone installations. Charley Wert from Lincoln Nebraska visits with his parents. Wert owns the Matt Hensley farm. AanON.
Mrs Core A Rude district deputy of the Royal Neighbors of Spruce organized a camp of 23 members at Sea Camp R WN C A. Officers elected include Gertie Rich Oracle Anna Price Vice Oracle Maud Eada Recorder Rosa Barrickman Receiver Wm E Griggs Chancellor Myrtle Murphy Marshal Ethel Hopkins Inner Sentinel Myrtle Murphy Outer Sentinel Fred Rich Manager 3 years C E Westbrook 2 years Anna Leeper 1 year Ruth Griggs Past Oracle Dr J R Colson camp Physician Meetings set for the second and fourth Saturdays.
An old advertisement claims a topical ointment from Paris Medicine Co promises cure in 6 to 14 days. It states first application brings ease and rest, priced at 50 cents, with a mail order offer and location in Louis, Missouri.
Rush Springs editors report continued opposition to the river and drainage proposal before the county court. E I Williams of Bates County expresses support for a drainage board and court oversight to reclaim land along the Maria Dee Cygnee river bottom, noting tax payments and mortgage pressures depend on reliable drainage and yearly cultivation.
Paducah Kentucky June 26 The bodies of J Q Waltera and his baby were buried today in a single grave at Ripley Tennessee. His wife remains in a precarious condition. Conductor J W Spink will be buried at Fulton Kentucky. The duel occurred in a room where their wives were ill after both men fired their pistols and died. The baby died minutes later from the shock. They were brothers in law and quarreled over a cow entering a garden.
A Missouri notice clarifies Bates county drainage plans under the state drainage statute. It explains that totals are set by the engineer’s estimate approved by the County Court, with contracts limited to that amount, bonds of twenty percent, and payments released only by County Court orders as sections are finished. Tuos J. Suita. Butler, Mo., June 5, 1905.
Local notes describe farm work including Pitchford cutting wheat and threshing near Butler. Visitors come and go as families visit relatives while church attendance varies. Community members discuss fishing, drainage talk, and upcoming 4th of July.
A Montgomery saloon keeper recounts how a man seeking cheap socks spent 80 cents on liquor after buying five cent socks. The anecdote concludes the speaker decided the saloon business was the right path.
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