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Newspaper
Butler Weekly Times
Location
Butler, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1900
Page
7
Local notes record social happenings and comings and goings in Montrose and Amoret. Mentions of illnesses, marriages, and deaths include Mrs. Liazzie Morehead's improvement and Henry Deviney's death. Community activity covers sales by Boon Kash, travel to Granite Oregon, skating, church weddings, and schoolmerits with items on roads, mills, and the Strafford Inn.
Spruce residents report hustle around plowing and oat sowing as many relocate or plan moves. Notables include Chas Wilson improving a poultry farm, Kretzinger buying hogs and selling stock, and multiple families relocating to or near Spruce Mo. A local shop owner Tom Cliver reports strong sales while distant ties hint at Montrose and Johnstown.
The column notes terrible rough roads with no quick fixes, several illnesses including many children, and residents in flux. Emma Griffith improves slowly while Uncle Dick Andrews visits Bob Alexander. Horses, stock trades, and local moving plans are mentioned along with a wolf round-up next Saturday.
Bedside reports slow progress as Mrs. J A Warford improves. Geo Haggard expresses thanks for favors. Will Winegardner recovered from a recent illness and Ed Smith left with measles. Dr Wolfe's friends note his good health in Oklahoma. Bob Alexander advertises two good horses for sale. Uncle Lewis McCombs plans a southern trip in spring. Pat.
Citizens attended court at Butler last week. Mrs Chas Jasper ill with pneumonia. Dr Rhodes reports sickness in the community. Republicans chose delegates for the county convention at Butler on March 14. Jas A Clouse to sell household effects March 3 then move to Kansas City for a position with R B Grocer Co. Chas Rice of Atmoret visited relatives here. A colored preacher from Lamar Mo raised money to build a church there. Mrs Lockhart of Kansas City visiting her mother Mrs Scott. A J Metzler humor at M E parson. Noley Brown and Dr Clouse and wife left for New Orleans. Time to buy roosters and garden seed. Show Battle Grand River items. Roads muddy. Henry Reeder runs the Altona store successfully. Meagles raging in the area. Altona preaching largely attended. Dance south of town drew large crowd. Mr Allen moved into his new house. Miss Myrtle Evans of Adrian visited Miss Mary Adams. Bad weather slowed plowing. Wispe a wake.
News dispatch from Batavia reports Ernest Kindon of Stafford, in the Fortieth Volunteer Infantry, was found asleep at his post and sentenced to be shot after a court martial. Filipino insurgents reportedly entered the camp, killing two or three American soldiers.
Notice declares by authority of an order from Bates County Missouri, made at the February term, that a special election has been ordered and will be conducted in the county using the prescribed procedures.
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