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Newspaper
Butler Weekly Times
Location
Butler, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1908
Page
5
A collage of social observations on marriage economics manners and crime from a bygone era. Notes on preserving supplies boosting prices and the idea of occasional separations. Headlines mention insurance rates butter price inflation and a public incident in New York involving a Chinaman and a white woman.
A river of small items includes a duck hunter kill in Callaway county a pile of patent medicines sold by Clay's drug store plans for a Nevada post office building a plot to assassinate Victor Emmanuel Casa County Fair dates set for August 25 26 27 1908 and a Harrisonville man's facial surgery A Kodol remedy and other tonics are advertised plus deer trespass near Lan caster with escaped deer from a private park
A fragmentary column jokes about the sultan’s telephones in Turkey and harem talk, Lilian Russell on divorce, fears of war, an Englishman seeking the South Pole by car, China’s oldest newspaper’s modernization, Chicago bridge traffic, a Florida poet’s ailment, wireless marriage proposals, hazing fines in Kewanee, and light moralizing on breaking bad habits.
Eld. W. W. Blalock a minister of Eldorado Springs fired a double barreled shotgun at two six months old pointers, killing one and severely wounding the other. He was arrested charged with discharging firearms in the city. He claims the dogs had been killing his chickens.
Division No 2 of the supreme court last week sustained the so-called chicken law in an opinion by Judge Gants. The statute, first enacted to protect poultry raisers from burglary, made poultry house robbery a felony and was amended to cover poultry theft at any time.
J. Lee Jamison sold a jack in Kansas for 1500 and another to a Pulaski County man for 1000. Henry Dickinson barely escaped death after a gasoline blaze started when his wife pretended to strike a match during cleaning. A 13 year old boy in Kentucky killed a playmate with a stone and was sent to the penitentiary.
An agriculturalist believes a plot targets him in Joplin and recounts a clash in a cigar store. The piece also covers Ex Orval Ashby’s remorse for stealing $1,100 from Charleston county funds, his California letters seeking mercy, and a Missouri reader praising DeWitts Kidney and Bladder Pills sold at Clay's Drug Store.
The county clerk records names for country homes under a new law. J B Duvall hosts Hillcress, A J Erhart Green Lawn Stock Farm, George Falloon Mound Airte, Richard P Harper Meadow Brook, F J McCune Mound Slope. Farmers with pretty places urged to name and record them to preserve the name and inspire beautification.
Bartlesville Oklahoma March 2 officers believe the Rich Hill Missouri bank gang is hiding in the Osage hills west of Bartlesville. A large Winchester supply sold here prior to the robbery leads authorities to fear raids along the Oklahoma border. Banks from Caney to nearby towns have armored and warned employers to prepare against possible raids.
Cadido Garcia, wealthy stock raiser, was shot and killed while walking along a public road near Clayton New Mexico on March 2. Louis Sanchez, neighbor, is held on suspicion of knowing the murderer amid reports of an old feud between the Garcia and Sanchez families.
General William J. Palmer was informed by Dr. Edgar L Hewitt that the Zabulon Montgomery Pike manuscripts and papers from 1906 explorations were found in Chihuahua Mexico by Prof. Herbert E Bolton of the University of Texas. The papers, seized by Spaniards a century ago, may reveal Pike’s connection to the Burr conspiracy and illuminate early American history in the region.
In Harrisburg on March 2 the commonwealth pressed experts to value capitol furniture ordered from J. I. Sanderson, asserting prices exceeded actual worth. Charles A. Johns testified divan, throne chair, sofa, clothes tree and window seat were far under Kentucky reported costs, arguing the Sanderson contract was inflated and improper.
A Wall Street veteran recalls a conversation about Andrew Carnegie and John Pierpont Morgan aboard a steamship. The exchange centers on Carnegie selling out and Morgan’s calm, sly response about a hypothetical larger fortune, reflecting on Carnegie’s famed caution and insight.
Lieutenant General Stoessel, condemned to death on February 20 for surrendering Port Arthur to Japan, petitions Emperor Nicholas for a full pardon. The court had recommended commuting the sentence to ten years in prison in a fortress and excluding him from service.
An interesting task confronts Lieutenant W. R. Gherardi commanding the Yankton to call Friday for the Galapagos Islands to search for Frederick Jeffe, the American seaman abandoned on the west coast of Indefatigable Island last October. No details have been received from the Navy Department. H. L. Preston, an ordinary seaman, was killed on the Maine when a crane hook fractured his skull. he will be buried here.
G M Guy hauls logs to the saw mill. Bud Gragg tends his ailing mother in the southern state region. Henry Rest and wife recover from grippe. Chas Barnes moves Alvin Greg to Harve Harness’s vacated place across the river. Dr. Miller and J H Douglas busy in Butler. Wallace Cogel plans to carry mail from one to Aaron. George Fisher’s child ill with pneumonia, improving. Mr Angle and Miss Dad of Clinton visit relatives and attend exercises. Big wolf drive delayed due to stop-page. Box suppers at Kinley Saturday night raise funds. Grandma in poor health near Mrs Fickle’s home. Grandmother, a longtime Mingo settler, feeble but kept house for grandsons. sold Smoky tow farm. Mingo hopes for a baby show. twins Hubert and Herbert Teasley, and twins Hel Mina and Moa Stayton noted. Roosevelt era smiles teased for future generations. Potential presiding opportunities foreseen for the rising infants.
The Journal notes the death of Wm.step aged 45 formerly of Adrian who died in Kansas City after pneumonia. Neighbors held a house warming for H. P. Edwarde’s country home before his move north of Adrian. Richard Haley and Myrtle Oller wed at Rev. Weir’s home. A Simpson and Fannile Prather also married at Rev. Weir’s, at Jack Bigin’s house. W. FP Wolfe Jr. and family visit Usacol after trading New Mexico property. John Hammondtree and wife return from a trip to Salloa, Kansas. Injured in a schoolhouse explosion are reported improving. Farmers eye 25 cents per acre on corn pasturing, with potential damage per acre on next crop.
Fragmentary OCR notes reference a drug store at Clay's Drug Store on the north side square, with unclear text about stomach issues and a prepared by line.
A distorted timetable lists local and interstate freight divisions, route coverage including Oklahoma California and Pacific Northwest. It notes monthly Tuesday rates and round trip pricing plus second class colonists rates to Los Angeles San Francisco and other California points and to Portland Seattle and northeast points. It references dates March to April and several city and state names.
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