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Newspaper
Butler Weekly Times
Location
Butler, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1908
Page
4
A trade evangelist preached a system of close city country ties stressing community interest. He cited two similarly sized cities across a river where a strong market and fair farmer pricing boosted growth, urging better roads, improved machinery, and urban rural collaboration for mutual benefit.
In Grant City Missouri and Worth County a unique district serves three school age children with one attending home school and two in a distant school. The teacher receives 32 dollars monthly for instructing the single pupil, prompting praise for keeping rural schooling open for one child.
Berlin reports a clash in the Kalahari between German expeditionary troops and Hottentots seeking chief Simon Koppers. The fight left 58 Hottentots dead and German losses heavy with Captain von Erckert, Lieutenant Ebinger, and twelve soldiers killed and seventeen wounded. Koppers escaped. several women were captured.
Report from Nicholas county says growers are destroying plant beds wholesale to prevent raids feared by tobacco farmers. No raiders have yet visited Nicholas county, and farmers fearfully protect property while many declare they will not grow tobacco this year.
Caldwell Idaho March 23 Judge Fremont Wood presiding in district court recommended the state board of pardon commute the death sentence of Harry Orchard to life in the state penitentiary Orchard testified to truth and hid nothing in the cases tied to the Steunenberg murder Haywood Pettibone and Moyer are named in the timeline with Orchard’s confession and the plea of guilty to murder in the first degree including the related arrests and trials
Aurora Mo March 23 After nearly eighteen hours the jury in the case of George M Lane the Joplin banker accused of receiving deposits after the bank became insolvent failed to reach a verdict and was discharged by Judge Johnson. The jury stood eight for acquittal and four for conviction. The first trial produced seven for acquittal and five for conviction. No agreement is believed to be reached again. State represented by N T Gentry and the prosecuting attorney. defense by George St Clay and H McPherson.
A dialogue from the Atlanta Constitution shows a Major asking for a movon shine distillery in Georgia's dry region. He plans to visit a graveyard at night by a crypt and slate tombstone, awaiting a signal like a cracking owl to confirm trust before proceeding.
Mrs J P White of Rushboro Pa credits Dr King s New Discovery with saving her life from lung trouble. She says it loosens a cough quickly and cures lung disease even when hopeless. The remedy for coughs colds la grippe asthma bronchitis and hoarseness is sold at Frank T Clays drugstore 50c and 1.00 with trial bottle free.
The statement says Harry K. Thaw will likely remain at Matteawan for the time being unless his mental condition improves. Evelyn Neabit Thaw seeks a divorce on the grounds he was insane at marriage and remains so, with the asylum stay tied to the outcome of her suit.
Will Burns, about 30, son of Robt Burns of the East End, fell into the Jones Coal Co shaft three miles northwest of town and sustained severe bruises though not dangerously hurt. Dr. Allen and J W Jamison rushed to the scene and brought him back to town.
A writer imagines a country of tightfisted citizens who hoard money, reject public goods, skip newspapers, and wear the same clothes. The piece humorously questions the consequences of universal frugality and asks readers to consider who benefits when everyone saves. It highlights pockets of real tightfisted neighbors and the irony of wealth kept idle.
Supreme Court Justice Brewer warns in Leslie's Weekly that municipal and railroad bonds now burden New York with 421 million dollars. He laments a national drift toward endless debt, warlike spending paired with peace rhetoric, and the postponement of moral responsibility to future posterity.
Berlin reports that sixty two delegates from a nationwide Jewish organization were arrested during a peaceful meeting in Kharkoff and subjected to brutal mistreatment and imprisonment without trial. Troops stormed the hall with bayonets and dragged attendees to cells where they were knouted and chained. Authorities offered no explanation for the suspicions of conspiracy.
London dispatches report King Victor of Italy not only approves the marriage of the Duke of Abruzzi to Miss Catherine Elkina but plans high honors for both the groom and the bride’s father. The Duke will be promoted after the wedding, and he and the Duchess will receive a royal palace.
Milan March 23 The Courier Della Serra reports Mise Elkinegirl will become a royal highnose in her own right upon marrying the Duke of Abruzzi. The Lucky Quarter is the price paid for Dr. King s New Life Pills. They promise relief from headache biliousness constipation and malaria. If unsatisfied the refund is offered at Frank T Clay s drug store.
Korean doctors touted tiger bone pills for general weakness and a brew of snakes, toads, and centipedes for desperate cases, while a burning pink on a child's forehead was said to cure convulsions. The Czar granted passes across Siberia to R C Moree and Y M C A delegates visiting a new Light House association of about 1,500 members.
Prominent San Francisco architect Norman R. Coulter endorses Electric Bitters as a tonic for stomach liver and kidney disorders. The ad claims the medicine corrects ailments promptly and purifies blood, priced 50 cents at Frank T. Clay's drug store.
At the Republican state convention last week a proposed resolution urging submission of a prohibition amendment to the state constitution was defeated in committee. The editors say the coalition who supported brewer interests in 1904 opposed the measure, blocking its adoption. Howell Co Gazatte
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