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W. L. Hooper orders his paper changed to Martin City, Mo near which place he has moved his family and thinks they will like the change Dr. Martin took Mrs. Warren White to the city yesterday, where she will be placed in a hospital for an opera tion. It ls hoped that she will with stand the ordeal and return home in good health -Merwin Clipper. George Dixon purchased the Pentzer building on North Main street of Miss Kate Canterbury, and will use 16 for his furniture store. Mr. Pentzer built the building for that especial purpose. It has 8 frontage on North Main of 40 feet and runs back 90 feet, with a southeast corner front. Professor John Morgan Batley, superintendent of the Public Schools of Carterville, stopped over to see bis old friend Rev. O. E Vivion on Sat urday. He had spent the Christmas holidays with his parents, near Mar. shall, Mo. THE TIMES acknowledges & very pleasant call from Prof. Bailey. The bottoms threatened to drop out of the roads last week but a few days hard wind without rain, has bridged them over for awhile. The main thoroughfares throughout the county will have to be rocked and made permanent before we will ever be blessed with good roads the year round. Dr. W. Robinson was taken to Kansas City again Saturday and another operation performed on him for gall stone. This is the third time he has been operated on In the past three months. He is reported as resting easy and having an excellent chance for recovery.-Amsterdam Enterprise. Hon. T. J. Smith, superintendent of the Baptist Sunday School, WHS presented a handsome teachers' Bible by the teachers and officers a token of appreciation of his long service and uniformly kind and considerate treatment of all. Mr. Smith has served in that capacity for more than 18 years. Isaac Ellington has the following solution for the financial troubles, a panacia for all the panicy ills that have been worrying Republican Statesmen. Increase the tariff. If high tariff has heretofor caused good times, why, add on some more tariff and have good times. Why won't that work, according to Republican theories. John Garrison, Charles Tellers and C. Steuck, Rich Hill saloon men, were arrested the last of the week on information charging them with selling whiskey to minors. They came to Butler Saturday and appeared before Judge Denton and gave bond for their appearance at the February term"of circuit court. We see from the dispatches that W. J. Butler has been appointed receiver for the First National Bank at Hamilton, Ohio. He 1s serving in like capacity for the Bates National Bank here. It appears that Mr. Butler has a pull in the right direction and might be termed a professional receiver. A large number of Bates county teachers, headed by County Superintendent Ives, attended the meeting of the State Teachers Association at Joplin last week. They report a pleasant and profitable meeting with 8 large attendance. The next meeting of the association goes to KanS&S City during the Christmas holldays of 1908. Mrs. C.A. Hedges, who has been visiting relatives and friends In Butler, was 8 pleasant caller at THE Times office on Tuesday accompanied by her son Roy, and lavored us with renewal. Mrs. Hedges says that while she likes to live in Kansas City, no place seems so much like home 89 old Butler and she is muchinterested In the local happenings. n U H Wrso W-18 in the first of the