1875 Miss Mattie Cutler accuses O.H. Bender of attempted carnal knowledge with her, after his arrest, she’s found to have skipped town owing her landlord some months rent. Butler.
1880 The depot for the Lexington & Southern Railroad will be 3/5 of a mile west of the Courthouse, jest west of the Ohio street school, Butler.
1916 The spectacular crime career of Dale Jones, Bates Co rascal, is interrupted in the Bates Co Court, which sentences him to 2 years in the state pen.
1928 Ott Piepmeier sues Willard Taylor over a tractor Piepmeier sold to him, he refused to pay the $760 note, saying the tractor wasn’t any good. Judgment goes to Taylor, in the amount of $30,000. Peipmeier files an appeal. Butler.
1942 When a Japanese submarine shells the West coast of the United States,
Butlerite Wesley Johnson, working for the US government in radar, helps get a fix on the enemy vessel and it is sunk.
1965 The Butler city council, in a special meeting, canvasses the bids for work on the ten inch water main that will loop the town. The will meet with the Army Corps of Engineers on March 4th on the studies of a proposed lake on the Miami creek, west of Butler.
1988 The Amsterdam Saddle Club is founded.
1988 Bates county sheriff Buck Hough let it be known he needs 5 bulletproof vests for his department. Today Butler Walmart manager Glenn Bailey presented a check for $1,000 to the sheriff to go toward the $2,500 cost.
2001 Edgar Lee Robertson is advertising his Robertson’s Office Products Center for sale, on the north side of the Butler square. He began his business in 1949 on the NE corner of the Inn Hotel building in Butler.
