Herrman’s Historical Happenings week of April 12
1862 34 Confederate sympathizers are arrested and brought to Butler and jailed.
1884 The entire Butler school board signs a bond for Prof. G.W. Lowry, who has been charged with seduction of a 13 year old female student, as they think the charges are groundless.
1889 The Butler city marshal raids one of the East Butler’s notorious ‘dives’ and arrests two dusky women, who are given the choice of incarceration or relocation, left town.
1925 James J. Franklin, an early settler in Bates Co, dies. He was the nephew of inventor and writer Benjamin Franklin.
1944 The Erickson Freezer Locker, in Amsterdam, is having a new refrigeration system installed.
1945 There are two graduates from Herrell School, Northeast of Butler. They are Joseph Wilson & Carroll Pyle.
1961 Butler photographer J. B. Fleming winds 3 awards at the Missouri Professional Photographers convention in St. Joseph.
1984 Fern Glassmire, a retired school teacher in Bates Co gives a program on the early history of the Mulberry and Amoret communities at the Bates County Historical Society meeting in Butler.
