Courtesy of the Bates County Museum 802 Elks Drive, Butler Mo 64730 (660) 679-0134
Herrman’s Historical Happenings week of December 25
1875 People on the square notice that signs have been switched around. Butler.
1888 The worst wreck ever, to date, on the railroad, takes place South of Butler when 4 cars break loose from the incoming freight train. They start back down the track and collide with another freight train. Several cars are telescoped and 24 end up in the ditch. The crew escapes injuries but a 14 year old boy, riding in a coal car, requires medical attention.
1894 Christmas is marred when all the buildings on the west side of the Hume square burn.
1905 Missouri Governor Folk pardons George Long, who killed his father, ten years ago on Lone Oak township.
1915 A cast of 60 present the Minstrel show "A Night in a Cabaret" at Fisk's Opera House, Butler.
1923 The Walker-McKibbon mercantile store is robbed of $250 in cash and about 250 diamonds. North side of the Butler square.
1934 Bates Co Sheriff Bert Bradley arrests John Thompson, Altona barber & pool hall operator, charging him with shooting and wounding Russell Bryant of Altona.
1960 A fire at the Special Lens plant, in Butler, results in much smoke damage. The plant which processes lens for eye glasses has been in Butler for several years.
