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From Recorder of Deeds, Lucille Mundey

Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission & State of Missouri to Max Properties II & Richard McClain:

LAND BETWEEN STATE HWY AND GRANTEE'S LAND IN NW/4 OF
SE/4 OF 21-40-31

Comments:

RIGHT OF DIRECT ACCESS OVER DESCRIBED PROPERTY

Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission & State of Missouri to City of Butler:

GRANTEE'S  RIGHTS OF DIRECT ACCESS BETWEEN HWY &
GRANTEE'S ABUTTING LAND IN NW/4 OF SE/4 OF 21-40-31

Comments:

RIGHT OF DIRECT ACCESS DESCRIBED

Robert D. Umstattd & Judith L. Umstattd to Robert D. Umstattd (trustee) & Judith L. Umstattd (trustee) & Umstattd Trust:

E/2 OF N/2 OF E/2 OF LOT 1 OF NE/4 AKA NE/4 OF SE/4 OF NE/4
EXCEPT LYING E OF CREEK. E/2 OF SW/4, NW/4 OF SW/4, S/2 OF
E/2 OF LOT 1 OF NW/4 AND W/4 OF NW/4 OF E/2 OF LOT 1 OF
NW/4 , W/2 OF LOTS 1 AND 2 OF NW/4 ALL IN 1-40-29; AND E/2 OF
NW/4 OF NW/4 OF 12-40-29; AND N/2 OF SE/4 OF 19-41-29; AND S/2
OF SE/4, EXCEPT W 13-1/2 RODS OF S 24 RODS OF 19-41-29; N/2
OF SE/4 OF 19-41-29

Matt Goforth & Calee Goforth & Calee Ann McElwain (aka) to Matt Goforth:

SW/4 OF 34-40-30 DESCRIBED

Ronald R. Davis & Melissa Clark-Davis to Terry G. Keen & Brenda S. Keen:

N/2 OF NW/4 OF 12-41-32 DESCRIBED

Ernest William Weeks III & Tracy Lynn Weeks to Lonny A. Duckworth (trustee) & Marilyn K. Duckworth (trustee):

TRACT 1: N/2 OF LOTS 1 & 2 OF SW/4 OF 18-41-30, AND 12.53
ACRES OFF N SIDE OF S/2 OF LOT 2 OF SW/4 OF 18-41-30,
EXCEPT DESCRIBED. TRACT 2: S 20 ACRES OF LOT 2 OF SW/4 OF
18-41-30, EXCEPT S 10 RODS OF W 963.5 FT

Max Properties II & Richard N. McLain & Lynne O. McLain & State of Missouri to Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission:

LAND BETWEEN STATE HWY AND GRANTOR'S LAND IN SW/4 OF
NE/4 OF 21-40-31

Comments:

DEED FOR SHIFTING & WIDENING EXISTING ENTRANCE AS DESCRIBED

City of Butler to State of Missouri & Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission:

RIGHTS OF ACCESS BETWEEN HWY & GRANTOR'S ABUTTING
LAND IN NW/4 OF SE/4 OF 21-40-31, WHICH IS 40 FT COMMERCIAL
ENTRANCE CENTERED AT SLY R/W LINE OPPOSITE STATION
814+00

Comments:

SHIFTING AND WIDENING EXISTING ENTRANCE DESCRIBED

Barry Clark (co-trustee) & Karen Clark (co-trustee) & Barry and Karen Clark Real Estate Trust to State of Missouri & Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission:

PERMANENT R/W IN NW/4 OF SE/4 OF 21-40-31, BUTLER,
DESCRIBED; WITH ABUTTER'S RIGHTS

Comments:

RIGHT OF WAY DESCRIBED

SLJ Properties & State of Missouri to Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission:

TRACT FOR PERMANENT R/W  IN NW/4 OF SE/4 OF 21-40-31,
BUTLER, DESCRIBED, WITH ABUTTER'S RIGHTS

Comments:

RIGHT-OF-WAY DESCRIBED

Gayland L. Fix & Carmen Fix to Gayland L. Fix (trustee) & Carmen Fix (trustee) & Gayland and Carmen Fix Trust:

TRACT 1: LOT 2, BLK 4, WILLIAM'S 2ND ADDN, BUTLER, EXCEPT N
113 FT

TRACT 2: W/2 OF NE/4 AND NE/4 OF NE/4 OF 18-38-29; NW/4 OF
SW/4 OF 17-38-29.  TRACT 3: W/2 OF E/2 OF NW/4 OF NE/4 OF
20-38-29, LYING N OF OSAGE RIVER

Robert WIlliam Atchison & Cathy Atchison to Kenneth Paul Hubbard & Sherry Hubbard:

S 60 FT LOTS 190, 191 AND 192, ORIGINAL TOWN, ADRIAN

Darrel L. Wilson (Sr) &Debora A. Wilson to Jeremy Yeager & Lacy Yeager:

LOTS 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 AND 20, BLK 4, ORIGINAL TOWN,
MERWIN

Delbert A. Watts & Marian S. Watts to Timothy A. Watts & Pamela S. Watts:

NW/4 OF 18-41-30, DESCRIBED

Delbert A. Watts & Marian S. Watts to Jacob P. Watts & Amy Watts & Delbert A. Watts (life estate) & Marian S. Watts (life estate):

NW/4 OF 18-41-30, DESCRIBED

Donald L. Steuck & Kessie J. Steuck to Thomas Pilcher & Patricia Pilcher:

BLK 50, SPERRY'S ADDN, RICH HILL AND W 30 FT OF ANNIE ST 

Barrie L. Wolfe to Jeremy Moeck:

TRACT 1:  SE/4 OF 24-39-32, DESCRIBED.  TRACT 2:  NE/4 OF SW/4
OF 24-39-32, DESCRIBED

Jasper H. Varns to Paul Q. Varns & Julie Kyser-Varns & Valinda J. Varns & Jack M. Varns & Georgia Varns & Mark K. Varns & Sharon Varns:

LOT 7 AND E/2 OF LOT 8, IN 2-39-31

Patrick  Reynolds Klinksick to Heath W. Klinksick & Carey R. Klinksick:

BEG NE COR OF N/2 OF SW/4 OF 14-38-30, W 599 FT, S 733 FT, E
159.4 FT, S 362 FT, E 448 FT, N TO POB

Gary D. Jackson to Lisa Chandler:

LOTS 1, 2 AND E 26 FT LOT 3, BLK 101, ORIGINAL TOWN, RICH
HILL

Nice weekend in store

Today

Mostly cloudy. Chance of showers...thunderstorms in the morning...then showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. South winds 10 to 15 mph shifting to the west in the afternoon. Chance of rain 80 percent.

Tonight

Partly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers... thunderstorms early in the evening...then mostly clear in the late evening and overnight. Lows in the mid 50s. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph.

Do you know what Labor Day is all about?

Labor Day, the first Monday in September, is a creation of the labor movement and is dedicated to the social and economic achievements of American workers. It constitutes a yearly national tribute to the contributions workers have made to the strength, prosperity, and well-being of our country.

More than 100 years after the first Labor Day observance, there is still some doubt as to who first proposed the holiday for workers.

Some records show that Peter J. McGuire, general secretary of the Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners and a co-founder of the American Federation of Labor, was first in suggesting a day to honor those "who from rude nature have delved and carved all the grandeur we behold."

But Peter McGuire's place in Labor Day history has not gone unchallenged. Many believe that Matthew Maguire, a machinist, not Peter McGuire, founded the holiday. Recent research seems to support the contention that Matthew Maguire, later the secretary of Local 344 of the International Association of Machinists in Paterson, N.J., proposed the holiday in 1882 while serving as secretary of the Central Labor Union in New York. What is clear is that the Central Labor Union adopted a Labor Day proposal and appointed a committee to plan a demonstration and picnic.

The first Labor Day holiday was celebrated on Tuesday, September 5, 1882, in New York City, in accordance with the plans of the Central Labor Union. The Central Labor Union held its second Labor Day holiday just a year later, on September 5, 1883.

In 1884 the first Monday in September was selected as the holiday, as originally proposed, and the Central Labor Union urged similar organizations in other cities to follow the example of New York and celebrate a "workingmen's holiday" on that date. The idea spread with the growth of labor organizations, and in 1885 Labor Day was celebrated in many industrial centers of the country.

Through the years the nation gave increasing emphasis to Labor Day. The first governmental recognition came through municipal ordinances passed during 1885 and 1886. From them developed the movement to secure state legislation. The first state bill was introduced into the New York legislature, but the first to become law was passed by Oregon on February 21, 1887. During the year four more states — Colorado, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New York — created the Labor Day holiday by legislative enactment. By the end of the decade Connecticut, Nebraska, and Pennsylvania had followed suit. By 1894, 23 other states had adopted the holiday in honor of workers, and on June 28 of that year, Congress passed an act making the first Monday in September of each year a legal holiday in the District of Columbia and the territories.

The form that the observance and celebration of Labor Day should take were outlined in the first proposal of the holiday — a street parade to exhibit to the public "the strength and esprit de corps of the trade and labor organizations" of the community, followed by a festival for the recreation and amusement of the workers and their families. This became the pattern for the celebrations of Labor Day. Speeches by prominent men and women were introduced later, as more emphasis was placed upon the economic and civic significance of the holiday. Still later, by a resolution of the American Federation of Labor convention of 1909, the Sunday preceding Labor Day was adopted as Labor Sunday and dedicated to the spiritual and educational aspects of the labor movement. 

The character of the Labor Day celebration has undergone a change in recent years, especially in large industrial centers where mass displays and huge parades have proved a problem. This change, however, is more a shift in emphasis and medium of expression. Labor Day addresses by leading union officials, industrialists, educators, clerics and government officials are given wide coverage in newspapers, radio, and television. 

The vital force of labor added materially to the highest standard of living and the greatest production the world has ever known and has brought us closer to the realization of our traditional ideals of economic and political democracy. It is appropriate, therefore, that the nation pay tribute on Labor Day to the creator of so much of the nation's strength, freedom, and leadership — the American worker.

Bear Backers to sponsor 2nd Annual Mini NASCAR races

Racing fans will again have the chance to step in the winner's circle at the 2nd annual Bear Backers Mini NASCAR Races on September 18. According to Robb Fritts, President of the Butler Bear Backers, this year's event will include two divisions, stock and modified. Faster carts will be in the modified division, with stock carts in the slightly slower division, allowing for more evenly matched races.  Carts in the modified class may not have an engine larger than 6 1/2 horsepower but any other modifications to increase speed are allowed, within safety limitations. 


Last year 14 teams competed and the event raised nearly $21,000. He also pointed out that the Bear Backers pancake breakfast a few weeks ago netted close to $10,000; all the money taken in goes directly to athletic programs and facilities for the school. 


Some of the first projects for the Backers included making the track usable for practices, outfitting the new weight room and reworking the football practice field. In 2009, the organization brought in more than $50,000 which allowed the Backers to purchase the new weight room; three digital cameras with accessories; sports water bottles; repair of the press box at Deaton-Thomas Field and all new uniforms for track, girls basketball, softball, volleyball, football and cheerleading. In the near future, plans include purchasing new boys basketball, baseball and wrestling uniforms as well.


For more information about this year's race, you can email fundraiser1@hotmail.com.


The Butler Bear Backers web page can be seen here.

Bates County Career Women Forum set for Sept 11th

A Better You- Inside and Out is the theme for the 2010 Bates County Career Women's Forum coming up on Saturday, September 11. The forum will be held at the Bates County Hospital Education Center starting at 8:30 am and will feature two speakers this this year.

Connie Zimmerman, Coordinator for St. John's C.H. O' Reilly Cancer Center Oncology Program in Springfield will deliver "Laughter is truly healing" while local teacher Mindy Hubbard will speak on her faith journey and share some real life changing experiences.

Tickets $20, must be purchased in advance and are available at EBT Furniture, What To Wear and from Alice Jennings. As part of the forum, there will also be a fashion show sponsored by What To Wear of Butler.

Cooler weekend in store

Today

Cloudy with showers...thunderstorms likely in the morning...then partly sunny with chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s. South winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.

Tonight

Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.