BU Butler County, Kansas, was established in 1855. It was one of Kansas’ original 36 counties and named for Andrew Butler, a U.S. Senator from South Carolina who promoted Kansas statehood. The county seat of Butler County is El Dorado, Kansas.
Butler County Old News
courtesy of the Kansas Old Newspaper Transcribers Guild (KCGS)
Cadet Ray Rowe Victim of Army Plane Crash
Cadet Ray Rowe and Pal Killed Newton Youth Is Victim of Army Plane Crash Near Kelly Field Son of S. C. Rowe Instantly Killed When Big Bomber Fell - Will Be Brought Home NEWTON, KS - Associated Press dispatches from San Antonio, telling the shocking news of the...
5 Burn To Death
Augusta Man and 3 Children Are Trapped by Flames AUGUSTA, KS - Jan. 7 - A father and three children were burned to death, the mother is lying at the point of death in a local hospital, and two other children escaped without injury early this morning when the...
Playmates Are Reunited
PLAYMATES ARE REUNITED AFTER HALF A CENTURY Pioneer Women Find Each Other at Church Reunion WICHITA, KS - After 50 years separation, Mrs. F D Hughes of 1007 South Water, and Mrs. Ellen Winchel of Newkirk Okla., childhood playmates, met at the home of Mrs. G W...
Rejected Suitor Shoots Himself
RUSSELL – Fred Heard, 22, manager of an oil company, shot and killed himself here late Saturday night after having been rejected by Hilda Nuss, a Russell high school girl. Heard has threatened to take his life for several weeks, but no one had taken him seriously. The...
John Seed Left High and Dry
Patrolman Took His Liquor and Left Him Dry HUTCHINSON, KS - John Seed, a harvester, who claims North Dakota as his home, is the victim of hard luck. He arrived in Hutchinson penniless last night. Going into a South Main street pool hall he noticed a pint of alcohol...
Ruby Clampitt Jumps From Train
Rejected by Sweetheart Caused Girl To Take Life Discover that Lover was "Double-Crossing" Her Led Ruby Clampitt to Jump to Death STERLING, KS - July 7 - It was the discovery that her sweetheart had gone back on her, and had given information to the officers leading...
Methodist Unification Plan 1924
Unification Plan Is Approved at Meeting of South Methodists Chattanooga, Tenn., July 5 - Organic union into one great Church of the 7,000,000 members of the Methodist Episcopal Church and the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, depends upon the action during 1925 of...
Lawrence Latimer Eats Spit Devil & Dies
KANSAS CITY - Lawrence Lee Latimer, 2, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. Harvey Latimer, died here last night from the effects of eating a "spit devil," an explosive substance used in Fourth of July celebration. The Hutchinson News, Hutchinson, Kansas. Friday, July 5, 1924. Page...
Coffeyville School Board Must Pay
School Board Must Pay Negro Attorney TOPEKA, KS - The Coffeyville board of education today was handed a bill for $1,000, the attorney's fee charged by Elisha Scott, Topeka negro lawyer, for representing Mrs. Celia Thurman Watts, Coffeyville negro, in her suit against...
Frank Pajer Killed By Officers
Alleged Car Thief Killed By Officers PITTSBURG, KS - Frank Pajer, 20 years old, of Frontenac, was killed early today [July 5] by Pittsburg officers who were trailing Pajer and a companion, suspected of motor car theft. Earlier in the night the men, it is believed,...