Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1891-03-27
Marriage Licenses.
Personal.

Rev. S. Hall Young delivered a most
entertaining lecture ON Alaska IN the II.
E. church.on Friday evening, for the ben
eft of the Y. NJ. c. A. Those present
unanimously pronounced it among the
best ever given in Butler.
James W. Dr4pe, large stockholder in
the Salt and Chemical Works, denies the
report that the heavy stockholders are
trying to freeze out" the smaller stock
holders.
Linn Caldwell is teaching No. school
of Butler Twp, and at the meeting of the
Directors in Butler, last Saturday, received
a very handsome Recommendation from
them.
Mr.. L. W. Zuver, the popular photog-
rapher, has opened branch studio at Mil
lerstown His work is too well known to
need commendation, and the new branch
will have the success it merits.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Patterson are visit
ing in Petrolia.
Harvey Snyder. Esq, is candidate for
District Attorney of Armstrong county.
Lew. Ziegler, of Harmony, has purchased
the old Alfred Pearce property and will
make summer resort of it.
Dr. E. Crawford, of Ogle, has purchased
an interest in the j. E. Boggs store at
Mars. They will build a new store-room
ut once.
Rev Frank Prosser, of Harmony, con
tradicts the current report that Rev. OF
ting had signed a liquor petition.
Mr.. John Hesselgesser and his friends
celebrated his 74th birthday on the l4th
inst.
Rudolf Kelker, of this county, is said to
be the Oldest survivor of the late war. He
was member of Co. NJ, 5th Pa. Cavalry,
and is now IS years of age.
Mr. j. B. Black, President of the Town
Council, is on the sick list, and during his
absence W. A. Forquer, Esq, presides
over the Council with his usual grace and
astutenesS.
DR.. v McAlpine is in Canada attending
the funeral OF his brother. He will return
Saturday.
Miss Bessie Burns is spending a weeks
vacation in Lawrence county.
Fred 0esterling has sold his house on n.
Bluff street. and John Ekas his on W.
Pearl, in which Walker Martin has been
living The latter sale was to Wallace
Burt who will bring his family from the
East.
A game Of pyramid pool was played be-
tween two Butler boys for $40 a side on
Saturday.
John Sloan is visiting his uncle at Grant
City.
Mr.. John R. Millinger, of Oakland Twp,
dropped dead on Wednesday. He was
about 60 years of age.
Mrs. Kinkead, of Holiday sburg, and
Mrs. Blackburne and son, of East End, are
visiting Mr.. and Mrs. ]. f. Lowry.
There have lately been placed upon
the market several cheap reprints of an
obsolete edition of w ebster's Diction-
ary." These books are given various
names. ''Webster's Unabridged" 1.-The
Great Webster's Dictionary" "Webster'S
Big Dictionary" "Webster's Encyclope-
die Dictionary" etc, etc.
Many announcements concerning them
are very misleading, as the body of each
from A to z is the same, e,-forty four years
behind the times, and printed from cheap
plates made by photographing the old
pages.
The old book has been padded out by
various additions culled from various
sources of questionable reliability, but the
body is the same that was published when
Polk was president and duly buried at the
incoming of Lincoln. The Webster, cur
rent from Lincoln to Harrison. is the pop
glar copyrighted Unabridged" which has
just been superseded by WEBsTERs In
TERNATIoNAL DICTIONARY See advertise
ment in another column