Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1894-09-20
Personal.


Miss Millie Ruff visited friends in Pitts
burg last week.
JIM. Freeman, of Millwood, Pa, has
come to Butler to clerk for G. n. Boyd.
Miss Mile Sherman has returned from
Pittsburg.
Mrs Rev. Luebkert, OF Washington D.
C. is the guest OF Mrs. Adam Troutman
Mrs. Prof Gibson is visiting her parents
at Meadville.
Miss Mary and Bertha Wagner are visit
ing their sister, Mrs. LAM, of Pittsburg.
Miss Bertha Lowry was the guest of
Pittsburg friends recently.
Mr.. Pope, of New York, is the guest of
of his brother-in-law Capt. Brymer
AL Craig of Burlington Ia, is visiting his
friends in Millerstown and Butler.
Geo Shaffner is at Chickamsugs, this
week, helping to locate the monuments on
the battlefield.
Mrs. W. G. Smith of Institute Hill, for
merly of Marion twp. was stricken with
paralysis few days ago.
VIM. Newton and family, of st. Louis,
Mo-, were the guests of Fl. G. McKim Esq.
of Zelienople last week.
DR.. Meldon, of Dublin, Ireland, weighs
a few pounds less than 400 and rides a bi-
cycle.
Hugh Bryson and his wife of Miama Co.
Kansas are visiting their friends in this
county.
Miss Jennie Cameron, of Bolivar n. Y.
and her hostess, Miss Lillian Starr visited
in Renfrew last week.
T. A. Wilson, son of Com. J. S. Wilson,
is now in the employ OF the City Phar-
macy.
Charles Douglass returned on Monday
from Pittsburg where he took in the en-
campment last week.
Isaiah Thompson, OF Washington, Chief
of the Dead Letter Office, is visiting his
friends in this county.
William Flanagan of Washington is the
guest of his father Capt. Flanagan of In
stitute Hill.
Miss Ada GleEn, daughter of W. G.
Glenn, of West Sunbury, is seriously Ill OF
congestion of the lungs.
Pat Brown, the efficient constable of the
Fifth ward, received merited tribute
from Judge Greer last week. Pat does his
whole duty and makes good officer.
John NJ. Smith, of Missouri is back to his
old county on visit He formerly lived
in Centre twp, and is a veteran of the late
war.
Mr.. G. S. Sanford and wife of E. Smeth-
port have recently been the guests of Mrs:
L. ]. Dilley. Jas. A. Marin and wife will
visit here in few days.
Lon Shira and family have moved into
part of the Rauscher double house on W.
Pearl st. Jos. Kisksddon and family will
occupy the rest of the house.
Rev Critchlow, son of Richard Critoh-
low, took advantage of the excursion rates
from Boston to Pittsburg to visit his folks
here. He is looking well, and expects to
finish his course next winter.
A. J. Reynolds, of Indiana, is visiting
his friends in Buffalo twp. He went West
in 1885, located in Indiana, was member
of the end Indiana cavalry, and attended
the encampment at Pittsburg.
David Dixon and W. N. Douglass of Iowa |
visited their old friends in Penn. twp. this |
week. They went west forty years ago,
and this was Mr.. Douglass first return
VlSlt 10 ulS Olu HOulo.
Samuel Wilson and family of Detroit, |
are the guests of his brother J. S. Wilson |
of Centreville. Sam attended the encamp- |
ment in Pittsburg, and then came to But |
ler. He had not met Jim for twenty |
years.
Turner McGahey of Denver Col. an old |
soldier is visiting his friends in Middlesex |
and Clinton twps. He went West 3S years |
ago, and this is his first visit to his old |
home. The McGahey farm is now the |
John B. Mahan farm, all the McGahey |
family have left years ago.
Miss Sadie Leslie, daughter of Samuel
A. Leslie Esq. of Middlesex twp. visited |
friends in Brinton and Braddock this Sum- |
mer, but she has been at home for the |
past four weeks. How the ridiculously |
untrue story of her being burned to death |
in Duluth, MINI. originated is a mystery |
to the family.
Thomas J. Van Hon, of Iowa, a son of |
VIM. Van Hon decd, formerly of Butler |
and Penn twp. visited his ffienes in But |
Ter and vicinity this week, and went down |
to see the old farm. Mr.. Van Hon is now |
cashier of the first National Bank of Mt. |
Pleasant, Iowa. They went west thirty |
three years ago, and his father died in |
Iowa eight years ago.
Hon. Joseph E. Burkhart of Lamar,
Kansas, an old Butler county soldier |
"took in" the encampment at Pittsburg |
last week, came on to Butler, Thursday, |
and is now visiting his friends in this |
vicinity. He went to Kansas twenty-five |
years ago, has prospered there and loves |
his state; takes prominent part in the |
politics of his county; is full of energy at |
81 years and is enjoying life. His friends |
here gave him cordial welcome. In his |
part of Kansas (the Northern CentraD the |
corn crop was failure this year on ac-
count Of the drouth and they are buying |
wheat to feed to their stock next winter. |
The "hot winds" prevail in his part of the |
state, and it was this wind more than the |
drouth that ruined the corn crop.
John Martin, of Black Jack, Douglass |
Co. Kansas, is visiting his friends and rela-
tives in this county, he having taken ad-
vantage of the excursion rates to the Pitts
burg encampment, $21.25 from Wellsville.
Kansas. He lived in Lancaster twp. be- |
tween Whitestown and Harmony, and went |
to Kansas IA years ago He is looking
we'll and his wife who is a daughter of
Matthew White decd is we'll. In his part
of Kansas they will have half crop of
corn or better They suffered from the
drouth, but in his part of Kansas the ''hot
winds" do not prevail and the crop was
not burned up. Mr.. Martin has 148 acres
in corn this year, he expects 1000 bushels
of corn, with which he will fatten 60 cattle
and 100 hogs for the winter and spring
markets at Kansas City. James Findley
and family, Jas. Davidson and family,
Bryson Black and family; the family OF
Robert Hays, and E. Bixler and family,
all Butler county people, in his section,
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