Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1894-07-20
Personal.

W. ". Maxwell Of Winfield twp. was in
town this week.
Miss Myrtle Byerly of Great Belt is Wis
iting in Butler.
Miss Charlotte Hosford, of Pittsburg is
visiting Mrs. J. B. Bredin.
Harry Richey and family left on Tues
day for the lakes.
Miss Maud Sutton is home frcn Mead
vile.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. C. Bancroft are home
from Conneaut where they spent two
| weeks.
DR. MoAlpine hus returned from his visit
| to his friends in Canada, which he greatly
enjoyed, and he is now again ready for
business at his Office in the Union block
"Reddy" Fletcher retained from a trip
to Petersburg, Va, few days ago.
Thompson & Brown OF the Lowry Hoase
have leased the Mcclure House at Wheel
ing.
Rev. Eli Miller, Jennie Brown, Lolita
and Cora White, and Rev. Snyder attend
ed the Christian Endeavor convention in
Cleveland.
Rev. Collins and family are visiting
friends in England.
Miss Lana Bell has returned from a
months visit with friends in Pittsburg.
Miss Bird Heineman is spending week
dt Conneaut Lake.
A. G. Williams and wife, Stephen Cum
mings and Everett. Kalston went to Cam
bnge, Tuesday.
W. G. Douthett and family and Rev.
Mckee and family went to Conneaut Tues
day.
Mrs L T. Nigel has returned from
Sharon.
Steve Mark ham is back from months
trip to the Bradford field.
Harry J. Klingler has returned from
Philadelphia.
John Bickel is East buying his fall
stock.
Mrs. Mary Brown, of Brownsville, has
been granted pension.
Mai. C. E. Anderson is reported quite
i'll.
Miss Cora Lamberton, who has been
visiting at n ew Castle the past two weeks
has returned.
Mrs. W. G. Evans returned to her HON
in Evans City after weeks visit with he r
father, G. n. Wilson, of this place.
Mrs. Isaac Meals and Miss Bernice
Meals are visiting in HarrisYille. They
are the guests of a sister of Mrs. Meals
from the South, who is now living in Har-
risville.
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Lanz lefs for Pitts
burg, Wednesday, after two weeks visit
at Gebhart Wagner's.
c. n. BOYD left Tuesday morning with
the Solid Comfort Fishing Club for Canada
Samuel Mccullough, of Prospect, is Sc
riously ill.
Uriah Fisher and wife attended the
funeral of his sister, Mrs. Weitzel, at Pitts
burg, Tuesday.
]. E. Devinny purchased fine horse
on Tuesday.
Rev. ]. S. Mckee, of the U. P. Church,
preached last Sunday, on publishing and
purchasing Sunday newspapers. The
church was quite well filled with people
who listened with much interest to the
able sermon.
G. A. Rupert, young man who pump
ed on a well in Forward twp. mile or SO
east of Evans City, and who was but late
ly married, disappeared from his home,
three weeks ago and has not been heard
from since. He was quiet, temperate,
man.
Miss Emma Meals of Concord township.
Butler county, has been elected to fill the
vacancy caused by the resignation of Miss
Martin in the faculty. Miss Meals is
sister of Professor Meals of Emlenton and
comes to this place highly recommended
as an nstructor.-Pdrker PhOenir.
Uncle Tom Mechling is probably the
only man in Butler who shook hands with
Lafayette when he passed through Butler
in the summer Of 1925. "Uncle" Tom
was boy Of nine years at that time, aud
his father kept the Mechling House on
the Diamond, of which the CITIZEN office
was part. Lafayette passed through
Butler on his way from Pittsburg to Erie,
and took his dinner here. The town was
decorated for the occasion, and three arches
had been built-one opposite the old Brink
er hotel, now Willard House; one on the
Diamond and one opposite the old Beatty
hotel on the site of which the Troutman
building now stands. Lafayette was
travelling with party, and quite a num-
Der of men and boys drove and walked out
the old plank road to meet, and es
cost them to town, and when they got
back to Butler they formed in two lines
and Lafayette walked between them and
shook hands with everybody. He was a
cripple from his wound at Brandywine,
and walked slowly. Uncle Tom describes
him as being at that time a stout, full
faced, round headed man, who wore blue
coat, white vest, and buff nankeen pants.
He and his party took dinner at the Mech
Ing house, in the brick building now oc-
cupied by Col. Thompson Among the
dishes Mrs. Mechling had for dinner that
day was boiled sauer -craut, and of this La
fayette partook very freely. Then the
party went on north, stopping over night
at the stone house or somewhe~a near
there. Lafayette is buried in the Pere-la-
chaise cemetery near Paris, there is an iron
railing around his grave but no tombstone
upon it, and every day in the year a fresh
boquet provided by the American Society