Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1895-12-05
PERSONAL.

PERSONAL.
H. L. McNees. lately Of Pump, has
moved to New Brighton.
Mrs. Heimy scbneideman j. recovering
from a serious; ILLNESS.
Capt. Fleeger was driven up street Mon
day for the first time since his Illness.
Joseph Gray is building a frame house
on West Jefferson street
Maggie Kamerer was brought home
from Allegheny hospital last week
w. s. Brandon, Of Liucoln Way is down
with typhoid
Robert HARRISON, of Middlesex, was IN
town on business Monday.
). W. Douglass of Portersvilie, has been
granted pension.
W. +, aad Leroy English attended the
Sheriff s sales Friday.
Miss Laura Rieger, of Institute Hill,
visited friends in 3 2illersJowa last week,
Thomas sankey, OF Slippery Rock, Is
down with pneumonia
Miss Eta Wadsworth has lately returned
from i visit TO friends in Youngstown.
n. c. Zuver has opened barber shop in
the Miller building, 2l2 Norths Main ST.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Faubel have return
ed from q visit TO friends in Canada.
Fred Roenigk, of Coaltown, is able 70 be
about again.
T. 5 Peters, OF Centerville, represent
ing be Sfpperyroek Signal, was IN town,
Tuesday
". E. Brown and James Rowan, OF
HarrisviIle, and ohm YaEdySe, Of Marion,
were in town on business Monday.
John Ferguson and wife of Middlesex,
and Wm Burris, of Franklin. were in
town Friday.
Joshua Gallaher and Jacob Ausser. OF
Muddy Creek township, and A. ". Shah
non, Of Franklin, We're in town Monday.
George Gileland and wife, OF Cranberry
township, visited friends in Butler Mon
day. and George attended court as con-
stable Ut the township.
Seth Snyder, of Brady, has recently
built very fine home. D. e. Sanderson
did the carpenter WORK and A. W. Shan
non the painting.
f. Ii. Negley and wife attended the
funeral OF Mrs Negley's sister. Miss
Sim ms, at Beulsh cemetery il " est
moreland Co. on Thanksgiving, day.
Frank CLARK, of the Park, has purchased
a dynamo, and proposes making electric
light tor himself and his neighoors. de
Will run it with the gas engine that now
pumps his we'll.
ARCHIE Murphy, of W orth township, mas
late ;. returned from Virginia, where he
was looking after the estate Of relative
wuo died recently, and which will necessi-
tate his return To that State soon.
". j. Andre. of St. Joe Station. cried
the ,aie of The Coyle o9erty in the court
house Monday. The property consisted OF
80 acres in Donegal township and was bid
in by Lewis {. Nordheim for 81, ,l25.
Policeman Skil!man Was feeling anus
ually important last Friday, because be
became grand-pap that day. His s-n,
Williams wife, gave birth to her first
child that morning
Mrs Frank Currie, of Institute Hill is
seriously i'll. She is daughter of VIM.
Carothers decd formerly of Clay twp.
Her brothers and sisters and other rela
tives and friends haye lately called to see
her
Col. Sullivan passed his Thanksgiving
with Judge Agnew iu Beaver. The judge
will be 81 ears of age the 18th of next
January He is yet in good health and
spirits and takes lively interest IN pub
lie affairs.
Thomas Marshall and Jno. Hespenhide,
of Mars, and Clint Boles of Butler are in
A tlaata seeing the exposition. They
took with them line of samples from the
Oil Well Supply Co.'S store for exhibition
at the great fair, intending to give to the
peop le of the south some idea of Pennsyl-
vania's wonderful petroleum industry.
Henry Heck, the energetic secretary of
the Farmers Mutual Insurance Company
of Hannahstcwn, was in town Tuesday at
tending to the business of the company.
He is now past 73 years of age, has been
the secretary OF the company for q years, |
and it has never lost cent through any |
mistake Of his He has been elected nine |
times and will probably be re elected at
the January meeting.
Joseph Cunningham, of Clinton town |
ship, who mas been working in the Arm |
strong comfy gas field, is home on visit. |
The gas field OF that county lies to the |
south and east of Kittanning, and the gas |
is found in what they call the fifth 5sand. |
ten-inch hole is drilled to a depth of 800 |
feet, then cased with 81 casing to shut Oft |
the water, and an inch hole drilled below |
that The gas sand is about 1000 feet be- |
low the surface, and the gas is piped TO |
Pittsburg and Ford City.
John K. Steele, of Nebraska, was a |
visitor in Franklin last week. He is a |
guest at the Richard Moffet Tesid ence in |
Sugsrcreek township, the former home Of |
his wife, who has been visiting there for |
some time. Mr.. Steele is known 10 fame |
as Goal Oil Jonnie," title which he does /
not banker after, but which olings to him |
on account of his lavish nse of money for
time in his early youth, in the golden |
days of the petroleum excitement in the /
Oil Creek valley.
Mrs. Mary Biehl widow OF Peter Biehl,
celebrated the 18th anniversary of her
birth last Sunday. Her sons and the fam
lilies went to her home on Institute Hill
and passed an enjoyable day. Mrs. Biehl !
was born in Kulhausen, Germany, Dec. l,
500 Size came to Butler and was mar
ried To Mr. Biehl in October of lS49. Their
home was on Main street in the property
now occupied by Henry, and there they |
prospered and raised their family. Some |
twenty years ago Mr.. Biehl built the large
frame house on the hill near the Orphans
Home, and died shortly after moving into