Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1897-05-13
PERSONAL.

John Swansieger of Evans City has
been granted pension.
Daniel Heck Of Oakland twp, was in
town Yesterday.
DR. Bricker caught cold" and is
laid up with tonsilitis
Levi Boyer Of Lancaster twp was in
town on business Tuesday.
Co. Superintendent Cheesman of
Portersville was in town, Saturday.
". s. While and son Charles, Of
Penn twp. were in town. last Thursday.
Phillip Sutton Of Penn twp. and Esq.
SNYDER Of Brady We're in town last Sat
urday.
Dottie Book was well enough to visit
her neighbors, Jas. L. Browns family,
last Saturday.
Gottlieb Kradle of Butler twp, Is re
joicing over the arrival Of ten-pound
boy at his home
Samuel Graham, of Kansas City Wis
tied his father Edwin Graham OF ".
Sunbury, last week
Esq. Moore and Jon Morrow OF
Worth twp. were in town on legal bust
ness, Monday.
Phillip Burtner visited his daughter,
Mrs John Richey, this week. He is
yet in poor health
Harry Graham attended the funeral
Of his uncle Edward in W Sunbury.
yesterday.
Ed Mcfarland, the handsome hotel
clerk, spent two weeks in New York
and got home last Saturday, he enjoy
cd it immensely.
c. G. McGregor Of the Hotel McGreg
or. and his wife were the guests Of the
the Hotel Butler, Tuesday Mr. Nc
Gregor keeps one Of the best public
houses in this part of the country.
Mrs. Daniel Brunmett, Of san Berdi-
no, Cal, is visiting her father, Henry
Wagner. Sr., who is now in his oith
year, and very feeble John Wagner,
of Chicago. a son of Henry Sr., is also
here.
n. W. Campbell of Clay twp, grad
uated from the law school Of the West
Virginia University, this week, and
won first prize in the Intercollegiate,
contest His subject was The French
Revolution.
Mr.. James and Miss Mary Mckee en-
tertained a number of their friends in a
most hospitable manner on Monday
evening Yesterday Miss Mckee and
her mother left on an extended visit TO
friends IN Cincinnati. They 90 via
steamboat.
Miss Emma TAFT and John L. Alten-
baugh, of Pittsburg were married at
the home of the bride on Mercer St,
Tuesday afternoon by Rev. Collins in
the presence of relatives and friends.
The happy compile left on the evening
train for Pittsburg, where they viii re-
side.
DR.. Bell and family returned nome
from Pinehurst, n c. last Friday
The Dr. Is looking better and feeling
better Capt Ayres and wife were
also benefited by their stay there. Pine.
hurst is about q 100 miles from the
coast in a forest of pine trees. Mr.
Tufts Of Roston, the inillionare soda
fountain man, bought 10000 acres
there for $40. 600. Then he cleared off
several hundred acres, and built no
furnished complete for housekeeping
Excepting the linen and can be rented
at reasonable rates A strong and
high wire fence surrounds the place
and by Op m all strangers must be
outside of it. Mr. Tufts also built an
electric railway from Pinehurst to
Southern Pines on the Raleigh fand
Augusta r. r., distance Of six miles
the place is becoming popular with
people afflicted with throat and lnng
weaknesses and his enterprise is prov
ing a paying one. Another man
bought and cleared several hundred
acres in that neighborhOod and planted
it in peach trees and expects to make
money Some Butler men have pur-
chased several thousand acres near
Ascheville. about f75 miles west OF
Pine Hurst in the mountainous coun-
try