Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1898-09-29
PERSONAL.

Harry Krug of Co. E is home on fur
loug.
Adam Ekas of Ekastown was in town
! yesterday.
E.s. MiIinger, of CIea rfeld, was in
town Friday.
d. L. Cleeland went to Little Wash
( ington, Tuesday.
H. c. Mccullough, of Oakland twp.
was in town, Friday.
George Arner of Washington twp.
was in town, yesterday.
Charley Wise of Co. E, is home from
Camp Meade on a furlough.
Prof Louks and family, removed to
Barkeyville Nena ngo Co, Monday.
S. t. Marshall, Esq. of Washington
twp. is visiting his sons in Butler.
Rev. I. c. Ketler. of Grove City Col
| lege visited his friends in Butler, Mon
day.
Mp. Black and Bert McCamey of
Bruin We're in town Tuesday, attending
Court.
DR.. H. 5. McClymonds of wilkins
burg was a business visitor IN town
Tuesday.
Mrs Boyd of Kansas IS visiting her
brother Cyrus Campbell in Butler and
other relatives in Pittsburg.
Robt. Gibson of Penn twp, was in
town. Monday. He has not been in
good health for some months.
Jno. Horner, of Clearield, was in
town last Thursday He expects to
attend the Mercer Fair this week.
Lyman Dexter of Sarver Station. the
blacksmith. disappeared about two
weeks ago and nobody knows where he
Is.
Ezra D. Hamilton. OF Co. D. 10Th
Regt is at home on sick furlough. lie
is son of Robt Hamilton of Oakland
twp.
Oliver Thompson has bought the Park
Hotel livery stable from Robert Ger
rard, and is now conducting the busi-
ness.
John L. Herr of Harmony drove up
to Butler yesterday to see his friends
and collect his oil money. He's a jolly
good fellow.
]. w. Studebaker, Marcus Re1chert
and J. B. Pisor of Worth twp, and l.
q. Shudebaker of New Castle were IN
town, last Friday.
Miss Ella White daughter of Thomas
White of the south side, mas been home
on vi sit from New Castle where she Is
employed as a stenographer.
Sergt. Major Dougherty and private
Ben Alexander of Co. X, 18th Regmt.,
stopped off at Butler Tuesday morning
on the way to their respective homes in
Grove City and Mercer to spend short
furloughs.
George Thompson of Co E. who
has been home on ten furlough visit
ing his father ex-Sheuff Thompson of
Centre twp, will leave for Camp
Meade, Friday. He came home from
Camp Meade in time to attend the
reunion of last Saturday.
Cas-. Rockenstein of Allegheny is
visiting his sister on S. Main st. Cas-
has been in the employ of Boggs Il
Buhl for about twenty years and some
members of his family are also in the
store. but few months ago he became
subject TO rheumatism, and is yet affiict-
ed. He lives on the hill near the Per
rysville road, where he owns property.
Since B. q b. built the addition to
their store they have over five acres Of
floor space in it.
A Butler Co attorney who was inter
ested in one of the numerous t. & b.
cases, settled at the late term of court
in Kittanning, gives an amusing
of his trip home He elected to come
West on the hack Among the passen-
gers were an Irishman, Gwedt and an
Italian. The Irishman was loaded, in
side aud out He had bottle in each
hip pocket, one in each breast pocke
and a lot more in a paper sack. which
he deposited in the hack; the owede
carried all his ammunition in a paper
sack, and the Italian had his wrapped
in red handkerchiefs. When they
reached the top Of the hill they all
smelled burnt or spilled powder, and
the Irishman reached back and announc
ed that the bottle in his right hip
pocket had been broken, and the goods
all spilled, "but said he, I've plenty
left, he took out another bottle and
treated the crowd and kept ON treating
till they reached WorthingtOn when he
gathered up his paper sack, and bid the
| crowd good day.
Then the Swede said he didn't want
people to think that Sweedes wer, mean,
and he treated to Craigsville where he
left, and the hack went on to another
point where the Italian gathered up his
red handkerchiefs, and left without
saying treat once The three men
were section bosses on the new road
and had been in town for supplies.