Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1898-10-06
PERSONAL

A. D. Ramsey, Of Cranberry twp, was
in town, Tuesday.
Esq. Kaltenbach, of Penn township,
was in town, Tuesday.
Charley Baunan of Saxonburg. drove
up TO Butler, Monday.
Jno. D. Mcbride is teaching the
school at Glade Run.
Miss Chandley. Of Beaver Falls, Is the
guest Of Miss Flo Roesing.
IN. GaI5reath. Esq Is professional
visitor to Pittsburg and Greensburg
Chas. NJ Wise has secured his dis
charge from Co E 18th reg. and Is now
at home.
Ed. Grieb son OF Harry Grieb. is
attending the Firemans Convention at
Lebanon, Pa
Harvey Boyd ami family took day
pleasure drive to North Washington
and back Saturday.
Joseph Clinton. Of East Pearl street,
left Tuesday evening Tor Lexington,
K entucky on business
Rev. Leuziuger Of Butlera and Rudolph
Barnhart are attending Synod at st
Petersburg, this week.
Rev. J. L. Updegraph of Pittsburg,
formerly Of Butler Co, Is lying very i'll
with typhoid fever.
Miss Nellie Meals of the First Ward
schools has been offered a position in
Duquesne Pa. schools at a considerable
increase Of salary.
Dave Ensminger. Of Co. E, came
home on a seven day furlough Monday
and has been confined TO bed by malaria
part Of the time.
Gus Gallagher captured a mink near
Locust St the other night. The little
animal had been killing the chickens OF
the neighborhoOd-
Mrs. Laura Konrumpf, Of Saxonburg,
and Mrs Martin Eisler, Of Butler, have
returned from a very pleasant visit
with Mrs Graft. Of Walters Station.
j. D. Marshall Esq. removed to his
handsome new residence on North
Main St last week, and w S. McVay
moved into the house vacated by him.
Dan MaIoney, the noted auctioneer,
was in town Monday. If you have
some auctiOneering you want done up
10 the handle" address Dan, at Chicora.
James Mcdowell returned Tuesday
from weeks visit 70 relatives in Char
leroi and Williamsburg His brother
Robert recently married young lady
of the latter town.
Prof a F Regal has purchased the
Butler Business College from Prof.
Wilson who has removed to Greenyille,
where he is employed in the p b. & L.
f. X r. Office.
Private Silliman of the Goth regiment
who has been lying sick at the home of
his sister near Bakerstown was taken
home last Friday. He is a son Of
Eligah Silliman Of Karns City.
w Forester Huff has became one of
the famous men of town. His picture
was in the Pittsburg Post Of last Sun
day. and three Of them adorn the en-
trance to the Grand. Forest can sing.
He responded to five encores the other
night.
Gus. Leidecker returned from the
Klondike a few days ago He went
there last winter The Klondike does
not seem 20 be panning out" as largely
az expected. There are said 10 be
thousands Of idle men up there.
W T. McGeary and wife have re
turned from East Liverpool, O.. where
they were attending the reception 10
Mr.. and Mrs. Jas. y. Martin, who were
married last week at Newark, w. Va.
Mr.. Martin formerly worked in Butler
VI l.. Armstrong Of the Il Cure T."
Co, attended the Fair at Washington
Pa last week. They raise corn ten
feet high in that county, and yet their
Fair has degenerated into a horse race,
and that alone.
Werner Graham, son Of Edw. Gra-
nam Of West Sunbury WAS ont in Kan
sas City, when the war broke out last
spring and enlisted in the 3rd Missouri
infantry. This regiment is now dis
missed on furlough which expires the
18th inst. when it will likely be mus
tered out. Werner has been spending
his furlough in old Butler County.
r. II. Gold lives on farm in the
southeast corner Of Washington twp,
from which it was said IA dozen years
ago when Mr.. Gold bought it, farmer
could not get a living. Mr.. Gold
worked haFd, early and late and this
year he has about 700 bushels Of grain
threshed, 1900 bushels Of ear corn, an
orchard full Of choice fruit, twenty
head Of cattle the same Of swine, a
good team and a whole regiment of
poultry. Energy counts
John Lavery Cor Harej, Of Cold
Spring, Campbell Co.. Kentucky, is
visiting his friends in this county. He
went 20 Kentucky 80 years ago, and
was "a years Of age last Thursday. His
wife, nee Dabranville, died seven years
ago. Mitch Dabranville il yet living
and in Newport Mr. Layery was born
in France, and was bro u sht 10 the coun-
try by his parents while yet child in
1892, and settled on Thorn Creek. where
Louis Lavery purchased land from John
Negley, decd. He IL stopping with his
sisters, Mrs. Peter Webber. Of Butler
twp, and Mrs. Claude Mangel. He
will be about here for some weeks
William j. Peace and family Of Mid
dlesex twp. near BaIScrstown, were in
town last Friday, Mr. Peace brought ~
n basket Of the finest ounces we have
ever seen. They were Of the orange"
variety. and it took but six dozen Of
them % heap up Il bushel measure
Mr.. Peace II "A noted fruit-grower He
trims his ounce trees 10 one stalk, five
or six feet from the ground before let
ting them branch cultivates and salts
them, and puts coal and wood ashes
around the stumps every fall for the
purpose Of keeping away worms, and
keeping the grounI from thawing dur.
ing the winter or early spring He
treats his peach trees the same way,
and sold his peaches in Pittsburg this
year at ~ 90 "A busheL He was in But
Ter last week for the purpose of buying
his shoes on which, he can do better in