Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1899-02-16
PERSONAL.
Squire Robt. McAboy is recovering
from n severe attack of grip.

Squire Robt. McAboy is recoverin
from n severe attack of grip.
H. Q. Walker. Esq, of Pittsbure
was in Butler Monday attending I
legal business
Rev. s. Hall Young, of Alaska.
lying seriously i'll at the home of
friend in Pittsburg.
VIM. R. Blair. Esq, of Pittsburg
Referee in Bankruptcy, visited Butle
on business. Tuesday.
Mrs. Mary McC. Russell. of Centr'
twp, left last Friday on a visit t
friends in Cleveland. Ohio.
Lieut.. Harry Dougherty, late of Co.
q 18th. has decided to locate at Athens
) Ga, and open his law Office there.
Jacob Shaffner went out sleighing fol
twenty minutes last Thurday afternoon
and came back with his ears frozen.
Rev. J. s. Mckee and Rev Wilson Of
the Mt Pleasant WestmOreland Co. U
P. church. exchanged pulpits last Sun
day.
S. c. Moore. of Clinton braved the
below zero weather last Thursday to
attend to some township business in
Butler.
Auditor Moore drove ont home to
Muddycreek twp, Tuesday evening and
was in town again by 10 o'clock the
next morning.
Harry Morehead. the trainer and
driver. is confined to bed at his home
on S Washington St by a severe at
TO- l. Frb1 40 or
Miss Marie Kelly of Pittsburg spent
her vacation of two weeks among her
many Butler friends. We hope to see
Miss Kelly back for her summer va
cation as we are always glad to see her
We know handsome widower in the
Northern part of the county, who owns
good farm, and comfortable house.
and has plenty to eat and some money
He wants a wife-and applications for
the position can lin strict confidencel be
sent to this Office
Billy Bartly is yet alive and presum-
ably able to kick-all reports to the
contrary, Notwithstanding Billy SAT
down along the railroad track, got too
cold and was taken into a boiler-house
and thawed out, and then taken TO the
monastery at Herman, where he was
yet alive at last reports.
George Stepp. of Turtle Creek, Allie
gheny Co, formerly of Clinton twp,
was business visitor in Butler for a
few days this week. Mr.. Stepp has
been building rigs in the Scio, O., field
for the Carnegie Company lately and
has acquired some valuable oil interests
at that place.
Herman Knoch, of Saxonburg, was
in Butler. Saturday. He said Saxon
burg thermometers registered fifteen
degrees below zero that morning-ten
higher than in Butler. His son. Prof
Alfred Knoch, who has been in Florida
since last October filing a musical en-
has returned home.
j. W. Hutchison, Esq, has been ap-
pointed Referee in Bankruptcy for But
Ter county. Jim has lately finished
that he has been working up
on for several months-a long chain,
cut from (or rather dug out of n piece
Of pine. 1t was a job that required
more perseverance than most of MS
possess.
Mrs. j. NJ. Painter attended the fun
eral of Mrs. Allen w. Kelley, at James
town, Crawford county. Friday. Mrs.
Kelley was daughter of VIM. Nc
Iranahan of that place. Mr.. Kelly
read law and was admitted to practice
IN Butler, but has located at b euna
Vista, Allegheny Co, where he is
of schools, He is n
brother of Mrs Painter
Polly Owens, wife of William Owens,
70 ff,x Lna
just settled down in matrimonial bliss
for the fourteenth time. She is about
80 years of age, and looks as though she
would survive her fourteenth and at
eas. a dozen more husbands She is
the mother of six children, the result of
her former marriages. She was married
the first time when she was 10 years of
age, and was left widow two years
later Since then she has averaged
every two years She has
secured eight or nine divorces, while
leath has done the releasing in the
other cases. She is part Indian, her
mother being a half-cast BY marriage
she has the relationship with half the
people of this county, writes Strawton
Ind. correspondent of the Cincinnati
Commercial Tribune" There is no
one in Indiana who closely approaches
her record
Henry Labouchere the Liberal and
editor of the London Truth, has pub
lished parody on Klipling's "The
White Mans Burden" which is being
widely quoted. 1t runs:
Pile on the brown mans burden
To crafty your greed;
Go clear away the niggers
Who progress would impede.
The screaming of your eagle
Will drown the victims sob;
Go on through fire and slaught sr--
There's dollars in the job!
Talk like that must be very amusing
TO the English.