Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1899-05-04
PERSONAL.

Conrad Sell of Winfield twp. was in
town, Friday.
J. F. Wiles of Grove City, was in
| town Saturday,
Robt Gibson of Penn twp, was in
town, Saturday.
A. o. Glenn. of w. Sunbury, has
moved to Harmony.
David Hesselgesser, of Winfield twp,
was in town, Monday.
Geo w Ziegler, the fixer" is off on
hunting and fishing excursion.
DR. Richardson of Prospect is serious
ly ill. He is about Is years of age.
l. J, McCandless was out last Satur-
day, after a severe attack of heart trou-
BILE
John W. Coulter, Esq, is serving on
the U. s. Grand Jury in Pittsburg, this
week
Private Stewart of the 18th Regulars,
a son of A G. Stewart, is home from
Porto Rico.
Ira Murphy is sick at his fathers
home near McCalmont station with
malaria contracted in the army.
S. G. Dodds, of Mars, formerly of
Butler, intends moving to Lincoln,
Washington State, in the near future. 9
Miss Myrtle Sheppard, of the Mercy
Hospital, Pittsburg, is visiting her
sister, Mrs. Chas. R. Watson at the
Willard.
Austin Price, the deaf man who has
been about Butler for several years past
is being treated for cancer at the Butler
Hospital.
s. w Moore, of Brady, was in town,
yesterday. His daughter-in-law, Will
liam's wife, who lives with them IS
very seriously i'll.
Philip DauDenspeck, quartermaster
sergeant in the End w Va Vols. during
the late war, is visiting his parents and
relatives in Parker twp.
Miss Ida White, returned from New
Castle Saturday where she has been
visiting at the home of her deceased sis
ter, Mrs. Carrie Thompson.
G gorge Heller of Winfield twp was
in town Friday The Standard Plate
Works have thier gas wells ON his place.
He expects large crop of cherries this
year.
Mrs Will McMarlin and two little
daughters have returned to their home
in Allegheny City after pleasant visit
with Jas A. and John McMarlin's fami
lies in Butler.
S. F. Bowser Esq addressed large
audience in Carnegie Hall in Allegheny
last Wednesday night. The occasion
was the celebration of the 80th anniver-
sary of the birth of Odd Fellowship in
the United States.
Chas. Anderson and S. C. Moore. of
Clinton; Caleb Covert, of Muddycreek;
j. A. Vogan, of Worth, A. L. Brown,
of Concord, T. B. McClymonds, of
Brady; John A. Shellatree, of Slippery
Rock; DR.. V. F. Thomas, of Fairview,
were among our callers, Tuesday.
James Thompson. of Concord twp,
has several babies of his own, but some
kind hearted soul thought he needed
another, and left one at his door a few
nights ago. 1t was in basket and had
ten dollar bill pinned to its clothes,
and note has since been left at the
house saying that more money would
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Mrs. Mary Jane Mckee of Prospect.
has q motherly old cat that has three
kittens, which Mrs. Mary is in the hab-
it of petting. But when she put her
hand into the nest a few days ago she
noticed that there had been quite an ad-
dition made TO the family, and further
investigation developed the fact that
the cat had annexed six young rabbits
and was nursing them all.
DO you remmeber the old, original
Abe Elder, of Mercer township" He
was a member of the 134th and after
wards of the 199th, and some years
after the war he and his brothers, Tom
and Newt, moved to Idaho and settled
in the valley of the Salmon river, where
they have prospered, and are well ex-
cepting Newt, who suffers from the
wound in his side, received during the
war Abe was in Butler from Wednes
day of last week until yesterday hunt
ing up his old friends, several of whom
could not name him nor he them, and
visiting his daughter, Mrs. Morg.
Turner, who now lives down the plank
road. He is 63 years of age, but looks
at least ten younger The climate out
there is not as severe as we imagine;
their cattle ran out and picked dried
grass all last winter. And the soil in
some of these mountain valleys is very
fertile; they raise 40 bushels of wheat
to the acre, and plenty of the best of
fruit. He left Butler yesterday for
Washington and Virginia his address is
A. Z. Elder, Salmon City, IDAHO.