Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1899-12-21
PERSONAL.

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J. q. Downing of near Evans City
was in town, Friday.
DIR. Will Cowden, of Renfrew, was a
CITIZEN Office caller last week
T. J. Gordon, formerly of the ID
ward, has moved to New Castle.
Jacob Albert of Franklin twp. was a
business visitor in town, Tuesday.
Miss Schaul of Hornellsvills. n. Y.
is the guest of her sister Mrs. Mast
w. r. Newton, the piano dealer, has
returned from flying visit to Chicago
VIM. Falkner of Winfield twp. was
caught in the rain in Butler, last Thurs
day
John Harvey and John B. Cunning
ham of Clinton twp. were in town, last
week.
l.. T. Heaven of Mt Chestnut attend
ed to some legal business in Butler, Sat
urday.
James r. Campbell of w. Sunbury
has been granted anincrease of pension,
$G to s..
J. G. English and wife of Franklin
twp. did their Christmas shopping IN
Butler last week.
Prof. John Digit and wife, of Zelie-
nople are visiting Mrs Dight's father
County Treasurer Harper.
''Oom Joe" Sibley is what they call
him at Washington, since he changed
front on the money question.
Samuel P. Hays and Henry f. Knauff
of Middlesex twp attended to some le-
gal business in Butler, Friday.
Miss Blanch J. Gold of Greece City
and Fred j. Catlin of Scio, o., are 10 be
married at the brides home, Christmas
day.
JOS. Elliott. Jr and wife returned
Friday from very pleasant wedding
visit with friends in Oil City and EN-
lenton.
George Thompson of MELONS bank.
Pittsburg, came up from the city to at
tend the wedding of his sister, Emma,
yesterday.
Mr. and Mrs John Younkins have
announced the approaching wedding of
their daughter Edith to r. A. Mac
Cartney, the druggist
A. NJ. Shira of Parker twp. was
juryman last week. He is on crutch es
from accidently getting his leg under a
moving wagon wheel.
VIM Fulton of Washington, Wash
ington county, Iowa attended the fu-
neral of his brother, George in Middle
sex twp. week before last.
Homer Negley and wife of the East
End, Pittsburg, have returned home al
ter a few days visit with his father,
H. Negley, Of. Penn twp.
Undertaken Berkimer has moved into
the Dr. Byers building, two doors north
of his former location and has fitted up
a very handsome suit of rooms.
James E. Crawford and Eta Wagner,
both of Butler, were married IN Court
Esq. VIM. Bell of Centre
twp performing the ceremony.
Mason Shira. son of d. A. Shira of
twp, left for West Virginia
yesterday, under two years contract
with firm of producers as driller
Charly Burckhalter a former CITIZEN
office artist who is now employed at the
Homestead Steel Works, visited his pa
rents, Jacob Burckhalter and wife, last
week.
Hon. VIM p Braham, of IIarrisville,
Robert Barron, of Worth twp, and J.
W. Croft, the Cooperstown merchant,
were business visitors in Butler. We'd
nesday.
Mary c. Pillow, a daughter of DR.,
Pillow, has been chosen among those TO
take part in the junior oratOrical con-
test for the class of 1901 at Westminster
College.
James Smith, the carpenter of the 9TH
ward, returned home last week from
Centreville, where he had been working
on the Wilson building, now nearly
John T. Weisz of Evans City and Miss
Matte Reader of Knob drove to Beaver
last Thursday and were married in
Aaron Wilson's dry goods by Mr.. Will
son. he being a retired minister
Prof Kinter Hamilton principal of
the North Washington Academy and
Miss Emma, daughter of JAS. W.
Thompson of w. Penn st. were married
at the brides home Wednesday morning.
Henry and Mary Pillow, Lorry Cor
nelius, wills Purv1s, Fred Roessing,
Merl McCaudless and Jean Mckee,
Buffers delegation az Westminster Col
lege, are home for the Christmas vaca-
tion.
Charley Rush took charge of the John
Morris tobacco store on S. Main st. last
Thursday. Mr. Morris will move up
stairs in the same building where he
will continue the manufacture of ci
gars.
Enos Mcdonald shipped 1900 pounds
of buckwheat -four to New Castle last
week, and got So hundred for it. Sit
ting in our Office last Saturday another
old school teacher congratulated him
upon his look of contentment and hap
pinesS.
Charles Cheney, P NJ. at Agnew,
Beaver county, visited relatives in But
ler this week. He stands 6 feet , inches
tall, and although Sc years of age can
read and write without glasses and all
his five senses are yet good
J. A. Heydrick, the engineer, lately
received an invitation to witness the eff
fects of the explosion of so, 600 pounds
of dynamite along West Beaver creek
in Colorado; where some engineers are
building a dam, and intended dumping
a large slice off cliff into the canyon.
John D. Miller, an attorney of Garth
age, Ill. visited the scenes of his child
hood last week He was a son of DR..
Christopher Miller who practiced med
icine in Butler in the forties, and died
here The widow and her two children,
Il boy and girl, went from here to Chi
cago in Al or AZ, an afterwards located
in Carthage. The mother, aged 90
years, is yet living, but the daughter
has been dead for some years. DR.. Mil
Ter occupied the building in Butler now
occupied by DR.. Bricker.
Robert S. Macarthur, an Englishman
from New York, spent several years in
Russia, and made a study of the coun-
try, the people and their history. He
told us something about it, Tuesday
night, in the Opera House. Russia and
Siberia make an area twice as large as
the United States, and have a popula-
tion of 10000, 600. The German and
Tartar elements predominant, but the
greater number of the people are Slavs.
The history of the Czars follows back
to several hundred years before Christ;
the Cars power is absolute, the people
believing him to be the special repre-
sentative of the Creator on Earth, the
resources of the country are vast, the
railroad now being built to the Pacific
is a wonder, and the nation has great
future before it. His lecture was very
interesting.