Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1900-05-10
PERSONAL.

E. L. McCleary and wife of Prospec
visited.friends in Butler, Tuesday.
) w. E. Holmes of near Saxonburg wa;
a business visitor in Butler, Tuesday.
w. J. Armstrong visited mis- sick
aunt Mrs. Christie, in Butler, Monday
John Lumcley and wife of Forward
twp. did some shopping in Butler Satur
day.
Robt McKinnis and A. W. Shannon
of Franklin twp. were in town, Satur
day.
Geo. w. Huselton of Brownsville has
been granted pension of so per
month.
Potato Pingree keeps before the public
by throwing bouquets Of Early Roses at
himself.
James NJ Dunn of Brady twp. was in
town, yesterday, looking well and feel
ing hearty.
w. S. Brandon and wife of Connoque-
Messing North. did some shopping in
Butler, Saturday.
WIN. r. Parks and John Burton of
Middlesex are seriously i'll. Mr.. Parks
has the pneumonia.
J. w Hawarth Of the Waverly pur-
chased fine driving horse from the
Powell Bros. last week.
Chas A. Truver and ESQ. Leslie of
Middlesex and Harry Fleming of Buffa-
10 were in town, Saturday.
District Attorney Painter intends
/ building a residence on his lot at corner
! Of Washington and Penn SITS.
Miss Name Zimmerman has returned
to the Beaver Conservatory Of music
after spending few days at home.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. r. Niggle of E. Clay
st. entertained Miss Mexican and DR..
| Mccullough Of Freq ort last Sunday.
Prof Gibson's criticism Of cheap and
unworthy teachers at the May meeting
of Principals in Pittsburg, last Saturday,
created quite sensation.
Mrs Ernie Black Of the Island has
successfully undergone an operation by
which an absess was cut from her stom-
ach. 1t was cut in the Butler Co hospi-
tai and she is recovering nicely.
| J. P Davis of Brady twp. came to
| Dullcl anu hcDl W bIt
| tai. His right foot became so inhamed
that he could no longer stand upon it,
and the Hospital surgeons have or will
amputate it TO day.
| FL. E. Newhouse has opened a new
millinery store in the house formerly
occupied by DR.. Wasson at Gallery and
is carrying a select stock of jewelry,
notions and fancy spring headwear for
ladies' Give them call
Secretary J. B. Carruthers yesterday
attended the monthly meeting Of the
| Y. NJ. G. A. secretaries of the Pittsburg
district in that city, and had the affirma-
| tive side Of discussion relative to the
| benefits derived from competitive games.
Jim Hutchison is at it again. He is
| digging another of those wooden chains
out Of pine stick-a strange pastime
| for so handa1me and intellectual man.
But this 10 the biggest one he has ever
| attempted; md it is to be exhibited
among the relics Of this all future Cen
tennials Of the county.
Col Archibald Blakeley of Pittsburg,
| Will send a number Of relics to exhibit
| at the Centennial. among them the first
| Bible used in the first Butler Court
| House, and limb filled with shot and
shell cut from tree on the Chickamau-
ga battle field. 1t is nearly foot thick
and there is an unexploded six-inch
| shell in it.
| Mrs. Lydia Christie Of Miffiin st. is
afflicted with cancer Of the stomach, and
| has taken no nourishment whatever for
| six weeks. She is the widow Of
| Thomas Christie. formerly of Washing
| ton twp. and is a sister of David Borland
| of Butler. She is very weak but her
memory and hearing are both remark
ably good p IS. Since the above was
put in type, Mrs Christie has died. See
notice among deaths.
| "A bridge on the narrow-guage near
Clarion junction was burned by forest
fires, Tuesday.
| I'm the Y. NJ G. A. auditorium,
Tuesday evening, May %, Hon John S
Crosby official lecturer Of the American
Reform Association, will deliver his
celebrated lecture, Thy, Kingdom
| Come" Admission % cents
| Next to Butler. Gallery Junction is
the most important railroad center in
the county, but in one way the railroads
hurt the little town Two of the main
thoroughfares of the town are crossed
by the p & w. tracks and several times
every day half -mile-long freight train
will stop in the town for long periods
of time, blockading both crossings.
"A strange feature of the East Brady
bank robbery was the appearance in the
town of two gangs of tramps Of three
men each, one man of each set having
an arm off. One of the gangs was fol
lowed into Clarion Co., after the rob
berry, and arrested. but proved them
selves clear; then the officers followed
the other gang TO the Vasbinder place,
west of East Brady, and think they
have the right men
AT the blacksmith shop Of Grohman
q oesterling, on Mifflin street, can be
seen the heavy iron shackles used to
secure the Indian called Mohawk, 4"
when in Jail here. They were made in
the old Reiber blacksmith-shop which
stood on part of what is now the Nc
QUESTION lot. opposite Lawall's livery on
Cunningham street, and as the saying
is followed the shop" the timbers of
the two shops being the same The
same shakles were used on a man
named Mininger. few years ago.
Agents of the Butler Pickle Factory
are visiting the farmers and gardeners OF
this vicinity for the purpose of inducing
them to raise several vegetables, and
particularly cucumbers. The factory
/ wants the products Of four hundred
acres, and will pay 45 cents per bushel
OF 30 pounds for cucumbers or pickles
not exceeding 81 inches in length, and
one third Of that sum or 10 cents bu.
for larger ones. The company intends
building large brick building S0x60 on
their grounds near the Fair Grounds,
and tank house, POO feet long, which
is TO cover twenty receiving tanks, eacI
Of IA feet IN diameter, and into which
the pickles are to be delivered Mr. w
j. Mullen, the General Manager Of the
Co, will meet with farmers, thinking
OF raising pickles, and also cabbage
onions, beans, caulifiower, etc, at Room
. OF the Reiber grocery building mex