Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1900-02-08
PERSONAL.

Mills We're in town, Monday.
J. Shaffer and n. Burton have opened
a mea market at 354 Centre ave.
H. j. O'Donuell of Carbon Centre had
sale of his farm stock, Saturday.
Hugh Sproull, of Cherry township,
was in town on business, last week.
Vim. J. Grove of North Hope has
been granted a pension of IS per month.
VIII. Campbell and his son-inlaw
John E. Sutton were in Butler, Satur-
day.
Fred Leidecker and Geo. Cypher left
for a trip to Texas and California Tues
day.
NV. S. Offutt of the Sd ward visited
his brother c. G. Offutt in Zelienople,
Sunday.
J. L. Brown, one of Waters stations
oil men, was in town, Monday, on legal
business.
Prof. Clyde Green, of the Parker
schools. visited Butler township friends,
Saturday.
Harvey Anderson is building large
frame house on mis- place just west OF
Pennington.
Prince Mac went to Pittsburg Satur-
day evening, and had a skate at Du-
quesne Garden
Milton Miller, of Butler township,
expects to go to the West Virginia oil
fields to drill shortly.
Harry ODonnell came home from
Newark, o., yesterday, and is visiting
his folks in Clearfeld twp.
ID. r. Brest, the oil well contractor of
North Hope, makes his headquarters at
the Central, when in Butler.
Henderson Pisor came to town, last
Thursday, to see his mother who was
sick but is now convalescent.
Joseph Hepler, one of the best known
residents of Buffalo twp. is reported to
be suffering from Il slight paralytic
stroke.
( o. w. Stoughton, of Evans City, went
to Indiana county last Thursday to at
tend the Farmers Institutes of that
county.
Brown Nixon went on to New York
| Tuesday night, and to Fishkill on the
Hudson next day, to see his sister, Miss
| Nellie.
Joe Aland is attending the annual
meeting of the Merchant Tailors' Ma
| tional Exchange, at Louisville, KY,
this week.
H. W. Phillips of Butler stopped in to
renew his subscription, Tuesday. He
has taken the CITIZEN for more than
forty years.
w. J. Allen, the painter, is the hap
| piest man in Butler and all the country
| round about His first son was born
| last Saturday.
Morgan Turner, the New Castle
street driller, visited his mother and
brother, Samuel, of Parker township,
Friday and Saturday.
| Burgess McNair and quite number
of other prominent people bumped upon
the slippery stone walks during the rain
of last Sunday night.
III. NJ. Bowser of r NJ Bowser q
| Son, lumber dealers of Renfrew, dis
tributed some splendid pencils in the
| Court House, Monday.
Mrs. D. NJ Cotton and daughter, Liz
| Zie, of Mexican county, are visiting the
| families of Treasurer Rankin and Sher-
man Sanderson of Butler.
Mrs. Susan Cook of Shira is spending
| the winter with her sons at Dillman,
Ind. and her daughter Mrs. j. E. Ross
| is occupying her house this winter.
r. |. Dodds and family of Franklin
twp. have moved to New Castle, where
two of the boys are working in the Tin
| Mill They live at No. 8 West Long
Aye.
A. w Shira of North Washington
was business visitor in Butler, Mon
day Mr.. Shira is drilling contractor
and has drilled in six good wells during
| the last six months.
| j. NJ Morrow of Sistersville, w. Va.
| is visiting his brother M. l.. at Glenora
and expects to return Saturday. Mr..
Morrow is running a hack line between
Sistersville and Elkford
William Gregory, who lately commit
ted suicide in or near Manila, was
member of Co. K, 10Th Reg, and after
| their discharge re-eGlisted for the
| Philippines. His home was in Mercer
county.
Ida D. Shull, widow, of West Sun
bury has been granted a pension, of $50
per month, with over S400 back pay and
John l.. Jones of Butler, an increase
from So. 90 to $500 per month. Their
attorney was w. c. Findley.
| Virgil Gibson and wife returned from
their wedding trip, Saturday, and are
now visiting his father, George H. Glib
son at Eau Claire. They stopped on the
way, Tuesday evening, at Washington
Royle's in Hilliard and the youths of
that place gave them a rousing sere-
made.
John Parker, of Parkers Landing, has
bedstead more than ninety years old,
which he expects to have on exhibition
at the County Centennial. Mr.. Parker,
who is over sixty years of age, was born
in it and has slept in it most of his life.
It's posts are seven feet high and are
artistically hand carved Mr. Parker
also has photograph of Co. H 18th Pa
Vols, taken on a rock on Lookout
Mountain in 1868 in which the faces of
several Butler men appear.
Dr. Barber, of Mars, lately won an
angelic prize of some kind by compos-
ing the following verse
In the stiffness of midnight cry rent
the air;
Twas the voice of woman that shrek
ed in despair:
"Oh, help! or / perish, was her awful
cry.
Take hopel" said a. policeman, I'll
save you or diel"
AS he broke in the door of the house,
He thought of his own loving spouse
As he dashed up the stair
} There she stood on chair,
| And said, "Will you please shoot that
Il mousep
Why send away from Home for a
Sewing machine when you can buy as
good or better from AMY & BROWN, a
firm right in Butler, whom you know
and on whom You can call if machine is
3 not satisfactory we will willingly make
all guarantees good at once, no better
machine made than the New Royal,
prices S16.75 up.
Mamma-My dear, where have you
been all this time?
D Daughter Sitting up with sick
friend.
Mamma-Nonsense. / believe you We
: been in the parlor all the time with that
: Mr.. Softleigh.
Daughter-Well, ma, he's lovesick
have invested a great deal of money
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