Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1900-12-06
PERSONAL.
Alpheus Dunbar has moved to Butler.

| w. IL. Grove or New castle visited
: friends in Butler, last week.
W. D. Snyder and son of Clinton die
some shopping in Butler Saturday.
James C. Vandyke of Marion twp. j;
enjoying term on the Grand Jury this
week
James Horseley of Glade Mills has
been granted patent on an oil well
pump.
Postmaster Fogel. of Coaltown. at
tended to some business in Butler,
Monday.
/ FL. w. F. Graham of Douthett &
Graham was over from Youngstown o.
last week
Mrs Mary Lease of Kansas has appli-
ed for divorce, and Mr.. is dancing a
i jig over it.
Il ". Ritts attended his sisters we'd
ding in ST Petersburg, Clarion Co,
Thanksgiving.
Capt. Joseph F. Moore of Carnegie,
spent Thanksgiving with his folks in
Slipperyrock twp.
PENsIoNs-Wm. P. Turner, Butler
IS; w. Fl. II. Smith, Bruin, SS; Harvey
Elliott, Butler, $40.
James NJ Cruikshank and his two
daughters and his brother Samuel visit
ed friends in Butler, Monday.
Rev. William Harley of Canton. Ohio
spent Thanksgiving with his parents.
c. Harley and wife of Race st,
w. T. Mcdonald of Eau Claire paid
us pleasant call, Tuesday He is the
| only barber in the new borough.
Jno. c. Kelly, of Franklin twp, was
in town Monday. He has been greatly
afflicted with rheumatism, Of late.
Miss Alice Barr Of South Dakota is
visiting her aunts, Mrs. w. j. Campbell
and Mrs Howard Painter, in Butler.
Joseph Hartman, James G. Heydrick
and George Troutman left town, this
morning, bound for Victor, Colorado.
James Maitland and Ed Hays brought
81 ton load of hay to Butler, last week.
1t took four horses to pull it through the
mud.
State Treasurer Barnett spent
Thanksgiving in Butler with his sister
and brother-in-law, Mr.. and Mrs. G. n.
Boyd.
DR., Charles Henninger of st. Francis
Hospital, Pittsburg spent Thanksgiving
with his brother John Henninger of w
Pearl St
A. J. White, formerly of Renfrew is
in company that has new 4O-barrel
well on the Highfeld farm in Venango
county.
Mrs. M. D. Mckinney of Connoque
Messing and her daughter Mrs. VIM.
Wahl of Evans City were in Butler last
Saturday.
w Fl. Bovard of Branchton and John
NJ. Mclaughlin of Winfield twp. gave
the CITIZEN Office pleasant call, We'd
nesday afternoon.
c. J, Shaffer of Brady twp was in
town Saturday. He and Geo. Dillinger
are now digging coal of Lewis Martsof
and are doing well.
James R. Lowe and wife of New Cas-
tie attended the funeral of Mrs. loves
brother, Samuel Sarver in Connoque
Messing, on Wednesday of last week.
Miss. Gertrude Seibert of w. Wayne
st. very pleasantly entertained the
members of Young Folks League of st.
Mark Lutheran Church Friday even
ing
Miss Stella Snyder, OF Flora, has been
disabled by rheumatism for a month
past at the home of her brother, VIII
J, Snyder, Of S. Washington ST.
Peter Fennel1 of Clearfeld twp. was
in town Saturday, making his return.
He is the first Republican Assessor of
that twp. which now polls SO Republican
votes
Edward Graham, who for few years
past has been doing good grocery bus
mess in Youngstown, has disposed of
his interests there and has moved back
to Butler, and is now living on West
ST.
E. J. Miller Lycurgus Sloan Col.
Jamison. G.. A. Aiken and J. w. Nc
Candless, Of Eau Claire, were in
town Tuesday attending the
hearing of the petition to have Eau
Claire incorporated as borough.
Grant Grossman has leased the lime
stone quarry on the Mcclure property
in Brady twp He will put in draw
kiln and expects to accommodate his
neighbors and the public generally with
good quality of lime at reasonable
price
William Agnew of Michigan visited
Butler last week and looked over the
scenes of his childhood
He was son of David Agnew, one of
Buffers early merchants, and whose
house stood where Sheriff Donaghy's
now stands. He went to Michigan forty
years ago and is engaged in railro aiding.
Ex-Judge James Gay Gordon, of
Philadelphia, is guest at the Hotel
Duquesne. He is en- route to Beaver to
attend the libel case of ex-Supt of
Printing Thomas Robinson against
john Wanamaker, being attorney for
the latter The trial will be heard this
week. Pittsburg Times of Monday.
Samuel Cruikshank of Minnesota,
Co Com. of Wilkins Co., is the guest of |
his brother James NJ. Cruikshank, of |
Winfield twp He went west eleven |
years ago. he now owns q wheat farm, |
in the Red River Valley, of 1920 acres !
He left Butler county thirty three years
ago and first located in Westmoreland |
county.
Thomas w. Phillips of New Castle, |
Vice President Of the United States In |
dustrlal Commission, went to Washing
ton, ID. c.. to attend meeting of the |
commission to-day The commission |
was established by the Fifty third |
Congress little oyer two years ago by |
bill introduced by Mr. Phillips when |
he represented the Twenty Penn |
sylvania district. 1t consists of 10 |
members, appointed by the President |
by the Senate, and by the House |
The life of the commission expires De- |
ember 10, 1901. Mr. Phillips said a |
great deal had been done in collecting |
information concerning labor and cap |
ltal throughout the world and existing |
evils outlined 1t is the work of the |
commission TO study the labor question |
carefully and suggest to Congress rene |
dial legislation. He said the meeting |
would be an Important one, but did not |
care to give in advance anything of the |
business that would be transacted Mr.. |
Phillips is an extensive oil producer and |
is prominent in the independent pipe |
lines. He is opposed to anything like |
monopoly and is heartily in sympathy |
with any movement that has for its OBJ |
Ject the bettering of the condition of |
the wage earner-Dispatch.
Several weddings billed for this |
vicinity have been postponed till the
next century.