Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1900-12-20
PERSONAL.

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H. Q. Walker. Esq. of Pgh. is visit
ing friends in Butler.
Ezra Liken and Casper Bame Of Evans
City were in town, yesterday
Geo. H. Rea and Robert well of Mar
ion twp. were in town, yesterday.
Miss Bessie Knox of Allegheny twp.
enjoyed her week at the Institute.
JE. Moore Of Oakland twp. attend
ed to some business in Butler, Saturday.
Robert HARRISON and c. l. Dunbar,
of 9Iiddlesex twp, were IN town Thurs
day.
! c. S. Double of Connoquenessing
township and his brother. were in town,
Tuesday.
Clarence Walker, Esq. is attending
to legal business in Oil City and
Franklin.
j. Nelson Fulton and wife Of Middle
sex were playing Santa Claus IN Butler,
yesterday
Mrs. Stefren, of Philadelphia, is the
guest of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs,
| Franklin Miller.
Charley Ellenberger was in town,
Thursday, buying his winter supply OF
boots and shoes
a. L. Brown and Joseph Campbell Of
Hooker marketed big load Of produce
in Butler few days ago.
Barton Forsythe of Frank
lin, visited MS mother, Mrs. Forsythe,
of the South Side, this week.
Mrs Lodge Of Iowa City, Ia is visit
| ing her brother Josiah NJ. Thompson,
| and other relations in this county.
Roy Mcintyre and Miss Jessie Kirk
patrick formerly of Butler, are to be
married at Toledo, o. on the 27th.
Miss Mayme Moral has recovered from
her late illness and is back TO her coun-
ter in the Zimmerman dry goods store.
Mrs Mary Palmer of New Brighton
is visiting at the home of her brother,
Judge McJ unkin, being called here by
his illness.
Bert Ralston. son Of John Ralston,
of Euclid, is lying i'll at the house of
his brother-in-law, Ed Walter on S.
Washington street.
Mrs. Jennie Miller is soliciting sub
scriptions for the West End church
which has passed into the hands of the
Christian Alliance.
Earl Cleeland Of this place was one Of
six students chosen at w. & ]. College
to take part in the annual inter society
oratorical contest.
w. s. Sipe, Esq Michael Fleming
and other good citizens Of ClearGeld !
were here 'ast week as witnesses in the |
Klingler VS. R. r. case.
Victor Walker son Of Clarence Walker
leaves the day after Christmas for |
Philadelphia, where he will enter the |
employ Of the Pure Oil Co.
Curtis Snyder, wellknown resident
Of Oakland township, is sick with ty-
phoid at the Hospital. His son Clarence |
teaches at Boydstown and is attending |
Institute.
II. w. Burtner, a son Of John Z |
Burtner Of Butler twp. enlisted at Pitts |
burg for the Navy. a week or two ago, |
and is now on the Alabama at League /
Island. Philadelphia.
Rev. J. O. A. Fullerton Of Princeton |
" J. was a business visitor in town |
Wednesday and the guest Of a. L. Scott |
Esq. Rev. Fullerton is pastor of the |
church in which Pres. Cleveland is a |
member.
Bob Crawford got off one. the other
day, Il see, said he to the helpless vic
tim in his chair. that Governor Hogg |
of Texas, Hon. Elihu Root Of New York |
and Hon Isaac K. Dye Of West Virgin
ia, are anxious to be president Of the |
Nicaragua Canal Commission.
.fIITaII -,huA &c ~ EN
Don't you see? It's simply a case Of
Root Hogg or Dye.
Andrew Carnegie's offer to contribute |
toward fund for the proposed memo
rial in Philadelphia to Robert Morris, |
the fnancier Of the Revolution, has
brought this much-mooted project |
prominently to the front again, and at
its monthly meeting the Art Federation
Of Philadelphia devoted considerable
time to discussion and consideration of |
the subject. While no definite action
was taken the opinion was general that
the offer ought to be accepted.
Judge E. McJunkin was seized with
fainting spell while in his Office, shortly |
after noon, Monday He was taken in
to his sitting room and Drs. BippUs and
Pillow summoned. After a time the |
Judge revived and seemed to recover
and it was hoped the sickness was only |
an attack Of Indigestion. Later he had
another sinking spell and it became APP
parent that his ailment was Of para
lytic nature. Tuesday and Wednesday
he revived slightly and at present seems
to be steadily improving, and it is bop
ed he will soon be able to be about |
again.
Phoebe Meeks, recluse, died at
Brookville, few days ago aged IS
years Sixty years ago she was disap- |
pointed in love and made resolution |
TO cut herself off from the world. SO
far as known, from that day she never
left her house, and, notwithstanding |
there is a railrord within 100 yards of |
her home, she refused to look at the |
cars. The windows and doors on the |
ground floor Of the little brick house |
were closed, and the only communica |
tion Miss Meeks held with the outsid G |
world during recent years was through |
q little aperture in one of the doors |
where the necessaries Of life were passed |
through by woman employed by the |
recluse.
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