Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1901-08-08
PERSONAL.
Big Butler Fair-sept. s-4-5-6.


F. w Limberg has been appointed 2
NJ. for Herman.
James B. Mates and wife are doinl
the Expo. this week.
Rev. Seligman and wife are visiting
his parents in Butler.
Miss Thompson of Detroit is the gues
of Miss Pearl Andrews.
Jos. Schlicht and wife have returned
from their wedding trip.
Ex-Sheriff Dodds is in town ard say
he has his oats in already.
Sarah J. Cleland of Wimerton has
been granted pension of S. per month
Peter Whitmire and wife of Sonora
did some shopping in Butler, Monday
Robert Adams, VIM Kuhn and Ii
Pisor of Hooker were in town. yester
day.
Attorney Walter S. Reynolds of New
Castle called on friends in Butler, Tues
day.
Id. Borland of the Zimmerman Dry
Goods store has returned from his out
ing.
Rev. Chas. Marshall of Clarksburg,
W. Va, is visiting his mother at Hook
er, Pa
DIR. Holman of Unionville had some
pleasant chats with Butler friends, Sat
urday.
j. w. Miller of Mercer st. returned
from the Expo. last week, delighted
with the trip.
Bert Taylor, the New Castle tailor,
formerly of this place, visited Butler
friends last week.
Katie, daughter Of W. H. Morris, OF
Sioux City, Iowa, formerly of Butler, is
visiting friends here.
John Nigel, who holds position on
the N Y. World as proof reader IS visit
ing his friends in Butler.
Morg Davis has pointer pup that he
is proud of. 1t is a beauty, and d1d
good work at 3-months old.
J. S. Murtland, and wife of Magic
visited their daughter, Mrs. ). L.
Brown of the West End, Saturday.
Prof. George Smith of Warren, Pa +,
who left Butler when a boy eleven
years ago, is visiting old friends here.
w. C. Naylor of Grove City and J..
G. Fairchild Of Ravenna 0. are the
gussts of F. D. Tinker of Jefferson twp.
c. S. Goehr;ng Of Zelienople laid some
stone walk, last week, fronting the lots
of the Alexander brothers on E. Clay
ST.
Mrs. S. S. Borland of Unionville and
Francis Lewis of Murrinsville have late
ly been at Mercer hospital for surgical
treatment.
Earl McQuistion has returned to Du-
Bois, where he is engineering the exca-
vation of the new Waterman tunnel,
after visit at home.
Turner was in town, Friday, and de-
MED the report as to a foot OF snow IN
billiard valley, that morning, but own
ed up to little frost.
Fatty Conkle was seen waddling up
Fifth Ave the other days And all the
women were smiling sideways at him.
P. S. Fatty is not dead.
Mrs. Murphy, wife of Ellsworth Muir
ply of the Building Inspectors Office,
Allegheny, and family are visiting Mrs.
J. H. Reiber of Mercer st.
Mrs. Elvira Lyon, Miss Sarah Nc
QUESTION and Mrs. NJ. Reihing and child
ren left Monday morning for a week s
visit to Buffalo and Niagara.
Mrs. Seth Snyder of Brady twp. left
Butler for Kane, Mexican county, Mon
day. She is troubled with asthma and
finds relief in higher altitude.
Isaac Andrews has rented the Copley
house on Centre Ave, and is occupying
it with his wife and daughters, who
lately returned from Maryville, Tenn
G. NJ. Black of Pittsburg, formerly of
the northern part of Butler county, and
Miss Catharine Brown, daughter of ex-
Sheriff Brown will be married at noon
today.
Harry Goodwin, who for a year past
has been on the pictorial staff of the
Chronicle-Telegraph has secured a
better position as cartoonist on the Bos-
ton Post.
Esq. Walker and daughters, DR..
Bricker and wife, John Younkins and
Ill.
Cleeland, wife and son, Charley Doug
lass, Frank Hildebrand and quite a
number of other Butler people are doing
the Expo. this week.
Bob Craner cut a hundred dozen of
oats. last week, for JAS Rankin of Penn
twp. with cradle in one day. That
section of country has been very dry
since the 4th of July. The wheat and
grass crops were good but oats, potatoes
and corn, beans and cabbage are failures.
Apples are poor but peaches will be
good.
Mrs Mary McCracken of Wichita,
Kas., attended the funeral of her broth
er, Thomas Lindsey, last Saturday. She
says that the drought is drying up every
thing in Kansas, and that the cattle are
being turned into the orchards and any
and all the fields where anything re-
mains green.
Miss Margaret Mechling, trained
nurse, returned home last week from a
visit with her sister, Mrs. Smiley, in
Franklin county, and brought her
brother-in-law, now an invalid, home
with her Prof. Smiley has been in
poor health for some months, but thinks
few weeks on Pleasant Hill will bring
him around all right.
| OThomas B. Smith has lately secured
six men-Wm. McCrea, J. P. O'Don.
nell, G. L. Redick, w. NJ. Thompson,
c.. B. McCafferty and Daniel Dull-to
go to the Rangoon river oil field in Brit
ish India as employees of the Findley,
Fleming Co. of England. The firm is a
very wealthy one, and pays experienced
| men liberal wages.
Get ready for the next great event
the Big Butler Fair-Sept. 3-6.
Brick work on the new Duffy block
began yesterday.
AT meeting of those interested in
the new well in Indian Ter, near Sa-
pulpa, at the Jail last evening, evidence
was produced to show that the Hey
drick Wick lease would hold good, and
that whoever secured the allotments
would receive but the royalties
See the line of Linoleums, Oil Cloth:
and Mattings at Brown & Co.'S.
BUTLER FAIR.
Program of Races for the Coming
Great Exhibition i'm september.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4th.
| No. 1-2:40 Pace. .... Purse 5000 on
No. 2-2:19 PAGERS, 2:17 Trotters $3.50 on
| al D,,t1 60,