Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1902-04-03
PERSONAL.

is seriously i'll of pneumonia.
Miss Fink of Pittsburg is the guest of
the Misses Stehle of the Butler"
Morg Davis has sent his prize dog,
Pride Sim, to Lawrenceburg Tenn.
Zenas McMichael, Esq. of Zelienople
visited Butler on business, Tuesday.
x-Sheriff W. B. Dodds of Adams
vile Pa. visited in Butler last week.
John Philippi has moved from Butler
twp. to the Ketterer farm in Centre
twp.
DR. Kottraba, the dentist, attended
the funeral of his father, at Hadley Pa.
Monday.
Geo B. Heck of Centre twp, and R.
3. Conn of Clay twp, were among our
callers, Saturday.
VIM. Barr, machinist, formerly of
Butler. is reported to have been killed
in the Philippines.
r. N. Patterson of Clay twp, is SER
iously i'll of pneumonia. He is the tax
collector of the twp.
Jacob Whitmire, John L. Jones, John
Olll6Spl6 anu w LII. II OIQucl VI Ou0ACA
are all on the sick list.
Mr.. and Mrs. Abel Fisher have re-
turned from a visit with friends at
jamestown, New York.
WIN. NJ. Brown has rented his farm
near Brownsville to W. S Smith, and
Will move to Allegheny or Ellwood.
J. A. Richey sent a large box of
Easter Eggs to the Orphans Home, last
Saturday. He does SO every year.
William Davis, farmer of Middle
sex twp. oil man, is i'll with typhoid
fever at his home in McKees Rocks.
Miss Bell Robinson, daughter of
Thomas Robinson has been elected an
instructor in the Clarion Normal
School.
B. r. Shannon of Franklin twp. J. s.
Shakely of Centre and w. Fl. Todd of
Winfield twp. were among our callers,
Yesterday.
Judge E. McJunkin was SO years old
on Friday, the 2Sth, and a large num-
Der of friends called during the day to
pay their respects and congratulate
him.
James Robertson returned home.
Tuesday, from visit to his brothers in
Allegheny Jim has two brothers there
practicing medicine, and both are doing
well.
John McClymonds, third son of Prof
l. M. McClymonds of Slipperyrock, was
reported, Tuesday, to be critically i'll
with pneumonia. He is student in
the Pittsburg dental college.
Calvin Wise of Penn twp, H. W.
Bame Of Harmony, Horace Glenn of
Washington, J. F. P. Mckinley of Oak
land, and d. F.EKellerman of Donegal
were among orr callers Monday,
Miss Harriet Thompson, daughter of
ex-Prothonotary Robert ]. Thompson,
and DR.. John w. Rodenbaugh, well
known den tist of Allegheny City, were
united in marriage, Tuesday evening, by
Rev. E s. White at the brides home on
N. Main st. They will reside in Allie
gheny.
Elmer Perry, a Butler boy who has
spent two years in the Philippines in
Co. T. 2nd u. s. Infantry. arrived home
last week. He weighed 160 lbs when
he enlisted, and 1875 on his arrival home
Claude Zeigler of the South Side. who
was in the same company, thrived and
grew fat
Thomas Welding of Butler, an en-
ployee of the B. R. & p. lately received
letter from a nephew In South Africa
which contained scorching indictments
of the whole plan of the var of exter-
mination of the Beers. He says the
for orA Anu n4n1 1,,+n N
skylarking expedition for the officers of
the army and the hospital sisters" as
the army nurses are called.
Private Welding says that he is
heart-sick of the whole business, and
that if he can get released he will come
to the United States and make his home
here. He enlisted in the Lancashire
Regiment in 1891, and has seen service
in Ireland, India and South Africa, and
has participated in the leading battles
of the Boer war. including Spion Kop.
where his regiment was cut to pieces,
losing 435 men and II officers, and
Acton Holmes, where 1913 men were
lost.
Charles M. Schwab, President of the
great United States Steel Corporation
was criticized at the second annual
dinner of the Cornell Club of Western
Pennsylvania, held at the Hotel Henry,
a few nights ago for his utterances
against college training by Attorney
w s. Dalzell, son of Congressman
John Dalzell. Deafening cheers and
applause followed his remarks. Dal-
zell said in part:
THE great battles of life are success
fully fought by college men; the great
est problems of the Government de-
yolve upon educated men; the Declara-
tion of Independence and the Constitu-
ton were drawn and signed by the wise
men Of that age, and educa ted men are
now needed more than before We
have come to lead other nations in
many things. We have greater politi-
cal problems to face now than ever be-
fore. We should see to it by any means
in our power that higher education is
advanced. Give education our moral
and financial support Education ID
the enemy of political corruption: it is
the destroyer of the dishonorable, cor
rupt political machine.
| "The unsound doctrine of Mr.. Schwab
that the four years spent at college are
lost does not gain ground. College men
have been successful in every walk of
life. From the counting table to the
Chief Magistracy of the United States
the college educated man is found
The college man has taken the lead in
the battles of war as we'll as the battles
of life. His collegiate education has
always stood him good, and the college
bred youth in the Spanish
conflict fought just as bravely and died
az game as the daredevil of the plains.