Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1902-07-17
PERSONAL.

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Charles Johnston, the Prospect tailor
was in Butler, Monday.
L. N. Eakin is Secretary of new
Steel Co at Huntingdon.
Seligman, the tailor is visiting hi
son, Will, at Gettysburg.
Jacob Snyder of Brady twp. was il
town ON business, Tuesday.
Mrs. George Collar of Allegheny twp
visited friends in Butler, last week.
Yves Roessing took the body of Mrs
Goff to Allegheny, Sunday morning.
w. Gillen of the Steel Car Works has
rented a house on First St, I'd Ward.
don. A. L. Hazen and wife of New
Castle visited friends in Butler, last
Saturday.
Major Albert G. Negley of Florence,
Ala. is the guest of his brother, John
H. Negley.
George Burkhalter, manager of the
Park Theatre. has a new attraction on
hands-his first boy.
Congressman Showalter and family
are taking trip to Mexico and Will be
| away for about month.
Harry Smith returned from Burmah,
India, Monday, well satisfied with his
experience in that county.
Charles n. Bredin and family of De-
| troit, Mich. are the guests of his father,
Judge Bredin at the Willard.
A. D. Barnhart and wife of Concord
twp did some shopping and visited
some friends in Butler, Friday.
Henry Shakeley of Chicora has been
granted an ;sS pension, and Mrs. Mar
garet Negiey of Elliott one at s..
W. A. Stein was elected President of
the Outing Committee at the meeting
of the Masons here, last Thursday.
C. NJ. Rodgers and wife visited friends
| in Butler, Saturday. Melvin now has
a good job printing Office at No. ., Rob
inson St, Allegheny.
Samuel Kennedy of Prospect was
'held up by two men, near White Oak
Springs, last Friday night; but scared
his assailants with a cane, which the
| fellows thought was loaded.
| Capt. J. f. Moore, Principal of the
schools of West Liberty, Allegheny Co,
is visiting his wife's folks, John Mont
gomery and family, in Oakland twp.
Robert Beaver and Myrtle Gertrude
Armstrong of Sharpsburg, two young
people well known in Butler, will be
married at the brides home next Tues
day.
The many friends of Miss Mary But
terfeld, who taught for two years in
| the Butler schools, will be sorry to learn
that she has been lying i'll for sometime
past at the home of Leonard Feuchter,
near Harmony.
Reuben McElvain, Esq. was sixty
| two years young on the 18th of last
month. Reuben began renewing his
youth two years ago, is making wonder
full progress, and expects to be a child
| again at 1870.
John Cleeland, father of D. l., was
81 years of age, yesterday. He was
born in Muddycreek twp, July 16, 1911,
and has always been a man of good
health and good habits. He has three
sons and three daughters living, and
| has made his home with D. L. since his
wife's death, nineteen years ago.
Grace and Blanche Hays, daughters
of Alex Hays of Penn twp are home
| from their schools in PittsbUrg and
Sbarpsburg for the summer. Miss
| BlaGch has been advanced to Room No.
7, next to the High School class in the
18th Ward schools and is the youngest
teacher who has ever held that posi-
| ton
Wu Ting Fang, the Chinese Minister
| to Washington, bas been superseded by
Lisng Cheu TuDg, young man.
| Wu intends writing a book entitled
The Wonderful Nation" meaning us,
and he says that activity, mental fer
tility and adaptiveness are the salient
characteristics of the American people. ="
At the meeting of Council, Tues
day, in was decided to pave Brady ST.
| Some citizens Of the First Ward are
trying to have machine shop declared
a nuisance.
"A large bunch of keys, with a
number ON the metal tab, can be had at
this office, by the owner.
One of the strict rules of the post
Office department is that the names of
the following states and territories shall
never be abbreviated in the direction of
a letter: Alaska, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa,
Ohio, Samoa and Utah The reason is
obvious Ala. might mean Alabama Id.
for Indiana; o. for either Ohio, Oregon
or Oklahoma; To- for Idaho &c.
| "A piece of limberger cheese laid
away in cupboards and refrigerators will
drive away ants. 1t will do more than
that 1t will drive a spike through a
brick; it will drive hog out of tan
yard; it will drive a tramp away
from meal; it will drive mule
through barbed wire fence; it will
drive herd Of cattle over precipice;
it will drive the price of meat down,
and it will drive a man into insanity.
And yet some men will sit up and eat
the stuff and profess they like it.-Ex.
| WANTED-A good driving mare from
to years of age, bay or sorrel, 1850 to
100 pounds; must be well bred, clean
and sound. Address
A. STEVENS, Claytonia, Pa, OF
bring horse to Wick's barn in West
Sunbury, ON Saturday August End.
Marriage Licenses.