Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1903-02-26
PERSONAL.

Miss Stella Pape has sold her millin
cry store to Mrs. Daily Of Avalon.
w. I'll. Logan and I. A. Baker Of Mid
dlesex twp. were in town, Saturday
J. Nelson Fulton Of Middlesex twp
did some shopping in Butler, Friday.
! JOS. Franklin sold his machine shop,
last week, to Vim. Palm and II. l.. Tur'
ner.
}. G. Thompson and w B. Dennison
of Brady twp. were in Butler, Satur-
day.
B. F. Shannon and son of Franklin
twp. visited friends in Butler, Satur-
day.
Del and Ray Reed attended the Hol-
PIN -Ewald wedding in Franklin Tues
day.
S. c. Trimble and wife of Middlesex
twp. did some shopping in Butler, Sat
urday
Miss Amelda Dipner of Clearfeld
township did some shopping in Butler
Tuesday
JIM. Hogue, Henry Daubenspeck and
Thomas Smith of Parker twp. were IN
Butler, Thursday.
Miss Ida White of the Zimmerman
Dry Goods store is visiting friends in
Washington, d. c.
Mark McLafferty of baseball, football
and basketball fame, has gone to Belle
fonte to attend school.
A. o. Eberhart of Butler twp. is a
candidate for the Republican nomlna-
for Jury Commissioner.
Chas E. Porter of Janlisonville has
gone to Branchton, where he is employed
with Andrew McMurray.
Wayne Walker nas returned from
Oil City and goes into the employe of
the Guaranty S. ID. 81 L. Co.
Dan McDevitt, the famous auctioneer
of Concord township attended to some
legal business in Butler, Monday.
Edward Williamson of Pitts5urs
spent his Washington's Birthday yaca-
ton with his parents on W. jefferson
st.
Mrs. Emma Morehead of Tarentum
visited her sister-in-law and niece, Mrs.
Harry Morehead and Miss Maude More
head of West Quarry St, last week.
Geo. Humphries, T. B. Smith, Geo.
NJ Say, Geo. Morgan, Jas. McMahan,
A. NJ. Shira and other citizens of Par
ker twp were in Butler, Monday, to at
tend the hearing in the school case.
District Attorney Jerome. of New
York. has caused a mild sensation by
denouncing Jefferson as faklr and
aristocrat. At this Tammany is much
grieved. The leaders of that benevolent
society are accustomed annually to in
woke the shade of Jefferson as one OF
their patron saints and renew their de-
votion to his principles.
John D. Rockefeller, Jr., son of the
president of the Standard Oil company,
and supposed to be the wealthiest young
man in the United States, owes $780,
600 and possesses only $50, 600 worth OF
personal property. according to his
statement fled with the department of
taxes and assessments. He was assess
ed for $500. 600, but when he stated his
comparative poverty TO the department
and said he was willing to pay taxes on
$50, 600 his fgurers were accepted.
President Roosevelt was telling
friend about his mail, which averages
five or six hundred letters a day. Zone
of the most remarkable letters | ever re-
ceived,' he said. arrived on the morn
ing the first full accounts Of the Mar
Unique disaster were printed in the
newspapers The writer said he saw
that the American Consul at Martinique
had been burned to death. He applied for
the place, and wound up with this SEN
tence: II make this application so as
to get in ahead of those loathsome crea-
tures, the office seekers"
Mary McLane will have to revise her
remarks in regard to Butte. Guy Sta
pleton, who represents Butte in the
Montana Legislature. is the proud faith
er of resolution to appropriate $4,000
for the benefit of the triplets recently
born to the wife of Steven Murphy, a
miner of that town. Stapleton explains
that the purpose of the appropriation is
to give proper recognition to the patri-
otic and praiseworthy result and to
demonstrate to the world that the asper-
sions cast on Butte and that the official
statement that nothing could be raised
there is untrue