Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1903-09-24
PERSONAL

severe illness.
Samuel Purvis of the Pharmacy i
able to be about again.
Il c. w. Pond attended the A. .. U. w
meeting in Bruin. Mond=y.
John C. Dickson attended wedding
festivity near Slippery Rock, this week
q. S. Thompson of Concord township
did some shopping in Butler, saturday
DR.. Mckee took his two daughters t
Mountain Seminary, near Tyrone, Tues
day.
Phillip billiard. Esq, of Hilliard, at
tended to some legal business in Butler
Monday.
| d. P. Kelly of Parker and A. w
Boozel of Clay called on Butler friends
Saturday.
Miss Bertha Hoffner of Mexican st
is entertaining Miss Eva Little oi
Allegheny.
Alya c. Brown of Forward township
is entertaining visitors from Allegheny
and Cleveland.
B. F. Frantz of Chestnut street is en-
tertaining his brother, j. H., OF Topeka
Kansas, who has not been East FOL
thirty years.
II. C. Craig and wife of Chicora at
tended the Mercer Fair last week. and
visited Mrs Craig's father, John
Horner, whom they report in excellent
health.
Mr.. and Mrs Arthur E. Jennings, and
their son, George Stansfield Jennings.
of Tioga, Philadelphia are the guests oil
their brother-in-law Earnest Z. FaDer
of Mercer street
Miss Mary Harding of the Western
Union Telegraph company left Sunday
| to visit her parents near Parkersburg
W. Va, and her place is temporarily
filed by Joe Campbell.
Editor Lewis L. O'Kane. of the New
Kensington Dispatch showed his good
taste and Judgment by yesterday mar
rying Butler County girl, Miss Hal
lie Bicket of Winfield township.
General Baldwin, commanding the
Department of the Colorado fayors the
| re-establishment of the army canteen.
on moral grounds. The w. G. T. U.
will have its opinion of his morals
| Madame Baker, President of the
Dressmakers' Association says that the
new woman is slim and snug and
svelte" wears 'an almost skin-tight
gown" and has DO lips. Ladies, now
| is the time to be re formed
Mr. E Miller, whose skull was tre-
panned at the Hospital last week, is do
| ing well, and complete cure is expect
ed. His head was injured by the ex-
plosion Of the fywheel Of an gas engine
while he was repairing the engine house
"a year or so ago.
Miss Stella Mates. eldest daughter of
w. J. Mates, formerly of Butler but
now living near New Castle, and VIM.
E.. McEIroy, young business man of
Ellwood were married in New Castle,
on the 10th inst They will reside in
Ellwood and will be at home to their
many friends after October 1st.
Mr.. L. D. Borland, the popular and
well known business manager of the
Mrs. j. E. Zimmermans Dry Goods
Store, has returned from a trip to New
York. where he has been completing the
purchase of the handsomest stock of
dress goods, silks, cloaks. suits, furs and
all that goes to making complete re-
liable up TO date stock of merchandise
in a high class dry doods store. You
will be repaid by visiting this hand
some store. corner of Main and Jeffer-
son st.
Henrietta Starr, who lived in Petrolia
during the Seventies is wanted wanted
by the citizens of Red Cloud, Nebraska.
Stories of destitution coming from Ne
braska about the time appealed to the
girls sympathy and she collected money
and sent it to the famine-stricken set
tiers of Red Cloud. These settlers. now
grown prosperous, are eager to reward
the woman who aided them in their dis
tress and are making determined et-
fort to locate her in the Pennsylvania
oil regions.
Mrs. j. z, Zimmerman has just re-
turned from an extended trip to Cleve-
land, New York and Philadelphia. Mrs
Zimmerman had with her five young
ladies on this trip, all employees of her
popular store one from the cloak and
suit department, one from the corset
department and three from their mil
linery depa. tment The trip was a
most ENJOYABLE one as well as success
full one in sight seeing in New York
and attending the fashionable millinery
and cloak openings of the Paris of
America. they certainly are well posted
in THE store in every one of their big
departments as to what is the correct
and proper style. Call and see them.
No trouble to show goods.
The Institute Hill burelar robbed
%I<l - M
night.
Foxy Grandpa, is announced in
the near future-as a fun puveyor it
can't be- beat.
This Is plowing and seeding time
with the farmers. 1t is an unusually
backward season.
A 23-inch weasel was killed on Paul
Cronenwett's place on N. Washington
St, the other day.
Three men are under arrest for at
tacking and abusing Conductor Robin
son of the street car service, Tuesday
night The men were intoxicated at
the time of the assault.
What a strenuous thing official life
| in Pittsburg isl The proposed elevated
railroad around the Point has kept the
Councils on edge since the Wabash r.
R. matter was settled; and now that
road wants to share in the elevated
Biglow's jump to seven millions for
filtration plant for the city caused
more rows in Councils-the river men
and railroad men are fighting each 9th
er as to the height of the bridges above
water level, and the U. s. Engineer has
decided in favor of the river men.
These with daily conferences regarding
the removal of the hump" on Fifth
Ave, and the factional quarrels keep
people busy figuring out where they
are at politically.
Some ffty farmers of jefferson
county, o., made it warm for couple
of robbers, last Monday. they were
aroused by the tinkle of the telephone
bells in their homes, armed themselves
and scattered over the country roads
near Bloomfield, 10 miles from Steuben-
vile, to catch two confidence men turn
ed footpads, who had robbed John Kerr,
wealthy farmer, of $4,000 They met
the fugitives, had a running fight. in
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