Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1903-12-17
PERSONAL

C. P. Andrew of Forward township,
visited friends in Butler, Monday.
J. r. Kennedy of Adams township
served on the grand jury, last week.
Henry Roenigk, of Winfield town
ship, visited friends in Butler, Monday
w. W. Morrison, of Slipperyrock,
was in town on business. Wednesday.
Robert HARRISON and C. L. Dunbar, of
Middlesex, did some shopping i'll Butler,
Monday.
A, w. Critchlow, of Reibold, attend
ed to some business matters in Butler,
Monday.
DR.. H. A. McCandless, the dentist,
has recovered from the fever, and IS
back in his office.
Father Carol. of the English Catho-
lie church, here. has been transferred
to the church at Kittanning.
Mrs J. A. Love, of Versailles, is Wis
iting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs A Z.
Williams, of Mercer street.
Miss Sue Mechlipg has returned to
her home Breeze Place" after pleas
ant visit with friends in Pittsburg and
W. Va.
W. r. Turner, the 3. q o. ticket
agent here. who has had a long and
serious siege of the fever, is at last con-
valescent.
Miss Gertrude Seibert has been called
home from Circleville, O., on account
of the serious illness of her nephew, Vic
tor Siebert,
James Burchfield, an employee of the
of the Bessie" was sandbagged and
robbed near the freight station, last
Sunday night.
James NJ. Maxwell. Esq. received his
commission as Justice of the Peace,
Monday morning, and will open an Of
flee in the Cypher building, with Col
lector Slater
Mrs. S. J. Anderson, of Flick, lost
roll of money between Miller's shoe
store and Bergs bank. A liberal re-
ward will be paid for return of the same
to the CITIZEN office.
Mr.. Bricker, Mr.. Stoner, WI. Camp
bell and Jerry Eberhart represented the
Butler county oranges at the state meet
ing at Scranton, last week. They re-
turned home Saturday.
Brer Whistler, of the Mercer Press,
in personal note about former Mer-
cerite now living in the West, says he
lis doing finely and has recently expert
enced religion, but is keeping the matter
rather quiet until he evens up on some
old-time hoss trades.
The President in the White House has
his trials and tribulations as well as the
peasant in his cottage, only great
many more of them. Among the pres
ents sent to His Excellency last week
were a bull pup a cat and glass
snake. And yet it appears that he IL
willing to stand for reelection.
Jim Wallace says they have had no
gems in Zelienople, and do not in |
tend having any. They placed fine
screen across the creek just below the |
mouth of Little creek. and when they |
see any trying to get through they shoe |
them up the Little. and into Yellow |
creek, where they come to their death |
in the water of the old salt well.
l.. W. Daugherty of Slipperyrock
township was in town, Saturday, 1or
the first time since his return from |
Alaska, Nov. 26th). where he was pro-
specting for oil for a Seattle Co The
oil oozes from the ground in several
localities there but has not, as yet, been
found by the drill. Loyal has a great
artesian well on his place in Slippery
rock township, along the creek, near mis-
dam "a well that produces sixty barrels
of good, soft water, per hour, and
which, if pumped to the top of Fultz
hill, nearby, would run to Butler.
Clara Barton, president of the Red
Cross society of this country, and now
an aged lady, came to Butler, last
and en- Sunday evening spoke
from the pulpit of the o. P. church,
giving short history of the society,
and her connection with it. The society
was organized in Geneva, Switzerland,
in 1874, its object being to alleviate, as
far as possible, the suffering on the
field of battle Representatives of all
the European nations were at the meet
ing, the reverse of the Swiss flag was
adopted as the badge, and the society
received the recognition and sanction of |
all the European governments. She |
happened to be in Europe during the |
Franco-Prussian war, saw the society |
at work on battlefield, took an interest |
in it, and organized branch society in |
this country, about 1878, the work OF |
which has been extended, so as to in
clude all great calamities or disasters.
Mrs Gustav Lipschentz died in Phila-
delphia few days ago. She belonged !
to the great Jewish family of Abarban-
ell, whose relationship to David is un-
disputed. Her maiden name was Ber-
tha Neamann. and she sprung from
that branch of the family of which Don
Isaac Abarbanel, Prime Minister in
Spain in 1492, was the head During
that time, when persecution against
the Jews began as result of the change
in the religious views of Ferdinand and
Isabella, Don Isaac was obliged to flee
with his less favored brethren. The
family scattered, settling in various
parts of Europe. Don Isaac afterward
became Prime Minister in Italy. The
grandfather of the dead woman was
Rudolph H1rsch Abarbanel, one of the
formost rabbis of Germany in the last
century The city of Gretz, where he
died gave him public funeral and
the Government buildings were draped
in mOurninp