Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1904-08-11
PERSONAL.

P. Welsh is now running the Waver'
ly.
Jim Kearns has a new hat from
! Texas-a present.
W. S. Keister and son of Keister were
in town, Saturday.
Mrs. c. Selignan is seriously i'll al
her home on W Jefferson st.
Charley Thompson of Glade Mills is
thinking of moving to Butler.
Howard Parks of Allegheny twp. Wis
tied friends in Butler, Monday.
James Anderson of Middlesex twp.
visited friends in Butler, Monday.
R.P. Scott goes on to the Boston en-
campment, Monday, via the b. q o.
Adam Klink and wife of Coaltown
did some shopping in Butler, Saturday
J.R. Turner and wife Of New Ken
sington visited friends in Butler. Tues
day.
John Niggle, a proof reader on the
New York World, is visiting his folks
here
Mrs. NJ. B. Fritz of Mifflin ST. is visit
ing her father, Jos. Brown, near Harris
vile.
W. Fl. Ramsey and wife of Jackson
twp. did some shopping in Butler, Sat
urday.
Geo. Negley, Esq. of Pittsburg at
Monday.
JEFF. Shields is helping to repair the
buildings at the State Normal at Slip
peryrock.
Ex-Conductor Jos Gray has been
placed upon the pension list of the p.
r. r. Co.
Rudolph Barnhart and wife of Como
auenessing visited friends in Butler,
yesterday.
Miss Mamie McGarvey Of Baldwin is
the guest of ]. ]. McGarvey and family
of Mercer twp.
Ben. Foster and wife Of Freeport at
tended the funeral of his brother Wills
child, yesterday.
Misses Hazel and Edna Bush of
Greensburg are visiting their cousin,
Miss Cornelia Biehl.
Robert Adams of Concord twp in
tends leaving for Boston. tomorrow, to
attend the Encampment.
Miss Mayme Brown is at her home on
Brady St i'll with typhoid fever, con-
tracted while working in PittsbIrg.
Charles w. Johnston of Butler. the
well known druggist, and Miss Rachael
Jones of Braddock, were married at the
brides home, a few days ago.
Mrs. John J. Reiber Of w. North st.
returned Friday. from months visit
with relatives in Philadelphia, New
York and L. Providence. r. /.
Misses Nova and Alice Negley of
Pittsburg were in Butler Sunday and
Monday, called here by the death of
their aunt, Mrs. Mary b. Muntz.
Rev. J. c. Nicholas aud family are
visiting relatives in the eastern part Of
the state There will be no services in
the Grace Lutheran church for the next
two Sundays.
w. c.. Glenn of w. Sunbury took a
car load of cattle to the Herr's Island
stock yards, Saturday One hundred
and seventy cars of cattle went into the
yards, Sunday.
Attorney T. o. Andrews of Erie stop
ped with John III. Wilson, over Sunday,
on his way to Pittsburg to argue the
Winters bankruptcy case before the Z.
s. District Court.
Charles Francis Adams thinks it is
more important to curb the Senate"
than to "bust the trusts" Yet there
are cynics who intimate that the one in
cludes the other.-Ex.
DIR. Showalter and family returned
from their European trip last week,
and on Monday the DIR. put in an ap-
pearance in Butler, through his family
went on to Chautauqua.
President Castro of Venezuela is a
most unpleasant person. He is always
doing something. This time he has
confscated the asphalt beds, some of
which are claimed by Americans.
Maj. A. G. Negley, wife and daugh
ter, of Florence, Ala. attended the
funeral of his sister, Mrs. Mary MuntZ.
Monday, and will 60 on to Boston, to
attend the National Encampment, to-
morrow. Mr.. Negley il Commander
in Chief for the Department of Ala
bama, and must be there early to es-
tablish the state headquarters.
Russell Sage, the New York million
aire is a remarkable example of the
American business man who finds pleas
ure only in work. Despite the fact
that ON last Thursday he became SS
years old, the aged inancier Put in the
day at his office as usual. and be de-
clares he will work to the end. Idle
ness is unhappiness. he says. THE
older a person gets. the more valuable
his experience becomes. | owe it to
myself and to those connected with me
in business to keep at work" Even
Mr.. Sage. careful business man that he
IL, probably does not know within sever
al millions of dollars the sum total of
his wealth. And yet he prefers work
to the ease and comfort of his library.
1t is probable that TO man of his ten
dencies there is more comfort in his
daily labor than any form of what he
terms 'idleness" would bring. He has
the habit Of work, as he says, and it is
difficult to break habits when one has
passed the age of eighty.