Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1904-10-27
PERSONAL.

A. T. Black Esq is at Phila- this
week.
Postmaster Black and son have re
turned from st. Louis
James Wallace Of Zelienople is said
I! to be seriously i'll of heart trouble
JC. Cochran went over to Indiana
county, last week, and sold his farm.
IS Wick and Ezra Brugh started
for st. Louis and the Fair, Wednesday.
+. J. Slater of the Connolly Whole
sale. is hunting in Venango county this
week.
Miss Jane Orr of Mercer was the
guest of Mrs. Isabel Galbreath last
/ week.
Thos. Wood and s. c. Moore of Clin-
ton twp. were in town on business, yes
terday.
| Miss Elizabeth Wallace Of CadiZ, o.
is the guest Of Miss Nigel of East
| North Street
NJ. G. Thompson of Brady twp, sec
| ton boss on the Bessie, visited friends
in Butler, yesterday.
John 81. Wilson. Esq. is proud of that
eleven-pound boy that came to his
house. the other day.
Miss Elvie Thompson of Allegheny
/ was visiting relatives in Middlesex twp.
| and Valencia, last week.
Robert B. Ivory, wife and son r. B.
Jr. of Pittsburg, made brief visit to
Butler relatives Saturday.
C. M. Heineman and family intend
moving to Great Belt. where they Will
occupy the Byerly property.
John laval, Peter Duffy and Frank
Kohler went on to St. Louig last Friday,
billed to do the whole show.
W. p. Braham of Harrisville. one of
the Octo's of the county, was in town.
yesterday, and will be at the next meet
ing.
Calvin Hockenberry Of Cherry twp
visited his sisters Mrs Perry Dickey
and Mrs. Margaret Bell in Butler, Fri
day.
NJ. b. Byerly has moved from Great
Belt to New Cumberland. w. Va.
where he intends living with his daugh-
ter, Mrs. McAteer..
ID. A. Rankin, now a member of the
u. s. Marine corps, is home on fur
| lough. He is son of James Rankin OF
Penn twp. and lately returned from
two year sojourn in the Philippines.
Miss Helen Mechling and Mr.. Edward
J. Campbell of Butler were married at
Mercer. Monday Mr. Campbell is In
structor in Athletics at the Grove City
College. and the young couple will re-
side there for the present.
Rev. J X. Melhorn preached at Free
port for number Of years, in Lutheran
church there, and was very favorably
known TO many of the citizens of But
county. He died at Homestead last
Thursday, October 20, 1904.
Wayne McCandless Of Conway. Bea-
yer county, visited his sister, Mrs Ken
nedy Matthey at Mcbride this week
Mr. McCandless is a son of the late
Abraham McCandless. Jr and Is EN-
ployed on the Fort Wayne railroad.
Mrs. Thomas n. Cumberland left
Butler for vieit with friends in Steub-
enville, O., last Thursday. and left a
note IN the table for her husband tell
ing him that she had left him. and ask
ing him to be good to their two child
rem.
VIM. Siebert returned, last week,
from five weeks visit with friends in
western Kansas. Kansas is now culti-
vated to its western borders: the land
is splendid. and though they have some
rain, their great reliance 10 upon irriga-
ton.
VIM. Patterson. Abel Kelly and j. III.
Pizor Of this county have been drawn
as jurors for the first week OF the u. s.
District court. November term, in Pitts
burg. For the second week s. r. Bal
ley and John Thompson have been
drawn.
Peter Roosevelt whitmire, aged about
three weeks, In the finest boy in Butler
county. II you don't believe it ask the
boys father. Peter Whitmirc of Butler.
formerly Of Oakland twp, aged rs
years. and one Of the best men in the
county.
Prof Kirker and his wife OF New
Castle celebrated the fiftieth anniver
sary Of their wedding. few days ago.
They are both natives Of this county:
and had seventeen children. eleven Of
whom are living. and ten OF whom
were at the celebration.
Justice Harlan, Of the United States
Supreme Court. is recovering from a
sick spell caused by taking drink Of
household ammonia out OF a bottle, in
mistake for something else. but he will
not say what the something else was
he explains that, being Kentuckian,
he is ashamed OF the mistake.
Charles e. Smith. tho old mail-car-
rier. has given up his job and has taken
one with the Pratt Food Co. Of Phila-
delphia. Charlie did parts Of Greene
and Washington counties, with another
agent, last week, to learn how; and on
Monday OF this week left for Iowa
where he will work for the same firm.
DIR. Charles b. Gillespie and his twin
sister. Miss Mary. OF Freeport celebrat-
ed their 85th birthday on the Sth lust.
and are probably the oldest twins In the
state. They were born near Millers-
town. this county, and were children Of
Neal Gillespie, decd. the hotelkeeper,
who afterwards moved to Butler, and
then TO Freeport. DR.. Gillespie attend
ed school here. was 40er, soldier
during the Civil War. and Is quite an
artist and poet, az well as physician.
Leonard Patalina Is q young Italian
coal miner at Claytonia, Teresa Consig-
liza Ii the sweetheart he left in Italy
Lately Leonard sent Teresa money TO
come to America and Sunday she arriv,
| cd at New York. alone and with very
little money. and short time after o
| telegram was sent 10 Leonard which
said, Am detained at Ellis Island, send
tl5 and proof OF ability to support
Leonard came to Butler Monday morn
inG and sent the money bv wire and
the affidavit by mail and now there is
q new family In Claytonia.