Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1904-01-21
PERSONAL.

w. ID. Grant has moved DacK 10 Dul-
Ter from Pittsburg.
Clarence Haseltine of Beaver Falls is
visiting Butler friends.
Hanna has written two-thousand let
ters saying that he isn't.
/ E. d. Baker is the name of the new
face in the P. o. window.
G. L. Marsh, of Penn township. visit
ed friends in Butler, Tuesday.
W. j. Fletcher of Whitestown came
to town for preacher. Saturday.
| George r. Harvey, Mercantile Ap-
praiseri was in Butler. Saturday.
Miss Decima Hull of Centre Ave. is
visiting her brother Arthur in Marion,
| Ind
Zachariah W. Phillips paid his fifrieth
annual subscription to The Citizen, last
week.
| County Sup'd't. Painter is now able
to sit up, and Will Turner is learning
to walk.
VIM. Cooper. merchant tailor, attend
ed the Custom Cutters Convention, IN
Columbus. this week.
D. Sneathen of Slipperyrock has
moved to New Castle. He is the man
who hit young Morrow
J. II. Thompson. T. z Caldwell and
| c. w. Hawn. of Concord twp, were
among our callers. last week.
| Mrs Isaiah Matthews. W. S. Stewart
and Mrs. Add Hockenberry of Como
| quenessing twp, are convalescent from
typhoid.
| Grandma Sickfiel of McKeesport is
cutting set of new teeth at % years
She has been without teeth for nearly
twenty years.
Wu Ting Fang has been promoted to
| the Chinese foreign office. A ray OF
light seems to he permeating the mind
of the old Empress.
DR.. William McCurdy Scott registered
as practicing physician. Tuesday. DIR.
Scott is associated with his uncle, DIR.
]. NJ. Scott at Saxon Station.
Robert Gibson of Valencia. formerly
of Penn township was in town, yester-
day. He is in poor health and has had
great deal of trouble lately.
Elias Hartz. the aged, goosebone
weather prophet, of Reading, says he
predicted it, and it came true. He has
seen SO winters, and this is the worst
of them.
George Francis Train, a remarkably
smart man, bnt whose mind has been
unbalanced for many years, died at a
New York hotel, Monday. He was in
France during the Franco Prussian
war, about 1870 and the French papers
made him mad by putting an 8 to his
name, making it Trains.
At noon Wednesday at the brides
wedding of Miss Josephine Crisweil,
daughter of Squire and Mrs. Joseph
Criswell, and Philip Henninger, fourth
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Fred HenniDger.
After the ceremony the bride and
groom left for New York, where the
latter has an excellent position as an
electrician, and where they will here
after reside. The groom is a brother
of Jacob Henninger and of District At
torney John Benningcr,
Mrs. Leah Keith, Indiana county's
oldest resident, died at her home near
Grismore last Friday, at the age of 112
years About a month ago the venera-
BILE woman received partial paralytic
stroke and it was thought that the rem
edy which on many previous occasions
pulled her through would avail. Ac-
cordingly certain of her old neighbors
were summoned, and around her bed
they sang the old 'buckwheat songs"
OF which she was so fond. But these.
together with the best medical aid the
family could procure failed at last and
since Christmas the aged woman had
been slowly declining.
Mrs. Jack Gardner, the eccentric rich
woman of Boston, who has done so
much to add to the spice of life in that
cold metropolis, has just been brought
to book by the government and COM
PEELED to pay 5000. 900 tariff on works of
art imported some years ago free of
duty on the ground that they were to
be placed in a museum. This museum
is one of the greatest curiosities of arch
itecture the world affords. 1t is
made up of bricks, stones, columns,
marbles, windows. and the like, picked
up from ruins and demolished build
ings all over Italy and united so as to
make harmonious structure. 1t is
supposed to represent the acme OF
taste, and Mrs. Gardner was so earnest
in the matter that she did some Of the
work with her own hands, even to mix
ing mortar and laying courses Of stone
1t is filled with rare art treasures and
is known as 1.-THE Fenways"
All Boston, from the higher intellect
ual circles of Beacon Hill to the hum
bier, but equally erudite and aestheti-
cally inclined people of the slums. re-
joiced that there was to be opened to
their eyes such a wonderful store of the
worlds best art For, in truth, the col
lection in question is marvellous in its
excellence. The museum feature how
ever, turned out to be hoax Certain
rooms are open to the public on few
days in the year for few hours; only
200 tickets are issued for each day and
cost dollar apiece. So far as the pub
lie at large is concerned the museum
feature was a farce and in consequence
Mrs Gardner had to step up to the Gus
tom house and settle for the duties she