Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1905-08-03
PERSONAL.

C. C. Klever of Clay twp. was IL
town on business, Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chess Stoner are visit
ing Mrs. John A. Stoner at Erie.
Steve Mcbride. the policeman, ha:
purchased pair of blood hounds.
J. T. Mechling of the Westinghouse
works at Williamsburg is the guest oi
his parents at Breeze Place.
| Clerk JOS Kiskaddon started fol
Sutherland, Iowa, yesterday, to visit
his daughter, Mrs. Harry Burns.
Ira Crafty of the East End, Pittsburg
returned home yesterday after visit
with his brother, DR.. Milo Crafty.
Secretary Taft landed in Japan. last
week, and the island did not tip-tilt, as
the Russians were hoping it would.
John L. Walker, the safe man, has
opened billiard parlor and cigar store
in the Ref building on Centre Ave.
Alfred A. Campbell has returned
from a three-weeks' trip to the western
furniture markets-Grand Rapids and
Chicago.
Mrs. John B. Caldwell and her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Sadie Ziegler of Allegheny
are visiting Dr. Ellery Caldwell at w.
Sufield, Conn.
Misses Tessie Eberhart and Emily
Miller of Butler twp, returned yester-
day from months visit with relatives
and friends in Ohio.
Mrs. Smiley Mechling and children of
Clarksburg, w. Va, who has been VS.
iting friends in Franklin and Butler,
have returned home
Secretary Wilson is now searching
the country for some honest men to run
the Agricultural Department of the
National Government.
J. NJ. Painter, Esq. has returned from
a trip to Boston. He made the return
trip, fro~ Boston to Philadelphia, by
water. and greatly enjoyed it.
Thomas A. Edison says the roads of
this state are the worst in the country.
Tom is trying to tour the continent in
an auto, and this is his most wonderful
discovery.
Misses Lulu and Gertrude Smathers
of Evans City were the guests of their
aunt, Mrs Mary NJ Smith of w. Penn
ST., last week. They came up to attend
the Grocers picnic.
Chancey Depew is no longer called a
peach" Since his connection with the
Equitable Life Insurance Co. has come
to light he is no longer considered as
zone altogether lovely"
Gill Moser was kept busy at the late
Grocer's Picnic He made eight-hun-
dred gallons of coffee, using 10 pounds
of ground up berries, and he kept ahead
of the crowd up till towards evening.
Sereius Witte is one of the few infiu-
ential men in Russia who has risen
from the ranks. He began his career as
a railroad clerk and worked his way up.
He is that rarest Of Russian statesmen,
practical man.
Rev. A. r. Robinson left, yesterday,
on a months vacation which he expects
to spend at Atlantic City and Waynes-
burg, Pa Mrs Robinson and his sis
ter, Miss Mealy. are visiting at New
Wilmington, after which they will also
go to Waynesburg.
w. a. h Wasson of Pittsburg, who
for some years has been Assistant Jour-
nal Clerk of the House at Washington
was in town on business, last week. and
went MP to see his three aunts, all wild
ows named Pisor, sisters of his mother,
nee Meals-one 84, one SO and one 80
years OF age.
Mr.. M. H. Sitter of jackson twp. one
of the finest old gentlemen in the coun-
ty. and son Jacob were in town on busi-
ness Saturday. If Mr.. Sitter lives till
next February he will be 7S years of
age, and he has taken the CITIZEN for
over fifty years. His wife. nee Ziegler,
Is but few months younger than he;
and they have two sons and two daugh-
ters. all living near them.
Mr.. Jesse Heydrick OF n Bluff
street, on Monday, presented us with a
boquet of his seeding gladiolas. one of
which he calls the Celestial Beatty
q cross between pure white and a
crimson, and very beautiful. He has
hybridized these from the choicest
varieties of the great nurseries OF the
country and has improved upon them,
and now has several thousand seedlings
ready for the market.
John n. Turner, who about a year
ago. sold his coal interests near Hill
liards and who has since been living
retired life in Grove City, has again en-
tered the ranks of the coal operators, by
purchasing the mines of the Evars City
Coal company at Evans City, from VIM.
Bishop, receiver of the company. The
papers were signed last Wednesday and
at its close a check for $14, 700 passed
from Mr. Turner to the receiver.