Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1905-03-09
PERSONAL.

T. Z. Dick visited friends in Butler
Saturday.
Mrs Elizabeth Wolford has returned
to Prospect from Ohio.
A. C. Moser of Winfield twp visitet
friends in Butler, this week.
John G. Thompson of Brady twp. Wis
| tied friends in Butlar, Thursday.
J. A. Shakely of Connoquenessinl
twp. is serving on the Grand Jury, this
week.
Henry Halstead and Joseph Jones oi
Clinton twp. were in town. on business
Tuesday.
r. L. Mccullough and wife of Frank
lin twp. did some shopping in Butler,
Saturday.
Miss Jennie Bulford of Allegheny. is
visiting her sisters. Emma and Minnie,
in Penn twp.
W. w. Kelly of Cherry twp. and
Samuel f. Johnston Of jefferson, visited
friends in Butler. Saturday.
Mrs Jean q. Wilson is candidate
for the Leaders European trip, and
wishes her friends to save the coupon s
for her.
P. 81. Sechler has placed gas engine
in his marble shop on n. Main st. and
will run his pneumatic tools and polish
er with ii.
Forest Huff, son of T. J. Huff, the
plumber. will be here on the 21st inst
with the Jewel of Asia" opera company.
See theatre notes.
Mrs. Isabella Beecher Hooker, the
only surviving member of the famous
Beecher family celebrated her S3rd
birthday last week.
Senator Knox of this state has been
ill at his home in Washington for some
time, and it is now asserted that he is
suffering from Bright's disease.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ellsworth Miller of
Franklin st. entertained the teachers of
Grace Lutheran Sunday School, Tues
day evening. A pleasant time was had
by all present.
James NJ. Cruikshank was in town
Saturday for the first time in four weeks.
He was out electioneering and went
home with bad cold which was fol-
lowed by grip and neuralgia.
Judge A. o. Smith of Clearfeld coun-
ty is threatened with impeachment for
the alleged interference with the bust
ness of wholesale liquor dealer in Cen
tire county. just across the line.
John Campbell OF the United States
is visiting his mother in Butler, this
week. John travels for the St. Louis
Steel Range Co., his wife goes with
him. and they have been in every town
in the country from the Mississippi to
Atlantic, and from the lakes to the
Gulf.
Prince Henry of Prussia presented a
New York club with dead rhinoceros.
and the club had him for dinner last
Thursday evening They served him
whole, hide, hoofs. horn and all to 250
invited guests and he is said to have
been good. They also had polecat,
muskrat and several other delicacies at
same meal. and the men were able to
stand mp and make speeches afterwards.
Pet monkeys are said to be good eating
in Honduras, and in Venezuela and
Colombia one is said to soon become
fond of large lizard called the yguana.
Its meat is white and delicious If you
do not know what you are eating. ANY
man who can eat frogs, eels or Holsters
ought not to balk at lizards.
Eijiro Takasugi, native of Japan
and now attending Boston law school,
came to Butler last Saturday and lee
tured on the War, in the Y. NJ. c. A.,
that evening He recited the causes
that led up to the hostilities. expressed
absolute confidence in the outcome or
result. and then gave a general descrip-
tion Of Japan and her people. In the
M. =. church on Sunday evening he
told Of the Japanese people and their
religions, Of bis own conversion to
Christianity and Of the progress it is
making IN his country. Like other
Japanese. Bijiro is small man, about
8 feet irches and weighing about 1870
pounds. Bis skin is dark, his hair
coarse and black, and his features void
of interest to white man; but he is |
full of life. hope and ambition, and he |
made very good impression uncn the
people of Butler. ~
Age has its compensations;
Though youths no longer mine,
Though cares are thrust upon me
I'll not in gloom repine.
My hair viii zonn pe frosty,
L5eis not an bitter, though;
lie in bed while Johnnie
Now clears the walk of snow