Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1905-10-19
PERSONAL.

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w. BRYAN and family are doing
Japan, and will make two weeks Joo
of it.
J. Fl. Pisor, formerly OF Concord
township. has patented new wire
fence.
Mrs. Rev. J. c. Nicholas and daugh-
ter, Gertrude. are visiting friends at
Foxburg.
Mrs. r. J. Rodgers of Attica, n: Y,
is the guest of her daughter, Mrs >. ..
Campbell.
Baxter Logan of Penn twp. attended
the U. p Presbytery at West Liberty
this week.
II. Shanor and A, d. Shearer OF
Butler township have gone to COLORADO
on visit.
Tom Edison says it. and says it again
We eat and sleep too much, and do not
work enough.
B.F. billiard. County Surveyor, was
| in town, Monday His health Is steadl-
ly improving.
ia, McMarlin attended the funeral
of his old neighbor, John Kennedy, at
Mars, Tuesday.
Miss Seaton of North Washington
has returned home after visiting her
sister, Miss Lorane Seaton.
Lester Moore of Clinton twp. is able
| TO be up after long illness with Dill
lious fever and rheumatism.
Clerk of Courts L. E. Christley and
bride left last evening TO visit MIS-
Christlsy's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Mason
in Franklin.
W. A. Lowry and wife of Butler at
tended the reunion of the 18TH regiment
and Will was elected Secretary OF the
Association.
Miss Maude Kelly of Toronto, Can,
earns a living correcting" other peo-
ple's obstreperous kids. She is profes-
sional spanker.
Andrew Lemon of Butler twp. is
with his. brother, Robert, at Parkers
Landing. Robert is seriously i'll. ard Is
now nearly so years of age.
Prothonotary John G. Clark and Lon
Story. who is recovering from long at
tack of rheumatism, spent Sunday at
the Clark farm in Washington twp.
H. s. Thompson of Concord twp, q.
B. Heck of Centre twp, James Cochran
of Clay twp. and John Emrick OF Butler
twp. were among our callers, last week.
Ed Cunliffe is said to be resting "un.
der the shade of an old apple tree
somewhere in this county with that
800, 900 beside him. Puzzle-find the
tree.
Princess Louise of Saxe-Coburg spent
her allowance and $744, ,812 in one year,
and then eloped with an Austrian lieu
tenant-hence her hubby wants a di-
vorce.
A. M. Christley and his sisters Miss
Blanche and Mrs. Mccoy attended the
wedding of their brother, LAUREL y. to
Miss Effie Mason at Franklin, on Wed
nesday Of last week.
Harvey Gold of Washington twp. re-
ports having threshed 800 bushels OF
buckwheat and expects to thresh 200
more. That's about the record for one
farmer in Butler county.
w. Fl. Miller, now in the insurance
business and Andrew Hughes, an en-
ploy of the Bottle Works Co. have pur-
chased the lease Of the Carver House. in
Sharon. and will take possession OF it
November 1st
Mrs. Isaac Collins, nee Elizabeth Pi-
sor, of Whittier, Cal, visited her moth
or, Mrs Elizabeth and brother l. II. in
Concord twp last week. and is visiting
her sister, Mrs. Archie Ysagel at Sax
onburg, this week.
Mrs. L. E. Cunningham's birthday
occurred last Tuesday and that evening
about thirty Of her lady friends surpris-
ed her by dropping in at her home on
w, North st. to celebrate the event A
very pleasant evening was spent by all,
and dainty lunch was served.
Carl Shanor of Prospect. Robert G.
McAboy of Butler, John Balfour OF
Mars. Mont Cochran of Hooker, and L.
McCracken and Marion Gibson of Slip
peryrock have been draw as jurors for
the November term of United States
Circuit court which meets in Pittsburg
Mrs. Peart, handsome young widow
of Chicago boasts that during stay of
eight weeks in st. Louis. street car con-
ductors invariably gazed into her lovely
eyes and forgot to collect her fare.
What breed of poets those ST. Louis
car companies must be resringl
Judge Storey is member of the Oc-
togenarian Club of Butler, and, as he
was famous wrestler when young
man. he is thinking of proposing pub
| lie wrestling match between members
of the Club. the proceeds OF which land
they would be immenseyto go to some
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Carrie Nation was sllenced by quick
witted conductor down in South Mis-
souri, recently The smasher was in a
railroad car in which half intoxicated
man was talking. When the conductor
came through Carrie stood up and said:
Conductor, do you permit drunken
people to ride on your trainY" "Yes. l
guess 80, replied the man in uniform.
''if You keep still and behave yourself. ;"
Carrie sank into her seat, silenced.
Miss Katherine j. Stewart and Mr..
Leland Read McAboy were married
last evening at the home of the brides
mother, Mrs. Ada Steck Stewart on
| West Pearl St, in the presence of one
| hundred guests Rev. John Waters,
cousin of the bride, of Jumonville, Pa.
| oficiated. The bride was given away
| by her brother, George G. Stewart. and
/ was attended by Miss Clara Shearer,
DIR. c. B. McAboy Of Pittsburg, brother
of the groom, acted as best man.
Aaron B. Hughes bid his comrades in
| Butler q sad farewell. last Thursday,
and left for the Soldiers Home in Erie,
intending to end his days there. Like
his father he has been a barber all his
life, excepting the few years he spent
in the army. A few months ago, how
ever, his right arm became paralyzed,
and the small pension he was receiving
was not enough to keep him. At the
outbreak Of the Civil War he enlisted
as Musician of Co. E. 103d reg. and
was gradually promoted until he be-
came Chief Musician of the regiment.
and after the war he had shop and
lived in Allegheny for some years. And
now, through conditions entirely be-
yond his control he is homeless and al
most helpless, and has seen fit to take
advantage of the grateful bounty of a
great Nation for those who risked their
lives and endured the hardships of war
for the preservation of the Union.
Il The new trolley company did moi
ask for that loop, at the meeting Of
Council. Tuesday night, but some new
street-lights were asked for, and the
Towns Solicitor was requested to write
an unbiased, impartial, Supreme Court
!, opinion on the City Charter question.