Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1905-07-20
PERSONAL.

health. He is well up IN years
VIM. J. Monks and wife of Middlesel
twp. did some shopping in Butler
Tuesday.
Miss Alexander of Fairview was call
ed to Clarion county by an accident Il
her father.
C. Seligman, the tailor, has gone tt
Gettysburg for five-weeks visit will
his son Will.
Miss Elvie Thompson of Allegheny i:
the guest OF her cousin, w. X. Thomp
son, of Middlesex twp.
Rev. Leuzinger and family Of Zelie
nople are spending the summer WIFI
relatives in Los Angeles.
Thomas Greer. a son of NJ. n. Greer
of Buffalo twp. is lying sick of typholc
fever, at Kansas City. Kan.
Miss Anderson, the Indian Missiona
ry, will lecture in the Y. +. church III
Evans City, on Sunday the 3Oth.
PH. Sechler is '-baching" it these
days; his family is visiting friends in
New Castle and Lawrence county.
John w. Coulter and wife have re
turned from a two-weeks visit With
their folks at Emlenton and Clinton
vile.
Charley Clark of Smith6eld, w. Va,
took in the Elks convention at Buffalo
and is now visiting his folks in Con
cord twp.
F. NJ. Shira was taken to his home IN
Parker last Saturday and the bridge
case was continued with eleven Jurors,
this week
Ludwig Nobel of the great Russian
oil firm-Nobel Bros-was IN Butler
last Saturday, and took look. at the
new oil field.
Baxter Logan and his wife, and ten
of their eleven children, with eight
grandchildren, attended the late reun-
ion at his brother, Harry's.
Mrs. Hannah Carroll, SO years old, OF
Salinesville, Ohio. has the whooplng
cough. She had been nursing her
grandchildren, who are afflicted with
the disease.
John w. Hutchison, aged 50 years, OF
Lynn, Mass, and famous Abolitionist
of ante bellum days is in trouble-a
snipe cf girl, aged so, has sued him
for $25, 900 for breach of promise.
VIM. Plaisted Of Butler twp. got an
obstruction in his throat fifteen years
ago. and lived upon liquid food, until
last week, when the obstruction was re-
moved, and he again began eating
Harry Hall of the Pittsburg Times is
writing up the valley of the Saskatch-
evan in British North Ameri ca. 1t
is great country for wheat, and is
filling up with settlers from all over the
world.
Geo. A. Linfoot and Miss Nora Knit
tie were married yesterday morning,
and are now on their wedding trip.
They will visit for few days with the
groom's folks in CINCINNATI and then
will go for long stay at Westcliff,
Col.
Richard B. Hill, said to be native of
the cranberry plains of Venango coun-
ty, which adjoin Ten Mile Bottom. and
a noted oil -smeller of years ago, reap
peared in Butler few days ago. with
a lot of old leases, and is looking for
somebody to drill on them.
Tom Lawson told his Ottawa audi
ence that he was no "long- haired
crank" but that doesn't save him from
being a short-haired one. And Kan
sas preacher got up in the pulpit and
said he was bad. bad gambler" No
wonder Tom got the sore throat and
hiked back to Boston.-Derrick.
Samuel h Hare, lawyer of Altoona,
lately bagged the biggest brook trout
ever taken from the waters of that sec
ton. At Roger, Blair county, after a
desperate struggle lasting an hour, he
succeeded in landing, with the assis-
tance of companion, fish measur-
ing "a inches and weighing five pounds.
A. q. Duncan and T. W. Cunning
ham of Zelienople. Z. 4. Cochran of
Karns City and j. Fl. Balsiger of Butler
were among the 267 young men who
passed the recent examinations held by
the State Dental Board at Pittsburg and
Philadelphia. Of the 324 students who
were exacined, 50 failed, and two were
rejected for cheating.
r. 3. Mckee of the Freeport Journal
got home from his trans-con tinental
trip with the National Editorial Associ-
alton, last week, and his account of the
trip now running III his paper is very
interesting. The Corporal met num-
ber of people from this section. 1t has
become almost impossible to 60 to any
part of the Great West without meet
ing people from your home vicinity.
Chauncey Depew's explanation as to
how he came to earn $40, 900 year for
25 years as a counselor for the Equita-
BILE Life is something new. Il was
continually seeing parties" he said,
'and advising settlements OF course
I didn't go into court and that sort of
thing" Mr.. Depew has been seeing
parties" at Albany, at Hartford, at
Washington and at other centres Of po-
litical and social influence for many
years. The late Commodore Wander
bilt. Mr.. Depew's great patron, was
consta ntly requiring that parties be
seen. Mr. Depew used to see them
from the earliest period of his career as
lawyer and his success in that branch
of the profession has been unique in the
practice of law
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