Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1906-10-18
PERSONAL

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visited friends in Butler, Nor day.
s. NJ. Starr and son of Concord twp
visited friends in Butler, last week.
]. A. Shakeley of Connoquenessin!
did some shopping in Butler. Saturday
DR.. Showalter has no idea OF sellinl
his new house on n. Main street, as re
ported.
T. z. Caldwell and family moved u
Butler. last week, and are living on n
Bluff ST.
Mrs. VIM. Mcdowell has returned tC
Butler from a visit with friends IL
Clearfield
A. W. Marsh and r. Z. Dunbar OF
Penn twp. were in town on business,
Saturday.
Walter Galbreath and wife attended
the funeral of Robert Parks, st Gallery,
Saturday.
T. G. Dipner of Fenelton, contractor
and builder, was in town on business,
this week.
Esq. Leslie and Robert HARRISON of
ness, Tuesday.
Sheriff Campbell got dozen ducks
at Conneaut Lake, last week, and gave
them all away.
Judge Bredin has been confined to his
apartments at the Willard, by poor
health for some days.
James J. Hill has sold S400, 900, 900
worth of ore, lately, and he doesn't care
how soon winter sets it.
Mrs John Gilmore and Miss Minnie
Haseltine of Middlesex twp. did some
shopping in Butler, Tuesday.
Donald E. Williams, young man
from Orange, n. j.. is the new physical
director of the Butler Y. NJ. G. A.
Jules Badger now has the Bessie office
at Lyndora. He lay for four months in
the Mercer Hospital, and walks with a
crutch yet.
G. C. Kuhn of Concord twp. w. s.
George of Slippery Rock aud j. ID.
Wilson of Butler have been drawn as
jurors for the U. S. Court.
Andrew Carnegie, according to re-
ports, is getting behind in the work OF
spending his money, and is not calling
for volunteers to help hiGl.
Miss Ferguson, daughter of John Fer
guson of Middlesex twp. and Charles
HARRISON. yourg painter OF Bakers
town, son of Samuel HARRISON. were
married in Ohio. last week.
Grandmother Miller has sold her
house and lot on W. Pearl street, now
occupied by Abel Fisher, to James
Marshall, who intends building larger
house on the lot. The price was $4,000.
Rev. J. C. Nicholas and Ellsworth
Miller are representing the Grace Luth-
eran church in the Pittsburg Synod Of
the Lutheran church. which is in ses-
sion in Trinity church, Allegheny, this
week.
Anarchist Berkman threatens to come
back to Pittsburg for a vindication.
The fellow has heard 50 much about
white washing in these parts of late
that no doubt he fancies that now is his
time to get in on the game. ct.
Cyrus Campbell got back from visit
I, w. Virginia, last week. While
there he visited the deepest well in the
world, $3.50 feet, drilled some years ago,
and yet doing to 10 barrels per day
from what they call the Fifth sand.
C. U. Groscrost. of Mercer county.
thinks he has the best gun in this neck
of woods. 1t is q Morlin rifle He
went out to shoot chicken for his wife
the other day, we'll, the result was he
hit the one he shot at fair in the head
The ball exploded and killed three
others, all at the one shot
Samuel Yehl died at his home in
Slatington, near Easton, on the 9th
According to the attending physicians
he suffered at least 1900 strokes of par
alysis in two years He was stricken
two years ago while working on rail
road, and it is asserted that he was
never conscious for more than twenty
minutes at time since the first stroke.
Thomas Cleary. who came to notice
in the insurance inquiry as the janitor
who received $26 900 year for the care
of the Equitable Life building, died,
last week, of Bright's disease. During
the insurance investigation last year it
was brought out that Cleary, as janitor,
was paid $4,000 year. and he lived
rent free in apartments on Broad street
owned by the Equitable. Cleary before
he moved to the Broad street apart
ments lived on the roof of the Equitable
building Is years and brought up his
family there.
Mrs. Elizabeth Freedman of Madison
twp, near East Brady, celebrated her
11ath birthd-ay on the 4th inst. Her
husband died 80 years ago, and she had
eleven children. seven of whom are yet
living. She enjoys good health and
does not use spectacles, but is little
deaf. She works good sized garden
and is an inveterate smoker, having
pulled pipe for 80 years, but to her
credit she never tackled cigaret She
has lived in three centuries and during
the administration of every President
of the United States.
Miss Magic, daughter of former
state official of Illinois, but lately a
stenographer in Chicago, startled her
friends, last week, by advertising her.
self for sale. The adv. begins: "For
sale to the highest bidder, young wo-
man, American slave, intelligent, edu-
Gated. refined. true. honest, just, poeti-
cal, philosophical, broadminded and big
souled-and womanly above all things
brunette; large gray green eyes; full,
passionate lips, splendid teeth; not
beautiful but very attractive features;
full of character and strength, yet truly
feminine; height 5 feet 8 inches; well
proportioned, graceful, supple.
T. G. Patterson has just received a
fine lot of scuppernong grapes from
the Southern Vineyard Co. of North
Carolina This grape is a native of
eastern North Carolina. and was found
there growing wild when the country
was first settled. 1t is delicious, table
grape and is the finest wine grape in
world, and where vineyards have been
cultivated on a modern plan the results
have been amazing The scuppernong
is the most vigorous grower of the
grape family and lives fol over 200
years, is subject to no disease or insect,
and owing to these facts never fails to
produce large crop each year. The
size of the grape is source of wonder
to all who see them, for they look more
like plums than grapes. They are at
Patterson Bros store, where he invites
his friends to call and sample them.