Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1883-10-17
LOCAL AND GENERAL.

large norton of the Butler Bar Is court
ing in Pittsburgh this week
There seems to be an epidemic of reunions
of all kinds in the country at present.
From Saturday afternoon to MONDAY
morning there was a change Of 30 degrees IN
the weather.
The Hunter and Cummings we'll on the
Pontious farm is said TO be pumping nicely,
and other wells will be located there.
During parts of last Friday and Saturday
the thermometer ranged between so and sc
degrees, which was unusually high Tor oc'o'
Der.
Send or leave your order for Sewing Ma
chine. of any make, at E. Grieb's Jewelry store
An exchange, in poking fun at the new
postal note, says it looks more like Chinese
wash-bill than Government obligation.
Mrs. Jane Christy and Mr.. G. w. Christy
give notice in another place of their having
taken ont letters on the estate of Ebenezer
Christy, deed.
The report the Secretary of the ). D.
Convention held lately at North Washington
was received TOO late for this paper and will ap'
pear in next.
Sewing Machine attachments and repairs
ofall kinds at E. Griebs Jewelry store.
The Eureka Drum Corps attracted consid-
erable attention on our streets and at the Falr
Grounds during the Soldiers Reunion. They
made good music.
Among the strangers in town last Tuesday
was Mr.. George T. Graham, one OF the editors
of the New Castle Guardian, and very pleas
aut gentleman.
Go to III. Biehl 4 Co., for Phosphate,
Grain Drills. Plows Fruit Evaporators, DC.
The Chinese Commander in Torquin has
;,vited The French Commander there to 'lead
forth his crowd of dogs and sheep to meet our
army of heroes"
A freight brakeman named McCandless
fall from car while if was in motion, near
Bald Ridge, on the Pittsburgh Western, last
Friday afternoon, and had one foot cut of.
The McSherry Grain and Fertilizer Drill.
j. Nigel l. BRO, Agents.
The Reno Brothers, marble workers, of
this place, executed the work on the fine mon
ument to Martin Reiber, Sr., just erected in
the South Cemetery.
A wildcat that measured four feet six
inches, from tip to tip, was killed in the
woods near Bald Ridge. few days ago. 1t
is supposed to have strayed from Elk or
Clarion counties.
The amount of comfort afforded the lady
of the house by the use of Days Soap is indeed
beyond computation. Many are the homes
made happy thereby.
Capt. Hays made a fine appearance on
horseback last Tuesday at the reunion, but
by general consent the Honorable A. L. Camp
bell was the hero of the occasion.
A young woman named Mcconnell,
widow of William Mcconnell, while tcmpor-
arily insane last Saturday morning from
grief over the death Of her husband, inflicted
a severe wound in her throat with butcher
knife. She resided in Clintonville, this coun-
ty.
-Waring, Lister and Homestead Phosphate.
j. NIGEL & BRO, Agents, Butler, Pa.
A young man lately lynched at Cheyenne,
Wyoming Territory, for numbering two men
for money, is said to have been Jud. Moore,
son of Rev. G. w. Moore, formerly of New
Wilmington, Lawrence county. He had been
arrested for killing two men, named S. Fl. Ven
sill, of Emlenton, and James Knight, of Clarion
county, both of whom accompanied him west.
Mr.. John Bauder, Sr., and wife celebrated
their golden wedding at their home in Muddy
creek township, on Wednesday of last week.
Some sixty descendants were present. Mr.. Bau-
der and his wife were married in Germany in
1929, and would have celebrated their golden
wedding four years ago had not sickness in
the family prevented. John Bauder, Jr.,
their eldest son, now SO years of age, was born
In Germany.
A petrified snake IL feet long, 20 inches
around and weighing 375 pounds was taken
out of Centre county coal bank few days
ago. 1t is of dark lead color and is wonder
fully well preserved, and well-nlormed nat
uralist of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural
Sciences says that it is fully six thousand years
old and belonged to species now only found in
certain portions of Africa.
"A young man named Sauderson, carpen-
ter, was injured near Portersville last Saturday
by the falling of scaffolding on which he was
standing while working on house. This is
the third or fourth accident of this kind that
has happened in this county lately, and i
would seem as though carpenters were too prone
to risk their lives poorly constructed scaf-.
folding.
AT the NJ. E. Conference in New Castle las
week the following appointments were made
for this county and vicinity: Clintcnville,
VIM. Branfeld; Emlenton, P. j. Siatterly;
Karns City aud Fairview, d. S. Steadman;
Parker City, John Lusher; Petrolia and Mar
tinsburg, VIM. Tay.or; Centerville D. w.
Wampler; Grove City, ]. B. Espy; Harlans-
burg, s. Z. Minger; Pardoe, C.. A. Knesal;
Pennington. Lewis Wick North Washington,
]. A. Hume.
Rev. E. Randall, who says he is a regular
ly ordained minister of the N. r. church, will
preach from the Court House steps every eve.
hing this week at half-past seven. The expen-
ses ofthis work are supplied by voluntary contri-
buttons He had large audience last Sunday
afternoon and evening, in front of Berg's bank
and the Court House. Rev. Randall is an ex-
convict or prisoner and will give his prison ex-
periences at the meetings.
The story now going the rounds of the
newspapers regarding the career of a young
man named Avery, who practiced law in Oil
City some years ago, was sent to the Western Per.
itentiary for forgery, and who afterwards went
West, "struck it rich' and is now said to be a
u,illionare, does not, as some suppose, refer to
the young man Of same name who used to
visit Butler to friends here among the
members Of the bar. That man died at Petro.
liza some years ago.
Mr.. II. j. Klinglcr has bad a new boiler