Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1883-11-28
BUTLER CITIZEN.
WEDNESDAY, NOV. %, 1888.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.

officers last week.
Don't forget the sale of the Clymer prop
erty a. the Court House next Tuesday.
Send or leave your order for Sewing Ma
chine, of any make, at L. Grieb's Jeweiry store
Al. Bowser, a member of the bar OF this
county, is teaching school in Franklin
Mr.. Moses Policy, of Transfer, Mercer
county was murdered in Michigan few days
ago.
Some of our store keepers are becoming
very sociable-a telephone now connects Cnrls'
Stocks tinware store and Koch's grocery.
Light running Domestic Sewing Machines
Jos Niggle q Bro. Agents, Butler, "a
-Tbe giants, who were married in Pittsburgh
last week, measure together 10 feet . lhches
and weigh 605 pounds.
Since Thursday, of last week, the 5. & A.
railroad has been a mail route. The mail on
this road leaves Butler at 7:25 A. NJ and arrives
at 2:40 P. NJ.
All the new telegraph poles are of chest
nut, though it is said that oak poles last the
longest in this climate. They cost the company
two dollars apiece.
Go to H. Biehl & Co., for Phosphate,
Grain Drills, Flows, Fruit Evaporators, DC.
The grandest stock Of hanging lamps ever
brought to Butler can now be seen In the store
of III: Biehl & Co. The designs are all very
handsome, and such beautiful things as these
make very appropriate Christmas presents.
The store of Mr. A. B. Rhodes in Sunburyf
was robbed on Monday night of last week
goods to the value of over 5000. This same
Rod ahn two
Mr.. Levi. J. Miller, of Butler township, has
rented his farm and sold his personal property,
and has removed with his family to New
Brighton, Beaver county.
Sewing Machine attachments and repairs
of all kinds, at E. Grieb's Jewelry store.
The house of Mr. Perry Atwell, of Scrub
grass township, Venango county, was burned,
with all its contents, the family barely escaping
with their lives. No insurance.
Our storekeepers are paying 25 cents for
eggs and 25 cents pound for butter, 40 for po-
tatoes and 40 for onions.
Evans & Co.'S glass works On the South
Side. Pittsburgh, the finest chimney works In
the United States, was des. s.royed by fire last
Sunday morning. Loss from $4,000 to So5,-
900.
Board of this State, last Tuesday, but one par
don was granted. The Apple case from this
county is yet held under acvisment.
An effort is being made TO organize wool
growers association in this county. Friends
Of the movement should communicate with MIR.
Alex. Hunter, of Brownsville.
The lumber that goes south on the p & w
railroad is transferred to broad gauge cars at
IL .1a1l4x IL
and from there On the p. & l.. T.. railroad to
the South Side, Pittsburgh, where are num-
Der Of large planning mills.
Huntington should tie string around its
iail Last week William Kemberaland q pro-
fessional thief, boldly walked out of the front
door of the Jail while the Sheriff IS family were
at supper. This is the twentieth prisoner who
has escaped from the Sherff's custody in the
past year.
Although buck wheat cakes will be scarce
and exceedingly high priced, it is well to ad-
wise all housekeepers who indulge in the
luxury that the cakes this year should be made
light and full Of holes The nearer you get
them to resemble porous plaster the more
fashionable they will be-. Good yeast Will do 1t.
"A general act passed by our State Legisla-
ture during the sessions of 1851, requires each
county to donate the sum of 500 to one regular
organized Agricultural Society in each county.
The act has never been repealed, SO far as we
can discover by glancing over the pamphlet
laws to date but 1t does not appear In Purdons
Digest. We have heard of other general laws
that do not appear in Purdon.
-Greenville can have a woolen mill with
$4,000 capital if the citizens will take stock
in it to half that amount. Messrs. j. Pierce &
Son, of Harmony, Butler county. will move
their mill there and stock it with machinery to
the amount of $4,000 on these terms. Sub
scription papers have been circulated and over
half of the required amount has been subscrib-
ed.-EI
Mrs Murray, 80 Ninth St., Pittsburgh, is an
artist in Dressmaking, as our fashionable ladies
know. Bridal outfits especially. Mrs. Muir
ray has learned the cleaning and repairing of
fine laces in New York, and ladies will do well
to bring lace to her. Laces are cleaned and
returned in two weeks. nv7-4t
Now that the Court House clock has been
changed to show standard time we can omit
the word from the railroad time tables SO far as
the departure of trains is concerned, but unless
the people of Pittsburgh and Allegheny adopt
the Eastern Standard time-and there is some
talk of their doing so-persons in the cities
will have TO acquaint themselves with the
local time of the departure Of trains.
Remember the lecture on Tuesday evening
Dec. A, in the Court House, by K. K Munkit-
trick, on the subject of "The American Goat"
This man comes with strong endorsements of
leading public speakers and will doubtless de-
liver humorous and interesting lecture. Let
US have good turn out. Don't forget the
date, Single admission 20 cents.
Rev. T. F. Stauffer, will, in few days,
open Music Parlor in connection with the
music store, where instructions will be given
on piano and organ, by Prof. Il. S. Hassler and
Miss NJ. +. Staufer. Glasses are now being
formed. Terms reasonable. Apply to teachers
or at music store.
The curious bequest made by the late John
Gilpin, Esq, of Kittanning, regarding ringing
the bell of st. Mary's Catholic Church of that
town on the 8th day Of October OF each succeed
ing year and giving 500 per year for that pur-
pose, and making the annuity a charge on inlot
No. 70 OF Kittanning, will, it is said be defeated
by reason of Mr. Gilpin having made abso-
lutte deed for the lot after the signing Of the
will.
The minute hand of the Court House clock
was set forward twenty minutes last Monday,
and the clock now indicates eastern Stand
ard" time, now used by all the railroads of the
county. This change will simplify matters
and should, we think, be generally adopted. 1t
will send the working man TO his work twenty
his evenings that much longer. The chickens
may refuse to 20 To roost or the roostcrs to crow
ct night by STANDARD time," but for wicked
man this time will do we'll as local time.
The family cat seems to have been the
cause of the late murder in Indiana county.
Miss Kelly, the housekeeper of the Sarvers, says
that the cat had been the cause Of much trouble
between father and son, the father insisting
that the cat should be kept in an clubhouse,
while the son persisted in keeping it in the
house On the night Of the shooting the usual
alteration took place about the cat and the old
man caught the animal and took it outside, fol-
lowed by the son.
From fifteen to twenty car loads of quar-.
ried sandstone are taken to Allegheny city
daily, from the quarries at Rock Point and the
mouth Of the Slipperyrock, and the stone for a
new public building in Westmoreland county,
is being taken from quarry on the Jesse
Crtchlow farm, in Forward township, this
county. Sandstone seems to be scarce article
in Westtnoreland county although the granite