Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1884-04-09
New Advertisements.
LEGAL AND GENERAL.

LEGAL AND GENERAL.
Butler is threatened with two daily news
papers, to be called the Times and Bulletin.
The S. & A. train to town last Monday morn
ing brought in large crowd.
The delegate election boards in this town
organized promptly at o'clock last Saturday
afternoon.
Ritter and Ralston have had new cornice
nut on their building and are having the
building repainted.
Philips Bros we'll No. 5, on the Mccall,
mont farm was in the top sand yesterday ana
was showing up very fair.
The wire for the new telegraph line has
arrived. 1t is a heavy steel wire with cop
per coating.
A valuable piece of property at Jefferson
Center, Jefferson twp, is for sale. See adVer-
tisement in another place.
The BOYS gave John Dickey and his bride
tin horn and sleigh-bell serenade last Mon
day night.
The new gas we'll on the McCrea farm south
of town. has been abandoned At a depth of
1900 feet some gas was obtained, but not
enough to justify piping it to town.
The next meeting of the State Teachers
Association will be at Meadville on the oth, 9th
and 10th of July next instead of at Chatauqua
as heretofore announced.
L. Stein and Son have had their store room
repapered and calsomined, and have also had
new pitch and gravel roof put on the build
ing.
Read Charley Grieb's new advertisement.
He carries very large stock OF hne hats,
gents and boys furnishing goods, underwear
and hosiery.
We direct attention to the card of Joseph
B. Piser plasterer, ETC., formerly of Porters-
vile, who has removed to Butler and is now
ready to do all work entrusted to him.
Some of the chicken raisers in town have
lately lost part of their iocks by a disease
called "roup". A mixture of lard and cay
enne pepper, forced down their throats is said
to be a sure cure for it.
Mr.. J. T. Kelly will open a clothing,
gents furnishing, and boot and shoe store in his
building on Jefferson street, next week, and
his card will appear in next issue.
w hen the proceed ings of the late Teachers
Convention at Sunbury were handed to us tor
last weeks paper, we were requested to furnish
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but forgot to do so.
"A young man named Herdman, of Sum
nit twp, was struck or the head bya falling
tree while clearing last Saturday morning, and
rendered unconscious, in which condition he
remained for several hours, but he recovered
and is about again.
Communion services will be held in the
English Lutheran Church, of this place, ON
n1oxy m
Thursday evening, and preparatory services on
Friday previous at 103 o'clock A. NJ
This is good year for twins. Ike
McCandless set the fashion on the very first
hour of the year, standard time, and several
others in Butler have since followed suit,
among them Joe Vanderlin, who last Wednes-
day became the father of pair of fine boys.
MIR. Robert Cooper, of Winfield township,
q gentleman some 6S pears of age, lately heard
of man who read the Bible through in three
months, and thinking he could do better than
that went to work and read the entire Old
Testament through, every word of it, in one
month.
There will be confirmation and commun-
ion services in ST. Marks Ev. Lutheran
Church, of this place, on Easter Sunday. The
Examination of CatechisIners will take place
on Saturday previous. Services on both occa
sions, in the German and English languages
beginning at 10 A. NJ. Divine service on Good
Friday, April II, in German, at IL A. NJ.
There will be services during holy week,
in the Reformed Church, Butler, beginning on
Wednesday at 7:30 p. m. Confirmation and
preparatory service will take place on Good
Friday at 2 p. The Lords Supper and
special Easter services will be observed on
Easter Sunday at 10 a. m. Rev. p. May will
be present and assist the pastor during the
services,
1t is reported that two or three of our citi-
zens intend going into the brewing and distill-
ing business, and it is said that the Supreme
Court of the State has lately decided 'that
since the law gives manufacturers the right to
sell, though it forbids them to do so on the
premises, they can do it at anylother point in the
counties in which they are situated" We
haye looked over the late published reports of
the Supreme Court but can fine no such decs-
ion.
A terrible marine disaster occurred off
the south coast of Nova Scotia, about 20 miles
from Halifax, last Thursday night The
captain of one of the White Cross line of
steamers lost his reckoning and in attempting
to make the harbor of Halifax, the steamer
was driven upon the Sambro rocks, during q
storm, and almost Immediately sunk. The
these all were drowned but nine.
The commencement of the Prospect
Normal Academy, held in the U. p. Church of
that town last Tuesday evening was very en-
joyable affair. The church room was crowded
and the programme included speeches, music,
singing and recitations. Quite a number of
candidates were present and the collection for
the benefit of the school is said to have amount.
ed to one hundred dollars. The Spring term
of the Academy promises to be very success.
ful one, one hundred and ten scholars being en-
rolled
The barn of Samuel Staples, of Adams
township, near Gallery junction was with all
its contents-six cows, three horses, hay, grain,
farming implements, etc.-burned last Tuesday
evening. One of the cows got out of the barn
during the fire but ran back again and was
burned with the rest 1t is supposed to have
been set on fire by the children who were play
ing In the barn shortly before the fire was dis.
covered, and who had matches with them. 1t
was insured in the Glade Mill Mutual for but
$4C0.
During the storm that passed over our
town last Wednesday, the West wall of the
ruined Court House swayed back and forth so
much that persons watching it expected it to
tall, and large oak tree on the B. Dougherty
place was splintered by the lightning That
saine uay terIipIe stOrms passed over parts OF
Indiana and Ohio. The town of Oakville,
Ind, was almost entirely demolished, and four
persons were killed and dozen injured,
Parts of Tennessee and Alabama were visited
by cyclones with attendant loss of life and
property, and at Linden, Ontario, they had a
binding snow storm, accompanied by loud
peals of thunder and remarkably vivid light
ming.
Court Notes.