Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1884-04-30
LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The commissions of the new Justices of the
Peace have arrived at the Registers Office.
State Superintendent Higbee will be pres
ent at the School Directors Convention mex
Tuesday.
The psalm of life now contains quite 9
symphony in spring bonnets and .vernal vest
ments.
1t calls for about as much mental strain tc
run pug dog as to run family of five chill
dren and two hired girls.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph vanderlin lost one
of their twin baby boys. by whooping cough,
last Friday.
Messrs Stoves, Shoes, Buckles and Needles
four travelling men," arrived in town via the
s. & A. R. R., last Friday evening.
The soap-making season has arrived and
the delicious perfume, from the boiling kettle,
is gently waited from the backyard.
Mr.. Albert Mechling, of Sunbury' has
rented the Martincourt hotel in Prospect,
and will take possession of it tomorrow.
Beaver county has one of the tallest can
didates heard of: For the Office of Commission
or, John kirkpatrick is feet inches high.
Architect Bailey, of Pittsburgh, submitted
his plans for a Court House to the County
Commissioners last week.
There are no Sunday trains on either of
the roads now, and consequently no Sunday
papers in Butler on that day.
Rev. Fl. w. Roth of Thiel College, will
preach at Prospect and at West Liberty on
Sunday, May 4th.
The Shenango 4 Allegheny R. r. will not
grant reduced rates to the Directors Conven-
tion of May 9Th.
Monday, May s, is the last day for filing
accounts with the Register and Recorder, for
presentation at June Term.
Several persons came to town from a dis
tance last Wednesday, expecting to hear DR..
Higbee that evening, not knowing that his
lecture had been postponed.
s. G. w. Brown, Superintendent of the
Kittanning Insurance Company, was in town
last week. Samuel Geo. Washington is q
clever fellow.
An exchange says that by recent deci
sion of the Pension Department soldiers who
lost the entire eyeball are entitled to pension
Of f$1S per month, which is q large increase
over former rates.
Some of our citizens are considering as a
necessity the stringing of barbed wire around
the top of their fences to keep the boys from
trespassing on their gardens.
Mrs Sarah Ann Cook, of Harrisville, has
been granted pension on account of the death
Of her son, at the rate of 81 per month, from
December 1861. Arrearages exceed $2100.
first alley is being paved with sandstone
blocks from the Reiber quarry. The job will
cost the town about $500.
When pig gets stuck under gate, the
rest of the drove, after few grunts of sympa-
thy. turn in and eat up the brother that is in
difficulty. Mankind have this trait in COM
mon with hogs.
Its about time to commence reforms in
the back yard, clearing off all stuff that may
become offensive, and throwing loose
junk over the fence into your neighbor's
yard. Twill make his grapevine grow.
A singular deed was lately entered at the
Office of the Register and Recorder of Crawford
county. In it one of the contracting parties
binds himself to labor for life, and on the
death of his employer he will come into pos
session of the farm.
There are now two mail trains each way
on the P. & w. r. R., instead of one as here
tofore. Mails from the north arrive at and
depart from Butler on the $50 q. m. and $40
p. m. trains, and from the south on the 1902
.. m. and 1888 p. m. trains.
The new telegraph Office was opened last
week, with Harry Walker as operator and Gill
bert Walker as messenger. The new line has
direct connection with all the oil exchanges of
the country.
-"American Wonder" seed peas can be
had at Koch's grocery at so cents quart or 80
q pint They are considered the best early
pea grown, and the vines require no brush or
poles to keep them erect, as they grow in the
form Of bush.
DIR. Higbee's lecture will be delivered ON
the evening of May 9th, 1884, in Butler. Sub
ject THE Common Schools" Our people will
no doubt all turn out to hear such distin-
guished gentleman on "a subject in which
every citizen has so great an interest.
The contest for County Superintendent
goes on apace, and the innocent school director
Is having his hands full of candidates and pro-
bably his head is bewildered BY the multiplied
ty of promises he is asked to make in regard to
his position on second, third and fourth bal
lot, &c.
"A man was arrested in Pittsburgh one day
last week for selling villainous compound
for butter. At the hearing he testified that
he bought the alleged butter from man in
Allegheny, who in turn got his supply from
soap factory.
"A Philadelphian sent q postal card to his
sister in Canada on which he had written 644
words. She answered with ia words. Not to
be outdone he crowded in 1908, which brought
an answer with 1,536 words, spelled out in full
and written plain enough to be easily read by
persons of ordinary good sight. He thinks he
will send her new spring bonnet and call it
square.
"A married dude who returned home unex-
pectedly and found another dude hugging his
wife, took terrible revenge. He seized the
visitors slender silk umbrella from its resting
place in the rack, broke it across his knee and
roared out: There now! hope it will rain
real hard"
The licensed liquor dealers of Dubois.
Clearield county, have inaugurated a war
apainst the illicit dealers. There are twenty.
two licensed houses in the place, and it is esti.
mated that there are more than this number
selling liquor in direct violation of the law.
There appears to be room for q temperance re-
form in DuB uBois.
Ane Jas ruel company are building q
new gasometer on their lot at north end of
Mexican street, back of Frank Eastman's resi-.
denc, and intend drilling another we'll for gas.
the location of which has not yet been decided
upon. The gas is found in stay sand about
100 feet above the regular third or oil-sand
rock. A few good gas wells' burning around
Butler would be great inducement for manu-
facturers, who are looking around for desira.
bic locations, to locate here.
The P. & w. R. r. has put on through
train between Pittsburgh and Chicago which
leaves allegheny at l:3O p. m, and arrives at
Chicago at 7:05 next morning. 1t is said to be
the fastest train between the two points ex
cepting the Limited Express of the P. F. w.
& c, R. R., and includes sleeper The 1852
z. m. train from Butler connects with it at
Gallery.
Sewing Machine attachments and repairs
ofall kinds, at E. Grieb's JewelSy store.
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