Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1888-06-01
NEIGHBORHOOD NOTES.

June for the purpose of forming az
organization for mutual improvement
and protection.
The town of Somerset had $25, ;,
600 fire one night last week. 1t Is
claimed that the fire was started by
some person who took offense at the
action of the temperance people of the
town and one of the most active ad'
vocates of "no license" was one Of
the heaviest sufferers.
Officers who hold primaries should
exercise great care and see that no
fraud is committed. The officers in q
couple of districts in Lancaster coun-
ty, at the last primary election con-
cluded to give one of the candidates a
boost and stuffed the ballot box. They
were arrested. tried and convicted and
the other day sentenced to pay a fine
and undergo an Imprisonment of one
year and two weeks. This was a
pretty salty sentence, but the offend
ers will not do it again.
The steel works that have caused
so much excitement have decided to
locate at Latrobe. The people raised
$4,000 and bought for them 65 acres
of the Bossart farm, the company pur-
chasing the remainder The water
company will give them water free
for 10 years. They will also get gas
free. The stockholders of the Ligo-
nier Valley Railroad will give them
the privilege of using their road from
the Pennsylvania Railroad to their
works. Work will commence as
soon as the papers are made out. The
works will employ about 500 men.
The Indiana, Pa Messenger says:
Tie idea that mo license" makes o
dull town is all fudge. Indiana has
not had licensed house for several
years and there never was a time
when more business was transacted.
When we had seven licensed houses
at least S4O0 per week We're spent at
the bars for beer aud whisky That
money is now spent for the necessa-
ries of fe.and many families now have
plenty to eat and good clothes to wear
who, under license, were half fed and
half clothed. And the curious part of
it is that our hotel men appear 70
thrive as well without license as they
did with it. They have more salts
faction in conducting their business
and are not harrassed by the fear of
prosecution and are not in constant
dread of drunken row that will break
up hundred dollars worth of furni-
tare and generally demoralize their
houses. One of our prominent land
lords told US the other day that he
would rather close his house than con.
duct it in connection with bar. And
after an experience of several years,
men who thought they could not pos
sibly get along without their daily
beer and whisky, now find their ap-
petite for the fiery liquid gone and
they, too, are satisfied to live in a "no
license" town. All things considered
town might be struck with some
thing worse than prohibition.
Mrs. Betsy Hover, mother of Mrs
w. c. Thompson, of this place, died
at the residence of her son, Rev. w
H. Hover, in Butler county, Thurs
day night of last week. Her remains
were brought to jamestown on Sat.
urday and buried.-Greenville, Pa,
argus.
At a preliminary hearing before
Squire Il. r. McGreggar, of East
Brady, last Thursday, Daniel S.
Everhart and James Horner charged
with the Everha-t murder, were dis
charged Ten witnesses were exa-
mined for the prosecution, but the
testimony was not deemed strong
enough to hold them by the Justice.
The general opinion was that the pris-
oncrs should have been held and they
were rearrested.
A curiosity in the shape of a goose
berry bush growing on pear tree
may be seen in d. j. Fitzgerald's lot,
West New Castle. The gooseberry
sprout was grated upon the pear tree
this spring and is beginning to bloom
already. There are six different
kidds of pears and an apple branch
growing on the same tree.
The highest priest of the Salvation
army, now operating in Oil City, call
ed at =" The Derrick" Office few days
ago to demand the retraction of as
pensions in that newspaper against
him and his followers. "The Der
rick," describing the interview, re-
tracts as follows: GAS matter of
square toed fact, the II. p. OF the s,
"A. does not impress US strongly as a
map who is on terms of sweet init
macy with Jehovah; but in this as in
other things, we may be in error.
The boss of the Salvation Army
strikes us as a man who, by walking
about the streets, is taking great
chances of being run in for a vaga-
bond. If this sweet singer of Israel
has seen bar Of soap in the last six
months, his face and hands give no
evidence of it. He is the poorest ad-
vertisement of soap house we have
eyer seen. And we trust we may
not soon see such another except
through spy-glass, with the wind
and distance in our favor"
1t is reported from Huntingdon,
this State. that while Jerry Green. q
farmer, of Porter township, was en-
gagged in plowing he suddenly stop
ped his team, and, unhitching his
horses, proceeded to the house. He
was met by his wife at the barn, and,
upon being asked the reason why he
came home, remarked that it was too
dark to work Subsequently physi-
clans were called in, and an examina-
tion disclosed the fact that the man
had been stricken with total blind
ness.
On Wednesday afternoon, May 16
Miss Mary, daughter of Dr. and Mrs.
d. G. Galbraith, of Franklin, and Mr..
Leander Kahle, rising young attor-
ney at the Venango bar, were united
in marriage, by Rev. J. c. Bruce of
the First Presbyterian church, in the
presence of u large number of invited
guests, among whom were Mrs W.