Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1890-02-21
LOCAL AND GENERAL

LOCAL AND GENERAL
Lent began Wednesday.
Lewis Brock, of Renfrew, has been
granted a pension.
-"He's man Of moist habits" is the
modest way of saying a man is a drunk
ard
Fred Sharp of Buffalo twp. will have
sale of personal property next Tues
day.
Jacob SPAIN of Clearfield twp.
lately purchased fine Clydesdale from the
Powell Bros.
Mr. John T. Kelly has sold his cloth
ing store to Messrs Freeman d Borchard,
of Petrolia.
Tie EceRiny NeUs Of Franklin has
donned new dress and looks better and
brighter than ever.
Clinton twp. is to have all Academy,
to be located at Riddles X Roads, and
very favorable location it will be.
1t is said that Congressman Townsend
has recommend Mrs. John Irwin to be post
mistress at Petrolia.
AT the meeting of Presbytery in But
Ter Tuesday, Rev. Reed of Grove City was
released of his charge there to accept the
call to New York
Collector McAbeys bond for last year
was 500, 900, and the amount of his dupli-
cate was SIC, 600. His eff ce will continue
to be in the Bredin building, corner of the
Diamond.
The Eicholtz gusher is owned by NJ
L. Lockwood of Clarion, j. NJ. Dickey OF
Franklin, James Patterson of jamestown,
n Y. and John Eicholtz, the owner of the
farm, also resident of Franklin.
"A Scottdale, Westmorcland county
woman, gave birth to four baby girls-''a
pair of twins'-a few days ago. The
mother and babies are getting along finely,
and the babies make some noise when they
all cry at the same time.
Tho Sheriff of Indiana county investi-
gated package sent to one of his prisoners
a few days ago Neatly enclosed in a
ring of bologna was pint of whisky which
was duly confscated. The sender is to be
arrested.
The best ! art of hundred men are
at work putting down the new pipe line
and they crossed the West Penn r. II.
during the latter part of last week. There
are forty men in the ditching crowd and
twenty-four in the tong gang. The pipe
is being buried about two feet under the
surface, a narrow ditch is dug, several
joints of the pipe are screwed together, and
it is then dumped into the ditch
To morrow, Saturday, is Washington's
Birthday, legal holiday, and the J. o. of
the q. A. NJ. and the Hose Companies will
have parade, and Immediately after the
parade the Order will present the schools of
Butler with flags. The Butler Mechanics
will also hold festival and dance in the
Rink that evening, to which everybody is
invited. The railroads will sell excursion
tickets at reduced rates. The parade will
form at the Court House at pm.
The plate glass works at Ford City,
Armstrong county, are at present the lar
gest in the word, but the new works pro-
iected for Charleroi, up the Monongahala
River, will be at least third larger. The
two main buildings will be 4j0S250 each,
and the entire plant will cost seve1 mil
lions. Drexel, Morgan q Co., NJ. J. Alex
andcr and DIR. Built, of Philadelphia, j..
W. Moore, W. ID. Hartupee, J. b. Haines,
Jr. and DR.. Chandler Of Pittsburg are in
terestcd. DR.. Chandler was formerly man.
ager of the works here
Judge Paxson thinks it is shame that
the salary OF the Chief Justice of the
Supreme Court of the United States is less
than that paid by the house of John Wan
amaker & Co., OF Philadelphia, to the man
who writes their advertisements. 1t is
probably true that the Chief Justice could
not make success AT writing advertise
Il
plies that the writing of advertisements for
great commercial house calls for only q
low order of genius, makes a mistake. As
matter of fact, it is knack that is ex-
ccedingly rare Pittsburg Times.
Mercer is great town for gossip.
We are informed that the best people in it
will entertain strangers with the most
scandalous stories of their neighbors, and
Its politicians are eternally picking at each
other personally Just at present the
county is being entertained with the odd
spectacle of two Of the editors of n
paper "going for each other in its col
umns. Week before last John l. Gordon
one Of the editors and proprietors of the
Dispatch came out in a card ciiticizing
Henry Hall, another of the editors and
proprietors, for leaving his editorial work
and going off on trip during the Amend
mcnt campaign and also for not defend
ing the syndicate schools ON the floor oi
the Hsuse at Harrisburg, while member
oft Hall answered him last week. claim
ing i'll health as his reason for going away,
and acknowledging that he would not de-
fend the Orphans School Syndicate though
asked to do so. This week will be Cor
don's "poke-iny again, and no doubt, the
whole town is waiting for his card No. .
with batcd breath. A missionary of light
and love is needed in Mercer.