Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1890-08-01
LOCAL AND GENERAL

Han.
Not much use for l-cent stamps in
Butler any more.
-"No news is good news to everybody
bu. the editor.
Up in Mnlerstown they shoot roosters
that crow too loud and too early in the
morning.
-Itis only national history that repeats
itself Your private history is repeated
by the neighbors.
Black & Baird. Of Pittsburg, bid =, 900
per acre for the Pittsbnrg city poor-iarm
and got it.
Persons entitled to pensions under the
new act can have their claims presented
by local talent just as well as foreign.
"A man IoS years of age recently died
in neighboring State, caused, it is said,
by excessive dancing in his youthful
days.
United States officers are said to be
looking up another case of eounterfeiting
in this county, and sensation is promis-
ed.
-"Where did you get that neckG' is the
query that presents itself when one sees
some ladies wearing the fashionable dress
of to-day.
a farm journal advises its readers to
I.ae ha nlhsarTanep
Of this depends largely upon the conduct
of the bees.
A new railroad between Butter and
Punxsutawney to connect the B. d o.
with the B. r & p, and n. Y. p. d 0. is
talked of.
Policeman Herdman stopped two
teamsters with loads Of empty glycerine
cans on y. Main st. the other day. They
said they were taking the cans to Oil City.
A horse named ',yespasian" and OWE
ed by Mr.. Titley of Millerstown was
prominent figure in the races at Homewood
Park near Pittsburg, last week.
The house of the widow McGuirk in
Marion twp was destroyed by five last
Tuesday morning. Nearly everything in
it is reported to have burned.
Reed, Leidecker Dale and others are
drilling a well for water on the old Biehl
property. They intend putting in wind
mill and supplying that neighborhood
with water.
-on the Boyd hill, east OF town, which
Is now being graded by the p. & W. r. r.
Co., there is twelve foot vein Of fire clay
that would make II good article of paving |
brick and save this town some money.
The Franklin Ne,rS says ''The Butler
people may rely on good job. Mr.. os-
born has done perfect work in the same
line here and is now engaged in laying |
about mile of brick pavement on our |
principal streets.
The telegraph office at Saxon Station |
has been made union Office, that is the |
Western Union wires now run into it, and |
a telephone wire is to be put up between
the Office there and Theo. Helmbold's store |
in Saxonburg
Artificial ice is now being used in But |
Ter. The water is frozen in square, iron |
mouIds, which are immersed in Ammonia |
water The manufacture of artificial ice |
has made Ammonia very scarce article |
and greatly increased the price of it.
A horse belonging to C. Carver & Co |
was badly injured few days ago by sink
ing into pipe line ditch that had not been
properly filled and tamped, and Mr. Car
yer will bring suit against the borough for |
damages
The freight traffic of the Penn'a Il. Il. |
has grown to such enormous proportions
that the road cannot handle it with its |
present facilities, and it is rumored that |
the Penn'a Co. is arranging 20 complete |
part Of the abandoned South Penn route.
During the greater part Of last week j |
was impossible to obtain pound of good |
butter at any of our groceries. Either |
the area that supplies the Butler market |
uluSl Uc IioC cOAAC F,bDu Ndii
chicken and vegetable farms established |
near the town. At present too much of |
our money goes out OF the county.
The breaking of the rung of ladder, |
Wednesday afternoon, caused slate roofer |
named q. Murray to fall about twenty five |
feet and sustain serious injuries. He was
Washington ST. and was taking up load
OF slate at the time He was taken to the
home of his employer, JOS. Kastor, and |
word was sent to his folks at Youngstown. |
The A. G. Reed Post, G A II, of But
Ter; Connoquenessing o 0 +, Butler; But
Ter Council, Royal Arcanum; J. r. Ran
dolf Post, G A r, Prospect; J. G. Camp |
bell Post, Petrolia; o. G.. Bingham Post,
Slipperyrock, and United Lodge, A o U
w, Bruin, were mentioned in the Pitts
burg Times of last Saturday as having re-
ceived votes that week, in it's ''Most De-
serving Secret Society" contest, the prizes
for which are $500, 1900, 5000 and gold
watch
A marriage license taken out year
ago was returned to clerk McElvain by the
parties few days ago, with an agreement
releasing each other Of all responsibility;
sometime ago another young couple quar-
relied on their way home after securing
license and tore it up; young man who
had taken out license got on a spree and
as the license became soaked in liquor he
went back to the clerk secured a duplicate,
and several other incidents, amusing to all
but the parties concerned, have occurred
during the past year.
Our Military Co. returned home last
Saturday. They lett Mt. Gretna at am.
Friday night and arrived here at pm.
Saturday, having been on the cars thir-
teen hours. The encampment was sue
cess and the boys had d good time. Sew
eral accidents occurred, but the only fatal
ity was that of soldier who was hit and
killed by base ball while playing catch
cr.e Another soldier who was found in
Lebanon without pass and was put in
the guard room, jumped from third story
window and broke his leg. mt. Gretna is
IN immense hill of iron ore, covered with