Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1891-01-23
LOCAL AND GENERAL

| LOCAL AND GENERAL
If you intend building next summer
have ycur hauling done now while the
roads are good.
The Home Nat Gas Co. of Butler
declared its first dividend a few days ago
| IS per share Of $50
There will be four eclipses this yeal
two OF the sun and two Of the moon, and
a transit OF Mercury over the suns disc.
A Farmers Institute will be held at
Renfrew, on Wednesday, Feb. 25th, OF
which d. B. Douthett, Esq. viii be the
manager.
| WIN. J. McCabe, who was sent from
this county to the penitentiary for larceny,
two years ago, died in the hospital of that
institution last Friday.
Quite number Of local institutes are
being held in the county this winter, and
Supdt. Mccullough, who has been attend
ing them, says they are having good ef-
feet
| The Butler Lodge of Elks held recep-
| tion at their Handsomely furnished rooms
in the third floor of the National Bank
building last Thursday evening, and after
wards enjoyed banquet at the Hotel
yogeley.
On Friday morning last Stephen
Cummings Esq. received from the New
York Mutual Life Ins. Co. draft for s10,-
| 800. the full amount of the insurance held
by the late Jos. Britain Jr. upon his life.
Read the ad. of Geo. Habernigg, Sr.,
| which appears elsewhere in this issue.
Mr.. Habernigg comes with the best
reputation and is an addition to the solid
and conservative among our merchantile
element
During the past year, G, 432 wells were
drilled in the Pennsylvania oil field, of
which number LOGS were dry. The pre-
ceding year 5,547 wells were drilled, S87 of
them having been busters.
Mr. Geo. Walter has his new roller mill
in operation and is making a brand of
-four, from Butler County wheat, that he
would be pleased to have evry house-keep-
or of Butler give fair trial He also asks
the farmers of this vicinity to try his new
mill. Read his notice in this paper.
This is not the best season for ordinary
agriculture, but for the towns it is said to
be good time for planting cats, to be
followed by planting dogs. There are
several hundred ours in Butler that would
be of more use in the ground than out Of it.
A member of the Standard Oil Co.
lately paid $3.50, 900 for the old Dispatch
building on Fifth Ave. Pittsburg, and as
its frontage is but 80 feet, the price per
foot was over So, 800. The price paid for
the Cummings lot on the Diamond few
days ago was 1925, a foot, and that paid by
John Shaffer for his lot on Main St. was
5000, foot.
Wharton Sharkey, an oilwell driller,
who formerly resided in Butler and whose
home is said to have been near Bradford,
shot and killed Mrs. D. w. Austin, with
whom he was boarding, at Findlay, o., last
Tuesday, and then killed himself No
cause for the act is assigned. The Austins
were also from Pennsylvania.
A writer on the Scientific American
gives quite description Of the famous
xfv. r1a fho ~ NH su I'D hx-
the Chinese as cure-all. 1t is found in
places all over the United States, though
we know of no part of Butler county in
which it is abundant. Before doctors be-
came so numerous, our ancestors relied
upon the ginseng, rattlesnake, blacksnake,
spiknard, boneset and other plants that
grow in the woods for nearly all their
medicine.
"A joke is told on Buffalo Twp.
farmer as follows: He put two ewes into
the stable one evening at lambing time and
the next morning found three lambs that
had been born in the night two of which
were cared for by one of the ewes while
the other little creature stood shivering in
the corner. The farmer indignant at the
sheep who failed to notice the new conner
seized her and penned her up with the
little lone lamb, but she utterly refused to
show it any care and attention as a mother
should. Imagine the farmers surprise
when few days after the unnatural ~
sheep gave birth to twins, The first eve
having had triplets.
The Beaver Times of last week con-
tanned the following: Miss Angie Graham
recently arrived at her old home in
Economy township from Julesburg, Colo
RADIO. Five years ago she and a sister
went to Colorado and located claims, upon
which they have spent a portion Of the
time of each year since. They also engag-
cd In school teaching, and have taught
each summer, thus enabling them to live
independently. Their land claims seemed
to have been secured in a good location, as
. survey is being made through their tract
with q view to irrigation. If this is done
their possessions will be rendered very
valuable. The young ladies have display
ed indomitable pluck and business tact in
their venture. Their father who is still liv-
ing, is well known citizen Of Butler Co.
Miss Angie expects to set sail for Egypt
on February 18.