Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1894-12-27
LOCAL AND GENERAL.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.
The mine at Gomersol was closed last
Friday.
The disease known as "the giip" ap'
pears to have gone ont OF style.
The STANDARD Plate Works is shut
down Tor repairs this week.
The fund for the Campbell Hose Cos.
new carriage now amounts to s73- 90.
Progressive carpet rag sewing parties
are the latest society fad.
Old Santa is clswing his way back to
the North Pole.
A second Presby terian church is to be
built il Butler.
L. s. McJunkin has distributed USE
full and artistic calendars among our busi-
ness men.
Turkeys we've scarce in Butler last
Monday, and perhaps it was just as well.
The weather was too foul for fowl.
-Brymer's Ban of young heroes had
their picture ''look" on the Court House
steps Christmas morning.
Quite q number OF new residences, and
one or two business blocks will be built In
Butler next summer.
The territory to the south and west OF
Centreville is To be thoroughly tested for
oil.
The Citizens Gas Co. have new and
good gssser ON the Harrison Dyke farm in
Connoquenessing Twp.
Herbert W Smith sold the Racket
Store to e. q. Mardorf and went to his old
home in Massachusetts,. and Msrdorf has
sold the store to T. Il. Burton.
The P. H. G. will have an open meet
ing, at its rooms in the Reiber building,
this evening. Hon. Alex Mcdowell will
be the principal speaker.
The new pumps of the water works
are in place, and the new and old pumps
together can now pump over three million
gallons of water DIP to that reservoir.
w. S. Lutz. administrator of VIM
Lulz decd, will have a sale of personal
property on the premises in Lancaster twp,
on Thursday Jan. 3rd, beginning at $50
A NJ
1t now appears that the decision in the
cider case at New Castle was not made by
Judge Hazen, but BY the jury. He left to
them the question whether cider is vim.
GUS or spurious liquor, and they decided
that II Is neither.
Belgian dance last Sunday evening; tire
mendous crowd was present-and they wer,
having very happy time, when cfiicel
Skillman was mean enough to show him
self, aud then that crowd scattered.
This week will close the Pittsburt
Times contest for trip up the Mediterranean
and over part OF Europe, to be- given the
half dozen ministers securing the mos
votes or coupons. No effort is being madt
for any Butler county preacher, or minis
ter we'll known here.
-"Not guilty, but pay the costs" wa
the verdict rendered in the Indiana Count.
Court last week By a jury in an {. and b
suit. IL looks to us that that is the sort u
a case where the defendant is either Who'll
ly guilty or entirely innocent. 1t is pret
ty hard to conceive how he could be partl
guilty.
The Grand Sacred Concert given b.
the Choir of ST Peters P. E. Church un
der the direction Of Prof. e. o. Davis, i
the church Christmas night was one Of tn
most enjoyable concerts ever given in But
Ter. Ali the participants acquitted then
selves creditably, and Prof Davis display
ed an unusual SKILL both as a director an
as u performer. The church was comfort
ably filled for the occasion.
Early Monday morning of last weel
while Mr.. Christy, driver for Mr.. McCo
of Grove City, was driving his wagon I
long the road he was startled by the repol
of pistol close to the wagon. The tear
frightened aud ran, and when Christy go
them quieted, he found that bullet ha
pierced his hat and cut off lock of h
hair, and had lodged in the top of hi
wagon. 1t vas close call.
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said to his neighbor in Cur, the 9th
day. ri had remarkably good luck
selling my horses in New York this tri
and got good prices for them. but the d
mand for horses has fallen off very mucl
attribute it to the trolley street car sy
tenn and the bicycle. People who fc
merly took drive for recreation or US,
their team to get from one point to al
other quickly now use the bicycle.
don't want to be understood as sayir
that al do this, but a considerable pc
centsgs of those who formerly drove f
pleasure have given it up and now use II
wheel. But the discarding Of horses as th
motive power for street cars is what play
ed mob with the horse market You Sc
dom see street car drawn by horses no
they are propelled by electricity or cab
and the horse has gone to the rear. l r
member at one time when We sold hors
by the drove at an equal price per hes
ssy SO. to the street car companies in q
big cities. and there was a constant bart
in horse flesh for this purpose. The life
street car horse in big city lasted ju
bont two years. At the end of that iii
he was sorry old plug. fit for the bon
yard or the dump, and if sold he went
song tn some party who would turn hi
out I" graz. fix him up little and th
res-li HIM for small profit, but horse
that kind couldn't last long,"