Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1895-04-11
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
OIL was 81. so this morning.

OIL was 81. so this morning
Butter Presbytery meets in Butler,
next Tuesday-l6th.
The majority of the country schools
closed last week and this.
The capital stock of the Plate Gias'
Combine 10 put at ten millions.
Last Thursday was pension-youcher
day, ana the County Clerks Office was iuii
sll day.
A pair of gold-rimmsd spectacles were
dropped od A4Ia ST. sdnesday. fiease
return item 10 this office.
JOS Rockenstein will have pu0llc
sale OF Carriages, buggies, harness, etc., as
his store ON N. Main ST., On Thursday, May
ID.
Butler county will be punched so full
of holes this Summer that you will have
to be- careinI when out walking in the
country.
The " s.er Co. is hunting for more
leaks in lis pipes under our paved streets.
It's a mistake to have water and gas pipes
under paved streets.
The people Of billiards are making an
effort to build church there. The people
there are good euougn now, but they want
some place to go To on Sunday.
There never was time in the history
of Butler wnen 80 many of its citizens had
money to invest, and now, il ever, Is the
time for The town to improve its water
supply, and put in street cars.
Some of our hotels are doing very
we'll, without license. The Taverlg, for
instance. has forty-two bed rooms for
strangers. and they are all, or nearly all,
occupied, every night.
-Butler's Main ST. was crowded Sat
urday afternoon. Fine weather and lots
of business brought people to town. The
Pittsburg papers noted that tho streets
there were crowded.
Fred Davy Of Msrcer Co purchased
the interest of one of the Parkin brothers
in the meat market in Sprngdale some
time ago, and the name OF the firm is now
Parkin q Davy.
AT the upper distilery in Freeport the
Guckenheimers make whisky from rye,
and at lower distillery from corn. The
latter is branded Nontrose, and the form
or Guckenheimer. The name Of Guckeu-
heimer is sacred to rye.
The Junior Young Peoples Christian
Union Of the U. p. Church gave very
pleasing entertainment in the lecture room
Tuesday evening; and by il and the bazar
of Easter novelties, cleared about $40 for
the Union.
1t takes bright boy TO earn an honest
penny. Some Of the boys were first 10
the line at the sale Of the Corbett seats,
Friday evening. They bonght from one
to ten seas at s1.00 each and sold them at
1900 each.
The flowers we're in lull bloom on the
Easter bonnsts, sweet strains OF music
HONCIth inf huu IuD lIC-bit0h
was splendid at Mrs zimmerman's Easter
opening last Thursday evening. The
rooms were crowded aud tho opening was
very satisfactory success.
Butler looks bright and cheerful, and
the streets are in far better condition than
one would have supposed after such q
severe winter, but our paved streets. aud
particularly our Main St., need thorough
cleaning, and if every body will pay
triAs, Brother Tucker will do us good
Job.
A crowd of boys and young men as
sembled around the P. & w. depot last
Monday evening to see Corbett arrive,
and some Of the boys ran up street after
his carriage, and crowd OF men and boys
numbering perhaps half Thousand as
sembled arouud the Lowry House to see
him take his carriage for the Opera House.
What wonderful curiosity there is to see
famous people.
People who think that Butler county
Is beefing itself at present will be surprised
to learn that Armour & Co. of Chicago and
Allegheny are sending about 10, 900 pounds
of dressed meat into this county every
week. Jos. Parkin Ia the agent OF the firm
for this county, and every few days a
refrigerator car full of dressed meat arrives
at the West Penn depot for him; and he
stays there and sells IL from the car 10 our
local butchers.
Tho Allegheny Presbytery met in the
Arch st. church in Allegheny, Tuesday
The Committee on the Bakerstown dane
too severe. and said that while lascivious
dancing has been repeatedly c1ndem ned
by the General assembly. the deliversnces
OF the assembly in regard to worldly
amusemonts have been didactic rathe
than judicial. or social dancing the as
sembly in 1860 said: at is not so much
amatter Of right and wrong as Of con-
science and duty"
Peter Schenck was che lowest bidder
on the Mifflin st. School-building
and received the contract for same. Hii
bid was $24. s4S, and this with heating ant
other apparatus will make the entire cos
about $23, 900. The other bids were n
follOws.-
George Schenck. Butler .$26 10;
J. @. Mutt d Co, Youngstown .-.- -27 931
Kennedy, Hamilton g. Co.-....27 94;
i. +. Ganter, Butler -.-.. ... 25 00(
Wentz d. Co., Canal Dover. OBS s9C
Ed Weigand, Butler 20 g9C
II. W. Young, Butler 20 SO
T. Raucher. Butler er--------.3 30 00C
Nicholson d Co., Butler. er...........3o5 53l