Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1896-02-13
LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Lookout for Barton's new adv, next
" eek.
Tomorrow Is St. Valentines or mat
ing day.
The snow has blocked the p. & W.
north Of Clarion.
What handy thing the Roetgen ray
will be tor a Lexow committee.
-There will be local institute at
Jacksville, Saturday, February 18th.
Hereafter Waters Station on the P. d
". will have a ticket and express office.
The. Z. Shea and his company made an
exec showing in Richlie1, last night.
"a rag dog was shot by the police
Monday The dog was lost and frighten-
ed, D1' not likely "m4d."
The slugging match between Aaher
and FiIzsimmons IS TO take place in Texas
or Mexico tomorrow
Only two trains each way to Millers-
town, rnis week; one train blocked by the
snow moth Of Clarion.
-r1s "CJnm ,rciaiT lights in front OF
t1s fr ,dsm.n AMI Campbell stores cost
- uJath Tney ara 1900 caRdle-power,
wnile the street. lamps are 2OOO.
The Prohibition County convention
will be held in Butler or Tuesday Feb. %,
al l:30 ?. II. at the " g T. U hall on
West Jefferson street.
i, ,4s6 applications tor license to sell
liquor were flied with the Clerk Of Courts
OF Allegheny county, last week, an in
crease OF l3 Ovcf last year.
-Sinbad played here 70 an $500 house,
and gave general satisfaction. Quite a
number Of cat OF town people attended
the performance The Z. d. w. ran a
speciai train from NillerstOwn.
The Butler Savings Bank the Oldest
banking institution in the county, pays in
terest on time deposits, and ia DING an
immense business. See card in another
column.
Prospect is to be lighted by gas, the
council Of that town having granted
Messrs Hoch ana Gaisford Of Millerstown
the right TO pipe the town. they TO furnish
six street lights free. See Ordinance No.
20. in another column.
The report of the County Auditors is
published this week. Some of the ac-
counts are condensed bat the report is
more complete and satisfactory than usual. |
The expenses Of the county for last year |
were little larger than usual, but that |
was due 10 the improvements made in the I
Court House, and TO the bridge at Har
mony, which had not been paid for.
Owing to the fact that mad dog had |
been running on the streets here this week |
and "did bite" othei dogs, Burgess Ander- |
son has ordered, directed and requested |
all owners Of dogs TO muZzle and snut up |
securely their dogs for 20 days after Feb. |
%, 1896, and all dogs running at large |
during that time will be killed by the |
High Constable.
April Is is the date set for the inspec.
tioE OF Co. Z. II will be inspected by |
Major John r. Penny. Gov. Hastings and |
tho officers Of the national guard, at a
conference IN Harrisburg, decided TO h Did |
division encampment this year, from |
July Is t. %. The place has not yet been |
decided upon, but the Governor is said to |
favor Mount Gretna.
The bids for John Bickers proposed
new building at 12S South Main St., were
opened Saturday night, and that of Geo.
Schenck was the lowest, $l8, 100. There
were five bids and the highest was $2l,-
200. The heating and shelving Of the
building will absorb about "a, 900 more and
make the Total cost about 500, 000 John
has 4j feet font, and the building is to be
three-story one, with finished basement.
Some Of tho cures reported TO have
lately been made by DR.. Edson's new rem
edy for consumption are characterized as
little short Of miraculous; and this new
light that Edison, the electrician, has dis
covered, which pcretrates steel plates and
by which doctor can look through his
patient as though he were made Of glass
also borders on the miraculous.
The Pi:tBburg Dispatc1 celebrated
last Saturday, Feb. 8, tho fftieth year of
its lie by the publication of an extensive
and illustrated edition Of great interest
Wba. pluck and push may accomplish in
the newspaper line is exemplified in the
Dispatch mere than any paper we know
Of in Western Pennsylvania It's growth,
from The small size beginning OF Feb. s,
1886 TO its present proportions, great circu-
latiCn ard influence, has been simply
wonderful. We well remember its founder
j. Heron Foster, and his energy and en-
terprise in establishing the Dispatch.
bout the time Of its founding he came to
Butler and organized the Connoquenessing
lodge Of Independent Order Of Odd Fell
lows, the first of that order we believe in
this County. Although weak in body, ho
wss man Of strong and progressive spirit
aid determination. Had he lived to sec
the success Of his enterprise as illustrated
In the Dispatch Of the present day, he
would have cause TO feel proud. The is-
sue Of Feb. 8, 1896. not only shows the
change chat fifty years has made in news
paper publication, bat also reviews the
great change in and around Pittsburg
within that time. waa uauar m
reading and preserving.