Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1897-11-25
LOCAL AND GENERAL,

LOCAL AND GENERAL,
This town is full of culture,
And literary lore.
We love the dilettante,
And all great men adore.
We crown with greenest myrtle.
Those worthy of renown.
Hence there was much rejoicing.
When John l.. came to town.
Christmas gifts in all our stores.
Several of our stores are closed to-
day.
Butler is to have skating rink this
winter
Tuesday would pass for winters
day, anywhere.
Take look at the address tab on
your CITIZEN and see what it says.
A little bag Of quicklime put among
steel articles will prevent their rusting.
Mice abhor camphor, and will
not visit drawers or closets in which it
is kept.
Bad little schoolboys are already
counting the days until Christmas va
cation.
Geo. H. Adams, Buffers old favor
ite, at the Park Theatre, this afternoon
and evening.
AT West Sunbury handsome new
house is nearing completion for Ed
ward Young.
-Zickrick's new steam laundry on
w. Cunningham ST., did its first wash
ing and ironing last Thursday.
j. L. Turner, of the Turner mines,
at Ferris, on the Hilliard Branch,
needs fifty coal miners, Immediately
A 5-year- old bay horse was stolen
from the barn of W. w. Grossman in
the rear of N Main street, Saturday
night
There are large number of good
farms lying idle throughout Butler Co..
and all of them would pay if worked
rightly.
A convention of legless men is soon
to be held in Philadelphia; but nothing
is said about convention of tongue
less women.
Monthly reception of the Y. NJ. G.
A. Thanksgiving evening; fine program,
basket ball game and general good time
promised.
Some mighty hunters from Pitts
burg visited w. Sunbury a few days
ago and hired some other fellows to
shoot them string of game.
The Ridgeway Concert Co. enter
tanned large and appreciative audience
i, last Thursday evening in the Park The
atre. The next number of the Y. M. c.
A. course will be the Ladies Sextette on
Dec. IA. Six hundred season tickets
have been sold.
The Nashua A. C. Club of Pitts
burg will play a foot ball game with
the Y. M. C. A. team at the Ball Park,
Thanksgiving afternoon. If the weather
is at all endurable, large crowd will
attend as is always the case on Thanks
giving day. The Nashuas are one of
the strongest teams in Pittsburg.
Under the new school law, provid-
ing for the distribution of the annual
appropriation the president and direc-
tors Of each school board are required
to make returns under oath to the
county superintendent in November of
each year, giving the actual number Of
paid teachers in their respective dis
tricts. A failure to make this report
is punishable by forfeiture of one-third
of the appropriation.
The new general store building of
VIM. Humphrey g. Sons at Portersville,
erected on the site on the one burned
last spring, is undoubtedly one of the
finest in the county outside of Butler
borough. 1t is two-story frame, cost
$4,000, is completely severed and plumb
ed, lighted by gas with improved burn
ers, heated and ventilated by furnace
has an elevator running from the cellar
to the second floor, is fitted with every
mercantile convenience and kept in the
neatest order by the enterprising pro
prietors.
&C. A. Jewell is having an electric
mining machine plant constructed at
his coal mines in Butler county. Steam
power will run large dynamo, furn
ishing the motive power to two mining
machines. which will be used to 'beai
in" or undermine the coal vein, which
will then be wedged down and loaded
in cars Each machine will do tn,
work of about thirty men. The mine:
will soon be in operation with the new
machinery, and will have an output o.
800 tons per diem-Grove City Tele
phone
"A movement is on foot among the
merchants of Mercer, Lawrence ant
Butler counties to form an association
to raise means and employ agents t,
run down and convict the gang o
thieves who have been committing s
many burglaries against the country
merchants and farmers A wiser NOV,
than this could not be made and we d,
not hesitate tc say.rthat systemati
search and prosecution will have the eli
feet of stopping the outlaws depreda
tions The same treatment that the nc
torious VIM. Wilson, with alias, is get
ting is what they need R. McKinne,
of Plain Grove, Mercer county, is doin;
the corresponding for the merchants
New schedule on the narrow -guagt
Train for Kane at o. so A. NJ and fo
West Clarion at 5:35 p. NJ The so
A. M. train in and the 7:10 P. M. trai
out are off; and the branch to Clariol
has been abandoned. West Clariol
the station at the intersection of tn,
Shippenville pike will hereafter be tn
station for Clarion. 1.-The cause of thi
change is the fact that from the Clario
Junction to the town of Clarion a dis
tance of miles, the road crosses tw
very high trestles and the bridge owe
the Clarion river, and the grade is yer
heavy. The trestles and bridge hav
baa,, II, vary had oond;f;o,, ,o5 - e.,