Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1898-03-31
sLrPpERYRoCK.

vile, Slipperyrocll post Office, in Slip
peryrock twp, on the Mercer pike nine
teen miles northeast of Butler and four
miles from Kiester station on the 2. b.
Il L. E. The town is built on rolling
hill one and one half miles from Wolf
creek on the west and three miles from
Slipperyrock creek on the southeast.
In the old days of stage travel Slip
peryrock was an important post station.
There are now nearly nine hundred per
manent inhabitants in the town, with
new ones coming in and new houses go
ing up every year During the coming
summer the citizens expect to pave
Main St and perhaps some of the other
streets also.
There are three substantial church
congregations established in their own
church buildings which are all situated
on franklin street in the eastern part of
the town. They are the Methodist
Episcopal, of which Rev. McCamey Is
pastor, the United Presbyterian presid-
ed over by Rev. j. O. Mcconnell, and
the Presbyterian whose pastor is Rev
q. K. Edmundson.
The Odd Fellows X. of P, Jr. O. L.
A. NJ, K. of H. and \. Q. L W. have
lodges and the o. @. Bingham Post, No
3o5. G. a Il. IS located in Slippervrock:
c ID. Foose, a deputy of the Royal TEN
pliers of Temperance, was i'll the town
last week organizing a lodge of that
order
There are two hotels in the town. one
kept by Frank Eyth and the other by
Frank Rowland
Among the prominent business firms
in the town are Sproull q Stoops
who keep large general store at the
corner Of Main and Franklin streets.
They handle everything of a general
mercantile nature including hardware.
and have n tailoring department on the
second floor of the building
W. H. Wilson conducts a conserva-
tive, reliable banking business on Main
street and enjoys the confidence and
trust of the community. Frank Clut-
ton, genial, wide awake and progressive
is the monarch of first class drug store
complete in every detail. on Main St.
Christley & Wilson on Franklin
street, have a good livery stable They
have twelve head of good horses. and
carry the mail between Slipperyrock
and kiester station. Slater Bros also
run hack to that place
G.. f. McQuistion presides in a nice
little shop on Main street where home
raised and home dressed meats are dis
pensed
Miss L. L. Chandler occupies a store
room on Main street with a complete
line of millinery and notions
j. Is. Ford is n genial tailor who has
"a n Z a,-1 l., -
and has a steady growing trade
Henry Arblaster lives on the old Ed
er farm at the south end of town and
runs the coal bank and a blacksmith
forge and public weigh scales in con-
junction.
c. P. Hiilard is the community's
clock and iocKsmirh.
II. 2. Griffith came into Centreville
a dozen years ago, piped in gas from his
own wells and has been supplying the
town with chesp fuel and light ever
since. ~ EH1
john McGonegal, the fireman of the
Normal. drilled a well on the Hill above
town from which stream of pure soft
water Is pumped which could supply a
town much larger than Slipperyrock.
Mr.. McCtOnegal is the water magnate of
the place. 1t is not often one strikes a
town whose heat and light is owned and
supplyed by one citizen and water by
another.
Another feature is the Slippery rock
Cooperative Creamery Assn founded by
neighboring farmers in 1898 and con
Quoted by r. Il. Black. The creamery
has large butter trade
The Slipperyrock Signal, our lively
contemporary Of which r. G.. Nicely
monds Is proprietor and editor, is the
news sheet of the community, and no
doubt the business men of Centreyille
know what every business man should
know, chat the best place to have his
job printing done is right in the home
office
Slipperyrock's principal feature and
the foundation of its late prosperity is
the Slipperyrock State Normal school
of which Albert L. Maltby, Ph. ID. is
principal. It's aim is ito make skilled
teachers of our students" This insti-
tuition graduated its first class, eleven
in number in 1890, while one hundred
and nine young men and women com
pose the class of gS. This tenfold in
crease alone speaks volumes for the
worth and reputation of the school
The Normal grounds, partly donated
by Lewis Patterson, an old and we'll
known citizen, are on the hill in the
southern part of town. The buildings
four in number, are surrounded by
broad, rolling, well kept lawns. The
main building lays nearest town, 1t Is
built of pressed brick, and about one
hundred feet square, three stories high,
and contains "a class rooms the Philo-
matheon and Bryant literary society
rooms, gymnasium, library and the
Principals Office. Each class room con
tains about sixty oak or cherry desks of
very comfortable style and is Gtted
with slate blackhoards
The rooms of the literary societies are
elegantly furnished. Each society
owns its own piano There are 1900
volormes and forty regular periodicals
in the library
Next is the Ladies Dormitory three
story brick with frontage of 200 feet
There is only one larger building in the
county, the Court House at Butler
There are $50 bedrooms and dining
hall that seats S90 people at table in
this dormitory.- The boys dormitory is
also three story brick and contains
1lS rooms.
The new chapel, replacing the one
burned last year, stands between the
two dormItories and is now nearly com
plete, 1t IS magnificent stone struct-
ure of Norman French architecture,
lO0N96 feet IN dimensions. with tower
12O feet high The auditorium is light
ed by three immense stained glass win
dows which cost $1,000 each. The class
OF 9S has placed a memorial window
in the rear of the platform. The
ground floor of the auditorium will seat
800 people gallery 300 and platform
more than 100 making a total seating
capacity Of over 1900, and every seat
will command a good view of the stage
The total cost of the chapel will be $50,
600.
All the buildings are heated by team,
lighted by gas and have the most i'm
proved ventilating and sanitary ar
and are in the very best of
order
The facalty are Profs. A. E. Maltby,
/. NJ. McClymonds |. N Moore, J. c.
Ricketts,, Rev G.. $. Hamm, G. E. Rel
ber, Abbie L. Simmons. G. Murphy,
Mary +. Isaminger Maude G. Bingham
Louise Schwall, Clarissa Il. Robinson,
w. r. Egbert. Mrs. Emma J. Hamm;
Mrs. Harriet d. Maltby and Mabel Nc
Carnes. The committee appointed by
State Supt Shalfer for Butler coanty
held examination for teachers certif-
Gates az the Normal last week.
There are about 800 students in at
tendance. The only Norma! school IN
Pennsylvania which has larger attend
ance is that at Millersville, Lancaster
county. A school which can make the
extraordinary progress which the Slip
peryrock Normal has in eight years OF