Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1898-10-13
LOCAL AND GENERAL,

LO0hL ANU OLlNLNhL,
-Hallow cen comes on the 31st
Our first killing frost" is billed fc
the oath.
Business men who nave not yet ol
dered their calendars for '99 should Sc
our samples.
This is the season the churche
change their time fol both services am
Sunday school.
John BURY of Franklin twp. tool
over 100 pounds of good, clean hone,
from one hive of bees this fall.
The Maccabees of Butler have or
ganized band with r. G.. Crawford a:
leader, and Prof Knoch as director.
Matches made without the use o.
phosphorus, and which can be struck
on any rough surface, are new discov-
cry OF invention.
The G.. A. r. Post at Riddles y
Roads will hold Memorial Service foI
their own dead on Saturday, Oct. 10. be-
ginning at p. IN.
An Sth Ohio man was on our streets
the other day wearing duck suit trim
med blue. These clothes were issued
to the boys at Santiago.
When the crust of earth on West
street, opposite the Jail was taken off
last week, hollow place between it
and the sewer pipe put down years ago
was discovered. According to scientific
men we are all living on crust-and
some people in more senses than one.
On Thursday last our new military
company received its guns, belts, KNAPP
sacks, etc. and drilled in Armory Hall
with them on that evening.
The barn on Chris Hinchberger's S
place in Butler twp, now occupied by
w. E. Spencer, was destroyed by fire,
with all its contents, Sunday morning.
AT the meeting of Council Thurs
day evening the application of the At
lantic Refining Co. for permit to build
storage tanks within the borough limits
was refused.
The Pittsburg Dispatch put out an
excellently illustrated edition of thirty
two pages last Sunday devoted to the
Knights Templar and welcoming them
to the city.
The motto, In Hoe Signo Vinces,
so numerously displayed on crosses in
Pittsburg this week. and the motto of
the Knights Templar is Latin for, by
this sign we conquer.
The County Commissioners sent the
Van Dorm Iron " arks a New York
draft for s., 147 90 last week, in full for
the new jail The entire cost of the
improvement will be about S25, 900.
-Pittsburg has been resplendent with
plumes, badges, brass buttons, swords,
signs, notices, flags and electric lights
this week and she held enough titles to
organize dozen Houses of Lords.
j. D. Smith, of Clearfeld Twp,
claims to have the prize pig of Butler
county 1t is a two-year Chester
White, weighing seven hundred pounds
and large enough to carry few more
hundredweight
The Good Will Hose Co. will cele-
brate its Goth anniversary on Tuesday
evening Oct. 25th, with an open meet
ing it the Park Theatre. Aspecial pro-
gramme is being prepared for the occa-
sion and an invitation is extended to the
public to attend the exercises
Apples are not overly plenty this
year but some of them are very large.
The Baldwin is usually small apple.
but those on Thos. B. Whites trees
grew very large this year, some sam
pies he brought us measuring from 10 to
13t inches in circumference.
The low rate made by the p & w.
for the school excursion to the Expo.
last Saturday-55 cents and S1.05-took
large number of Butler People to the
city. The o'clock special of eight cars
and the S:15 and 1905 regulars were all
crowded, and in the city Butler county
was in evidence everywhere.
The new railroad will parallel the
p & w. from Carbon Centre to Butler
and connect here with the Bessie A
force of men in the employ of con
tractor, Mr. Dolan of New York, began
work Monday on mile or so of road
from point on the Bonnie Brook to a
point on the Connoquenessing connect
ing the two roads.
AT the late meeting of the School
Beard of Butler Miss Elvia Coe of
Walker Ave. was elected to teach in
place of Miss Nellie Meals, resigned
and Fred Reed of the 1st ward was
elected truant officer. There are now
2100 children attending the public
schools of Butler, which with the 400
attending the parochial makes a total
enrolment of $500 Mr.. Reed has de
clined the proffered office on account OF
previous engagement
One of the sights of the town is the
display of corn in John Bickels show
windows. Last spring John secured a
supply of seed corn from York state
and gave it to his customers, Offering
prize of ten dollars worth of shoes fo
the best dozen ears produced from thi
seed About hundred displays hav,
been offered for the prize and are nov
on exhibition in the windows, and tn
judges will make their decision on tn
18th. The ears are all large and ful
and some samples of the stalks are four
teen feet in length.
The proposed new Union Station
for Pittsburg is to be a magnificent af
fair. 1t will cover the ground now oc
cupied on Liberty Ave. with extensions
towards the hill and down the avenue
The basement will be on the level of tn
street and will be used for freight an
baggage. The first story will be foul
teen feet higher than that of the pres
ent station, and all the tracks will b
raised to that level, those of the For
Wayne spanning Liberty street and ais