Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1898-05-05
LOCAL AND GENERAL,

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The meek man answered: I'd escape
This blamed house cleaning season.
Butler Co. owns a new fiag-9xl8
feet and good bunting.
Sunday last was the first of May
May Day-and a beautiful day it was.
The P. e. W. r. r Co intends re
moving its shops TO Downeyville or
Mars
The Pension Board examined six
applicants yesterday ten the Wednes-
day before.
Part of the west wall Of the Jail is
being torn down on account of defect
in it caused by the old windows.
Friday and Saturday of this week
have been set apart by the Board of
Health as cleaningrp days.
! Our Council has fixed the tax rate
at mills for general purposes. and :
mills for bond purposes.
About hundred young men of the
town got together last week and agreed
to organize new militia company.
The war is setting hard on the
wholesale men; the travelling men are
not making their expenses at present.
A new counterfeit two-dollar Treas
ury note, series of 1891, that is in circu
lation, may be detected by the mispell-
ing of the words bearer and bureau.
A big crowd of boys were at the
station this morning. all anxious to
carry water for the elephant for ticket
to the greatest show on earth.
By calling the hatchet a machete
an Atchison woman has induced her
war-like boys to take the greatest inter
est in keeping her wood box filled with
kindling.
1t has been definitely decided not
to place tax upon petroleum for war
purposes. To have done 50 would have
been very yimuch like kicking corpse.
blizzard.
"A prize of no dollars is offered for
the first correct answer to the question
which show up the greatest number
in Butler; the May 5ths' or the May
1Stbs''
Every girl who reads the news
paper accounts of the departure of the
State troops, says the Manayunk Phil
osopher, expects to see Eer sweet
hearts name in bigger type than the
others"
The date of the departure of the
first company from Butler for the pres
e1t war was Wednesday, April 27 1898
The first company for the Civil war left
Butler on the 26th of April 1S61-37
years and one day before
Sunday morning in Manila comes
about ten hours before our Sunday
morning, and therefore the news of
Deweys victory, or an item regarding
it. appeared in one of the Pittsburg
papers of that morning.
An amusing incident happened on
Jefferson St, duriug Co. Els day 4
little girl determined to hang out flag,
went to her fathers trunk and got an
old Rebel flag, used in a play and
hung it ont the window; and it was
there for hours before it was noticed
The Butler Brick and Tile Co is
making good article of building
brick, and also large, hollow building
brick or block, which they are selling
as fast as they can be made. They can
also make paving brick and our coun-
Gil should test them on tne next short
street paved.
The Central Hotel on the Dia-
mond, formerly Hotel Goss, reopened
Monday, and has been doing large
business this week.
The lower floor has Oeen remodeled.
and now the sole entrance to the dining
room is through the hall. The meals
are excellent and fully up to the stan
L. u.
The companies from the western
part of the state, of the N. G. p. are the
true blue, very few refused to vol
unteer IN the U. S. Army, mot one out
of Co. e. while in the First brigade,
which includes Philadelphia. over 400
refused. A Pittsburg Dispatch special
says that the Butler and Greensburg
companies are the best in the second
brigade.
The annual report of the ''Penna
Institution for the Deaf and Dumb at
Mt. Airy, Philadelphia. shows 500 pu-
pills, two of whom Bert Bindman and
Pearl Stuller are from this county.
The institution is very complete affair
costs about $3.50, 900 year for mainten-
ance, most of which comes from the
state; and teaches the boys and girls
a dozen different trades such as print
ing, tailoring, millinery and dressmak
ing.
Any man who enlists in the regu-
lar army for the war is required to po-
sess the following qualifications: He
must be between Is and ~ years Of age,
of proper character and good health he
must not be less than five feet four
inches tall and his weight according
to his height must be between 1913 and
100 pounds. A man more than five
feet ten inches tall and weighing more
than 1G5 pounds. cannot lie a cavalry
man but must join the infantry or ar
tillery.
friday evening a young peddler
was coming down the West Penn, and
when a short distance above the J1nc-
tion several men attacked him. One IN
blue suit struck him on the back with
stone and knocked him down They
rihed his pack, broke open his box. and
took everything of value ne had The
boy came to town and reported the
matter to Burgess Clark, but rs he
could not fully describe his assailants
nothing could be done. He was n
Syrian, and about Is years of age
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