Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1899-03-02
LOCAL AND GENERAL,

The Butler Brick and Tile Works
has resumed operations.
-Branchton, Ogle and Sarversvillt
are now money order postoffice.
j. R. Grieb has purchased the latt
Bee Hive" store from H. A. Allison.
Spirit -Mind-Body', read the
signs in Charley Boyd's show-windows
An alarm was sounded last evening
for small blaze in L. r. Schmertz
house in Springdale.
The proper study of mankind is
man; the proper study of womank1nd Is
how to get the man.
Politically speaking the candidates
have three more weeks after this one tC
do the county.
The firing of couple shots by a
drunken fool in an alley near the Dia
mond, last Friday evening created quite
a sensation.
Last Days of the Confederacy' in
Mars, Monday night Several Butler
ties attended.
A bachelor once asked n married
man who had an excellent wife where
he found her. The reply was ''at home
with her mother and no. on the streets. y
In one of the Assessors books return
ed to the County Commissioners the
occupation of certain old citizen of
the county, since deceased, is given as
''At Deths doar."
A local farmers institute was held
IN the Mechanics hall at Sarvers station
Friday and Saturday. The attendance
was so large that all could not get in
the building.
The new "Constables' Fee Bill vii
be found in full, ON our 4th page. We
will print number of extras, and con-
stables sending for them will please en-
close two two cent stamps.
The "cold-wave" due here Tuesday,
was "dehected by storm on the lake.
so says a weather-bureau man. The
aerial accident had some bearing on the
egg-man's little game, as eggs dropped
to 90 cents doz. in Pittsburg, yester-
day.
Ct. A. Spang, the Renfrew machin-
ist. is putting a new 800 ID steam ham
mer and new lathe in his machine
shop and is also adding boiler-making
department. More work is coming in
now than for some years part Mr..
Spang makes speciality Of fishing
tools.
j. III. Douglass, the stationer, is
now ready to take orders for the
Werner & Co. Encyclopedia Britannica,
New American Supplement- at 81
down, and 50 per month until s45 is
paid, which price includes case and
guide The whole set includes thirty
one volumns and is as wonderfully
cheap as it is complete
AT a meeting of the First Ward
Hose Co., Monday evening, it was de-
cided to have new uniforms made by
Jos Aland, the tailor. at a cost of $14
each-the members to bear one half the
expense individually. The new uni.
forms, and new caps to match, will be
in military style. The regular monthly
meeting of the Co. is to be held this
evening.
-Duffytown had mad dog scare
Monday afternoon which furnished lot:
of excitement. A large dog, partly bull
belonging to Jacob Rieger, attacked
and fought with several neighbor dogs
and those who saw him feared he wa:
mad. Word was sent to the Broad
street school not to dismiss the children
while the dog was at large. Mr.. Rieger':
son finally coaxed him out to the woods
and shot him.
"A big landslide occurred in the cut
Just north of Jamisonville, on the Bes
semer, Tuesday morning. A heavy ore
train coming south about 2 a. NJ
ploughed into the mud and ten steel
cars were derailed, five of them being
upset. Wrecking crews were busy al
Wednesday clearing the track. Th
morning PASSENGER traffic was delayed
two hours-trains running to the wreci
There was lively scene in loca
'Squire's Office one day last week. A
school children's quarrel had beel
dragged before the justice and thre
attorneys called in to unravel the knott,
problem. One of these made some un
savory remarks about lady unavoid
ably concerned and adverse to him
which so incensed her that she starte,
in to thrash the attorney, who escapes
personal violence only by apologizing
The ''mean" temperature here fo
the month of Feb, 1890, was 90 8 the low
est was on the 18th, when the officla
thermometer registered 81 below zero
the lowest ayerages-14 and 13 were o.
the 10th and 11th; the total precipita
tion or rain fall for the month was
inches: we had storm on the 3D., an
the prevailing wind was from the north
eyest We take these figures from tn
Voluntary Observers Record TO
Butler.
An Ohio Yankee, taking adyantag
of the fi.ct, or alleged fact, that chicl
ems will not lay for so many days {
weeks after having their combs frozer
bought up all the eggs in the Pittsbur
market last week, at from 90 to 25 cen
dozen, and sold part of them at frol
81 to go cents, and presumably mad
some money. He Dragged that he ha
cornered all the eggs between Pittsbur
and New Orleans, and his operation
made eggs scarce here, as the Pittsbur
grocers promptly wired to all I'll
neighboring towns and shipping poin
for supplies.
Abe Cross, an old man who peddl,
rpectacles, and Daniel Dean, railroa
workman, were arrested at Charley M
Quistion's house in southern part
town, Wednesday morning, on charg'
of burglary preferred by Geo. Shaffne
Esq. Gilghrist, Cons't Korn, A. ALE