Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1899-01-12
LOCAL AND GENERAL,

All the Republican candidates aud
County Committeeman will probably
be In Butler next Saturday.
During fight in the Flinner coal
bank near Portersville last Monday,
w. III Covert was seriously injured.
j. c. Heck. trustee of D. A. Heck,
wants to close out his entire stock with
in Go davs, and sell every thing. See
adv
The Franklin, Pa, Spectator
one of our most interesting exchanges,
celebrated its j0th anniversary last.
Long life to you Irwin.
}. w. Groom and A. A. Park of
Mars. who were partners in the wagon
making business, have dissolved pa rt-
nership; Mr.. Park retiring.
w. b. McCandless. of Centre twp,
agent for the Davis Sewing Machine
Co, shipped another car load of sixty
FIVE machines into Butler last week.
Farmers Institutes at Prospect
next Wednesday and Thursday; North
Washington, Friday and Saturday, and
Evans City the following Monday and
Tuesday.
The Water Co. has distributed
notices to their patrons throughout
town that beginning with the present
year water rents will be payable quar-
terly in advance.
The Butler County Medical society
banqueted at the Hotel Willard, Tues
day evening, as is their custom annual
ly. The doctors and their families
made merry over an excellent repast.
The annual meeting of the Humane
Society will be in the Court House, Jan.
18th, at 7:30 p. IN. from the purpose of
electing a Board of Directions for one
year. All members of the Association
invited.
There is report down in Pittsburg
that Butler county justice of the
peace was fimmedout of $40 by three
young girls who showed him dime and
asked him for pickle to maxi street
carfare for all three. Who is he?
A new cure for diphtheria has been
discoYere1, which consists in the inhala
tioa of chlorine. OF twenty four cases
treated with it in the Brooklyn hospital
plete cures.
Our mi might mecalnic5 continue
to operate; they blew open George
Sche1cl1's slfe last Wednesday night.
and So; lrel bat little for their trouble
Tne stores of J. n. Hall AMI Sol Dunblr
at Waters Stltion were robbe1 same
night
Notwithstanding the extremely cold
we elther of the past week the work of
gra lins II laying trac'r hts beel pro.
gressin 55ellily ol the new sec5iol Of
the p q ". bet vesn Reib)ld ant Eide
nau. 4 large number of IN IN emp loyed
on t1e ro.1 are encInpel ut Glade
Run.
Some authority; high, low or other
wise; rec) n meals ulphur as aplnacal
for grip "It has been shown, he says,
''naw wearing snlphur in the clothing
hat preyente yellow fever. cholera and
other dsel3es Half teaspoonful of
powdered sulphur in each shoe or stock
ing is considered to be sufficient.
-"All about the prize-fight" yelled
the newsboys yesterday morning and
people bought papers to see which
licked" Mccoy is young and slim, and
he had the best of the fight up to the
eighth round when he lost his wind,
and then Sharkey went at him and
knocked him out.
The time is drawing near for pri-
maries for the nomination of borough
and township officers. They must be
held at least nineteen days before the
Spring Election day, which is February
81 In Butler several candidates in botf
Republican and Democratic parties ar'
announced for ward constable an(
auditor
The Fifteenth Pa. at Camp Has
kell, Ga, are preparing for their muster
out and journey home. The order
read that they should be discharged a
Camp Haskell and the men to receiv,
their travelling pay in advance. Som
of Co Els boys write that if this is don,
they will take trips through the Soutl
instead of coming home directly. Cul
len Armstrong of Co. e has been pre-
NOTED to corporal
The 21st Reg. N. G. P. will atten
the inauguration of Gov. w. A. Ston
at Harrisburg next Tuesday. the 17tl
The local company. G, will leave her
Monday evening and expect to arrive i
Harrisburg, Tuesday morning and stal
home again that evening. Cap
Mckee expects to take forty-ive mel
with him. The State carries the me
free but they must provide for then
selves in Harrisburg.
"A Pittsburg firm lately received a
order for milli)1 dollars worth c
aluminium in sheets, the same to b
sent to Germany waare it is to be mad
into cooking utensils, buckets. etc. fl
the army Aluminium is the lighte:
metal known to the commercial world
and the ore from which it is made
found in several of the Southern state.
1t takes polish and is almost as tens
cious rs iron.
AT the annual meeting of the BIT
Ter County Medical Society in Butt
Tuesday, officers were elected as fo
lows:-President H. d. Hockenberr
West Sunbury; vice president, A
Davis, Creighton; secretary, q. j. T
ters Butler: treasurer, n. NJ. Hoove
Butler; censor, N. NJ Hoover; delegat
to State Medical Society, r. j. Gros
man, Butler w. R. Hockenberry, Sli
peryrock, A. L Howe, Petrolia. w.
Kennedy, Portersville, J. C. Alive
Butler, T. X Mckee, Chicora, and '
w. Lasher, Saxonburg; delegates to n
tional Medical Society, A. Holma
McCandless, NJ. E Headland, G. j. I
ter5 Butler, and A. c. Davis.