Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1899-01-26
LOCAL AND GENERAL,


in the Court House tonight
Apples are scarce in Butler. If yor
have any to spare it might pay you tc
bring them in.
Look over the announcement list
every week, as there is always new
name or tw o ON it.
The pay and mNage of the juror:
for this months term of Court aggre
gated 81, ,515.44
"A man II years of age was on the
jury all nignt, this week, and stood il
as we'll as the young fellows.
The best man" at a wedding is so
called because he is lucky enough not tC
be the follow that's getting married
Our esteemed correspondent Slick
of Middletown on the hill, is enjoying
the leisure made necessary by visit of
La Grippe"
Basketball game this evening at Y.
NJ CA gymnasium between local Y, M.
c.. A and the champion D. G & A. c.
team of Pittsburg
Immense quantities of rig lumber
were hauled from Butler to the oil fields
during the past week with which to re-
place the rigs blown down by the big
wind storm
The tribute paid by B. NJ. Heckert
of Whitestown to his dead friend and
scholar, H. E. Rice, in the article en-
titled Death in the Flames, is a very
pretty one.
AT Prospect last Thursday, three
candidates for Clerk of Courts sat
along side each other on one side of
the table, and three candidates for
Register and Recorder opposite them
There is no telling what jury will
do. and most verdicts for damages are
compromises. In one case tried lately
the jurymen varied from St cents to
$1,000; and in another from 0 to 5000
Mrs Booth Tucker, daughter of
Genl Booth of the Salvation Army, and
Consul in the Work. spoke to IL large
audience in the Opera House, Tuesday
evening, and illustrated her talk with
stereopticon views.
The Butler Steam Laundry asks
you to compare work done by them
with that of any other laundry and see
if you will not afterwards send your
laundry to their establishments on West
Cunningham street.
Don't call woman "hussy." 1t
is dangerous word because it means
anything from II housekeeper to worth
less woman according to the dictiona
ry. Calling woman thief and hussy
will cost Butler man about $4,000
Charles Blanco was arrested on
suspicion ut Franklin last Friday. He
was in New Castle before the murder,
left the day after, and has been selling
postage stamps in sheets since, but he
proved his whereabouts during the eve
ming of the murder
r. Barnhart 6S Sons, of Como
quenessing boro will have special sale
Feb. to A inclusive, of their large
stock of drygoods, shoes, ETC., to get
rid of the remnants of their winter
stock in these lines. Prices will be
away down and their patrons are invi
ted to attend and get bargain.
John PETER, of Jackson township,
was called to his back door by Iapping
last Monday night, and as soon as he
opened it he was attacked by three
masked men, who knocked him down,
and then ransacked his house, securing
$500. People in that vicinity think the
outrage was perpetrated by men em-
ployed in grading the p 81 w. cutoff.
On Tuesday, February IA, the
Ladies Hospital Association will give
an entertainment in the Park Theatre
for the benefit of the Elevator Fund.
The laughable farce. THE Elevator .
will be presented by some of our best
local talent. This will be followed by
the famous Cake Walk as given on a
former occasion under the manage
mert of Mr. Will Keene.