Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1899-05-04
LOCAL AND GENERAL,

their note books.
LOCAL AND GENERAL,
This is The Country Beautiful, at
present.
Somebody stole Brymer's pony,
Tuesday night.
Mckee Mccall has rented the
Schneider House and is now running it.
AT the meeting of the Butler School
Board, Tuesday night, Prof. Gibson
was rejected Principal. and his salary
fixed at 81, 700.
The Great Wallace Shows owns the
finest property ever built for circus.
Every wagon work of art and every
horse thoroughbred.
The Dentists of Western Penn'a a
convene in Butler in June. Several
hundred are expected to attend and a
hig time is looked forward to.
Every exchange we have seen re-
marks on the fact that the Wallace
Shows is the one show that really ex-
hibits everything that it advertises.
The rails of the new railroad are
laid to near Craigsville, and the next
thing will be to put up the bridge near
there, which will have 80 foot span.
The torpedo fixtures, Office furni-
ture, etc. of E. T. Kirk are to be sold
by the trustee in bankruptcy, in the
Berg & Cypher building. on May g.
There will be meeting of the
members of the Palace Club at s p. IN.
of Saturday, for the purpose of electing
officers Treas, ard Room Com
mittee.
AT the next meeting of Council an
effort will be made to pass the ordi-
nance taxing all telegraph, telephone
and electric light poles one dollar year
for borough purposes.
DR. Leighner intends tearing down
the old Krug meat market and putting
up new building for jewelry store.
His son Carl is now in New York
attending an optical institute.
The X o. T. NJ. Band gave a most
enjoyable concert ON the Diamond,
Monday evening 1t was sort of
Dewey Day concert aud was listened to
by half the town This band makes
music
The Wallace Shows will be here
May 18th and will exhibit in the Ball
Park. They come from Apollo and go
to New Castle. They were here two
years ago, and did the Pacific states
last year.
White, Walter & Co. have purchas-
ed new "Vulcanizer" with which they
can repair a cut or punctured tire and
make it as good as new They now
have seventeen bargain wheels on ex-
hibition. See adv.
Mars people were greatly disap-
DtCuue DutltT tiu uOU S6uu IL
baseball team down there to beat them
last Saturday. Mars has an all home
talent team this year which is to knock
the spots off anything Butler can pro-
duce- maybe
Monday noon the one sharp flash of
lightning struck line pole in front of
Harry Klinglers house on W. Cunning
ham street. The wires carried the
lightning into the house where it burnt
ont the electric fixtures and played
pranlss everywhere, but did 10 serious
damage
~ re illeini cfs ,f 10 e 10Th Pa
Vols. smprertd ut tne Willard las5
Thursday evening in celebration of
their departure from Butler April 81.
1898. The boys were of the unanimous
opinion that they should supper on the
9th of April each year hereafter
The Bnffalo Wooden Mills at
Worthington, owned by the Graf
brothers We're totally destroyed by fire
Tuesday afternoon. The fire started
from gas jet in the picking room.
One boy was burned about the face and
hands. The loss is put at $50, 900.
Saturdays Pittsburg papers put
Marsh Douthett's shortages and forger-
les at 81, 900. and told of his $50. 90
vests. and his fondness for champagne
Sundays papers told of $500 more and
Mondays of $400 more Nobody
seems to have any idea of Marsh's
whereabouts
The Borough Auditors have com.
pleted the audit of Treasurer Harry
Grieb's accounts. From Mar Ia, '9S tc
Mar. 49, 80 he received $57, ,874. So and
paid out $50, 748. SO, on 634 warrants, leav
ing balance of 81, 1855 on Mar. 13
90. The bonded Indebtedness of tn,
town is $SS, 500.
The tendency of the horse market
is upward, and good horses sell a. ovel
third more than they did two or thre,
years ago. Now is a good time Il
breed. and Alonzo McCandless, of Isl,
p. o. advertises his royalty bred stallion
Storm Bird in another column, at tn,
extremely low price of $40 to insure.
Jesse HeydIick was in Zelienople
Tuesday, stalking out the new glas
works to be located there. The factor
is to be 30x120 feet. and the storeroon
40x60. 1t will be called The Empir
Glass Works. the stock is nearly al
held by local parties. and they will
make decorated glass for buildings
glass jars wit h glass labels, ETC.
Co. E. 18th Pa Vols will turn ou
in uniform, on Memorial Day, at th
dedication of the monument the
erected over the remains of their com
rade, Albert Waters. The monumen
was putup by NJ. T. Renno, on tn
grave in the North Cemetery Arrange
ments will likely be made with the G
A. K. and other local organizations t