Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1900-05-17
LOCAL AND GENERAL,

For May Is my Jubilee;
A jubilee in trunk and chest,
In rich mans worst, III poor mans best.
In all that's fit TO pack away
For use upon winters day
take my place and guard them all
For | am KIM, the calnphor ball.
Tine Chinese are to be included in
the next Census.
If you hold mans nose to the
grindstone you sharpen his wits.
The highest point on the Butler
Branch" is in the cut east of Great Belt
Members of Co. Ell, 18th Reg. will
meet in u. V. L. hall tomorrow at s p.
When you hunt for gas leak with
light, do you find it or does it find
you?
Putting up the hammock is seri
Gus matter fact it is hanging af-
fair
-Freeport has a one ended bridge,
and now New Kensington is threatened
with one
Wireless politics would probably be
of greater public utility than wireless
telegraphy.
People returning from the Paris
Expo. say it does not come up to our
Worlds Fair.
This sudden weather is nothing to
boast of but it causes considerable puff
fing and blowing.
Vacation means emptiness" but
you can't make the school boys believe
there's nothing in it.
Evans City has ball club of which
T. a. Graham is manager, and H. H.
White, Secretary and Treasurer
The nth Pa. regiment will reune at
Hotel Washington in Gettysburg, ON
June 9th, during the Encampment
Those interested in pure bred cat
tie, sheep. etc. should read the adv. of
G. J. Stuckey Of Mechanicsburg, Ohio
If a Vice Presidential candidate
were selected merely for his rhymable
name, it would be great concession to
the campaign Tyre.
"THY, KINGDOM GOMEZ
lecture by Hon John S. Crosby-at
the Y NJ. c. A Hall, Butler, Tuesday
evening, May 22d. Admission % cents.
Any farmer in the county having a
team of oxen that could be brought to
Butler for one day of the Centennial
will please notify G. Z. Cronenwett who
will advise particulars
Sowing and reaping was the sub
ject for ministers, all over the country,
last Sunday, excepting in Philadelphia,
where the Wanamaker- English contro-
versy prevailed in the pulpits.
Several more farmers made con-
tracts with the Pickle Factory people
last Saturday and all thinking of rails
ing pickles this summer can talk the
matter over with Mr. w. T. Rumber-
ger.
-Contractor George Schenck is build
ing some new coal bins and ash bins
and new trestle work for the railroad
switch at the Plate Glass works. Nine
of the smokestacks now standing are
being replaced by new ones also.
-'.All about the prize-fght,' called
the newsboys, once again, last Saturday
morning. and as everybody wanted to
know which licked, everybody bought
papers and learned that ''Jeffries put
Corbett to sleep in the 23d Round"
The Davis lead works and the shirt
factory are both in operation. The
former, when in fell operation, should
employ nearly FIVE hundred men. 1t is
better prepared to employ great num-
Der of men than any other factory in
the town. About twenty girls are at
work in the shirt factory and more will
be started each week.
Some seventy would-be teachers
took the examination held by Super
intendent Painter and his assistants,
for certificates, last Saturday, in Butler,
and in all Mr.. Painter has examin ed
over Jhree-hundred applicants this sea
son. But two examinations are left,
that of June 9th for Professional Certi-
fcates, and that of July 2Sth
The First Ward Hose Team began
training on the Fair Ground track
Monday evening, dozen sprinters don
ming the spikes the first evening Pres
ent indications are that only one team
will represent Butler this year, but the
Rescues should organize again, as there
is plenty of material, room and backing
for two teams, and the more there are
the greater the enthusiasm and interest
One has no idea of the business done
by the roads north of Butler until h'
goes to the p. 81 w. depot on Satur
day evening. and sees the passenger
cars of both trains fill up, and the bag
gage ears jammed with all kinds of stuff
for points along the road. Last Satur
day evening about fifty cases of beel
and some baby carriages were billed fol
Clarion.
-Pittsburg is excited over smoke
consuming apparatus About foul
months ago a plant was installed capa
bic Of generating 1000 horse power
which seems to have solved the prob
lem. It is the use Of the Cahall boiler
with a chain CRATE stoker. The theory
is simple, and observation of the smoke
stacks show that the practical results
are in accord with the theory. TIL
chain CRATE stoker is a gradual fee
appliance, delivering coal steadily AM
regularly to the fire. Fresh coal is fe'
into the furnace beneath the boiler
but the furnrce is made of brick an
closed up in such a manner that tn
walls are able to carry intense heat
and the furnace becomes reserve 0
heat capable of Immediately ignitins
the gases liberated by the fresh coal a
it is put ON the fire No gasis permitte
to pass beyond the bed of red Goals, S
no smoke is thrown out of the chimney
into the air