Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1900-04-05
LOCAL AND GENERAL.

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Spring fever.
-Clucking hens.
Our streets need cleaning.
Our Sugar Snow" didn't last long
The dog poisoner is meeting with
success.
The bicycle has right to keep to
the right, like other vehicles.
The Mcdowell laundry now has an
agency in Keene cigar store.
Girls who want a man" can buy
four for-a-cent at the stationary stores
The P. & w. is widening its road
bed in the northeastern part Of the
county.
People began treking Monday
morning in the sunshine and ended IN
the rain.
When two men are about to fall out
they should make an effort to hol d
themselves in.
The Easter hat is yet in its nebu-
lous state, but it has all next week to
come to head.
The Deshon Opera Co. played to
good houses in Butler. all last week, and
will have better ones when they return.
VIM McGeary, the carpet cleaner,
is being kept very busy these days.
Call Bell Phone 122, rings, or Peoples
4f
Geo. ". Strickland has. purchased
Geo Biehls interest in the Palace Club;
while l.. E. Shira will continue to han
die the stationery and cigars.
At the meeting of the School Board,
Monday, it was decided to purchase the
Riddle and McCrea lots, at corner of
Locust and First SITS, Institute Hill.
The Central is rapidly becoming
the favorite of the commercial travellers
when in Butler It's popularity is at
tested by its crowded dining room, every
day.
This is the last week (for this year.
the County Auditors Report will ap-
pear in our columns and all who have
not yet looked over the figures should
do SO.
If subscribers changing their adj
dresses will kindly remember to send US
their old as well as there new address,
they confer favor to rs and save de-
lay and confusion.
Local railroad employees say there
are infallible indications that the b. 81
O. is to obtain complete control of the
p & W.. and express general satisfac-
tion over the looked for change.
The Bsrwind-W coal mining
company, which operates in Indiana,
Jefferson, Cambria and Somerset coun-
ties and employs 10000 men. has in
creased their wages 20 per cent.
The miners of the Iercer district,
which includes the Hilliard valley
struck for higher wages, Monday, but
Messrs Mizener and Turner gran ted
their demands and they again went to
work
WIN. G. Currie, formerly baker for
John A. Richey. has opened wholesale
bakery at $40 Centre Ave, where pat
rons will always find a choice assort-
ment of fine bread, pies cakes and pas
tries at lowest prices.
All the West Penn employees, who
could do so, attended the funeral of
Conductor Pillows son, at Cheswick
last Saturday The young man was
Mr.. Pillows only child. and the case
was very sad one.
"A special train ran from Los Ange-
les to Chicago, a distance of 2265 miles
in 584 hours, last week, and came in to
Pittssburg III 76 hours in all A steady
gait of 40 miles an hour soon puts a train
across the continent.
Plate Glass workmen say that while
the local factory was laying only twelve
tables of glass each twenty hours
where other factories lay thirteen, yet
the tables here each hold nearly 100
more feet than those of other factories
The regiment which Ira Murphy,
Harry Core and Will Faber are in is do
ing active service in the Philippines A
recent letter from Murphy states that a
sharpshooter concealed in tree tried a
shot at him lately and the bullet whiz-
ed past very close to his head
County Supt Painter has complet-
ed his first annual visit to the county
schools. From September 1st until
March 2Sth he gave his whole time to
this work and during that period called
at every school house in Butler county.
This being new in the history of this
county the Supt. justly feels proud OF
this part OF his work.
Buffers schools close the last OF
May, making only eight more weeks
till the summer vacation. The High
School graduating class numbers thirty.
eight-of whom eleven are boys
Their commencement essays, etc. have
already been submitted to the faculty
for inspection.
A feminine fakir is victimizina
dress makers in neighboring counties by
calling on them and announcing that
she is deputy factory inspector, and tina
she is collecting 50 tax which has re
Gently been imposed by the State. Th'
game has been successfully worked il
some sections, and the woman is still a
large and may come this way. .-Ex.
"A company or capitalists from Ben
metz, foremost among whom is .Josepl
Lee. chief engineer of the A. V. Rail
road, have leased the coal right on tn
j. w Titley, Eberhart and Fredericl
heirs farms or the edge of Chicora am
will develop it, work having alread,
begun. The coal under this land is O
an excellent quality, and will find
ready market. This industry will EN-
ploy from 80 to IS men from the start
The grinders started to work in th
Plate Glass works Monday morning an
the rest of the factory was in operatio
next day, bnt not enough layers are q
work to lay the number of tables G
glass usual before the strike. Many c
the men left Butler to seek work j
other factories. While the factor
officials claim that the extra table whic
caused the strike, only have made til
local workmen do the same work for I'll
same money as the workmen in otho
factories do, the men say they were ovt
worked without the extra table, To a
outsider, it hardly seems fair for a COZ
cern which is paying its officials niC
fat salaries and whose stock has il
creased in value 200 percent i'll tv
years TO virtually cut the laborer
wages by giving them extra work
Humanity's foolish thing
In spite Of constant preaching,
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