Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1900-01-25
LOCAL AND GENERAL,
Read W. r. Newton's adv d..

Read W. r. Newton 5 adv.
Butler is to have an artificial ic
plant
Yesterday was great day for elec
tioneering
This open winter has killed off tn
peach crop-liars.
-Ladysmith and all England ar
waiting to be-relieyed-
Progressive euchre is said to be th'
most innocent of card games.
1t is reported that Millerstown en-
Dyed street battle royal lately.
The sleigh is not doing much, no,
the skate cutting much ice, this winter
All the roofs of all the poor farm
buildings were completed last Friday
The Plate Glass Co. has declared {
dividend of three per cent. payable Feb
1st.
-McCutcheon Bros. have dissolved
their partnership IN the oil well JunI
business.
The Congressional bill to prevent
lynching will probably be hung up IL
Committee.
st Louis does not intend to take
water in her fight with Chicago over the
drainage canal.
The law seefns to be SO full of point;
that the nine called possession" cut
but sorry figure.
Almost all the coal lands along the
b. r. a. p east of Butler have been
leased by New Workers
AT the ladies basket ball game in the
YM.CA gym. Tuesday evening the
Blues beat the Browns 16 to -.
Six saw-mills are in operation this
winter within radius of two miles OF
West Winfield, and are all in Butler
county.
The Pittsburg Bowling Club will be
here this evening to play the Butler club
the test game of the match at the Pal
ace alleys.
A small key will open large door.
A small advertisement, if it fits the
readers requirements will bring salts
factory returns.
In these days of momentous issues
no astronomer would try to interest the
country in why the comet has tail and
the Dog-star hasn't.
The citizens of Slipperyrock and
the Normal faculty have combined to
secure good baseball team for that
place during the coming season.
james Nj Maxwell is a candidate
for Collector of Taxes. subject to the
Butler Republican primaries, TO be held
next Saturday afternoon. Adv.
1t is said that the Bessie" will be
double tracked this summer; and also
that new railroad will be built from
Erie to Johnstown, where it will con
meet with the B. q o.
A correction In the Parade Com
mite of Centennial last week the name
j. NJ. Starr should have been w. M.
Starr. and John II. Shannon should
have been John F. Shannon.
Among the decorations proposed
for onr Centennial is a grand electric
display at the Court House. with
streamers of electric lights from the
steeple to the other points of the build
ing. and one across the street to the
monument
Two Jefferson street school girls,
aged about fourteen years, and pupils
of Misses Harriet BARLEY and Anna
Thompson. decided to strike ont for
themselves last Friday and got as far as
New Castle but were back in Butler
again Monday.
The Y. NJ c. A. basket ball team
went up to Meadville Monday and play
ed the Allegheny College team that
evening The Butler team was made
mp of Frank Cleeland, Will Klingler,
Elmer Turner. Lawrence Mcdowell,
Roy Mcintyre, Guy Brandburg, Ed.
Campbell, Wells McJunkin and John
Anderson. Butler lost 81 to 10.
Three more industrial companies
are seeking locations. and our Board OF
Trade is endeavoring to secure sites for
them. a donation of few acres is
sometimes n paying investment The
Board reorganized, Monday evening
with w. q. Douthett as President. w.
j. Mcdowell as Vice President w. +.
Rumberger as Secretary, and J. w.
Brown IA Treasurer.
Fifteen farmers Of the western part
of the county bought "a pig in poke
or rather "a "sight-unseen" horse, three
years ago paying $4,000 for it, in three
notes Of 1866 each, payable annually
with Interest. The horse came on Il
inonth later aud proved to be disar
pointment. the notes ~ere negotiabl {
and turned up in the banks payment
was refused, and the cases were tried in
Court last week, with verdict for the
plaintiff
The veteran geologist. Prof. JOSEPH
LIE Conte, of the University of Califor
mia, has the first of two papers telling
the story of what the Nineteenth Cen
tury has done in advancing Geological
Science in the February number of Ap.
pletons Popular Science Monthly Prof
lie Conte is the author of one of tn,
most popular geologies ever written
and owing to his simple and easy sty le
the present history will be found very
interesting and readable by the genera
reader as well as the geologist
Amy x BrO,Tn give ten year manu-
facturers warranty with each new Roya
Sewing Machine; we also agree that i
machine does not give perfect satisfac
ton, tafier fair trial. TO exchange it o.
refund money. Prices. $I6,75 up.
have invested great deal of none,
in my optical department, alone. | am
graduate of two of the leading optica
colleges. | make prices reasonable anC
guarantee satisfaction.
CARL. III. LEIcHNER,
2oo s. Main st