Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1900-02-01
LOCAL AND GENERAL.

But took one more TO make hundred.
Strange at the 18th centurys close
While light in beams effulgent glows,
When bright illumination ray
Has chased the darkness far away,
Heads filled with mathematics lore
Dispute if two and two make four.
Go on, We scientific sages,
Collect your light few more ages.
Perhaps as swells the vast amount
A century hence you learn to count.
The above was written on New Years
day of 1901 by Theodore Dwight. Like
then there are people now who do not
seem to know the difference between SO
and 100.
Winter is showing some backbone.
No man eleyates himself by getting
ION his ear.
Once again the English dogs of-war
barked up the wrong Kop.
Some u. 5. Senators used low
words in high place last week
The '.black list" at the Opera House
last Saturday scored great hit.
-Kop means head in Dutch. and the
English lost theirs at Spion Kop.
In politics as in cooking a pudding
is soft thing with plenty Of plums.
Lon Shira has opened a stationery
and tobacco store in the Palace Club
-Remenyi, the great soprano, sings
in the u. z. church, Feb. 81 Hear her
As this is Census. year let us all
come to ours. and subscribe for the
CITIZEN.
The school house of Mars was dam
aged to the extent of $1,000 by fire Tues
day morning.
The Lowry House will change
hands April 1st Pittsburg firm hay-
ing leased it.
Bnt one new announcement this
work that of Henry A. Wagner OF
Jefferson twp.
The Waverly is becoming famous
for its palatable meals. Mr.. Haworth
is doing well in Butler.
Ground hog and buckwheat cake es
tomorrow will put shadow under yonr
eyes if you are dyspeptic.
The way to beat this kind Of wealth
er is to sleigh it; and you should see
Martincourt & Cos assortment.
Tuesday was Chinese New Years.
and all the Cinnamon were saying
Gong Z Fot Tong" to each other
The new Whitehill building of s..
Main St. will have Cleveland-stone
front. Phillip Tack has the contract.
-Saxonburg schools will hold box
social in Public School buildings on Fri
day the 9th, for the benefit of the
schools.
Toe skating-rink has been dong
great business for the past few days
Nobody has fallen through and been
drowned yet.
The wreck in the tunnel between
the trestle and Gallery was removed and
the damage repaired and trains were
running through it by Saturday
"A bunch of weather arrived in this
section last Thursday evening and by
Monday morning the mercury had
reached several degrees below zero.
Orr county Jail has been prisoner
less for some days, unless an insane
man temporarily restrained is counted az
one) for the first time in fifteen years.
Two Butler township girls heard
something bothering their chickens one
night lately and on investigating found
a large opossum which they killed with
a rake.
Preachers can denounce smoking
and cards with impunity but they must
let corsets alone. A Kentucky preach
er had TO resign lately on account OF de
nonncing corsets.
The pittsburg Bowling club go
trimmed in Butler last Thursday night
by score of-Butlcr S65, Pittsburt
71s. Del Reed make the best score o
the Butler boys-1s5.
"A special meeting for the paymen
of membership dues and collection
made will be held by the Public Librar.
association in the library room, Bicke
block, tomorrow, Friday, at 2 p IN.
One wonders when he sees theatr
troupe indulging in violent exercises, am
making loud noises on the stage, hoS
they can keep that up every night o
the week and travel every day, but
you happen to be on the same train
with them next morning you will se
them all asleep in their seats. The
lead a hard life and are pretty we
worn ont by the end Of tne season.
The iron ore that passes throug
Butler on its way to the Carnegie iro
mills in Pittsburg and vicinity is noV
taken from the boats at Conneaut Hal
Dor and placed in the steel cars by hi
machine called the I'm loader"
the first place it is scooped out of tn
hill or mine in the upper country an
loaded in cars, then run to the lakes an
dumped into the boats, which steai
through the lakes TO the great docl
that have been built at Conneaut Ha
Dor; and now the invention Of this bi
"un.loader" almost does away wit
mann Il labor in the handling of the or
The soft, red ore, which is the best fC
making Bessemer steel, is from ii
Mesaba range of hills in northern Nil
nesota, and these hills are masses Of u
stuff with thin covering of clay an
earth. 1t is said that the ore was di
covered by two prospectors, who can
across large tree, blown down by Il
wind, with the red stuff sticking TO i
roots They knew its value; bought L
the bills, and afterwards sold out
Rockefeller and others for twenty mi
lion dollars
A special course for Public Scho
Teachers, at the Butler Business Collej
begins on May I. 1900, and will contini
for three months. Write for particular
Watch Batter Business College ad.
this uapcr