Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1901-11-28
LOCAL AND GENERAL,


Its mission doth divine,
So first his heart is in his mouth
And then in yours or mine.
Dance at Saxonburg this evening
Ice formed on all the streams Fri
day morning.
The Saxon Station school netted $40
at social last week.
There's .Christlnas" in every new
adv. in the paper. this week.
ALL the Piitsbnrg papers had
Brown-Stone fronts last week
The Centre School of Winfield
township will hold social, Thursday,
December D.
On account uf Thanksgiving Day
falling ON our publication day. we go to
press a day earlier than usual.
Football this afternoon at the old
ball park, Butler VS. Zelienople. zelie-
nople defeated the local boys 20 TO 0,
few weeks ago.
AT Knoxville, suburb Of Pitts
burg. four sisters narled Miller were
burned TO death by the explosion of an
oil can, Monday morning.
Hunters killed fourteen turkeys for
H,rvey Kelly of Cherry township, leav
iog most of them lying in the fields,
bnt carving some off with them.
Part Of the Morrison ice dam north
west of town gave way. Monday, after
noon, causing a small hut sudden flood
in the West End. J. VI. Shoup's cellar
was flooded and some damage done.
Thieves have been busy around
Delano station. Among the recent
victims is the Corcordia Lutheran Or
phans Home where large quantity of
cured meat and some chickens were
taken.
1t is said that party of Pittsburg
hunters lost a case of beef last week at
Harrisville. A citizen objected to their
keeping liquor in their hotel room. SO he
slipped into the hotel, entered the room,
carried the beer into the street and de-
stroyed il.
The Bessemer railroad hoisted the
Euclid station upon couple of fiat cars
aud moved it from its old location on
top Of the cut to the present stopping
place The work was done on Sunday
when passenger and freight trains were
not runniog.
There In a road in Slipperyrock
township. near the Harvey Kelly place,
mile west of Coaltown, which needs
supervision. 1t is bridged across a
snail branch of the Slipperyrock, but
there is as much water over the ap-
proaches to the bridge as there is under
it,
--Chicora postoffice will be allowed
$500; Evans City $1,000, Harmony S93S; |
billiards 1884; Keisters Sl23; Mars 1914;
Petrolia S621; Renfrew $469; Saxonburg
$lO6; Shpperyrock $1,000; and ZeIienople
ti4OO; for salaries, clerk hire, rent, fuel
and light for the year ending with the
30th of June next
The Harvey Grand Army Post of
Riddles X Roads held their annual me
mortal service for the members deceased
during the past year, Comrades Hemp
hill and Woodward last Saturday. Ad
dresses were made by Charles F. Smith
of the Harvey Post. Joseph Criswell
and Attorney James NJ. Galbreath.
Fire disrroyed Il chicken house and
35 chickens for William FreehliDg of
Dslano, Thursday night, two weeks ago.
An elevated water tank between the
burning structure and large barn and
hid to be chopped down in order to stay
the flames It is thought that chicken
thieves, while burning sulphur to suf
focate the chickens, fired the coop.
Mote the changes in the West Penn
time table. The second morning train
now leaves at 500 o'clock, and the last
afternoon train at 435. or 10 minutes
earlier and reaches Allegheny about
that much sooner The afternoon train
for Butler now leaves Allegheny at $40
and makes the run in twenty minutes
less time.
The location of the r. o. is bust
ness proposition. If tine office is taken
away from the central part of the town,
the business men will not rent boxes,
and another carrier will probably have
to be added to the force, thus decreas
ing the receipts and increasing the ex-
penses Of the Office. The Hughes room
Is centrally located; and G. N. Boyd has
offered to put up building on his lot
at N Z corner of the Diamond and
arrange the room to suit all require
ments by Oct. 1st next.
Mrs. George Burford was burned to
death in her home near Fosters Mills,
Armstrong Co, few days ago. Mrs.
Burfords mind had been in an enfeebled
conditlol for some time and she has not
often been left alone, but on the night of
the fire Mr.. Burford had gone to a
utlBlDOEluB uOu5c iOI lew LuluuJcS
and while there discovered his home on
fire. On reaching home he found his
wife in bed room with her clothing
wrapped in flames He carried her
from the house, but she died in a few
minutes. The husband was seriously
burned in his effort to rescue his wife
Mrs. Burford was 70 years of age. The
fire WAS either accidental or the act of a
demented woman.
Terrell of Mercer has leased or
bought the coal under the Allen, Hall,
Dobson. Dunbar, Emery, Wigton,
Boozel and other farms on the ridge be-
tween HaIlston and Coaltown, and is to
drive an entry into on the hillside on
the Milton Hall farm. At present he is
trying to induce the Bessemer railroad
to run in a switch from Hallston. The
opening will be within a quarter of
mile of the station. The vein is the
same as that formerly worked at Coal
town. 10 about three feet in thickness
and OF the best quality. Several years
ego an entry was driven in for some
distance ON the Coaltown side but was
abandoned. A dip in the vein makes it
moro advanta0eoua IN vvor1x from tho