Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1901-10-31

at Saxon Station has been changed q
Cabot Institute.
Large baskets containing over
bushel of Cslifornia pears are beinl
sold here for $l25.
The First National Bank of Zelie
nople has been granted a charter, ant
will begin business about Jan. 1st, next
The fate of the three young mel
who we're drowned in the Allegheny a
Foxburg. a few days ago. is warning
against dynamiting fish
The new Shultis, Koch, Martin
court block will have shoe store in the
corner room, "A hardware store in the
centre, and a and 10 cent store il
Martincourt room.
A large crowd assembled on Main
St, in front of the Greek-American
Fruit Co.'S store, last Saturday evening,
to see the candy pulling, which was
very amusing TO them.
The old Adam Gold place in Mid
dlesex twp. was put up at public sale
again, in frcnt of the Court House, and
was a~a'u bid in by Mr. Hezlep at a
S10O more, or $2700 in all
The bottom fell ont of the stock
market, last Monday. Cattle declined
cent n ponnd, hogs a cent to cent
and half and sheep II to cents. The
western market rules the eastern in
both stock and grain
-'Playing Ghost" was sorry sport for
some East End. Pittsburg, boys last
Tuesday night an old lady was scared
by them. and shot at the crowd, shoot
ing one boy through the side and caus-
ing his death within an hour.
The two frame houses lately built
by Paul and Earnest Cronenwett, on n.
Cunningham St are models of modern
architecture. The plans were made by
Rev Cronenwett, the houses are each
about 2sx3s, and one cost about $1,000,
and the other about %, 500
The new. brick. bonded warehouse,
(or rack house, now being built at But
Ter Junction. is nine stories high, 200
feet long. sJ feet wide, and bas a mil
lion feet of lumber in it 1t is being
built to accommodate thirty thousand
barrels of whisky.
-Butler is to be distinguished by be-
ing the starting place of a first class
vaudeville show. James I'll. Kalb and
George j. Hummer have organized
"Kalb's Highclass Vaudeville Co. I"
which will make it's debut in the theat-
rical world at New Castle next Wednes-
day. The show is said to have the fin
est Autographs ever seen in Butler.
- The first number Of the Y. NJ G. A
CourBe-the discussion between Con-
gressmen Lands OF Indiana and Champ
Clark Of Missouri was a very enjoya-
BILE one Landis compared the records
of the Republican and Democratic par
ties for the past ten years and, of course,
had the best of the argument; but
Champ pleased the audience with his
old time simplicity and general princi-
ples.
In order to get the Miss Bob White
Opera Co. here, Manager Burkhalter
had to give a guarantee Of 5000. This
will be the biggest production ever CIV
en- in Butler, as the company carries so
people, and it takes three cars to carry
them and the scenery, and will be given
just as complete rs it will be given at
the Alvin Theatre, Pitfsburg, the week
OF Nov. 18th The company will be
here next Tuesday evening
Relatives and neighbors Of James
Anderson Of Cranberry twp who was
tortured and robbed few weeks ago
by four masked men. have offered q re-
ward Of $500 for the arrest and ronvic-
tion of the offenders. The robbers
knew Anderson well enough to call him
Jimmy" knew his niece who kept
house for him and where he kept his
guns, but did not know that the colt
they tried to drive away with was un-
broken
The current is always off the arc
light wires when @. D. High. the car
bon-setter makes his daily rounds, but
one morning, some weeks ago, the arc
and incandescent wires were crossed
somewhere, and Mr.. High was knocked
over by the first lamp he touched that
morning and his hip was hurt Three
new carbons are placed in each lamp
every morning. the sixty some lamps of
the town use mp about 5000 of them
each month, and they cost about $40 a
thousand.
-Ault 81 Co. of McKeesport have the
contract for sewering the Main st. Of
Zelienople. and have about 80 Italians
employed to do the work, because they
could not get Americans. The sewer
will connect with the main sewer to the
creek at Spring st. and with the branch
on Mill ST. will be about 900 feet long.
G. +. L McQuistion is engineering the
job aud J. E. Wolfe represents him when
he is not present. The sewer is being put
down at an average depth Of IL feet,
and the contractors are encountering
solid rock at about feet They will
probably lose money on 20 cent and 9(
cent foot contracts
The advertisement for proposals foi
premises for the Butler postoffice, which
appeared in our columns last week, and
also appears this, means business. The
Butler p O. now needs about 1906
square feet Of floor space, whereas the
floor now occupied has but 1900 and
space Is also needed for 200 more boxes
The owner of the property will be re
quired to furnish all fixtures and furni
lure, which will cost about $3000 ant
the lease will run from five to ten years
but the department reserves the righ
TO move out and cancel the lease on 81
days notice. The department has beer
paying S700 year for the floor now oc
cupied by the Office The lease Seems
to be very one sided affair, but sever
al bids or proposals are already in, blanl
forms for which can be obtained at tn,
p. o Five blanks have already beer
secured from Postmaster Black and bid
are supposed to be in from Duffy, Rel