Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1901-10-24
LOCAL AND GENERAL,
A postoffice named Mckinley ha
eov, asta abl;ehed in Franklin comfy.

LOCAL AND GENERAL,
A postoffice named Mckinley has
been established in Franklin county.
A Butler county blacksmith can
temper copper-but not to the sEorr
lambs.
The falling leaves remind us that
we will soon be leaving foot prints in
the snow.
The independent oil producers Of
the country are arranging for Nation
al organization.
An Iowa woman it "a grandmother
at 90 years and says she expects to be a
reat-grandmother at As.
The Pittsburg Expo closed last Sat
urday; but the one at Buffalo Will con
tinue all This month and part of next.
Patterson Bros are booming wall
paper, and doing rushing business.
They are also agents for the famous De-
voc paints.
During The ensuing year our shoe
4 stores will continue to close at 6 pm,
except Saturday. also excepting
the holiday season.
Twenty four pupils are attending
the franklin twp. high school IN Pros
pect Miss Barnes, Grove City Col
lege graduate. has been employed as as
sistant teacher.
AT the horse-swappers convention al
Mars. tomorrow and Saturday, nothing
stronger than cider will be allowed on
the grounds. The entrance fee will be
25 cents, and the cash prize $50.
The Greek-American Fruit Co.,
who purchased Charley divers stand
or Main Ct, opposite the Arlington,
make fine showing of fruits and home
made candies. See card in another col
umn
The Butler P. o. now requires
1900 square feet of floor space. and pro-
posals for space can be sent to E. nj.
Norris, Asst Sup'r.. at Elizabeth. N J..
until Nov 9, next. Get blank at the
p. O. See adv.
AT the reunion of the 7Sth in Kit
tanning, last Friday, some $50 members
of the regiment were present; Capt.
Ayers of Butler was elected president
for the ensuing year. and New Bethle-
hem was selected as the place for hold
ing the next reunion.
AT the annual meeting of the First
Ward Hose Co., Wednesday evening,
John Feigel was elected president, John
Cole. vice pres. Harry Werth, sec. J.
A. Walter, treas. w J. Heineman.
foreman; Geo N. Burckhalte-, assis
tant. and III Werth, VIM. Williams
and Chas. FL. Douglass, trustees
- The greater part of Butler county
is underlaid with five veins of coal, the
deepest being from 300 to $50 feet be
in thickness During the past sprinq
and summer eastern capitalists have Sc
cured options on 10000 acres of coal
land in Parker and Allegheny twps. al
an average Of $50 per acre.
The Jamisonville station has beer
moved to the west side of the BessemeI
tracks and large piece of new wagon
road has been made to suit the change.
The surveying has been done for the
railroad to the coal mine being opened
by Speer g. Co. of Grove City on the
Fleeger and Miller farmes
This Specify sand craze will cause
the opening of old holes all over the
county, and their being drilled deeper,
The deepest hole in Butler county is
said to be on the Robert Smith farm in
Winfield twp. 1t was drilled some
years ago to the depth of 1000 feet. The
Specify sand there was about feet
thick, and about 2600 feet below the
surface, and there was some gas in it,
"A man may disguise his breath in
talking into telephone, but no person
can disguise the voice. Every person
has some little popularity of speech
that, no matter how slight it may be, is
sure to be accentuated and made recog
nizable over the wire. The man who
has sharp ring in his voice will seem
to speak more sharply; gruff voice will
be made more gruff, and by the same
rule an insincere voice is given great
or tone Of insincerity.-Ex.
-Pittsburg is the scene of some won
derful engineering operations at pres
ent. The new Frick building, across
the street from the Court House, is {
story and half underground docking
forward to the cutting down of the
streets)and is some twenty stories above
ground, towering above the Courf
House steeple-which makes il look lik,
case of Contempt of Court. The new
Fort Wayne bridge is being built--un
der. over and around the old one
while hundreds of trains are passing
daily over the old one, which now rest
on the new piers The new bridge vii
be nearly twenty feet higher than tn.
old; and the tracks from the new Unior
station to the West Penn R. r. will b,
nearly on the level, thus abolishinl
grade crossings on both sides of the riv
er.
-On Monday new electric cutie
was put in the shirt factory. Hereto
fore Manager Breckenridge has cut al
the garments by hand with big knife
resembling a Cuban machete, working
through brass slot in the cutting table
The new machine is compact little af
fair that is pushed about on the cuttins
table like toy. The cutting is don,
with circular knife, about six inche
in diameter, which makes $500 revolu
tions minute. Tt is kept sharp by TIVE
miniature emery wheels attached abov,
it. With this machine man can cut
nearly twice as many garments per dal
rs by hand. The power is furnished b,
dynamo attached to the gas engine
The cutter cost $400 and the dynam,
$500. Sixty girls are working in tn
factory and this number will be increas
ed by half