Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1902-11-13
THURSDAY, NovEM sER IS, 1soa.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
LOCAL AND GENERAL,

ROCKVILLE has thirteen new bouses.
Two hundred new housesin Butler.
= slmost completed.
= The Car Works whistle CD comes
under the head of Musical Mokes.
jackson & Poole began work in
their new brass foundry. yesterday.
The e9,63l school rooms Of this
state accommodate /, 1853. 500 scholars.
Out in Lyndora the Hunkies use the
the new enameled bath tubs for coal
bins
The people of Pitesburg are now
studying the question Taxes or
Dopdsi'a X
John x.efer's house in Butler twp.
and Chas Croll's in Connoquenessing
were both ro5bed last Saturday.
The Bar Tenders of Butler organic
ed last Sunday, with "a members, and
joined the International Union.
-Batler was dirty, dusty, ragged
looking town last Sunday, and as the
weather was fne many people walked
cut Of it.
z-Raqi Bury. now in the Allegheny
Co. Work house got himself into the
papers last Saturday by ''confessing" to
long list Of crimes.
The BpIlrr County Hospital associa-
tion wish to thank the congregations of
ths Miiilessx Prssbytsriia and
Brownsville United Presbyterian
churches f,r their generous donations.
"A local daily had long article in
its Monday issue announcing that
Rittsburg concern was locating facto'
ry at Zelienople to convert magnesite
rock. imported from Greece, into ce-
ment The samo thing was in the CIT
IzEN two months ago.
A few men working on the interior
Of the new bank building, Sunday, ,caus-
ed considerable comment; but let them
york and get the building be done as
s)cn as possible. The postoffice is to go
over there. and the steps of the present
office are map-killers
The Lyndora Land Go. moguls at
tempted to bottle up their new town,
Monday. by shutting out Butler grocers
when they attempted to deliver goods
to customers there but, Wednesday. re-
considered and magnanimously left
their little berg open to the world and
the wicked Butler grocers. Their idea
WIS to force the people to buy from the
eompany's store in Lyndora.
An intoxicated man went to sleep,
Monday evening. in the Y. M. G. A
basement window directly over the
swimming pool squirmed around enough
In his sleep to push in the window, and
went in himself down through six feet
Of space and into six feet of water to
the terror and amazement of bunch of
jaxeniles WHO were bathing. The man,
very much exhausted but sober was fish
cd out by Assistant Harry Starr
The Buffalo, Rochester and Pitts
burg Railway company will install
along its entire system telegraphones
instead of telegraph. This new and
peculiar system permits the sending of
telegraph messages and of talking both
ways at the same time over the same
wire. INSTRUMENTS will Pc placed in
eabo9ses, freight engines. stations and
blind sidings In case of accident con-
nections can be made within one
minnie, at least so the contractors claim
The Standard Athletic Clubs foot
ball team did the Parkers Landing team
~ to 0, Saturday afternoon, in a game
that was conspicuous for the long punts
made by J. Campbell and Eeiger and
the great gains made be Rube Waddell
breaking through the Parker line and
following and capturing the ball. Rube
gained most of Buffers ground. Can't
Fpigel was knocked out of the game
with bady sprained ankle. Touch
downs. Ed. Campbell, z, Feigel, Wad-
deil, Aiken and Goshorn Irvine kick
Cd all the goals.
The Butler School Board has refus-
Cd to pay the assessment of about $500
tor paving Broad street in front of the
5th Ward school house; and demands
IN accounting for fines for disorderly
Conduct previous to the year 1897, an
aid act requiring half the fines 10 be
turned oyer to the School Board The
Act Of 1897 provides that all Of these
fines shall he paid to the borough treas
urer, and the council contends that the
latter act is retroactive and that the
school board is not entitled to recover
any Of the fines of previous years. The
school board. however, insists on an ac-
counting and has referred the matter to
the tiaance committee of the board.
How much is due the board on fines will
h0t be known until the committee ex-
smipes the old dockets and these
amounts will be claimed as an offset on
tie paying bill