Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1902-01-16
LOCAL. AND GENERAL,

/. LOCAL AND GENERAL,
A Sharon individual mailed cat,
in paper box.
The office Of County Detective
seems doomed TO become extinct.
Brown & Co. offer their entire stock
of furniture at bargain prices See adv
For an elegant restaurant on the
Ia carte plan, Richey is hard to beat.
Daniel Slater OF Cnicora has leased
+. Fl. Bole's machine shop on Main
ST.
The Butler County National Bank
people have bought the Col. Thompson
building.
Its bad thing TO quarrel with the
milkman He'll make you take water
every time.
Republican local primaries at the
usual places to Z p. NJ, Saturday,
January 25th.
-Ouay's book is to have chapter on
shaking the plum tree, and other ag-
ricultural subjects
We are prepared to print cards, cir
culars, etc Tor candidates, by the ton or
thousand at the usual rates.
ID. Nj. Conway Rural-route agent
for the p. o. Department has opened an
Office in ihe Reiber building.
L Stein & Son offer bargains in
every department of their store in order
to reduce stock before invoicing.
Natural gas is as cheap as moon
shine when you have it on your own
farm, but in Butler-Good Lord.
The man in the moon is trying to
firt with Venus these evenings, but the
pretty dame runs away from him.
"A bad bargain at an auction is like
ly to cause more philosophical refec-
tions and stern resolutions than a
Christmas spree.
When writing TO have your paper
changed from one postoffice to another,
don't fail to name your old, as well as
your new address.
Skating has been good on the creek
this week At the foot of Jail hill two
girls broke through and went in the
water up to their necks, Monday.
Arthur Cove, the noted comedian
and musician. will give concert in the
Craigsville NJ E. church, Tuesday
evening, Jan 2s. for the benefit of the
church.
Persons desiring to vote at the com
ing February election and not holding
the necessary receipts, should see that
their state and county taxes are paid be
fore Jan. 18th
If anybody knows where carload
of old hats can be had cheap-they
should send in word, at once as they are
s'-rs-sss Al-s--~o.--..+y. for
political purposes.
The extraordinary succession of
midnight fires in Huntingdon, Pa. has
ciused the Town Council to offer re-
ward of $1,000 for the arrest and con-
viction Of an incendiary.
California is great state for juicy
things She has been sending us all
kinds of juicy fruits for years, and is
now shipping hundreds of tons of cele-
ry to the eastern market.
Tuesday, was stockholders election
day. All the Butler Bank officials were
reelected and but one change was
made in the Hospital Board-P. Dau-
benspeck for J. G. Runkle.
The Butler Co. National Bank has
also purchased the Thompson LOT adj
joining tia, CITIZEN Office tor $1,000, and
will build about 7sxS0, Sd as to accom-
modate both the Bank and Postoffice
Col. William Jennings Bryan will
lecture in the Park Theatre, Friday
evening under the auspices Of the Bar
Association, the proceeds for the bene-
fit of the Hospital. Prices rs and 80
cents.
An exchange remarks that home
grown, hand-spanked, hare-footed coun
try boy makes much better fighter in
the battle of life than the pampered,
high -collared, creased -trousered youth
of our cities
"A. A. Campbell advertises a Disso-
luton Sale, this week. with discounts
ranging from 10 to 80 per cent. on fur
niture and other household goods. Mr.
Campbell succeeds to the business of
Campbell & Templeton.
The U. V. l. will gives an entertain
ment in their hall Jan 30 Addresses
will be made by J. T. Kelly on Lincoln;
Jos. Criswell on Garfield; Col. w. A.
Clark ON Mckinley, and on other sub
jects by Comrades Thompson, Ander
son and Williams.
w. w. Anon, young bookbinder,
formerly Of Pittsburg, has opened the
Butler Book Bindery, in the old Lincoln
Hall, third floor of the Younkins build
ing, Cor. Main and Diamond street.
Give him call and patronize home
industry
-The Royal Arcanum of West Sun
bury will be addressed by Mr.. McCor-
mick of Edgewood Park, Pa. in free
lecture on the benefits of the order, to
be followed by an oyster supper and ice
cream festival, in the Academy, Friday
evening. All invited.
Oscar Shaffer has bought Nathaniel
Grossman's interest in the Prospect
Creamery and Howard West has bought
the interest of s. e. Wilson The en-.
tire creamery now belongs to the Vests
aud SKATERS. They market about 800
pounds of butter in Butler per week.
-Slipperyrock borough's gas pressure
is just about three times as strong as
Buffers. A CRATE fire can be turned on
until the flames reach the mantel The
plant which supplies the town is owned
by III. p. Griffeth, who when the pres
sure was weak some years ago, spent
many thousand dollars drilling dry