Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1902-03-13
LOCAL AND GENERAL,

March 3Oth is Easter Sunday, this
year.
No decision as yet on the Biddle re-
ward
-Pittsburg is to have a million dollar
theatre.
The B. & O. intends building park
on the cutoff
Considerable Butler property has
lately changed hands.
The Chief Dispatcher of the Bessie
at Greenv,I lie needs couple dozen tele-
graph operators.
The blank record books for the
county are now being made by w. w.
Anon, the local binder.
Mars is one Of the boom" towns Of
the county. at present. Several new
houses are going up there.
The new Specify well on the Kel-
ley at Bruin opens up stretch OF terri
tory about four miles long.
There are whispers of another big
block of property changing hands in
Butler, and another prospective sky
scraper.
Frank B. Satterthwait. prominent
jeweler Of Mercer. committed suicide by
shooting himself in the right temple, on
Monday morning.
How to travel is the title of lit
tie book, Just out How to get the mon
ey to travel on is the most serious ques-
tion with the most Of people.
Two young Middlesex twp. men are
said to have shot two cats belonging to
. neighbor, while hunting, and later set.
tied at the rate Of 81 80 per cat.
1t is said 4s picnics are already
booked for Alameda Park this summer,
and more are coming. The Park will
be made more attractive than ever.
Miss Stella Pape went east Monday
to purchase goods for her Millinery OPP
ening i'm the room on Main St.-nearly
opposite the Savings Bank See card.
We condense our r. R. time tables
and omit all foreign" ads. this week. In
order to accommodate the Auditors Re
port-but win make more room for
next week.
The Annual Reunion Of the Luther
ans Of Western Pennsylvania will be
held at the Park here on July nth.
These reunions embrace the three Syn
DDS and are largely attended
AT the meeting Of the Hose Com
mittee Of Council last Thursday night
the contract for 1000 feet Of fire hose
was awarded to Geo. WhitehiIl, ,as agent
for the Eureka Co. Of New York ut SO
cents foot.
The Farmers Progressive Associa-
tion Of Butler county will hold q Local
Institute in Winfield Grange Hall,
March 21st, IN the afternoon and even
ing. All are cordially invited TO attend.
BY order Of the Association.
Last Wednesday evening the play
entitled "A woodman Soldier" was Civ
on in Union Hall, Cooperstown by the
M. w. A. Lodge Of Renfrew and was a
success in every detail. Recitations,
singing and music by the orchestra was
also given.
Now that the weather has moderat-
Cd the English sparrows have begun
fighting each other. In one of our
larger cities. the other day, flock Of
these birds, lighting among themselves
formed current between two electric
wires on bridge-there was binding
fash. several dead birds two Of which
were burned to q crisp) and that fight
was over.
The following graduates and stu
dents OF Butler Business College have
accepted positions as follows-C. II.
Aortland, stenographer, 3 r. e. p. r.
r. Co, Butler; G. v. Shepard. station
agent at Foxbnrg; w. J. Meeder, stenog-
rapher. Kavanaugh IL Co., ZelienopIe;
w. ]. Ferne, cashier and book-keeper.
All N. Reiber 81 Bro, Butler; r. NJ
Campbell keeps the books of the Butler
Silk Factory; w. B. Copeland, steno-
Grapher, United Engineering and