Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1902-05-29
LOCAL AND GENERAL,
Show day, tomorrow.

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ganization next Monday evening
The Butler County National Banl
people expect to move, Saturday.
The potato-bug crop is going to bt
a dandy a regular record breaker.
Will Foster has completed the
plans for the R tlsson block on Jefferson
st.
Butler is to have another Trust
Company. See notice in another col
umn.
If the law allows OF it, a Building
Inspector should be appoined for the
town.
The electric headlights on the B.
R. & p through trains are something
immense.
w. Fl. Goehring intends starting a
wholesale grocery and produce store on
N Main ST.
Another examination for Rural
Route Carriers will be held in Butler,
Saturday.
-lOur barber shops will remain open
till II O'Clock tonight, and will be closed
tomorrYw.
Any farmer wishing choice collec-
ton OF dogs. should inquire of his
friends in Butler.
The Lvndora Land improvement
Co. capital l,00), received q charter
at Harrisburg, Monday
Tax Collector Maxwel's desk was
broken open, yesterday noon and
small amount of cash taken from it.
The frosts in the early part of the
month almost ruined the peach, apple
ard cherry crops in some localities.
L. c. Wick is building five houses
on West ST., three on Eyth ST.. six on
Mercer street and two on Ziegler Ave.
Nearly half of the applicants
for certificates as druggists at the late
examinations in Pittsburg and Harris
burg, failed.
The grinding department of the
Plate Glass Works resumed work,
Tuesday morning. and the strike there
seems TO be over.
The business men of Butler will
meet in Boos' Hall next Friday evening.
to further consider the organization of
Mutual Fire Insurance Co.
A big copperhead" attacked G. G.
Cochran of the pipe line Office in But-
Ter, last Thursday. while walking
through the woods near Gallery.
Five members of the dir ectorate of
the Steel Car Co. were in town, Friday,
and located the Wheel Works in Duffy's
field just north Of the Car Works.
Over 800 men are now at work at
the car works and more are going on
every day. Nearly every resident of
the Island who hasa room to spare is
keeping boarders.
-On Friday. last H. W. Klein for the
Butler Brewing Co. purchased two
acres Of the J. Fl. Negley field, across
the creek from Walters mill, on an
option held by J. F. Anderson.
THE Butler Chemical Works" is a
new firm in Butler, at present located
in the basement of the Berg Bank build
ing, and doing good business They
make several excellent toilet prepara-
tions. aud are building up fine trade.
-Four masked men entered the home
of Jacob Platt, three miles south of
Freeport Sunday night and, after in
timidating Platt and his wife with re-
volvers, tortured the latter by applying
hot irons to her feet, compelling her to
reveal the hiding place of $780, The
men have not been captured.
A brick works with a capacity of
10000 brick a day is being established
on the ground between the Kulp road
and P. g. w. tracks. recently sold by j.
@. A. Kennedy to VIM. Campbell, Jr.
Machinery is already on the ground.
Badger & Shull and Ralph Reed are
putting in the plant which will cost
$4,000.
The annual memorial sermon to the
Grand Army Of the Republic was
preached Sunday evening by Rev. T. S.
Barlow in the Episcopal church. A. G.
Reed Post and Co. l. were in attend
ance The church was very prettily
decosated with flowers, leaves and the
national colors. Rev. Barlow's sermon
was exceptionally appropriate
" boys went into partnership last
summey in the lemonade business.
They had some lemons and some sugar
and some water in a crock Their
mothers provided the lemons and the
sugar 1t was agreed that they should
divide the profits, which meant all the
money they took in. 1t is octually a
fact that one of the boys had swallowed
all his profits before the afternoon ar
rived. and the other was bloated
capitalist. but very thirsty There isn't
any moral to this story.
The applicants for license this year
are: Hotel. j. A. Klein, G. FL. & H. B.
Kemp, II. Leibold, Dan McCrea, G. C.
Haworth, s. Nixon, Benz r. Cooper,
hotel on Fair Ground Road, Butler; c.
Fl. Gies for Hartung property on Pearce
Road, Butler twp; A. Hoch, B. j. For
quer and w. E. Labkey, Chicora o. M.
Raabe and J. & Fl Kohnfelder Saxon
bnrg; c. 81. Miller and VIM Wahl of
Evans City; j. G. Martin, Mars; Ralph
Gregg, Petrolia; S. M. Beam and L. N.
Ziegler, Harmony; II. w. Stokey and
F. w. Luck, Zelienople. Wholesale.
NJ W. Mays, P. V. Davis and F. H.
Goettler, Butler Distiller, p G. Fred
erick, Zelienople; Breweries, Butler
Brewing Co
The following graduates of the
Butler business College have recently
accepted positions as follows Miss
Grace Wick, stenographer,- Standard
Steel Car Co.. Butler.
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