Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1902-05-08
LOCAL AND GENERAL,

LOCAL Ais1 GENERAL,
Car Works" is the name of a new
station esta blisnel BY the BeSsemer.
Hereafter the meat markets vii
close at p.m.-Saturday excepted.
Wise g. Graham are doing -four
ishing business at their stables TO the
rear of the Arlington.
"A car load of large sized potatoes
from Mercer county came to town last
week and had ready sale.
The dome of the Pavilion at Alamo
da Park was hit by lightning during
the storm OF last Friday evening
The school directors OF Indiana Co.
liked the supesintendent's salary at s.,
900, and those of Fayette Co. at $4,000.
The strike 1T the Plate Glass Works
continues A new wage scale is being
prepared for ell the plate glass facto-
ries.
--Daubenspeck g. Turner are fitting
up handsome room. and will have
their opening on Saturday Of next week
the 18th.
Will Foster has opened an Office in
the Berg Bank building, and is ready
to furnish plans for all kinds of build
ings on short notice.
-Messrs White and Conway are sell
ing the Beaver Falls mail box as agents
for the firm there, as see Agent Con-
ways notice in another place.
Those prepared palms and other
imitation flowers for sale by Mr.
Moore of the Model tobacco store, are
attracting considerable attention.
Teresa Holt has purchased three
acres of ground from Geo. J. Krug at
the corner of Mercer and Penn streets
and is erecting large green house.
The contest for the photograph
work at Slipperyrock State Normal has
been settled and a. L Findley Of But
ler has been chosen to photograph the
senior class.
I'VE do not hear any more of that
three Bill story Guess the fourth
Bill put an emphatic quietus to it,
and the gentleman is not much of a
punster either
The Patterson Brothers of this town
are doing a good business in wall paper,
this spring; and also in Devoe paint
the merits of which are fully set forth
In our columns.
-2f3S. Main st means Campbell's
Pharmacy formerly Sutton's) which
has been reftted. remodeled and re-
stocked. 1T is where You get your
moneys worth in drugs"
Mr.. M. Newhard, Special U. s.
Agent. held an examination in Evans
City yesterday for Rural Route carriers
for Evans City, Harmony, Zelienople,
Mars, Gallery, Valencia and Glade
Mills
Last Sundays visitors to the site OF
the Car Works were disappointed, moth
ing was doing excepting the filing of a
big hole with concrete, and the sore
necked mules were getting a rest in the
stables.
Over in France there is a political
promise out that beats anything we
have heard of in this county-one of the
candidates for congress promises to
mend the shoes of every man who votes
for him.
-Newipeas and potatoes from Flori-
da are in market. The peas are sold
here at Is cents quarter peck, and the
potatoes at 25 cents a quarter peck.
New potatoes, just now, pass for. cur
rency among the darkies of the south.
There's new stairway and new
show window in town. The stairway
provides front entrance to the upper
stories Of the Reiber building, and
Donthett & Graham have the show
window filed with up-to-date shirts.
1t took Cooper, the tailor, but half
o day to move from the corner down to
the Graham g. Kohler building, next to
Campbell's furniture store. Monday.
The bank people are having his old
room fitted up this week and will move
into it soon.
-Butler township supervisors are
using their scraper with good effect on
the rough roads. A drive last week
through parts of four townships showed
Butler townships roads were in the
best shape. Every township should
have scraper.
The question has been asked if it
will be possible to receive the morning
papers on all rural free delivery routes
In Butler county the same day they are
published. For the benefit of the pub
lie would state that no carriers will
leave the postoffices from where service
starts until after the arrival of the
morning mail and papers, unless the
train should be unreasonably late.
There will only be few points in the
county that the carrier will be held un-
til 12 NJ. Ia order to serve the people
with the daily papers.
g. P. CONWAY,
Special Agent.
AT its regular meeting, Tuesday
evening, Council passed ordinances au-
thorizing the paving Of Mercer and
Monroe SITS, work to begin Sept. 1; and
of E Cunningham from Mexican to
Cliff; 8 Washington from Cunningham
to West; Locust; N Mexican extension,
and Elm from Locust northward, work
to begin at once; the construction of a
15-inch main sewer, 1900 feet, on Z JEFF
ferson st to sewer Insti tute Hill, and
the sewering Of Locust st. An ordi-
nance to vacate and annul Negley Ave
through the car works property from
Playground Ave to Pierce Ave, without
giving substitute for it was laid on
the table This was the biggest even
ing's work done by Council for many
years and the Improvements provided
for will cost probably 800,