Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1902-01-30
LOCAL AND GENERAL,

~vaccination is popular.
Eggs still keep up in price.
Winters coming spasmodically.
Next sunday viii be Grounding
Day.
The sreet car strike has been declar-
ed off officially.
County confines confuse Congress
ional Conventions
1t cannot be said of Butler people
that they cut no ice.
Pork was never so high in price in
this section as at this time
Love may be bliud, but the neigh
bors usually have their eyes open.
Social this evening in Y. NJ c. A,
G A H1yett will entertain the audi
ence.
We have heard Of the goose that
laid the golden egg and now the old
nen mas got st 1T.
The Craig Hardware Co., of Mars
has opened branch Office at 1913 w.
Jefferson st, Butler.
Mrs. BleviDs denies that she receiv.
ed letter from Pittsburg ghost nam
ing the murderer of her husband.
There will be public sale at John
Aliens in Anandale, February 1S,stock; ;
Implements. ETC., beginning at p. IN.
"A pinch of Cream of Tarter-three
times day, before meals. will ward off
small pox, and all other skin diseases.
The average salary of male teachers
per month in Pennsylvania is s4414;
the average salary of female teachers is
$38 90.
Our Hospital is an admirable insti~
tution-a credit to the town. Read
Maj. Sullivan's impressions of his short
stay there.
The P. r. r. Co. will not square
the circle, but it will circle the squares
of the lower or point district of Pitts
burg with an elevated railroad.
AT Pittsburg, Tuesday, the Pitts
burg and Western railroad was formal
ly absorbed by new company which
will turn it over TO the Baltimore and
Ohio.
The New York tunnels are getting
lots of advertising just now; but just
wait till the Pennsylvania begins crawl
ing through the mile Of soft mud under
the Hudson.
"A Butler girl. fifteen years of age,
has been found who refuses to let her
elders encase her in corsets. Give her
crown Of laurel Are there not more
of the same metal?
The rewards now offered by the
Councils of New Castle and the County
OF Lawrence for the arrest and convic-
ton Of the murderer Of John Blevins
aggregate ten thousand dollars.
IT. A. Morrison has harvested over
5000 tons Of ice from 10 to 12 inches
thick-the finest they ever put up, free
Of snow or slush. j. A. Richey has
harvested about 800 tons Of the same.
"A box social and literary entertain
ment will be given in the st Clair
school-the new school in Centre twp,
three miles north of Butler on the old
Mercer road-on Friday evening, Jan
31st.
AN attorney, with great deal of
self-importance, was cross examining
an aged negress His dignity suffered
from the following: But you are not
a young woman?" mo honey Use ole
enough tn be your mommy, bur, thank
God, isn't"
Among the bequests in the will of
Mrs. Sarah Dunlap Of New Castle was
one of 81 600 to the Almira Home, an
institution for aged women located in
New Castle and in which Beaver, But
Ter Lawrence and Venango counties are
interested
Some days ago Miss Pearl McMar-
lin. who has been teaching school near
Valencia came home sick, and her case
developed info varioloid; and now
young man who was boarding at the
same house in Valencia, has been taken
down with same disease.
-Heydrick's whole Thing" is one
of the most remarkable inventions of
the age-a complete set of engineering
instruments in one. Mr. Heydrick has
applied for patents, and will have his
instrument ON exhibition at the st.
Louis Fair.
The High School students haye
bought WIN. Aliens $l35 telescope for
800 aud will give an entertainment on
Tuesday, February 25, to raise money
to pay for it. One of the directors ad-
vanced the money to pay for it and the
pupils will pay him:
Geo. Palm has perfected his combi-
nation gas engine and he and his part
ners Fred Leidocker and Geo. Schaff-
ner, Jr have built large machine shop
on thesKittauning road in the eastern
part of town and are prepared to manu-
facture the engine on quite an extensive
scale.
Robbers attacked Michael Sweeney,
In charge of target shanty on the
Pittsburg 81 Western railroad near
Girard, o., early last Sunday morning,
and after binding him went through his
pockets, taking his pay that he received
the day before, and then set fire to the
shanty, cremating him.
New York city had a little earth
quake Of it's own, Monday, when sever
al hundred pounds of nitro-gelatine used
for blasting rock out OF the subway ex-
ploded near the Grand Central station
killing six people and injuring hun
dred more, and damaging the station
and other neighborIng buildings to the
extent Of million dollars.
Interest in the contest for the Eu-
ropean trip offered by the Pittsburg Ga
zette and Chronicle Telegraph continues
to increase. Returns from all parts Of
the county indicate n determination To