Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1902-01-02
LOCAL AND GENERAL,

Write it 1902.
Revival services.
Add , to the 0.
Civil Court next week.
Edit your resolutions.
-C)unty Auditors at work.
Two Borough Auditors are to elect
Ell this ear.
The z. o. at Mercer was robbed a
few lights ago.
-B.th CO, ,,per and sugar hurt some
p,oIls last s. eek.
Hope you didn't make more resolu-
tions than you can keep.
Texas oil Is great hair restorer and
also contains some asbestos.
-Tne Bessie has raised the wages of
all its employees, ten per cent.
The fellow who sent fake marriage
to a Butler paper is to be prosecuted.
Coal lands north and northeast of
W. Sunbury are being leased up and
that town may soon be great coal cen
tire.
Several Clearance Sales are adver-
tised in onr columns, this week, and the
prices quoted make the ads, interesting
reading.
The Eagle printing office has been
re moved to its new location on z. Gun
min CHAM St,-the old Cunningham ho-
tel property.
Philip SandeIson of Muddycreek
twp. brought IN four 2-year-oId short
horn steers, Tuesday, that pulled the
scales for 1900
Owing to our columns being crowd
ed, This week. quite number of items
written fer the paper had to be omitted
also some communications
AN Oyster Supper will be held in
McFann Union Hall, on Wednesday
evening, Jan. s. for benefit If Union
Sabbath School by Y. p S. c. E
AT the meeting Of Town Cl,nncil
Monday evening, Burgess McNair re-
signed on account Of i'll health; and the
Council recommended the appointment
OIL q. Charley Smith.
The late Teachers Institute was, by
general consent, the most successful
Painter was unusually fortunate in his
selection If instructors, and evening en-
tertainments.
The Dessemer railroad has placed
signs ON all its stations on which their
names and distances are painted Har-
risville is "a miles from Butler, Branch
ton is %, Kiester 10, Hallston II, Eu-
cid 1915, Jamisonville 9.S and Oneida
g.
AT a depth of 100 feet in the we'll
drilling on Clerk w. H. Canpbells y
farm, south Of Hooker, the drill passed
tnrough vein of very fine camel coal
which the drillers said was i've and half
feet thick Mr. Campbell has large
lump, brought up in bailer.
The p o. Department is reported
to have made a ruling requiring all
newspapers TO be discontinued at the
end Of the time for which they were
paid. under penalty Of refusing the
pound rate postage to publishers who
do not do 80. This will work revolu
tion in the business Of the publisher Of
the county weekly.
Candidates for Council and School
Director are now being considered in
every ward in the town, and few
would be Constables are making theil
wishes known TO the public. 1t is well
for the public to keep these matters in
mind, else abuses spring up like weeds
In a garden.
The Slipperyrock Normal had th
most successful fall term in it's history
$50 pupils attending and nearly 40
have reported for stuly for the presen
term. A class of 1GL youths and maid
e1s. the largest class in the schools his
tory. will graduate next June. DR.
Maltby and his assistants are TO be con
gr4tulated.
The old Red Lion Hotel property ol
Sixth St., formerly st. Clair St., Pitts
burx. which. in the days Of yore, wa
the city terminus OF the stage coach lin
t, Butler. was sold by the Shields heir
t, Henry phipps, some days ago. Th
los has frontage OF 149 feet on Sixtl
AID 240 on Duquesne Way. The pric
pad was $3.50, 900, which, in the day
we refer to, would have purchased hal
the town.
Ben Hnr, the most remarkable shoy
ever put upon the stage in Pittsburg
will continue at the Alvin this week
and all Of next-or up to and including
Saturday the 11th-with matinees o
Wednesday and Saturday. Those VIII
have read the story win follow it az rep
resented on the stage with especial in
terest; while the wonderful scenery, an
marvellous transformations are we
worth the trip to town and price Of ad
mission.
There is every indication that
new railroad is 10 run through Butte
county, the Pennsy lyania branch frol
Sharon to Butler via Slipperyrock.
line already extends from Sharon
Courtney and Browns mills in Merce
county, TO which points it has been bui
to draw supplies of coal and limestor
for the Sharon steel works. At preser
Powell DeFrance Of Mercer is ieasin
every acre of coal available aroun
Slipperyrock. paying cents per to
royalty. This is an unusually hig
royalty because the coal is Of cokin
quality. Entries are being driven {
the McFate and Lewis Patterson farm
north of Slipperyrock and limestor
quarry has been opened on the d
Peal farm.