Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1902-05-01

Adminisui arors and Executors Of estat,
.ln secure their receipt books at the ClT
ZEN office. and persons making pubic sale
sneir note books.
LOCAL AND GENERAL,
up, up, as though
They'd reach the skies
The prices of
Provisions rise
Each day they touch
A higher mark.
Each day the prospect
Grows more dark,
And soon our woe
Will be complete.
For it will cost
Too much to eat. Leader
This is strike day in the city.
Our march winds are month late,
this year.
1t taxes four barrels of oil to the
acre to kill all the worms
Over 1000 people have died with
cholera in the Philippines this spring.
The Summer Excursion season on
all the roads begin today. See railroad
notices.
Butler has purchased new hook
aud ladder truck, 55 foot ladder, 23OO
pounds, for $s45.
-Gellert Goehring, the Zelienople
Merchant is proud of his new checkered
front-a thing of beauty.
The lead cable of tube now being
put up through Butler by the Bell Co.
contains 200 telephone wires.
During the past winter the Waverly
has entertained ffty-six theatre COM
panies and parts Of companies.
The plans for the National Bank
building have been completed and
there'll be doings at that corner, short
ly.
The School Directors of the County
will meet in the Court House, next
Tuesday, May 6, to elect County
Sup'd't
w. Cooper, the merchant tailor will
move next Monday 70 the room adjoin-
ing the Campbell g. Templeton furni-
ture store
ALI the Bessemer freight traffic il
going over the P. Il W. via the Reibold
cutoff pending the rebuilding of the
Bull creek trestle.
The Prohibition County Convention
will be held in Butler on Tuesday, May
18th. at 10 a. m, over L. G, Wick's Of
fee, near p & W. depot.
>-Daubenspeck & Turner expect to
open their new shoe store, next door to
Wuller's Drug Store, about May 10th,
with full line Of boots and shoes. See
adv.
And the land shall be full of prom
ises-Liquor licenses, rural route car
ries, positions in the Court Room,
county offices next time-anything to
get vote.
The men who control the Penn'a
r. r. visited Pittsburg, this week and
among other things decided to build a
plant to wash" the air for the new
Union Station.
Contractor Jos. Graham has force
of about 80 men at work grading. curb
ing and paving Brown avenue. The
gas and water mains on the street are
being lowered.
The shut down at the Plate Works
caused by the strike of the 'layers" in
grinding department yet continues. All
the departments are shut down except
ing the casting hall.
With one County Commissioner
dead and one seriously i'll, Commission
or McGarvey and Clerk Kiskaddon are
having their hands full. Mr.. Eichert is
reported better this morning.
-''Will you please insert this obitu-
ary notice3" asked an old gentleman of
an editor. II make bold to ask it be-
cause the deceased had great many
friends about here who would be glad
to hear Of his DEATH"
The wage-earners are making sure
that their wages go up along with
everything else just now. Teamsters
are charging s5 per day. carpenters
, $a75. bricklayers and masons 81 and Ia
borers $1.75, advances in all.
"A small Speechley sand well at Par
ker and another. or two, at or near
Cooperstown has caused considerable
leasing between the two points thirty
miles apart. All the big companies are
said to be doing it, and paying dollar
an acre a year.
The twenty-five Commissions for
those who were elected Justices of the
Peace in this County at the late election
and who fled their acceptances in time
arrived at the Register & Recorders
last week and are ready for delivery
upon payment of the fees, $675.
NO town in the county, excepting
Butler, is improving more rapidly than
Zelienople. Some of the finest resi-
dences in the county have been erected
within its limits during the past few
years; the Enameling Works is flourish
ing, and another large plant may locate
there.
Saturdays wind storm rocked and
swayed the shirt factory building,
which has large western exposure, SO
badly that it made many of the girls
seasick and shut down for the day
was necessary. Frame houses are also
reported to have been rocked so much
as to make the occupants dizzy.
During the high wind Saturday a
bushel basket left its happy home at
0. M. Phillips grocery south of the
Court House. promenaded across the
Diamond and down Main street to
Cunningham, then to the west side of
Main and back again to Whitehill's
plumbing store, opposite its starting
point.
Meat is a drug on the market OF
Ellwood City, and the action of the
beef trust is of little interest there