Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1902-02-13
LOCAL AND GENERAL,

Lent began yesterday.
The ice men are now making hay
Help to save the country next Tues
day.
-Biddle brothers in song at W. R
Newton's
The p. g. W. or g. & o. is said tc
have arranged for northern outlet.
The man who lies to newspaper
reporter ISLANDERS the whole community
Dave" Trainer, the notorious horse
thief. broke Jail at Clarion, Sunday
night. bnt was recaptured while cross
ing the Allegheny river, next day.
whats in manner One of our
candidates for Sheriff has coon and a
camel on his cards
An inmate of the County Home left
the institution rather than take his an
nual bath in winter time.
The Water Co is fixing up splen-
did office in Wilson Miller's storeroom
lately occupied by John r. Grieb.
The one case of varioloid in Butler
is about cured, and the quarantine on
the house will be raised in a few days.
-KeLterer Bros. show windows show
up nicely with their plate glass floors.
See.their new adv. in another column.
The Women's Hospital Association
will hold the regular quarterly meeting
in Y. NJ. c. A. parlors, Tuesday, Feb.
18th, at 3 p. m.
Two men were killed and dozen
injured by blasting accident on the
new cutoff of the Bessie near Green
vile, last Saturday.
w. B. McGeary of the West End,
returned from Iowa. Monday, bringing
with him car load of horses. The
freight on which was $155.
The p. o. was closed yesterday
afternoon and will also be closed on
Saturday afternoon the 22nd. Lincoln
and Waskingtop's birthdays.
Some politicians who are supposed
to carry townships in their vest pockets
have sentiments which can be quickly
changed by two dollar bill.
Lent came in yesterday and oysters
promptly jumped from dollar to $1.49
. gallon, eggs will also get strongers
bat fish oh, they are plenty.
Word came to Butler, Monday.
OF the arrival of The Lain" at Naples.
last Friday, on which Mr.. and Mrs. G.
N. Boyd of Butler are passengers.
Thompson and Son, and Will Mil
ler will move to the second story of the
Byers building, and the Record Office to
the basement Of the Armory building.
The ice-gorge in the Allegheny
now extends from the 1lth st. bridge
up to Springdale or distance Of about
eighteen miles. and q thaw and flood
may prove disastrous.
The Butler County National Bank
will move into the room now occupied
by Cooper, the Tailor. and Cooper will
move into the Graham and Kohler store
room on 8. Main street.
The National Transit Co.'S offices
are being moved into the second floor of
D. H. Wullers drugstore building on s.
Main street. which they will occupy
during the erection of the new bank
building.
ming thirty looms and will soon increase
the number by half Four hundred
yards OF silk are being made daily The
girls in the factory earn from IS to $40
per week.
A Farmers Local Institute will be
held in Academy Hall, West Sunbury,
Pa, on Friday, Feb 81. Two sessions
p. m. and 2 p. m. A good program
has been selecteted, we hope for good
attendance.
The tolls on dispatches or specials
sent to the big dailies through the two
local telegraph offices amounted to
about $500 and altogether there were at
least 150,0 900 words sent or 200 columns
OF solid reading matter about the Bid
dies.
The ballots for the election OF next
Tuesday will not numbered. Those for
the Fifth Ward, Butler. will have no
Democratic nominees for School Direc-
tor or Constable, as nobody wanted the
nominations declined by s. D. Purvis
and Matthew Brown.
The State Board of Health will
meet in Butler. on Wednesday and
Thursday, May 7th and sth next, with
representatives from every county in
the state, to the number of hundred
or more. The meetings will probably
be held in the Court House.
Sometimes it pays man to have
something stolen from him. The horse
and sleigh which the Biddles stole from
Mr.. Swartz of near Perrysville was on
exhibition at the Bijou, Pittsburg, last
week; will be exhibited in some of the
neighboring towns this week. and has a
New York engagement for next, at $3.50
week
The representation of the Court Of
Fame given by some of our young ladies
In the interest Of the Second Presby-
teran church, in the Opera House, Mon
day and Tuesday evenings, was one of
the prettiest things ever put upon the
local stage, and proves that there is
enough talent in our midst to produce a
first class entertainment any time it is
desired.
The United States Court Of Claims
has decided that officers resigning and
soldiers discharged by way of favor are
entitled to travel pay, lie. one days pay
for each 20 miles, from point Of dis
charge to their homes. Also that by a
general law passed Jan. 10. 1890, all
who served out their full terms are en-
titled to two months extra pay These
decisions have caused the Pension At
torneys at Washington TO send to every
soldier Of the Spanish and PhiliDpine