Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1902-04-24
LOCAL AND GENERAL,

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LOCAL. AND GENERAL,
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House cleaning.
Trailing arbutus.
-Shirt-waist weather.
The buds are beginning to swell
- Way Down East" at the Park
Theatre, tonight.
1t takes more than dentist to kill
the nerve of some people.
"A Clarion county detective of some
note is looking into the Smith murder
case
Burgess Smith fined eight drunk
and disorderlies. Sunday morning, 81 80
each.
The building OF a new town on the
West Side will turn business in that di-
rection. A
The paved streets of Butler should
first be flooded from the fire plugs. and
then scraped
A Foxburg lady. wife Of Mail Agent
Mounds formerly of Bdtler, is reported
to have the small-pox
A rise Of twenty degrees in
the Mercury. Tuesday make winter
undercIothing feel heavy.
fine Eisler- -Mardorf Co. gave away
1880 carnations to customers and call
ers during their three opening days.
The Street Car Co. is making ready
to open the Park on May Both -Decora-
tion Day-snd is enlarging its barns to
accommodate the new cars.
There is some talk of the branch
road that the Penn'a Co. has built into
this county from a point near New
Castle being extended to Butler.
Our Water Co. will run 1o-inch
line across the town and thereby supply
the new Steel Car Co with water, g..
000, 900 pounds Of iron pipe will be re-
quired.
Traffic on the p Il W. was delayed
for nine hours. Wednesday. by coke
car being deraiied and thrown on its
side at the western entranceo of the Bak
erstown tunnel.
The base ball season opened in
Pittsburg. Tuesday, with tremendous
audience present. Up on Fifth Ave at
the Avenue Theatre, each game played
L. duplicated in miniature.
All Butler was awakened by false
alarm of FIRE. Monday midnight. Some
body mistook Kesselman's midnight
whistle for an alarm-and by the way
what's the use of these night whistles
Monday last was appeal day from
the Mercantile Appraisers appraisment,
and but two men Of the seven hundred
claimed errors. Mr.. Harbison's list
contained less errors for 80 large a list
than any we have ever printed.
Hundreds of Butler people visited
the old Fair Grounds, Sunday afternoon.
The men were at work there, unload
ing rails and ties, and dragging and
hauling them along the line of the rail-
rDad switch which will pass through
the centre Of the main building. length
wise.
The steamer City OF Pittsburg took
dre on the river near Cairo, ILL.,. early
Sunday morning, while nearly all the
passengers were asleep. a panic follow
cd, and some sixty people were burned
and drowned. l.. L. Hunter, an oil man
formerly Of this county, was among
those who perished.
If the streets OF Butler were flushed
from the fire pings, the cutters cleaned
and then more flushing done this terrible
dust. bath that we have to endure would
be ended This Is feature Of our town
that is both annoying and expensive,
We have hesrd 1t called disgrsceful, and
II Il. we believe, the duty of the Council
to find q remedy.
The following graduates and students
of the Butler Business College have just
accepted positions as follows: Jesse
Cornelius. book-keeper. The First Ma
tional Bank, vandergrift, Pa. r. w.
Harvey, stenographer. p & L. E r. r.
Co., McKees Rock: Isaac p. Hartung,
book-keeper, The Philadelphia Company,
Pittsburg; j. II. Anderson, book-keeper
and clerk, store, Petersville; w. e.
Foster, stenographer, Pittsburg Con-
struction Company; r. p. Frederick.
htcnographer B. r. e. r. r r.. Pitts
burg; James Coulter, time keeper.
Standard Steel Car Co., Butler; A. III
Ripper. book-keeper, Aurry Brothers,
Contractors, Allegheny; Joseph Stehle.
book-keeper. Berg's Bank Butler; Ella
8. Clark. bookkeeper for firm in
Cleveland, Ohio.