Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1902-01-23
LOCAL AND GENERAL,

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ious moves
Small pox is reported in Kittanning
and McKee's Rocks
Dent forget the borough primaries
next Saturday afternoon.
How easy it is To get into store
room when yon know how.
Three Is Better Book Bindery-is
a new sign in Butler See adv.
Quite number OF our citizens at
tended Dr. Bells funeral at Chicora,
Tuesday.
al Heck's store in East End, Pitts
burg, was entered and robbed last Sat
urday night.
If you have any doubts az to this
being Bargain Month, just read our ad-
vertisemenfs
WOLVES yesterday deyoured an en-
tire wedding party near Usiosa, in
Servis. The party consisted of the
bride and bridegroom and twenty
guests.
Mink skins are now bringing 81
each, though years ago they brought
but 20 ~ 80 cents Cccn skins are 81;
possrm about 40 cents, and skunk pelts
from 10 to 40 cent? A good horse hide
iswoIth s..
Suddenly finding their clothing in
flames made both Miss Beers and Miss
McCardless helpless and speechless, last
Saturday The accidents are arguments
against open CRATE fires. and the careless
1se Of matches
Quite crowd assembled in Kirk
patrick's Jewelry store last Friday after
noon TO hear ard see Uncle Josh"
Stewart making records for the Victor
Talking machines. He made about 200
of them during the day.
Residents along Slipperyrock creek
would like to have the State Fish War
den destroy the carp by dynamiting or
seining aud then having the stream re-
stocked with pike and bass, which the
car, destroyed by eating their eggs.
The Standard Plate Glass Works Of
Boiler made and sold two million square
feet Of plate glass last year. At the an
nual meeting Of the stock holders, Tues
day, the old officers were reelected, and
contracts awarded for some large new
buildings.
There are said to be an unusual
tae disease seems to be paying special
attention 10 the lawyers. Attorneys T.
NJ. Baker and A NJ Christley have been
confined to their beds part of this week.
1t must be pretty hard for a lawyer to
be unable to talk.
On clear days the Speechley oil
field can be seen from the hill south
west of town anywhere between the res
idence Of viii Allen and the Poor Farm
by looking to the northeast over the
late Rev Whites old brick house. Beth
el church, five miles away is plainly in
view and Middletown and the smoke
from the engines can be disccrned seven
miles beyond. With the aid Of Aliens
telescope the derricks become distinct.
AT Eostick's Too in Boston two
Sundays ago six-months- old pig was
put into the cage Of a 30 foot anaconda,
the largest in captivity, to serve as his
snakeships once In six weeks meal But
the pig showed fight when the snake
tried to seize it by the nose and after a
desparate battle succeeded by getting
the snake by the head and biting IL 10
death. but the brave little porker was
crushed 10 death in the squir1ning folds.
The monster was dissccted and had two
stomachs, one and one feet long, a
liver feet long. one setof lungs nearly
feet long, another II feet heart the
size Of a mans and brain one-fourth
Of an inch thick in the cavity Of its ngly
head. IL was valued al $1,000
The Butler County National Bank
has been awarded the contract for the
postoffice here, for ten years at 1920 a
year The post6ffice room IL to be BOX
40, or 2.400 square feet Of floor space,
and will be located where the CITIZEN
Office now stands The purchase Of the
Thompson lot gives the bank lot Sax
10, but they will leave ten or twelve
foot alley, for side entrance 10 the
postoffice, and their building will be
about 72xS0, and several stories high-a
modern iron-frame and stone building,
finished with marble, iron and bronze,
and made as nearly fre-proof IA posi-
BILE The CITIZEN Office will be moved
next month tc the room on Main st.
lately occupied by the Eagle, near the
present postoffice.
Earthquakes makes the human race
shudder as well ~ shake. The one in
the state OF Guerrero. Mexico, (which IA
along the Pacific coast 10 the southwest
Of the city Of Mexico) last week caused
the death Of three-hundred people and
reminded ns that we are living upon
the mere crust. or shell OF great egg,
the interior OF which ~ supposed 10 be a
molten mass Classes occasionally ac-
cumulate between the shell and the
molten mass, at points where there are
no safety valves or volcanoes, and then
the shell is liable 10 be broken. That II
the theory of man, but nobody knows
anything about tit-excepting the Crea.
tor. n an earthquake ever comes TO q
city having these high modern bull d
i1gs, IL will be worse than "Christ's
Coming 10 Congress" something will
drop.
The u. g. Civil Service Commission
will hold examinations at several places
In each state during March and April
70 secure young men and women for thu
government service. $3.50 persons ee.
cured positions last year through thes,
examinations. Probably 10. 900 appoint
ments will be made this year. All ap
pointments are for life aud for nOst
positions only common school educa
tion II required. Salaries mt appoint
ment vary from $500 to III 200 year
with liberal promotions afterward
Politics IL not considered This affords
good opportunity for people between
i6 and 45 years Of age Those desiring
places OF this kind can 0et full informa
tion about them. free, by writing 10 th,
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