Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1902-10-16
LOCAL AND GENERAL,

Ineir note books.
LOCAL AND GENERAL,
Tomorrow is Autumn, Arbor Day.
Look both ways before you step on
car track.
The Cottage Hill Land Co. will
have sale of lots next Saturday. See
adv.
Politics in England is getting
hor." but politics in Pennsylvania
Good Lord.
The hunting season began yester-
day. The new law makes all consta-
bles game wardens
Seven hundred Butler school child
rem and their friends took in the Pitts
burg Expo, Saturday.
Esq. McElvain, acting for Burgess
Smith. had Sunday School class OF
twelve, Sunday morning.
The coal strike doesn't disturb the
millionaire or the hobo. They both
srend the winter in the south.
The Steel Car Works is now turn
ing out fifteen cars day. and mas or
ders ahead for all it can make.
Some of the stones OF the mage
course of the new National Bank build
ing are said to weigh five tons each.
At the meeting of Council, last
week. ordinances were passed for the
sewering of West and Mercer Sts.
The moon will be in the shadow OF
the earth tonight. from about IL p NJ
to2a.m. Star gazers and young 10y
ers take notice.
A series of very interesting euchre
parties are being held at the Walker
Heinzer, Shearer, Eastman, Leonard and
Joseph Beck homes in Summit twp.
The Lyndora Land and Improve
ment Co. occupies considerable OF our
space in this issue in their announce
ment of their sale of lots for next Sat
urday.
-Pittsburg needs more railroad facil-
tiles, and If all the elevated and under
ground lines now projected, are built,
the Point district will be mechanical
wonder.
The Roth -Shaffer wedding party,
Tuesday, was driven from Prospect to
Harmony in cab copiously labeled
cat Lest" drawn by horses covered
with lace curtains.
Fair Ground Ave. now boasts OF
three groceries. one clothing store, a
hotel and boarding house which is
said to be occupied by so hunkies who
pay the land owner 81 each per month.
j. L. Winter, a well known tailor,
who moved from this place to New Cas-
tie few years ago. has relocated at 20s
Centre Ave, next the Bessemer Hotel,
where he will be glad to welcome old
friends.
-Douthett & Graham will have thei1
formal opening Oct. 23d, from 2 to IL
nm. See their adv. This firm is up to
date in every way and their new store
= 70 . ere1ft 70 Jul city. Do not miss their
opening.
The latest fancy of the girls is for
stufing pillows with old love letters.
There is one thing about the contents of
these pillows that can be depended upon
with marked degree of certainty
they are sure to be soft
AT the railroad crossing of Liberty
Ave, Pittsburg, last Wednesday, a
seven-h hundred ton bridge. carrying two
tracks and over which trains were al
most constantly passing, was gradually
lowered twenty inches. 1t was re-
markable feat in engineering.
The Butler men were doomed to
disappointment at Bradford, last Fri
day evening. They were the last OF IL
teams to race, had to run in the dark,
and though they made it in % seconds,
it took more to make the coupling, and
their mark was 30; making them third
in the race, as Ridgeway had 30 1-5 and
Hornellsville 20 As. Next morning
Butler did it in 1885.
After thoroughly reviewing the
question our Town Council decided to
widen and straighten West Wayne ST.,
so that the new bridge could be proper
ly located. This improvement will al
low Of straight street from the Car
and Lead works to the town, and in all
probability make the thoroughfare one
of the business streets of the town, be.
sides providing an almost direct route
from the great works to the Hospital
AT Homestead early Friday morn
ing young man named Charles Cav
ley. crazed by incessant thought ovel
the invention Of an air brake, procured
an ak and killed his mother, two sisters
and one brother as they slept, SO wound
ed two more sisters. that their recovery
was doubtful and also wounded his lit
tie baby brother After his arrest an(
confinement he knew naughtof what hi
had done.
Quite a number of the men of thi
county, old and young, either ATTENDED
the centennial anniversary of the found
ing Of Washington and Jefferson Col
Iege, or read the accounts of the cele
bration with interest, for that colleg
was their alma-mater. The events o
the week beginning with Sunday. mark
ed the beginning of four days celebra
tion of the Tooth anniversary of tn
founding of Jefferson college, whicl
was the first of the two colleges O
Washington and Jefferson to receive
charter from the state. While it ha
been but little over 100 years since JET
ferson college received its charter tn
celebration was also in honor of th
great educational movement which wa
inaugurated by Mcmillan, Dodd an
Smith as early as 1735. The history Q
these early pioneer educators Is pal
of the history of the college and durin
the week the important events and th