Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1903-04-16
LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Butler does not havea plumbing in
spector.
The Gallery Brick and Tile Co. will
increase its capacity.
The furniture was placed in the
new p. o. room last week.
The County Commissioners have
decided to beautify the Park
Ping pong is dead and bridge" s
card game-is now the fashionable fad
Some families in Connoquenessine
are quarantined on account of scarlet
fever.
Route No. 72 has been discontinued
and new route (SD has been started
Prospect.
Somebody said the new police
badges were as big as beer signs, but
they ain't-not quite.
The Eberle Brothers have opened a
plumbing establishment on Centre Ave
near the School house.
A fad for cleanliness is spreading
over the country; and it is to be hoped
that it will spread to "Red Row
Indiana county was organized Mar.
80. 1903, and arrangements are being
made for Centennial Celebration.
The Women's Relief Corps, G. A.
r. holds Dime social in Odd Fellows
hall, w. Jefferson ST., this evening.
Two drunken men took an un-asked
for ride in JOS Bredin's buggy. last
Thursday, and left the pieces on e. Full
ton st.
These high h-heeled shoes make the
girls lean forward, stumble, and hurt
their corns, but-'it is style, it is
style"
Each Of the twenty-one prisoners in
the County Jail was presented with
posy, last Sunday. by a W. c. I. q.
angel.
The Street Car Co. has forbidden
their employees from carrying any more
beer kegs, and the Hunkies are mad
about it.
The entire plant of the Mars Brick
and Tile Co. was destroyed by fire, Fri
day. The loss is put at 5000, with in
surance at 81. 500.
The only property offered the Ma
tional Government, for 100000, for
postoffice purposes, was that of d. b.
Campbell of s. Main St.
The Butler School Board has pur-
chased an 80 foot lot on Lincoln ave.
and will remodel the building on it for
school purposes Consideration s4,5O0.
The pews and other articles of fur
niture of the Methodist church in But
Ter will be offered for sale on Tuesday
of next week, the 21st inst at the
church.
The gross receipts of the U. s. Steel
Co. for last year were $500, 900, 900.
which was few millions more than
the gross receipts OF our National Gov
eminent.
The horses and buckboards stolen
from the livery stables in Slipperyrock.
Thursday night of last week, were
found on the Elliott farm in Clay twp.
next day, and recovered.
AT the meeting Of Council last
Thursday evening the Street Commit
tee was instructed to purchase another
team, wagon, sprinkler, etc. and keep
the streets clean. The Fire Alarm bust
ness was held over.
The Standard Steel Car works paid
ont $50, ,00e to their employees, Satur-
day. After every pay day there are nu-
merous complaints by men that part OF
their wages. days or few hours pay
has been withheld from them.
There was cool breeze blowing,
last Thursday, but the prospective bride
wore a white dress, white hat and white
slippers to Butler, and she and her fel
low went up to the Court House and
secured license. You can tell them
everytime.
1t is simply impossible for any com.
pany of men to drag that big hook and
ladder truck. bought few months ago
to fire at any gait faster than walk
Let the city team be quartered near by
and let it be hooked into the truck az
soon as possible.
A fierce storm passed over Pitts
burg and Allegheny last Sunday after
noon, and the torrents that followed
washed away walls, and did much dam
age Thousands of visitors at the park
to see what is considered the finest flor
al display ever produced there. were
drenched, and at Dixmont one man wa
killed by lightning.
Some few day s ago there appeare'
in these columns notice of birth. Ii
chronicIing the advent of the new ar
rival we stated it was girl Yesterda.
the supposed be-happy daddy appear
ed in the editorial sanctum in rage o
indignation He claimed it was a bo
and not girl and added IF tn
Salus-G Grady libel bill was in effect
would have you arrested for hurtin
my feelings. - Miners Journal
Some of our Counciimen are in ia
vor of erecting municipal building i
which could be the offices of the Bul
CESS and Board of Health. the Counc
room. headquarters for the police, ett
They claim this should be done befor
the town goes TO the expense of inst
tuting a good fire alarm system, q
when such system is in use man wi
be required to be constantly at eac
hose house in order to keep track Of til
location of the fire as given by the alarl
and direct the others to it.
Some people seem to think that
county paper is gift enterprise, an
that the Lord Nozoo provides the Cas-
for the paper, ink, type, labor, fuel an
thousand other things used in a prin
ing Office. Almost every day we al
asked to publish string OF resolution
regarding some deceased person, pr,
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