Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1903-09-24

Administr aJors and Executors ot estat
csn secure their receipt books ut the CIT
zen of1ce. and persons making public sale
their note books.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
-Lyndora is to have Sunday school
-Slipperyrock is to have Board o.
Health
The frost Of last Saturday morning
hurt the corn in some localities.
Well shooters make q practice o.
hauling loads of fnitro-glycerine through
town.
The night freight on the P. & W.
north. was wrecked at st. Joe; last Fri
DAY morning.
The girl who would rather kiss q
pug dog than man will find that the
men are willing.-Ex.
The throwing Of poisonous acids
into the creek still continues and the
few fish left are being killed.
Miss Mary Double Of Slipperyr ock.
aged % years. killed herself. Tuesday.
b. shooting herself in the head.
"A cas-. of small pox has developed
ON Institute hilI-that OF ayoung man
who had been working away from
home.
Last Thursday night the Alameda
basket ball team defeated the D. c. q
A. C. in "a very close game at the park.
Score - to IL. ..ie
The knockout cigar" is the latest
danger for the smoker. A stranger asks
him for light. dopes his cigar, and
then robs him.
People who take their seats in the
theatre after the curtain is up are re-
sponsible for large amount of this
worlds bitterness.
Look here, boy 1t may appear to
you that all the good jobs are taken, but
by the time you are capable OF filling
one it will be vacant.-Ex.
The notice of the death of Mrs.
Muntz of ZelieEople in last weeks paper
was q mistake Our informant said
Muntz, when he meant Lutz.
An oak tree, cut down yester-
day to make room for u new house,
was three feet in diameter and its
rings indicated an age of at least 1S0
years.
John c. Graham has sold ten lots
in the Graham Terrace plan, along the
plankroad, and ever the hill. A street
car line over that hill would soon send
Z large population out that way.
As some $25, ZOO. 900 worth of goat
skins are imported into this country
annually, some editors are advocating
the raising of more goats-the four-leg
ged variety, with horns-the other kind
are skinned differently.
Eighty -one lots were sold at East
Butler, last Saturday. Several houses.
- well as the works of the Eleanor
Steel Co. are being constructed, and the
B. r. & P. is running construction
train 10 and from the grounds.
-ThePennsylvania shops at Lawrence
junction were desti Dyed by fire last
Sunday. Supt. T. B. Hamilton esti-
mates the loss at $35, 900, divided about
as follows: Buildings. $12, 1000: machin-
cry. SIS, 900, and damage to locomotive,
tS.OO0
The B. r. & p. viii give excursion
rates to the Dayton Faif-Tuesday.
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday Of
next week-excepting on the express
trains, at 81 80 from Butler; $1.00 from
Feuelton, and IS cents from Craigsville,
for the round trip.
At sunset, Monday. the first day of
Tishri in the Hebrew calentar ushered
In the year 1894 since the creation Of
the world. as calculated by the rabbis
Of old. Throughout the Jewish world
this Ia time of rejoicing, congratula-
ton, well wishes and gift giving.
James B. Donaldson, who was keep
ing store in the house recently erected
on Plsnkroad st. by ]. Fl. Negley, has
sold out his interest in the same to
Homer E. Young, who will continue
the business at that stand. Mr.. Donald
son goes to his farm in Penn twp, near
Brownsdale.
AT the meeting Of the Assessors Of
the county in the Court House, last
week. they all agreed to live up to the
letter Of the law, and assess all proper.
ty in the county at what they believe il
will or would bring at genuine sale.
II they do 30 the Commissioners Office
will resemble u humble bees nest dur.
ing appeal days, next spring
1t is not generally known that the
Pennsylvania state laws require per
son to stop. look and listen before driv-
Ing across a railroad track Unless the
provisions are needed and q person il
struck by the cars. there is no pos7ibili
ty for securing Judgment for damage.
In case suits are brought to recover.
The courts hold that there was contri b
qtory negligence and, generally. non
quit th 9 plaintiff before the case is fully
tried, This is worthy of notice.
two burglars boldly entered tn,
Saint James hotel at Rural Valley Arm
srong county. last Friday night, and b,
the aid Of a revolver compelled the pro
prietor, Mr. CoDroy. to divulge the hid
ing place of his money. The robber
took about $500 from a trunk and escap
ed. Entrance was secured BY climbin,
over the roof Of the front porch, an
while one man, leaning oyer the win
d9w COVERED Mr.. and Mrs. Conroy
who were in bed. with a revolver, tn
other went after the money.
The department of public works @
Pittsburg has notified the telephone
telegraph and electric light companie
doing business in that city that the,
must comply with the ordinance Of 1891
requiring overhead wires and cables o
certain main thcroughfares Of the cit
to be put underground. In one instanc
only thirty days time ia given I