Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1903-03-19
LOCAL AND GENERAL,
Fewer Gallons; Wears Longer.

Fewer Gallons; Wears Longer.
The days and nights are now abou
equal.
The Victor Remedies are for sale a
Reeds Pharmacy. See adv.
The heavy roads of last Saturda
kept many people from coming to town
-Four new cars, with rs seats each
have been added to the equipment o
the Street Car Co.
The wreck of coal train on tn
Hilliard branch, last week. delayed
traffic for two days.
The Bessemer station at Harrisvill'
was robbed Monday night. A few
goods, but no money, were taken.
The hardest work some boys ant
girls Of this town eyer did was running
after the tramp's pennies, Monday.
Fewer Gallons; Wears Longer.
Coal is the question of the day
Many must burn wood. The axe MAJ
: slip. Have bottle Of Victor Liniment
1t is noble remedy.
An Italian baker. who was severely
burned in Butler. Tuesday, was taker
to Pittsburg, on account of our Hospita
being quarantined.
The Jefferson twp. Farmers Insti
tute, held at the Centre, last Satur
day afternoon. was largely attended
and very successful.
Tuesday was fine day, and the
parade in honor of Ireland 8 saint, Pat
rick, in Pittsburg, was the longest and
finest ever seen there.
The Butler Ice &C. has purchased
the Reed and Lantz interests and the
chances are that we will have but one
ice company in Butler, this year.
BY an oversight the date on our
first page was not corrected for part OF
our today's edition. People who file
their papers will make note of this.
The Steel Car Plant is making more
records. Ninely-two cars were made in
one day. 104 painted, and 81 shipped OF
started out for the Northern Pacific.
Some young folks of Prospect have
formed 'Star" or astronomical club,
and IL they secure good telescope, they
will find the study of the stars very in.
teresting.
There is some talk Of the b. & 0.
allowing the Street Car Co. to cross
their tracks, in which case a line will
be run up Centre Ave. and around Cot
tage Hill, where FIVE new houses are
now being erected.
The Bell Telephone Co. proposes
putting all its wires under the streets
and alleys and will ask Council for per
mission. 1t will cost something to dc
that, but after it is done. the expenses
for repairs will be less
The elevators in the new Bank
building will be run by electricity,
while the one being placed in the
Troutman building will be operated by
water or hydraulic power. which neces
STATED the drilling Of forty-foot well
in the cellar.
The Butler Public Library, one ol
the most deserving institutions of the
town, needs more books, as per pub.
tished list in ANOTHER column. People
who have these books, and no longer
want them, will confer a favor on the
public by donating them to the Libra
ry.
Mrs Katharine Danz, white wo-
man, and George Hossey, a colored
herb doctor" were committed to jail
: tn Philadelphia. last Saturday, to await
the action of the Coroner. The woman
IL charged with the murder of her hus-
band while the doctor" is held on the
charge of being an accessory, and the
detectives say he has been spoisoning
people for 500 each, or running what
they call murder mill"
-a9me 9f the street cars that cross
the 9th street bridge (the one near the
r. & w. station) from Allegheny tc
Pittsburg, now run up 9th to Liberty
down Liberty to 7tL, and up Duquesne
Way to the same bridge; while others
make the former loop via Sixth Ave
and Smithfield Sc They change these
lbops SO often that one never knows
Hhgre he IA going to land when hs
iteps On Eittsburg street car.
-Fhe most miserable and unfortunate
person In the world "a the man or wo
iaan who has nothing to do. 1t is hard
er to do nothing and be happy than it i
to be slave and be happy. Work il
the natural condition of man, and they
who have no occupation, no useful ser
vice to perform, must necessarily be un
happy, because he is an abnormal crea
fhrs Besides, idlepess and 9icioumeel
stss insepsrable He who has pt
! wholesome employment will find some
thing to relieve the monotony OF exist
ence. and the tendency is always to rur
to vice -Ex.
The American Car Co., branch O
the United States Steel Car Co., ant
which has car building plants in st
N64is and ntfies places. 10; reported L
have purchased majority of the stool
of the Standard Steel Car Co.. thus Sc
curing control of the vast plant here
and also that of the smaller affair a
Memphis The Standard was capitaliz
at three millions, but the sale il said +
saye neea maae oa say million tRlua
t16n. The Shoens are said to have with
drawn from the Standard, but will
build car wheel works on their fort
acres, along the creek below the ca
works and as the latter has accepte,
orders that will keep it busy for th
aext Two years, ths change. or oontro
VIII not probably haye any irnmediat
sffect on the town. The sale of stocl
is said to have been made without th
knowledge of the executive force here
rho tpuO suddenly found themselve
&bjectito new masters. -
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School teachers, We will be ready fo
you any time after April 1at. BIZ secui
lAE a thorough training iuhool lkespiNi