Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1903-02-05
LOCAL AND GENERAL,
Boil your water.

LUkAL AND UENENAL,
Boil your water.
The grounding saw his shadow.
st. Valentine Day-Saturday of mex
week.
Another dairy association was
organized in Butler, Tuesday night
-Twenty-three hundred scholars now
keep Supt. Gibson and the Butler
teachers busy.
The Prospect certificates of nomi
nation were filed too late. and nomina-
ton papers were substituted.
Armstrong county wants to borrow
a gallows. The condemned man is hop
ing that there will be some delay in ac-
commodating the sheriff.
"A Flick began workon his new build
ing on E. Wayne St, Monday; and the
Kramer Bros. intend putting up four,
story brick on their lot on S. Main st.
j. z. Stoops recently purchased the
r. r. McDermitt farm OF 14O acres in
Fairview twp, paying $12, 900 for it or
$S5. 10 per acre 1t il on the line of the
projected Penn'a r. r. and is underlaid
with coal
President Keller of the Grove City
College in writing to friend in Butler
speaks very enthusiastically OF the
progress of his college and says Just on
Saturday got gift of S95, 900 for en-
dowment and $40 900 for building.
-Eighty-two gallons of whisky is
said to have been the amount delivered
to parties near the Car Works, last Sun
day morning week, and the distillery
agent who did it is under bail to an
sxer the charges made against him.
Seventy-fve Italians, all men, are
living In one house on the VIM. Grabe
farm in jefferson twp, and they all are
working on the new pipe line from Oil
City to Pittsburg. A case of smallpox
in that house would spread like rabies.
The Slipperyrock Normal will ask
the legislature for $50, 600. at this ses
sion, for a new building for a museum
aud gymnasium. There is no more
credItable institution in the State than
this school, and we hope the Legislature
will be liberal with it.
The Union Veteran Legion enter
tained 200 friends, Monday evening
They were ably assisted by the choir OF
the U. P. church Maj Phipps read an
interesting paper on the battle of Get
tysburg. Next Monday the Vets. will
decide what kind of a monument they
will erect to Gen. Lee ON Seminary
Ridge
If teachers are poorly paid in thii
State it is not the fault of the State
" bich provides generously for the
schools. But it is quite proper in max
ing the appropriation of eleven millions
bic nnially to insist that decent mini
m mum be fixed below which salaries shall
not fall. In many districts there is NJ
local taXation whatever for schools, ant
some Of the balance from the State goe
to paying for the road mending The
community that will not do its share
toward education deserves no State
bounty whatever. -Ex
Last week. as Rev. A. III. Ginder o.
the Chicora and Fairview Reformed
churches, was driving from Buena Wis
ia to Chicora, four Italian laborers OF
the new A. 81 w. railroad attempted tx
hold him up and made rush ut him
some of them having knives. Rev
Ginder Ia small in size but Ia an athlet
and is an ex- foot ball player. He wa
mot daunted. Stopping his horse as th
men came Mt him, he laid them out on
after the other, with four well directe'
blows with the butt of his whip. and
had driven beyond their reach befor
they regained their feet.
A warning as to the result of neg
lecting sanitary precautions, and es
pecially Of concealing the presence 0
contagion, is given by the reports from
Mazatlan. Despite vigorous attempt
by the Mexican National Government
to check the bubonic pleague it is ragin
at that Pacific port and has sprea
throughout the state of 5inaloa. Proper
ty worth ~, 900, 900 has been burned t
stop the spread of the disease, the popr
iation exposed to infection has been lee
lated in detention camps, but neverthe
less the daily death roll is alarming, an
it cannot yet be affirmed that the ep
demic has been checked.
The sale of farm in Fairview twl
at about $s5. 10 per acre, last week,
the best price we have yet heard of, bt
q friend informs us that some fot
Thousand acres up about Slipperyroc
have been optioned at 500 an acre.
fee These new railroads will bring a
the coal and limestone in the count
into market, and our land owne
should hold out for reasonable pric
Coal is said to run about 25, 900 tons pt
foot per acre. The surface vein ave
ages about four feet in this county, {
100000 tons to the acre, and at y
per acre this gives the land owner abol
one-fiftieth of cent per ton 4
his coal. which is entirely too little 4
his surface vein, to say nothing Of Il
lower strata The good coal in th
county Ia worth from $50 to $100 0
acre
The decision OF the Supreme Cou
OF the United States affecting divorct
will have far-reaching effect In 81
tanning the opinion of the Suprer
Court CT Massachusetts invalidating
decree obtained by citizen OF th
State in South Dakota the Fedel
bench held that the six months re
dence required by the laws of Dako
/, did not constitute a legal transfer
citizenship, being made for the exprt
purpose of securing divorce. Com
quently Massachusetts, retained jur
diction and the decree was void in tn
State. Other States have refused
recognize Dakota divorces, but this
believed to be the first expression
opinion from the court OF last reso