Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1903-10-29
LOCAL AND GENERAL.

ed.
New time schedules are promise
for Nov 10Th.
The new directory Of Butler show
population Of 1a.667.
Some very dangerous offsets ha''
been left in our side walks.
If you have any opinions on blue
prints. you want to file them.
Some Of the Office force Of the Ca
Works have been granted vacation.
The new dam will be completed il
few days. and Wright says it will b
alright.
The Be met Mutton Co. are playini
to fair audiences, this week. they pm
up lively show.
Cooper & Co.. the tailors, " i'll NOV
back to their old stand at the Diamon,
corner. next week.
The County Hospital is now full al
the time, and therein it resembles somt
people we might mention.
After Nov. 1st. J. r. Kearns' sal,
bulletin will be found at Flick's whole
sale store on E. Wayne ST.
Thirty axle-turnsrs at the Ca
Works struck against reduction of
! cents per axle, last Friday.
During one hour, last Sunday, 1882
people passed into Phipps conservatory
in Pittsburg to see the posies.
Mrs Raabe of Saxonburg sold heI
hotel to John e. Muder, last Friday
and Mr.. Muder has petitioned for a
transfer Of license.
Burglars blew open the safe. Of the
Connolly Wholesale store on e. Jeffer-
son ST. last Sunday night. but got nc
money for their trouble.
The people Of Allegheny are becom
ing alarmed over the presence of small
pox in that city. There are several
hundred cases In the town.
"A 'big knife" figured in fight be
tween the cook and q waiter at 8
Hnnky hotel in the West End, the
other day. It's just awful.
The store of Geo. lift & Son. tht
b. u o. station and the Office Of the
Miller mill in Evans City were entered
and robbed by burglars, early yesterday
morning.
For the steenth time this year the
trotting record has been lowered. At
I Memphis, Saturday, Lou Dillon trotted
mile in 18Th. Two minutes will soon
seem slow.
The Pittsburg Expo. is over for thii
year. Twenty-thousand people we're il
the building last Saturday night, and
the attendance for the season was about
half . million.
We are under obligations to Hon
J. B. Showaltsr for some eighteen vol
umes Of the report Of the Industrial
Commission. which, no doubt. contain
much valuable information.
The accident to the tramps remind
one Of the fate Of Mrs. Edwards. some
years ago. An effort should be mad,
to detect and punish the shooters wht
are careless with their empty cans.
The Waxsmuth brothers of Butle
twp hauled a carload of lime to thei
farm-the old Robert Mckee farm :
this week. A good idea and one tina
has become very popular with on
farmers.
The number Of old maids in tn
Mothers Congress has given rise to thu
suspicion that it is designed as matri
monial agency rather than an organiza
tion for the benefit of children alread,
born.-Ex
The authorities Of Allegheny Cit.
we're 30 cereless with their small po
esses that the State Board Of Healt
called for an Investigation, and this be
ing refused the State Board threatene
to quarantine the city.
Butler may have coffin factory
The MCGUIRE Metallic Vacuum Caske
Co. was organized in Butler. a FEY
days ago. with A. E Butler as Pres
dent. ]. J. Mcclure, Manager. and ,
y. Msxwsll, Secretary.
"A mixture Of rain, snow and slee
fell upon the humanity Of this sectio
last Monday morning. 1t marked th
beginning Of what Is called Squaw wiz
ter; and will probably be followed by
glorious Indian summer.
"A certain crowd of fellows gathe
In certain basement on Main st. fl
the purpose Of paying checkers almo
every weekday evening; but the oth'
evening when three dead men lay
that basement nobody wanted to pls
checkers.
The first meeting of the school d
yeotors Of the county under the new la
will be held In the Court House on Fl
day, Nov 81. County Superintende,
Painter has arranged a program on
the directors will be allowed milea,
for attending
"A young woman from the count
was visiting relatives In the city. Du
Ing the course Of conversation Il
G,untry girl said to her city cousi
i'And were you ever in the country du
Ing the season Of husking beesf" IN
vas the reply. "rhe ideal How do y,
hosk bee anyway"
That HARRISON story that the But
dailies lately copied from the Pittsbu
papers was fake clear through. r.
Middlesex Harbisons were not relat
to ''Massy" Harrison; the maiden mar
Of the Mrs. HARRISON, whose death {
Sasioned the reporters imagination
hoom. was Scott, and she was a matt
Of Ireland, -
While shooting recently In
mountains Of southwest Virginia, Ca
b. Brinton OF Pittsburg with party
friends accidently discovered deposit
arsenic. and as result, Pittsburg, ca
itslists have formed the United, Sta
Arsenic Company. The charter ca