Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1903-10-08
LOCAL AND GENERAL.

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LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Worth township has case of sma
pox.
Milk has been advanced cent
Quart-its cents now.
The Myrkle-H Harder Stock Co.
playing to large audiences at the Pari
this week.
One OF the Zelienople victims of ty
phoid died, last Saturday. The other
are recovering.
"A case of small pox in Slipperyrocl
twp. is attributed to the presence of
peddler over night
DIR. Rindman, dentist. has no
changed his location. It's.at the sam,
old place 1874 s. Main st See card.
Mrs. Zimmerman had her stor
handsomely decorated, last Thursday
and large crowds attended her Milliner,
ana CLOAK openings.
Some amateur burglars burgled ths
B r. stations at Mars and Valencia
last Friday night, and rifled some trav
cling men 9 trunks.
"A great many towns-people have
complained Of sour milk lately, and il
may be that the late thunder Storm
were the cause Of it.
-Clymonts T. Taylor, wholesale frui,
dealers makes speciality Of Californis
fruits. Their Tokay grapes are very
fine at only 10 cents pound.
The fight of the foreign broker,
caused boom in Foreign Postal Or
ders at the Butler Office. The foreign
ers here now send their money home by
mail.
The Pittsburg Gazette of last
Thursday contained good group-pic-
ture Of all the County Commissioners
Of the state. attending the convention
there.
-Gangrene necessitated second am
putation on j. b. Smith, the youth who
had his feet cut of at the B. r. & p.
roundhouse. last week, and his recovery
II regarded ~ hopeless.
What wonderful boomers our dali
lies arei One of them already has the
Eleanor Iron Works in full blast, the
plant doubled in capacity. and the out
put sold for Eve years ahead.
The advance sale of tickets for the
Y. NJ c. A. Star Course is meeting
with success. the sale being large. This
course is very ine-the best ever before
the Butler people. Frank Dixon will
open the course, Nov. 9Th.
The Snyder brothers are said to
have made 81, 400 on their Saxonburg
hotel enture-bought for 80, 100 and
sold for 81, ,500-besides the profits of a
years business. The license has been
Transferred to Chas. Gibson.
Friday of next week is Autumnal
Arbor day. but there is no law against
planting or replantine =. tree any day.
particularly If 1t is along the road-and
the more you plant the more you will
BE- blessed BY future generations Of
passers by.
John d. Rockefeller and his crowd
snld lot Of q. 8. Steel common stock
(which most people thought as good as
government bonds) to small investors
and employees and now they are buying
the stock in at about one-fourth what
they sold for.
Chicken thieves are busy in the vi
einity Of Jefferson Centre. Calvin Lo-
gan lost 80 chickens. Loyal Welsh 30,
another man is aaid to have lost 90 and
smaller depredations are numerous.
Truit and other articles are also taken.
Up about Unionville chicken thieves
are also getting in their work.
Don't be ashamed to take small
Job at the beginning. says the Belle
fonte Watchman; for If you do right in
that one bigger one will soon follow.
You can catch minnow with q worm,
and bass will take q minnow. and a
good fat bass viii tempt an otter, and
then you will take something worth
skinning.
As bearing upon the question of q
possible petroleum famine, a sale is not
Cd Of producing property at record
price. The seller is the Devonian Oil
Company and the purchaser is the pro
ducing branch of the Standard Oil Comp
any. The price paid is 81 $50 per bar
rel of daily production, the largest fig
ure ever given for large property.
The mathematics in the show win
dows are no longer rattlers for the rea
that they can't rattle. The removal Of
their fangs deprives them Of the power
Of rattling. though they can move theil
tails. Some rats put in with them, thu
other day chased them all around th,
show window. These snakes are raise,
on farm In Texas.
Want to be man do your Wei
you may attain the age Of twenty on
and . stature five feet six and not be
man. Age and size don't make res
man. Some men. when grown, are a
useless as when boys. in fact a worth
less boy is usually worthless when b
grows up to a mans size. The res
man grows up from manly boy. TIL
habits he forms in youth stay with hin
Now is the time to make yourself wha
you hope to be in after life. 1t will b
too late when you are grown.-Ex.
AT the meeting of Council, Tuesda
evening. bond issue of $4,000. to mee
the towns share of late improvement
was authorized; some contracts for ai
vertised sidewalks were awarded; th
ordinance extending Mckee st. frol
Dunbar to Mulberry was adopted; th
Christly or Oak View plan Of lots wa
adopted, also the assessment ordinant
for the Pillow st. and Island sewerin
which, will cost Al cents a foot from
the ordinance widening Lincoln, Wa
was held over; some permits for shee
iron buildings within the fire-limi
were refused the opening Of West 8
to Playground ave. was abandoned o