Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1903-12-24


will be dated January 9Th, 1904
Bring yourself to book, next week
and turn over new leaf
The biggest turkey in town yester
day, weighed Pot pounds.
The p. O. and express people are
busy with Christmas packages.
Old Folks Concert at the bricl
church, near Eakins X Roads. this even
ing
The new Central Hotel will be foul
stories high. have elevators and vii
cost $4,000.
The dog is mans best friend. When
man has a cold the dog never tells him
what to do Cor it,
&C. E. Miller's new show-windows
are things of beauty, works of art. de
signed by himself.
The United Mine Workers will
hold their annual convention in Pitts
burg, January 18th.
The sun is very lazy about getting
up these mornings and, we are sorry to
say, there are others.
Our merchants never displayed q
more tempting lot of Christmas goods
than they do ct present.
The people of Pittsburg and ALE
gheny are becoming alarmed about the
ice gorge at SpHngdale..
Tuesday the 22nd, was the sreputed
shortest day Of the winter, and the
days will soon begin to lengthen.
-Pittsburg has 106 cases of typhoid,
and in Philadelphia s5 new cases of
i smallpox were reported in five days.
-Sterilizing filters have been placed
in all the school buildings, and the
schools are to open On Monday, Jan. 4,
1904.
Nobody about Butler can remember
of a family named Burness living here.
and that Brooklyn sailor is entitled to
another guess.
The "pot-rack" calls Of some guinea
fowls led to the discovery of cave full
of stolen poultry in Plum township, AL
legheny county, last Tuesday
Up to Tuesday evening the people
Of Pittsbnrg had raised a fund of sS,-
727.60 for Butler and were expecting
more before forwarding it.
The Schenly property in Pittsburg
and Allegheny is to be sold. according
to the will, and Mrs. Schenley's son will
get the greater part of the proceeds.
valued at thirty millions.
The work of leveling the walls of
Armory building and Central Hotel be-
gan last Thursday morning. The front
wall of the Thompson building fell to
the sidewalk the other evening.
The Farmers Institutes for this
county have been postponed until March
on account of the epidemic This is ali
nonsense, as the damage done here was
done during the hot days of last SEP
tember.
Some fifteen brewing companies,
including the Butler company, have or
ganized trust under the title of the
Duquesne Brewing Company, with a
capacity of half million barrels year.
ly, and a capital stock of $40, GOO, 600.
The railroad passenger agents are
already arranging for next years ex
cursions to st. Louis, and also for Hot
Springs, Denver, Yellowstone Park
and other points that people are likely
to take in" when they get that fal
west.
The daily puzzle now is as to wheth
er it is to be war or peace between Rus
sa and Japan; but a more practica
puzzle is that Of arranging the numbers
to 25, in five number square, SO thai
each column will add up Cup ani
down, across and diagonally.
The Bessemer railroad has com
pleted the little job of raising theil
track and putting in new bridge over
the creek between the carworks ant
town. In future floods there will b
no under-hanging girders to back watel
over the western part of the town.
Our stores are jammed with every
thing that is useful and beautiful in til,
Christmas line. Never was there
more elaborate or more extensive as
sortment of goods on view from whicl
to select Christmas present There i
no need Of going out of town to do you
Christmas shopping.
A Centre avenue Italian owns
horse which has funny little habit o
lying down whenever they attempt t
shoe its hind feet Saturday they tie
the beast between four upright Ak
timbers set firmly in the ground, wit
4x4 timbers spiked to the sides; sacl
was tied over the horses head and hi
body was tied to the timbers. and sevel
men braced up that horse while black
smith shod him.
Somebody played mean trick o
Johnny Richey few days ago The
opened the gate of his dam, on til
Spring Run, east of town, and le on
the water, and when Johnny's men b'
gan cutting ice each cake cut woul
fall two feet to the little water left j
the dam. Johnny says it was piec
of dam meanness and he has offered
reward for the culprit. His ice is b.
eight inches thick, whereas 1t should
foot
Cliff street from East Wayne sire
to the Bessemer crossing on Center av,
nue. is being filled with ground frol
the basement of the new wholesale gr
Gerry house at Centre and the p. g. "
railroad. This is one of the best in
provements the city fathers have mat
In long time, and it is cheap one,
all it costs the borough is the wages {
man to help unload the wagons. Coz
tractor George Schenck del ivers Il
dirt free.
Attorney General Carson has d
cided that it is legal to fsa with I'll
ups" provided it be confined to OF