Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1903-03-26
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LOCAL AND GENERAL,

LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Fewer Gallons; Wears Longer.
This will be Buffers Doomiest year
Lettuce is said to be an antidote fol
smallpox.
The Rummage Sale was the mos
popular thing in Butler. this week.
After week or two of 4th-of-JulJ
weather, this second winter goes hard
Fewer Gallons; Wears Longer.
Whatever lightens the mother
burden il a blessing. Baby sleeps well
is cheerful and strong. No wonder, NJ
has Victor Infants Relief.
Allegheny county has paid the But
Ter Hospital 1922 so for caring for Mrs
Soffel.
Graham Bros have removed theii
grocery to the South Side, and are in
with Aiken.
Two men met in a woman's room
in New Castle, the other night, and one
shot the other and killed him.
We are somewhat crowded for
space. this week, and some valuable
communications had to be omitted.
The next Civil Service Examination
will be held at the P. o. May End. All
applications must be in by April 18th.
The Unionville schools will give an
entertainment on Saturday evening,
April 4th 1t will be free and all are
invited
twenty-five people were poisoned
by something in the ice cream at
church festival in Jefferson county, last
Thursday.
The reported purchase of farm
near Bonnie Brook, and the optioning
j of 45O acres for Fair Ground pur-
poses. is denied.
Last weeks weather made the boys
feel like "going fishing" but the
crowd who went in swimming, the other
day, came out quick.
The Street Car Co. has already
booked lot Of picnics for next season,
and are contemplating the extension OF
their lines in all directions.
A National Banking Co. is being
organized in Harrisville. The capital
stock liz to be 5000, one half OF which
has already been subscribed.
About eight-hundred persons are in
the retail business in this county, OF
whom about 225 are in Butler. The
Mercantile Appraisers List is business
directory Of the town and county.
The framing was taken from over
the new front Of the Trust Co.'S build
ing Che old Balph drug stcre) yesterday
and "it's peach"-that is the front is,
and the inside will be peachier, when
completed.
One Of our subscribers referred to
the map of the county-the r. I. D.
map on our wall-as being the crooked
est he ever saw-'one In which you
met yourself going home"
The Steel Co paid out about SIS,
900 to its workmen, last Saturday. it's
semi-weekly pay day. About $500 men
are new employed there working day
and night. and Sundays. and their aver
age pay is about 90 per day.
Butler was surveyed a hundred
years ago. How many men are yet liv
ing In the county whose fathers lived
here them We would like each and
every one Of them to send us his name
with some account OF his family.
"A trip to Lyndora recalls the scenes
in Butler county in the early seventies
but You will notice one thing, and that
is the people brought here by this new
excitement are smaller in stature than
those that came here with the oil excit
ment Of thirty years ago
The Phoenix Accident and Sick
Benefit Association has paid the follow.
ing claims:-J. j. Robb Grand Ave,
sprained shoulder, $2S; Jos. Gilman, s.
g., smashed finger, S.; Philip Narnis
injured chest, 800; Mike Butala. sprain
ed ankle. $50.
The wife of William Campbell Of
Petrolia. nee Blinkard, took her 5-year
old daughter and went to East Brady
last Monday. Mr.. Campbell followed
her but she had disappeared. He blames
her strange conduct upon her infatua
ton for b. 81 o. brakeman.
The Springs of 1850, 1857, 1871 ant
1874 are said to have opened earl,
and to have stayed warm; 1856
was the dry summer. 1856 the we
one, and the big frosts' occurred IL
June Of 1859. Going further back i
was during the summer of 1925 that tn,
great tornado swept this country from
the Mississippi to the Alleghenies.
These substitutes for coffee and tea
that are now on the market, are credit
able to Yankee ingenuity and resource
They are made mostly OF wheat bran
they are better breakfast drink thar
coffee or tea, can be used without mill
an d) not make one nervous. TEei
general use will keep millions of Amer
ican dollars from going to Brazil ant
other coffee and tea producing coun
ties
The performances Of the indoor
field meet st westminster College
March IA, were fine. Dwight L. Nc
Candless, son of AIonzo McCandless. o
franklin twp. competed in the ladde
climb and potato race. The ladder,
20-foot rope one suspended from tn,
ceiling. he climbed In 2-5ths seconds
taking first, the next being 7 3-5ths
Dwight took 3D. in the potato race. Iii
class won Z points, he winning 0 o
them.
Beside his first wife and children
Joseph Owen Brown was laid to rest Il
the little country burial ground at Bul
Creek Presbyterian church, last Wed
nesday afternoon. Everything connect