Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1903-11-05
LOCAL AND GENERAL.

ZEN Office. and persons making public sale'
their note books.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
North Washington had two funer.
ais, yesterday.
The elevator boy has considerable
ups and downs.
"A spys work is dirty work, but
some dirty work must be done.
Please transfer my paper to" SC
and 90. Wha. was your old address2
-Hobson and the school directors are
to be here the same day-pity it amt
the schoolmarms
The ''breast" Of the new dam was
completed Monday. and here's hoping
it's tough breast.
in England a candidate stands for
Office, but in this country he has to
hump himself and run.
The enterprising French Band will
have Hojson here on the 27th-Friday.
Hobson comes high. $50. but we must
have him.
Contractor w. j. Powell is COM
p.eting splendid three-story brick
block on McCool avenue in the Cava-
naugh plan.
Free lunch at Kearns, next Satur-
day, noon. The great sale of two and
three-year-old stock steers begins at 10
am, and continues all day.
Allegheny was not quarantined by
the State Board, but their threat to do
~ probably brought the local authori-
ties to better sense of their duty.
Some Butler men have organized a
company to manufacture the ''iceless
refrigerator, model of which stood in
Reiber's grocery during the summer.
The laval heirs have removed the
old frame house, built by their father
sixty years ago, to the rear end of the
lot, and intend building veneered brick
there
The teacher of Jefferson College"
or Logan school in jefferson township,
had to send his scholars back home last
Monday morning, the hallowe'eners
having completely wrecked the school
room.
These rural free delivery carriers
were appointed, Tuesday, Carbon Black.
regular, Clarence Fair, substitute, John
Smith; Butler, regular, Samuel Logan,
substitute, - Stewart; Centerville,
regular, Charles B. Boyd, substitute.
Blanche Boyd.
The Aurora Borealis of last Friday
night was unusually bright about 2 a.
m, and for time completely paralyzed
the telegraph systems of Chicago, New
York, and other cities, also the ocean
cables At Duluth, Mimi, the display
took the form Of large, waving plumes.
the tips extending to directly overhead.
-Typhoi fever is very prevalent in
Batl1r at present Among those sick
ore: John g. McMarlin, Prof. A. f.
Regal Of the Business college, and Miss
Alice Collins. Prothonotary John Clark
and Misses Margaret Hazlett and Kate
Fisher are recovering from attacks.
Fire Sunday afternoon partly de-
Stroyed the stable on Chas. Rush's lot
on Race st. 1t is said the fire was
started by girls smoking cigarettes in
the loft The building had been on fire
the previous Thursday, but it was
seen in time. The principal loss was
TO the Firemen's Sunday clothes
Butler had mum" show of. it's
own last week. sHolts invited the public
- inspect the NUNS in their green
houses, corner Mercer and Penn streets,
last Friday, Saturday and Sunday, and
hundreds took advantage of the invita-
ton and we're well repaid for the trip
BY the large and handsome display of
these fashionable flowers.
The explosion OF two carloads of dy-
Mantle in the yards Of the Penn'a Co.
at Crestline, o., last Su nday between
8 and 9 p NJ. is said to have been
heard in parts of this county - over a
hundred miles away. The explosion
wrecked the yards. smashed several
hundred cars. and shook houses fifty
miles away.
"A Springfield school teacher receiv-
cd the following note from the mother
Of one Of her pupils on Monday: Dear
mis-, You writ me about whipping Sam
my. hereby give You permission to
beat him up eny time it is necessary tc
learn hic lesens. He is just like his
father, you have to learn him with a
club. Pound nolege into him. wante
him to git it. and don'tpay no attention
to what his father says. I'll handle
him."
Butler boro is now without mu
nicipal hospital, commonly called a pest
house. The Council gave John B. Math
ers. sometimes called "Jo-jo," the jot
Of painting the house in the woods
! north OF town. last week He made I
hre in the stove and went to work OF
the outside, and then Of sudden dis
covered that the whole inside was il
flames. It was three;roomed. one
sstory building and answered the pur
pose very well. Loss. about $400. NJ
insurance.
The Car Works Co. laid of a thous
and men. last Saturday. which wit
the 1900 laid off before makes $500 mel
now out Of employment. They retain
Cd 100, who will be able to finish al
the cars now ordered by the middle @
January; but large order is expecte
from the Wabash system. On Monda
several hundred more men were laid Of
and Of the few hundred retained thos
in The wooden car department went on
on 3 strike on account of the dismissa
Of their foreman, and the car worb
we're practically shut down.
Good judges Of beauty pronounce
the banking room Of the Butler Count