Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1904-11-24
LOCAL AND GENERAL.


LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Fine weather.
Pray for rain.
Bank statements.
Christmas presents
Holiday excursions.
Barber shops closed today.
No rural free delivery today.
Don't forget your Christmas adv.
Fix up your sidewalks for winter.
Rabbit hunters are praying fol-
snow
Christmas and New Years come on
Sunday.
This is the day Of great football
battles.
Our Teachers Institute is a half
Century old.
-Fiftieth Annual Teachers Institute
in Butler-Dec. 1928.
A Tarentum Street Car Co. proposes
building line to Butler.
No. it's not bit too early to- plant
your Holiday advertising.
Sunday Schools are getting ready
for their Christmas services
The Butler Fair Association has
adopted new code OF bylaws.
That storm along the coast cost the
telegraph and telephone companies a
million dollars.
The committee appointed to AUDIT
the fever fund will haye its report ready
by next Thursday.
Candidates for county ofnces aO
n .xt springs primaries are already out
seeing their friends.
The Phillips Gas & Oil Co. will re-
move to its bnilding on E. Cunningham
street, next Thursday.
The last Saturday in May next. the
9th, will be an interesting day for the
republicans Of this county.
james f. Powell of Pittsburg has
purchased the Daubenspeck 81 Turner
and Metzgar shoe stores in Butler
A Poultry and Pet Stock Associa-
ton was organized in Butler this week,
and will give an exhibition in Butler
next February
Only one month more OF Leap Year
aud our Mosey says he knows some
girls who will be pretty old if they have
t. wait four years more.
-F.,repaugh & Sells show disbanded
a. Tarboro, North Carolina, the other
day, and tnat night some Of the former
employees held up the ticket wagon and
got $4,000.
The water in both storage dams IS
very low at present The first heavy
rain will fill them up, and after that
the board of health advises boiling the
water, for . time.
Candidates and registration blanks
are already out for the February cleo
tion. There will be quite pull for the
Borough Collectorship, and the Council
will not be lost sight of.
The railroads have ordered forty
Thousand cars some Of which will un-
doubtedly. be built in Butler. The
Works here has orders for several
months ahead now.
The Butler Wood Fibre Plaster Co.
purchased the plaster factory of E. 81.
Mccartney for $4,000. The officers
are: Charles c. Reeder, President; Syl-
vester G. Kelly, Secretary, and james
!. Campbell. Treasurer.
IF there is anything on earth you
want but do not see, just go to Henry
Biehl's store for il. He keeps every
thing, and just at present is making a
speciality of gas ranges. Read his adv
IL this paper
The winter railroad schedules will
go into effect next Sunday The changes
are said to be slight. and it seems to be
settled that the B., r. g. p. trains will
run in, the Smithfeld St B. g. 0. sta
tion which will make their time about
ten minutes longer.
The Jury Commissioners will begin
the work Of filling the Jury Wheel next
Monday aud men who have never been
called uron to do this public service, and
want to be. should send their names,
districts and postoffice addresses to the
Jury Commissioners or Judge Gal
breath.
Nov. goth of last year was Friday,
and on that morning occurred the fire
that destroyed the Park Theatre, Cen
trAl. Hotef and other buildings; and at
about tho same time our people began
going down by the hundred with ty-
phoid. The Car Works had shut down
some weeks before. and Butler's boom
was busted.
1t was not a wildcat we'll that
they had in Jefferson twp, last week,
but really-truly genuine 20-pound
wildcat 1t attacked Clarence Stein
heiser 8 dog as he passed through the
woods on the Frank Welsh farm, last
Friday, and took fall out of him (the
dog. but when the dog got loose Char
ley had his gun ready and settled with
the cat
Our new theatre is a credit to the
town and to its owners, and must be
seen 10 be appreciated. The seating
arrangement is fine every seat is a
choice one. For today. Thanksgiving
Manager Burckhalter has provided two
shows-Tne Queen of the White Slaves
afternoon and evening. Tomorrow
evening it will be Peck's Bad Boy. ant
Saturday evening comic opera called
The Strollers. The management is de
termined to preserve order in the room
and reserve the right to refuse admis
sion to anyone. The lady patrons o
the theatre are requested to remove
their hats during the performance.
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