Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1904-05-26

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LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Butler is booming
-Bol for the Fourth,
Memorial Day. Monday.
New schedule on the Bessie.
-Eo,e is never ashamed of itself.
New schedule on the West Penn.
The new street lights don't flicker.
The r. r. T. dil net reduce wages.
-SlipI eryrock Normal now has 44s
students.
1t feels whole lot like SIMMER,
this week
-Younkins & Thompson are letting
contracts.
Evans City will get the $4,000
Pythias Home.
In the Chicago market wheat is 9s
cents. this week.
Butler to st. Louis and return, 10
day limit. S1675.
The English Catholics intend build
ing new church.
The knight. Of Malta will celebrate
tomorrow evening.
"A little ice has a wonderful effect
on the cream and water.
Reception at the 1st English Luth-
ern Church, this evening.
-Saxonburg now has fine ball park.
Write Elmer EeImbold for dates.
Five children of VIM. Thompson of
Clay twp. are down with piphtheria.
All the applications for licenses to
sell liquor must be in by Saturday even
ing
things-apd then he invented the phono-
graph.
Prospect will have Miss Topsy
TuIvy" in Odd Fellows Hall, Monday
evening.
A J. Daniels is opening wall pa
per and stationery store in the Hooks
building on s. Mexican st.
A large black-oak tree standing by
the Thorn Creek NJ. E. church was torn
to pieces by lightning, last Wednesday.
The salary of the Butler postmast-
or has been jumped another peg, and
is now s2S0O per year or s233 per
month.
Don't miss hearing J. Bell Neff in
his great lecture. "Iuto the King Row
and Crowned, in Y. NJ. G. A. Hall,
tomorrow evening.
The telegraph companies are taking
their wires ont of the city pool rooms,
and now the sports have TO 20 to the
co spccufatc on rfru speed OF the
ponies.
The riviters at the car works went
on strike last week over a reduction
in wages, and are yet out. An effort
will be made by the management to
start up, today.
-Four carloads of machinery for the
KIingler & Co. mill arrived at the mill
on Miffiin ST., last Thursday. and bar
ing the boiler and engine, the mill will
new throughout.
The new 10O-foot oil field in Penn
twp. lies to the west Of the plank road,
near the old Maharg p. .. and includes
the David Dodds. Harper Sutton, Pow
ell, Puff. and other lands. 1t seems to
be pool.
BY the new schedule on the Bessie
we can start for the lake at Cos am,
and get back same day at 9:15 pm. Or
Saturday afternoon the lake train leave.
Butler at 2:2O and returns Sunday even
ing.
President Eliot thinks the public
school houses should be used every day
of the twelve months of the year.
Possibly, but not by the public schoo
children; '.all work and no pla,
makes Jack dull boy.
Another school-year begins mex
Wednesday, June 1st, and with i
comes the enforcement of the new
school law requiring that no teacher
paid less than $35 per month, unde
penalty of forfeiting the state appropri
alton.
We have some people who are dali
trying to solve the problem of why th
present generation was permitted to il
babit the same globe with them. Sto
all this nonsense. your reward comes ]
the next world when the goats are sci
Grated from the sheep.
AT q meeting of the Driving Par
and Fair Association, last Thursda
night. DIR. Leighner was chosen Supe
intendent. The street car line to til
grounds will run up the valley an
thus avoid the grade. The grand star
will be built Immediately.
Wall eyed pike to the number of 3;
900, 900 are now being Matched at Il
Erie State Hatchery for distribution
Pennsylvania streams. When the
have been Matched the total nuI
Der of this kind Of fish secured fro
this hatchery will have reached 100, 90
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The beautiful monument that Il
U. P. congregation has had erect,
over the grave of DR.. John s. McKe
d. d. was completed last week.
stands about six feet high, and is Sc
id block of the best Dark Barra grant
II was erected by F. H. Sechler of Br
ler
"A delightful musical program W
rendered at the home of Mrs. L.
Kirkpatrick, w. Jefferson ST.. Tuesd
evening. The artists were, Miss
Raisley. Mattison. Haupt and Knit
Mrs. Kirkpatrick, and Messrs Hartma
Mattison. Marsh, Frank and Lou Eyt
Prof. c. N. Hassler Of Pittsburg W