Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1904-02-11

Brick for Sale.
Administl asors and Executors Of estat
can secure their receipt books at the CIT
ZEN Office. and persons making public sale
their note books.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Lent begins next Wednesday.
The penny valentines are as horrid
as ever
1t looks as though the Russian Beal
had caught hornet.
big real estate deals" are in the
air. but not on paper.
Some spring goods advertisements
appear in our columns, this week
Since the Baltimore fire everybody
IL curious to see real fre-proof build
ing.
To bond or not to bond, that Is the
question for you to consider next Tues
day.
The Conroy & Mack Co are playing
to good audiences at the Lyndora, this
week.
The Butler fire companies now have
two thousand feet of new and whole
hose in use.
Don't make any engagement for
next Tuesday. We want your opinion
on the Bond question
The Metallic Casket Co. has secur-
cd the site of the Britain Chemical
Works, east of town for factory.
The building contractors are
standing pat" on the material ques-
tion, and what pity it will be if Pat
carries no bricks in Butler, this sum-
mer.
The foreigners sent all their spare
cash to Italy and other countries Now
they are out of both work and money,
and are after the County Commissioners
for help.
The Japs caught the Russians nap
ping on the water as completely as they
caught the Chinese; and now we will
zee whether they can repeat their tao
tics on the land.
The Al. Winters property in Zelier-
ople was sold at Bankrupt sale, Mon
day. to G. J. D. Strohecker for $5325.
Mr.. Strohecker contsmplates establish
ing bank there.
-On valuation of nearly four-hun-
dred millions. the Councils of Pittsburg
expect to raise about seven millions in
taxes this year-including delinquent
taxes and other items.
All the dogs in Dunbar. Pa. went
mad. last Saturday. and began biting
people. Twenty-Five dogs were shot,
and the bitten people were sent to the
Pasteur Institute In Pittsburg.
Tho differences between the labor
unions and the contractors regarding
the use Of non union material fthe Pur-'
vis mill being the reported bone Of con-
tention) now includes another arm.
The regular quarterly meeting Of
the Women's Hospital Association will
b. held in the Y. M. G. A. parlors on
Tuesday, Feb 16. ats pm.
MRS. J. B. BLACK, Sec.
Coming to Butler had bad effect
ON young George PETER Of Punxsutaw-
ney. He visited relatives here on We'd
pesday Of last week. went home that
evening, and hung himself next morn.
ing.
The City Assessors Of Pittsburg
have reported to the Finance Commit
tee Of Councils che approximate total
Of the valuations of the triennial as
sessment as $S9s. 500. 900. The Finance
Committee will send to Councils q tax
levy ordinance calling for 12} mills.
AT the meeting Of the School Board,
last FRIDAY evening, it was voted to re-
place the vertical system or style Of
writing now taught In our schools by
the usual Giant style; Mr.. Montel. the
Frenchman, offered to place 25-gallon
sterilizers in each school building for
$1,000; and Pure Water Co.. offered
to put in its cisterns tor $500.
-Borax, Borax-two marble col
Rmns Of it appear in Charley Boyd's
show window, and what is boraxf 1t
Is the biborate of sedium-Na2. B4, o.
ordinary and prismatic. ten equiva-
lents, deposited by the Lord in Thibet,
.nd several other places. including
Borax Lake in Southern California, from
which it is hauled by ''twenty-mule'
power to civilization; bnt if you want
to know what it is good for you will
haye to read the advertisements.
Saturday night two youths who
we're delivering goods for Ketterer'i
furniture store rushed to the Jail and
told Sheriff Gibson that they had been
held up by two robbers at revolver
points, and robbed of $4S, after which
the robbers forced them to unhitch the
horses. tie them to tree and then fed
Monday morning the two drivers were
taken to Attorney Christley's office and
told to divulge or be arrested, and they
produced the coin.
State Treasurer Harris is not salts
fed with the decision Of Attorney Gen
eral Carson on the bill increasing tn
salaries of all the judges. and will no
pay the increase to those commissioned
before the act went into force until the
matter is settled by the Supreme Court
seysral Judges entitled to increased pa.
have FLED their vouchers for JanHar,
and warrants haye been issued to then
for full amounts. Supreme Court jus
tice Dean, commissioned prior to tn
passage of the act, has filed vouche
for his salary for last month under tn
old law and warrant has been issue,
to him
--Adyices from Annapolis. the capi
tai of Maryland, last Thursday, state
that German had been defeated in hi
efforts TO re-elect McComas u. s. Sens
for, and that a Baltimore lawyer nan
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