Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1904-10-13
LOCAL AND GENERAL.

LU(AL ANU UENENAL.
Coal cars are reported scarce.
East Butler will be town yet.
L. d. vanRenssalaer of Renfrew is
enlarging his storeroom.
Beginning with Iext Monday our
druggists intend closing at p. NJ.
in New York, last week, the bet
ting was 10 to in Roosevelt's favor.
The Springdale Water Co. has ad-
ded two new wells and spring to its
plant.
After Nov 1st the B. R. g. P. trains
will run into the Smithfeld st. B. & o.
station. Pittsburg.
The residence of w. J. Reed in CAL
lery was robbed Of watch and some
money. Monday evening.
We are under obligations to Mr..
Graham Of the County Home for A
lb. squash-good for pies.
The valuable Mnntz properties at
south end OF Main streed and the PLANK
road bridge are offered for sale. See
advertisement.
West Clay street las been all torn
up lately. four feet wide Of it and about
sixteen feet deep-to accommodate the
xv<, foot
The firemen who went to Erie last
week found no frost on the pumpkin"
north of Meadville. The vapor from the
lake probably does it.
Some young fellow IN Saxonburg
who wants to be lawyer stole Esq.
LensIer's law books the other night.
He'll make good one.
The Odd Fellows of Butler have de-
cided to build six-story Temple" on
their lot at the corner of Main and Gun
ningham streets. next year.
AT Erie last Thursday, the 10th
Regiment band took first prize for be-
lDR tue Uikkccb anu DCEtt oha OdA my
took first for being the smallest.
The cider mills of the county are
being kept busy at present. E. Schroth
Of Frazier's Mills has already made
about hundred barrels of cider.
-Drs Lee and Bait are endeavoring
to find the cause of the epidemic of ty
phoid at Pitcairn. and have ordered the
suspension of some of the dairies.
While some Slipperyrock township
boys were hunting coons the other day
one of them WAS wounded. That was
bad. but it was better than ground-hoes
This is the season the pbeasants o
daft on account of getting their pin
feathers. Two cf them broke their
pecks, last week, against Butler
chimneys
During the month of September
about $4,000 tons. or 50,000.000 pounds
Of ore passed through Butler daily on
the Bessie, bound for the furnaces
near Pittsburg
-Isaish Hall Of Clay township az
tempted suicide, Tuesday night. by cut
ting his throat with an old knife. He
did not succeed, however, and will
probably recover.
"A man out in Kansas married an
old maid who had nine hundred chick
ems. That's Just like the women. If
they can't get husband by fair means,
they will by fowl.
The crop Of turkeys last year was
net very large. on account of the wet
weather. This year the. crop will be
much larger and 1t is thought that they
will be sold much cheaper.
AT the meeting of the School Board
of Butler, last Friday evening. it was
decided to admit no more children from
outside the borough limits, on account
Of the school rooms now being crowded.
New Castle is rejoicing over an or
der Of $4,000 cases OF tin to be suppli-
ed from her great mills for Japan. The
tin will be made into receptacles for
foodstuffs to be sent to the fowery
kingdom.
-Thare is said to be one $4,000 bill
in circulation. At least the Treasury
Of the United States issued one that has
not been accounted for. No one need be
sfraid Of taking it when it comes his
way. There are no counterfeits.
Near. Saxonburg last Sunday a coal
miners house was broken into and ev
erything in it destroyed by breaking. as
were also the doors and windows. Sher-
if Gibson sent his bloodhounds down to
the scene, and they followed the scent
to neighboring coal mine.
Some Of the old houses. lately torn
down on the Point in Pittsburg. were
built over a hundred years ago and
when the level Of that part Of the town
was several feet lower than it is now.
These buildings are being removed to
make way for the new z. r, R. ware
honsss.
"A new schedule will go into effect
on the effect on the West Penn Nov. 81,
and in the meantime you will be given
a chance to vote for the Union station
In preference to the upstairs arrange
ment at Federal street, as the bridge at
Aspinwall and its approaches are about
completed
Lawrence county burglars are to
the front with a new stunt, stealing
from the fields. Oats, wheat and farm
products are taken from the fields
where they have been cut and left stand
ipg. Potatoes, not vet dug. are taken
from the ground by the thieves, while
the apple, peach and pear orchards also
afford a good field for them.
After the Fall timetable goes into
effect eight of the West Penn passenger
trains will cross the river at Aspinwall.
use the Valley track to Coleman juno
tion, those Of the Brilliant cutoff to
Dallas Junction and then the main line
tracks to the Union station. The trains
will all stop at East Liberty. but not a,
Fifth avenue or Dallas Junction