Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1904-10-06

The Butler Business College.
j. c. Powell, auctioneer.
Adrninistr a.ors and Executors of estates
can secure their receipt books at the
CITIZEN Office. and persons mixing public
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
-Chestnuts are ripe.
The leaves are falling
The clam bake was success.
-Four weeks from next Tuesday il
election day.
Don't sweep the leaves into the
sewer openings
-Buckwheat cakes will soon be on
the bill of fare.
Now ia the time to plant your Fall
and Winter advs.
-Duffy's store is making drive in
blankets and underwear. See adv.
-..5axonburg or bus" - was what
some young men were yelling Tuesday
evening.
Baby clothes for three were needed,
and ere only ready for one. Triplets
-Kittanning.
About hundred Butler Firemen
and the 10th Regiment band went to
Erie. yesterday.
Saturday of this week is the last
day for paying taxes in order TO vote
at the coming election
Everybody returning from st.
Louis comments on the size of the
Fair Some say it is too big.
The Redding Gas Engine Co. has
secured location i'm East Butler. and
is preparing to build plant there.
-Schaul & Mast have dissolved part
nershio-Mr. Mast retiring. MIR. Schaul
will hereafter do business under his
own name.
-"Japanese take passes" is the report
today. They were not issued by the
Siberian Railway officials, but they go
all the same.
The approach of winter, or perhaps
it may be the dry weather, has caused
an advance of cent quart in the
price of milk.
Philip Schauls new adv. will not
appear until next week He is having
dissolution sale. this week. and is be-
ing kept busy.
1t Is said that quite number OF
Butler voters will lose their votes at the
coming election unless they pay up by
pext Saturday:
Two masked men held up Mrs.
Frank Palen Of tho West Side, Friday
evening. and demanded her money, bat
she ran and screamed.
Eggs have their faults. but there is
no danger Of their being too fresh"
They are scarce at present and our
grocers are paying 20 cents dozen for
them-
--Fhomas Cooper purchased the lease
of the brick hotel in Saxonbqrg, last
Saturday, from the Gibson brothers and
vas here. Monday. to secure transfer
of license.
Three cases of small pox are report
ed to the County Commissioners from
Slipperyrock and Cherry twps.. near
Coaltown. by DIR. Hockenberry of West
Sunbury
AT the automobile races on .Bru.
rotis Island, Gear pittsburg. last week.
Barney Oldield ran his machine at the
tate Of mile minute, and took most
Of the prizes.
The wrecks on the Bessie, last
week, sent six OF the big smoke-makers
to the shops There were two wrecks
Saturday-one at Jamisonville and one
at Branchton-
The friends OF Mrs Lincoln Crafty,
pear Parker gaye her surprise, birth
gay party. last Friday; and thoso of q.
Winner. near Portersville helped him cell
ebrate his 18th birthday, last Thursday
Something over two years ago. FL
r. Goncber secured patent on an au
tomato sash-lock, and this he has just
sold to a company at Coshocton, Ohio,
for $l5, 900 in stock and 10 per cent roy
alty:
--Ehe Institute Hill .hold up man
was at it again the other night, and Sc
cured the pocket book Of a young man
who had taken his lady home from o
party. and was waiting at Ia corner for
4 street cax.
Quite number Of our citizens at
tended court last week-tryipg to find
out what property in Butler is worth
but all they learned was verifcation
OF Shakespeares assertion that "com-
Parisons are odious.~
The Butler basket ball team defeat
ed the Young Americans of Homestead
Friday evening, 30 to IL. Last night
the Collegians and the Regulars played
before a large crowd. The score being
y to 1s in favor Of the Regulars.
-5some OF the automobiles appear to
b. afflicted with "locomotor ataxia, "
and make more noise than threshing
machine both in starting and going.
One Of them scared lady's horse the
other day and she called it an "antogo-
tohell machine"
On the Robert Irwin farm, former
ly Sheriff Browns, at Brownsville, last
week COW walked up plank to gaze
into the depths of 300 barrel oil tank,
rn4 fell in. There was bnt little oil and
she was moi drowned. After day and
night her bawling disclosed her ,~--
ton ana tn@" " :. required another da,
to get her ont
AT the convention OF the County
Commissioners of the state at Scranton
last week, a resolution favoring biennia
elections was passed, and also one
favoring the election OF ward, TOWNSHIP
and horougl, 1ff,aro at <ha nnco~a