Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1904-01-07

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Notice in Bankruptcy-W. NJ. Osborn
Lyon and Daubenspeck-
lands papers
Adainlslfa.ors and Executors AZ estate
can secure their receipt books u :is u y. II
ZEN ONCE. and persons mako raJ.'c sales
thsir note books
-TLree thousand papers were filed
with Register Davis, last year.
The Allegheny river is gorged with
ice from Tarentum up to Templeton.
Fifty miles
AT the annual meeting of the First
Ward Hose Co., Wednesday evening,
all the old officers were reelected.
Butler needs building inspector,
also some ordinances regarding the
thickness Of walls and fire escapes.
The Butler public schools opened
this week. Ten of the teachers are yet
sick. but substitutes were found for
them
-Saxonburg has three cases Of ty-
phoid, and among John P. WeitZel.
former policeman here, but he is con-
valescent.
Its an ''old fashioned winter" sure
enough. This cold spell started Nov.
18th and has held out without q break
ever since.
-Kitianning has over one hundred
cases of typhoid and the people fear an
epidemic Their water supply comes
from the river.
The stock company organized by
Geo. N. Burckhalter has had plans made
for $7J, 900 opera house, but has not
yet decided as location.
The capital stock of the Car Works
is three millions of dollars. and the
stockholders received their first divi-
dend of two per cent last week.
Geo. Barnhamer of s. s. Pittsburg.
had no money to buy his six children
Christmas gifts, go he went upstairs,
that evening, and hanged himself.
The Butler County National had a
prosperous year and declared semi-an-
nnal dividend of five per cent Monday.
which puts it on ten per cent basis.
-LosT-O On Dec. 2eth, on the road
between Butler and Greece City, a la
dy's black silk handbag. The finder
please leave same at Citizen Office.
We direct the attention of our read
ers to the clearance and bargain sale
ads in to-days paper Now is the time
for bargains in all kinds Of merchandise.
During the blizzard Of last Satur-
day one Of the boys stood around the
street corners splitting tobacco, and none
OF the girls were ont making goo-goo
eyes.
L. s. McJunkin, the insurance
agent. has taken in his brother, Ira,
and his clerk, George Mitchell. as part
ners. under the firm name of L. 8. Nc
Junkin IL Co
"A nurse. said to be from Meadville
and who will not give her name. has
been doing noble work in Butler and
has refused all compensation excepting
actual expenses.
Near Hudson. N Y, farmer who
had no money for Christmas gifts and
whose wife was--dead, killed his three
children with hatchet and then hung
himself in barn.
AT o'clock this morning the Will
lia:l Ralston Touring mill, at Pr ospec
now owned and operated by Harry
Roth. was destroyed by fire. The loss
is sbout$5. 900, partly insured.
Near Cory. Pa. rural mil car
rier's horse ran away. upsettipg his
wagon and also the oil stove therein.
The wagon took fire. the mail was
burned and the man had narrow es-
Oape,
AT the regular meeting OF the di-
yectors Of the U. q. Steel Co. in New
York Tuesday, the dividend on common
stock was passed" and but one and
hreefourths per cent was declared on
the preferred
- Next Tuesday is Greek and Russian
New Years day. Peter the Great Of
Russia having adopted the Greek relig
ion and calendar. Tuesday Of this week
was their Christmas day and the Jew
ish residents Of the Russian city Of
Kishineff were fearing another massa-
Gre.
On Tuesday morning of this week
the thermometers of Butler registered
20 to 20 below zero. It Is said to have
become colder that morning after six
o'clock. Reports from other places in
dicated the same low temperature, but
one man in from Prospect that morning
said the mercury was but below
there 1t was the coolest morning we
haYs bad and seemed more go on &C.
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count Of the fog. Near Boston, Mass.
GONE thermometers bursted at 90 belo W
zero. The cold and fog delayed trains,
and caused confusion in railroad traffic
all oyer the country.
=-Fho terms Of the following mem.
bsrs OF council and school board expire
this year and their successors must be
elected next month:
Council
First ward-James E Campbell. d.
Second ward Fred Fl. Goettler. d.
Third ward. 4. Wal,er, L.
Eonrth ward1Isaac Meals, Il.
Firth ward j. Fl Grohmann, d.
School Directors
First ward-Thomas AlesapdeT. =.
pscond ward-W. z. Murrin, b.
Third ward-Lev McQuistion, D.
Fourth ward-James L. Garroway. n
Fifth Yard--Cl q. groseawetb D.
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don't see how Ritter IL Rookensteii
can sell clothing 80 cheap attend thei
sale.