Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1904-06-09
LOCAL AND GENERAL.


Park.
Sixty cases on the Commonwealth
docket for this week.
Something is going to happen ir
Slipperyrock twp, shortly.
The Woodmen will dedicate tn,
Chas. Ekis monument at Saxonburg
Sunday
The Street Car Co. offers prize Of
S. for the best effusion ON the Park by
a school girl.
1t will not be long now until We
know who is to be the next Vice Presi
dent Of these United States.
The Gas Co is resurrecting the
joints of its pipes all over town and is
putting rubber in each joint.
"A mad-dog, the property of Richard
Johnston. was killed on the James Ran
kin place, in Penn twp, last week.
The storm of last Sunday afternoon
was very severe in the vicinity of Mar
wood, blowing over a number of trees
on the Cooper farm.
Last Saturday night, forty-fve
years ago, something happened that
made people cry next morning. 1t was
the night Of the big frost.
Butler schools will continue till
July. The receipts of the Board for
the year ending June 1st were $685. 105. A
and the expenses $64, $50 92.
The local basket ball team defeated
the D. 9. g. A. Cs., Thursday evening,
90 to 10. Ed Campbell played his first
game since having the fever.
The Butler Savings and Trust Co.
makes splendid showing. Their de-
posits now run over million and a
half. and their resources over two mil
lions
There will be public sale at Rev.
W. J. Cooper's on the Jos. Patterson
farm in Jefferson twp. on Friday, June
oath horses. buggies. harness and
household goods.
Middlesex. twp. has chicken thieves
Philip Snyder lately lost 81 Plymouth
Rock hens. and -- Glasgow lost II
Of same. The thieves wrung the heads
of the fowls in their coops.
If all the trolley lines are run to all
the places now mentioned the county
will be full of them, and there is no
doubt bat that some cross country troll
leys would pay, and pay well.
The members of the Sunday School
of the Grace Lutheran church will hold
a festival and lawn fete on Mr.. Patter-
son. lawn. on West Penn ST., next
Tuesday evening. June 14th. All are
invited
The new passenger train on the
Bessie from North Bessemer TO Butler
arrives here at $50 a. m. and returning
leaves Butler at $50 pm. At North
Bsssemer one can take the street cars
for the city.
Down about Thorn CreeF, on
Tuesday Of last week, during one hours
downpour. about three inches Of rain
fell washing the fields, destroying
some township culverts. and injuring
one county bridge.
Accounts of burglaries and robber-
les occupy considerable space in the
daiIies these days. Sheriff Gibson has
purchased two trained blood hounds,
and intends using them for tracking
down the outlaws of this county.
Passenger trains on the A. & w.
between the Kaylor mines and Queen
Junction, on the Bessie. below, have
been running since Wednesday last,
and are we'll patronized. About fif-
teen people get on the morning train
at Hooker station every morning for
Butler.
The first train was run over the
new Wabash bridge at Pittsburg, last
Wednesday. If You have half-hour
to spare. the next time you are in town,
you will find that new bridge and the
new station on Liberty ST. to be OBJ
jects of interest.
The farmers of the county are
working" the roads these days. All
the supervisors OF ths county should
send to John Allen Of Clinton twp. for
his patent scraper. It's something new
and its peach You just hitch it on
to buggy, drive over the road. and the
road is made"
BY the explosion of gas in the
Schulz & Badger brick works, south Of
town, Monday evening, the plant was
destroyed by fire and jeremiah Will
liams, the night watchman was injur
ed. The fire was started by the blow
ing out of stophead from gas'main
Williams was STOPPING to light fire
under the boiler when the stophead
blew ont and was blown several feet
his hair and beard being burned off and
his face and hands badly burned. The
total loss will be between $1,000 ani
$4,000.
AT the meeting of Council, Tuesday
evening, it was decided by vote of {
to tc pave Franklin ST.; the town viii
furnish Bro. Tucker with water fo
sprinkling; the new contract with tn.
Electric Light Co. was approved; tn,
widening of Polk ST. was helt
over; Geo. w. Whitehill resigned
as member from the Thirt
Ward and ]. B. McJunkin was electe,
over Mat Yost by vote Of Q to A; tn
Davis Lead Works matter was referre,
to the Finance Conn.,; some sidewall
/. contracts were awarded, some petition
heard; the monthly bills read and paid
and council adjourned after lonl
session.
Sunday afternoon the Woodmen o
the World held their annual memoria
services. Three hundred members c
the local lodge raraded t. the Mort
Cemetery where they were addresse
by Revs. Oller and White. Head
stones over the graves of Mrs. Grac
Dresen. John T.. Myers and Charles r
Kramer were dedicated A storm Gu