Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1905-12-14

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Teachers Institute next week.
Monday a week is Christmas.
Santa Claus is working overtime
these days.
The sweet buy and buy season is
with Us again.
Our storekeepers have made great
preparations for the Holiday trade.
-Anti-toxin can now be had, free OF
charge at the Redick & Grohman drug
store.
Leave your order for your Christ
mas turkey at the Fulton Fish Market.
Main st.
DO your shopping in Butler. Look
over our advs, they make Christmas
buying easy.
Some people of Butler wish that the
Mcguire Metallic MeCasket Co. had
never been born.
j. Gill Moser has contracted with
Geo. Schenck for an addition to the
steelsmith property on Jefferson st.
Forty million calendars are distrib-
uted in this country. every year. be
sure to get your share before the end OF
the month.
The big Weyman tobacco factory
in Pittsburg is to be removed to Chica-
20 next month. 1t is part OF the Amer
ican Tobacco Co.
ALI Of the young folks, and some OF
the old ones, like to dance. But the
thing can be overdone. young LADY
danced herself blind few nights ago.
Don't forget that the CITIZEN
makes the best kind Of Christmas gift
10 an absent friend-its like letter
from home each week. 81 a year in ad-
vance.
The firemen were called ont by q
small blaze at the residence of DR.. O.
v. Morehead, Sunday morning. The
alarm was sounded during church
service.
"A typewriter company of Pittsbnr g
sent q lot Of advertising matter to this
town. last week. and everybody who
lifted it from the postofice bad to pay
. cents extra postage.
AT well attended egational
meeting at the Grace Lutheran church,
Tuesday evening, good reports were
read, officers were elected, etc. This
congregation is in prosperous condi-
tion.
Some poeticsl thieves stole twenty
chickens from farmer the other nigh
and left this tackled to the door OF th'
coop
Christmas time IL coming near.
We thought we'd get our chickens here
The County Commissioners o
Beaver county have advertised for bid
for County bonds, aggregating owe
half million dollars. to pay for thos
Batter County bridge verdicts-one o
which bore the ear marks Of crooke'
work.
AT meeting Of the directors of tht
Pure OIL Co. held here Tuesday Is wa
decided to commence paying quarterl.
dividends of two per cent. on their com
mon stock, the fret payment TO be mad
in March. The preferred stock ha
been paying per cent. There is III,
100000 preferred in 800 shares and s2,
100000 common in % shares. and a larg
amount is held in Butler.
The Ladies Auxiliary and Board
Directors Of the Y. NJ. G. A. rendered
reception to Secretary e. G.. Randa
and wife in the Association rooms MOI
dsy evening. w. g. Douthett delivere
an address Of welcome to which Set
rotary Randall responded. Remark
were also made by Assistant State Se'
retary ]. B. Carothsrs. Music was tn
nished by the Association glee clu'
under the direction Of Frank Cleelan'
and the ladies served refreshments.
-Hrocer Curtis Sh ira Of Locust s
has football playing horse. Harl
Green, the driver, and some other youn
men sometimes kick ball around in
field near the stable and II the horse
let loose he takes after the ball an
kicks it deftly with his front feet, doir
as we'll as many football players. T
seems to take delight In the sport al
never steps on the ball. Through hab
this horse has learned to 70 to the 1t
BILE when commanded to, back the wa
on into the shed as carefully as thout
his driver was handling the reigns. al
stands there until unhitched.
The National Lead Co., which
said to control the output Of raw lei
a. the Standard Oil Co. does that
crude oil. is reported to be trying
gain control Of all the lead factories
the country. the Davis Lead works
Butler among them. One hundr
thousand dollars Of the stock OF t
Z. Davis Co. Is held in Butler, there bel
thirty or fourty stockholders In Il
place, and all the Butler stock Is said
have beer optioned by officials of
company at par. The stock has ne'
paid any dividends and the stockhold'
simply lose the use Of their money d.
ing the seven or eight years 1t has be
tied up in the lead works. 1t is !
known if the local factory will be c,
tinued or closed II the trusts gets it.
When It comes overcoat time re m
Der Ritter 81 Rockenstein.
II you come into my store and
you do not want to buy anything,
just came to look around you are ]
as welcome as though you bought
thousand dollars worth, for / KIN
you will think more OF my store |
business methods than before, and {
makes my business better every year
CARL III. LEIGHNEk,
Jeweler and Optician.
Butler, Pi
Fresh nuts and pure candy for v
Christmas stockings at Richey's
yopr Iiat of Christmas pifts will