Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1905-01-19
LOCAL AND GENERAL.

sales their note pooAS.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Lent begins this year on the sth Of
March.
The ice gorges in the Allegheny are
becoming interesting.
There will be some fine feathers
and fine birds at the Poultry show.
The fire department will banquet at
the Standard Hotel, Covers will be
laid for 200.
The Panhandle or P. F. w. q C
r. R. Co. has lately placed an order fol-
steel cars in Butler.
The Republican primary for Butler
borough will be held on Saturday OF
next week, the 2Sth.
The Goldstrom slaughter house on
the Kelly farm in Butler twp. was
burned last Thursday.
The twenty-seven National banks
of Pittsburg have hundred and forty
six million dollars on deposit.
Because our water never has been
very good the Oil Co. thinks it should
be allowed to make it worse.
Some man, or company Of men, has
optioned large tract Of land adjoining
the town of Mars, for manufacturing
purposes.
We are not running many patent
medicine advs. at present, but still we
have a good word for them, as most Of
them are good for what ails you."
The Campbell House in Slippery
rock was full Of candidates last Friday
night-a dozen of them-and w. ]. and
DR.. Hockenberry treated them nicely.
The Panama Canal from the At
lantic to the Pacific is 451 miles long.
average depth % feet. deepest point $50
feet. proposed time for construction 8
years.
Our County Commissioners are be-
coming experts on fire-escapes Those
Of the new Lutheran home at Mars
were examined. last Thursday. and pro-
nounced O. X.
Some local primaries were held in
Pittsburg, last Saturday. and at one Of
the polling places the tally sheet disap-
peared, and one Of the clerks was ac-
cused Of eating it. A fight followed
and the clerk was knocked down.
.-On petition Of some fifty residents
of Allegheny county whose properties
border the Butler Plank road, Judge
Brown appointed commission to view
the road and appraise it with q view
towards condemnation proceedings.
AT the meeting of the K. of p. in
Pittsburg, last Thursday. q acomplete re-
vision Of the Bylaws was decided
upon. also $4,000 permanent Home
on the farm near Harmony. J. W..
HutchjsoR Of Butler was elected one Of
the Directors of the Association.
The local building and industrial
world is unusually busy for this season.
A 50x15O foot addition is being built to
the car works. the Spang machine shop
u being enlarged, the Heeter machine
shop being placed in operation and a
sore Of houses are in various stages Of
completion.
The great scarcity Of game birds as
shown by the recent open season has
brought recommendation that the leg
islature forbid any killing Of these for
term Of years In this region the
quail were nearly all killed by the Sc
we're weather Of last winter, and pheas-
ants have been scarce for number Of
years.
In our account Of the banquet Of
the members of the Butler Bar, held on
the 9th inst. the name John Timblin
should have read John Gilmore. VIM.
Timblin was the only attorney Of that
name at the Butler Bar. He was ad-
mitted about 1910 and died about 1866.
Also where the name Of John o. Jack
appeared as an attorney it should have
been Jedidiah Jack.
While the Good Will Hose Co. was
holding . special meeting, Monday
night. some one set off an old alarm
clock and the fire laddies thought it the
telephone. Some slid down their pole
and some ran down stairs. A hall door
and the fire house doors were opened at
the same instant, with the result that q
30 sheet OF plate glass YVES broken out
Of one Of the big doors
--Pittsburg's monster coalboats got
away last Saturday. The smaller ones
had all gone out Of the harbor with
their tows, but the four great boats had
been reserved until Saturday when they
went out with tows that would open the
eyes Of the average citizen who never
paid much attention to the rivers. -Four
N boats moved out whose combined tows,
through to Louisville, aggregated g.
0o0, 900 bushels of coal.
lin one column Of New York pa
per, the other day, was an account Of 9
dinner at hotel which soughtthe fame
Of being the most expensive of its class
It was the first dinner at which tht
gold service Of that hostelry was usei
Exclusively" Thirty-six people sal
down at cost of $50. 900, or about 81,
400 per plate. In another column o.
the same paper was statement BY
! Robert Hunter of the university settle
ment work. he says that there are oyel
900, 600 people in New York who arr
| In distress, and that 70. 900 children g,
to school hungry every day. One-tentl
Of New York's dead are buried in pau
per's graves.