Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1905-05-18

Adrninisui asors and Executors of estates
can secure their receipt books at tne
CITIZEN office. and persons making puDnc
sales thsir note books
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
A Chicago doctor thinks Americana
do not eat enough dirt.
Soda fountains are exempted from
the new Sunday closing law.
R. Fisher g. Son have enlarged
their photograph of the new oil well
From rs to 100 cars Of coal are being
mined and sent out of Kaylor every
day.
A carpet was stolen from the
clothss-line in J. FL Stems yard, Tues
day night
The Alumni Of the Butler High
School will banquet in First M. E,
church on June End.
All Butler went to Lyndora last
Saturday to see the show, base ball
game and golf game. or pass on to the
oil well.
Some graves in the old cemetery
were opened, Monday, and no traces OF
the coffins nor remains buried in them
could be found.
The physicians OF Butler county
met in convention in the Reiber build
ing, Tuesday afternoon, AMI had an in
teresting session.
The Butler baseball team got
left at Slipperyrock by score OF to
4, but beat the North Washington boys,
yesterday. by score of to l.
There will be something doing at
the theatre every evening from this
evening until Saturday evening of next
week, and that will end the season.
j. s. Wick now has his new store
on S. Main St.-in the John Stein build
ing Z in ship-shape. and will be pleased
to see his old friends at his new place.
The Memorial Sermon for the e.
A. r OF Fairview and Petrolia will be
delivered by Rev. Laubaugh in the
Fairyiew Reformed church, on Sunday,
the 2Sth, at m.
Jack, the hair-cutter" robbed
three Pittsburg girls OF their hair last
Saturday night, and escaped from a
crowd of young men who pursued him.
by darting into a dark alley.
The SPECTATORS of the Chicago
grain exchange made the wet weather
now prevailing in the valley OF the
Mississippi the excuse or reason for put
ting corn up 3 ceuts bushel, Tuesday.
The annual Snyder Reunion will be
held June 8, 1905. Mt the home of Elvy
T. Sny der. near West Liberty. Brady
twp. All are cordially invited; strang-
ers as well AS relatives will be heartily
welcomed.
The Bessie will change its time ia
BILE n the 2Slh, after which date maiu
line and M. & L. branch trains will all
rnn into Exposition Park No impor-
tant changes will be made ia the time
of main line trains
AT the meeting of the Board Of Di-
rectors of the Pittsburg and Butler
Railway Co. in Pittsburg. last Friday,
the proposition of citizens of Mars to
donate five acres, just north of the
town, for power house, was accepted
and the same will be located there. also
the car barns.
Some of the strawberries brought
to Butler and put on the market, last
week, had peculiar taste-as though
they had been overheated. Ten car
loads Of such were condemned in one
large town lately for same reason, and
our grocers should refuse to handle
them. The fault is said to be in the
cars in which they were shipped.
Pullman cars are built with stee
frames. and the platforms or floors art
compact masses Of iron and wood Peo
pie who travel in them usually imagine
they are safe from everything. except
ing drop from something like tb
Glade Run trestle. But here comes {
railroad horror that proves that thes
massive, comfortable and supposed,
safe cars can in q moment be turned in
to hells on earth by the arrangement
for lighting them. Several railroa
companies have adopted the system G
lighting by electricity-why not all?
AT the special meeting Of the Tow
Council. Tuesday evening. resolutio
declaring all the proceedings of th
meeting Of May 2nd to be void, on az
count of the presence of Mr.. Schenck o
Councilman of the Third ward afte
he had removed to the Fifth ward. wa
adopted. This invalidates the electio
of Il. e. Coulter as Solicitor and Harr
Grieb as Sewer Inspector, if it stand
also some ordinances for street-payini
Ordinances for the paving of Race S
and Fourth Ave, were adopted, and IL
bids for the paving of Franklin, E. Per
and E. Pearl were returned, unopene
The United States Civil Servi,
Commission announces that on May
1905, an examination will be held #
the positions Of clerk and carrier in I'll
postoffice service at Butler. This e.
animation offers an opportunity
bright, energetic young persons to e
ter an interesting field of Governmel
employment where the salaries con
pare most fsvorably with those paid
private employment For applicable
blank, full instructions. and speclm
examination questions, Applicant,
should be made to the local secretary
the postoffice here.
The sole hope of Salvation for
well drillers. bumpers and tool drcsst
lies in THE Driller's Dream" T
committal Of that beautiful poem
memory will insure their passa
through st Peters Gate-.'No otht
need apply The poem was printed
Butler dozen years ago. and the So
ply has been exhausted for years Eve
now and then we receive requests /
comics by matchmaking all over 4