Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1905-01-12
LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Justice Greenbaum Of New York
refused to admit Nan Patterson to bail
The Corse-Payton Stock Co. is
playing to good houses. at the Majestic,
this week.
The Firemen will banquet on the
10Th. next Thursday evening, at the
Standard-Earl Cinton's hotel.
Phil Schaul is branching out. He
purchased the Schloss Bros stock. last
week, and removed it to his own store
room.
The Local and the Pitfsburg High
School teams will do battle at basket
ball in tie Y. II. c. A. gym tomorrow
evening.
Snow water is spoken of derisive-
ly, but when the present accumulation
melts thers'll be something doing in the
creeks and rivers.
"A miss is as good SIS mile
eraI tons of snow slid off the roof OF the
German Lutheran church, last evening,
Just as r. B. Taylor was passing.
The cantata announced for last
Monday In the Grace Lutheran church
was declared off on account of death in
the family of one of the participants
A dairymaid has been arrested at
Cologne for bathing herself in the milk
before it was sold, because she bad read
that milk baths were good for the com
plexion.
"A curious strike is reported from
Franklin. The girls at one of the ho-
tells there packed their trunks and left
because they were forbidden the use OF
swear words.
The Pittsburg lawyers object to
any changes being made in the present
Court House, and recommend the pur-
chase of the square due south OF the
present building for another Court
House.
The youth who becomes imbuded
with the idea that society Is the chief |
end Of life, and who is satisfied with |
fancy coat and cigarette, is not likely
to enter into serious competition with |
the ice man.
The Post Graduate Hospital, New
York, cI,lims to have cured forty cases
of consumption during the past year.
which is good record for one institu-
ton and source Of hope to persona
thus afflicted
Yesterday the VIM. Walker real
estate agency closed a deal for the East
Diamond property Of Mrs. H. Louise
Mitchell Brown, being all the frontage
between the Park Hotel and the Y. NJ
c. A. building, about fifty feet, for s1s
900.
AT Portland next summer the Mid
way will be called THE Trail" Strict
moralists may hint that this is the most
appropriate Of the names yet invented
for that class OF chow, inasmuch as it
can be construed to refer to the trail of
the serpent.
One of the candidates for the next
Republican primary is a jockey Irish
man. He was asked the other day how
he was coming on. and he said he was
doing splendidly, in fact he was begin
ming to feel sorry for his opponents. He
Is afraid they won't get any votes.
The first exhibition of the Pet Stock
q Poultry Association will be held in
the new storage building, back Of the
IN. G. A. building, first floor, on the
6th, 9th, 10th and 18th days Of Febru-
ary; and it win be something immense,
Get premium list and make an entry.
See notice in another place.
A western man has invented new |
jag cure. The work OF reforming a |
drunkard begins when he Is drunk He
IL told that his remarks are 80 wise,
witty and important that it is desired
to preserve them for the good Of pos
terity; and will he consent to talk into |
the phonograph and sing into ii, Then |
he Is put to bed. The next day he is
chained and made to listen to what he
said when drunk. It always cures him. |
During the past two years 2. .9S2 cor
porations were chartered in this state
and 112 building and loan associations
were organized. There were Al insur-
ance companies and "a new banks.
There were also chartered 1914 street
railway companies, and 54 locomotive
railroads were incorporated. The num-
Der of pardons issued were 80. Fees
paid into the state treasury amounted
to $231, ,033 10, and bonus on charters
handed over to the state amounted to
el.7s3. 754 23.
During the past few years the banks
OF Butler have been the most siren uous
advertisers of the town, and their state
ments show that they are doing larg-
er business than the banks of any other
town the size of Butler in the country,
yet holding fast to their old financial
impregnability. At the meeting of the
stockholders OF the local institutions,
Tuesday, all the old directors and Off
GERS were reelected. and the directorate
of the Butler County National increas
ed by the addition of six new members.
AN eddy Of the Allegheny at
Springdale, Allegheny county, under
mined the banks last week and four
houses toppled into the river. The
Mirror Co.'S plant and several more
houses are In the path of the washout.
The new dam at Springdale, which
changed the current of the river, has
also been damaged. The four houses
stood 100 feet from the river bank, and
the washing away of the lots left the
masonry of the wells standing up like
smoke stacks. The government has Of
fered to settle the damage.
"A lot of hornets cleaned out q bar
room in Akron, Ohio, the other day,
quicker than Carrie Nation ever did.
The proprietor bought hornets nest
from farmer and hung it over the bar
The entrance hole was covered r.,