Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1905-06-01
LOCAL AND GENERAL.

New timetable on the Winfield
Railroad.
BEAD about the auction sale of lots
on 4th page.
Some new wells in the gusher field
will be due next week.
The new Polish church in Lyndora
was dedicated, Tuesday.
The new Catholic church at Saxon
barg was dedicated yesterday.
An application for restaurant Ii
cense is something new in this county
Graduating exercises. Grammar
Schools, tonight, in High School
Chapel.
A Sunday School Convention will
be held in Zion church, Jacksyille, on
the 18th and 14th.
The fake rubber plantation COM
panies gathered in about six millions of
dollars from the deluded public.
Two murder cases and the Pitts
burg newspaper cases will make the
The new Sunday train on the B. &
o. to Pittsburg leaves Butler at IL: 10 a.
M, and the 1 :25 p. m, train has been
taken off.
On Friday last w. J. Pacoe, ad-
ministrator Of Arnold Vorpe, decd, OF
Middlesex twp. sold the farm to Henry
A, Vorpe for $145O.
"A carrier pigeon bearing the legend
IF. B. SS"-arrived at the home of j.
A. Timblin at West Sunbury, some
weeks ago, and is there yet.
The diamond experts Of the Pitts
burg detective force are trying to earn
the ten Thousand offered by Tiffany for
the recovery of three stolen diamonds
of II, IL and IA carats.
AT the meeting of the School
Board. Tuesday, A. G. Troutman of the
Third Ward resigned on account of
moving TO the Fourth, and Harry
Klingler was elected in his stead.
e. G. Caughey has resigned his
position as manager of the Car Works,
and Jno. W. Williams was appointed
in his stead; with F. a. Gillespie as
Treasurer and W. M. Fletcher as
Auditor.
Dig up. dig down, dig the canal
to Erie" is the cry at New Castle. The
great rivers and the great lakes of this
country should be connected by deep
canals and, we think, the National
Government should build, own and
control those canals.
Compressed air is made to do all
kinds of hammering and cutting these
days. P. Fl. Sechler lately installed a
compressed air plant for cutting mon
uments and inscriptions and. as it is
quite curiosity, you should step in at
his place Oh N. Main street and see it.
The people of Harrisville and the
G.. A. r. post of that town honored the
memory of their dead comrades by
parade, and by services at the Presby
teriaL church, at which fully thous-
and people were present, who were ad-
dressed by W. 81. Martin. Esq, of
Butler.
Nine young ladies and seven young
men graduated from our High School.
this year. and the Commencement ex-
efcises at Majestic Theatre, last night,
were interesting and at times amusing
James w. Hutchison. Esq presented
the diplomas in a short, but very n eat
address.
The tomatoes now in the market
and for which our grocers are charging
30 cents pound. come all the way
from Fla while the potatoes. peas.
string beans. Strawberries and other
;to nj a%ah s,,rr
Virginia and other southern states
The Wabash station in Pittsburg is
one Of the handsomest buildings in the
city. The total cost to the Wabash
people of their entrance to Pittsburg, as
given at a meeting of the Board of
Directors in New York, last Thursday,
including the tunnel, bridge, station
and some connecting roads was $50, ,310,-
140.
Decoration Day was very fittingly
observed. Tuesday. the old soldiers
turning out in force, and following the
band to the cemetery, with their hands
full Of flowers. On account Of the
threatening rain they then came back
to an able and interesting address by
i
On Saturday last the State Board
awarded the contracts for the Mercer
pike, and Pierce and Three Degree
roads to J. l.. Hanna. Jr. The Mercer
road from the Boro line to the town
ship line will cost 5000 3D. and the
Pierce and 3-degree roads 50, 1853 90.
Both are to have native flagstone bot
toms and be topped with Butler and
Lawrence county Limestone
"A new time table went into effect
on the Penn'a r. r Monday The
trains that leave Butler at $40 a. m.
and 2:30 o. m, now cross the river at
AspInwall and run into the Union or
Pittsburg station; and the 3:05 and 6:1O
p, m. trains now leave the city from
that station. The other trains vet run
into and leave from the Allegheny
station, as do all also the Sunday
trains.