Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1905-10-05


Executors Notice, estate Of Nancy
BARLEY.
Sheriffs Sale for Oct. 81.
City Charter Election.
Fulton Fish Market.
Christy's White Wyandottes.
Fleming's Export.
Administrator and Executors OF estate.
can secure their receipt books at ,t tne
CfTIzEN once. and persons making public
sales their note books.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Join the Gold Club.
Plate glass is booming.
The buckwheat crop is immense
billiards is proud of its new gas
lights.
All the railroads are to be double
tracked.
Saturday is the last day for paying
your poll tax.
Everybody works at our house,
but my old man, has hit Butler hard.
Two deaths from typhoid in Butler
last week, indicate some lurking germs.
Local milkmen have advanced the
price of the fluid from six to seven cents
quart
The cement sidewalks, now being
laid in Butler. are left with a rough
surface.
The Harvest Home season will be
heartily celebrated. this year, even II
the fruit crop is light.
Some people are less concerned
about getting to Heaven than they are
about keeping out Of Jail.
The Bessemer railroad has placed
number of steel ties on its roadbed
through Butler as an experiment
The Directors of the Butler Savings
and Trust Co. have declared their
regular, quarterly dividend of per
cent.
w. Jefferson street property is look
ing mp. The Dillon Bros. paid c.
Duffy SIS, 900 for 40 feet frontage. 80
feet deep.
The West Penn has put on two ad-
ditional freight crews and, for the first
time in it's history, switching crew in
the Butler yard.
The Slipperyrock Independent Tel
ephone Co. has some of its lines in ope-
rations, and has hooked ur with the
Peoples Co. of Butler.
The Butler Driving Park and Fair
Association intends holding matinee
races at the Fair grounds the last two
Saturdays of October.
The contractors for the grading of
the new trolley line are making sur
prising headway. Their big dredging
machines make things move.
Here is chance for Butler coun-
ty boy. The county is entitled TO :. free
scholarship in the School of Industry at
philadelphia. Inquire Of Hon. A. q.
Williams
The finding Of an old. articulated
skeleton of human being in pig-pen
in Evans City. Tuesday, made sensa-
tion, but it was soon ascertained to be
the "subject' of a medical student.
Burglars are said to he burgling in
Butler, which, If true. necessitates the
hiding of Your gold pieces in Your old
stockings. or else 1epositing them in
one Of our reliable banking institutions.
Persons travelling in localities where
wide tire ordinance is enforced claim
1t makes great improvement on the
roads Broad tires made the smooth
roads in many European countries. and
will do the same elsewhere.
Saturday night two hobos were ar
rested while asleep beside fire they
had built under the B. g. 0. freight sta-
ton. One had good-sized roll Of mon
ey and big revolver. Mayor Kennedy
kept the gun and fined him S.
The Pittsburg Orchestra will give
fifteen sets Of concerts with sixty-five
players the coming winter, beginning
Nov. and 8. Seats will be on sale at
Hamilton's, 533 Wood st, on the 30th.
Inquire of the Manager g. 81. Wilson,
53f Wood st.
-Self-marriags is becoming popular
in different parts of the State. When
the couple secure the marriage license
all that is necessary is to acknowledge
themselves man and wife, and the clerk
Of courts fills out the prescribed form
for such marriages.
Oscar A. Nigel has fitted up the
store room at corner Of Main and North
Sts, and will open a first class fish
market today. He knows his business
and will have the best in the market
See his card. He offers 10 cents pound
for spring chickens.
The chief Of police Of Duluth has
ordered that bear hunting in the
streets must be stopped. The practice
has apparently become both annoying
and dangerous It seems that bears are
particularly plentiful in Northern
Minnesota this fall and have been flock
ing into Duluth.
Last Friday was the darkest day
Pittsburg has had for years. There
was no wind and the smoke from the
mill-stacks settled over the town, clouds
shut off the rest Of the sunlight the gas
and electric lights we're burning,
the ball game was declared of and peo-
pie felt their way home.
twenty-five football gladiators
representing the Western University of
Pennsylvania came to Butler, Saturday.
with the intention Of practicing On the
local bunch to the extent of about 80 to
0. but had a hard time winning 8 to 0,
on one touch down. The locals were
assisted by Weakley, Hamilton and Nc
COLON of Grove City.
In preparing your advertising you
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