Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1905-02-09


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LOCAL AND GENERAL.
February is our zero month
Co. I is billed for the Noggeration.
Next Tuesday is st. Valentine day.
Teachers Institute at Prospect, Sat
urday evening.
Borough and township elections,
Tuesday week, 2lst.
The next Butler Fair will be held
the week of Aug 21st
The goose-bone of the winter mas
not yet been broken.
We haven't heard anybody say that
they saw robin yet.
The stock of the lceless Refrig. Co.
has been increased to 100000.
A half hour of daylight at each end
of the day makes a perceptible differ
ence.
Whatever you are, be man. says
--sne proverb. This injunction does no
apply to women.
The chicken show is on. Some OF
the chickens on exhibition are as big as
turkeys. The show is success.
We beg leaye to withdraw those
brief references to the breath OF spring
which appeared in this column a few
days ago. -Ex.
The ground hog theory originated
with the negroes of the southern states
where it is possible for spring to begin
on the 2nd of February.
-Four Of Hoch's wives appeared
against him in Chicago, and indictments
for bigamy were found against him.
then the wives held reunion.
Some valuable chickens were frozen
in this county, lately. but there were
plenty left for the show, now open at
the corner of Main and Cunningham
SITS.
The quarterly meeting of the Wo-
mems Hospital Association will be held
in Y. NJ. G. A. parlors, on Tuesday,
Feb. IA, at 3p. m. A larger member
ship is desirable.
On Sunday, the Goth ult, the beau
tiful new brick M. E. church at Eau
Claire was dedicated, and the last dollar
Of the total cost of "a, 500 was raised by
the congregation.
A play carpenter is at work on
drama based on the Nan Patterson case.
The author Of the Mrs. Soffel nightmare
can tell him that there is not much
money in it.-Ex.
1T was is below zero in Butler, last
Friday morning, Feb 3d-the lowest
yet. Glendive. Montana, was the cold
est spot that morning, the mercury
there was SO below.
1T was cold as well as windy in
Chicago, last week. For three days the
mercury registered Is below zero. and
the Polar bear in the Lincoln Park Zoo
was frozen to death.
The town of Portage in the noun
LII To- 10 afflicted q
with smallpox that the mails to and
from the place have been discontinued,
and the trains stopped.
-Messrs Ben Shannon of Franklin
twp. and - Wachmutb of Butler
twp purchased W. 3. McCrea's flour
and feed business on E. Cunningham
st. and will take possession April 1st.
Fifty people from Pittsburg and
vicinity sailed from New York, last Fri
day, on the Arabic, bound for the Med
iterranean; and the Victoria Louise,
bound for the West Indies, on pleasure
and sightseeing trips.
Zero weather causes an epidemic of
ills everywhere, and reports from all
parts of the country show decided in
crease in the number of cases of sickness
Extreme cold creates bodily weak
ness that makes the hnman race very
susceptible TO all varieties of disease.
The people of Indiana state are
down on cigarettes, and the legislature
Of that state lately passed an act max
ing 1t unlawful to own. cell or give
away cigarettes, cigarette wrappers or
cigarette tobacco, and provides six
months imprisonment as the maximum
penalty for violating the law.
The Sunny South has been having a
taste Of winter. At Atlanta, Georgia,
Last Saturday, ice, snow, sleet and rain
that froze as it fell, brought all traffic
to stand-still and knocked out the elec-
trick light service; at Jackson, Mississ-
ippi, rain on top of snow caused the
roofs of nearly every business house
and residence to leak.
The 588 rooms in the Frick build
ing, Pittsburg, have all been rented fol
the coming year, at Increased rates, and
the owner intends building 120x95 an
mex, fronting Diamond st. The pres
emit building has frontage of 217 fee
on Grant, Is 81 stories above the Gran
st. grade, and is considered the fines
Office building in the world.
Mrs. John A. Kirkpatrick. young
married woman. was foun dead in
back yard. on jackson ST., Allegheny
last Sunday mornin She did her shop
ping Saturday evening, on her wa,
home was attacked in an alley and drag
ged into the back yard of an unoccupie,
house, and choked to death. A youn,
man. and former admirer. named Nor
man Geyser. is under arrest.
Out of %, 900 cases Of disease in Ger
Oku's Jap. army. during the past min
months there were but forty dea tbs