Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1905-05-04

Robinsons Circus-
Good Cook Wanted.
Axmini,.s 4sors and Executors of estate.
cn secure their receipt books At the
CITIZ EN- once. and persons making public
salss thsir note books.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
New moon today.
The SOth of this month is Decora
tion Day.
"A new Reformed parsonage win bt
built at Chicora.
C, A. Oil has purchased the Slaug
enhaupt store at Ssrversville.
Nobody kan kid Kidd about thai
Park-it's all right, posies and all.
Always look over the columns OF
the Citizen before you a-shopping 90.
The new Catholic church In Lyn'
dora will be dedicsted on Memorial Day.
With = circus and the baseball open.
ing Butler be lively spot, Saturday q
week.
--Findley & Brown have purchased
the Gibson grocery on West Jefferson
street.
Fresh mackeral are arriving from
the sea. and fresh fish Of all kinds from
the lakes.
The German Catholic church Of
Butler Is to be extensively improved.
this summer.
All the big railroad companies are
placing tremendous orders for locomo-
tives and cars.
There were seven cases Of spotted
fever" in the Municipal Hospital. Pitts.
burg. Tuesday.
"A Merry Cobbler" ut the Saxon
burg Opera house. Saturday evening,
BY the students Of Cabot Institute.
The accident Of last Friday after
noon is warning to all boys to keep off
the streets when the fire alarm is sound
ed.
Farmers and breeders are directed
to the adv. Of Alonzo McCandiess. He
has two as fine horses as you will find
anywhere.
-E. 8. Kregar has purchased the
Markell Store 1t Greece City. and Il
ready TO accommodate his nsighbors
with the best OF groceries.
The Treasurer Of Butler borough
paid ont tes. 166. A for the year ending
March 18th. We paid eight mills, last
year. and will pay the same this year.
The New Castle Ministerial associs-
tion, composed Of al the pastors Of the
city and msEy throughout the county.
has begun . campaign against Sunday
funerals.
Sheriff Gibson wishes his friends to
remember that he has purchased the
old May Il Kennedy Livery. to the
rear Of the John Bickel building on
Maia street. See I'd.
"A gang Of masked men isolsted the
village Of Gilbsrtsville. n. Y. early
Tuesday morning, by cutting ali the
tcfsK1apL aud sofePho1e w5Yos, fboa
broke into the village bank. blew open
the safe. robbed 1t Of from five to ten
thnusand dollsrs, and made good the II
escape.
Representative Of the Merchants
and Manufacturers Association OF Pitts.
burg sre due to arrive In Butler tomor.
row noon, and win remain here until 8
pm. They left Pittsburg. Monday
morning. on their special train, going
mp the Beaver valley; have toured the
northwestern part Of the state and will
stop in Butler on their return trip to-
morrow.
The salary Of the County Superin-
tendent was left where It was. about
tl,700a year, that Of Supt. Gibson oi
the Butler schools was raised $500 to
$500 year. In Indiana county the
salary Of the County Superintendent
was fixed at $4,000, Beaver county q,
It u, 800. Somerset county st 5000
Washington county at $4,000; BlaiI
county at 81 800. and Cambria county
ut u, 800.
AT its meeting Of Tuesday e-sninf
the Butler Council fixed the tax rate fo
this year ut S-mills. and decided to issu,
10000 worth Of bonds-the Hxet
charges on the borough for running ex
penses now aggregate about e4s, 900 pc
ysar-A T. Black resigned the Solicitor
ship and 81. Coulter was elected In hi
stead. Harry Grieb was reelected Sewe
Inspector. ordinances were adopted To-
the paving Of parts Of franklin, Eas
Penn, z. Pearl, Race and New CastI
streets and Fourth Ave.
The Connoquensssing lodge Of Odt
Fellows awarded the contract for
four-stcry building on their lot ct cor
uer Of Main snd v. Cunningham Sts.
last Friday. The main entrance IL I,
Be from Main and there will be an inclin
to second story -instead Of steps. Th
large store room win front on Main st
and the small ones ON Cunningham
The cost will be shout t50, 900, size 8,
$50; and the building IL to be complete.
BY March 10. 1905. The work Of de
molishing the old buildings was com
menced Monday.
The story we begin, this week,
one relating TO the Puritanical persecu
tlons In England, wnich were after
wards continued In this country,
seems remarkable that It ID but o fey
centuries since people believed in a.
troIogy. demonology. divipation an.
magic, though the spirituslism Of tn
present day Is first cousin to them all
In England the common law and after
wards the statutes took notice OF witci
craft, and several people were burne
to death for that alleged crime. TIL