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

Aanln ...,,e their receipt books at the
CITIZEN Office and persons Ing public
sales their note DOCKS
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
One little-two little
Three little babies :
All at the County Home
Two are twins
With very white skins.
But the black one goes it alone.
-(iroundhog day.
Will be see his shadow.
Good ice crop this season.
Big party at Great Belt. tonight
Tuesday week is St Valentines
day.
The grounding is taking his annual
peep.
Nobody is hankering for six weeks
more Of winter.
"A deer is reported to have been seen
in the Pine Tract.
From now on the political liar will
work double torn
1t will be warmer, soon-the cam
paign has Just begun
The people of Butler are not hank
ering for city charter.
Travel on all railroads just at pres
ent is exceedingly light.
This is the kind of weather that
sends the tramps into jails.
Mars is well represented in town
today. on account of a law suit.
An attempt wss made to rob the
Saxonturg postofice last week.
The Hutzler Bros wish to sell their
store at Denny's Mills See adv.
Postmaster Robinson took charge
of the Butler postofice yesterday morn
ing.
A good way to forget your own
troubles is to remember the other fell
lows.
Three years have passed since the
Biddles were killed near Prospect
January s1st.
The EIks' Huskin- bee was great
success. the corn was shocked in the
centre Of the room.
The old-time spelling match is be-
ing revived in some places as popular
furm of amusement.
Gallery had burglars again, last
Wednesday night, and some express
packages were stolen.
There will be social in the Sun
day School room Of Grace Lutheran
church, Friday evening.
j. G. & W. Campbell have just re-
ceived car load Of Cypher IDcubators.
which give good satisfaction.
The net earnings Of the U. =. Steel
Corporation for the last quarter Of last
year were $21. .45S, 734. Isn't that sonnet
"A New York policeman was at tie
right spot at the right moment the
other day. and q man from third-story
window fell upon him.
They had q blizzard in the Klon-
dixie, last week. something extraordina-
Jy; and 1t was 20 below zero on the top
OF the Alleghenies the other morning.
--MeadviHe was in the papers, last
week 1t had bank-run. A report
regarding the Crawford County Trust
Co. caused run on II. bnt 1t was soon
over.
The chicken show will begin next
Wednesday morning, at corner OF Main
and Cunningham streets, Butler. Over
three hundred entries had been made.
mp to yesterday, and the.competition for
the prizes will be strong
"A Butler bar-keep was the first to
bid on that four-miIlion dollar diamond
lately found in South Africa. but the
chances are that Rockefeller will get it
1t weighs three Thousand carats. and
then some-or about three pounds
The frost extended over the South
ern States and killed the growing vege-
tables, which will come higher this
spring. The fall of snow. however, was
keaviest along the coast, last week, and
delayed travel. New York was shut-in
Tor two days.
Six pension papers mailed from
Batter TO Pension Agent Nesbit in
Pittsburg, last month, did not reach
their destination. The pensions for the
quarter were paid. but new vouchers
had to be made out. The management
Of the Pittsburg postoffice is said to be
ION the bum"
People interested In astronomy
should know that the two brilliant OBJ
jects in the western sky these evenings
are the planets Venus and Jupiter. We
mus is the farthest west and is the
brightest on account OF being compare.
lively near Us; bnt Jupiter is the whale
Of the known worlds. and her fifth
moon has lately been discovered.
wv. d. Bovard Of New Hope served
on the jury last week and during visi
to our Office said that up in slipperyrocl
creek sulphur water from the mines in
the Hilliard Valley has killed off all
the fish above the Kiester dam excep,
carp. which it does not affect. At tn,
Hogg dam carp weighing Is pounds
may be shot. When the dam Is frozen
thick with ice the big fish crowd to tn,
gate feeding the mill race for air and
eau be taken ont with garden rake
The sulphur has also had the effect O
clarifying the water 30 that the lotion
can be plainly seen where the water
ten feet deep. Slipperyrock creek wa
always famous for it's pike; but carr
which destroy the spawn, sulphur wa
ter and salt water formed a trio to
strong for the big game fish, At rar
intervals one Is still caught, but neve
further mp stream than the Etna mill
dam. The last pike Mr.. Bovard remem