Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1906-03-08


Devoe Paint
d. & G's clothing.
Campbell's furniture.
b. & D. Excursions.
Administr ators and Executors Of estate
CITIZEN ofice.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
The wild geese are honking their wa,
northward
Burgess Bell has office hours-9 tt
IL and 2 to ).
Two Main street stores changed
hands this week.
A caucus of Councilmel is some
thing new in Butler.
The: County Commissioners are in
specting the Plank Road today
Butler needs Building Inspector
A man who knows his buJiness.
What miserable day was last Sat
urday. and nobody would sell rope thai
day.
The grand Jury is studying the pro
posed Court House improvements. thii
week.
The new street commissioner,
Burchfield, intends to keep our streets
clean.
The two. well-dressed, deaf and
dumb men, selling soap are said to be
frauds.
s-The Holt greenhouses have been
leased by Gustavus Schelegel, Chica-
go florist.
-Hagenback's lions are to be seen in
Butler. May sth. Hold your breath
till they come.
g. F. Keck, the merchant tailor.
has received his Spring and Summer
stock of suitings.
--One Of the walls in Duffy's North
street building has bulged out and will
have to be rebuilt.
With the roads as they are it would
be a good idea for those flying machine
fellows to hurry up.
The Democrats will hold their coun-
ty primary on the 24th-one week be-
fore the Republicans.
Cleo. w. Amy purchased the Nc
Clymonds property, near theSouthceme-
terry. this week, for $1,000.
Butler county is good-very good
according to the constables returns. ex-
cepting Lyndora and Prospect.
AT the annual meeting of the direc-
tors of the Pure Oil Co. last week. 2
per cent dividend was declared.
"A new Sun appeared in Pittsburg
last Thursday, and on days like last
Saturday, it was the only Sun in sight.
-Pittsburg real estate comes high.
The available sites for new postoffice
building there ranges from a million
mp.
The rooster case will be tried in
Majestic Theatre by the Y. NJ. c. A.
and others next Tuesday eyening-the
18th.
The main line of the Penn'a r. Il.
between Pittsburg and Philadelphia is
to be paralleled at cost of thirty mil
lions.
Complaints OF rowdyism in Bruin
and Petrolia haye lately reached Butler;
but nobody seems to know where the
liquor comes from.
Tax Collector Davidson filed a bond
in $10O. 900 yesterday. The bonds OF
the tax collectors of the county run
from two to ten Thousand.
Mara is to have a public sale of
lots, OF the John B. Park place, just
east of town, on next Tuesday, the 18th,
beginning at pm. See adv. in an
other place.
As result of the visit of Con-
gressional Committee to Pittsburg. last
week, that city is to have new three
million dollar Postoffice and U. s.
Court building.
The County Commissioners Of
Butler county met with those OF Arm
strong county at Freeport. yesterday.
to arrange for the building Of a joint
bridge over the Buffalo at West Win
field
The city Of Pittsburg has presented
the Pittsburg street railways company
with bill OF $34S, 900 for keeping Fifth
and Penn AYES. clean for the past six
years. The charters OF the street car
companies require 1t. and they didn't
do II.
MT. Chestnut Grange, No. 13a
seems to have passed q resolution
'favoring the removal of the Internal
revenue tax from domestic alcohol made
unfit for use az beverage"-whatever
that means. but as theTpsper sent us Ii
not signed we will not publish it.
-Twenty-four distric ts In Erie coun
ty voted on the question of cash road
tax under the new supervisor law al
the recent election. and all but two
were against the new law. That wal
about the proportion all over this sec
tion of the State.
Down in Freeport the election board
was furnished with list OF residents Of
that burg disqualified as voters by the
non payment Of taxes within two years
This is good idea, one that other com
munities would do well to copy after: =
Kittanning Press.
Our County Commissioners have Sc
lected J. G. Fulton of Uniontown. Pa
a. the architect to prepare sketches Of
the proposed improvements to be made
upon the Court House, this summer ;ant
he has already been here and made hi
measurements. The improvements con
templated are the building ont Of tn
recesses of the building. an additiona
court room and more vault room.