Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1906-01-04

Z. E. BELL.
J.B. BLACK, of the Fourth ward.
For Collector of Taxes,
ARCHIE w. DAVIDSON.
b. 81. JACK.
ID. LARDIN.
IF. MCCLUNG.
Everybody out but father.
And he'll be out soon, too,
When shortly after New Years
The Christmas bills fall due.
Mother, she went shopping,
So did Sister Ann.
Everybody worked poor father,
The dear Old Man.
-Spriug chickens are wanted at tn'
Fulton Fish Market. See ady.
The 8. r. & P. Co. has ordered
so,ne new coaches and PRllmans.
The stokey House In zelienopls
lately changed hands for $4,000
Thomas McGuirk Of Butler viii
build the new Bessie bridge piers.
The P. r. r. Co. has cut out al
masses, and is now after the switches.
The Phillips machine shops on T.
Cunningham st. are being enlarged.
Have you noticed that each day Il
least 81 seconds longer than its prede
cessor.
Butler had eight kinds Of weather
on the shortest day of the year-Juss
ike Kansas.
Have You seen the new, noiseless
matchs You drop one and it lights
lights upon the floor.
The coal miners of Butler county
drew about slOO, ,0OO-semi-nonthly
wages, last Saturday.
Butler county has another lAoor
case on hands-this time from the Ze-
Iienople bath tub works
The steel ties are success and the
Bessie has ordered more of them. This
will save many good tree.
The holiday travel was immense.
The local railroads handled about ten
thousand passengers in Bntler.
Prospect is having telephone poles
and wires put up throughout the town
by the Independent Telephone Co.
On Monday the stock and business
of the Jacob Boos grocery store was sold
to Charles Miller. who is now in charge.
-Supt. Dr. Dixon has appointed his
collectors of vital statistics. Those for
this county will call upon you and ask
questions.
1906 was ushered in in Butler. last
Sunday night by great noise which
began Immediately after the clock
struck twelve.
The Butler Savings and Trust Co.,
Butler County National and Farmers
National Banks all declared per cent,
quarterly dividends on Monday.
1t is estimated that the foreigners
OF Western Pennsylvania sent three
millions Of dollars to their former homes
In Europe for Christmas presents.
A young couple furnished public
entertainment Sunday afternoon by
billing and cooling for an hour or more
in an upper window of one of our ho-
tells.
The Western Allegheny is to be
completed to New Castle by March 1st,
and then we are to have two passenger
trains daily. each way-Butler to New
Castle.
Thee eOctogenarians held their regular
monthly meeting in the Y. M. G, A.
rooms, last Saturday; and they have in
yited all the ladies of the county over
so years Of age to join with them
The tax payments. last week, were
heavy, but on account OF the delay in
having the books ready last July. the
per cent will not be added to last years
taxes until next Monday week, the
18th.
The factories Of this country pro-
duced thirty-two million square feet OF
plate glass, last year, and the demand
II 90 steady that prices advanced 50 per
cent during the last four months Of the
year.
while Mrs. Mary Began and hel
son were attending the funeral of her
daughter. Mrs. Jennie McClain, al
Avalon. Dec a0tb, their home at Rem
frew was mysseriously burned with al
the contents
The Saturday before Christmas wat
the busiest day Santa Claus has evel
had in Butler. The receipts of several
Of our stores for that day exceeded two
thousand dollars. and the receipts O
one of our express Offices which ar,
now the wholesale liquor stores Of th'
town-ran over four thousand.
Some of our. teamsters have beer
Dragging about the tremendous load
they can haul and have hauled; and i
you take notice to one of them doing !
you may conclude that the good Office
Of the Humane Agent, or agent for tn
prevention of cruelty to animals is call
cd for, instead of braggadocia.
That new road law ought to hav
been advertised and ventilated thre
months ago, but 1t has just been discoy
cred Our Legislatures should not pei
sist in hiding their light under bushe
surely some simple and inexpenslv
way can be found for promptly inform
ing the people of the import Of all thei
Acts of general interest.
The valvaline Oil Co. completed II
purchase of the Henry Green farm
Summit twp, last week, and also pul
chased 25 acres of the old Judge Nc
Candless tract from s. c. McCandles
Of Pittsburg, which gives them 1C
acres in all, and frontage along bot
the B. & o. and B. r. g. P. railroad
and on which, it is said, they propo,
building refinery. The Valvaline
an Independent refining company, hi
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