Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1906-02-01
THE BUTLER CITIZEN.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 1, 1906.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
NoTE-AIl advertisers intending TO make
changes In their ads. should notify rs OF
their Intention to do so not later tnan non'
dav morning.
Adminfsti ators and Executors Of estates
can secure their receipt books at the
CITIZEN ONCE.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Tomorrow is ground hog day.
The first month of the year 1906 is
gone.
Butler has 1894 school kids, and
the county 1924
The outlook for crop Of ice this
winter is very poor.
-Zelienople Is to have a non-explo-
sion powder factory. nearby.
The residence of L. P. Mccoy Of
Grove City was partially destroyed by
fire, last Friday.
People who prophesied that we
were to have an open winter have the
best of it 80 far.
Next Saturday is the last day for
filing applications for license. for the
hearing on the 26th
Chickens were scarce in Butler.
last week, and our dealers sent to
Pittsburg, for lot.
Al Latchaw and son have opened
a grocery in the new National Bank
building in Zelienople.
Ground was broken for the founda-
tions for the car wheel foundry. on the
Car works grounds, Monday.
Ash Wednesday. the beginning of
Lent. falls on February % this year.
and Easter Sunday April Is.
The Berg property at the corner Of
Main and Cunningham. 40 #. on Main,
il reported to have changed hands at
$4,000
Remember that tomorrow is the
last day for filing nomination papers for
the February election for borough and
townships
A bunch Of fat keys was found on
the W. Penn street bridge, last Sunday.
The owner will find them at the Krause
barber shop.
AT Ormond, Fla, last Friday, q
man ran an automobile over q mile
track in % seconds or at the rate of 1873
miles an hour.
The Pittsburg g. Butler trolley line
lie to have a Westinghouse equipment
that will run the cars at As miles an
hours an hour.
The $40 q. m. and $50 p. m. trains
on the West Penn run into the Union
Station, Liberty street, PittsDurg, and
trains for Butler lesve that station at
3:O5 and $40 p. m.
This promises to become known as
the winter when it tried to snow.
People who went to Florida and Cali
fornia for the climate spent their
money uselessly this time.
Charles EMORY Smith, former
editor Of the Philadelphia Press, and
Postmaster General, lectures on the
High School Alumni course In the
Majestic theatre. this evening
The police arrested lot Of thieves,
mostly foreigners, at shanty near Tar
entum, last Thursday night. and recov-
cred lot of stuff stolen from the rail |
road, and from houses in that vicinity. |
ALI the b. r. u r. trains run into
the B. & o. station on Smithdeld ST.,
Pittsburg. and do not stop between
Butler and Pittsburg unless held up by
signals or switched on the Butler branch
to pass other trains.
The Car Works here paid ont $780,
600 In wages and salaries. last Saturday.
and the bars of Butler did a tremen-
dous business that afternoon and even
ing. Butler is probably the best hotel
town Of its size In the world.
The double tracking Of the Besse-
mer north Of town, necessitates chang
ing the channel Of the creek to the
north of the Kearns crossing. and the
steam shovel Ia ut work there The 10
cation OF the bridge, also, will be
changed.
People who send us money for the
CITIZEN and Pirtsburg Times will kind
ly settle their subscriptions to the CITI-
ZEN to date or beginning of year, as
that will simplify the keeping Of their
account The club rate for the two pa
pers 10 % per year.
With every visit Of the stork to his
home, George Cramer, q farmer Of
Eldorado, Is., gets q check for u, 900
from his father In Germany, and the
stork has paid 10 visits. Although he
has not been more than ordinarily sue
cessful at raising crops. Cramer has
cleared $l2, 600 raising babies.
Some witty railroader wrote shop
on the door Of the waiting room Of the
West Penn station. We hope he is q
good prophet. Shop" should have
been married on both Buffers railroad
stations long ago. II tine B. & o.
spends e50, 900 ON station In Butler it
will not be more than the needs Justify.
Three boys Of this town. sons of
respectable parents, and the eldest Of
whom Is said to be but II years of age.
have been having great fun, of late.
slipping into houses and stealing things,
but the police got ''onto them" and
stopped their fun. Thirty-one pocket
booke. taken from different houses,
were found under one Cliff st. stable.
AT a meeting of the Advisory
Board and County Commissioners with
Judge Galbreath. Wednesday. extern
sive alterations In the Court House
th principal Of which are the removal