Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1906-09-27

. Four and twenty charters
At present have the floor.
Up and down and all around
On street and road and lane,
You'll find those paper railroads
In never ending chain.
Some are on the surface,
And some are in the air,
Some are underneath the earth.
'Tis cool and pleasant there
Ev'ry shape and ev'ry style
Of railroad that we know
Is on the stocks for Pittsburg
And is yearning for show.
Gazette Times.
Most corn is cut.
Colds are getting ripe.
-Shamburger has wings.
Some frost these mornings.
Some buckwheat already threshed.
The E. Pearl ST. paving is at
stand-still.
The Water Co. put in six-million
gallon pump.
The Standard Oil Co. has fifty three
million barrels of oil in storage.
The Standard Car Co. intends build
ing a passenger coach department..
Good show at the Majestic, this
week, and they are playing to good
houses.
More fruit has come to Butler this
year from Mt. Chestnut than from any
other near point.
Even the fruit stores change hands
the Sugar Bowl has absorbed the
Great American.
John shaffner has the contract for
having Pillow st. at 1880. and N. j.
Dover. First Ave. at 81, 926.
The dog -poisoner starts out to Kill
one offensive dog, and generally gets
the best in the neighborhood-
The amount of oil left in old Butler
county continues to surprise people.
There are two 15O-barrel wells in the
county at present.
The farmers of Lancaster county
will realize g, 900, 900 from their tobae-
CD crops this year, an excess OF $l,ooo'-
600 over last year.
This is remarkable fall, but not
more 40 than that Of 1881. when the
public schools of Butler were closed on
account of the heat and drouth.
-During the year erding June 3d.
1905. an average of 26 people per day
uere killed on the railroads of the U. 3.
and the total for the year was 9. 7O3.
r-Constable McCandless had $40 In
.Ebld and 81 so in n.,cr to sell the other
day. Metal money can be. and paper
money cannot be, sold on an execution
The rig Of the South Penn Oil Co.
on the I. l.. Cumberland farm in Con
cord twp. was burned, one night las
week. The drillers struck pocket o
gas which exploded.
-Messrs whitekettIe and Morgan
from Leechburg and Vandergrift. have
purchased the Doutt dry goods store
aud will take possession as soon as they
complete taking stock.
The relative value Of ashes, ,cinders
and broken stone and sand for founda'
tions for cement curbing and paving
are being discussed by Councilmen
anent the fuss on E. Pearl St.
Ten Allegheny families who ate
cream putfs. cream sponge, jelly rolls
and cocoanut custard pies from the
Hanna bakery, last Sunday. were poi
soned, and it will take a chemical exam
ination to find out, if possible, what dit
it.
1t is reported that the physicians o.
Erie are about to form dug trust. l
is said that thirty of the medical mel
and one druggist have organized them
selves, have rented room and will con
duct a drug store on the co-operativ
plan.
Dozens of girls from Meadville an
the surrounding country are makinl
for the lake belt to pick grapes durin
the harvest season. This event.i in tn
form of an outing for the girls and
great source of enjoyment and expel
fence.
The County Commissioners. Stree
Car Co., railroad companies ard Butle
township people are considering plan
for joint viaduct over the railroads
the Kearns crossing. 1t will have to /
about ZOO feet long, and the estimate
cost is $4,000.
The officials Of the Pittsburg Butle
trolley line took their first trip over pa
of it-from near Butler to Bryant ST.
ton last Thursday The trestle oyt
Thorn Greek was completed last weel
1t is six hundred feet long, and fft
feet oyer the creek. The span in Blu
ler over the Bessie is 100 feet,
Now that Councils have passed q
ordinance providing that pictures of a
habituaI drunkards shall be hung
every saloon in the city, together wi
warning not to sell liquor to chem II
habitual drukards are to be corrall'
and photographed.
p. S-This happened in Fond du La
Wisconsin.
An Italian interpreter named Grit
ly, who has had desk room with w:
Findley, was reported missing, Mondi
morning, with something over tv
thousand. dollars. that he had collect,
Tor the purpose of establishing an tt
Ian paradise. somewhere in Csliforni
BE was arrested at jamestown. N.
Tuesday evening
"A Chicago professor recently
clared that the so-called spelling refol
would find many more friends amo
women than men, since the latter 3
moge logical by nature while the forH
are easily deceived by specious arg
ments in favor Of anything that saw
OF a change in fashions. The art