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PAGE F0U1L THE BTJTLER CITIZElf. THURSDAY, JANUARY 13, 1910, THE BUTLER CITIZEN. A I.pwislmrs 'dispart of Tuesday states that many families in that vi from tile date of registry. That section 393!) of tlio Revised Statutes be amended so as to enable the postmaster-general to fix the period of time during which unclaimed letters bearing the card of the sender shall be held at the office of address M. CHRISTLEY, President.

N. C. McCOLLOUGH, Secretary. LAURELL E. CHRISTLEY, Treasurer and Editor.

Managing Editor. to 233,025 pieces, and 4,226,507 inclos-ures of printed circulars and unsigned letters which could not be returned were destroyed. It was necessary to open 9,950,507 letters and parcels to ascertain a clue to the sender, and of these 5,448,574, or 55 per cent, were delivered. Fully 45 per cent of the letters containing unsigned communications, and envelopes inclosing printed circulars, B. F.

PRIDE, Published daily except Sunday. 17, 1909, at tne postoffice at Butler, Entered as second-class matter May under the Act of March 3, 1879. By carrier, delivered daily, 10c per week. Mailed to subscribers, in Butler County, at $3 per year. In advance.

Butler's Best Advertising Medium and Greatest Newspaper. Address all communications to departments. All artlclPB Intended for publication must be signed. a COURT OFFICERS. President judge, HON.

JAMES M. QALBREATH. Court Stenographers. Ed. S.

Riddle and Georgia Christie. County OfTlclala. John B. Caldwell Sheriff Jas. M.

Cruikshank Prothonotary R. M. McFarland of Court Julian A. Clark. RegiBter and Recorder 9.

C. Trimble A. C. Troutman District Attorney Dr. R.

L. Stackpole R. S. Penfield. county Superintendent J.

C. KIskadaou Chas. A. Rieger Commissioner W. H.

Grabe John H. JackBon Com'rs Counsel B. Scott Cem'n Clerk H. E. Heberling E.

Warner Thompson Audi tort Rob't A White 9a)e Thorne John Leisle Jury Commissioners Chas. F. B. County Surveyor The Short Line PUBLIC SALE! There will be exposed at Public Sale at the Court House at Butler, on SATURDAY, JANUARY 22, 1910, at one o'clock p. m.

of said day the entire coal in and under the John Burk heirs' farm in Venango township, Butler county. bounded and described as follows: On the north by lands of H. T. Mur-rin and M. Murrin; on the east by lands of Frank McNamee heirs; on the south by lands of David Burk heirs; on the west by lands of Amos Seaton and the Bessemer Coal company, containing 119 acres, more or less.

TERMS OF SALE. One-third of selling price, to be paid when property Is sold, and the balance In two equal annual payments, with interest on deferred payments at 6 per cent, to be secured by bond and mortgage on the sold premises. C. G. MAGEE, A.

M. CHRISTLEY, ELLEN McBRIDE, Owners. FOURTH CLASS POSTMASTER EXAMINATION, SATURDAY, JANUARY 22, 1910. The United States Civil Service Commission announces that on the date named above an examination will be held at Hilliards, for the position of fourth class postmaster of class at Deegan, Pa. The Compensation of the postmaster at this office was $415 for the last fiscal year.

Age limit, 21 years and over on the date of the examination, with the exception that in a state where women THURSDAY, JANUARY 13, 1910. Interesting Report The following from the report of the fourth assistant postmaster gen-( era! will be found of general interest: for. rural delivery service are accepted for investigation only where there is a prima facie showing that the conditions necessary to the establishment and maintenance of the service exist. Before the service is established investigation by an inspector must disclose that all the requirements for its installation actual ly exist, and upon approval of a fav orable report of an inspector the installation does not take place until the postmaster certifies that three- fourths of the families accessible will pledge themselves to use the service. The number of petitions filed in the past fiscal year was 3,376.

Of this number S61 had not been accepted and were pending June 30, 1909. Of the 3,015 petitions disposed of. 907. or 31 per cent, were rejected by reasons of lack of population, the existence of bad roads, unbridged streams, or other conditions not justifying an investigation, and 2,108 petitions were accepted for investigation. On June 30, 1909, reports had been made in 1,470 of these cases, of which 647, or 44 per cent, were adverse to the installation of the service.

During the past fiscal year, in line with the policy adopted in 1906, attention has been given to the improvement in the more systematic arrangement of rural service "where eondi-tfons were not satisfactory, resulting in the extension of rural delivery to a larger number of people with a minimum increuse in cost, an improved service in all instances, and in many instances an actual saving has been effected without any impair- uient of the service. Incident to this. are declared by statute to be of full! age for all purposes at 18 years, wo-1 men 18 years of age on the date of; the examination will be admitted. Applicants must reside within the territory supplied by the post office named above. The examination Is open to all citizens of the United States who can comply with the requirements.

Application forms and full information concerning the reqirrements of the examination can be secure'd from the postmaster at Deegan and Hilliards, or from the United States Civil Service Commission, Washington, D. C. Applications should be properly ex ecuted and filed with the commission at Washington within seven days be-1 modern service methods, and the rea-fore the date of the examination, oth-i sonable Drlce of highest grade good, erwlse It may be impracticable to ex-! appeal to those who give us their pa-amlne the applicants. tronage. which failed of delivery in the postal service, did not disclose the address of the senders.

Of the undeliverable matter received 926,308 pieces contained inclos-ures of value, this representing a decrease of 159,823 from the previous year. The number of unclaimed letters containing money decreased nearly 7 per cent, and the amount found inclosed, $59,078.90, was $6,520.67 less than last year. However, the value of postage stamps undeliverable, and con-, sequently destroyed, was or $106.59 more than received in the preceding year. Drafts, checks, money orders, of a nominal value of $2,100,656.38 were received, a falling off of In addition to the receipts of letters and parcels above described, there were approximately 8,000,000 post cards and postal cards received for destruction. Of these no record is kept.

The revenue derived from dead mail matter for the year amounted to from the following sources: Sale of merchandise, removed from letters and found loose in the mails, currency received for postage, $315.38. The receipts of undeliverable and parcels in the dead-letter bureaus of Hawaii and Porto Rico 'or the fiscal year 1909 and reported this division were as follows: In fawaii, matter of domestic origin, mailed in the United States, mailed in foreign countries, 5,080. In Porto Rico, matter of domestic irigin, mailed in the United States, mailed in foreign countries, 2,531. The falling off in the volume of un-leliverable matter received is very gratifying, both from the standpoint of lessened work in the department and in the interest of the public, inas much as the decrease represents a saving of money and other valuable inclosures from as well as much important personal correspondence, the value of which can not be stated dollars and cents. Much of the decrease is due to the (Systematic ef forts of the department to secure more care on the part of the public in addressing mail matter, especial attention being called to the importance if the use of the writer's return card Lo insure the return of undelivered matter.

Through co-operation of postmasters with their local school author ities, special instructions in postal matters have been given in schools throughout the country. For thi pur pose the Pamphlet of General Information and Model Form of Address have been freely circulated. Every letter and parcel received from which the identity of the sender could be ascertained was returned, and in all other branches of its work the division was practically up to date throughout the year. The work of compiling the new edition of Street Directory of the Principal Cities of the United States was concluded, and the volume was published in March for the use of the postal service. The condition of the work and the inf.reased efficiency of the clerical force of the division permitted the transfer of a number of its employees to other divisions of the department.

Attention is again called to the desirability of amending section 3938, Revised Statutes, so as tp reduce to one year from the date of registry the period of time during which undelivered articles or their proceeds can be reclaimed, thus permitting the adoption of an improved method of disposing of such articles that would eliminate the objectionable Iottery features of the present method and reduce the work or tne ai vision in making records, etc. Recommendations. That the postmaster-general be au-thcrized to arrange experimentally for a limited period for the delivery of packages on rural routes at such rates as may seem expedient. That section 38S9, Revised Statutes, be amended so as to Include rural carriers. (This section provides for the ot pt, wT- gaged en his route g3geU hIs rnte ln thp Cf ihls tlutv as a letter carrier.) That Bection 3yiS Revi-fcd Statutes be amended so as to reduce to one I cinity were amazed at a shower of queer-looking garden seeds which recently fell upon their real estate from the upper air.

A great deal of conjecture is rife as to the starting point of the shower, the like of which is unknown. If search is made, we have no doubt but that it will be found that some country editor, near by, who has been the annual recipient of mail-bags full of government seeds, per his home Congressman, has "cleaned house" during the prevalence of a high wind. Such remrakable phenomena most always have homely, everyday explanations. )o( Announcements Following are announcements of candidates for office at the Republican subject to the will of the electors, Saturday, January 22, 1910: For Auditor W. M.

Turner, Firth ward. For Council James P. Mellinger, Second ward. Dr. M.

D. Kattraba, Fourth ward. Dr. R. A.

Thompson, Council, Fifth ward, For School Director Hardee II. Hepler, First ward. James L. Garroway, Fourth ward. CANDIDATES' CARDS The Citizen Is prepared to print the announcement of candidates for office at the coming election Rates for this will be made known on application to this office.

Cards will be printed in the order that they come in. VIEWERS NOTICE. In the Court of Common Pleas of 3utler county, at MsD No. 9, M. H.

1910. The undersigned having been ap pointed by the Court to assess the cost of grading, paving and curbing, Liberty street, in the Borough of Butler, from Wayne to Washington streets upon the properties benefitted by tlie improvement. To the property owners along said part of said street and all persons interested, you are hereby notified that viewers will meet upon said street for the purpose of this appointment on January 24th, 1910, at 10 a. at which time and place you may be present and be heard. W.

D. PURVIS, JOHN LA WALL, GEORGE SHAFFNER, Viewers. The Butler Citizen on sale at A. Watson's news bureau, Renfrew, every Doming. tf Work and Save Economize now while you are employed, nnj invest your savings in this strong bank, where they will grow at the safe rate 3 per cent interest, compounded No worry then about your investmentsno trouble to get your money back when you, want it.

Come in and let us start YOUR account now. THE Butler County National Bank. Largest and strongest in the County. MILD CURED IRISH HAMS AND BACON Have you ever tried our Irish ham and bacon It is the best ever sold In Butler. Home Made Sausage Just ther thing for breakfast t)i'Ke cold We uiaUe all our own sausage is note better on the market.

PROMPT DELIVERY SERVICE Telephtire us your order and jour wants iM be delivered without delay. Both Telephones. J. II. Goldstrohm, MEAT MARKET.

107 East Jefferson street. the Office Bell I i i. 1 I U. S. CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION.

1 33 EE C3 work 68 routes were discontinued, ef- thele ls any way by which thi8 8er-fecting an annual saving of $50,900. In vice may be made to lncrease tne DOS' one county, after a thorough investi- tal revenue- wiln regard to equin-gation and general readjustment of the ment- rural carriers are required to when no time for return is specified by the writer. P. V. Dli GRAW, Fourth Assistant Postmaster-General.

The Postmaster-General. As it is in Kansas In Kansas, if a woman desires, when she is married to a man she may continue to use her maiden name and he may use his surname and there would be no law that would stop it. Only custom could compel the woman to change her name and accept of her husband. No less an authority than- the Kansas attorney-general. Fred S.

Jackson, has given out this view in an official opinion. A young woman was commissioned a notary public and afterward decided to get married. She still wanted to retain her notary work and asked the attorney general wouiti ue necesj sary to get a new commission ana seal after the marriage. The attorney-general replied that ths was not neces sary and that she could continue to use her old name and pay no atten tion to that of her husband. Also, she desired, she could use her maiden surname for all business transactions and use the name of her husband socially.

Just as a little extra advice the at torney general told the young woman that if her powers of persuasion were sufficient, she might prevail upon her spouse that her name was the best and that he ought to drop his. "There is nothing to prevent this," said the attorney general. "The tak jng Qf tne name (he husband by the wife is wnolIy a matter of custom and not of aw The husband is the head of the family and custom gives him tne right to fix the name for the fam. if yourself and your husband are lot satisfied with either of your sur lames, there is nothing except the criticisms of the public to prevent you picking out some other name in the lictionary of proper names and take it or your When you are married our husband may elect to change his lame to yours or he may decide or something else. That becomes the lame of the and you can not change it.

But there is no law which compels you to accept it. You maj retain your own surname and you and your husband may live under different names." While all things are possible undei the Kansas law, and it is also possible a man to change his name at will still the attorney general does not like the idea of a woman retaining hei maiden name when she is married. In letter to the woman he says that she would not violate any law if she continued to act as a notary public and use her maiden name after her marriage, yet he believes that she ought to give up the business and attend strictly to her household duties. In some countries it is customary for the husband to assume the name of his wife when they are married or the names are joined by a hyphen. In some states it is required that the wife assume the name of the or the statutes so constructed and construed as to make the old established custom a law.

But in Kansas there is no law on the subject at all, although the courts, in granting divorces, restore the maiden name when asked for. The attorney general went all through the law books the state owns where mention of the subject could be found, and he could find nothing to prevent a woman retaining her maiden name after marriage, a man changing his own name to that of his wife, a man changing his own name any time, or adopting a new family name, or a woman transacting business over her maiden jiame after her marriage. i )o( The device invented by a man in chicago by which a "person buried; toQ soon. may slllumon aid from hisj coffin by means of an electric alarm. was one of a number of preventative measures which appeared in the pros-, pectus of a society which was formed i in Paris some years ago.

The pam-, phiet, which was extensively clrcu-j lated, bore on the first page a repro-i duction of the picture "Buried Alive" from the Wurtz Gallery at Brussels, i The letter pre -9 contained many grew-some details on (he subject of preran-. ture burial and closed with the ail- morihi Vou cannot prevent death when your comes, but yon can unrd niia'nKt being buried alive. r-nd-you will learn The hus'est and m'glitiest little thing 18 t.namuenu iu "tomnc and Liver Tab'ets. They do druggists. By placing a Want Ad in the you will reach more readers than if you place it in any other Butler newspaper.

at Your Home Call on the three months' count herein described) and the year 1905, increase, and the percentage of increase: Year 1909 (approximated). Delivered. Registered letters or packages, letters, postal cards, newspapers, circulars, packages total delivered, per cent of increase, 87. Collected. Letters and packages registered, letters, postal cards, newspapers, circulars, packages, total collected per cent of increase, 96.

This remarkable increase is conclusive evidence that the institution of rural delivery has enlarged the amount of the mails handled, and therefore increased the revenues. Thit is true although 45 per cent of th bulk of the mail on rural routes it second-class matter, as the increase applies to all classes of matter, espe cially to letters and postal cards, the latter due to the enormous use of sou venir or picture post cards. The average cancellations per route per month, according to the count kept during March, April and May, 1909, are $14.92. The average cost of the service per route per month at this time is $72.17. It is not practicable to approximate the percentage of the mall delivered on rural routes, the revenues of which should properly be credited to the rural delivery service.

Taking the known revenue per route per month the value of the stamps on the mail collected from the average cost per route per month and rural delivery is costing $57.25 per route per month. The query naturally arises as to whether or not Provide an outnt suuaoie to carry tne mail. In most instances this consists of a wagon or buggy in which from 150 to 200 pounds of mail-can be easily carried. The average weight of the mail on each trip of a rural carrier is about 25 pounds. It is believed at present that in comparative- Iew instances does tne uany weignt of the mail of a carrier exceed 50! pounds.

There- now exists throughout the country almost as much of a network of rural telephone lines as of rural delivery routes. In cities and towns a merchant's patrons use the tele- phone to order goods to be delivered. The rural population, however, except adjacent to the cities, do not have the advantage of delivery enjoyed by the urban population. The best means for the delivery of merchandise in rural districts therefore exists in the rural carriers who are daily traversing their routes. The present rate of postage on merchandise, designed to cover the cost of the carriage of par eels throughout the country.

Is prohibitive of the carriage of parcels from the merchant located at the distributing post office to the patrons of rural delivery. These conditions present an opportunity for making the rural delivery service a source of greater revenue to the government. I have, therefore. to recommnd, in line with recommendations made in several previous annual reports, that the postmaster-general be authorized to arrange, experimentally, for a limited period, for the delivery of packages on rural routes at such rates as may seem expedient, ran I inn pinpnnipi Tfi it." i i Division of Dead Letters. Thp receipts of mail matter lor the i year aggregated 1 1 i pieces, a i Schedule in Effect Dec.

15th, 1909. Dispatch trains leave Butler 7:20 9:20 a. 11:20 a. 1:20 p. 3:20 p.

5:20 p. m. Limited trains leave Butler 6:00 a. 8 a. .,10:00 a.

12:00 2:00 p. 4:00 p. 6:00 p. 7:05 p. 9:25 p.m.

Local trains Ijave Butler 6:45 a. 8:45 a. 10:45 a. 12:45 p. p.

4:45 p. m. and 10:25 p. m. 8:10 p.

m. and 11:10 p. m. Mars Fast Electric Pullman Service. For further information inquire at the Ticket Office, Main and North Btreets, Butler, Pa.

Peoples Phone 489; Bell Phone 315. PITTSBURG BUTLER STREET RAILWAY COMPANY. DELIGHTED Customers are the rule in our store. The best goods, the satisfaction, the Drugs, Toilet Articles, Cigars, Etc. OUR SPECIALTY C.

G. DIXON, Ph. 6. Druggist Butler Co. Na.

Bank Bldg. SOUTH MAIN STREET. To let up Weans hos: In the ft.dvertieing campnign there should be no truce. While the merchant lives and remains iJ business there comes no time when he can safely lay down bis 1 arms. If be ceases advertising 1 for a siugle week be gives bis competitors an advantage.

If he I stops for a month he haa started on the road which leads to discomfiture and nltiuiHte oblivion Advertising is usually cumula tive in its effect. It is true tbat mercantile advertising, if jndi cionsly done, will bring rbtnrna from the beginning But it Is also true that the best results are only obtained by keeping at it. SMOKERS Make this store your headquarters be- cause our large trade assures you of fresh, clean The finest linn of smoker's supplies in Butler. Foreign and domestic tobaccos and cigars. Opposite Ketterer's Shoe Stare.

JOSEPH HABEN Merchant Tailors. Good stylish clothes our specialty. We Aim to Pleaae. Cleaning and pressing done on abort notice. Clothes called for and delivered Shop 314 Locust.

Phone 1048, Peoples, service, a saving was effected of in another county, $1,728. The Installation of rural delivery, as a rule, has been followed by an increase in the amount of mail delivered and collected within the territories respectively covered by that service. During the earlier years this increase was gradual, as a whole. In order to ho-m. i rled on rural-delivery routes, a count was kept during the months of March, April and May, and taken as a basis of calculation, which showed that rural carriers throughout the United States handled during the fiscal year ended June 20, 1909, 1 the enormous bulk of 2,723,262,000 pieces.

During the four years succeeding June 30, 1905, the number of routes advanced 26 per cent, but the increase in the amount of mail delivered was 87 per cent, and mail collected 151 per cent, or an increase of 98 per cent in the whole amount handled. There was an increase of 149 per cent in the number of money orders issued, and'Hl per cent increase in the numbers of letters registered. In 1905 the average number of pieces of. mail bandied per route per month was 3,600. Based upon the count kept during March, April and May, mentioned, the average number of pieces iiow handled per route per month is 5,600 the largest in the history of the service.

Another significant fact Is that on only 2,117, or 5.2 per cent of the rural routes was the quantity ot mail handled less than 9,000 pieces per quarter, which is considered a fair average for a standard route. 'Additional evidence of the increase! A SLICE OF GOOD FORTUNE in good health and strength goes with every slice of our delicious bread. Health is not only wealth, but adds joy to living. You may be sure of the purity and wliolesoineness of every loaf of bread we bake. Same true of pies, cakes, rolls, that go through our hands.

SHERMAN BAKING CO. DROP OFF We are tiil at the old stand oppo site the Court House ii i iit-iru any iiauik, we art- t-A- I perts on repair work of all kinds. WATCHES, CLOCKS OR SPECTACLES. We have a large force of good nie-i chauics and your work will he promptly done. If your watch Is unreliable and does i ti i pieces o.

u.uu u.u tne ended June 6u, um, anu ionics 25.000 or more duriffg the three months ended May CI, 1909. Cipr Store it eooc vear from the date or reenf" itieittiat ev-r was matte nerioil of time dui'inn which undeliv -i ln 1907 twinty-seyen routes hand ed decrease of 1,147.817 from the preced-tuore than 50,000 of mail dur-jing twelve months. Of this matter Ing he quarter ended June SO; in 19091 1.f74,7SS pieces were of origin lnety-live routes more- than 50,000 1 having tailed of delivery in this coun-tliiring the quarter ended May 31. On try, and 591.U04 piece? were addressed thirty-five of tnese routes the value of to foreign countries and returned as tbe stamps on mail for the unclaimed. Of the total number of period Indicated exceeded $200.

On letters and parcels received, 7.f:!5.')44, twenty four routes this item exceeded or 62 per cent, were returned or for-the carrier's salary. warded. This is an lncreare of ered articles or their proceeds can behe work whenever you require their reclaimed. Such an amendment i id. These tablets change weakness would make possible the elimiiiat 'no strength, list'essnes nto energy, of the objectionable lottery feature' elooniiucss into Joymisnes.

in the prei-et method of dis tion is to gentle one don't re-iiize. thev, pesing of such arti -les. it being now have taken a purgative. Sold by all not te 1 you and we will make worth fixing; if not. we will sell you a new or.e at a reasonable price.

If you want the best, buy a Hall. We also have Howard's. Ilaiuiltnu's, Kl-; gin, Waltham'a and Ingersoll s. R-. L.

Kirkpatrick, Jeweler and Oradtiate Optician. Opposite Court House. TT yoo nave anymina na sell any thing, use the Citizen want Ad col 'Tne toiiowing statement snows nit? jt.u over me niuuuer retuiuea aurirg liries Fcparatelv, so that a record mar amonnt of mail of the various classes the preceding year. The number be hept of the 'amount realized from bandied on rural routes during the awaiting reclamation, and for which eacn article, and to allow of reclama-year 1909 (an approximation based up-1 no owner could be found, amounted I at anJr' tjme within four years necessary, in order to comply with the provisions of said section, to se I ar Citizen Delivered If You Desire The Butler Momlnft Phone 81-J--PeoDles 'Phone 223 I.