Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1888-04-27
LOCAL AND GENERAL.


PLANT TREE.
Mr.. C. C. Hite and family have removed
to Butler.
Numerous drop awnings now adorn
Main street buildings.
The next California excursion leaves
Mescer, May 10th.
-Messrs Joseph Kelley and Joseph
Boozle of Clay twp. are on the sick list.
Mr.. George Reiber. the miller, is on the
sick list.
Our Eallstou correspondent should have
sent his or her name.
The sharp frosts of the past few nights
did vegetation no good.
The President has nominated Clark Will
son for Post Master at Smethport.
There is some talk of new Plate Glass
Works being built in Butler.
Mr. James Mecaling of Pittsburg, one of
the best priuters Butler has ever produced,
is spending the week with his parents here.
MI. an. Marks have received their
spring stock of hats, bonnets, millinery, etc.
See their new card.
The City surveyor has set grade for
the side walks of each street, and the new
boardwalks and pa7ements must be built to
it.
The man who cleans his cellar and back
yard now Is not only good citizen but
public benefactor as well.
-Messrs G. w. Miller and Jacob Boos,
grocers of Butler attended the Grocers Con-
yention at Wilkesbarre, Tuesday.
Mr.. - Clark. the hotel keeper of
Rochester, Pa, who formerly lived at Zelie-
nople, died last week.
The Odd Fellows of New Castle celebrat-
ed the Goth anniversary of Odd Fellowship
Yesterday, and the Butler Lodge took part.
Our grocers are paying 25 cents for but
ter, II for eggs, and 20 to 70 for potatoes.
Green peas from PIttsburg are selling at ~
cents peek.
The Butler Baptist Church has secured
the services of Rev. L. Ii. Rowe. He Will
preach regularly every Sabbath morning
and evening. All are cordially invited.
beat two Lawrence county editors at the late
primaries, a Youngstown paper thinks that
''the pill is mlghtier than the pen.".
Mrs. Julia Ann Duncan, mother OF Co.
Commissioner Il. e. Duncan, is lying very
low at her home in Adams tp. She is in her
18th year.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. NJ. Curry of Thorncreek
and Mr.. aud AIRS. A. Godfry and Mr. K. Z.
IIileman o Oil City we're ente rtained this
week by Mr.. and Mrs. Brown Of w. Penn
st.
--Messrs Newton Black, Loyal s. McJun-
kin, Thos. Robinson, and w. c.
Thompson of Butler attended the Republi-
can State convention at Harrisburg, Wednes-
day.
The members of the Young Mems
Christian Association will entertain their
gentlemen friends at q social reception in the
Association rooms on Thursday ev ening,
May 8, 1883.
The tack drawer is silently getting in its
work, and the sound OF the carpet whip is
heard in the land; and in spite of q lovely
spring the man of the house is melancholy
as be sits amid desolstion in the curtainless,
carpetless room.
The Plate Glass Co. has purchased the
Gibson property on Park Avenue, Spring
dale and Mr.. Robert Brockman, their mana
moved into the Bowman prooertv on Centre
Ave-
DIR. y. N. Hoover has opened an Office
in the Diamond Block, over C. N. Boyd's
drug store. DR.. Hoover practiced medicine
for nearly quarter of century at North
Washington. and is we'll known as a careful
An exchange has the f,lIowino problem.
"If hen and half Law an egg and a half
in dav and half. how MANY eggs will six
hens lay in seven uays?' The solutions are
divided pretty evenly between % and 42, but
both these figures happen to be wrong.
Mr.. c. +. l.. McQustion, young sur
in the Sullivan Office building. and will be
pleased to accommodate his friends aud the
public who are in need of reliable surveying
He is son OF well known citizen of Cen
treville lanes p. McOaistion.
Miss NJ. RI. Gilkey, the milliner, has re-
ceived and opened her STOCK of Spring and
Summer hats bonnets, millinery, etc, in her
beautiful new building. and commodious
readers. Dutl town and country. will be In
terested in her announcements whicn appear
in other columns.
During the past ten DAYS the furniture
firm of the Miller Bros. of this town has
sent sir snits of fine furniture out of the
countv Suits were sold bv this firm to par
ti.s-;n AlIeghenv Civ Bakerstown. Grove
Civ Mercer Parker and CliutonyiIle. which
rose' iho,s nIaaas laae '"' M" - 'A'''' '''s 1'''
'"os' p'"''
-Messrs A. NJ. Stewart and S. A. Patter-
son. contractors and builders. formerly of
Mercer. have formed a partnership, and are
ready to take contacts. and make designs
for anv stvle Of building. Thsy have al
ready hal several contuacts here. and
among them he handsome GiIkey building
"a Main street. the work mapship and finish
of which are open to inspection. See card.
When Cas-. Rock enstein passed his sta
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