Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1891-05-15
LOCAL AND GENERAL

Bulk white lime per bushel 20 cents,
best honey comb wood burned lime per
barrel S5 cents at Klingler's.
Ventilated corsets" are the latest.
Soon be hot enough to carry a cane.
School girls are up to their eyes in
Commencement dresses.
Mr.. Hall disposed of quite number OF
good horses in Butler last Saturday.
The painters and paper hangers are
having their spring picnic.
A Lancaster county exchange says
the fruit there was not injured by the late
cold weather
The trustees Of the e. p. Church paid
$1,000 for fifteen feet of the Feigel lot, lOo
# deep.
The semi-annual convention of the
Butler County W.C.T.U Z. meets in the Rel
Der building to-day at II am.
The P. & W. is double tracking its
road bed between Allegheny and New Cas-
tie Junction.
The Fifth Sanitary Convention, under
the auspices of the State Board of Health
will be held in Altoona, on Friday and
Saturday of this week.
One or our meat market men went to
East Liberty last Sunday to buy cattle and
he says there are not enough fat cattle
within ten miles of Butler, at present, to
feed the town one week.
The quarterly statement of the Butler Co.
National Bank, as published in another
column shows steady increase n its busi-
ness. From the 26th of Feb. to the 4th OF
May, the deposits increased $4,000, and
now amount to 1884 900.
Butler needs-a furniture factory, q
carpet factory, stoye works, rope works,
tile and pottery works, piano and organ
factory, clothing factory, boot and shoe
factory, and paving brick works, and there
is room here and advantages here for them
all.
A forest fire in Venango twp. between
billiards and Boyers stations burned over
strip about two miles long last Sunday.
1t originated near Boyers and the wind
blew it towards billiards. Acres Of tim
ber and some fences were burned.
The second game of ball between the
Times and Markham clubs was played on
the ball grounds last Saturday and result
ed in score of 9 to in favor of the Mark
hams. The boys play an excellent game
but the big fellows are to much for them.
The train schedule of the p. d. W. K.
R. was changed Monday. The most i'm
portant change is in the time of the leav-
ing of the train that connects at Gallery
with the Chicago Express. 1t now leaves
at 2:1O D. m, and connects with the express
which arrives at Chicago at z o'clock next
morning.
The Glass of 1891 of the Butler High
School will hold their Commencement
Exercises in the Opera House next Thurs
day evening, beginning at 8 O'Clock. The
names of the graduates are Bessie
Morrison, Carrie Ensminger, Maude Sutton,
Fannie Wing Mary Graham, Alice Collins,
Lillian Mcconnell, Earnest Graham and
John Scheiring.
The Soldiess' Orphan School Commis-
sion, which consists of Gov. PGttison, Gen.
Goblin, Secretary Stewart and others, with
Inspectors Greer and Martin, will inspect
the school here on Tuesday and Wednes-
day of next week-the 10Th and Goth inst.
The inspection will begin at am. and all
school teachers, directors and friends are
| invited to be present The military drill
will be conducted by Col. Magee of the
9Th Reg, and arrangements will probably
| be made for an evening entertainment.