Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1891-03-27
LOCAL AND GENERAL

LOCAL AND GENERAL
Good Friday.
Eggs are scarce.
III Warm sugar parties are now in order.
Fitting day comes on Wednesday this
year.
The U. P. Presbytery meets in Butler
April 6th-Monday evening.
| The pure water bill was amended to
death and then dropped.
| The spring style of fishing will be
hook and lyin', as usual, says an exchange
An oil-tank steamer arrived at Phil
adelphia the other day full of Cuban
molasses.
After the 1st of April, next Wednesday,
we will get about twenty pounds of good
sugar for dollar.
The wool clip of the world is expected
to fall five million pounds short of last
seasons clip.
Subscribers changing their postof6ce
address and sending us word of the same
will please send old as well as new ad-
dress.
| Eggs are scarce at present in Butler,
but egg-cases are abundant If you don't
believe it look over our advertising
columns.
The Sun crossed the equator. or rather
the equator crossed the Sun, last Saturday.
and we are now supposed to be having
Spring weather.
The Butler Salt and Chemical Works
and lease of 100 acres will be sold by
Sheriff Brown on Monday, April 9Th, at
the suit of the Home Mutual Gas Co.
We direct attention to the notice under
last OF new ads. All advertisers should
notify us of intended changes Monday
morning. We cannot duplicate ads.
Mr.. Sheasley of Franklin has parchas
cd the Helm tract southeast of town for
SIC, 900, and it is supposed that the boiler
works will be removed to Butler.
Communion services in Bethany Ret.
Church, North street, will be conducted by
Rev. Cort, Of Greensburg. Preparatory
services Saturday at 2 p. m.
"A human brute at Wampum has made
bet that he can eat roasted two Jays old
calf and drink keg of beer, all in two
hours, he to have the privilege of standing
in tub of hot water while he is doing it.
The grippe is epidemic in all the large
northern towns and is causing deaths by the
hundred. There seems to be more cold
and irritation, and less fever, in connec
ton with it this season than last.
AT meeting of the directors oe the
p. q W. r. r. in Pittsburg last Saturday, |
it was decideu to bond the road for two
million, and use the money in the better
ment of the road.
The grippe is epidemic in Pittsburg |
and vicinity and has caused number of
deaths, and in New York the weekly death
rate is 200 above the average, supposed to
be from the effects of same disease.
The weather prophets are now telling
us just what everybody has right to expect
the spring will be spring like, the sum
mer, summer-like; the autumn, autumn
like and the winter, winter-like.
The College people are making a
determined effort. They now are out in
an appeal, urging all progressive men to
help splendid cause along by contribut-
ing to the stock. We shall have more to
say of it next week.
The men who robbed Mr.. Link, of
Worth Twp, and Mr.. Patterson, of Centre
vile, some time ago, are reported TO have
made confession. Their names are Milli-
son, Ward and Kissinger. The confession
was made to a friend, and Ward and Kis-
singer are said to be living in Ohio.
A farm journal said '.There is going
to be more money in poultry than hereto
FORE" The next day farmers wife found
q nickel in chickens crop, and told her
husband that It was the first time she ever
saw anything reliable in an agricultural
paper published in big city.
"A Man milwaukee saw a woman fall
down, and he helped her up and spoke
words of consolation and she sent him q
deed for 5000 house. A man in Peoria
did the very same thing, and the woman
yelled for her husband, who was near by,
and he came running up and broke the
CONSIDERS nose.
Mr.. G. d. Harvey has leased ground
from the p. q W. r. r. Co., near the
Campbell foundry, on which he is now
erecting large building for warehouse
for handling lime and all kinds of building
material. Mr.. Harvey is contractor in
brick work and proposes furnishing every
thing in connection with his other bust.
ness. These goods will be delivered to all
parts of the town, and he asks a share of
the patronage of the public.
kirkpatrick q Reed bought the vacant
lot on the corner of Main and Clay streets
Wednesday morning from Alf Wick.
The consideration was "a, 500. As this ad-
joins their store it gives them practically
corner lot with 80 foot front. 1t is their
intention to erect block of two stories
with apartments above at some future time
They now own one of the most valuable
on North Main street.
IT the Pittsburg Plate Glass Co. which
now owns the tremendous plant at Ford
City, and the plants at Tarentum and
Creighton, keeps on adding to its facilities
it will become sort of Standard Oil Co.
affair to the,rest of the business 1t new
has sixty mine acres under roof ct Ford
City, it makes all its own csstings, and ia