Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1892-05-20
LOCAL AND GENERAL

LOCAL AND GENERAL.
-"Ah. Spring ia here-that is to say,
1t was here just the other day;
But it is gone-that is TO say.
1t had gone just the other day,
And ere the poem may appear,
Spring is-was-has been-may be-here.
Dogs are beginning to display their
hot weather pants.
A lump of sugar saturated with vinegar
will cure hiccoughs.
Man wants but little here below, and
the IN ,gity of them get it.
-Ihank God, Spring house cleaning and
fixing don't last all year.
The peach, cherry and apple trees
V, re in bloom at the same time this year
The grain is looking splendid, also the
frnir. Barring late frost this will be
gear Of abundance.
Some men never seem to get a clear
understanding of the law until they study
it in the seclusion of penitentiary.
A story is told of a conductor who
seized his wife's nose in his sleep and rang
up three fares upon it before her shrieks
awoke him.
Some slight changes has been made in
the P. d. W. time table. The morning
express to Allegheny now leaves Butler
at $40; and the evening mail at 5:55.
1t is said that one main reason why
some people would like to go to heaven is
because they have heard that the streets
there are paved with gold.
If that Bridge Committee is determin-
cd to build bridge we suggest that it be
built over Sullivan Run at West end of
Penn ST. where the street is flooded for
rods at every high water.
They drove right on. Two men driv-
ing down Main street at rapid gait last
Friday night, ran into buggy and rent it
asunder; but did not see ft to step and see
whose property they had injured.
About a hundred of the fastest wheel
men in the country are now engaged in
race between Chicago and New York.
The distance is 1000 miles and they expect
to make it in 100 hours.
AT the meeting of the Allegheny
Glasses of the Reformed Church in the South
Side Church, Butler Monday, Rev. Ling
of Braddock was elected President. Rev.
Snyder Of Butler, Corresponding Secreta
ry; Rev. Conroy Of Allegheny, Treasurer,
and Rev. Harnish OF Butler, Stated Clerk
The new law does not require Assess
ors to make alphabetical lists. but most of
them are 30 doing. The lists should be
completed as soon as possible and hung
at the window for general inspection be-
fore the 61st and Goth days previous to
the election come around.
Some of the papers are disposed to
criticise the fact that Mrs. Alice Shaw
recently whistled at q sacret concert in
Boston. For ourselves, we can't see why
whistling music through the mouth is any
less sacred than singing through the nose.
Franklin NeUs.
The time has come, says the Bradford
Era, when the man who punctuates his
conversation with the excruciating "see~
should be taken, see, down the silent, cold,
running creek, see, somewhere below the
the bridge, see, and dropped in until he
would never again, see, prove his idiocy
with his execrable use of the word.
"A man drove by last Sunday followed
by two dogs-a black and yellow one.
The dogs spied yellow cat and took after
it; the cat sought safety in street sewer
and the dogs followed, one going in each
end. The cat slippedpast the yellow dog and
found safety under boardwalk, and the
black dog stuck in the sewer. Now
which dog was the joke ont
The sixteen members Of the graduat-
ing class of the High School "did them
selves proud" in every particular; their
stage was handsomely set and tastifnlly
decorated; Carl Barclays salutatory was
well worded and well delivered; Linnie
Bonner's class incidents and personalities
in rhyme, and those of Florence Fisher in
prose were as cute as could be; Don Find
ley is true prophet; Leah Ricaev and
Chas. McElvain did nobly; Sallie Fleeger's
essay on the poet Payne was splendid;
Chas. Fisher is the making of statesman,
and Anna Cronenwett is born Elocution-
ist. If 1t were not for these graduating ex
ercises the people Of Butler would be una
ware Of the mountains ofvirtue and talent
that exist in our midst.
At the meeting of Council Tuesday
night more lights were petitioned for;
streets in different parts of the town have
been reported as impossible; more water
plugs for fire protection are needed in
several quarters, and the reason these
necessary improvements are not made is
because there is no money in the treasury.
At every meeting OF the town Council
for some time past things that ought to
have been done have been delayed on
account Of lack of funds. The receipts of
the general fund for this year are estimat
cd at from ten to eleven thousand; the
lighting Of the town which has already
been contracted for, will, when all reason
able additions are made, probably cost the
town nearly or fully $1,000 year; the
water costs 81 500, and it will take fully
as much more to cover the salaries of the
Engineer, Counsel and Clerk. That makes
$S, 600, leaves but from $1,000 to $1,000
for repairing the streets, fire plugs, cul-
verts and the innumerable repairing and
improvements called for each year. And
yet, with this state of affairs existing a
measure to build bridge across the gully
In Boyd's woods from the head of Brown
avenue to the end of Glenn avenue was
put through Council Tuesday night The
bridge is to be Of trestle work, 135 feet
long with sixteen foot roadway, which,
with abutments and approaches will prob
ably cost thousand dollars. The location
Is beautiful one for rustic bridge, but
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