Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1895-03-28

Ste. Roonng, etc'
NoTE-All advertisers intending to make
capges in their ads. should notify US Oh
heir intending to do 80, not later tnSn
Monday morning.
administrators and Executors OF estate
can secure their rec eipt books Al the cif
xEH oriice
LUCAL AND GENERAL.
-Freckles.
Grass getting green.
Oil your lawn mower.
Put away the sleigh.
-By-by to sausage and buckwheaters.
The plans for the new school-houSe are
here.
"A new coal mine is to be opened near
billiards.
Don't sign your name to receipts for
strangers.
Don't forget the State College Gles
Club-saturday evening.
Now is the time to kill fies-Don't let
one escape.
The State Christian Endeavor Associ-
alton will meet in Erie, August 22-25.
Considerable property Is changing
hands in Butler at good figures.
A loose window in the Court House
stespie attracted considerable attention,
Monday.
-The.long dry spell will end next Mon
day. and the long cold spell should follow
suit.
-"The Peoples Telephone Co." is new
enterprise in Butler and it proposes to re-
nee rates oDe-third.
-Seanor bought forty head of horses the
last trip. fifteen in Butler, Saturday, and
shipped them East, same day.
The rain of last Sunday night dam
pened the dirt on our paved streets, and
mex. day few hundred tons Of it we're
shoveled up and carted away. Still there's
more to follow.
). NJ. Leighbcr has placed his stallion
Crawford Prince, By Crawford 2:O7t In
John Shanor's hands of the season of 1880,
and will keep him at the Fair Ground, at
$40 tor the season.
The Standard continues to buy pro-
ducing territory. It is said to bold but
half million barrels of oil. available for
its refineries; and to have shut down sever
al refineries ocated 10 Brooklyn, Phil sdel-
phia, Olean and Buffalo.
The State College Glee Club which sp-
pears here Saturday evening March 3Oth,
travels in special car, and il is safe to say
they are jolly crowd. They are 30 in
number and 20 from here to New Castle.
The administrators on the estate OF
John W. McJunkin, decd. will have sale
of stock farming implements, grain, house
hold goods, etc, ON the premises in Clay
twp. on Thursday, April IL tn. next, BE-
ginnig at 10 A. NJ.
The Phonograph exhibition given by
Mr.. LowtheD, of Rsynoldsville, Pa. in the
Baptist church last Thursday evening,
was well attended and gave general salts
faction. the song by Rev. Collins, and re-
produced by the Pnonograph demonstrated
the completeness of the instrument.
The Pittsburg Times will begin the
publication of story. tomorrow, entitled
"The Bride of Day, ;" the closing chapter
of which will be published in its issue Of
April %. The story will contain puzzle
riddle or mystery for the solution Of which
previous to the publication of the hnAl
chapter, the paper offers prizes sggregat
ing $500.
AT the Plate Glass Works. early We'd
nesday morning, what was apparently
successful effort was made to cast the
large disk of glass wanted by Rev. Peate
of Greenville for tie lens he has agreed u
furnish an observatory at Washington
The molten glass was poured into larg'
iron band, sixty-two inches in diameter
and seven inches high, and barring slid
ing of the mold and slight dripping of thu
glass, the experiment was success. Th'
disk, which weighs about ton was put II
an annealing oven, where IL will remain
for two week and whether or not it is per
feet will not be known until it is taken oui
and examined.
Those fellows who like to sit on on tn
banks of creek and fish for suckers vii
soon find the weather balmy enough, and
the ground warm enough for snch u them
agreeable occupation, and let Us tell yol
that the suckers are not all dead yet
Last Saturday afternoon stranger
with team and buggy. located himsel
near the crossing of Main and Jefferson
SITS. collected q crowd around himself Ant
his rig by selling collar buttons and leat
pencils very cheap. and returning tn
trifle paid for them-a nickle. Then h
cold come other articles at dime and re
turned the dimes, and some things at
quarter and returned the quarters. Th
game by this time had become decidedly
interesting and money was offered tn
gentleman as fast az he could handle ii
Then he sold lot of rings at half eac
SAYING something about returning th'
money after the sale was completed. thel
Q lot of gilded watch chains (probably
worth dime) for dollar each; then h
pretended to stuff five and ten dollar bill
into some cheap watch cases and sold then
for the amount supposedto be inside them
Then, oh! then-he gave his driver tn
tip. and away they went at a brisk pac
MP Jefferson ST. and down towards the
West Penn depot. That man amt dea
he's real, live sucker. He sucke
about $3.50 out of that crowd in an hou
or 80.
Storm Serges and French Serges
HenrieLtas, Novelty Dress g ,ods AM
Fancy Silks 10 greatest variety an
at lowest prices at.
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