Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1895-04-04

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LOCAL AND GENERAL.
The frogs are singing.
Did you get your letter.
And the next day il showed.
The bawl OF the base baller is heard
IN the land.
The Oneida creamery is tc be remov-
de to Greece City.
The early Spring girl has discovered
her new hat
-Good beaf cattle are bringing to .
Gents in Butler.
The rusted ploughshsres viii be bright
ened this month.
The ''new woman" will stand up at
bar just like man.
-Slipperyrock Normal has 400 students
entered for the Spring term.
Gentle Spring seems to be suffering
with the grip and cold feet.
In some parts of the county snow
drifts yet cover part of the roads.
% P. Thompson of Cherry 'wp, has
purchased the Bickel g. Kennedy Livery.
There's premium on Columbian post
age stamps and they are increasing i'll
value.
John Bickel has opened branch store
In the room in the Duffy block lately va
Gated by Mr. Goettler.
With all this talk about the "new
woman" it isn't safe to refer to ''the old
woman"
Mr.. Peter whitmire will have sale
of stock. grain etc, on his farm near Greece
City, on Tuesday, April 10th, at 10 A. NJ.
-Bnt two plate glass factories-the
STANDARD OF Butler and the Penn'a. at lr-
win-have not joined the combine. The
combine counts 768 pots.
You can rent anything in Butler, now
from a stable to q palace. One OF our
citizens rented his stable for a residence,
the other day, at five dollars o month.
The men OF spirit opened up their
bars Monday, and were ready for business
The" Breath of Paradise" is the latest new
drink
The Appropriation committees of the
House and Senate at Harrisburg are like
our Town Council. They haye stopped
appropriating money because they haven't
1t to appropriate.
A western paper tells the good old
story of a maiden lady VINO keeps a parrot
which swears and monkey which chews
tobacco, and " no says that between the
two she doesn't miss husband very much
Ohio has law requiring all maple
syrup to be labled with the name and ad
dress of the maker, and there is heavy
penalty for adultsrstion. Twelve pounds,
including the can, is the standard weight
for gallon in this State.
A Stony Fork man claims To have cat
en- two hundred bushels of turnips thIs
winter. No afidavits with this state ment
-Ex. And to think turnips are 80 per
cent water. There will certainly be a
food when he thaws ont.
The licensed hotel keepers of Butler
have agreed upon "blsck- list," to which
will be added the names of men who be-
come drunk and disorderly and those re-
ported by parents or other relatives. The
list is said to be quite lengthy one, and
contains the Dames of some of our promi-
nent citizens.
-"Gentleman Jack"-Jas. j. Colbett
the worlds champion will appear in the
Opera House, next Monday evening All
the boy in town have studied over the
picture posted at the Opera House, of him
knocking out Mitchell. After the show, he
will give ten minute talk on phy sical
culture. The bill poster is the only man in
town that can paste" him
Two Batler girls one OF whom thinks
she has ''Trilby feet, answered tne adver-
tisement Of fake theatrical agent, iocai-
ed in Pittsburg, and their letter was pub
lished in Pittsburg paper. The fellow
swindled girls by engaging to secure them
positions on the stage, for two dollars,
paid in advance. He was arrested and is
now boarding at the county hotel.
They tell good story ON couple of
our operators VINO were tr, ing To get 75
acre lease ON one of the Brown farms last
week. The operators offered $4,000 and
Brown wanted So, 900, but came down to
$3.50 Then they split the difference
and agreed upon So 250 but while they
were drawing up the lease an agent OF the
Standard came in and offered 81, 500, and
took the lease, and the Butler men came
home mad.
There was a time not long ago when
it was necessary to import all fine plate
glass from Europe, single window cost
ing small fortune. To-day we saw work
men setting plate glass IN Campbells new
store window that was made in Butler.
single plates by II feet being without a
aAw and clear a. spring water. This
country has the material; all that 1t has
been needing was the skilled labor Frank
lin Ners.
AT the meeting of Council, Tuesday
evening, the Finance Committee reported
that Inc outstanding orders aggregaten
a s26l4; the aggregate of the fixed
Charges on the borough. for light, water,
rent, etc. is 81. .4s4 IS; warrant payable in
Six months was ordered drawn in favor OF
Graham d. Co Of Pittsburg, for balance on
east-side sewer, and the estimated re-
ceipts OF the borough are but sl3 600 so
IL will be seen that the Council has but
little 10 60 and come on. The bills ap.
proved THAT evening seressted 5000.