Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1897-05-06
LOCAL AND GENERAL,

The American gent
Seems only content
: When chewing tobacco and spit
ting.
He'll spit on the floor
If big cuspidor
Is not within range where he's sit
ting.
---Have you seen Tom Morrison's new
thousand dollar soda -fountaing
Contractor Schenck made 2 begin
ming on s. Mexican street Monday.
Some of the newest gowns have a
very old-fashioned look about them.
1t is said that the Western airship
is tobacco advertisement; hence, its
cigar shape,
The Mother Goose" show was a
great success both as an entertainment
and as a money maker.
Are you interested? See notice of
Summer Normal of Butler Collegiate
Intitute in a mother column.
The G. A. r. post at Eau Claire
will take part in the dedication of the
soldiers monument at Emlenton.
No, Maude, dear, all men who
wear jumpers are not always athletes.
How ignorant you are.
1t seems rather odd that the man
who pays for a seat in church should
be referred to as in good standing.
Burgess Myers intends to stop
street and corner loafing A good idea,
with borough ordinance behind it.
-Findley's branch gallery at Mars
will be open all this week. the last
week of the season.-A. L. FINDLEY.
He is wise man, says the philoso-
pher, who knows when to stop talking,
but he is wiser who knows when not to
begin.
Contractor Fred Rauscher will
shortly begin work on an extensive and
neat addition to James Galbreaths
house on South Washington street.
The gas and water men of Pitts
burg say that electricity escaping from
the underground trolleys, is eating up
their gas and water pipes.
Stranger things even than the il
Illuminated airship are being occasion
ally heard Of A woman in Maine has
swapped her bicycle for sewing ma
chine.
The much talked-of air ship has
been seen at Meadville, sailing about
1000 feet above the earth This ex-
tends the snake belt dangerously close
to Butler.
"A new fagstone walk is being laid
in front of Pape's Jewelry and Millinery
store. Butler can boast of sidewalks
on her paved streets which are above
the average for towns of its size
During the past few days fourteen
car loads of old casing have been ship :
ped from Butler to Kansas City, by the
Eastern Oil Co. The casing was pulled
out of wells in the Cooperstown field.
The old Monarch of the Forest"
on the lot near the Mifiin st. School
house was laid low by ak and saw, last
week. The butt is about three feet in
diameter, and somebody has guessed
the age of the tree at 200 years.
Recently young woman in New
York bent over washtub, when a
corset steel broke and entered her
heart, killing her instantly. AS life
cannot be endurably lived by young
woman without the help of steel corsets,
her only hope of safety is in avoidance
of the deadly washtub.
The new bridge over the Allegheny
river at Freeport remains closed, except
to foot passengers. A Mr.. Phillips
owns the approach to the east, or the
Westmorland Co.. end of the bridge,
and as he and the Commissioners can
not agree upon the value of the land,
he built fence across the end of the
bridge
Commencement exercises in Butler
High school will be held the first week
of June, beginning on Sunday May 80,
when the baccalaureate sermon will be
delivered by Rev. r. g. Ferguson.
Glass day exercises will be held Tues
day evening and commencement exer
cises will be held on Wednesday eve
ming.
AN Ohio editor says the hay fever
is caused by kissing grass widows. A
Missouri editor says it is caused by q
fellow kissing grass widow by moon
light An Iowa editor says it is caused
by fellow kissing the hired girl while
feeding hay to the COW. An eastern ex
change is of the opinion that it is caus
ed by missing the girl and kissing the
.cow.-Ex.