Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1897-04-01
LOCAL AND GENERAL,

Time for spring poets 10 appear.
Garden making will soon be in
order
The price of coffee is on the down
grade.
Some garden hyacinths are already
in bloom.
April showers were little previous
this year.
April 1st-Moving, settling and
.'All Fools" day.
Maple sugar socials have been
rather slow so far
March gave us plenty of all kinds of
weather
Youthful baseball enthusiasts are
already out.
The grounding is now through
with his winters work.
Early spring vegetables are in the
local markets.
Plenty of real estate changing
hands in Butler now.
The correct valuation of the county
is s14, ,247, ,267.
Our paved streets have been
..clouds of dust" during the past few
days.
A Krause & Son, of Delano are
preparing to build large, brick store
building
The first flowers of Spring g-the
Easter bonnets-are in bloom in the
show windows.
w. A. Kamerer the Westend gro
Ger, has added a full line of dry goods
and notions to his stock.
An Irishman aptly described the
grip as the disease that you have three
months after you get over it.
At the ''Curfew' meeting of Mon
day evening, a motion requesting Coun-
Gil to enforce the ordinance carried.
-Heineman & son have sold out their
stationary store, and a Youngstown
man has rented the old store-room for a
confectionery store.
The date of the special election in
Mars on the proposition to increase the
borough debt, has been changed from
%n
Il p. Dufford will have a public
sale Of stock, machinery, etc, on his
farm near Glade Run, Station, in For
ward twp, on Wednesday the 7th
Butter IL scarce and our grocers are
paying 30 cents for it, eggs are abun-
dant and are but cents; potatoes 20;
apples 25; onions $1.00 sets 81 90 and
live poultry cents
Several of the passengers on the
evening train to Pittsburg on the T. q
w last Monday, assisted the trainmen in
putting three drunken men, who would
not pay their fare, off the train.
Eggs are ruinously low, the pur-
chasing price being down to the 10 cent
mark. Eggs are good, nutritious food
but when below cent apiece they are
almost too cheap to taste good
Beware of assisting a fallen bicy
clienne to remount her wheel. A Chi
cago girl fell from her wheel not long
ago, and the man who helped her tt
remount has since become her husband
"A butchers wagon with calf in il
was passing when she remarked to him
'.Oh, look at the cute little cowlet.
1T looks to me more like cute littl'
bullet" and she was silent for the space
of ten seconds.
Geo. Stage began operating his Goa
mine on the w c. Barron place il
Clay twp, Monday. They took out 81,
cars that day and expect to averag
from Is to 90 He has well furnished
mine, his pan and weight basket cost
ing $1,000
I'm baseball game at Roanoke Va
the Pittsburg League team scored A
Perhaps about July the Pittsburger
will be able to average about | run ant
2 hits game off their rival Leagu
teams.
The new tariff bill puts crude an
ha frao fut Irr
with the saving provision that TART
Of 40 per cent. ad valorem shall be i'm
posed on all oil imported from couI
tries which place tariff on the Amer
can product.
In France, country of good roads
wagon tires vary from three to te
inches in width, usually from four I
six depending upon the weight of th
load. The Scientific American say
that if such tires were compulsory i
America, the present good road mov'
ment would receive tremendous in
petus.
AT the meeting of the Connoquene
sing Lodge /. 0. O. f. Monday ev
ming arrangements were made for I'll
celebration of the 76 anniversary of Cd
Fellowship, on the 26 inst. J. G. M,
Nees was elected Noble Grand. J. {
Sheiring Vice Grand, G. L. Andersc
Secretary J. b. Mates, assistant Sc
retary and D. E. Dale. Trustee
The p b. & l.. f. r. r. late
placed orders for three Mogul engin
with each of the Baldwin, Pittsbul
and Brooks works: also an order Il
several hundred. steel, ore cars Of fif
tons capacity each. The latter ord
was placed On bid of Schoen Steel Cc
at ,,rices ranging from eight-to min
hundred dollars car.
The second basketball team of tl
Sharpsburg Y VI. c. A. defeat ed Il
team Of our Y. M. G. A, by a score
25 to /, Monday evening, here. r.
Sharpsburg boys have a great deal mo
experience in the game and our bo
could afford to copy sew eral Of the
points After the game a recepti
was rendered the visitors by the ladit
The Sharpsburgers were well pleas