Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1897-03-11
LOCAL AND GENERAL,

-Saxonburg is dry
The grip is letting go.
Spring is due on the goth
Robins and blue birds here again.
Co. Z will drill on Friday evening,
April H.
The women are already worrying
themselves about Easter bonnets.
There are forty applications for II
ouor licenses in Lawrence county.
-Saxonburg is to have celebration
next Wednesday-St. Patrick's Day
Sucker fishing will be due when the
present muddy floods fall and clear.
A safety gate is operating in Butler
for the first time-that on Centre ave-
-Toads footing in March is something
new. The heavy rains brought them
out.
A man loves to read the good that
is written of him; his friends love to
read the bad.
The devil would never leave the
pit if he had to wear the same coat
every day in the year
Some people who are good at fault
finding would growl about the weather
if it were raining money.
Hungry midnight mechanics have
lately been trying to burglarize our
grocery stores.
Easter is coming" remarked Mr.
Rooster. ''Yes, replied Mrs. Hen: I'm
laying for it,"
This is pretty good take-off, re-
marked the barber as he shaved off the
Populists whiskers.
The Evans City Globe changed
hands last week Mr.. Young of New
Castle purchased it from Mr.. Wiehe.
Star Pointer" changed hands in
New York last week for $4,000 A
Chicago broker bought him.
An immense audience attended the
High School concert, and the concert
netted $50 for the building fund.
Next Wednesday is st. Patrick 8
day-But the Corbett and Fitzsimmons
affair will be the great event of the day.
About a hundred different kinds of
packers" are used in oil wells, and Mr.
David w Black of this place has patent
ed another.
Stamford is the name of a new P.O.
located at the Yellow Creek creamery
in Muddycreek twp. E. FL. Shideman-
tie is P. M.
The average walking pace of a
healthy man or woman is said to be 70
steps minute. A slight shower runs
it up to about 100
The league of the Evangelical Luth-
eran church held pleasant social in
Boos's Hall Tuesday evening. A neat
sum was realized for the church build
ing fund.
While McVay was taking in 'Ho-
gans Alley" last Thursday evening,
sneak thieves broke into his news room
and after the show he had about S. in
small change less to carry home.
This week finishes our story THE
Mistress of the Mine" which, we think,
has been greatly enjoyed by a number
of our readers. We will select another
in the near future.
There are dangerous boards walks
all over Butler. A young man lately
fell from one ON Race street near the
junction of jefferson and seriously in
jured himself.
In this world man must be either
anvil or hammer. Longfellow was
wrong, however In this world there
are lots of men who are neither the one
nor the other-they are simply bel
lows"
Some people are punished for their
misdeeds and untruthfulness while in
this world says ''the Rams Horn, .
and some other wicked folks will get
theirs in the world to come.
We don't know much about deep
snow in this locality. 1t has showed
every day this month in Minnesota and
the Dakotas. Railroad trains are tied
up in every direction. Snow lies to the
depth of three feet on a level all over
the Dakotas, and in the mountain re
gions the depth is four feet.
A lady IN a neighboring town is
said to have adopted happy plan for
bringing her daughters home at rea-
sonable hour from parties and entertain
ments The last one home must get up
first and prepare breakfast. The result
is always a race home to void being
the last one.
day and next day the condition of the
roads revived the funny stories one used
to hear of teams disappearing below the
surface. Now is the time for road su
pervisors to take lessons in road making
"a dirt road must be well drained to bt
passable at all times.
AT meeting, Monday evening, the
Springdale Hose Company decided tc
purchase new cart, and the following
committee is duly authorized to solicit
and collect funds for that purpose
Chas. A. Collins, Edward Mccoy, Johr
Feigle, John McCune and Peter Hes
kins A generous response is solicited
A If this attracts your attention 1T II
I/to remind you that, provided yor
have received bill of your indebted
ness from us, either for subscription
or job work, or, if you know yonr
self to be in arrears with us, that we
would be greatly obliged if you'd
make prompt settlement, either by \
calling at the Office or sending the
amount, and receive proper redit Y
The monthly reception of the Y. M
G. A. was held Thursday evening. L
was conducted by the ladies of the M
E. Church, who deserve credit, mas
much as the reception seemed to us t,