Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1897-05-13
LOCAL AND GENERAL,

--hay IfOWtIS- are riON
The wire screen is again TO the fore.
Spring onions are now in strong
flavor.
The shirt waist girl has discarded
her coat.
The summer boy is now kicking off
his shoes.
Summer railroad schedules next
week. -
Get your. application for license in
by the 31st.
-Auctioneers can secure their note
books at this Office.
The small boy. will get the circus
fever early this season.
When woman can't find anything
else to do she cleans house.
The Grove City cadets will be here
on Decoration day-the 29th.
The ambitions of some men are
never fulfilled until they are filled full.
Co. will go to Philadelphia to
night, to take part in the parade OF
Saturday. .
The apple, plum, cherry and pear
trees are in bloom, but the outlook for
peaches is slim.
The storm of last Sunday evening
was success as a street cleaner also
as mud maker.
If you. want some draying done
promptly, call up G. Martin, Telephone
No. 2f4, Kearns' grocery.
The Rescue Hook and Ladder Co
have engaged Fred Weigand to tram
them in their hook and ladder drill.
The people of Mexican St, and
those who are making changes in their
buildings think that Butler is all torn
up.
--1s75 children attend the public
schools in Butler Teachers can send
in their applications for positions till
June 18th.
Lock your doors and Windows At
tempts have lately been made to bnrg-
larize the residences of J. NJ. Leighner
and F. M. Keene.
A Bradford marksmen who has
been rehearsing with gun that kicks
complains Of severe shooting pains
in his right shoulder.
w. L. English is said to have been
drugged and robbed near Middle Ian
caster, a few days ago, while on his way
home from Harmony.
One of the strangest sights that can
be seen in Butler. almost any evening,
is the chimney swallows going to roosi
in Mrs Sulliyan's chimney.
-Supd't Cheesman has found it mes
essry to change the date of the Teach
ers' Examinations for Saxonburg, Pros
pect and Butler See list.
That Welsbach street light would
be all right-with enough of them. Nc
proposition has yet been made 10 Coun'
Gil for supplying the town with them
The Second Brigade will encamp al
Ccnneaut Lake, July 10th to 18th. The
railroad company agreed to furnish
ground, lumber and ice, and build
switch, free of charge.
See Ralston, the famous high diver
with the Great Wallace Shows III
has nc equal He dives from higher
pinacle and with more grace and dar
ing than allothers.
The insurance for that million ant
half fire in Pittsburg was divided
among 30 many companies that none
were hit very hard. The fire will cost thu
IL. e. q. Of London $61 800; the Hart
ford $41, 800 and the Union $50, 900.
Our grocers are paying l2c for but
| ter, SC for eggs 25c dozen for rhubarb
1Jc doz for onions, 10c a pound TO
lettuce, 25c doz punches for radishes
Soc doz. lunches for asparagus. 25c
bu. for apples 0Oc a bu. for navy beans
&fOO bu for onions.
The menagerie with the Great Wal
lace Shows IL worth more TO chill
than q whole term Of natural histor
in school Don't let the young folk
miss it, for it is the largest and bes
nelected collection Of wild beasts tina
ever toured this country.
e. Wayne street and the bridge pai
of Centre avenue are 10 be paved wit
Brady Run brick and w. cunningham
with Canton bricE Nearly all the di
ferent IN axes OF fire brick have bee
tried in Butler We would like to see tf
Asphalt blocks tried on some shor
street.
BY proclamation Of the Governo
May 18th Saturday of this week will
a public holiday in this State-no
however, efecting the laws relating
legal holidays, the maturing Of con
fnercial paper etc He invites tn
people Of the State 10 help make I'll
Wa shington monument dedication
PhilaI. .elphia on that day great 0
casion
At n meetiiag last Thursday eve
ing of the First Werd Hose Co. it WI
decided that hereafter the rnnnir
team should practice Monday az
Thursday evenings, preparatory for d
summer racing campaign. Har
Worth was elected assistant captain
have charge of the team during the a
sence Of Capt John Ayres Here's no
ing Butler will have the champion hos
racing team OF the world when ne
fall comes
Such beautiful things in the heart
the woods
Flowers. and ferns and the soft gre
moss
Such love Of the birds, In the solitude
Where the swift wings glance and I
tree-tOps toss;
Space of silence, swept with song,
Which nobody heMs but God abo'
Spaces where myriad creatures thron
Summing themselves in His guidii
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