Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1898-04-14
LOCAL AND GENERAL,

LUIAL ANU uENENAL,
A circus is coming. and the boys
are happy.
S g. Purvis S5 Co. lost $4,000 worth
of lumber in the late food.
There are rumors of a lively rough
aad tumble fight at Saxonburg, Mon
day night.
Red is the predominating hue in
the feminine headgear. This is sure
sign ST war unless Spain backs down.
Several acres of woods on the Lyons
property, northeast of town, is on fire
and Illuminated the sky in that direc-
ion yesterday evening.
On account of Dr. Irvines sudden
death the meeting of the Directors of
the Butler Mutual fixed for last Thurs
day, was postponed
The hard freezing and frosts came
in dry weather and in the light of the
moon, and therefore may not have
ruined all the fruit buds.
At the election held for P. NJ. at
Millerstown (Chicora) last Saturday ).
Fra lkle received 25l votes, j. j. Craw-
ford 81, T. H. Evans 80, and P. Kaylor
So.
The houses of A. Beale, VIM.
Nixon, Rev. Fulton, Mrs. Snow and
Hiram Baker, of in or near Brownsville,
have lately been entered and robbed at
night.
Citizens of Butler township living
south of town are in favor of dividing
the township into two election districts,
making the Connoquenessing creek the
dividing line.
Tie Wilmerding basketball team
is a lively and a noisy crowd, but they
met their second defeat in Butler last
Saturday evening. Score, Butler "a,
Wilmerding 10.
1t doesn't matter if you have few
freckles on your face, or your nose may
not be the proper shape, just cultivate
bright, cheerful expression and people
will rise up and call you pretty.
When any unusual occurrence takes
place in the street it seems as though
people must drop down from the trees
or spring up from the ground, judging
by the rapidity with which a crowd
gathers.
The man who says: why don't
you expose this, or that or the other is
the fellow who doesn't want his name
mentioned, and would swear he never
mentioned the matter if the printer ever
got in trouble about it.
"a wagon one hundred and fifty
years old was in Freeport one day last
week. and the tongue was loose and
wagge1 freely saying it did not notice
any difference in the place since it was
there as new wagon. ."-Kittanning
Times. Hit him, Bob.
Five hundred young people attend
ed the monthly Y. M. G. A. reception
Thursday evening last The first and
a1d second Presbyterian churches were
the hosts, and music, recitations, re-
freshments and basketball game made
up the evening program.
The barn on the Newton Snow
farm in Penn twp, near brownsville,
was burned last Monday afternoon, to-
gether with hay grain, farming imple-
ments. ETC., part of which belonged to
Mr. Baker The barn was insured in
the Glade Mill Mutual.
&C. l.. McQuistion the surveyor has
applied for patent on flush tank reg
ulated by its water pressure, to be used
in flushing sewers, closets, drains.
When certain amount of water is put
in the tank-it flushes. When flushing
is not desired no water need be let in.
We occasionally mail specimen
copies of the CITIZEN to persons whom
we think ought to be regular subscrib-
ers.-We trust those who receive it will
read it carefully, and, if they like it,
send us an order to have it mailed to
them every week. The cost, 81 year,
is certainly as low as it ought to be.
George Walter & Sons are putting
into their flour mill new and one OF
the largest steam boilers ever brought
to this place, itweighs nine tons. They
have built new Office and placed a
platform along the front of the mill
Work on the new warehouse is progress
ing steadily.
Mcbride, five miles south of town
has taken new lease on life. The P
B. & l.. E., which runs up Thorn Creel
valley past Mcbride, is to locate a sta
tion there and lay siding for freight.
III. Hollefreund and Stephen Minor con
duct good family grocery stores. B. A.
Gibson has lately erected new barn
and large dance hall. A dance will
be held there Monday evening.
The attention of our readers is cal
led to the new millinery store of Mis-
Mary Rockenstein, whose advertise
ment appears in another column. Th
store is located at 32S S. Main st. in the
building lately remodeled by d. h
Wuller, and Miss Rockenstein ha
stocked up with as handsome line o
ladies hats and furnishings as on
could desire to select from.
In Frances Willard S book she mad
delicate hint of a romance in her life
She says she wore a ring and that TO
eleven long months her heart had it
hero, to whom she humbly bowed L
her youth Frances Willard and BishoI
Fowler were students in the sam
College, and he was the giver @
the ring Owing to marked similarit
in their temperaments the engagement
was broken, and the story of the earl
romance was never told until after Mis-
Willard's death The story now come
from Hartford, where the bishop is nov
pre- siding over conference.
The Penn'a r. r. Co. is said to b
considering the project of building