Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1898-03-24

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their note books
LOCAL AND GENERAL,
In the spring of the year,
When the blood is too thick,
There is nothing so rare.
As the sassafras stick.
1t cleans up the liver,
1t strengthens the heart,
And to the whole system
New life doth impart.
tawney Spirit.
Grimes Cellar Door. Tuesday
evening
Now is a good time to repair your
sidewalk
April and % are designated as
Arbor days
Trout can be caught, legally, af.
ter April 10.
-Mackie is coming Wait for him.
dIlmeSty me DOy
Easter comes on April 10th, two
weeks fiom Sunday.
The usual st. Patrick's day rain was
two days later this year.
The season for gorgeous apparel
and ''gloritied hats approached
The days and nights are now equal
in length, and the Aernal equinox is at
hand.
Several strings of little suckers
with boys attached came up from the
creek last week.
Castles in Spain these days" says
the real estate agent, ARE not worth
dreaming about"
1t has never been decided when
they meet which is the more frighten-
ed the woman or the mouse.
H. J. Smith has bought the cafe of
the Hotel Butler and is closing out his
restaurant in the Sloan building on S.
Main st.
The board walk on Broad st. oppo-
site the school-house was washed out of
place by the flood of last Saturday
evening
Some people, says the Pnilosoph-
er. "have so little music in them it
seems pity they should let any OF it
escape"
The second story of Mrs. thinner
mans store is now in one large cloak
and millinery room, and presents very
neat appearance.
The Centre school, taught by John
Pollock, in Centre township closes Fri
day afternoon with an entertainment
after successful six months term.
Some men are so used to women
that are hippant and frothy that when
they get hold of really sensible one
they do not know how to treat her
A new plate glass front has been
put in the Kohler- Graham building on
S. Main street and l.. Hflliard will oc-
cupy it with tailoring establishment
The Y. NJ G. A. basketball team
defeated the Kiskiminitas Academy
team Monday evening by score of. 90
to A. A large crowd witnessed the
game.
Eleven p. B. & L. E. freight cars
were demolished by wreck at Grove
City, Monday morning. The train
broke in two sections while going down
a grade and then collided
This is the moving season, and
those of our subscribers changing their
postoffice address should promptly in
form us SO that the proper delivery
may be made of papers.
Society item in Parker pa Phe
nix: Miss Alice Barr had boil dur
ing the past week, which was so locat
ed on her face as to greatly interfere
with her talking machine"
The Erie county commissioner
may not make the spring registry o.
school children: They have an opinion
from their attorney that the amend
ment of 1897 to the compulsory attend
ance act is unconstitutional
The rain storm of last Saturday
evening flooded the northern part O
Washington ST., west end of Fultor
and part of North Mexican ST. In
some parts of the town the capacity O
the drains might be enlarged to advan
tage.
"A St Louis paper points out the dan
ger of using porcelain letters on tomb
stone by citing case in a cemetery
near there. where the inscription reads
30, Lord She is Thin" The final ''e'
had been knocked off in thunde
storm.
-Notw outstanding the almost entlr,
absence of snow during the winte
to protect the wheat fields, it is crafty
ing to learn that the growing crop sci
dom looked better at this season of tn,
year. The fields generally appea
green and fiourishing, are well set will
healthy growth, and it is eviden
that they hnve thus far suffered littl
or no injury.
The store of J. S. Jack, the station
er, under the P. o was entered ant
robbed of a lot of pipes last Saturda,
night; and that of w. A Fisher, tn
grocer, of a lot of tobacco. Both room
were entered by breaking in windows
An unsuccessful effort was made to en-
ter Myers grocery on E. Jefferson, b.
cutting through the back door and un
bolting. On Sunday night three youn
men with their pockets full of pipes an
cigar holders were arrested in Pitts
burg as suspicious characters, and a
one Of them had letter in his pocke
with a Butler postmark on it Jack wen
down and identified his goods. Tw
of the young men were from Butler, an
the others home is in Allegheny.
Here is good story of domesti