Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1898-05-12
LOCAL AND GENERAL,

nc SOuIb lIOW ClOSCS ut ~
p. m.
The frost of last Sunday night did
some harm.
Now, as to that Manila cable; there s
lots of it in use in our wells.
The winter grain looks splendid in
nearly all parts of the county.
No woman is as handsome as she
thinks some man thinks she is.
s. g. Purvis & Co. are rip-rapping
their property along the creek bank.
A tax is to be levied on chewing
gum for war purpose. Well by guml
Meyer put off today the flannel
clothing you ought to wear until to-
morrow.
May, June, July, August and Sep
tember are Summer months in the Gas
Co. s calendar.
-Showery Spring show days shiver
suffering souls, and sheckels out OF
show-treasuries.
Drummer Boy of Shiloh for
benefit of Springdale Hose Co., at Park
Theater May IA, Is and II.
The Spanish admiral is like the
average girl when she's proposed TO-
"This is so sudden, said she.
Artist Findley furnished Thomas
Marshall of Mars with a very fine
portrait of his son Dean this week.
THE Times is a new weekly ven
ture in journalism at Evans City, by j.
r. Young. and we wish him success.
L J. McCandless has received au-
thority from the War Department to
enlist men for the National Volunteer
Rererves aged IS to 45.
The milky appearance OF the water
that came from the spigots few nights
ago was caused by minute air bubbles
in the water
Crawford & Barron, who are sink
ing the gold-shaft in Parker township,
were down 209 feet last Saturday and
took ont their first gold bearing rock.
The five long trains of double cars
used for transporting Ringing Bro
Worlds Greatest Shows from city to
city have floor space of over 130 ordi- |
nary railway cars.
The Walter L. Main show had bad |
luck in Butler so far as weather was
concerned, and yet they did fair bust |
ness here. 1t is good show, with some
novelties.
--Tobacconist Walker is getting gay.
He put up six-foot-square, plate glass |
mirror in his store yesterday and now
he's showing the boys how to cut a
pigeon wing before it,
Ringing Bros famous and popular
circus represents a cash investment of
g, 700, 0OO The cost of operating this
stupendous enterprise will be over ST.
200, 900 this season.
1t begins to look as if the expression
armed to the teeth" really means
something. If anyone has three or
more teeth missing he cannot pass the
the examination before entering the
regular army.
The Butler Cyclers will give a
lantern parade this evening, starting
from club rooms in National Bank |
Building at S:15 p. IN. All bicycle |
riders are cordially invited to take part |
both ladies and gentlemen Decorate |
your wheel and join in.
Hon. Chas. c. Farmer, of Omaha,
Neb., sovereign manager, of the Wood |
men of the World, will be in Butler, |
June the first, and address an open |
meeting, held under the auspices of |
Camp W. o. w. of Butler An inter
esting programme is being prepared,
and an enjoyable evening is expected. |
All are cordially invited
On Thursday last May wheat
that is wheat to be delivered this
month-went up to 81. 80 bu.; and in
the Oil Exchange Certificate oil' sold
at 81 cents. You cannot get certificate
for your oil unless you have 1000 bbls.
or over. Same day credit balances ad-
vanced cents or to 75 cents On Fri
day credit balances went to So cents,
and the speculative market to 80. On
Tuesday cash wheat went as high as
$1.S5. but the speculative oil market
waa down to ~