Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1900-04-26
LOCAL AND GENERAL,

Over the mountains and over the hills,
Over the rivers, the streams and the nils,
Over the valleys that sing;
Over the forest and over the wood,
Over the trees that awaken TO bud
Blows the sweet breath of Spring.
Andy Kempers new barber-shop is
beauty.
The Filipino war is NOT exactly all
over the island.
Spring plowing is disturbing the
country just now.
-Petrolia public schools closed last
Thursday after u very satisfactory
term.
A New Jersey town rendered pub
lie banquet to man who secured
divorce
The next reunion of the Boggs
family will be at Evans City on Thurs
day, August 16.
You may not see a single reason for
watching a base ball bulletin, while
others see a score.
If we have a row with him, the
Sultan will probably come out at the
small end of the Golden Horn.
The show windows of our stores are
just beautiful at present, and then there
are some counter attractions
There is camp of buns up the
creek, and as the officers suspect them
ofhouse breaking they are running them
in.
Very little news is escaping from
South Africa at present, and it is not
wise to take bare rumor for the naked
truth.
Fine feathers may make fine birds,
but in one of the western states they
are going to make the wearing of them
finable.
The tremendous thunderstorm to
west the of Butler last Sunday night, did
some damage, and caused slight fire
in Connoquenessing.
The Assessors outfits for the May
registration of voters and school chill
dren, are in the Commissioners Office
ready for the Assessors.
Geo. W. Whitehill, the plumber,
will open in his handsome new building
next Tuesday, where he will ma Ike fine
display of plumbing goods. See adv.
Mrs. J. f. Zimmerman has 'eased
the room formerly occupied by d. A.
Heck, and expects to open up the mil
linery department, at least, by Satur-
day.
A big gasser has been struck at
CARROTS run, along the line of the cleo
trio road between Kittanning and Ford
City, and lots jumped from four to five
hundred per cent
Mrs James Mutton of near Du-
Bois has confessed that her husba nd
killed man during quarrel in their
HOuSe, anu llltu DuIItu JHc IIt
left for parts unknown.
The pickle people are contracting
for all the pickles which local farmers
will agree to raise, paying 45 cents a
bushel for pickles from one to three and
half inches long and IS cents a bushel
for those from three and half TO five
inches long.
The building adjoining the Balph
drug store, now being torn down, is. or
was part of the original residence of
II. c. DeWolf, one Of the earliest physi-
ci.ns Of Butler Itw built about 1920
and one-half of it was removed about
ten years ago by DR.. Balph. The other
half now also gives place to a more
modern structure. The house of Rich
ard Hughes. Jr the barber, occupies
the ground where stood the Office and
and shop of Dr. DeWolf.
The coke drawers in the foundry
yards of the H. G.. Frick Coke company,
three miles west of Connellsville we re
witnesses to most tragic suicide Mon
day. An unknown man jumped into a
coke oven that had burned until it had
reached the white heat. WorBmen in
the yards say he jumped feet first
through the trunnel head of the oven
No one had time to recognize his features
and one minute afterward when the
oven door was smashed in and an at
tempt made to rescue the body, all the
iron rake Withdrew was a charred
stump of flesh about three feet long.