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

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 10 bud,
Blows the sweet breath of Spring.
Andy Kemper's new barber-shop is
beauty.
The Filipino war is not exactly ali
over the island.
Spring plowing is disturbing the
country just now.
-Petrolia public schools closed last
Thursday after q very satisfactory
term.
A New Jersey town rendered pub
lie banquet to man who secured a
divorce.
The next reunion of the Boggs
family will be at Evans City on Thurs
day, August 16.
You may not see single reason for
watching base ball bulletin, while
others see 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 a 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. E. Zimmerman has leased
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 a man during quarrel in their
house, and then burned the house. He
left for parts unknown.
The pickle people are contracting
for all the pickles which local farmers
will agree to raise, paying 45 cents
bushel for pickles from one to three and
half inches long and IS cents bushel
for those from three and a 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. G. DeWolf, one of the earliest physi-
ci..ns Of Butler. twas built about 1920
and one-half of it was removed about
ten years ago by DIR. 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. DeWof.
The coke drawers in the foundry
yards of the HI. C. Frick Coke company,
three miles west of Connellsville we re
witnesses to a most tragic suicide Mon
day. An unknown man jumped into
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