Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1901-04-25
LOCAL AND GENERAL,

LUIAL ANU uENEkAL,
The melancholy days are here-the day
of soap and dust
Stove polish daubs the tableware
there's pie ON Wagner's bust
Piano holds some frying pans-the bath
tubs filled with books
The womentolks -ah, who could tel
who they were by their looksl
Sing heyl 1he glad housekeeping time
the time of dust and soap.
1t is gladsome sight to see through
big telescope.
Part IF the Island was the real
thing, Saturday.
Examination at Slipperyrock Nor
NAL, Tuesday, June 18th.
IT. James Dodds has taken out an
auctioneer's license. See card.
The Guarantee Safe Deposit and
Trust Co. of Butler has received its
charter
-Four inches of rain in four days of
April is not SO bad. but wait till the
Queen of May reigns.
The Supervisors of the county
should see NJ. c.. Rockensteins stock OF
tiling before buying.
The base bail season adds spice to
the life of the sport. 1t began in the
rain of last Thursday.
If one has good health. and lots of
dollars and sense. he can have pretty
good time in this world.
Joseph Aland, the Merchant Tailor,
keeps five good coat-makers busy at
present and is looking for another.
The Hospital ladies had bad day at
divers, but yet they sold about hun
dred dollars worth of candy, ice-cream.
etc.
"A flock of sea gulls hovered over
the Allegheny river, last week. They
occasionally follow up the Mississippi
and Ohio from the Gulf.
Jos Ro o,kenstein will have an auc
tiol sale of buggies, wagons, harness.
etc at his store room on North Main
St, Saturday, May 4th. See adv.
AT Pittsburg, Thursday, the Coro-
ner's jury held the three men, and one of
the women, implicated in the killing of
Detective Fitzgerald. on the charge of
murder.
AT New Castle, Tuesday, Councils
passed an ordinance reviving the offer
of reward of 1900 for the arrest and
conviction of the murderer of City
Treasurer John Blevins.
The Assessors outfits for the MAY
registration and for school children will
be ready by Monday, at the Co Com'rs
office. All Assessors who have not yet
qualified must do so before receiving
their outfits
"A check recently sent by Butler
attorney to man in the western part
of the county was lifted by someone
for whom it was not intended, the sig
nature forged and the check cashed at
the Slipperyrock bank.
AT the meeting of the Butler School
Board last Friday evening, the contract
for the annex to the First Ward build
ing was awarded to Mr. Ranscher at
$9,065. The building is to be completed
by the middle of August.
Vaccination being now the fad, GER
tain society ladies in the cities are said
to have caused the surgeons to make
the sore on portions whereby they might
avoid blemishes on their arms which
might show at society functions.
Western Pennsylvania is not the
only section of country that has been
favored ~ with variety of weather
lately. They have had frosts at Charles
ton and Jacksonville, and in Georgia
the cotton had to be replanted.
The Buffalo Expo opens next
: month. and the railroads are already
advertising their exclusion rates. THE
people of Butler will have the choice of
three perhaps FOUR routes, and by
trading tickets can arrange to go one
way and return another.
"A circulating library and reading
room is being established in Saxonburg.
Mrs. J. J. vandergrift of Pittsburg con-
tributed $50 to be used in the purchase
of books and g. o. Hammer, the gas
man. is furnishing a room, furniture,
gas, etc. The officers of the Library
Association are q. CT. Hammer, Pres
John Z. Muder, Jr.. Vice Pres; John
Helmbold, Treas. A. t. Knoar, Secty.
and Prof H. Heberling, Librarian.
FIRES.