Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1901-04-18
LOCAL AND GENERAL,

LOCAL AND GENERAL,
l wouldn't be millionaire,
wouldn't ask for fame,
wouldn't soldiers laurels wear
Nor ask ones honored name;
I'd rather have what God has sent
Me. peaceful life, if low,
So write ME down that I'm content
= With being Mamie's beau.
We're of the common folk. tbs true,
We haven't fame or wealth.
But Mamie hath two eyes of blue,
And II have my healthl
I'm lord or loves domain, beside,
Where fields of kisses grow.
So write me down as satisfied
With being Mamie's beau.
Base ball bawlers.
Copper mine stock is being doomed
June will be big day in Evan
City.
Next Friday, week, is another Al
Dor Day.
The Chinese question is still an in
terrogation point
The sound of the carpet beater j
heard in the land.
And still belated fitting" is oh
served on our streets.
The welcome rain of last Sunda.
ended our annual dust-bath.
May 1st and may be you'll pay Il
cents for your shave in Butler.
james Ferry secured the contrac
for the Bluff and Penn st. sewers.
While Charlie Campbell was in thu
Hospital somebody did some stealing
from him.
-"The next time woman gets eros
at you, remember that she has to wea
corset, and be patient"
The poultryman who specifies hi
''spring" chickens as those of the new
century, should make fortune.
Mrs. Pape's new store on Jefferson
street is blooming wilderness of every
thing new and pretty in millinery,
"A Ziegler Ave. fire that could moi
be seen caused 100 firemen to run them
selves out of breath, Tuesday afternoon
The Board of Trade has gone after
big English cutlery concern which
New Castle and Pittsburg are wanting
The proposition to move the big
Fanker house from the hill west o.
Harmony to Braddock has been aban
doned.
john Richey is ''as snug as a bug
in a in his new place on Cunning
ham st. The "Fixer" wouldn't know
the place now.
--Some farmers of Schuylkill county,
met in Pottsyille last Friday and form
cd stock syndicate for the purpose OF
establishing dandelion farms.
VIM Walker sold for Dale. Gagha-
gan & Co. to w j. Mcintosh & Co. OF
Bradford, lease of "a acres on the Elf
fer in Summit, wells, 9 barrels, $700t
cash.
Talking about dirty and torn mon
ey. one Of our banks the Butler Coun
ty National-averages notes to the val
ne of $500 day, sent to Washington for
redemption.
AS rule when meli argue it is not
for the purpose of ascertaining the
truth, but to come out best. Egotism
and not desire for information, is the
inspiring motive.
A few Of our farmers yet have ap-
Piles 10 sell, but the bulk of the stock in
our groceries and the pomological pyr
amids in front of the candy stores are
from York state.
The Butler Creamery Co. is now
open for business at 316 E. Jefferson st.
! with stock of pure cream and milk,
pasteurized daily, on hands; also but
termilk and cottage cheese.
What has become of the CONNER
cial Gazette's political cartoons in which
they continually swiped the "Insur.
gents" Maybe the Gazette feels kind
Of rebellious itself just now.
Policemen Ray and Graft arrested
crowd of young men playing dice fol
money in stable near Main ST.. Mon
day midnight The culprits were taken
before Esq Keck and fined $15
Ferris P. o. was broken into few
nights ago, and some tobacco taken.
Billy sleeps with the postage stamps
and if anybody tries to rob him of them
there's no telling what may happen.
The ladies of the Hospital Society
have charge of Charley divers candy
store. today, and his dream" of soda,
fountain has been fizzing all day, while
the caramels are disappearing by the
ton.
The trees on the old McPherrin Sui
livan lot have been chopped and sawed
into pieces and hauled away; the ole
frame house will be moved to the real
end of the lot; and three-story busines:
house, 4Ox190, with two store rooms
mill foEo their p1ococ
The unusual visitation of canker
worm moths causes apprehension among
fruit growers, who are advised to tai
and spray their trees as soon as possible
Only the males have wings. The fe
males are obscure-looking little crea
lures, with oval bodies and thread like
antennae. They deposit their eggs OF
the branches of the spple, plum, peal
and allied trees, and the foliage-destroy
ing caterpillars, which appear in myr
lads in day, and almost destroy all tn,
leaves before their presence is discover
ed, are batched out little later in tn,
spring.
The fall term of school at the Butle
Business College opens Monday, Sept q
1901. Send for catalogue and circulars
BUTLER BUSINESS COLLEGE.
New goods arriving almost daily nov
at Brown & Cos. We aim to keep on
stock complete. and can furnish you
house complete in the furniture line
Strange to say, whether we buy in ca