Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1901-05-02
LOCAL AND GENERAL.

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The book-peidler makes some SUI
prising sales
Corn is going up and it will soon b
coming up.
Apparently the weather has at Las
learned enough to come in out OF tn
wet
Fashionable man will be unusuall.
soleful this year The shoemakers ar
doing it.
-Butler ought to have street-sprink
ler-the dust some days ia offensive an
destructive.
That the present is the season TO
cleaning ont houses is no justification
for the burglar.
The short hay crop of last summe
and the late spring made fodder scarc'
in the country.
The telephone girl answers back
and 90 does this new contriyance to d.
away with her.
IT il said that Butler man paper
ed his house throughout and then want
ed the amount Of insurance raised
The commissions Of the new Jus
tices of the Peace run for five years. be
ginning with the first Monday of May
The U. s. Revenue officials were
here last Saturday, counting checks and
seeing that the proper stamps were on
them.
The Sultan Of Turkey has ordered
another warship-perhaps with view
of soaring himself into paying his Own
debts.
A blacksnake five feet long was kill
ed by some arbutus gatherers Sunday on
the McElroy place, below the Far
Groand
There are now three thousand mil
lionaresv in the United States, over one
hundred Of whom live in Pittsburg and
Allegheny.
That oil and water do not mix Is a
fact yon want to remember when you
are asked to buy shares in Texas oil
companies.
Several hundred Butterflies walked
up the hill at west end Of w. Pearl st.
last Sunday afternoon to see John Jen-
nings new house.
The Butler Creamery Co., located
ON z. Jefferson st. Is nicely fitted ur
for pasteurized cream and butter, and
doing a good business.
Five crap shooters were gathered in
while playing dice late Saturday night
by policeman Graft and each fined -. 80
and costs by Esq. Keck.
AT Slipperyrock, Monday, Grove
City beat the Normal baseball team, 5
to A. Eight hits were made off Loni-
CHAN the Slipperyrock twirler
Peach trees are unusually full OF
buds and unless there are destructive
frosts late in the spring big peach croT
may be looked for in this county.
Two officials of large cutlery con-
Germ with whom The Board of Trade
have been dickering were viewing But
ler's sites and advantages, Tuesday
Some sea gulls were shot along the
Allegheny river. last week. In the
Southern harbors 1t is criminal offenst
to shoot them, as they are scavengers.
Some Of the alleged manufacturer
Offering to locate here want the Earth
The latest wanted q "A. 900 location, ant
loan Of ten Thousand dollars for ter
years at Q per cent.
The Bessemer railroad has larg'
force Of men and half dozen teams a
work grading at Euclid station. Th
station will be hoisted upon fat cars ant
moved from its present location at tn
top of the cut to the Sunbury crossing
utdT tUc WdttT tdnh. oWibCnrD VIII ~
built along the Sunbury road and a yar'
opened.
Two Butler attorneys became vio
lently Ill after eating a good squar
meal at the house of country friend
Horse-radish was used as relish at th
meal and it is supposed some poisonou
root was dug up and grated with th'
horse-radish. and the lawyers and some
members Of their hosts family wer
made sick by ii.
Members of the junior class at tn
Normal school, Slipperyrock, Monda
raised their class flag to the highes
point Of the chapel They painted tn
inside of the chimney to keep the sen
iors out The faculty intervened. bu
the juniors would not take the fla
down After the colors had foated fo
half day man was employed TO TAX
the flag down and turn 1t over to tn
faculty.
Co. L. 18th N. q. P. was inspecte
Tuesday night by the Inspector Genel
al Maj Jeffries Of Pittsburg. The CON
pany was commanded by Capt. Marti
ard Lieuts. Mckee and Cumberland
The boys made splendid appearance
and ou the whole avery favorable impre'
sion. but the Major put them throug
some capers In outpost duty which the
had never seen before and which the
think were not according toregulation
Capt Martin Of Co. X, Greenville, IN
Maj. McElhany of Franklin were spe,
tators.
The members Of the Butler Sire,
Car Co are puzzled as to the location
a Park. The p. 81 w. X. II. shuts thel
off as to east and south; and north an
west the grades are so steep they fef
that the loaded cars would not elm
them They have secured options q
several properties.
Since the above was put in type "
learn that the company has options o
the Mnlligan and Keck properties, Z
Martin run-the run to the west Of Il
Mercer road and have secured a rigl
of way to them.
The fall tenn Of school at the Butt
Business College opens Monday, Sept.
1901. Send for catalogue and circular
BUTLER BUSINESS COLLEGE.
Retter examine the construction