Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1903-04-09
LOCAL AND GENERAL,


The early bird catches the pneumo
MIA
The churches will be well attended
next Sunday.
Another shooting affair along the
new railroad.
Repair your sidewalks and clean III
your premises
The ducks" of spring hats are now
on the market.
Who is the most popular street
loafer in Butler?
The bicycles are beginning to make
their appearance.
The whack of the carpet beater is
heard in the land.
The sign painter can always make
a name for himself.
The oftener Cupid hits the mark,
the more Mrs. he makes.
There is bill before the legislature
to abolish trading stamps.
The legal season for catching brook
tout opens the 18th of this mouth
Good Friday comes tomorrow, April
10th and this is virtually the close OF
the Lenten season.
March and April traded few days
this year; and the fruit probably suffer
ed in consequence.
The billiard hall in the new bank
building was opened, Monday; and our
postmaster expects his room to be ready
shortly.
Butler received its annual dustbath
last week Why cannot the business
portion of Main ST. be flooded from the
fire plugs
The imports Of coffee into this
country reach nearly billion pounds a
year, and big crop, this season, has
lowered prices.
The sugar war between the Trust
and the Arbuckles has broken out
again, and prices will probably rule
lower for time.
Those of our subscribers who haye
moved should notify us at once in order
that we may make the necessary change
in the mailing list
We call the attention of those IL
terested in thoroughbred poultry to the
card of the Owego Valley Poultry Farm.
Baff Leghorns exclusively. Write.
Reed & Co. are burning their sec
ond kiln of brick at their works near
the railroad track. Each kiln contains
about 200, 900 brick. Their outputs al
most 10000 day.
In Maryland and Virginia peaches
were in bloom and were killed by the
frosts Of Saturday and Sunday. Here
the fruit not being on so far was unin-
iured and the buds are now opening.
-Graphophones are superseding
stenographers in the large business off
ces. The boss talks his answer to the
machine. and then the type writer puts
on her ear-lugs and starts the machine
and her fingers going
"A certain parson of the old school is
reported as having concluded a good,
old fashioned sermon in which he de-
plored new-fangled doctrines, by saying:
''As for me. brethren, the hell of our
fathers is good enough for me-"
Citizens of w. Wayne ST. are sign
ing petition for the paving of that
thoroughfare from Main st, to the
creek west of the Muntz and Krut
tracts. Workmen are now slowly COM
pleting the bridge at the Nanny proper
ty.
The assessors of Wilson county,
Kansas, have established basis Of yal-
uation for personal property from
which it appears that yearling horse
is to be assessed at SIS aud two-year-
old at $50, while the lowly mule is to
be valued ten per cent higher than the
horse.
DIR J. L. Mckee, formerly of Chico
ra, has purchased the G. J. Harvey
Pharmacy in the Stein block, S. Main
st. and will be pleased to meet his
friends in his new stand, which will be
strictly up to date in every respect. DIR.
Mckee has had a long and successful
career in the drug business.
The names that appear on the po
lice court records and on the marriage
license docket furnish striking evidence
of the change in nationality taking
place in Buffers population. Wonder
If all the Hunkies and Dagos will final
ly be assimilated in Americanism ani
adopt and uphold our yankee princi-
Piles.
The Mellon Coal Co. is driving al
entry on the McMin farm in South Buf
falo twp, Armstrong county, along the
line. and has bought the coal of severa
farms in Buffalo twp. this county. The
Kerr Coal Co. the Guckenheimers-
have $50 miners in their drift on tn,
John Sarver. near the junction, an(
have bought the coal of several farm
in that neighborhood "
Some of the property owners of thi
town have become too greedy, and ar,
driving people away by asking exorbi
tant rents. At the meeting Of tn,
School Board. last Friday night, it wa
stated that sixty children whose parent
had moved here to give them the bene
fit of our public schools, had been with
drawn during the previous week, thei
parents finding it necessary to move t.
some place where they would not b
robbed
-Postmasters hereafter will not b
permitted to rent boxes to minors with
ont the written consent of their parents
The order was made by the Postoffic
Department, to correct an abuse grow
ing out of the fact that minor girls rem
boxes and open up correspondence witt
outside parties and in that way kee,
the correspondence a secret from thei
parents. This is good ruling, and will
doubtless put stop to much Irritation
When a girl has correspondence she