Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1904-03-10

secure their receipt DOCKS AT lur Clll
zen ONCE. and persons making publ !: sales
their note books.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Some of the roads are already hub
deep.
-Springdale is to be trolleYized. with
transfer at the tracks.
Two Merry Tramps, at Lyndora
Theatre. next Wednesday evening.
Rains, foods and ice-gorges are the
real harbingers Of Spring, this year.
The heavy rains OF last Sunday
night made more trouble for the rail
roads.
1t seemed odd last Thursday even
ing to hear the boys calling the morn
ing papers.
The Relief Committee removed
to Room 203, Butler County National
Bank building, yesterday.
Some Of the Rural Mail Carriers
could not get over their routes for four
days, on account OF the flood.
Potatoes and apples are very scarce
in Butler, this week Oar grocers are
paying 60 cents for potatoes, and rs
up for frst-class apples,
The Pittsburg division of the B. r.
q r. is to be extended to Punxsutawney
with headquarters at that place. This
will take few families out of Butler.
-Mrs. McDermott, OF Chicago. con-
tends that that there amt no good
husbands but dead ones" This adds
poignancy to the reflection that 'tthe
good die young"
Some street-car men from Pittsburg
were in Slipperyrock. Monday, wanting
. franchise from the borough main
line of which would connect franklin
Butler .Pittsburg.
In New York, the other day, the
steel frame for new and high building
collapsed, and one girder fell through
the roof Of an adjoining building and
killed the wife Of millionaire.
The Pittsburg Councils passed the
railroad ordinances, Monday. and the
three big corporations Wabash. B. &
o. and Penn'a-will spend ten million
dollars in that town, this summer.
--On some places on our roads this
week the wagon wheels are gcing in up
to the hubs. and as the same sort OF
roads are reported in Korea its no
wonder the opposing armies are max
ing haste, slowly.
You can make good story about
almost anything. il You know how.
The first article in one Of the leading
magazines of the country for this
month. is the biography of wild bull
-and tits very readable story.
AT pm. Tuesday, the Standard
Trust Co Of Butler closed its door. and
the following notice was tackled upon
it-"Tbis Office Closed Temporarily by |
Order of the Board Of Directors All
Espositcrs Will Be Paid In Full"
The business agents OF the Pittsburg
District Council Of carpenters and
joiners have been made defendants in
the injunction proceedings.
The cases are duo to he heard to-
morrow. but the defendants have asked
for more time for preparation.
Employees Of the Car works are re-
ceiving written notice to go to work the
first Of April Many men who held
responsible positions although OF work,
received half pay this month for not
leaving town. The works are expected
to run full day turn. with about 24OO
men.
Moth balls will come high this sum-
mer. Camphor advanced from "a to
94 cents per pound wholesale, the other
day, and the advance Is blamed on
the war. The supply comes from
island Of Formosa; the Japs own that
island and they need the camphor for
use in making smokeless powder.
AT Springfield, Ohio Monday,
mob smashed the Jail doors, and took
out negro who had killed policeman
and hung him to telegraph pole.
After hanging the negro, mob of sew
eral thousand assembled and set fire to
the negro quarter of the town. and let
It burn. The Governor Of the state was
appealed to. and the militia companies
Of the neighboring towns were sent to
Springfield.
Near Punxsutaw ney last Friday
night, some burglars robbed q store
and . postofice They began about Q
am. by capturing two night watchmen,
aud tying them to the seats Of passen-
ger coach, left standing on the siding;
then they captured all the members Of
the family. excepting the woman. also
three miners and tied them in the
coach; and went to work on the safes;
but the woman slipped off and gave the
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with but about $500 worth Of stuff
The thieves made their escape in hand
car.
-"Prepa,e for tight waists" 10 the
dictum sent forth by the annual conven-
tion OF dressmakers in New York city.
Hereafter women of the country must
follow the new style or be outside the
pale OF fashion. To the male mind this
will give an erroneous impression with
out that illumination which we here
vouchsafe. Tight waists in the physi-
cal sense have been in use from time
immemorial, and the dictum as sent
forth does not mean necessarily fur.
ther drawing in of the corset-strings
though logically it will lead to such &C
tion- II means that there will be nc
more Of the draperies from the bust te
the waist which obscure the figure.
An Oriental Pnn.-"Is your name
Eli Lii" asked foreigner brusqueiy
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