Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1904-04-14

Adminfsll nGDrs ana VI rcA1.
can secure their receipt books al the vi
ZEN Office. and persons making gobiic SAFE
thesr note books.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
ALI quiet on rhe Yalu.
House cleaning is in order.
This is the last month for oysters
The soda water fountains are OF
tap.
How do you like your new neigh
bors?
The new theatre will cost about
$4,000.
Repair your sidewalks and clean NJ
your premises.
The national league base ball sea-
son opens today.
Five inches of snow fell 10 Grove
City, yesterday morning.
Easter Sunday next year will come
20 days later than this year.
The matter and unitn painters CT
Eutler have agreed to disagree.
The wheat in the ground looks
well. considering what it has had to
stand
Crowd poison" is something new.
1t is what makes you 60 to sleep in
church
1T has showed every month for six
months. and the supply seems mex
haustible.
Something new in the World-the
Patr1cian shoe-See Daubenspeck &
Turner's ad-
Tie Railroad ticket-cfiice safe at
Freeport was blown open and robbed.
Tnes1ay night
The ladies of the Grace Lutheran
CHURCH will hold their annual supper
next Thursday evening
Brownsville p. o. has been discon-
tinued lately, and we have placed the
balance Of our list there to Route No.
20.
The Butler Comfy National Bank
statement shows assets OF nearly three
millions Of dollors, the best it has ever
msde.
Nothing advertises city more
strongly in the eyesof the casual visitor
than well-paved streets tiat are kept
81 Lam.
Some Of the West Erders want a
Panama canal dug across the island.
tunnel under the railroad tracks would
do better.
With Douglass hook store On one
side of our office entrance. and Aliens
cigar store on the other, we feel that
we are in an eminently respectable at
mosphere.
Wheat lowered abont 93 cents in
the Chicago market. yesterday, but the
receipts were falling off. and but three
fourths Of crop of winter wheat is ex-
pected, this year.
"A Chicago preacher has postponed
the end of the world ninety years. This
Il very kind Of him, but he might as
we'll have given us chance to live a
few more centuries
After tomorrow the West Penn
trains will run into and leave from the
Fort Wayne station in Allegheny. The
Chestnut street passenger station has
been a great detriment to travel on that
road.
The courts Of Allegheny county
will, this week. dispose Of the last Of
the 2,17S applications to sell liquor. Up
. to Saturday last the Anti-Saloon league
Of the county claimed the credit OF hav
ing secured the refusal OF 248 Of them.
They had some great weather ont
weet last week. A blizzard swept over
Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa. Missouri and
and Nebraska going south; and lorna
do swept over Texas going north. Just
where the collision. IL any. took place
was not recorded.
Friday evening the body OF child
apparently still borD, was found In a
party buried wooden spice box in the
old Catholic cemetery. 1t was taken to
the Office Of undertaken M. A. Berki-
mer for Coroner's investigation, and
given decent burial. Saturday.
I'm the office Of DIR. Kitchen in the
Boyd building is splendidly mounted
loon, as fine a specimen of this bird az
can be found. which was shot by the
doctors wife with 22-calaber rifle on
the Allegheny river. Mrs. Kitchen IL
proficient in the use OF firearms and
frequently accompanies her husband OF
hunting expeditions.
Some valuable maps Of the towr
and comfy were burned In the Armory
building but as all excepting one arr
duplicated the loss will net affect MOI
cause litigation. The map of the Do
nation and Depreciation districts in TIL
county. which hung in Engineer Nc
Quistion's Office. and which he had II
part copied from James Dunlap's map
male sixty or seventy years ago, wa
burned, and 1t cannot be duplicated
unless the records in the Land Office a
Harrisburg an furnish the data.
Steel tracks for public highway
are being advo Gated. The Scientifi
American says that TESTS have show
that while 1t requires five times as muc
power to pull given load on loos
gravel or dirt road as it does over goo
macadam. and ten times as much pow
or to pull the same load through loos
sand or mud. on steel rails only on,
sixth as much power is needed as 0
macadam. This great reduction
power, and consequent diminishment {
wear and tear on draft horses. is all th
more valuable in that 1t is permaner
and lasts throughout all seasons; 80 thi
the farmer is not obliged to figure on
greater loss Of time and fatigue OF b
horses at one season Of the year than
another"