Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1904-03-17

MO06Tu OlOTS OuIbdlDS.
R. e. Rs clothing.
Team for Sale.
Horses Wanted
Hotel for rent.
Admfnfstr asors and Executors % e,tat
can secure their receipt books al tta CIT
ZEN ONCE. and persons max frZ ?sJtic SIZE
thar note books.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
This is st. Patrick's day.
The groundhog's time ia up.
Don't complain-March might d.
worse.
The railroad men are fearing a cui
in wages.
Late tests OF our water supply dis
cover no germs.
VIII Ohio put grand father clause
in her constitution
Some of our grocers are paying a
dollar a busbel for Baldwins and North
ern Spys.
The equinoctial storm is yet to
come. Don't think that the real thing
in spring is here for keeps.
The man who predicts an early
spring should produce sample CT the
goods as evidence of good faith.
General Kuropatkin has gone to the
relief Of Alexieff. 1t will now be Ku-
ropatkin's cue to regretsky to report
sky.
Unless one makes sure the gas Is
turned of, it's pretty sure to be turned
on, and the inevitable explosion fol-
lows.
Twenty girl students of Beaver
College attended murder trial at Bea
yer, this week, to study civil govern
ment.
1t does ones eyes good to see straw
berries in market, after such a winter.
and-it doesn't cost anything to look at
them
This is Farmers Institute week.
The meetings at Harmony, Monday and
Tuesday, were well attended. Saxon
burg is having it today.
Pictures Of typical Mormon fam
lily" look like the photograph of dis
trict school. with the local sewing socie-
ty aud the chairman of the school board
mixed In.
The r. ii. G. held dime social at
the home Of Mrs. Bert Rodgers On E.
Quarry St. Thursday evening last, and
before leaving presented her with an
elegant piecs OF Chinaware.
1T costs Uncle Sam million and
half dollars to run the weather bureau
in 1903, but. as an exchange remarks,
this is cheap, considering the amount
Of weather we have had.
The Franklin News man. after
years OF observation, has arrived at the
conclusion that the Easter bonnet is
great missionary to help increase church
attendance, but tracts are cheaper
I'm order to secure the full amount
Of the State appropriation for public
schools, directors must make affidavit
that the provisions Of the compulsory
education law have been complied with.
The local association Of Red Cross
will give within few weeks the canta-
tn Primes Charming" The principal
parts will be taken by well known town
musicians AMI over 100 children will
have part 10 the chorus. The music
will be directed by John C. Dickson.
The Car Works is said by men en-
ployed there to have orders for 500 d.
l. q W., 100 Lehigh Valley, 33 for an
other eastern road and 500 box cars for
tho Alkali line In the west This string
should keep the shops running for a
month or two after April 1st. and by
that time it is more than likely the rail
roads will be ordering new cars.
If your uncle las an amt who has
. nephew whose wife has cousin that
IL married TO an old friend Of your wife's
sister, whose grandfather used to live
in the same town with an old school
mate Of yours, whose son-in-law is now
In st. Louis, You should at once renew
the acquaintance with view OF saving
hotel bills, while attending the Worlds
Fair.
The County Commissioners passed
through their first appeal day. Monday,
and still live. Each property owner In
the county is being sent blank NO
tice OF Assessment and Appeal" and IL
he comes to Butler and puts up kick,
and the figures are changed. a new
new blank Is filled In and he is required
to swear to it, thus virtually assessing
himself
One hundred and ninety thousand
coal miners Of Indiana, Illinois. Ohio,
Western and Central Pennsylvania,
Michigan, Iowa, Eastern Kentucky,
West Virginia and Maryland dropped
their picks at noon, Tuesday, to cast
their ballots on the proposition to ac-
cept or refuse the offer OF the mine own
ers for two year scale at reduction
Of 81 per cent from the present scale OF
wages The Secretaries forwarded the
votes to national headquarters In Indian
apolis. and they will be counted today.
1t is thought the scale, as offered, will.
be accepted.
Floods and ice-gorges have carried
away several bridges over the "naviga-
BILE" streams Of the eastern part of the
state. and these the state will rebuild,
under an old law. II the Connoque-
Messing were 'navigable" stream from
Butler TO it's junction with the Beaver,
and then down to the Ohio, the state
would rebuild the Buhl and Allen
bridges, and perhaps Congressional
appropriation. with that object In view
might be obtained. Davy DougalI al
ways asserted that Butler would. some
day. be seaport, though he never ex-
plained his theory of probabilities TO
anybody.
-Celluloid toys should be banished
from the children's play rooms At
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