Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1904-04-21
LOCAL AND GENERAL.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Butler will celebrate on the great
4th, at Alameda,
On Sunday our drug stores are open
from to IL. 2 to 4 and to :.
ALI the school house ianitors are
now policemen Look out, boys.
A blizzard on the Goth day of April
something new for this section
Some Butler boys got twenty-five
ducks in the Boydstown dam. last week.
The country schools are having cold
weather for their commencement pic
MICS
Car robbers and chicken thieves are
making life interesting for the detec-
tives,
Ohio now hes local option law.
Gov. Herrick signed the Brannock bill,
Saturday.
An epidemic Of mad dogs is dis
turbing the tranquility of some near
neighborhoods.
The business section of Toronto,
Canada had ten million dollar fire,
Tuesday night.
Butler will boom again-another
100O-car order has been received by the
Car Works here.
1t was hard to tell, this week, wheth-
er it was the end of last winter Or be-
ginning of next.
-Timbers are being taken out by the
William Ralston heirs and Mr.. Eisman
the miller, for rebuilding the Prospect
mill.
Owing to the poor quality of paper
on which the silver certificates are
printed they are said to be infested with
germs.
An Evans City man named Bennett
has been offered quarter of million,
cash. and royalty for his invention
Of substitute for rubber.
The Finance committee of Pitts
burg councils has recommended seven
million bond issue-ive for filtration
and two for cutting the hump"
South Cliff street is to be extended
to Centre avenue, near the bridge. One
Of tue old frame buildings there has
been torn down to make room for it.
August 30 and 81, and September
and 2. next have been selected as the
dates for the next Fair; and work on
the race track and buildings has been
resumed.
The ladies of the Grace Lutheran
church will hold their annual supper
in the Y. NJ G.. A. hall this evening,
from to SsoclocK. Supper 25 cents.
AL are invited
The bit of road or street from the
end cf the Miffiin st paving up New
Castle st. to the stone quarry, was about
as bad piece of road as there was in
the county, last week. and is not much
better this
If there is any business which is
great and prosperous you will find that
its success is due in great measure to
advertising. None can be made sue
cessful without publicity. You can do
what any body else has done. Adver :
tise properly and your business will
grow.
like getting things clear and distinct.
A Glasgow paper, for instance, in its
account OF shipwreck, said: 1.-THE
Captain swan ashore and succeeded in
saving the life Of his wife. She was in
sured in the Northern Marine Insurance
Co.. and carried cargo of cement"
Some slight changes have been made
in the West Penn time table, on ac-
count of the trains now leaving the Ft.
Wayne station in Allegheny. The
morning trains for Butler now leave
that station at 6:27, 1857 and 9:57, and
the afternoon at 2:57. sic and SAT. See
new time table for particulars in
another column.
Next month will be show month in
Pittsburg. all Of the big shows on the
road but Forepaugh-Sells combination
being there in May. Walter L. Mains
circus opens up on the 2d. Ringing
Bros. follow on the 7th and 9Th, Bar
mum & Bailey are due on the nth and
18th. while Wallace's circus will be
there the latter part of the month
The story that that tribe of Igoro.
tes from the Philippine Islands will be
denied their usual rations of dog meat
while visiting the st. Louis Exposition
is doubtless campaign lie. There are
worthless dogs enough in the country
to supply them with roasts, stews and
frys every day in the week. The Hu
name Society, If it lives up to its name
viii agree to furnish the dogs.-Der-
rick.
The effort to introduce NOR,
strenuous discipline in the schools ha.
resulted in compromise proposition il
Chicago. The Central : Teachers
Council there has asked not for tn,
restriction of the full-grown rod, bu
for the power of spanking Moreove
this primary and domestic correction i
further hedged about with the promis
that the consent of parents will first b
obtained.
In these days of patent medicine
the good, old ''yarb" remedies of ou
grandmothers have been overlooked O
forgotten. But it now seems they ar
to haye public recognition by the Agri
cultural Department making an exhibi
of them at the st. Louis Exposition.
large and suitable building has beel
chosen for the show, and it may be on
grandmothers' drugs will come to thei
own again and the cultivation of othe
medicinal plants be encouraged whic
we now import.
The California mint broke all r,
cords last month by coming $33, 113, so
IN gold an average Of over q million