Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1904-05-19
LOCAL AND GENERAL.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Summer is coming on steadily-b.
jerks.
All the small pox quarantines in th
county have been lifted.
Riding straddle, with divided skirts
will look odd for a time. but its al
right.
The Butler School Board will cleo
teachers June 18th. All applications t.
be in by the 10th.
"A class of seven, one boy and si1
girls, graduates this week from the
Chicora High School
The street car tracks will be ex
tended west and up the hill to the new
Fair Ground or Driving Park.
The b. r. Il p Co. has placed SOC
coal-car order with the Works here
which was very nice thing for then
to do.
The Pizor and Emery families will
hold reunion at the home of William
Pizor, near Elliott's mills, on Thursday,
June Cd.
The fruit-tree bloom. this year, is
immense, and the bnds are yet green :
barring frost we will have immense
crops of all kinds of fruit.
1t is we'll for some of the little tots OF
Butler that our street cars are equipped
with emergency brakes, as almost every
day some of them get in front of a car.
The executors sale Of the Daniel
Heck coal farm in Centre twp. has been
adjourned till Friday, June Sd at the
Court House, following the Sheriff's
sales
You get half more paper and a pic
ture OF Jefferson now when you buy
postage stamps Thomas was President
of these United States when we bought
that strip.
"A story is told of a young lady of
the Southside who went to the show,
Saturday evening, wearing walking
shoes, lost one in the mud and had to
go horle in her stocking feet
BY the new schedule on the B. d
O. the afternoon express for Allegheny
and the west leaves 5 minutes earlier,
1886; and the evening express for Ale
gheny 4 minutes earlier, $40.
1T rained all day. last Saturday,
otherwise tee whole county would have
been here to see John Robinson's show.
The people of thl9eOunty were hungry
for picuic day and the rain spoiled it
The Southera Oil Co. has leased up
all-or nearly all-of Adams and Mid
dlesex townships; and the Allegheny
and Western r. r. Co. has bought a
streak through Fairview, Concord and
Clay townships.
The railroad men have fixed rate
of $12 from Pittsburg to st. Louis and
return on seven day ticket $f6.5 so for
fifteen Days; sec for thirty Days ana *eo
for a season or return when you please
ticket. No rate has as yet been fixed
for Butler
Hooker postofice, at Middletown,
has been discontinued. and the former
patrons of that office now get their mail
from Karns City "a, W. Sunbury 4S and
40 and Chicora n. Will our subscrib-
ers please send us their new addresses at
once.
-Robinson's Big Shows. exhibited
here last Saturday, and although it
rained almost all day, had Large
crowd in the evening. and the jolly
manner in which the crowd took the
mud coming home, attests the fact that
the show gave entire satisfaction.
Last week was liquor license week
in York state, and for the city or town
Of Olean. the County Treasurer issued
80 licenses and for the county 1856; the
fees on which were $41, ,618.15, one-hali
of which went into the city or town
treasures. Olean has population of
about 12, ,000
In New York city lately a block of
old buildings known as the lung
block" was ordered demolished by ths
Health Board. Three hundred people
living there, died of consumption with
in two years; an inspection revealed
nine coats of wall paper on some Of tn,
old walls and the microscope revealed
tuberculosis germs in the old paper.
--Ex-Gov. VIM. A. Stone, in recen
address at aG A. r. post meeting il
Pittsburg, denounced Andrew Carne
gle hero fund as the 'most ridiculous
foolish and inane proposition ever pro
mulgated" To compensate acts Of her
oism with cold cash does look a trif
like reducing it to the level of mercen
ary transaction.
This year of leap-year parties ha
again proven the ineorrigible deceitful
ness of the merry maidens. If one o
them happens to disclose who is tn
lucky fellow whom she has favore,
with an invitation to the impending
hop or party half dozen others at ono
send him invitations and of course h
has TO return the compliment by sundr
trips to the theatre, buggy rides, pre-
sents, etc.
-Shopenhauerr the philosopher, sal
mo man ought to expect much fror
others, or. in general, from the externs
world. What one human being can b
to another is not very great cal. I
the end every one stands alone Fat
IA cruel and mankind pitiable. A ma
who is rich in himself is like briglf
warm, happy room at Christmas tide
while without are the frost and snow {
q December hight"
Bids. opened Tuesday. in Pittsbur,
on the Allegheny county road contrac
to be carried out this year call attentic
at once to the steady progress of Il
improvement of the roads in that cou
ty and to their rather steep cost. I'll
letting of % miles Of roads to be maca
amiEed and the cos. Of from $4,000
$1,000 per mile. averaging about slt
900. illustrates both aspects, and Il
Dispatch asks: Why is it that Il