Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1905-03-16
LOCAL AND GENERAL.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.
1t is lent
Good bye, grounding.
Maple sugar makers are busy.
-Sassafras tea is seasonable drink
That last snow was a sugar ar-snow,
st. Patrick's Day. Friday, March
18th.
No contagious disease cases in But
Ter now.
Forest Huff at the Majestic, Tues
day night
More houses, more good houses, are
needed in Butler.
This will be a gray summer for
fashionable men.
Some great shows are on the pro-
gram for this week and next.
Concert at the Westminster church
in Clinton twp. Friday evening.
The examination for public school
diplomas will be held on Saturday,
March 18th.
All Butler wants to hear our own
townsman, Forest Huff, in the Jewel
of Asia" Opera Co, Tuesday night.
Eleven car loads Of potatoes arriv-
cd in Pittsburg. Tuesday, which had
been purchased In Michigan at 10 cents
q bushel.
The examination of the stomachs
OF Mrs. Brown and Mrs. Walker has
not yet been completed by the Pitts
bnrg chemist.
THE equator" wrote an English
schoolboy In bis examination paper, lis
q menagerie lion running round the
centre Of the earth"
1t is sixteen weeks to the Fourth Of
July and the boys are already planning
for celebration. II is not too late to
make town centennial out Of 1t.
-Hcw quickly the new year is pass
ing! Here we are past sledding and
into marble time. almost by magic; and
that annual spasm, called housekeeping,
Is upsetting onr gizzards.
--Rural Mail Carrier Calpass horse
broke loose from its hitching post,
Tuesday evening, and waltzed around
the Court House until its road-cart was
upset and its harness tied In knot
about it's neck. choking it.
Hundreds Of Butler people walked
down the railroad track, Saturday even
ing and Sunday, to the scene Of the
wreck; and on Saturday evening three
boys were held up and robbed by Ital-
iAns. near the brick works. One OF the
boys named Frank Harding. resisted
detention. and was slashed acroes the
face with knife
There will be an ''all-iay sewing"
beginning at 10 am. 1t Che Library
Rooms on N. Main St.. tomorrow. Fri
day. The ladies will all take their
lunch with them, and help to make new
garments for the Rummage Sale. TO
take place during the latter part of the
month. All the ladies Of the Library
Club are requested to be present.
Once again 1t 10 reported that the
p. q. r. Co. intends building or begin
ming to build, that cutoff or connect
ing link between the p. " IT. w. and
the Low Grade, from Enon Valley to
Red Bank, this coming summer. The
line. II built, will nearly parallel the
line now building. will take two years,
and cost twelve millions.
1T Is reported that r. w. Mckee e.
Co. of Pittsburg. who own West Win.
field and everything around itare about
to erect large glass bottle works at
that place. which will employ over 100
men. The sand for the bottleworks is
to be procure; at West Winfield A
cement factory is also said TO be under
contemplation and II these two improve
ments are made one hundred more
houses will have to be built In West
Winfield.
Ritter IL Rockenstcin have 30 mems
seven and eight dollar overcoats to sell
for e4.50.
Marietta Holley, better known as "Sa-
mantha, or Josiah Aliens Wife, Ia
writing regularly for The Pittsburg
Sunday Dispatch. Rival Suitors" Is
the subject Of her article next Sunday.