Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1905-04-06
LOCAL AND GENERAL.

How do you like your new home.
The wheat over the country is look
ing well
The new Brazilian potato" ie said
to be fraud
Good repertoire company at the Ma
jestic this week.
The base ball people have 5000 in
sight and want $500 more
-Sproul and Shearer have purchased
the J. Fl. Orr store in Bruin.
This is hurry-up week in the Legis-
lature, aGit Ia due to adjourn next.
The Thursday night assemblies in
Kirkpatricks hall are well attended.
The dog button man don't seem to
care whether the dog is tagged or tag
less.
Five hundred people of this town
are ssid to be on the Grocers' Black
List
Forest fires did considerable dam
age In different parts Of the county, last
week.
-Eighty-two people were treated for
sickness and accident at the Hospital,
last month.
Greater Pittsburg may be reality
within the next few years. but Dirtier
Pittsburg never.
"A new trolley line connecting ALE
gheny with Harmony. Zelienople and
Ellwood is projected
Tho Knights Of Malta held recep-
tion in the Y. NJ C. A. hall, Tuesday
evening. 1t was one Of the finest.
The BARRIERS and their employers
got together. Tuesday. and agreed on q
scale Of wages for the coming year.
-3pringingitis" is the new name for
= disease 10 which the human race In
said to be liable at this season OF the
year.
The Islanders attacked the Council
in f,rce. Tuesday evening. but could
not bulge them. The garbage plant
will be rebuilt on the old site,
Butler real estate Is looking mp; the
Odd Fellows lately refused an offer Of
oS5. 900 for their lot at corner Of Main
snd Cunningham Sts., and intend build
ing this summer.
Our calsnder year begins during
the Holiday season In mid-winter. but
our real awakening, the resurrection Of
nature. the beginning Of the year comes
with the advent Of Spring.
The Prudent Patricians Of Pompeii
will hold box social. Monday evening,
April 10th, In their hall in the Reiber
building, at which the Three p orches-
trs will make its initial pnbIic appear
ance. All invited.
bill had billboard. Bill also had
. board bill The board bill bored Bill
70 that Bill sold the billboard to pay bis
board bill. 80, after Bill sold his bill
board to pay his board bill the board
bill no longer bored Bill"
The bill forbidding the use Of high
explosives In this state has become a
law. and the toy pistol. explosive cane
and some Of the fre-crackers will re-
tire to innocuous desuetude IA penalty
is attached for the sale Of the same.
The graduates Of the Butler High
School have formed an Alumni Associ
stion. and will adopt Constitution
and Bylaws to be prepared by G. E.
Cronenwstt. John Fl. jackson, Prof.
Gibson. w. II. Purvis. G. A. AcEl-
vain. Miss Sisbert and Miss Evans.
Nelson o. Nelson, is the name Of the
st. Louis millionaire, who recently stir
red mp Chicago audience by the asser-
ton that getting rich was merely hab
II. and q bad one ut that. MIR. Nelson's
dictum was delivered In the course OK
IN address on Need Captain Of In
dustry Get Rich" His answer to the
query was an emphatic NO.
According to the Allegheny health
authorities. the first Indication OF a
scarlet fever epidemic there will wit
ness unique and original efforts to com
bat the malady. Fumigation, or a pro-
cess very similar. Of the whiskers which
adorn the faces Of every resident of the
affected districts will form art OF the
work Of the health officers in the future
when the dread disease appears
EVERY town has young man who
thinks be IL the best In the burg with
the mits or at fsticuffs In any form.
They are telling good story Of such a
one who dosen't live great many miles
from Butler. At social gathering z
one evening certain young minister
was induced TO "put EN- on with the
champion, and before the first round
was half over Mr.. Champion had
enough, and then some.
The hot-air engine that the Com
missioners have placed In little brick
building back Of the Jail Is quite curl
osity. The gas fire cooks the air, and
II passes back and forth under the two
cylinders The engine pumps the wa
ter from a well, $50 feet deep, MP to the
tank, lately built on top Of the jail
buildipg-high enough to supply both
Jail and Court House. The tank 10 what
Il known a. 100-barrel oil tank, and
holds about 1870 barrels Of water, as a
barrel Of water consists Of 30 gallons
while an oil barrel holds AZ.
Henry Biehl. of 122 North Main st.,
will have special sale Of New Roya
Sewing Machines on the 18th, 18th, 18th
and 14th OF this month.
Showing new Spring styles Of soft
and stiff hats at Ritter &Rockenstein's
80 HORSES WANTED SO
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