Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1905-03-09

can secure thelr receipt DOCKS al tnt
CITIZEN ONCE. and persons making public
sales their note books
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Lent began yesterday.
House hunters are busy.
The dog catcher is busy again.
Get ready to make maple syrup.
Only three weeks more till moving
day.
The new Council has got down to
work.
Get your sale bills printed at this
Office.
Boys playing marbles is sign OF
Spring.
The robins and blue birds are again
in evidence.
They now thaw out frozen pipes
by electricity.
Eggs have taken tumble in price
and butter must.
The Greater Pittsburg movement is
having its troubles
Gas meters are not quite as busy as
they were last month.
Many Of our people are suffering
from bad colds and the grip.
Death continues to gather nome the
old people of our community.
The Foxburg and Kane division Of
the B. & o. is again open for traffic.
japanese boys under twenty are pro
hibited from the use Of tobacco in any
form.
What was left of Stoneboro was de-
stroysd by another fire, early Thursday
morning.
Watson IL Williams of Slippery
rock moved into their new store-room,
this we elk.
Literary society meetings at Como
quenessing on Friday and Saturday of
next week.
"A general exchange of goosebones
might be of advantage 10 the local
weather prophets.
Take good care Of the little ones.
Physicians report considerable pneu-
monia among children.
The drygoods and clothing men
have added dash of green to their
show-window displays.
De. Leighner has sold his interest
in the firm of Martincourt & Co. to W.
Boyd Thorn of Tssrentum.
Harry Seanor bought thirteen
horses In Butler town, last week. and
wants more; See bills and adv.
~. J. HUFF has purchased the Har-
Fey Miller property on West St The
consideration is reparted to have been
t8so0.
Keep watch of your cellars. More
sickness is caused by decsying vegeta-
bles In unventilated cellars than by any
other cause.
j. B. Smell. manager Of the Mirror
Works. was held up and robbed, while
ON his way homo from the West End.
fhs other evening.
Wheat is coming down. If it would
bring the price Of fopr with it we
xonli take more intersst II! the bear
eide Of the corner.
twenty five hundred people from
PittsJurs and vicinity went on 70 Wash
ington last Friday to attend the inaug-
uration, next day.
Now that everybody has cold,
somebody has invented ''sneeze-
screen"-a very useful contrivance, but
. tri6e inconvenient to the wearer.
AT the late election in Middlesex
twp. Esq 8. A. Leslie for Justice Of the
feara and w. ]. Pacoe for Constable
received every vote cast in the twp
Butler is getting to BE- great horse
centre One meH gees to Iowa and
ships thsw IN by the
others come here to buy by the car
load.
Bishop Potter struck q new angle
In the discussion OF the divorce evil the
other day when he said that higher edu-
cation has increased woman's selfish
ness.
The liner La Bretagne started from
N Y. last Thursday. with nine millions
In gold on board. and stuck for an hour
In the mud Of one Of the channels Of the
lower harbor.
The house Of Sylvester Eichenbure,
In Adams twp near Valencia, was de-
stroyed by fire, with all its contents,
Tuesday evening The family were Wis
ing a neighbor at the time.
A N. Y. man who keeps "boozu-
rum" on Broadway has saved the lives
Of hundreds of actors this winter by
providing q generous free-lunch; and his
name has been sent to the Carnegie He
70 Fund Commission for consideration.
Hereafter 1t will be necessary for
hospitals that wish to share in the State
appropriation for that purpose to have
free beds for charitable patients, and
an investigation will be made to find
ont II money donated for charity pur.
poses has really been used for charity.
Co. L went to Pittsburg last Thurs
DAY afternoon. and went on to Wash
ington, via the B. Il o. that night with
its regiment, the 10th. They saw
Washington. took part in the parade
and were back in Butler. Sunday noon
An elderly man who appeared as a
witness In London court could not tell
the name Of the street In which he lived
or the number Of the house. When the
Judge expressed surprise the witness
said: II didn't know there was any need
to know as long as could find my way