Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1890-03-21
LOCAL AND GENERAL

The snow saved the wheat.
Monday was St. Patricks Day.
-"Its o coal day when We get left on
gas.
How many silly questions, did you ask
to-day
Grove City College opens April lst
See notice
See notice of public sale of bees at
Renfrew in another column.
Douglass store-room is full again-full
of Wall Paper, in all the new patterns.
The new building of the Concordia Or
phars' Home, near Saxonburg, is almost
completed.
Tie your babys bonnet with wide
strings of hemmcd surah silk. ."-Er. First
get your baby
No person holding a State, county,
borough or township Office can be appoint
ed census cnumerator.
The Y. W. c. T. U. will give q festi
val and supper in the Y. n. c. A. Rooms
on next Thursday evening, March q.
An Armstrong county teacher has
outraged every sentiment of humanity by
compelling her scholars to hand in an orig
inal poem ever week.
The season will soon be here when the
man who prides himself on his garden will
come in collision with his neighbor whose
ambition runs in the direction Of chickens.
1t was reported on our streets, Monday,
the wife of G. F. l.. McQuistion, the civil
engineer, had died at the home OF her
parents In Washington county, that morn
ing.
Mr.. Sylvanus Cooper and his son Oliver
have a grove of fifteen hundred maple trees
and improved apparatus for making syrup.
Oliver was in Butler, taking orders, last
week.
An observing Butler boy now resident OF
Columbus, o., has written us some inter
csting and instructive letters about Ohio
and the Ohioans, the first of which appears
in our columns this week.
On Thursday last Mr.. S. T. Marshall
sold his store Of groceries, near the Wes
Penn depot to Mr.. W. W.. Phillips of Penn
twp. who will be assisted in the manage
ment Of the store by Samuel Hazlctt
4 tnI th. f.NaunaU +. bai
originated in Italy. 1t puts its victim,
into SO sound sleep that the physician
cannot awake thom. and it is said to be
spreading over Europe with alarming ra
pidity.
1t is highly probable that the money
subscribed by the school children of tn
State to the Higbce Memorial Fund, viii
be returned to them, the movement i
meeting with great opposition in many
parts Of the State.-Ex.
ALI soldiers who are drawing pen
sons from the government by reason o
rupture are entitled 10 q truss every thirtl
months which can be obtained On applica
ttoh W thC ooojh VI Shihtonb "
their district.
Never hunt thief with a brass ban
nor gas leak with lighted candle.
you succeed in the former case it will be
wonder, and il you are successful in tn
latter your end is near.
Several Westmoreland county cor
stables have determined to test the cleo
tions held this year for the selection
Constablcs. They allege the Constable
elected last year were chosen for thre
years The matter will probably 20 to tn
Supreme Court.
In test case brought before Judg
Harry White at Brookville during the re
cent term Of court the Judge decided tha
wo had no fence law-that people were re
quircd to fence their own cattle in, an
were not required to fence other people
cattle out.-Er.
Don't frighien your children, don
make them go to bed in the dark again
their will, and don't punish them becau
they are afraid. These three don't
come from high medical authority whit
says that not few cerebral diseases ha'
had their origin in the frightening Of your
children. viii tho fathers and mothe
remember thisi
"A Justice Of the Peace of neghbo
ing town who was given the books of a r.
firing merchant for collection, had the 70
lowing pointed verselet printed ON Il
statements:
To avoid proceedings unpleasant
/ wish you would pay what ia due.
you do, you'll oblige me at present.
If you don't, then I'll oblge you.