Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1890-04-25

Now is the time to give your hens a
cheap dust bath.
Lots of nice days and all tumbiing in
this direction at present.
| who'll be the first lady i'll Butler to
come out in Jennes Miller style.
The pension OF Josiah Christy of
| Cnultersville has been re-issued.
| Now is the accepted time for cleaning
up your back yard and thinning out the
| cats
Now that the roads are good the can
didates are getting around lively, and they
are all buoy ant, hopeful aud confident
In South Dakota last week they had a
wind ST. strong that 1t blew everything on
the farms--except the mortgages.
Strange hut true, that most boys
would rather dig bait than spade garden,
though they are the same thing only dif-
ferent.
Some slight changes have been made
in the Shenango time table. The morning
train north now leaves at $50, ten minutes
earlier.
Outside Influence" is having but lit
tie to do with canvass for County Superin-
tendent The candidates are doing all the
work themselves
-Ihe Union Free Press, the best paper
in Armstrong county, has changed hands
and is now being Published By II. b. 0s-
wald & Son.
Many of our citizens are making need
ed Improvements on their residences and
surroundings, and the town is beginning
to have trim appearance.
The Yuba Dam collar is advertised by
a New York firm. The name may be new,
but collars have been made that way for a
long time.
There's perfume in the vernal breeze,
all cloudless is the sky. The dust brings
ON lusty sneeze, and blinds your weeping
eye.
1t is not generally known that DR..
Mary Walker has become a cripple for life.
On Decoration Day last she fell and broke
her right hip. She will never again be the
man she was.
George Palm has purchased ground
along the West Penn r. r., and intends
building factory for the manufacture Of
oil.well packers, of his own invention.
The executive committee of the But
Ter county Sunday School Association met
in Millerstown last week and decided upon
Evans City as the place and June lG, II
and l3 as the dates for the next county
convention.
The District and Printing Telegraph
and Telephone Company Of Pittsburg, has
delegated Martin Metzgar of Beaver Falls,
to lay out route for telephone line be
tween Wampum and Evans City.-Er.
Now is the time when the good woman
of the house appears in her oldest faded
and worn dress, her head tied up in Il
handkerchief and wearing an apron that
looks like three sheet poster on bill
board The why and the wherefore is that
she is cleaning house, and great is the
misery thereof.
The West Penn X. X. proposes run
ming fast mail train on its road between
Allegheny and Butler, starting about the
lst Of May The train will leave Allie
gheny about $50 and arrive in Butler
about $40 a. IN. returning about g. p. m.
Mr.. d. L. Jackson has opened dry
goods and trimmings store in the old
Heineman store room, which has been re-
modelled and rcfitted. His stock is entire
ly new, was carefully selected, and he
invites the people of Butler county to call
and see it,
Now that the Council has declared all
the water closets of the town, whether
connected with sewers or not, to be pub
lie nuisances, and ordered notices to be
served for their abatement, property near
the borough lines or handy to a clump Of
blackberry bushes, will likely increase in
value.
Assessors in addition to their duties of
adding the postoffice address OF each and
every voter in their respective districts,
will have to make return of all mort
cages and judgments, whether the latter
be good or bad. These upon being return
ed will be culled out and record will be
made Of them.-EE.
When the average man or woman
comes to be fitted with the first pair of
glasses, some curious discoveries are made
Seven out of ten have strnuger sight in one
eye than the other. In two cases out of
five, one eye is out of line. Nearly one
half the people are color blind to some ex-
tent, and only one pair of eyes out of every
fifteen are all right in all respects.
A great deal of wall paper is arriving
in town, and great deal is also being
hung this spring. The designs are unusual
ly beautiful and tasteful this season and the
tints lovely. 1t is wonderful what "a few
rolls Of wall paper, selected with taste,
with colors artistically blended, will do in
Transforming room. You can make a
bright and lovely apartment out of dingy
room at small outlay.
1t is said that over 5000 census enum-
orators resigned after appointment and be
fore entering npon their duties in 1880,
causing much confusion and delay in the
beginning Of the work. To obviate re-
| currence Of this trouble, penalty, in
GLIDING both fine and imprisonment, has
been fixed for refusing to act. Candidates