Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1890-02-14
WE WILL NOT FEAR.

The Grecian bend has had its day
The bustle came and went away,
Most every summers sure too zee
Some startling new tomtoolery
| And "a ye wonder what next pring
! In v7oulen's fashion freaks VIII bring;
Rnt since we've borne with what we've had,
We shall not fear next summers fad.
/ -Tatty Speer, Of Boyer and John
Schmidt, Of Zelienople, have been granted
pensions.
The Schaul brothers have rented the
store room lately occupied by f. ~ Rem
no. The room is to be enlarged 70 as to
be one hundred feet long, with plate glass
windows in both euls, aud the new firm
will open ia it with stock Of clothing on
the lst of April next.
Your attention is directed this week,
to the new ad. of Harry Chapel. the vii
/ Transport Florist, who makes character
istic offer in that fayorite plant, the Geran-
! ium We can personally assure plant
lovers of the reliability of Mr. Chapel, and
hope that many will accept his rare offer.
-0ne of our physicians says that you
can have the grip twice or even more times
| if you are careless about exposure. He
| has had a number of such cases. The dis
ease is still holding its own here, and
every day brings the doctor about the
same number of calls To new cases.
AT Pittsburg last woek the marriage
license clerk refused a license to Andrew
Frey, Sr. and Mrs. Andrew Frey, Jr. as
the law forbids man from marrying his
deceased sons widow Andrew, Sr. is 45
years of age, and though Mrs. Andrew Jr
is not yet q years Of age she has been
married twice. her second husband Andrew
Jr. dying suddenly but three months ago.
An experienced farmer says that a
COW that will not average 200 pounds of
butter in year is an absolute damage to
the owner. If this is true-and it is prob
ably not much under the truth--a great
many farmers are keeping cows that are a
constant source Of loss to them. Careful
tests, which are too seldom made, would
show whether each coz was yielding a
profit or not and whiclpones should be dis
posed OF.
Il. Reinhold is sinking ii coal shaft
near the Alwine and Reinhold grist mills,
about one mile southeast OF Saxonburg.
The shaft viii be about seventy feet deep,
at which depth it will strike large vein of
good coal This will shorten the haul of
the black diam ond drivers at least one
half The machinery is now being got
ready, and excavating will soon commence.
A road has already been laid out to the
new mine.
AT the meeting of the Mechanics &. &
l.. Association, Monday evening Messrs
W. G. Hays, James n Moore, D. d. Goss-
er, DR.. S. Graham, l.. G. Wick, j. L. For
sythe, l.. W Zuver, Il. +. Scott and c. \.
Abrams were elected directors for the en-
suing year, and after the meeting the
Board organized as follows: President, S.
Graham; Secretary c. A. Abrams; Treas
urer, W. G. Hays; Solicitor, W. L. Gra-
ham, The auditors report showed the
Association to be in hourishing eondi-
ton, and new series will be started next
month.
Last Saturday morning young man
came rushing up Main street, Saxonburg,
and told our hunters he had seen n large
fox go into Mr.. Schoentag's barn. Every
one who had a gun or other murderous
weapon started to find Mr.. Fox. After
surrounding the barn, one of the number
was commissioned to go in and start the
game out After considerable search he
succeeded in driving it out, and rs it rush
ed by the hunters they saw-dh immense
brorn eat The young man who gave the
alarm desired us to say nothing about it,
but it was to rich to keep TaHey Ners.
The Grippe still continues TO get IN
its work in Butler 1t is fever or blood
poisoning, due to germ i'll the air, and
that germ either originated, or found food
for its growth in the decaying vegetable
matter, the result Of our open winter De-
caying vegetation is very dangerous
thing. Last spring nearly all the mem
bers of a certain family in this town were
down with typhoid fever, and the well
water was supposed to be the cause of it,
but we have since learned that the family
had cabbage stored in their cellar the pre-
ceding winter. Some years ago a family
in one of the towns of Butler county, were
all taken down with dysentery, in mid
winter The doctors of the town thought
that remarkable and instituted a search,
and found decaying cabbage in the cellar,
and also that the family was throwing its
| slops-its dish and wash water-where it
would drain into the well The family
were making sure thing of it, they were
poisoning both their air and water.
An unfortunate victim of the grip,
whose best girl went off with another fell
lows bewails his loss as follows:
| Alas, l can no longer sip
The honey from her rosebud lip,
For while / wrestled with the grippe
She ran away-gave me the slip
| tb a,ntbor man did cl.in