Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1891-02-13
LOCAL AND GENERAL

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| Choice lots on Broad, North and Mif
fin streets for sale by
III. J. KLISGLER Il Co.
/ This is Triennial Assessment year.
/ Butler has Tiddledewinks champion
| The silver question-"Lend me dol
larf'
| Buffalo twp. has FIVE candidates for
Justice of the Peace.
1T isn't always pride that causeth a stiff
neck; sometimes it is boils.
The old-fashion spelling bee is under
going revival.
All presents accepted, is the new
legend for wedding cards.
The man who wants the earth is a
grounding.
Cases of the Grip are reported from all
over the country.
| The Springdale Hose Co. proposes
building a hose house on the Harper lot
An immense number of new buildings
will be erected in Butler next summer
The bonds now required of the Collector
of Taxes of Butler aggregate $4,000.
1t is easy for man to believe in the
wisdom of God when everything comes his
way.
The interesting and highly successful
revival meetings at the NJ. z. Church are
still continued
Man was made in Gods image, and the
majority of men are more in love with the
image than they are with the original.
The special mail service between
Coylesville and Fenelton has been ordered
discontinued.
The Racket Store will be moved next
spring, and its proprietors announce clos
ing out sale.
The P. & W. R. X. Co, or rather the
b. d o. now, intends building a new
station here.
1t is hard to satisfy everybody. Con-
sumers complain Of short weight in deliy-
ering coal, and dealers complain of long
wait in paying bills.
A Connecticut girl who almost hic-
coughed herself to death, was cured by
inhaling few drops of nitrate of amyl
from handkerchief
ANY person wishing to sell a plot of
ground of about thirty acres and lying
within one or two miles of Butler will
please send word of it to this office.
Extensive improvements are being
made at Aland's Merchant Tailoring estab-
lishment. The cutting department will be
removed to rear extension, this giving
much-needed room to the stock dept.
Andy Kemper now has one of the
neatest and most commodious barber shops
in Butler, call on him in the Troutman
building.
The National Transit Co.'S pump
station at Evans City is
almost completed. 1t is designed
to handle the entire production of that
section.
BY all odds the jolliest party of the
year was masquerade at Koch's on Tues
day evening. About fifteen couples in gala
attire surprised Miss "Curly Koch and the
evening was spent in dancing, etc.
Unless man is a minister or Qua
ker, and a pretty good one at that, when he
steps in mud-puddle in the dark and
splashes the cold water up bis trousers leg.
be does not stop to think whether he shall
swear or affirm.
TO morrow is St. Valentines day. The
youngsters must have their fun, and we
remind them, that it now costs them 2
cents stamp, besides the price of the
beautiful picture they enclose to their
friend.
The managers cf the Y. NJ. G. A. here
propose having a building worthy of the
cause, and will canvass the town for
subscriptions for it and the lot They
want $20,0 900, and Mr.. T. w. Phillips has
promised one thousand for starter.
A few days ago, when the mercury was
at zero, q Lawrence county man who was
in the woods mile and half from home,
fell and broke leg; and he crawled up a
high hill and to his home, dragging the
broken limb. II was a case Of clear grit.a
fight for life and he won.
The Chinese celebrated their New
Years day last Sunday. One wealthy
Chinaman in Pittsburg kept open house all
day, and entertained two-hundred of his
countrymen. A large picture imported
from China and representing a big China
man being worshipped by little Cinnamon,
covered one end Of the room; and the pro-
prietor told reporter that the big fellow
thousand year agoa."
That the people Of Loup county, Neb.
are in bad way is proved by the follow
ing extracts from letters written by X.
Hesselgesser, son Of Robert Hesselgesser,
decd formerly of Winfield twp. and now
living at Prime. Loup county, Neb., to his
Uncle David living at Wilton Junction,
Iowa. "Thc people have lost all their
crops this year. We did not raise bushel
of corn or potatoes John, Gam and /
went twenty five miles and put up hay and
took seventy-seven head of cattle at a dol
lar head per month, and the fire came in
and burnt 200 tons of hay for us, so we had
to let the cattle go back. There are plen-
ty Of people who are suffering, and should
the weather set in cold lots of people will
freeze and starve; all the fuel we have to
use liz COW chips gathered on the prairie;
the most needed here is clothing for child
rem and anything to eat"
Several farm owners in Western Penn
sylvania were caught lately by neat
trick, played by scamp who operated
from Pittsburg. He rented an Office in the
Excelsior building on Grant St., and in
serted the following notice in several
papers.
WANTED-To BUY BEFORE THE 20TH
Of February a first-class farm; must have
good water and plenty OF it; no choice as
to location; no objection to part of farm
having some timber on. Only owners
address, giving full particulars and lowest
| cash price, FARMER. care Of (the news
paper Office Pittsburg, Pa.
| Answers poured in from every direction