Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1891-05-08
LOCAL AND GENERAL

May is the fifth month.
One of our shoemakers says it'
never too late to mend.
Why should not the production of oi
wells be taxed for road purposes'
The cold nights are withering youn;
love and the fruit buds.
Over in Evans City they ask if yol
"have that dog tied tight"
Mrs. Sink has purchased Georg,
Smiths restaurant on Main st.
The next Grand Jury should recon
mend that the street around the Cour
House be paved.
Several members of the Butler lodge O
B. P. o. E. visited Kittanning Wednesday
to assist in organizing lodge there.
The latest freak of masculine fancy ii
white shirt with black collar. Its use
so far, has been restricted solely to gents.
| The gentle springtime, insurance men
book agents, and the other luxuries of the
season are here.
Every now and then one of Butler
county's Wandering Jews" revisits the
scenes of his childhood.
1.-The Butler Water Co. has warned the
Springdale Co. that their proposed action
will be an infringement on the rights of the
old Co.
Rev. Prof 'Deatrick of Rimersbugh
Collegiate Institute will preach in Bethany
Reformed Church, on North street, next
Sunday, am. and pm.
The 0verseers of the Poor of Butler
give notice, in another column that they
will not pay bills that they do not con-
tract.
Mr.. G. w. Maurhoff has keen appoint
ed P. N. for Saxonburg vice II. Stenbgen,
removed; and J. H. Elder Tor Myoma, vice
]. j. Smith, resigned.
| The schools of Millerstown, led by
Prof. Elliott, observed Arbor Day, May 1st
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school yard.
The time for tie meeting of the Camp
Meeting Committee has been changed to
Saturday June 9th, on account of Sat. May
80, being Decoration Day.
The premium on Washington county
oil is Is cents, and Butler county oil IL
cents, and now the Standard has placed q
| premium of cents on Bradford county oil.
The base ball season opened in Butler
last Saturday, with contest between the
Times and the Markham clubs, in which the
Times men came out one run ahead-16 to
Is.
| "A physician says" When teaspoon
ful of warm honey is taken every fifteen
twenty or thirty minutes, it has surpris-
| ing effect on catarrh. Every family should
have glass of pure honey in the house.
| The early train on the p 8. q l.. E.
r. r. leaveslButler at 5.25 g. m. fast time
connects at Osgood station with train on
the L. S. d N. S. that reaches Cleveland
at 1926, q. m. and Chicago at 90 p. m.
(slow time.)
Though the type, furniture. presses,
etc., of the Franklin News, were cooked,
roasted and parboiled during the morning
watch, few nights ago, the paper con
tinues to brighten our desk with its
| presence. Borland and Irwin are always
Gin it with both feet" as the boys say.
The Permanent Certificate Committee
met in Butler last Saturday, and examined
the applicants Of whom there were but
two-Mr. 1. G. Wilson of Zelenople and
r. N. Mcfarland of Butler. Their
papers will be sent in TO the Department.
Newton Campbell of Grove City, Pa,
wishes to say that the report published
abroad, through the public press and other.
wise, that his English horse was sold OF
disposed of recently, is false and incorrect,
and that he is still in the hands of the
original owner.
The Youngstown, Sharon, Greenville,
Youngstown, Sunday afternoon, May II,
for the reunion at Louisville, KY. The
round trip rate from Youngstown is sboui
$l1. The monarchs will travel on specia
cars.-New Castle Graphic.
Summer is here and we all need paint
refrigerators and lawn mowers. Mr.
Henry Biehl has just received large stocl
, of the best ready-made paint known to the
trade; also an assortment of lawn mower
and Jewett refrigerstors He is the agen
for, and carries in stock, the Continental
Mowers and Light Steel Binders manufac
tured by the Johnston Harvester Co.
Some enterprising citizens of Spring
, dale propose having a water supply of thei
own, and have organized company will
q capital stock of $4,000, each consume
to be stockholder. At meeting hell
Saturday evening j. II. Harper was elect
ed president, Joseph Miller, secretary, ant
Harvey Boyd, L. c. Wick and Fred King
ler, trustees, and it was resolved to con
tract tor the drilling of well on th,
Acheson place Immediately.
, The front part of the old Bredin resi-
dence, occupied by Mrs. Cummings, fel
/ down last Friday. The excavation for tn
? new building runs close to it, and as tn
cellar wall of the Bredin building was
: very poor one,it fell and was followed by th
, walls. Mrs. Cummings had timely warn
| ing and saved all her effects The part O
/ the building that fell was built by Judg
, John Bredin in 1S47. The corner, or ofio
2 building, was built first, then this par,
and then the kitchen part.
An exchanger says that: '"The exodu
of young men from the farming districts t
). the towns is very great in Western Penn
= sylvania this spring. In some section
/. farmers are compelled to put in smalle
spriug crops than they otherwise would be
cause of their inability to secure men to d
labor. In most towns there are many me
q who can not be supplied with work. Hay
: ing left the farm once these men seldor
return to that mode of life again, and fre
quantly are compelled to undergo hardship
= much more severe than ever befell th
farmer. The boys who stay by the farr
usually fare best.
:. The Presbyterian Church of this tow
!. has adopted the system of collecting il
= dues each Sunday by the envelope system