Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1891-04-03
LOCAL AND GENERAL

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The purest, the cheapest, the best. ar
Rlingler's flours. Ask your grocer 70
them.
Little March" was tickle month.
The school children are having raca
tioa this week.
Coy. Pattison has selected Friday
MAY /, as the next Arbor day.
-Four more Butler grocers were caught
up by the oleomargarine law, Monday, and
required TO pay fines.
Lack Of space prevented our publish.
ing two lengthy communications OF per
sonal nature, last week and this week.
Rev Hicks predicts all kinds oi
weather for the first part of this month,
and some snow storms for the latter part.
Some of the citizens Of Millerstown
are kicking" against the proposed new
name for the town, and are getting up a
remonstrance.
A 2S-inch silk umbrella with gold head
was lost on Springdale hill, on the 31st OF
last December The finder will please
leave at this Office.
Eggs were scarce in Butler last week,
and yet some of the hens did their duty.
Mrs. Jane Hall has eighteen hens that laid
thirteen dozen eggs that week.
The Messrs Smith of the Racket Store
have moved their stock to their new room,
12O s. Main St. lately occupied by Grieb d.
Lamb. who have moved to 125 n. Main
St.
S. b. Martincourt & Co, the great
dealers in wheeled vehicles, harness, etc.
want you to know exactly where they are,
and this week publish guide map, follow
ell by some pointers.
The entertainment of the Glee and
Mandolin clubs of Franklin and Marshall
College in the Opera House last Saturday
evening, was one of the most enjoyable
ever given in Butler.
Notice to people who have not the
grippe-Don't expect man who has it to
stop on the street and talk to you, or listen
to you talking. He will do it, of course,
but he will regret it afterwards.
The New Orleans University Singers,
will appear in the Opera House next We'd
nesday evening, under the auspices and
for the benefit of the Royal Templars OF
the South Side. Admission so and IS
cents.
Physicians say there is more sickness
at present than ever before known. The
grippe is affecting almost everybody. Chi
cago is the most afflicted city on the con-
tinent-a hundred thousand cases of grip
being reported there last week.
-Sawdust il now used for mixing with
mortar in lien of hair. A most effective
combination is two parts Of sawdust, two
parts of lime, five of sand and one of
cement, which it is said will remain firm
and will not peel off.
The Commercial School, soon to be
opened in Skaters Hall, offers. to the
young people Of Butler superior adyan-
tages for obtaining business education.
Young men, do not defer, but take advsn-
tage Of this opportunity at once. The
School opens next Tuesday, (April ~
AT "Silver medal contest held in
the U. P. Church in Prospect last Thurs
day evening, the prize, satin-lined case,
were nine contestants, the selections were
al, well rendered, and the band furnished
excellent music.
Special Easter services we're held in
several of our churches last Sunday even
ing. The day signifies the resurrection and
that the grave Ia but the portal to larger
and fuller life, and coming, with us, at the
time OF the revival Of earth-life we are aid
ed in realizing that mysterious feeling in
every human soul that after the winter of
death comes the spring Of another life.
Some time ago two Germans named
Nuss and Ruttinger, in company with an
Englishman named Wright, who was
brother-in-law of Rnttinger, came over to
this country in the steamship Chicago and
on the way over Ruttinger and Wright
made the acquaintance of a man who
agreed to sell them farm in Ohio Nuss
parted company with the other two in
New York, and he il now student for the
priesthood at the Capuchin monastery at
Summit Station. Wright and Ruttinger
were murdered in New York and Nuss
thinks the man who wanted to sell them q
farm is the murderer.