Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1892-06-03
LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Straw hats ripened suddenly this
year.
-Ex-Sheriff Kelly took charge oil the
Butler P. o. Wednesday.
The lilac and wild honeysuckle were
the mainstays for decorating purposes this
year.
The belated farmers have been very
restive during the recent protracted wet
weather.
-. y was the raining fayorite among
the months of this spring for Us, while
down in Florida they were praying for it.
The sewer down the alley east of the
liard House passes through some solid
rock that had to be blasted.
Decoration Day combines the grave
AID The gay more thoroughly than any
other day in the year.
IA Boston paper defines love as 1.-TWO
heads with but single though two fools
that act like one."
"A wild Western critic recently wrote
Of Patti: "There is no bucking up against
the fact that she is one of the neatest chirp-
ers now chirping."
The p. d w. r. r. will sell excursion
tickets to the Sunday School Convention
at Fairview next week, beginning on Tues
day.
Decoration Day was great one for
the colored race. They beat our boys at
base ball, and Jackson knocked out Slavin
In England.
Superintendent Waller addresses some
very pertinent questions to the school di :
rectors OF the State. They can be seen in
another column.
The Supreme Court has just decided
that travelling doctors must, in addition to
being registered, take out county license.
The license fee is $50.
1t makes no difference how mean boy
Is to his mother she thinks no girl is good
enough to be his wife. That saying is
demonstrated every day.
One of our exchanges has started q
hunt for words with three and four sue
cessive vowels, or four and five successive
consonants.
A little boy found wandering in Duff
fytown few days ago proved TO be the
child Of q man named Swartzlander, whose
stepmother had put him ont of the house.
Andy Sweeney Of Clearfield twp. who
was killed by Dan Hartman at worthin g.
ton last week, was barber and was well
known here.
The "At Home" of the Pittsburgh
Times last Tuesday was an immense affair
The building was grandly decorated and
some fifteen thousand persons were
present.
Mr.. John laval, the Jefferson street
Liveryman, will have public sale of all
bis livery stock, without reserve bids, Sat
urdsy week. See further notice on this
page.
"A New York coal firm is reported to
have secured options on several thousand
acres of coal land between Parker and Hill
lizards, which, ifoperated, will necessitate
the building of a branch railroad in that
section OF the county.
AT the meeting of the Bar Tuesday
evening the Committee reported in favor
of securing charter for an association to
be called the Butler County Bar Associa-
ton and the petition to that effect was
signed. The Committee was continued
for the purpose Of drafting Constitutio N
and By-laws.
The frost of last Friday night was
heavy and white in spots but seems to
have done no harm. Why it did no harm
Is an open question. One would suppose
that the dsmpness Of the earth had sore
thing to do with it, and besides this the
leaves were pretty well out; but one elder
ly gentleman asserts that 1t was the clark
of the moon" and you never heard of frost
doing any harm in the dark of the moon.
I'm New York, where the bars are
open on Decoration Day saloon keeper
put ont this sign:
DECORATION DAY rs HERE.