Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1893-03-17

NoTR-All advertisers intending to make
anges in their ads. should notify US OF
heir intending to do so, not later than
Monday morning.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Spring fever germs are abroad.
Purple is the popular spring color.
The February election cost the county
$500.
The cultivation of sweet peas is a fash
ionable amusement.
No tradesmen's reputation is more
often ut steak than the butchers.
Keep your eyes open for counterfeit
"quarters."
You don't get much pork fol shilling
these days.
Cinnamon is recommended as chol-
era antiseptic.
There will be race troubles in this
country as long as man bets on the wrong
horses
The most extensive, and one of the
handsomest signs in Butler is that lately
put in place by A. Troutman d Son.
A philosopher defines happiness as
"the condition of forgetting that you are
unhappy"
Two freight trains on the West Penn
collided near Tarentum, Saturday. Both
locomotives were demolished.
There are no braver men than those
who are not afraid to speak the truth as
they see it.
TO harrow ones feelings is not the
most profitable way Of cultivating an
acquaintance.
With the advent of warm weather the
streets. alleys and backyards of this town
should receive a thorough cleaning and
disinfecting.
Elder I. d. Cousins Of Bellaire, o.,
Will pIcoCu III Dutlci ACAt 0hhooJ "OcAt
the 25th inst, in the Institute building on
the hill.
james Ramsey has moved his barber
shop to the basement of the Ritter d
Ralston building, across the street from
his old stand.
The Mars Mail is the latest Butler Co
venture in journalism. 1t is published at
Mars Station in Adams twp. by W. J.
Gilliland, and we wish him success
The CIR aham sale in ConnoquenessiDg
twp, Saturday, was attended by large
number ofpeople and was a good sale.
Ben. Douthett was the auctioneer.
Jacob Gelbach has purchased A. NJ
Lusk's interest in the banking busine of
Lusk d Gelbach in Zelieneple, and here
after the name of the firm will be the
Gelbsch Bros
Two weeks from tomorrow is moving
day-April 1st. 1t comes on Saturday,
and you fellows who cuss at the obstreper-
ous stove-pipe will have chance to re-
pent next day.
That Washington trip of the militia
laid up great many of the boys. That is
the report from all over the state. Re-
quiring men to march for miles and then
stand for hours in snow and storm indicat-
ed bad management at headquarters.
AN engine built by James Watt, Lam
csshire. England, in 1915, will be exhibit
ed at the Worlds Fair in the Transports
tion department 1t is owned by John
Rourke q Son, Savannah, Ga, and has
been continuously in use since bnilt.
1t is now claimed that the gum on the
diverse side Of the Columbian stamps is
medicated and warranted to cure catarrh,
brace up torpid liver. destroy the ap-
petite for alcohol, morphine and tobacco,
relieve that tired feeling and kill warts.
WIN. Dindinger, formerly of w. A.
Goehring d Co, ofZelienople and Harmony,
is now proprietor of the Harmony store
The tirm has resently been dissolved. Mr..
Geehring taking the ZelienopIe business,
Mr.. Dindinger the Harmony store, and
Mr.. Dambach retiring.
Man, proud man, is poking much fun
and scornful ridicule at such women as
may possibly obey the fashion maker s
mandate by wearing hoop-skirts. Yet man
still clings to the plug hat which is the
farthest remove from sensible head -coy-
ering that ingenuity could devise.-Frank-
lin Ners.
One of President Harrison's last acts
was to appoint nine hysicians, who are to
be stationed in various ports in Europe
next Summer, and who are to report to the
Government regarding the spread of in
fectious diseases. DR. Geo. Purviance,
native Of this town, was one of those
chosen.
"A youth who is studying law has to
send weekly account of his expenditures
to his father. He makes liberal contribu-
tions Of flowers and sugar plums to the
fair maid whom he is spooning, and puts
the cost down in his weekly statement as
court expenses" and thus far the old
gentlemen has not tumbled.
The Police Gazette department of the
dailies was interesting to the boys last
Thursday morning At New Orleans the
night before, Fitzimmons knocked ont
Hall in four rounds, and thereby won $40,
900. As Mrs. Fitzsimmons and her child
rem were at the ring side, that being in
cluded in the contract, '.Fitz" may be said
to have fought for home and native lard as
we'll as the $40, 200. But the poor fell
lows who had to pay $40 ticket to see
the jaw breaker blow will be crazier than
ever for the next fight.
DIR. J. G. Barr Of Adams twp, had a
narrow escape at the crossing below Mars,
Wednesday evening. His horse persisted
in trying to cross the track in front of q
rapidly approaching passenger train; the
flag staff of the engine hit the horses head
and turned him around; then the steps of
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