Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1893-03-03
LOCAL AND GENERAL.

mOnd Hotel from Mr.. Sellers.
Shop windows laden with spring goods
shine out like brand new circus wagons.
That s'politics makes strange bedfel-
lows" was fully demonstrated at the late
election in Butler.
Corrugated and detachable rubber heels
are an invention that keep many men up
right in times like the present
A Philadelphia girl has had her deceas,
ed and beloved pug dog stuffed as muff,
its legs being folded up beneath its body.
We are willing to endure the crinoline
if the girls will agree not to use barbed
wire.
Some one has observed that this "old-
fashioned winter" is getting to be an old
fashioned nuisance.
Funny, isn't it, that no marriage cere-
mony is success unless there is hitch in
it somewhere?
Misses. Me. & MMarks have received
their spring stock of millinery, including
an unusually fine stock Of mourning goods.
The Board of Pardons has recon-
mended pardon for George De Haven of
this town.
Ancestral lace is the vogue now, girls.
Any Of the best dry goods stores can sup
ply you.
About 80 members of Co. E., N.G.P.,
left in q special for Washington this after
moon; and will take part in the parade OF
Saturday.
Some of tho employ ees of s. G.. Purvis
& Co., who have lately been working ten
hours day, went on a strike Monday
morning, for nine hour day.
1t is whispered that no member OF q
Lenten sewing class dares to remain away
from a meeting lest she give her fellow
members q chance to talk her over.
--"Oh, Mr. Greengood, said Mrs. Par
venue to her grocer. .have you any OF that
FIVE O'Clock tea read so much of in the
society newsp
-"Are you giving up anything during
Lent 7" ayes; I'm going to cross the
ocean, and I'm sure shall give up every
thing"
The List of applications for license aD-
pears in this weeks paper. There are
thirty applicants in all. One brewers, one
restaurant, four wholesale. and six hotel
licenses are asked for in Butler.
-Nartincourt & Co. announce still fur
ther reduction in carriages, wagons,
harness, etc I, this week. There is no
stopping this enterprising and successful
firm. They intend going to the tip.
On account of the Baker Ballot Law
being defective as to vacancies the cleo
tion on the Allegheny County Senatorial
district, made necessary by Senator Neeb's
death is to be held under the law of 1889,
on Tuesday, April 1lth.
Mr.. R. II. Graham will have public
sale of stock, crops and farming imple-
ments, on his farm in Connoqueuessing
twp. on Saturday, March IL, beginning at
10 q. IN. For further par ticnlars see bills.
posted, or write him at Connoquenessing
p. %.
Maple sugar makers say that this will
be great season for the sweet product OF
the maple tree. A good season always
follows close, cold winter. The maple
cap il always sweeter after period of in
tense frost, and the flow is larger.
The new house that the Frank brothers
of this town are building as Wallis Station
in Allegheny county, was blown down by
storm last Thursday. 1t is the con.
tractors loss, but it Inconvenience the
firm. The building was ready for plas ,er-
ing. and Mr.. Jacob Henninger of this place
is the contractor.
-Messrs. w. G. Douthett and III. +.
Graham will open first class clothing and
gents furnishing goods store in the Reiber
block corner of Main and Cunningham SITS
on the LIST of April. They are both ener-
getic young men; and they will start in
an nyh O N r rlodrr rf ba hno a.,
ness as to insure success from the begin
ming.
1t Is now whispered that Mrs Cleve-
land is going to have a-s'hush If the
charming report be true il will be the first
time the White House has ever been the
scene of a-s'hush! How empty the honor
OF naming a Cabinet compared with the
bright prospect of being able to name a
new-shush Only one cause for regret
though, and that is, how may Baby Ruth
regerd her new little-s'hush!
"A little match and a little mouse
came near destroying Mrs. Weeks house
near the Diamond few evenings ago. The
match dropped down hole in the closet
hoor to the basement where (presumab ly)
mouse nibbled il and started a fire,
which ran up between the studding to the
companies, as usual, did excellent work.
The Ohio River improvement Co., OF
which Mr.. @ d. Greenlee, of Butler. il a
member, bought their property at Aliquippa
somo months ago for $50, 900. and have
since sold lots aggregating $l05, ,0n0, thus
making profit of SAT, 900, on part of
their purchase. Their steel works there is
turning out a product valued at about
81 200 day; they are EMPLOY ing 160 men,
and are making steel for saws and safes.
and what is known a. the soft centre steel
for the Western plow trade
What might have been q very serious
accident happened ut the South end of the
Plank Road bridge Wednesday. Three
ladies were driving In buggy and when
near the south end the whistle at Kessel-
mans Machine shop was blown and the
horse became frightened and unmanage-
able, and backed down over the steep en-
bankment, breaking the buggy and injur-
ing the horse but the ladies luckily es-
capped without injury.
Don't suffer your children to eat snow
as there is that in the indulgence to con
tribute to the contraction of putrid sore
throat, many of the types Of fever, diphthe
ria. etc. As long as parents and schoo
teachers do not warn children of the dan
ger of this practice, they will indulge in il
and run the risks " hich it involves There
Is as much malaria and germs of other dis
eases in q mouthful OF snow as are contain
cd in putrid mass of ten fold that amount
of any decayed vegetable or animal mat
ter. Warn children, then, against eatin,
snow.
The average reporter, the average com
positor and the average proofreader are 8
team that, between them, Can make the
average quotation from the Bible look very
sick. One or other of the trio made some
stunning work out of press dispatch sem
from New York on Monday, describing the
hrst sermon Of Rev. John r. Davies in tht
Fourth Avenue Presbyterian Church, a
successor to the late Rey. DR.. Crosby. Al
printed in the Pittsburg Dispatch il says
His text was from Pa1l's EpistIe to The
Gatafcdns And let us not be Urono ir
we'll doi,.g; for in dire season We shall rear
If we faint not"
USE DANA'S SARSAPARILLA, IT'S
THE KIND THAT CURES"