Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1893-05-19

SheriHs Sales for June 5.
Jury list for June term.
Klingler's -four
G. Wilson Millers -four.
Mrs. Zimmerman's Courtesy.
The Racket Store tree watch.
KoOnce's locals.
Marvin's crackers.
NoTE-All advertisers intending to make
canges in their ads. should notify us of
their intending to do so, not later than
Monday morning.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Electric plants are not on sale at the
florists.
This year the Fourth of July comes on
Tuesday.
-Bartenders are usually strict temper
ance people.
The Penn Literary Socie ty will picnic
at Couneaut Lake, June 9th.
The man who gets as full as goat is
naturally made butt of.
up in Parker, last week, it was re-
ported that Shields Adams had married
again.
North Washington Institute is flourish
in. under the direction Of Prof III. s.
Gllbert.
Jacob Buckhalter has torn down his
house ON North St and will erect a new
one this summer.
The semi-annual conuention of the But
lcr county W. C. T. U. will be held in
Br uin, May %.
The contract for beautifying the Park
has been let to Mr.. Kidd and he has COM
M enced work on it,
MIR. A. o. Miller, of Pennington is
building himself new drug store in that
bright little town.
"A boy doesn't believe that there's
much the matter with him unless he feels
sick at the stomach.-Er.
II. A. Morrison furnished 400 loaves of
bread, and 100 pies, besides buns and cakes
for the circus last Saturday.
A number of our young people will
take the Civil Service examination before
Commissioner Eastman in June
The Free Methodists have erected q
large tent on their lot in Springdale and
are holding series of meetings there.
The men who swaps a fish story with
another always hopes to get one in ex-
change more improbable than his own.
Owing to the recent heavy rainfall al
traffic on the P. & l.. e. r. r. nor ih of
Grove City was suspended for several days
this week.
The directors of the Worlds Fair
have decided to open the gates of the
grounds on Sunday, but to keep the build
ings closed.
Don't lose your temper every time it
rains. Your liver may be out of order
The rain makes onions grow, the onions
and ivor aren't half bad.
A Local union of the Christian En-
deavor Societies of the four counties,
Venango, Butler, Armstrong and Clarion,
will be held in Emlenton on the 22d.
An exchange wants the game law
amended SO that book agents can be legal |
ly killed from September 1st to October
t,spring poets from March LIST to July 1st |
The weather is propitious for outdoor
work-gardening, white-washing fences,
DC. As the schools are closed the young
ladies can now assist their mothers at this
work.
Mercer county must be running short
on politics when her people have time to
get into an interminable row over piece
of wood from the Holy Land.-Pittsburg
Times
The plow which Daniel Webster used
on his farm in New Hampshire is on ex-
hibition at the Worlds Fair An exchage
thinks the exhibit ought to include the
chair in which Daniel used to sit while his |
man was plowing.
State Superintendent Schaeffer has
issued notice to county school superin-
tendents notifying them that the school
term must be continuous for six months,
otherwise the school will be deprived of
any portion of the appropriation.
There was no insurance on the house
of James Gould, of near Mt. Chestnut,
which burned lately. 1t caught from
burning SCOT which fell upon the roof and
was too far gone when discovered to be
saved. Mr.. Gould was away at the time
and Mrs. Gould was lying sick in bed.
Walter L. Mains railroad circus gave
two exhibitions to large audiences in this
place last Saturday. Their circus is the
equal of any that has ever appeared in this
town, and they did everything just as
advertised. Their managerie is not very
large, but what they have are all fine
specimens.
AT special election held last Satur
day, in Evans City, for the purpose OF
issuing bonds to build new school house,
it was decided to build by vote of 1O4 in
favor Of to 80 against. Evans City is one
OF the enterprising towns of the county,
and proposes building a school house at
cost Of $4,000.
Rev. c. H. Laverty D. d, of Delaware
will preach Memorial Serman in the
Presbyterian Church in Harrisville, on
Sunday. May 2Sth, at IL o'clock NJ, DIR.
Laverty will be entertained at the Kerr
Hotel as the guest of Post 246 G. A. r.
where he will be pleased to shake hands
with his many friends
"A woman in Pennsylvania, having ac-
complished the task of collecting 100, 900
old postage stamps, has now gone crazy
after having discovered that they are as
valueless as SO much old paper. And yet
We suppose the popular notion that such
collection possesses great value will not be
disturbed. People like to be humbugged
too we'll.
From the hill above Middletown, one
can see over large areas of the valleys of
the Slipperyrock and Connoquenessing. A