Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1894-03-30

LUUAL AND NEnhU.
TIL Easter hcnnets are as fowery a
Q asophomores orasion.
Judge Gauni.Jl granted licenses TO
179 retail booze mills in Erie county.
This time nine years ago the thermom
ster was down to 20 degrees below zero.
Quite q number of new buildings ar
V be erected In Butler this spring.
Jack Frost got his work on the greer
buds this week from the Lakes TO Florida
The Markham Minstrels are success
Everybody present seemed to enjoy thei
entertainment Of Monday night.
-Hs who tries to lead double life il
quite liable TO make o failure of both O.
them.
The new water fountain on the Dia-
isa thing Of beauty. May it be JOY for
ever.
Dell Hindman win open . barber shop
and bath room in the basement of the
Armory bailding, next Monday.
Postal cards are not mailsble unless
thsy are up to the standard size. That is,
II they are cut or trimmed to smaller
size they won't 20.
Everybody knows that the sun has
spots on il, and yet some people always
expect ten-ysar-cld boy TO be about per-
feet.
ALI the bars in Butler will close 6alur-
day night ana stsy closed for one year, un-
less the Lowry Honse men are successful
on the 9th Of April.
On account Of the rain Of last Thurs
Day evening, DR.. McAipine's lecture on
Alaska and It's people wss postponed until
this Thursday evening in the NJ. d.
Church. ss
Young d Cooper the fashionable tail
sss are employing 10 tailors st prerent
hey are getting out An immense lot Of
work. Their work IL equal TO the best and
thsy are accommodating and genial gen
tlsmen.
The Butle. Benevolent Association
viii hold its regular semimonthly meet
Ing In the w. G. T. q. Hall on Friday
evening o. 2 o'clock, sharp. All members
u the Association are requested to be
present, ~ business Of importance will
como before the meeting.
The Sunday mems meeting Of the Y.
n. G. A. 1T 4 o'clock viii be addressed by
Nr. C. A. Bailey. subject, "Knowiedge o
Bnough but not Courage Enough Good
nnsic BY male quartstte and orchestra.
Nsn should not niss this special meeting.
"A nearby town has liar who can out
IL Ansniss. 0ns day he was brought up
before . justice for soms vfsuss and
plssded guilty, to tba surprise OF all. The
justice rubbed his eyes and said. well,
I'll hsvs to have better proof than that
before I'll believe It. You are dis
charged"
--Truit In few years will be so sbund-
sat that 1t will be On every table oil sum
nsr long. Oranges sell now for eighteen
sspts dozen retail In Georgia peach or
shsyds are planted with one hundred
thDusand trees TO the orchard. North Caro-
lins 10 following suit.
The Woman's Christian Temperance Al
lIncs Of Butler county will hold o confer
sacs ON Thur&dsy, April Q, in tho Baptist
Church OF Burler, morning session at 1870,
afternoon session ut 2. The State Prssi-
dent, Miss Mary 9. Shepard will be pssent
end will address . public meeting in the
evening st 7:3o 10 the Presbyterian Church
Admission Free. Collection.
Many people who stand firmly for the
observance Of tho commandment u
Keep thu Sabbath day holy, forgot the
preceding equally positive injunction: 81,
days shalt thou labor II Is wonder
that the clergymen who preach so vigor.
sasly on the necessity Of observing the
eabbsth 10 seldom mention the necessity
sflAboring six days 70 their wealthy con
ysestions.
"A remarkable" correspondent o
Penn twp, who signs himself Q. X, say,
thsrs II . school la that twp. In which al
ths boys, except three or four, ''chew the
weed" snd the teacher furnishes the "rpit-
unss.D Hs also remarks that "they adopt
a deck Of cards and clay pipes, and tha
lone little ten-ysar-old was known to chew
Ten cents worth Of tobacco in day y Snct
state Of affairs Ia swful.
The mercury has been ranging from
u 20 degrees sbovs zero during the pa,
iew nights, Or the same bslow the freesip
point which means No peaches for thi
year; few, II any, cherries and pears; an
q least skimp crop Of spples. Report
from Ohio and other States 70 the West IN
dirsts the destruction Of the early fruit
asd In Wyoming. where blizzard rage
ior three days. cattle were frozen by th
tAeusand.
1T 10 reported that the road fror
Brsdy's Bend TO Millerstown 10 connec
with the r. D. w. X X will bs construct
ID Hrst, and then the p a. w. win be mad
. sstsndsrd guage from AiIlerstown TO But
Ter, and that the other end OF the road wi
b. built later. The general understandin n
ID that the road to connect Mt Millerstow
will be- pushed forward within short tim,
4 tunnel 1900 feet long will be required a
the Summit. The surveyors have secure
the best route possible and IL In though
they will not try any other.
"A Union Evsngalistic campaign unds
the Leadership Of Rev. Albert J. Nathan
converted jew of unqualified christia
worth and ability % Gospel preacher wi
BE- initiated on next Tuesday evening
April Ord. The Ministeriai Union and Ii
YM.C A.. under whose suspices N
Nsshsn comes. urges upon oil the nscess
" Of their heartiest effort that many ma
b. richly benefited by these meeting
The music will bs led by large chorus
LEGAL singers and everybody should be sui
snd attend.
Fruit culture 10 more profitab
70 the farmer now than bis oths
crops. Brown Bros. Co. the mo-
extensive nursery house Ia the u y
have . vacancy iE this sectioI
Write them - Rochester, N. r, 70
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