Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1895-03-07
LOCAL AND GENERAL.

There's a demand for soft hats.
The new woman is very often old.
The best oranges now come from Cali
fornia.
-Tommy's pop-Well, my boy, what
are you going to give up during Lentf
Tommy-Skate.
The Prohibitionists will have q conven-
ton in Meadville on Thursday the 21st
inst.
We begin this week, the publication
of one of Conan Doyle's stories, entitled
"The Sign of Four" and our readers will
find in both interesting and instructive.
If you are hankering for strawberries,
and must have strawberries at any price,
your desire can be gratifed in New York,
where the berries are selling at % cents
each.
AT the late election both Ar. Thomp-
son and AL Mechling, of West Snnbury,
were elected Justices Of the Peace. There
were two vacancies and Thompson and
Nechling were elected to succeed them
selves.
The entertainment given by the W.
G. T. q. crowded the q. P. church Tues
day evening, and was q very enjoyable
one. All the participants acquitted them
selves handsomely. Mrs. @. d. Greenlee
was awarded the medal for best essay on
temperance.
AT the meeting of Council Monday
evening, the new members, FL. A. Tilton
A. A. Irvine, Jos. Nanny, B. Kemper and
J. A Grobman, were sworn in. George
Stamm was re- elected President; Solicitor
Forquer was continued at $500, year;
Clerk Coulter at $3.50, year; and Treas
urer laval at one per cent.
j. S. d J. P. Young, the tailors and
furnishers, have opened their establish.
ment at corner of Main and Jefferson SITS.
opposite Lowry House, with full stock
of foreign aud domestic goods. and line
of gents furnishing goods Of celebrated
make They have engaged Mr.. g. Wilde
Lloyd, late of Punxsutawney, as cutter
and guarantee satisfaction in every partic
ular.
There is bill before the Legislature
which is going to hurt some of the smaller
colleges in this State if it becomes law
It provides that only colleges and institu
tions of learning with an endowment tnnt
of $500, 900 or more shall be empowered tt
confer degrees. We doubt very much j
there are two colleges in the State outsid'
of Philadelphia that have an endowmen
fund of s500.000 or more, SO that il thi
bill passes, old-established institutions o
learning from which it is an honor to re
ceive degree will be robbed of the priv
lege of coniering that honor upon thei
graduates.
of all the schemes for the bettermen
of our common school that passed by tn
Senate last week, aud now in the Hous,
takes the belt. 1t proposes to compe
every school board in the State to purchas
panorama on card board for the purpos
of acquainting the pupils of the publi
schools with the beauties of art and natur
and science. In other words, it is propos
ed to teach art, nature and science witt
photographs. This fad, ifadopted, is like
ly to prove a very costly one. The wors
of it is that unless school boards Introduce
this scheme of instruction they will forfei
the State appropriation. This is a gooC
bill to kill. School boards need their NOR
ey for other things now, such as buildin
new houses to accommodate the rapid
increasing army of scholars. and illusion
ary fads should not be forced upon them
Pictures are for the kindergarten school,
where the little ones get their first idea
of sducstsdu.