Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1895-05-02

Flour has raised from 25 to so cents
Q barrel.
Campbell & Templeton's new delivery
wagon is immense.
John Shanor is keeping the large
Hambletonian stallion Crawford Prince,
at the Fair Ground.
The bodies of two more babies have
lately been found in the suburbs of the
town. Please bury your babies.
An easy way to commit suicide is to
leave off your heavy underclothes under
the impression that summer is here.
The Guckenheimers intend building
new distillery at Freeport during the COM
ing summer 1t is to have capacity tor
1900 bushels of grain day.
A grand chorus entertainment will be
given Thursday May 9th, at Saxon Station
N. E. church under the direction Of Prof.
Shoemaker, assisted by excellent talent.
To the bicyclist, making his way to
town on foot. after an acci dent to his
wheel what can be more humiliating than
to have the small boys cry out to him,
"Its good thing; push it alongf'
Braid Gilchrist with force OF men
went down to Glade Mill, this morning, to
move the Marks Bros store from its present
foundation to . temporary one. The
firm intends putting up new building.
The las I lens cast by the Plate Glass
Co.. was taken out of the oven, Tuesday,
and o. it seems to be perfect, Prof. Peate
was 90 notified. He will come here and
examine it, and if it is perfect it will be
placed on exhibition before being shipped.
The recent hard winter will be found
to have injured all seed corn that was not
thoroughly dry and kept in dry place.
Test the seed corn by planting some OF
the grains in box of earth and note the
percentage of grains which fail to germi-
nate. Take no risk on seed corn. A few
weeks lost time by the seed not germin-
sting means quite large loss in the
crop.
Mothers are cautioned by physician,
not to permit their children, who carry
load Of school books back and forth from
home and school each day, to carry the
load in the same hand or over the same
shoulder, as many instances have been
known where the habit heightened the arm
or enlarged the hand disproportionate ly
or caused the child to carry one shoulde
higher than the otber.
The fact that Saturn W ith its rings hove
into sight among its sister planets night
before last, reminds rs that there isn't
single telescope in Butler Here we are.
ten thousand of us, and whenever we hear
of a comet flirting with the moon some
where of in space, or that the astronomers
have fourd out that the Martians are try
ing to signal us with flashlights, we have
70 take Il on faith. When the sun gets
eclipsed, though we look through smoked
glass with the rest OF the world we uont
see very much.
odd Fellowship was SO years old last
Friday. Like wine it improves with age
and now musters nearly 1000, 900 follow
ers All over the country the ami YER
sary was observed by the lodges. Seventy
six years ago Thomas Wildey, an English
man who had located in Baltimore and
was lonely because Englishmen were moi
popular then on account of the recent war,
proposed to John Weloh, John Duncan,
John Cheatham and Richard Rushworth
that they relieve monotony of life BY organ
king an Odd Fellows lodge resembling
the one he had belonged to in England.
April Goth, 1919, these five men met al
the Seven Stars tavern and instituted the
first lodge, which they called the Wash
ington Lodge, No. l. The five men were
not well educated or particularly refined,
and they had little influence in Baltimore,
but wildey was born leader of men, and
before he died, in 1861, the order he had
founded had membership Of 200, 900.