Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1896-04-09
LOCAL AND GENERAL.

-TEilby will be hero on Saturday OF
next week.
-Purvis' mill was shut down for repairs
yesterday.
Easter bonnets and winter wraps are
strange company.
The grounding seems to be running
double-header this season.
The old saying, "a green Christmas
makes white Easter" was made good this
time
minor children of Barnhart Brell
of Wtitestown have been granted pen
sion.
A runaway horse, Sunday afternoon
cleared the sidewalk from the Court House
to the Wick House.
The convention of school directors to
elcct a.County Superintendent will meet
three weeks from next Tuesday.
john Bckel is dong a good business
at his new place on S. Main St. His old
CO stomers are following him.
w. D. Brandon, and A. NJ. Cornelius
and son have removed their law office TO
the room over Colbert and Dale's store.
A young man is tickled with his new
moustache, but not half SO much as his
best girl is.
Don't forget Comrades" at the Park
tonight, by local talent, assisted by Mr.. ana
and Mrs Henry Beck.
-Disinfectants should be freely used
now. Lime is very power full disinfectant
snd is about the cheapest that can be had.
oil city has a horseless carriage which
ia used for delivering groceries. The
Blizzard says it works all right. 1t Is
drawn by mules.
Where are you living nowR Any of
our subscribers who have moved will please
toward their new address to US SO that we
can make the change.
An Erie paper tells of a bill received
by directors of the poor from medical
man, containing the Item: 'To keeping
stranger sick all night, 70 cents /"
The latest thing that Edison has IL
vented is nickls- in the-slot X ray ma
chine. You stick your hand in the ma
chine, drop a nickel in the slot and see
the bones in your hand.
The members of the Baptist Church
of this town won $50 from the Pittsburg
Times for sending it list of new sabscrio-
ers, and besides this the church will get
commission which will amount to about
$25 more.
1t is not generally known that when
person falls into the water common
felt hat may be made use of as life pre-
server, and by placing the hat upon the
water, rim down, with the arm around 1t,
pressing it slightly to the breast, it will
bear man up for hours.
Said a sensible mother to one of our
exchanges: ri always let my daughters
have their own say about the color OF the
lamp shades and the arrangement Of the
doylies find, as result, that they are
not in such hurry to get married. The
foundation of most girls desire to marry is
to live in house where they can have
their own way about the lamp shades and
doy lies.
The Washington Post hits the mark
when it says, "The ideal editor is the one
who knows j1st what to keep out of hi;
newspaper" But that kind of an editor
has never been born. Mankind finds fault
with tho Almighty, and newspaper thai
has an opinion and its editor has any man
illness or backbone, is obliged TO express
opinions a. times that are not in accord
with more or less of his readers.
BY act of Assembly supervisors ar'
empowered to proceed upon the request o
any landholder whose property fronts upol
public road, to establish proper widtl
and location for sidewalk along eacl
side of the highway. The width mus
not be less than six feet for 50-foot roads
and for roads OF greater width the sidew al
shall be 10 feet wide. When establishe
the law requires the landowner to pay TO
and keep the sidewalk in repair.
Mrs N. G. Core, of the Core Music Co
Butler. Pa, will personally conduct he
annual river excursion by steamer Hudson
Wednesday, May 9th, at P. NJ. Cost {
trip from Pittsburg $12, Butler $l3.7C
This trip occupies one week with one fn
day for sight seeing in Cincinnati. Ticket
extended for all who may wish to renal
for May Musical Festival, or for a longt
period. A string band accompanies thes
excursions, and We hope to make il a r,
pc, ,ition of our former enjoyable outing
Cut this out, it will not appear in tn
form again.
The following is the program for Il
q. ". L. meeting this evening-the last
the seGson-Address of Welcome, CC
Criswell; Singing by Legion; Addres
Col. Jas. Henry; recitation, Miss La
jennings; Instrumental music, Miss Fam
McElwain; Address, Com. Jno. It. Kell
recitation, Miss Mary Ayres; Solo, entitl
The Roll Call, Mrs. q. E. Herr; lecitatio
Miss Amanda Smith; instrumental due
Misses Maud Connor and Carrie Gahags
recitation, Miss Nellie Nixon; addre
Com. A. G.. Williams. All are invited.
The growing OF cabbage by farmers
Waterford, Erie county, and vicinity, h
been a profitable business for several yea
past. The Leader, of that place, stat
that shipping figures show that the pt
season more than 200 tons of marketat
cabbage was raised, the price realiz
ranging from So to $23 ton on the ca
The large bulk of the crop was handled
car lots, there having been So full ca
containing 500 tons, shipped from Wat
ford station and about 20 car loads, or
tons, frUm Sampsonville a1d Jacks
stations.
The Legislature of Ohio has passed
bill to prohibit the wearing of hats
theatres. The Bradford Era says that
that place all ladies wearing offensiv
high hats remove them during theatre
performances. The high hat nuisance
not particularly felt in the Butler Op
House, as the seats slope toward the sta,
giving those in the rear an occasio
glimpse of what is going on back of
footlights. But in the churches it of