Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1896-01-30
LUCAL AND GENERAL,
valentines are or sale.

to propose this year.
The chap who owns sleigh doesn't
seem to be in it this winter.
New Castle has completed an electric
light works at a cost of $120, 900.
On Monday over $3.50 coo bushels OF
coal went down the Ohio river.
Eve was the first woman to complain
that she had nothing TO wear.
Lack trace is bitter, but results
from goot advertising are sweet.
R. J. Fowler expects to have his new
mill at Moniteau in operation, next week.
The general admissi on to the prize
fights at Ell Paso next month, will be $40.
One Of our young ladies will not play
with cats any more. Is it leap year
resolution
Hiram Lester, said to be lbs years
old, died at the Henry county poorhouse
in Georgia.
A patent has been granted to W. ii.
Hay, OF Portersyille for tubing and cas-
ing elevator.
No Mande, dear. because the young
eagle is an eaglet it doesn't make young
bull bullet.
The Pennsylvania State Dairymen's
Association will hold a meeting at Mead
vile, March 4, and 6.
George vogeley has rented the Shat
fer store room on Main st, and will re-
move his cigar store there.
An exchange says Don't loaf about
the streets and depend on the Lord for
your daily bread. He isn't running a
bakery.
If you have something the people
need, tell them about it through the col
umns of the newspaper, and they will re-
spond to your profit.
Hundreds of loads of the finest ice one
could wish to see is being hauled from
Morrison's pond. The ice is 10 inches
thick and as clear as crystal.
The female suffragists in Washington
this week demanded equal rights in court.
Good gracious! Do they want the earthi
In leap year haven't they all the rights to
court.
"A young lady in Butler says she
knows she could skate very well if she
could only stand up on the ice. We know
same mann er.
The book and stationary store of Esq.
Adam Ripper of Evans City was on fire
last Tuesday evening, but by quick
work the building was saved, but the
stock was considerably damaged.
Tho First Ward Hose Co.'S annual
benefit at the Park Theatre, Tuesday
and every person present enjoyed the
entertainment very much which was the
best of the kind on the road.
w. A Kamerer, the west end grocer
has built an addition to his ware room and
udS puk Ill u0W COuubCio dno oAClflhE IL
his store, which makes a great improve
ment both in appearance and convenience.
1t was man who was too poor to
take the home paper who sent dollar in
answer to the advertisement chow to cure
horse slobbering," and received by re-
turn mail the answer. LEARN him to
spit"
The new gas, acetylene, has been
given black mark by the New York
Underwriters, who refuse to insure build
ings in which it may be introduced. 1t i;
claimed that the illumilan. is very danger
GUS because of Its explosive nature.
Fred Jamisol has leased the track for
this year and already quite number o.
trainers have engaged stalls and will traiI
here this year including VIM. Weigle, o
Prospect, Milt Mays, OF Bntler and Fl. A
Moorehesd, of Tarentum, Fred Jamison
has charge of Resh Culvers good race mare
Mary Russell 2:164.
-"Shall sell my potatoes at the pres
ent low price, or feed themR" ia frequen
query among farmers now. An expert
enced man says that they had better b.
found. Compared with other stock food
he says that potatoes cannot be wort
m ore than to cents bushel.
William Angle who is buying walnu
lumber for gunstocks for the United State
government, cut tree near Milford, Pa.
which measured seven feet in diameter
The first 16 feet will make about 200
feet Of lumber and the whole tree will fur
nish stocks enough to supply regiment
II is the largest walnut tree ever hewn L
Pike county.
The muscles of the legs and feet ar
those most frequently affected with craml
especially after great exertion The bes
treatment is Immediately to stand uprigh
and to well rub the part with the hand
The application of strong stimulants, a
spirits of am monia or of anodynes, a
opiate liniments, are occasionally found t,
be of service.
-Typewriting and shorthand are to b
taught in the South Chester schools
This is a praiseworthy innovation. !
pupil may graduate with knowledge c
the names and locations of all the lake
and mountains in the world, without bein
as well equipped for business career a
the one who has mastered twpe-writin
and shorthand.
Here's a note recently issued by by
gienic authority: One of the most i'm
portant rules for the preservation of facts
beauty is that one should go to sleep sm
ing, or at least placid-look;ng. The per
son who goes to sleep with anxious G
angry wrinkles on her forehead and abou
her mouth keeps them there while she i
asleep, and they soon become ineradicablo
People get off jokes on the wealth G
bureau and little attention is paid to them
But under the area OF high pressure latel
recorded the Pittsburg observers have peI
petrsted funny thing themselves. Her
it is: "a peculiar feature of the weathe
this morning is TIE absence of rain q
snow, OF all the stations reporting froi
Canada and the United States none repol
precipitation except Louisville, KY
where a slight trace fell during the last l