Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1896-05-07
LOCAL AND GENERAL.

filed up.
There's "a sight of difference between a
day oil and an of day.
strawberries are getting down t" eat
ing prices.
-Nvxt Tuesday will be rsd-letter day
tor the kids" Of Butler. "We'i all go"
Base ball Monday afterDoon-High
School and West SuDbITy.
R .hert Lawrence has built an addi-
ton l.. his storeroom at Plano.
r. J. Anderson has been appointed
Postm - ter Cor the office at Flick, in Mid
dlesex twp.
There's tailor in this State who is 93
years old. Talk about the survival OF the
fttest.
BRO. Tucker says the Water company
wanted So day Tor water for sprinkllng
the streets.
Some married couples are SO fond OF
quarreling that they dareut sit in ham
mock for fear OF falling out.
The Philosopher rises TO remark that
you can't always tell the size OF mans
bank account by the checks OF his trousers.
There are only two classes of people
in this world. Those who have bicycles
and those who want them.
That is an uncnaritable merchant who
keeps good goods and does not tell the
public about them.
You can advertise just little 100 lit
tle-which is like putting up q ladder that
doesn't quite reach the roof Of the house.
Are you counting your eggsf
Worth twp. farmer who keeps 200 hens
counted 20 900 last year.
The baby carriages this spring are un-
usally pretty, and man so situated mat
he has no use for one is really denied
great deal of solid enjoyment.
When nature fails to make q woman
pretty. the milliner and dressmaker have
TO supply the deficiency, and the husband
foots the bills.
Aaron Beighley sold his property on
New Castle street to John Fl. Reed, and
will build handsome house on W JEFF
ferson st.
Two corpses were at the p. d W. de-
pot Saturday morning. That OF Mrs. Ed
ward Bennett of Butler was shipped to
Batavia, n. Y; and that of Mrs. Charles
Hazlett arrived from Jeanette.
Travelling physicians must register in
every county and also pay the ProthoLo otary
fee Of S., in addition to the registration
charge of $50. This ruling has just been
made BY the State Medical Council
The Constitution says lone man is as
good as another" When We think of
man who earns seven dollars day and
another who gets but seventy-fve cents
day, we get angry at such gross falsehoods
The Grove City Brick and Tile Com
pany will remove to Butler, having pur-
chased tract of land in that place. Bet
ter railroad facilities occasioned the trans
fer.-Ex.
-.Ba.ler has new musical organization
call the Merchants Band, which is making
great progress under the instruction of
Gus Wickenhsgen and the leadership of
R0bt. Crawford.
DIR. J. E. FsuIk, dentist, makes q
specially of crown and bridge work, and
painless extraction, but uses no gas. His
Office is in the Gilkey building, opposite
the P. o.
Joseph McDougall, one of our we'll
known citizens, removed with his family
yesterday to Butler county, where he has
rented a farm and will be tiller of the
soil. The location is in Brady township
Grove City Telephone.
An order has been issued by the State
Departmental Agriculture that al! veg,t-
ables colored by any process must be die
tinctly labeled "srtifcally colored," or the
person offering OF selling them will be
liable for the full penalties OF the pure food
law.
That $50, 900 Automatic City" is yet
on exhibition in the Duffy block on West
Jefferson St. Ifyou have not yet seen it
you want to.do so Immediately, for it's
liable to lsave town any day. For ten
cents you can see one of the mechanical
wonders of the world.
The substance called chicle, which is
the base of the chewing gum used in this
country is the sap of tree found in Hon.
duras 1t was Fl rst brought to this coun.
try to see If rubber" shoes could be made
of it, and that proving impossible, was
utilized for chewin gum,
The Allegheny District Of the Chris
tian Endesvor societies, which includes
Butler county, will hold its annual meet
ing in the Fourth Ave. Baptist Church,
Pittsburg, May Is. DR.. F. Clark,
President of the United Society of Chris
tian Endesvor will deliver an address
All Endesvorers should hear him.
THAT pretty box in d. L. Cleland' g
show-vindow was made by j. B. Murphy.
1t is a medicine case, and contains 105
remedies in bottles in the upper depart
ment, besides two large bottles of anti
septic washes, sponges. etc., in the drawer.
The whole thing was gotten up By friends
Of Nathan the Jew" who is now in
Morocco, Africa; and you can, if you wish,
contribute towards paying the express
charges n it from Butler to Morocco
Horse thieves were abroad in Worth
twp, Mercer county, Wednesday night o
last week and visited Mrs. Jane Judy's
barn, taking therefrom a good animal
= The ssme night a horse was abandoned il
the road short distance east of Mrs
Judy's in Venango county, and some on'
exchanged rigs With John Miller at Mechan
csville, taking cart and leaving a near
lily new buggy. On Friday man who sait
his homo was in Butler county identified
the abandoned horse and the buggy left a
Miller's, stating they had been stolen from
him a few nights previous. This and tn,
fact that the thieves were tracked to
point south of Butler, where the trail was
lost. il strong evidence that they came
from Butler county.-Mercer Dispatch.
Howard Painter will open Nor
NAL term of school on Monday, May
11th, in the Millerstow wn Public