Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1896-03-19


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LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Can you pick the winners.
The shad is the early bird.
Spring trousers will be tight.
The buckwheat cake is passe.
Get your hens in laying order.
The spring crop of marriages are about
due.
Republican primaries, next Saturday
week
The dealer in bedding is marking his
G Gods down.
Don't forget "Ruth. the Blind Girl of
Hampden,"
f ter Music is being rehearsed by
church choirs.
The oyster has q month and half be-
fore vacation time.
Three minutes per day is the way day
light is growing now.
The eel may be silly creature, but he
never puts his foot into it.
Few women can make out y check,
bat any woman can run up bill
j. E. Dsvenny's friends will find him
doing business at the old stand this week.
No Maude, dear, the or ocus bears no
relationship to either the rooster or the
rog.
when a man takes his stuff straight
he sometimes finds that it makes him
crooked.
The Evans City Globe has entered up
on It's second year. May it live long and
prosper.
Il. Stein d Son are making exten.
sive changes and improvements in their
store room.
Bert Park of Mars lost driving horse
by being struck by P. q W. train last
Friday evening.
W. J. Heineman was elected manager
of the First Ward Running Team for the
coming season.
We have had our six weeks Of ground
hog weather-now let us have some of the
decent article.
advertising is the Lubricant that
makes the wheels OF trade revolve smooth
ly and swiftly.
John c. Moore of Muddycreek twp
owns thirteen ewes, which this year pro-
ducsd twenty-seven lambs.
up to last Friday, the zelisnople Ex-
tension Co. had sold 148 lots and
forty more had been selected.
Treble Clef Club will give benefit to
the J. s. Campbell Hose Co in the Park
Theatre on Tuesday April 81.
"A new postofice has been establish ed
in Butler county, with J. NJ. Digit as
postmaster, it will be known az Trail.
Some candidates who were storm
stayed at Portersville last week, found a
6rst rate home in the Brenneman house.
The P. q w. will hereafter run speci-
al theatrical train every Saturday evening,
leaving the Allegheny depot at IL o'clock.
Nicholas Sloop will have public sal Q
of fsrmingimplemen.s. household furniture,
ETC., on his farm in Franklin township,
Tuesday April I'd.
1T may seem strange, but it is true,
asserts the Shoe and Leather Reporter
that the best chest protector is worn upon
the sole of the foot.
One whose head has become hoary
haR figured out that at least one thing is
gained by growing old, You don't have
TO wait till the second table
The Oil City Derrick thinks an X ray
that will enable q man to see the bottom
of dry hole without drilling for it would
fill q long folt want in the oil country.
Three Smiths are among the Republi-
can candidates for Office in Crawford coun-
ty. They are all from Meadville, each for
different position, and all three are
cripples.
We have seen the first copy of the
Pittsburg Evening News, a new paper fol
Pittsburg, issued by the Pittsburg Times
1t ia bright, newsy and well printed and
deserves to be successful.
There are !, ,076 building and loan ss
sooistions in Pennsylvania, with 233, sos
shareholders. Pennsylvania leads all the
other States in the number and wealth of
such associations.
1t has been sent broadcast through the
press that in order to be good looking, tn,
nose must be exactly one. third the length
OF the face. Measure your facial protu-
berence and ascertain if you are among the
favored ones. Don't delay such an i'm
portant matter for even a single day.
They tell OF q mind reader who reat
newspaper before a select audience o
ladies and gentlemen one evening through
the thickness Of two horse blankets. Afte
the feat was accomplished one of the ladies
left the room, at the same time remarkiny
to friend that she was not going to staJ
there any longer with calico dress on.
Mercer county is bound not to let But
Ter county out:do her on small matters
Last week We made mention of an clever
ysar-old prosecutrix in an attent to com
init rape case, end in the same week the
had case of the same kind in that count
nine-years old. The jury was out 16 hours
taking 81 ballots and found the prisone
guilty.
The innocent-looking torpedo used b
railroad men doesn't make a safe play
thing for youngsters of an inquisitive turI
OF mind. At North East the other day
Willie Mathewson, aged IA years, found
torpedo, and tonched it off with stone
He was found lying insensible, with hol
in his temple and hia clothes so filed wit
oinder that it was supposed he had talle
from train He Law inaanai hla for ova