Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1896-03-26
LOCAL AND GENERAL,
Notice,


residence this Spring, will please notify u
at once, giving name of the old, as well a.
the new postofhce.
The agony will soon be over.
Primaries Saturday afternoon.
Don't forget to 20 to the polls satur
day.
Turn out and vote for the man of y on
choice.
-N,aly alI the Republican candidate
are in 'osn to-day.
Spring poets will please hold theii
efusi ons for the present.
Every Republican voter should turn
out and help roll up large vote.
Wick d Robinson have sold their store
at Moaiteau TO q New Castle man.
the horse market is stifening up &
little, and prices have advanced slightly.
There is tremendous ice gorge In the
Allegheny river below Parker's Landing.
-Leap-year girls are organizing "Pro'
posing Parties for crusade on the bsche-
lors.
Over 5000, 900 bushels Of coal was
shipped from Pittsturg during the late
high water.
If marriage is such lottery, why is il
that wedding invitations are allowed to be
sent through the mailsf
The dwelling house on the farm oI
Joseph Bestsr, one mile west of Centre
Vile was destroyed by fire week before
last.
H. K Sarver, of Ekastown has sold
his store property to N. @. Ekas OF Glade
Mills. His brother A. B. will run the
store.
-Nuskrats are considered as a whole
some and delicious article of food in Berks
county-much better than rabbits oil
skunks.
If You fail to tu-n out and vote ut the
primaries and your man is not nominated,
don't kick. You have no one to blame
but yourself.
That man only is great who can fill
great places and do good deeds, and still re-
tain simplicity of manners and an 1naffect-
ed demeanor.
-On May the 5th the School Directors
of Butler county will meet in conven-
tion to elect County superintendent for
the ensuing three years.
p. d. Sherwin takes out $50 tons o;
coal day at his mine at Kildoo, and has
but 3-foot vein TO work. His Karnf
City mines produces so tons.
A youth with energy, good health
and sound morals, may build air castles
as high and grand Is he likes. and in time
cause them all TO materialize.
Don't forget the concert TO be given by
the Lafayette Glee Club, in the 7. NJ. G.
A. Hall, Monday night Rah, Rah, Tiger,
Lafayette, is their yell.
1t is said that the contract tor the
building Of the addition 10 the P. ). d. u
e. from here to Homestead has been let,
and that work will be started at once.
When United States Senators are
elected by the people, ss they should be-
there will be no such disgracef'l fights al
that which has been going on in Ken
tucky.
Elmer Rugh and Curtis Bricker have
bought the boiler shop on Mill ST., knowI
as the Butler County Boiler Go, and are
prepared to repair and exchange boilers at
all times.
The Odd Fellows of Butler will cele
brate the 77Ih Anniversary OF the birth OF
Odd Fellowship. in their hall in the even
ing OF April 9th. ). +. Bowser will be
the orator of The day.
Next year the compulsory education
act will be enforced. Properly carried
out il will be godsend to hundreds OF
idle and indifferent youngsters whose only
school at present is the street.
The houses in town are all full and
there are inquiries for more. We believe il
would pay some Of our monied men te
erect houses of from four to six rooms,
that could be rented nc from 90 TO $l2.
Asbestos towels are novelty in nap
cry. When dirty they are thrown into q
red.hot fire and In o few moments are
drawn out nice and clean. Grand thing
for printing Offices and hotel wash rooms.
An election for lieutenant-colonel to
fill the vacancy caused by the expiration
of the commission of w. Il. Mechling, ol
Butler, was held at Grove City, Monday
evening and he was unanimously re-elect'
ed
A special election win be held in
Kittanning on April 18th for the purpose
of getting the popular opinion of the peo-
pie as 10 increasing the borough debt $4,000
for the purpose of erecting new Town
Hall building.
The Pennsylvania Railroad is the most
valuable in the world. The system en-
braces 5000 miles of roadbed. has q capi-
talization of s67O, 100000. an annual in
come of $95, ,OO0, 900, carries the name Of
TX Qnn amnlnuaa IN ita rnlIa
An out-of-town literary society has
the following questions for discussion al
the next meeting: Resolved, that dirty
good-natured wife affords her husband
more happiness than clean ill-natured
one." The discussion is expected to bt
lively and interesting.
Lemons are considered healthful be
cause the acid they contain acts as diu
retic, having power to excite the secretions
and thus regulating the system. TheJ
must of course, be used in moderation, o.
they will pail on the appetite, and ceas'
to have any medical effect.
The Irishman and the Frenchmar
were having dispute over the nationality
Jf q friend OF thoirs. az say," said th,
Frenchman, "that If he was born il
France, he is Frenchman." "Begorra,
said Pat, "if cat should have kittens il
an oven, would you call them bisouitsf"
1T seems that the twenty-five cen
piece is about the most unlucky thing
man can carry. On the American quarte
dollar there are Is stars, l3 letters in tn,