Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1896-03-12
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
out your sleigh.

Don't forget Ruth, the Blind Girl. .
the Park Theatre, March 10 srd.O
-Onl y two weeks more fer the Rspubli
can candidates to ges in their work.
Now hang up your skates, boys, an'
ret your sucker-fshing outfit in shape TO
business.
The boy who was arrested for sellini
the Chicago Mascot will be given hear
ing Saturday.
-A.,er March 81 the only retail Liquor
licers in the county will be the Forquel
House in Aillsrstown.
The frame buildings in the rear oi
B:ckePs store have been torn down and
sxeavating will be begun before long.
There's big ice gorge in the Ansg'
heny between Parker and Brsdy's Bend
1t backs the water for about five miles.
-Notoriety bears the same relation to
Fame that Limburgsr cheese does to the
sweet ans lasting perfumes OF the roses.
DO not consider II an insult If some
one laughs ut you when when you fall.
You would do the same thing If you had
chance.
Prospect Ia be ing pipsd for gss by the
Millsrstown company. The gas win come
from the wells drilled by Henshsw on the
Kennedy fsrm.
The P. 8, d L. E. has commenced the
erection of new station ct Mercer. on the
sits of tho one which was destroyed by fire
few months ago.
according to the almanac, spring bs
gins on March 18th. Come, gentle Spring,
ethereal mildness. come, and We will take
pleasure in dancing the first cot with you.
John Parks Of Aiddlesex twp, is the
posssseor of . registered Bsrkshirs bore.
and invites his neiehbors TO call and see it.
John was in town on business, yesterday.
There Is man 80 years old in the
Mont gomery county almshouse, who
boats that he has never done . days
work in his life, and he says that he never
will.
DO not imagine that every man you
meet with long face is keeping Lent.
Some of them have notes to meet, new
twins ss home, or other reasons for lookin z
solemn.
The contract for new bridge across
tbs Allegheny ct Frseport has been award
Cd to . Chambsrsburg Co., at $7s. .0O0
The bridge Is to be 30 feet wide and 900
feet long.
The March winds are unusually windy
this season, and we'll loaded with dust.
Among farmers of the olden time there
was an adage; "An ounce of March dust
10 worth q kings ransom"
Henry Br unermsn will have o public
sale Of stock. farming utensils etc, on his
place In Connoqusnssslng twp, near White
Oak Spring church, on Tuesday, the Oath
inst, beginning ct o A. NJ.
And now, March II, 1896, the first
slsighing of the wintsr-We mon tion this
20 as to impress 1t on the minds Of the
young men 80 they can tell it to the
young men forty years hence.
The workingmen's Building and Loan
Associstisn elected the following officers,
Monday. President, +. N. Renno; Sscre.
tary, jacob Ksok; Treasurer. Jos. Rocken.
stein; and Solicitor, A. r. Black.
"A rare musical treat is In store for the
music loving people of Butler On Mon
dsy evening. March 80, the Lafayette Col
lsge Glee and Banjo Club, one Of the best
musical organisations of the east, will ap-
pear at the Y. NJ. @. A. Auditorium.
AN argument in favor of good roads ID
the fact that horse can draw On the worst
kind Of earth four times ss much as he can
on his lack. On 9 good macadamize d
road he can pail ten times % much, and
en- awoodsn road he can pull 25 times ai
much.
Tho Butfsr County Mutual Fire Insur-
Ance company sloctsd the following officers
Monday, President, VIM. Irwin of Evans
City; Vice President, II. J. Klingler; Sec
rotary md Treasury, l.. 8. McJunkin; T
p. Aif1in ot North Washington was elect.
ed Director.
Butler had the un usual spectacle O
an eleTen-year. old plaintiff and thirteen
vsar-old defendsnt in Court this week OF
the serious charge of assault and battery
with intent to commit rspe-A shinel'
well applied to the proper part should have
settled this case.
"A little feliov, who nd MS wit
about him when the contribution plate va
passed at church, administered . rsbuk
TO his mother, who, on her way home, wa
finding fault with the sermon; "Well
mother" he saiA, innoosntly, "what coul,
yoa expect for eentr
--Gettysburg has been selected % tn
plsce for the meeting Of the annual CON
vsntion Of the funeral directors sssocis
ton Of PsnnsylvaniA, sad the first Monde
IN June ~ the time. W. p. HobsnsOhs
Of lowe City, president Of the national q
socistion viii delivered sn address.
AN iLginious tramp worked Q ne,
scheme IN . neighboring town TO earn q
"honsst psnny." He begged . postsg
stamp from each kind hearted lady TO writ
letter to his sick mother. He got tn
stamp every time and went ont Of tow
with several dollars in his pocket.
March came in like lion and accord
Ing TO the old time tradition viii 70 OF
like lamb. We are inclined to bsliev
the old time ssying, like the groun1hol
10 pretty much of frsnd and would n,
sdvise any Of our readers TO shed the
winter clothing on the strength oft.
-0n March 10 and 20, the benefit 1,
90. y. takes place In the Park Theatr'
Bath, ths Blind Girl of Hampton VIII b
presented by the best local talent in Il
town. assisssd BY the sweet singer, Rui
Craven. and he comedian. a. L. Reel
Admission 2ac, reserved seats a5 and
eents.
Mr.. orir, of Butler county, who ",
run over by train on the p. 8. d L.
railroad some time ego, and who vi
brought to the Mercer hospital tor tres
ment, had bis foot smputated ON Monda,
Nr. Qrria IL eighty.tYo Years old. a,