Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1896-02-20
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
begun yesterday.

Get your sackcloth ard ashes ont of
the camphor chest.
Tho mail carriers were loaded up to
the neck, last Friday.
The ultra mannish girl now rolls up
her blooDars when it rains.
When man is wrong and won't
admit it he always gets angry.
Many girl who promises her heart
and hand also puts her foot in it.
-"Chidren," ;" says the Philosopher. care
the ca@nons from the bonds OF matrimony,"
- Franklin Evening News has com
pleted rs 18th year, and is as lively and
newsy IS ever.
-T..a Rescue Hook and Ladder Co. have
secured the well known tragedian, Jas.
O'Neill, for a benefit.
The man who hasn't sand enough to
refuse leap-year proposal deserves the
Kind OF wife ne will get.
IL fear I must tear myself away"
walled the rejected lover. He did, and
the dogs mouth was iull OF pants.
If yoa receive sample copy of the
CITIZEN take it as friendly invitation for
yea TO become one of its weekly readers.
Oily 81 year in advance.
-SaxUnburg had an elopement few
days ago Tue young lady was not OF
age, and her father objected to the mar
rage 50 the young folks skipped off
The Standard Rod and Gun Club will
hold live bird shoot at Wheelmen's Park,
next Tuesday. They have 800 live birds
and entries from several crack shots.
The mercury was below zero-ten de-
grees Monday morning-for tho first time
This winter. ] was down to zero Dec. 10
AID Jan. 5. We enjoyed only the south
end OF this cold snap.
One of our Somerset county exchanges
is Dragging of its S0-year old candidate for
Sheriff, put we think we can beat them in
another line-we have 300 p1under for
the same office here.
William Westerman, who lived with
his brother, Edward, IN Clinton township,
was found dead in his room on Wednesday
of last week. He was about 60 years of
age, and was subject to epileptic fits.
H. J. 0'Donnel will sell at public
sale, on his farm one and one-half miles
east OF Carbon Centre, in Cleartield town.
ship, On Tuesday March 3, 1896, live stock,
hogJ WV
An epidemic of typhoid fever or typhoid
grippe is raging in Tarentum, and is prov
ing very fatal. Mr.. j. E. McAnallen,
who now lives there was in Butler last
Saturday, and said there were four cOrpses
in the town that day awaiting burial.
The Standard Oil CO, and other
operators from all over oildom already
have O million or two acres of Eastern
Kentucky under lease The lowest rental
we have heard of is ten cents an acre
year. The Standard purchased some of its
Territory outright.
The Town Council of Evans City has
decided to erect Q town building, the
lower story 10 be used to store town
property and the upper story for meet
lng place for council They are also con-
sidering the advisability of purchasing a
chemical engine.
Our grocers are paying 20 cents for
butter. Is for eggs, % for potatoes, cts
per pound for cabbage, % for turnips, 80
for onions, 65 to 80 for apples, 124 for dress
ed chicken, 10 for turkey, 60 for parsnips.
Good timothy hay sells readily at SIT to
$18. mixed at $l4 to SIG.
We have had several snowfalls of late,
bat none sufficient to make good sleigh.
ing. This is hard FOR the girls who have
been expecting a sleigh-ride long ere this,
and it makes some of them very fretful
and sulen. This may be called ''the
winter of their discomfort"
The new outline map of Butler county
prepared and published by Will Heydrick
and Charley Douglass, and for sale at
Douglass book store, shows the town
ships. towns. railroads, roads, postoffices,
etc of the county, and is a handy thirg
for candidate or travelling man to have
in his pocket.
While in Zeienople some days ago
we We're told that twenty buildings would
be erected in that towl next Summer; aud
we see 1t stated that the "Ielienople Ex-
tension Co." has purchased the Ziegler
farm and DIVIDED it into lots, and also
that mirror manufactory has been
secured for the town.
The Prnhibitionists will hold their
County Convention next Tuesday, at 1:30
p. m. in the W. @. T. U. Hall on West
Jefferson st. Wm. Ii. Berry of Chester,
Pa late Prohibition candidate for State
Treasurer, will deliver an address in the
evening. He has the reputation of being
an interesting aud eloquent speaker. NICK.
A Sharpsburg physician is responsible
for the following: During the year 1895
he assisted 80 babies into the world. OF
these Is were boys-12 girls. Tho fathers
OF the Is boys were ali Republicans, while
the fathers OF ell the girls were Democrats.
Surely if the population continues to in
crease as AZORES aid, Democracy should hold
clearance sale, take down its sign and
close the shop.
The local institute held in the Opera
House in Renfrew, last Saturday afternoon
vas well attended, and every body seemed
to enjoy themselves. Mr.. Bulford pIesid-
ed, a local orchestra and choir furnished
the music, the Misses Criswell and William
entertained tho audience with some songs,
and addresses were made by Messrs Kelly,
Wilson and Knooh.
The mail carriers were so burdened
with valentines last Friday, that they wish
ed that both the valentines and the send
ers were in sh-, at Shenengo Junction.
The young folks always have and always
will consider it great sport TO send valen-
tines. but il is stated by the dealers in the
fragile messages of love that their sale
among those who consider themselves
grown up has fallen off largely. These
matters ehauge along the lines of the de
velopment in taste, and TO some extent
are regulated by fashion. 1t is considered
proper now for an admirer to send the OBJ
ject of his attentions box OF candy or
bouquet of flowers Fragrant roses are
popular, and nothing is more appropriate
than the dainty flowers OF spring, when
are now appearing in tho flower stores,
such as lilies Of the valley, daffodils and
narcissus. Still, manJ find that the
beautifully designed and printed cards !
suit their purpose better, and in these
there are number of novelties. The
lace-like valentines of paper, ornamented
with cupids and agrow-pierced hearts, will
always be IN demand, but the cards are
crowding them 10 some extent. In a
measure the cards follow the old lines,
there being many combinations of arrows,
with hearts and other seasonable designs
One dainty arrow, with genuine needle
point, pierced a heart which, on being
opened, revealed the line, "There's moth
iag half so sweet in life as loves young
dream" Probably people no longer yonng
in years can find, il they look carefully
over the stock in the stores, handsome
cards or Ornamented valentines bearing
the old verse, which seemed so expressive
in their childhood days, reading:
eff you love me
AS / love you
No knife can cut
Our love in two"
The caricatures which wound
many a sensitive nature do not find as
ready O sale as in former years, but the
usual assortment could be seen in store
windows, and the doggerels beneste the
pictures seemed MOre cruel in their insinu-
GtioLs than ever.