Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1897-02-11
LOCAL AND GENERAL,

can secure their receipt books at the CITI-
ZEN office.
LOCAL AND GENERAL,
Some like the girl who is slick and
fat,
Some love the girl who purrs like
cat.
But here's to the girl don't she strike
you patl
Who goes to the show and removes her
hat.
Wick is drilling for gas at the
bridge
The best evening ties are those that
keep man at home after dark.
If you want to live long, don't
live more than one day at time.
Help others when you can, but
never give what you cannot afford
Kind words can never die, and
unkind ones die very lingering
death
1t is better to have little talent and
noble purpose than much talent and
nopurpose.
A nice picture attached to sack of
-four sometimes makes an acceptable
valentine.
The High School students are pre-
pairing to treat the town to entertain
ment soon.
The turntable at the West Penn
station has been enlarged to accommo-
date the big engines.
= Easter Sunday falls on April Is.
Feed the fowls warm food if you want
plenty of eggs.
The Supreme Court says that bi-
cycle must stop, look and listen ke
any other horse.
Butler hasn't all the burglars; Ze-
lienople has few, and they stole Lock
woods clock the other night.
If stranger asks you to sign any
thing, refuse; point TO the front gate
and whistle for the dog
When you are in trouble, some peo-
pie who come to sympathiz are really
after the particulars.
The vege table down of our common
swampgrowing cat-tail is made into
cheap and very good substitute for
plush.
The man who leaves his horse stand
ing unblanketed in the street and fac
ing a zero blast does not deserve to own
horse.
If people could see their obituaries
while they are still living it would en-
courage them so much that they might
live longer.
Co. E. drills every night this week.
Inspection Tuesday evening Feb. 10th.
Preliminary inspection Monday even
ing, 18th.
The young people of the Q. P.
Church held dime social, Monday
evening. A pleasing literary program
was the principal feature.
-Slpperyrock has an astronomer in
the person of Mr.. August Cross. Some
remarks by him on ecipses and the
planets will be found on our 4th page.
"A CT Garfield twp man and family
went out sleighriding few days ago,
and when they returned they found
their home in ashes. Everything was
burned.
And now here's Philadelphia, AL
toona and Williamsport, and several
other places wanting the State Capitol,
and we could find very good location
near the go-ahead town of Butler.
An employee in one of the local tele-
gragh offices, whose working hours are
from 7:30 p. IN. till a. m. was at his
post of duty seven nights in the week
for fifty eight consecutive weeks.
The hill east of town was the scene
of a waterfall, yesterday morning; the
Plate Glass Co.'S water tank busted and
1000 gallons of water poured down the
hill and into the creek
Tuesday of next week is election
day. The most important matter we
will vote upon is that of increasing the
towns Indebtedness for further improve
ments; and the opinion seems to prevail
that we should continue to improve
Dangerous coun terfeit half dollars
are in circulation. They are dated
1895 and good imitation of the genu-
ine The counterfeit is bright, the
work nicely executed, but it doesn t
give the true ring when thrown down
County Auditors Moore, Thorn and
Mcbride are working steadily at the
county accounts, and will finish. their
labors this week. Their report will be
full and correct, and will probably ap-
pear in next weeks paper.
Our legislators go to church every
day now-to Grace Methodist Church
on W. State St, Harrisburg, very
fine looking stone building with room
enough inside to accommodate both
branches of tn Legislature very nicely
On Monday evening the regular
monthly social of the Y. NJ. c. A. wa!
held in their auditorium. The Collie
giate Institute had the program in
charge and ably entertained the large
crowd present. A prominent feature
of the program was the solos of Mrs,
Prof. Loucks
That subtitle and persistent malady,
the grip, is prevalent in this city and
all over this part of the country Call
it a bad cold, or what you will, it is
here all the same, champion knock
er-out. 1t lays its grip on throat air
passages and stomach, and transforms
its victims into a barking, shifting,
retching gang of miserables, unable to
eat, too weak to swear or smile. If old
Sennacherib could return to life, the