Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1897-02-25

Who is the woman on the Board of
Trader
Pinch the tramps and make them
clean the street.
Go to the Opera House tonight and
get hypnotized-
Dance in Arm ory Hall tonight for
benefit of Rescue H. IL l.. Co.
Ice will be cheap next Summer.
Mr.. Morrison has 1000 tons up.
The 1125 A. VI. train on the West
Penn is now mail train
The first fakir and the first robin
have made their ppearance in town.
"A Farmers Institute will convene
at Emlenton on Friday, March 5th.
And 90 the Matt onal Guard won't
20 to Washington The state hasn't
go, 900 to spare just now.
The coal miners of billiard valley
went out last week They want 80
cents ton and are now getting but 80.
"A Chicago freak has sued doctor
for so, 900, damages for not being able
to extract a bullet with the aid of X
rays
Ten dollars plate is the price for
the Penrose banquet at Hotel Walton,
Philadelphia. tomorrow night. and we
won't go.
"A sentimental youth, in referring
to charming miss, said: She was
beautiful girl Of IS springs" A punster
wondered If her name was Sofy.
The J. Fl. Douglass lead pencil, No.
2, made TO order, il good one. Try one
and also try his Alnminoid pens. They
are something new.
The first Sunday after the full
moon. following the vernal equinox, is
April is, and that will be Easter Sun
day. Lots of time for spring hats this
year.
p The grocery store building now occu-
pied by w. A. Fisher, changed hands
last week Win Dixon of Penn twp,
purchased it from Geo. Schenck for
o., 800.
The students of the High School will
give1n entertainment in the Park The
atre, Friday evening March 5th, Pro
ceeds will be added to the High School
building fund Tickets % cents
The rains took the snow off the
fields, some Of the frost ont of the
ground and sweIled the water ways
Floods and drowning accidents are re
ported from several points
-Wasllington's birthday was enthusi-
astically observed I'm Butler this year.
Biographies Of Washington and Lincoln
are about the best literature you can
put in boys hands-after the Bible.
Up in the 'chipmunk" oil field
the si1 il obtained at depth Of but 400
feet, from STRAY" sand A well
struck ON the Senaca Indian reservation
last week started off at 80 bbls an hour
The slipping Of rope at the
Walters mill bridge, Saturday evening,
let some heavy iron fall, and man
jumped ont Of the way just in time to
save his life.
Our Main street needs cleaning and
needs il badly. The mud and manure
should be scraped into piles in the mid
die Of the street, and the stuff Ia well
worth hauling away by anybody own
ing sandy or gravelly meadow.
"A western Massachusetts farmer
recently displayed this notice: Notice
know kows IA aloud in thes medders,
eny man or woman lcttin' their kows
run the rode whot gifts into my medder
aforesaid shall have his tail cut off by
me, Obadiah Rogers"
--Thursday and Friday OF last week
the Christian Missionary Association
held largely attended meetings In the
NJ. 4. church. The purpose was to in
crease the missionary spirit. Among
the speakers was Rev. Stephen A. Mer-
ritt Of New York.
Just supposin." rem marked the
oldest inhabitant the groun' hog he'd
seen his shadder. an the weather he'd
been wnss en- what we're havin why,
b gosh, Grccnlan's icy mountins would
ha' been paradise TO this country
All the grip victims say amen 70 the
sentiment expressed by the o. l.
They tell good one on one Of ths
candidates at the late election. He wal
walking around the polling place and oc-
casionally rubbing his stomach and con-
planning Of heart burn. why George
that is not the place for your heart said
. bystandcr. Yes IL is" answered
George. "and sometimes IL gets away
mp here. putting his hand up TO hi
throat
The Moss Jollity company pIayet
TO good house In Butler and their On
tertainment was very amusing and sat
isfactory The Moss family were form
er residents Of Harmony. and they ar
the only natives OF Butler county. o,
the road that wc know Of After thei
entertainment here last Thursday night
they enjoyed the hospitality Of Mr.. ant
Mrs. Braun Of w. Jefferson st.
The new railroad is being pushe'
along on double time Tuesday morn
ing the bridge was completed over tn
creek at Walters mill The beam
were let down TO their exact places ol
the pedestals, although the latter wer
submerged over foot by the higl
water After crossing ths bridge, tn
big crane was sidetracked and lon
string Of new p. u. & l.. Il. fat carr
loaded with rails and ties were passe,
forward. The track IL laid from these
the ballasting is 10 be done later. Tn
ties are pushed forward from the r.a
cars to the van In chute, with roller
In Its lead which runs the cntir
length Of the train. Tuesday nigh
work was stopped Mt midnight by th
high wind.