Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1897-04-15
LOCAL AND GENERAL,


-Bricker & Vinroe have purchased
the Park House livery. See Card
s. G. Purvis & Co. are filling sever
al large orders from Philadelphia.
Spring is all right, even if the poet:
do made it somewhat ridiculous.
Lots of men who would like to bt
counted eccentric are only notorio usly
mean.
The present possessor of the old flag
of Co. H., 18th Reg. is requested to pro
duce it.
One of our exchanges from neigh
boring county quotes prices on frogs
legs and swapping turtles in its market
report.
"A young man who is not styled a
Professor" ought to wish that he had
never been born.
Some of our young men with crook
ed legs advertise their griefs by wearing
striped pantaloons.
The recent Mississippi floods sub
merged 80, 500 farms in four states and
rendered 400, 900 people homeless.
Chorus meets this evening at the
Butler Collegiate Institute. New mem
bers received at any time, come tonight.
The sale of bees at J. B. Murphy s
on Mercer St., was not largely attended
and bees sold 1ow-at an average of
$4.25 per colony.
We direct attention to the card of
G. F. Keck, Merchant Tailor, who has
purchased the well known establish
ment from his father, Jacob Keck.
When you see young man clean
ing girls bicycle, they are engaged
but when you see the operation revers-
ed, they are married.
The Hospital Association paid Mrs.
Muntz 81 300 for lot on the Southside,
secured their deed, and are now consid-
ering plans and specifications for bull
ing
The 6:05 and IL :25 A NJ trains alone
on the West Penn make connections at
Blairsville for the east; but all the
trains excepting the sos A. NJ. connect
with trains on the Valley.
Lees surrender at Appomatox. Va,
April 8, 1885, was celebrated IN Butler,
last Friday by parade consisting of the
local military company and the Y. NJ.
C. A. drum corps; and a campfire in U.
v. L. Hall.
The privilege Of occupying the front
steps and windows of a house on W.
red ST., N. Y. along the route of the
'Grant Day Parade, owned by mem
ber of the Stock Exchange, sold for $11,-
$40 for the day.
WHO made your" asked the primary
teacher The little girl addressed evil
IDENTIFY wishing to be accurate in her re-
ply: God made me so long, indicating
the length of short baby, "and /
"growed" the rest"
x ray apparatus has now been
brought to such working efficiency that
a photograph of the human hand show
ing bones, joints. and all, can be made
in half second. The lungs can be
photographed in five minutes.
AT the meeting of the Democratic
County Committee in Butler last Thurs
day, Saturday, June 5th was fixed upon
as the date for their primary. Their
resol utions denounce the Dingley bill,
favor free coinage etc.
1t is reported that over seven hun
dred tickets have already been sold for
the opera "Ruth" which is to be played
in the Park Theatre on the Goth inst by
the Sheubert Club of Grove City Col
lege for the benefit of the Good Will
Hose Co.
A man named Rusk bought up a
car load of apples in and about Conner
sal two months ago. The apples were
shipped to GAINESVILLE. Ohio, and one day
last week check for the tremendous
amount of 800 came back Think of
it 81 for 400 bushels of apples, or II
cents per bushel.
The Wang Comic Opera Co. under
the management of d. w. Truss & Co.,
is the same that presented Princess Bon
ME here last year, and to get this at
traction Manager Burckhalter had to
guarantee them 1850. An effort is be-
ing made to get special train from
Chicora.
There was man in the office this
mording and he asked all the Scribes
and Pharisees how to spell the name OF
this old Keystone State. Of course ever.
ybody said "Pe-n-n-s-y-l-v-a-n-i-a, "
and he laughed and said, Not so; spell
it this way pennsylvania '-you DOM
use the capital because the Capitol is
burned down" And he emitted great
coarse laugh and went his way.
The cemetery at Evans City is NJ
on she hill south of town-the road to il
is now almost impossible, on account
of the teaming to the Ramsey oil field
and on Sunday last a funeral procession
to the cemetery met with one mishaI
after another Two singletrees and
doubletree belonging to three different
rigs were broken, and the procession
was almost three hours going half a
mile.
Take the bird off your hatr' il tn,
injunction of a Philadelphia write
who has been attending the lectures o
Mr.. Wilmer Stone, on Our Nativ
Birds and How to Study Them" 1
is good advice. says the Phila Times
Take the bird off your hat before yol
go to the house Of God if you woul,
worship Him with conscience void o
offense. Bird and feather wearing is
cruel and destructive fashion. b.
reason of it our song birds and our in
sect-eating birds are being graduall
exterminated, Take the bird off you
hat and put an end to this wicked trad
of bird destruction or soon the forest