Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1898-02-17
LOCAL AND GENERAL,

zen office. and persons making puDllc saies
LOCAL AND GENERAL,
Lent begins next Wednesday the
23d.
-Sassafras tea is delicacy again in
season.
Irregular honesty is harder to man
age than regular dishonesty.
-Some robins were here last week
wonder if the ground hog is fraud.
Huber & Reitz are now proprietors
of the grocery store at Race and Will
low streets.
A Local Institute will be held at Sum
init Presbyterian Church Feb. 26. All
friends of education are invited.
An exchange contains a notice of
"a stray hog with large rings in her
nose weighing about 140 pounds
The new postage stamps will be out
before long The one cent stamp will
be green. the two cent stamp remains
vermillion and the five cent one will be
blue
John, Bickel has added about two
rods to the shelving in his store room
John carries an immense stock and
must have place to put it.
The Box Social in the Covenanter
church in Brownsville was a success,
and netted from forty to fifty dollars
County Treasurer Harper went down
and helped them in their singing.
A new tire which is punctureless
has been placed on the market 1t IS
made of a composition of fibre and
granulated cork, with canvas coat
covered with rubber.
When young man is convinced he
will never amount to anything in the
world, it doesn't matter how soon he
begins to part his hair in the middle
and smoke cigare ties
Some friends of Will Kirkpatrick
entered his store by the way of the eel
lar, Tuesday night and relieved him of
the cash in the boxes and some tobacco
and cigars.
Many of the electors of Butler twp.
came to town Tuesday and then crawled
up the hill west of town and plouted
through the mud to the polling place an
unnecessary inconvenience. That law
should be charged, and Butler twp,
should have two polling places.
&C. Seligman & Son, Merchant Tail
ors, have built up nice trade since they
came to Butler. They guarantee fit,
style and workmanship, carry a nice
line of goods, and are reasonable in
their prices. See card in another
column.
Twenty horses wanted-I will be
at the Wick House Livery Barn, But
Ter, Pa, on Monday and Tuesday. Feb
ruary 81 and %, to buy a car load of
horses of all classes, drivers, general
purposes and draft horses, from four to
eight years old weight from 1000 to /,
500, must be in good flesh. Bring them
and get the cash from buyer.
H. SEANoR.
In New leland one is liable to a
fine of hundred dollars for killing a
cat, because cats kill rabbits. and rab
bits are so numerous there that they
are scourge. In this country poor
puss" is also highly priced for her rat
and mouse catching proclivities, and as
rule she is gentle bird, but when
some five-thousand of her holds mid
night concert in your backyard all love
vanisheS.
Two dozen bodies have been recover
ed from the debrise of the wrecked and
burned Hoveler and Cold Storage build
ing in Pittsburg. and several men are
missing The spectators crowded too
near the fire. When the ammonia cyl
inders in the artificial EGGPLANT explod
ed they flew through the air and one cut
off large telegraph pole three squares
away.
Campbell & Templeton, the furni
ture men, have horse great deal
more regular and reliable in his habits
than most men. When he is unhitched
at noon he walks from the alley in the
rear of the store to the stable on
Quarry street, which is natural enough
as he knows his feed is awaiting him
there. But after dinner when turned
loose, he walks three squares back to
his wagon and waits till some one comes
to hitch him up.
Saturday last was Lincoln's Birth
day now a legal holiday by Act of the
last Legislature of the state. If this
nation ever produced man whose
birthday ought to be celebrated, that
man was Abraham Lincoln, but at the
same time we must go slow in making
legal holidays or else in the course of
time we will find ourselves in the con-
dition of the people of some of the
Southern countries where they have
three-hundred and eighty FIVE holidays
every year. How would it do to com
bine the Washington and Lincoln holi-
days and name it aftel both of them.
There is no better proof of the excel
lence of DIR. Bulls Cough Syrup than
that it is recommended by leading ply
sicians.
For Sale-A good, new, four-room
house on New Castle street. Inquire at
this office
-WANTED-A good saddle horse
State color, age, size, gaits and height
r. j. DAVIDSON,
Coraopolis. Pa.