Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1898-02-10
LOCAL AND GENERAL,


Send your valentine next Monday
The banks of Butler will be closed
Satur.say-Lincoln's Birthday
Box Social at the Covenanter
Church in Brownsville, this evening.
The D. r. Ryan Company at the
Park Theatre this week is very good
one.
1t was bitter weather last week for
the sick and destitute. but 1t made
S-inch ice.
The election in Centre twp. neat
Tuesday will be held in the Election
House in said twp.
Among the prospective Klondikers
there are two men named Judge and
Lynch. They will be partners
Special meeting of the Town
Council next Tuesday evening in the
Office Of j. d. McJunkin Esq.
-Thirty-six jurymen took vote on
the Poor House question yesterday, and
it was a two to one shot in favor Of 1t.
Prof. r.. Stratton and others will
give n musical recital in the Academy
at West Sunbury. Friday evening, Feb
11th
Last Friday evening the mercury
was forty degrees higher than 1t was
that morning, and all the yonng folks
went sleighriding.
-Wn. Walker and Chas McElvain
have opened general realestate Of
fee in the Ketterer building, opposite
the p. o. on Main St.
Henry Bickel il now sole pro-
prietor of the Brick Livery Stable On
w jefferson st. and wants every body
to know il. See his card in another
column.
A company has been organized to
build forty warehouses ON the South
Side, Pittsbnrg, at cost nf 81, 900, 900.
with the idea of controlling the city's
wholesale trade.
"A hundred men and boys met Mr.
Reppert of the National Cigar Factory
in Harper's old store eroom last Monday
night, and offered to work in the facto-
ry which he proposes starting here.
The Abe Flick sale at CoylesviIle
Monday, was largely attended, and
everything went at fair price, Only
three candidates, two for District At
torney and one for Assembly were pres
ent.
The Poor-house campaign has
been short and sharp one. This
week ends the talking, and no matter
how the vote stands next Tuesday
evening, we all know more about the
matter than we did month or two
ago
Fire in Pittsbdrg last night de
stroyed ~. .OO0, 900 worth of property
owned by the Hoveler and Union stor-
age Cos. The Chatauqua Ice Co and
others at Penn Avenue and Thirtee lth
and Pike SITS Twelve people were
killed and many injured.
TO Auntie, from Elizabeth" was
the address on n letter mailed recently.
But an address reported from rural
postoffice easily takes the prize: ITO
Ny Son William-If he's keepin' Good
Company. II he amt Please Return,
AZ There's 81 in it.
AN honorable Christian mar
would like to borrow from a true
Christian $500, +" is the way an adver
tisement reads in Mercer paper. This
seems to be play towards carrying
ont the Scriptural injunction, ''Beal
one anOther's burdens"
Sheriff Campbell gave five large
dark colored gentlemen free sleigh
ride 70 Butler last Saturday and deliv
cred them to one Of our butchers. They
were but seven months old, averaged
300 pounds were guaranteed TO be ten
der and juicy, and were called Berk
shires.
The contract for furnishing new n
q. r. caps and cartridge belts has beer
let. Torstman Brothers Company. 0
Philadelphia. will supply the goods ant
the State pays two cents less for eacl
cap than the United States Government
did for 10000 Of the same grade an
style.
"A Niagara Falls pastor has pro
duced sensation by declaring agains
protracted courtships. He says that n
young man or woman should "keel
company" unless they mean TO MARI,
and that the period ~ such compan
keeping should be Az brief as possible
The young ladies Of the town full
agreed with the reverend gentleman
but the young men, owing to har'
times and other considerations. are nc
willing to coincide with the view OK
pressed.
Mr. Cooper. the tailor informs n
that Boxing Day is the general holida
In England, that comes the day afte
Christmas, Tor on the following Monda
IL Christmas comes on Saturday o
which day all the servants expect
present., or box from their masters {
employers. the mail carriers expet
presents from those whose mail the
deliver, and NO on. The day seems I
be second edition of Christmas mad
for those who had 10 work on that dal
and IN legal holiday.
There are two court trials Of inte
national interest in progress. One
that Of Emil lola. poet and novelist. !
Paris, who IL being tried on a charge {
libel because he openly accused arm
and judicial officers Of corruption an
conspiracy in conyicting Capt. Dreyful
of treason year or two ago IL IL
notOrius fact that although France IN
republic. her justice and laws are vii
In mediaeval stage Of development
The French people are very bitt.
agaist Zola and on Tuesday he was a
most mobbed. The other trial IL thi
OF Sheriff Martin and his deputies
WilkesBarre, Pa. for shooting and kil
ing the strikers at HaZleton last sur
mer
Speaking OF pronunciation He
IL paragraph that appeared in q
Criterion few weeks ago. There a
just one hundred words in the par
graph, and, IL yon are betting INA
IL il pretty safe play 10 give twent
five cents for every word that is pr
nonnced correctly, providing the rea
er will give you one dollar for eve
word that he mis-pronounce
"Cleopatre. isolated in the oasis, so
became acclimated and had ample le
ure to contemplate all the ecor ON
details OF her inextricable swor
The wound resisted the allopath
misogynist. who gave courteous dia
nosis and humbiy craved prccedcn
for tiny idyl in the form Of Va
with an aesthetic, acoustic apparatr
This told the news like book, but
might have been n dog living in SOU
or, from the look she launched nj b
when ne wrote down his address s
ate her breakfast and then fraterniz
with a national expert on appendicit
who attended the obsequies.
For Sale A good, new. four.roo
house on New Castle street Inquire
thfa Tffra