Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1898-03-03


can secure their receipt books at the ClIl
zen Office. and persons making public sales
their note books.
LOCAL AND GENERAL,
This life ever merry;
Uncertain is very,
A gay politician once said.
One day Tam a sinner,
The next Tam winner,
With halos all over my head.
Hi Henry
Hi. Henry's Minstrels next Wednes-
day, the 9Th.
Harry Seanor was in town last
week and bought nine horses.
The voice of the average man spoils
what little music he has in his soul
The Pittsburg papers speak in the
highest terms of Hi. Henry's Minstrels.
Judge Clark of Clarion county
granted licenses to As of the 80 appli
cants.
Most lawyers attribute their sue
cess to the many trials through viii ch
they pass
George Shaffner began hauling
stone from the Negley quarry to the
Jail lot, Monday.
Its bad policy" says the Philos.
opher, Ito attempt to exchange load
nf trnu hle for a load of rum
"A Georgia editor described a defaul-
ter who had skipped out 'as six feet
tall and $10,0 900 short
The advance in the price of oil has
aused local operators to resume their
on tlook for available leases.
If a woman is told that she has a
fascinating smile she cannot refrain
from employing it even at funerals.
The ticket selling parties of the
First Ward Hose Co. banquet in the
Hotel Willard this evening.
The Y. NJ. C. A mem bership con-
fest has been extended two weeks and
renewals can date ahead in April.
As between the lion and the lamb.
the woolly critter seemed to have lit
tie the best of it in the ushering in of
March
"A practical observer remarks that
13 is always an unlucky number to have
at the table when there Is dinner for
only u.
-Chautauqua Lake is to be stocked
with some new species of fish, such as
the stripped bass, calico bass, yellow
pike and lake trout.
-Messrs Sumney & Sherman, two
young men. now have the barber shop
in the basement of the Gilkey building,
opposite the Postoffice.
1t is said that 70, 900 fools and 100
wise men are going to the Klondike
this spring. The fools will work the
mines and the wise men will work the
fools. This is called a Klondike ratio.
The Alvin Art Studio is new insti-
tuition in Butler The firm is composed
of three young men-E A Eastbr ook,
D. b. Simpson and L. N. Grimm and
they have located in the new Stein
building on South Main st.
Co E. will be inspected next We'd
nesday evening in the AImory, Inspect
ION Major Penny; Major Baker of the
18th and other Off GERS will be present.
After inspection the visitors will be ban
quoted at the Hot ell Goss
A mass NEE ting of the citizens of
Butler will be h eld in the Court House
on Friday evening of next week (the
11th) at which time the Board of Trade
will submit an important proposition.
Everybody should attend this meeting.
The Phoenix Milling Co. of w.
Sunbury has placed new engine
in their mill and are now turning out
first class -four, and prepared to do
all work intrusted to them, in first
class manner
Linn Moore's store of groceries was
sold at public auction last week, and
some of the goods sold for more than
they would have brought over the coun-
ter Linn got into financial trouble
by shouldering some old debts, but he
will get through and start up again.
Beauty and utility should always
go together in the building of churches
the groves were Gods first temples. g."
NC CAtCliO VI bhC hCN Ioth
eran church is artistic and symmetri
cal, and the interior. NOW being finish
ed by Rauscher & Shira) will delight
the eye.
R G. Black 6 Co. who conduct a
Stationary store at Grove city, have
bought the Daniel Kinch store at 309
South Maine st. and are filling the
room up with complete line of sta
tionary and wall paper. G. b. McMil-
lin, member of the firm is in charge.
Shakespeare LAS You Like It.
W i'll be recited by Mrs. Hannibal A.
Williams in the Y. NJ. c. A. hall Mon
day evening at eight o'clock If she is
as good as her husband, who spoke here
few weeks ago she is worth listening
to- Tickets may be obtained at the Y
NJ c. A. The board opens Monday
morning
"A writer in the Scientific American
says he has cleared his premises of YER
min by making whitewash yellow with
copperas and covering the stones and
rafters with it. In every crevice in
which rat light 90 he put the cop
peras. and scat tered it in the corners of
the floor; the result was. complete
ulndppcdIdHCc VI Idbo anu lulCt DaLCb
that time not a rat or mouse has been
seen near the house.
If you have any grape vines, you
had better give them " little attention
just now. If you put off pruning them
much later especially as the winter is
open, they will bleed to death You
should also look after the raspberrles
and see to it that all the dead wood is
cut out and burned. If you leave the
dead wood lying around, the insects
that are in the wood will breed and
multiply and create lots of trouble next
year.
Here are some new things we ought
to know: That chloride of lime spread
around where rats frequent will abol-
ish them. That n tablespoonful of
vinegar put into the water in which
tough meat or fowl is to be boiled will
make them tender That in cutting
warm bread or cake a warm knife
should be used. That perfect rest may
be had by spreading small sheet on
the floor and lying fat down, so that
every muscle NAV have chance to re-
lax. That by changing your seat fire.
quently when sewing You will avoid
extreme weariness That damp cloth
will remove dust from furniture far
better than dry duster That solu-
tion of copperas should be frequently
poured through all drain pipes.
Crabbedness of temper is often in
duced by an inactive liver. DR. Bulls
L.