Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1898-01-27
LOCAL AND GENERAL,

LOCAL AND GENERAL,
-.'Ole Olson"
Blue Jeans"
There are five comets scheduled fol
1898.
-"Ole Olson" Friday at Opers
House
BLUE Jeans Monday. at Parl
Theatre.
Ugly valentines viii soon be float
ing about.
Did you near the story of the three
eggs7 Two bad.
Women may suffer in many ways
but never in silence.
"A dealer announces: ''All the
latest novelties in antiques"
Read Burton's Removal Sale adv.
Now is the time to buy.
Most any old tramp is willing to
NOW the grass for meal now.
Board of trade meeting in the
Court room tomorrow evening.
well, poor Jiggers has got it in
the neck" what, not firedf" No;
mumps."
"A very dainty perfume recently
sprung upon the market is called But
terfy's Breath.
The young people of the q. P.
church held very pleasant tag social,
Monday evening.
Last Sundays storm tipped over
thousand derricks. The Forest Oil
Co. alone lost 400.
Allegheny county has three miles
OF bridges. Their aggregate value is
about one million dollars.
Seeing may be believing" says the
Philosopher, "but see some men every
day whom 1 wouldn't believe once in a
thousand years"
Few people would be discontented
with their own lot if they knew how
miserable those people are whom they
imagine to be the happiest.
The Allegheny river flooded the
yards of the P. w. railroad in Alle-
gheny Monday and stopped traffic for
several hours. The water rose to the
doorsills of the passenger depot.
The Emersonian PHYSICAL Culture
Club will meet at the home of Mrs. B.
c. Huselton, on N. Main St., on Friday
evening of this week at 7:3O P. M. A
full attendance is requested.
White, Walter & Co. can with the
aid of their splendid new show-window
display their new bicycles to greater
advantage than heretofore They will
handle quite a number of the best
makes this year.
There will be a Board of Trade
meeting in the Court room tomorrow
(Friday) evening. The Committee on
nominations has named thirty men for
the fifteen places that are to be filled
and vote will be taken.
"A death certificate that was being
shown in town the other day signed
by doctor, had the doctors name in
the space on the blank after the words
''cause of death" He believes it to be
an error, while some others think it
absolutely fact.
In Siam when two persons engage
in lawsuit, both are placed id cold
water. The one who can stand it the
longer is pronounced the winner In
this country the parties to the suit are
placed in hot water but the result is
reached the Same way as in Siam.
The Phoenix Mill of W. Sunbury is
now in operation. Its outfit consists of
the best machinery in the market; and
the owners have secured a first-class
miller and are paying the highest mark :
ct price for grain. The mill makes good
-four and will be blessing to the COM
munity.
AT local Teachers Institute to be
held in Academy Hall, North Washing
ton, on Saturday, Feb. 5th, the Poor
House question will be debated-Plum-
mer Miffiin for, and Perry Black of
Concord against it. Washington twp.
will probably vote for a poor house and
Concord against it.
The driver of Marks & Co.'S wagon
took very expensive dinner at the
widow Nixon's in Penn twp. last Fri
day. While he was at dinner some one
stepped up the wagon and stole the
cash amounting to $S5 from the box
He was traced to Renfrew, where he
took north bound freight train.
An exchange in commenting ON the
fashion the girls have Of changing the
spelling of their names says: I'VE u.s.
cd to know girl whose name was
Mary. When she grew up and went to
college she dropped the ''r" from hei
name and it was May. About yeal
ago she got married and now she has
dropped the 'yn and they call her Ma
Five new members were received
into Co. E last Friday evening There
is still room for five more. Extra inter
est is being shown in the drills and botf
officers and men are striving to present
the best company in the N. G. P. at tn,
Spring Inspection March 8. ]. S
Young, the tailor, is making the new
uniforms
DR. Thomas, an Illinois man wht
lectured on Cuba and the Cubans fol
our High School, Tuesday night, CAV
us better idea of tke native Cuban
than we previously entertained. HI
spent two years on the island and h
says the native Cubans are fine rae
of people, descended from the Spanish
but larger and finer looking men, an,
the colored people there, he says, are o
a finer breed than ours He fully just
fies the Cubans in waging war for indie
pendence. thinks they will keep it III