Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1899-02-23
LOCAL AND GENERAL,

LOCAL AND GENEkAL,
1t was quite spell of weather
Try ''horse-radish sandwiches" TO
the grippe.
The Bessie" lately sent our Hos
pital a check for 800.
The Nixon House on Mexican street
is offered for sale or rent. See card.
-Thawing out water pipes was the
White Mans Burden" last week
Yesterday was street-cleaning day
in Butler, and hundreds of tons of stuff
was scraped up and hauled away.
The mercury this week is As to sc
above zero, while few days ago il
stood 25 below-a difference of about 20
degrees
The members of Co E have raised
$40 by subscription among themselves
with which to erect a tombstone over
the remains of their deceased comrade.
Albert Waters.
AT Washington, yesterday, the
Chinese minister, compared the Father
of our Country to one of the first Chi
nese Emperors. "A man named Shun.
who lived 1000 years ago.
The members of Co. E 10Th, Pa,
Vols. including those who were in the
State service only, will meet in the Ar
mory, Tuesday evening. Feb. %, to
consider reorganization, as National
Guard Company.
The other day a girl ~alked into a
Mexican street house, up stairs, picked
up an umbrella and walked out again.
The same party tried to get goods from
Centre Ave. grocer oD another
familys bill.
The Patterson Bros have gradually
increased their stock of wall paper until
now they are able to supply you with
anything you want or need Their
spring patterns are beautiful. and vel
worth looking at. See their new adv
in another place.
Prof. T. w. Suretta on Tuesday
evening, commenced a series of six
University Extension lectures on, ella S.
ical music and Composers in the High
School chapel. Prof Suretta sketches
the composers, takes up piece of mu-
sic, explains and then plays it, His
lectures are very interesting The next
will be in the chapel, Tuesday eve Feb.
90.
AT the meeting of Council last
Wednesday evening, seventy street
lights were contracted for at $65 per
light per year for five years, or in other
words the lighting of our streets will
cost "A, $50 year for the next five years.
At present these are 81 lights, and the
location OF five of these will be changed,
and the new ones so located as to light
the entire town.
Real estate in Butler continues to
change hands The lots adjoining the
Plate Glass lots, east of town, owned by
the Smith, Rockenstein and Miller
heirs was sold to the company last Fri
day for $5, 200 They include about five
acres. The stock of the Plate Glass
Co, almost worthless few months ago.
is now selling at par, or very near it.
An exchange says: 1t is not any
trouble to ward off the grip if you only
know how. Eat raw cranberries in
copious quantities, put sulphur in your
shoes, swallow large capsules of aui-
nine, and either freeze yourself in an
iron tank or boil yourself in oil to kill
the germs and the epidemic will not
prove troublesome. If it does, call a
doctor.
The "Blues" beat the Reds" in the
annual Y. NJ G. A, membership contest
and SO received all the honors at the
banquet given to the contesting sides
by the Ladies Auxiliary Thursday eve-
ming last. The "Blues" led by J. G.
Runkle turned 1922 so into the Associa-
tion and the Reds, led by W. j.
Heineman. $199, making a total of
$521.50 Over one hundred membership
tickets were taken out.
Quite crowd assembled at the P.
& w. last Friday evening to say good
bye to the recruits for the Regular
Army; two of whom were ticketed for
Fortress Monroe and the other five for
Admission, Alabama Their names are
Claude Ziegler, Fred E. Wigton, Elmer
Perry, Lewis Monnie, w. H. Perry, H.
r. Nook and Warren E. King. The
recruiting Office here closes Saturday
and .Corporals Bradley and
Walters will go to Du Bois and open a.
Recruiting office there.
"A couple of youths, having seen an
illustration in Puck showing how some
mischevous boys had fooled a Dutch
man with a hot brick, tried it on Chi
nese laundryman. Placing the hot brick
on his door sill they pounded on the
door, made some aggrivating remarks,
and then started to run away. Sam
rushed out, attempted to grab up the
brick TO throw at them. and dropped it
again with great promptness, exclaim-
ing: 'Damle Mclean kidsr'
The calendar presents some curious
facts. No century can begin on Wed
nesday, Friday or Saturday. The same
calendars can be used every twent,
years. October always begins on tn,
same day of the week as January, Apri
as July, September as December Feb
ruary, Maroh and November begin on
the same days. May, June and Aug
nst always begin on different days from
each other and every other month i,
the year. The first and last days of tn,
year are always the same. These rule
do not apply to leap year. when com
parison Is made between days befor
and after February 80.
Tt is very rare that witness il
court, when being questioned about tn
distance between two given point:
fails to say: 1 don't know; l neve
measured it," The witness seems t
think it is smart thing to say, and tn
attorney is therefore compelled to con
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