Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1900-02-15

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LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Phonetic Spelling.
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No dout it's just az wei
That yu ar met by Others who
Reject yore wa tc spell;
Perhaps tha no no more than yu:
Perhaps not quite az much,
But tha ar more conservatlv
And rather keep in tuch
With what liz old. than what iz nu,
Because they no that what
liz nu and hithertu uutride
Ma possibly be not
The proper thing; and so tha stand
Stiff next against your plan
Tu'drop the old and make the nu
Conspikuus in the van.
He was shot in old Kentucky. y
New version.
Teachers institute in Parker, Sat
urday, the oath.
If money really talks, about all it
says is 'let me go
The mule that gets in the first kick
usually wins the battle.
-Snowless winters should be accom-
panied by horseless sleighs.
This is an open winter but you can
get through it any quicker.
The Dem. Co Com. meets IN Butler
next Saturday week, the 24th.
The prospects for Butler for the
coming summer are very bright.
The man you consider fool proba-
bly, has similar opinion of you.
As silence would be golden. it's no
wonder Bryan talks so much about sill
yer.
Big prize fights, the sports argue,
start more mills and make work for the
hands.
st. Valentines is remembered by
the letter carriers as the day they get
loaded
Looking through the crack of ri
fie to see the trouble in Kentucky won't
help matters.
The Local Institute for jefferson
College, jefferson twp. has been post
poned indefinitely.
"A voter on the fence and a cat on
the fence both puzzle you as to which
way they will jump.
Silver and gold play q prominent
part iE many elections. and in Kentucky
they are followed by lead
Another car load of Davis Sewing
Machines arrived in Butler few days
ago, shipped to w. B. McCandless of
McCaudless, Pa.
The regular quarterly meeting of
the Woman's Hospital Association will
be held in Y. NJ. c. a. Hall on Tuesday,
Feb 30. at 2:30 p NJ.
Parker has an epidemic of typhoid
fever There are half q dozen cases,
some of them serious The school board
has ordered the school house cleaned
from cellar to roof.
"A parkers Landing correspondent
wishes rs to say there is no truth in the
frr e Etrlt nl sabnJ1ae xvnrlC-
men of that place as published in last
week issue
AT next Tuesdays election there
will be some lively contests for council
IN Butler borough growing out of diff
ferences among local Democrats and
alleged deals on official positions.
Monday was Lincoln's s birthday and
next Thursday is Washington's s-both
legal holidays and it should be re-
membered that splitting rails and chop
ping cherry trees did not lessen their
value as Presidential timber.
Harry Steel Morrison, an 1S-year-
old boy. who travelled around the world
on $2j, will tell the story of his journey
in the Y. NJ G. A auditorium Satur
day evening Admission 25 and 10
cents
j. A. Elliott, of the firm of Elliott
& Co, Liberty street, Pittsburg, has
the contract for refurnishing the Lowry
House. at $1,000 Ed Weigand has the
contract for the changes to be made in
the building John Elliott is a native
of Buffalo twp and has done well in the
city.
-Lincolns birthday, which has been
made legal holiday in this and two or
three other states was observed only by
the closing of the banks. Washington's S
birthday comes next Thursday. 1t
would not be bad idea to join the Two
birthdays, and make more than we do
of it.
The white paper on which newspa-
pers are printed now costs So per cent.
more than in did in September last.
Many of our nearby exchanges are COM
PEELED to announce an increase in their
subscription price. The CITIZEN he's
not yet fallen into line. Now is the
time to subscribe at old rates
Two Butler township oil men tried
to butcher fat porker lately and this is
the way they accomplished it: Round
one. pig shot in head. but not killed.
Round two, one assassin wrestles with
pig while the other hammers pigs head
with an ak Round three, pig put out
BY sharp knife in the juglar.
Evans City voters have the follow
ing tickets to consider ON February 20:
Republican Burgess, w. Ii. Weir;
School Directors, j. D Thomas and o.
l.. Sutton; Council. Gust Griesbach and
y. J. Irvine Collector A. V. Johnston
Judge of Election, A. L. Wiehe. In
spector. ID. Garvin. Democratic Bur
CESS, Andrew VeEsel; Council. Ferd
Winner and Henry Kreiss; School Di-
rectors, c. Ferd Hyle and j. J. Helm;
Collector, a. S. Pfeifer; Auditor. W. j.
Helm; Overseer of the Poor, A. X.
Wahl: Judge of Election, Charles
Lynch; Inspector, j. W. Mckee
The annual membership contest OF