Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1900-02-08
LOCAL AND GENERAL,

And they made their fiddles talk;
So instead of a Mozart minuet-
They played him a rag-time walk!
Hear Remenyi sing on the 2lst.
Moving day comes on Sunday, thi
year
Loud shirt-fronts have been decree'
for 90.
Teachers Institute at Eau Claire
Saturday.
Farmers Institute at North Wash
ington, today.
The ground-hog took its mid winter
sun-bath last Friday
The gas and coalmen reap thei
crops with an icice
The key to the deadlock in Souti
Africa seems to be lost.
Butler will have shirt factory i
the girls come forward
When man has advice to give ht
is seldom stlngy with it.
Another announcement for jury
Commissioner this week
The queues are not the only queer
TILES that come from China.
The woman's suffrage and anti-co
set societies are both hard at work.
In England it isn't considered Il
compliment to mention girls bloom in
cheek
The 200, 900 British soldiers in South
Africa haye been cutting rather small
figure.
Carrying plans of war into Africa
and carrying them out are two different
things.
Getting control of the Isthmian
Canal means another big scoop for this
country.
Lent begins on Feb. %, Ash Wed
nesday, and closes on April 10, Easter
Sunday.
When two souls have but single
thought the thought seldom interests
outsiders.
The Philippines don't know when
they are licked. which indicates low
degree Of education.
When woman argues politics. il
reminds you of an old bachelor trying
to tell baby story.
If you think you would like to be q
factory girl, write your name on one OF
the lists at the stores.
1t is better for the Kentuckan to
take his three or four fingers hourly,
than to use them on trigger
The Presbyterian church of Pros
pect will have Il Valentine Social in
Odd Fellows Hall on the 18th
AS stated last week our neighbor-
ing counties are moving in the matter
of having Centennials this year
The hare is the shortest and the tor
toise the longest lived of creatures an
other argument against fast life
Valentines are blooming. Have you
seen the display made by the Patterson
Bros, next door to the Wick House.
The photographic and search-light
signals have been the only bright thing.
for the English in South Africa of late
The barrel is an important element
in politics, but the pistol and rifle bar
rel is no Improvement on the other kind
A play called ''The Miller's Daugh
ter appears in the Pennington Acade
my, Friday evening. Half the proceed.
go to the Academy.
"A Pittsburg preacher delivered /;
sermon on the 'tnew woman" N,
preacher has yet come forward will
the nerve to preach about the "old wo
man"
"A meeting of the Butler Public Lii
brary Association for the annual elec
tion of officers will be held in Y. Nj. C
A. hall on Wednesday afternoon, Feb
IA, mt $50
Parker City had lively war amon
few OF the glass house employees las
week in which two workmen are SAT-
to have attacked the boss and beatei
him severely.
M. ii. Berkimer, the undertaken
has added fifteen feet to his office, mex
door to the p. o., and as he has the er
tire basement of the building for stor
room. he now has an abundance c
room.
More School-rooms are needed i
Butler and the Board has a right to lev
bulldlng-tax up to 13 mills and furr
lsh them, but this generation has don
enough in the line of improvements an
should vote the bonds asked for by til
Directors, on the Goth.
The kramers of Oil City, the wa.
on manufacturers, have a saw mill ru,
ming on the Nj. s. Adams farm in All
gheny twp. and are taking out immens
quantities of oak for making spoke
James Linament has charge of th
work and is looking for locations fc
more saw mills at other points in Butt,
county, particularly along BuffaI
creek near Sarversville.
While reading the news from Ke,
tucky it may be well to recall tn;
chaste and beautiful poem which run
Kentucky, OH Kentucky,
The land where | was born.
Where the corn is full of kernels.
And the colonels full of corn.
a special course for Public Scho,
Teachers, at the Butler Business COLES
begins on May I. 1900, and will contini
for three months Write for particular
Watch Butler Business College ad.
this paper.
Closing out sale at The Peoples Stor
commencing Tuesday, Feb. 6; lever
thing will be sold) including dry good
blankets, underwear, hosiery, corset
urnb: elias, &C., &c.
WANTED-O or two partners wi
small capital Interest in movi,
picture machine with plenty of film