Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1901-03-07

Don't care;
Rip! Swearl
Take pills;
Docs bills.
This will be great year tor fruit
and grain if
Both the keg and the barrel are now
In politics in Kansas.
These new stars come high but the
Astronomers must have them.
Experience is dear teacher. unless
you learn by the experience of others
After man gets married he has
more things to have nightmare about.
"A new star in the Milky Way has
lately been discovered by an American
astronomer.
Congress broke both the Sabbath
and the record, last Sunday, and the
next day it rained.
"A billion-dollar steel strust shows
what our nillionaires can do when they
got ON their mettle.
School No. Clinton twp is closed
this week on account of the sickness of
O. FL. Grabe. the teacher.
-Pape's auction was concluded last
Saturday, bat the closing out sale will
continue during the month
-Pape Bros. Jewellers, have discon-
tinued their auction and will sell their
remaining stock, away down. See adv.
The South Penn seems 10 be taking
some stock in the Specify. Five dol
lars an acre for one year lease is no
joke.
"A Christian Scientist with the jump
ing toothache. but still preserving a
calm. unruffied exterior, would furnish
about as striking an example OF faith
as one could imagine
The total receipts of the Penn'a r.
r Co on all its lines, east and west of
ibbcDulS, lOI lUOO. WcIc plt~s O~fY 100,
and the net earnings were $54, 4,O75, $50,
making it the strongest r. r. Co in the
world
An exchange reports an old farmer
as making this statement: THE hog is
the mortgage litter, the sheep the farm
fertilizer, the COW the barn builder and
the hen the grocery bill payer. This
quartet with man and woman not
afraid Of the work in caring for them,
will insure prosperity on any farm.
-Freeport has a sensation Charles
d. Ludwick, assistant cashier of the
bank there, walked down to Butler
Junction last Sunday evening, sent his
wife goodbye note, jumped on train
and left for parts unknown. The books
Of the bank are being examined, and the
directors say the whole defalcation will
not excesd $1,000.
Every now and then you hear of
fellow, with soft spot in his head, get
ting caught One of our fly young men
lately sent a dollar for a book that
every dead-game sport should have,
and few days after received by mail
small-print edition of the new testa-
ment. that he could have purchased at
book store for ten cents
AT the first meeting of the new coun-
Gil Monday evening, J. c. Burckhalter
was chosen chief of the fire department
and Geo. J. Noullet, street commission
er. The old organization was continued
with the salary of the Secretary and
Solicitor fixed at $3.50 per year; the
Treasurer's bond at $4,000, and the
salary of the Street Comm'r. $40 per
month.
Saturday evening Co. L, 10th N. G..
p, 80 strong, under Capt. John Martin
and First Lieut.. Thomas Mckee started
for the Inauguration of President Nc
Kinley at Washington. Cos. B of
Meadyille, NJ of Grove City and K of
Greenville went on the same train. Co.
L had So members and loaned few
men to the other companies which are
not SO strong The boys had to provide
their own rations for the trip.
Monday night of last week thief
entered Frank Fleeger's store at Jami-
sonville and took $1S worth of jewelry,
some shoes, sugar, coffee and groceries
of all sorts. Fleeger post Office is in the
store. A few stamps were taken but
the mail was pot tampered with. Sus-
picion rests on man who was seen in
the neighborhood that evening The
mitted by but one person, because train.
men. before midnight, saw the tracks
of one person leading TO and from the
store. In the morning the tracks were
covered with snow.
Pennsylvania had as many troops
in line ut Washington, Monday, as all
the other states together-S000 Co. +
arrived there, Sunday noon, and were
taken to the Armory of the Washington
Light Infantry, large four-story build
ing, where the 10th Reg slept on the
floor of the basement, while severa
other regiments occupied the Other
floors. On Monday they were called
out st 10 am, and were lined up on one
of the streets east of the Capitol wher,
they stood in the rain during the Inaug
uration, or until about 3 pm, wher
they Joined in the parade and marched
to the west end of the town, and go
back to the armory at about p M. we
and cold, and some Of them came bacl
limping with the rheumatism. 60. I
left Washington, Tuesday evening, ant
were here yesterday morning.