Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1904-02-04
LOCAL AND GENERAL.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Spring election next Tuesday
week
st. Valentine Day comes on Sunday
this year.
There's nothing better in this world
than usefulness.
AN innocent man breads no eye and
fears no tongue.
Red Row was unusually lurid last
Saturday evening.
while living on hope it is well to
hustle for q meal ticket
If you want 10 please shallow man
tell him be looks like an actor.
The wise woman caters to mans
stomach instead Of to his heart.
Beer makes some men fat and
others lean-against something.
Five thousand people visited the
scene Ct the Harwick disaster, last Sun
day.
Everything seems to favor the gas
man this winter, even February has an
extra day.
The grounding didn't see it. Tnes-
nav. There was no shadow when he
came ont
The harder it is to get man to
make promise the easier it is to get
him to make it good
The Producers and Re6ners Oil Co.
has moved its Office to tie Butler Couu-
ty National Bank building.
Three of the children Of Robert
Phillips of Penn twp. were taken down
. With diphtheria. last Saturday.
The Butler Brewery W sold TO
the Trust, Last Saturday. for $500. 600
These Trusts deal in big figures.
1t Is two whole years since the
Biddle boys and Mrs. Soffel took their
sleigh ride through Butler county.
The people of Pittsburg and vicini-
ty have contributed about s30,0O0 for
the relief of the Harwick sufferers.
The aggregate of the damages
claimed from the city Of Chicago for
personal fDjuries IL now over thirty
eight millions.
The wise merchant does not let mp
on bis advertising between seasons. He
realizes that then Is one Of the times
he particularly needs 1t.
"A Kansas darkey found 1t necessa-
~ ~ part with his best pair Of panta-
looms In order to raise the wherewithal
to pay his gas bill. Like Rip Van
Winkle he was VERY lucky man" to
have an extra pair Of pants.
according TO late decision by the
Secretary Of the Treasury and a board
Of tariff experts frogs legs are poultry,
and must pay duty OF 8 cents pound.
This important decision was made In a
case from the Canadian border
Boys. post this on the end Of your
nose: Boys who spend their evenings
at home with plenty Of newspapers and
wholesome books are the ones most
likely TO be wanted in the future by
business men, and in shops Of all trades
No danger Of having too much knowl-
edge, IL good use IL made Of it."
"A meat war Is on Ia Youngstown,
o. A local dealer there advertises the
following prices for first class meat:
"Chuck roast, &c; chuck steak. &c; ten
derloin steak, 10c; sirloin steak. Zoe;
lard. Sc. Other prices In proportion.
Only 10 pounds will be sold to q custo-
msr at these prices, but free delivery
II given"
The largest tree in Oregon was fell
cd recently to be sent as q curiosity to
the Worlds Fair. II is the Aberdeen
spruce. and stood nearly 200 feet high,
40 feet around and 118 feet from the
ground to the 6rst limb. It's age is cal
culsted ss 500 years, being good sized
tree when Columbus discovered the
land that was afterwards called Amer
lea.
"A writer on household problems
recently said that the way to keep boys
on the farm IL to keep the girls there,
too. The theory IL that the boys follow
the girls the same as the constitution
does the flag, and a. long as the girls
insist on going to town to live the boys
will follow. The great trouble with
our friends article ia that 1t does not
tell how to keep the girls on the farm,
and 10 we are where we were at the be-
ginning.
The cost Of the first census taken OF
the population Of the United States was
not quite t45,000. The cost Of the CEN
sus taken in 1900 was tf3.115,439. The
cost Of the first census per head Of the
population was little over 1 cent; In
1900 the average cost had risen to n
cents. The decided increase In the cost
10 explained by the great extension Of
the census and Of the details associated
with 1t.
AT It's meeting Of Tuesday evening,
the council Of Butler voted affirmative.
y on motion to instruct Its Secretary
10 prepare an ordinance. submitting tc
the electors OF the borough the ques.
kion Of changing from a borou0h to a