Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1904-02-18

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LOCAL AND GENERAL.
-Pneumonia is the next terror.
Now is the time to buy thin
goods-cheap.
IF" is tie awkwardest letter in the
English language to write.
The master painters have rejected
the new scale proposed by the journey
men.
j. G. & w. Campbell are making a
speciality of the Cyphers Incubator.
See card
The banks and oil exchanges will
be closed next Washington e
birthday.
The mercury was ten below zeru
election morning and some of the can
didates were frozen ont
Seventeen hundred and ninety-five
electors Of Butler went to the polls,
Tuesday-a very cold day.
"A mo loafing" sign has been put
up in the postoffice. 1t ought to be
translated into about twenty foreign
languages.
There is war between the Mormons
and this Dowieitss, and the latter are
preparing to invade Salt Lake City with
5000 men next summer.
People who want to follow the war
In China and Korea will have to get
new maps, as the names on the old and
new ones are dissimilar.
The Commissioners notified the
foreigners applying for aid, last week,
that they would have to go to the Poor
farm, and that stopped it.
An irreverent reporter calls the
new game Of finch Methodist poker. p"
That is about equal to the old nickname
for croquet. "Presbyterian billiards"
The battleship Missouri has discov-
cred that she has gan which will hurl
shells fifteen miles, and also that she
has no excuse for hurling them so far.
1t is leap year and we know lot Of
old bachelors who are combing up and
smiling sweetly under the delusive hope
that soma fair maid will propose to
them.
up to Saturday night one-huncred
and sixty five bodies had been removed
from the Harwick mine, near Cbeswick,
snd those remaining are buried by fall
ing slate.
III You are nervous and irritable,
can't sleep at night have bad taste in
your mouth, and constant feeling Of
dread. it isn't grip. It's an nupaii sub
scription bill. Just consult the tab on
your paper.
The Commissioners have fixed the
tax rates for this year at 81 mills for
County and II mills for poor purposes
--or mills in ala reduction of II
mills from last year.
"A Missouri jury has acquitted a
man Of boodling, because the only wit
nesses against him were men who ad-
United that he had bought their votes,
and the jury declined to believe men
who sold their votes. But if it did not
believe them, how did it know they
had sold their votes2
Lots of people are getting their eye
teeth cut just now as to the methods
snd practices Of sick and accident in
surance association several of whom are
svoiding claims. made numerous by the
late epidemic. through any PLAUSIBLE
loophole in their complicated contracts.
The best sick and accident insurance Ii
. regularly added to bank account.
Reports Of large orders being placed
with our Steel Car Co. come under the
head Of Ito good to be true" The or
ders will probably come. but the rail
road companies will not likely place
them until after spring opens and they
get an idea Of what they will need
The great demand. this year, will u
for passenger coaches to accommodate.
the travel between the centres OF popu
lation and st. Louis.
The song recital and elocutionary
entertainment, to be given by the Ep
worth League, of the N. e. church
promises to be the best thing Of it
kind given in Butler this season. BE
ddes c. N. Hasler, baritone, Hinnial
Yuille. tenore. and Mrs. Hasler. pianist
Miss Mabel Wright, Of Kings School o
Oratory. has been secured. Miss Wrigh
has taken three medals at her Aim
Mater, the juvenile, undergraduate AM
graduate medals.
The first contract for the recon
struction of road under the new roa.
law was given By State Highwa,
Commissioner Hunter at Harrisburg
last Thursday, Crawford county ha
the honor of having secured the COZ
tract which II for the building OF tn
road from Titusville to Hydetown.
distance Of 7.70S feet. and was awarded
to Frederick obinson Of Meadville o
bis lid Of eli, ,540.20.
j. Lang is completing his ne'
brick bakery in the rear OF his store q
West and Waters SITS. and will 400
smhArk in tha wholesale bakery business
The Butler Builders Supply Co.
building at the corner of West an
Bluff Sts. large artificial stone war
house and stable. These, with the ne
two-story Butler Steam Laundry, ad
greatly to that corner of the city.
The Pennsylvania live stock breet
ers met in Pittsburg. last "Wednesday
to discuss their affairs. and one Of IL
subjects brought mp was the need Of
State Fair. One speaker remarked thl
Pepnsylvania is 80 years behind 9th,
progressive States in this matter. ar
the blame seemed to be laid at the do
OF the Pennsylvania Agricultural Soci
ty, which has been in existence lor
time. The stock breeders of this Sta