Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1883-10-24

the 2;29 train.
Monday Nov. 9Th, next will be the last
day for the filing of accounts at the Regis,
"A boy named Clawson, was crushed by a
hand,ear loaded with cinders, on the West Penn
track near Freeport last Monday.
-Waring. Lister and Homestead Phosphate
j. Nigel BRO, Agents, Butler, Pa
The sudden change in the weather has
had the effect of wakening folks to the necessi-
ty of looking out for coal, stoves and blankets.
The winter term of the Normal
School, Edinboro, opers December 4th.
No gunpowder, guns or pistols can be sold
to boys under sixteen years of age, under the
penalty of three hundred dollars fine. Store
keepers should keep this in mind as the sport
ing season comes on.
Days Soap has been introduced with mark.
ed success. Everywhere where its merits have
been tested it has made numerous friends. 1t
is indeed the ladies' friend and companion.
Some person or persons have been "shov-
ing the queer in this town lately. We were
shown, yesterday, a very well executed silver
dollar, but it is little darker than the genu-
inc and is of lighter weight.
Send or leave your order for Sewing Ma
chine, OF any make, at Z. Grieb's JeRelry store
We advise our citiAenJ to remove every
kind Of decayed vegetable matter, weeds, etc.,
from their gardens, otherwise they will de-
velop malaria. Too much attention cannot be
paid to sanitary precautions at this season of
the year.
-Hoyt & Denison of Millerstown, purchased
from ID. L. Agnew, agent, the Gaily property
in the Bullion district The property consists
of1O acres with IL wells at one-eighth ROYALTY,
aud daily production of from rs to 50 barrels.
Corn huskiDgs are not liable to ripen to
any considerable extent in this section this
fall, the crop having been cut off by the frost
But the spelling school, singing school, and
donation party yet remain.
MIR. A. o. Hepler, of Oakland township
killed three gray squirrels with one rifle shot
the other day. Mr.. III. and some other gentle
men intend hunting deer in Forest county
soon.
The concert given by the Germania Orches-
ira. last Thursday night, was but slimly at
tended, and the Orchestra is out about forty
dollars on it. Our people don't seem to ap-
preciate good music.
The Conneaut0iHe Courier says there is no
foundation whatever for the terrible story re.
garding Jud. Moore, and that he is now en-
ployed in an Office in Minneapolis, MINI.
where he has been ever since he went West.
When you pass Charley Grieb's store stop
and examine that window trimmed with gents,
furnishing goods, the handsomest made in the
country, and if Charley and Lou. can't trim
window, who can?
This is the season when stoves of all kinds
are in demand, and our readers should remem.
Der that Fl. Biehl & Co., keep on hands COM
plete stock of al kinds of stoves-cooking,
heating, parlor and Office. The handsomest
and best soft-coal parlor heaters in Butler can
be found at Biehps.
"A good many boys went out last Sunday to
commune with nature and look for nuts, and if
next Sunday is pleasant the same programme
Is liable to be enacted. Sunday school man
ayers should begin to talk about Christmas fes-
tivites, or else excuse the boys for two or three
Sundays.
We notice in several of our exchanges that
"the nickel three cent pieces must CO." We
hope SO, and the sooner the better, for they are
real nuisance to business men. Being SO near
the size of dime the greatest care is necessary
to distinguish one from the other.
A leading factor among the young people
at any commdnity lies in the organization of
literary societies. If properly conducted they
afford means of mental improvement not to be
otherwise obtained. Organize literary societies.
Says a practical fruit grower. Zone davis
work at trimming in September or October
may be worth three in winter or early spring.
Large wounds made after the sap begins to
flow in the spring rots back to the heart,
Trim all trees and vines when the leaves be-
gin to fall, or as soon as the fruit ripens.
The United States Supreme Court has de-
olared the Civil Rights act passed by Congress
in 1875 to be unconstitutional, excepting in the
territories and District of Columbia. This is
propably the only civilized nation on earth
that allows its Judiciary to annul the acts of
its legislature.
1t takes our U. s. Supreme Court long
time to find out whether or no an act of Con-
seess y Gpnattitational: Where the Supreme
Judiciary is part Of the law making power as
Is the case both in this State and Nation, it
seems to us that they should examine all acts
OF the legislature or of Congress, before the
Governor or President signs them.
Last week we happened to meet several
yonng men from about Harmony at the P. &
W. depot here, who were returning from a
hunting trip up in Forest and Clarion counties.
They had with them a number of very fine and
t.rrge black squirrels. They say the squirrels
Up there are all black, and are commonly call
ed fox squirrels.
The strike at the Dubois coal mines still
continues, but nobody has been hurt nor is
likely to be unless the operators attempt to
start the mines with imported labor. One of
the leading business men of the town OF
DUBOIS, which is new town in Clearfield
county, is Mr.. John Dubois, after whom the
town is named. He employs six hundred men
in his lumber mills, one thousand get timber
from the woods and six hundred are mining
coal for him. He offers to erect court house
and public buildings if new county is made
fparts of Clearfeld, Elk and Jefferson coun.
ties, called Dubois. Our former townsman
Harry Wilson, has, with some other gentle
men, started paper there, called the Dubois
Express. The name of the firm is Hoag. VII.
son y Co. We wish them success i.