Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1889-09-06
LOCAL AND GENERAL

job work neatly done at the CITIZEN
Office
III he is reasonably drunk, says an ex-
change, elixer; if very drink, ''Shelixim."
"A white man and colored woman took
ont license to marry in Pittsbnrg, Tues
day.
1t used To take the Harmony Fair TO
bring rain, but the Nillerstown Fair seems
TO be an equally good magnet
The barns Of Robert Sims Of Six Points
and Albert BARLEY Of Clinton twp were
lately destroyed by fire.
-Apropos Of school, teachers will like
To know that lamp black and benny -clabber
mixed, paint blackboard beautifully
Mr.. J II. Graham, assignee of George
NJ. Graham has sold the store in Whites
town TO the Wright Bros. Of Prospect.
The bank clerks had two Sundays this
week, and that's all Labor Day amounted
20 i'm Butler.
&c. r. Tadder, j. NJ. Greer Efie Put
man and two children Of Valentine Poff Of
MiIlerstown are down with typhoid fever
some of the water wells in Evans City
have been ruined by saltwater from the
oil wells Of the vicinity.
Several items regarding the droth had
to be eliminated from our proofs this week
The weather is one thing that a weekly
newspaper man dare not write about.
Several columns Of new ads. grace the
columns Of the CITIZEN this week, and peo-
pie coming to the Fair want to read every
zone of them.
Some men raised a row in McCreas
restaurant last Friday night, and their
fnes next day replenished the boro. treas
ury To the extent Of $40.
All the heirs, in this county, Of the
Harlem estate in New York city. are to
meet their attorney from that city, at the
Lowry house in this town, next Thursday.
The one fifth interest in the VIM. G..
Duncan farm In Middlesex twp. was sold
by the administrators last Wednesday for
1855.
Corn festivals, at which the great
American vegetable is served in every
form excepting corn whisky, are the latest
form az entertainment.
The members Of Rev Smalrs churches
of Petrolia and Rrnin will hold a bush
meeting in Flctcher's woods, beginning
next Tuesday.
The women are now wearing their
bnstles ON their shoulders and the Lord
only knows where they will wear them
next.
Jupiter may have been occulted by
the Moon, Tuesday evening but as both
dodged behind a very black cloud, the per
fcrmancc wasn't visible in Butler
Harry Chapel, the well known Will
Transport Florist, attended the annual
meeting Of the Society Of American Flor.
lists lately held at Buffalo.
Two PittsburT gentlemen have pur.
chased a controlling interest in the Bottle
Works here. the Company has been rcor
eaniscd and work will be resumed next
Monday.
A woman sent to the penitentary for
perjury, from Clarion county last week,
weighed $50, and tell you, three hundred
and titty pounds Of perjury - pretty big
lump.
Rev. Jos. kcmpcr. son Of Joseph
kcmpcr. Sr of Butler, read his first mass
In the German Catholic Church of this
town, last Sunday. Ills official name IL
Father Peter
AT the regular meeting of Council,
Tae~lay evening. little was done worth
noting. Some bills were passed, some
nuisanccs ordered abatcd, four special po.
licr foe Fair time were appointed. and
somc hoard walks ordered.
john u. iiaincr of Boston, who had rel
at'vcs in this county, committed suicide
last Tuesday by jumping from steamer in
Narraranscu Ray The paddles struck
him Ani he was drowned.
Mr.. Henry Richl cordially invites all
visitors to Butler during Fair time or any
other time, To call aud see his new hard
ware store. at The old number ON Main ST.
He has rcht,ed the old store room, and has
purchased an immense stock of stoves,
ranges, hardware aud house furnishing
goods, and he manufactures all kinds Of
unwarc. For the past few days his entire
force has been busy making the steam pine,
for the new salt works He also han die.
all kinds Of agricultural implement
wagons. aud the celebrated STANDARD sew
ing machines. His Sunshine" ranges
cant he beat Ills store is a vcrtable cm
p"rium Of useful articles, aud should be
seen by everybody in the county.