Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1889-08-30
Most of us kick when the times are close
And business in lull.
Rut scissors grindermakes the most
When every thing is dull.

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When every thing is dull
A newspaper correspondent should re-
member that ii is bad form to speak of him
or herself in the first person plural number.
.I~ should alone be used by CORE spon-
dents.
| ON Monday of last week Mr. L. C.
Wick purchased the lime business of his
brother. " s. Wick, and now runs il in
connection with his lumber business. See
his card in another place.
The Lutherans of Prospect pcnieked at
Connell's Mills last Thursday, and during
the picnic Mrs Frazicr's horse which had
4 been tied too close to precipice fell over
it and was killed
-Messrs Blackmore & Grieb take up
considerable of our space this week with
the announcement of their ten big bar
gains They arc enterprising young men
and intend making their venture a sue
cess.
Mr.. W. NJ Nickle of the and 10 cent
store was in town, Tuesday. His business
here is so prosperous that he concluded to
employ another clerk, and the force in the
store now consists of the Misses Feigel,
Eba and Wagner
AS the season for public sales is again
at hand We wish to remind the public that
we are prepared to turn out bill on short
notice and at reasonable prices. Come to
the CITIZEN Office for sale bills and all
kinds of job work.
"A Beaver county farmer built fire
under balky team, the horses moved over
| il, the load of oats caught fire, and the
horses ran into the barnyard and set fire to
several stacks of oats, all of which were
destroyed
A X. klingensmith is building fine
house in the East End on the lot this side
of llite's Some of the rooms are to be
| finished in hard wood and the house and
stable will cost $4,000. Mr.. 4. J. Nichol-
sol has the contract
The last Legislature passed an act re-
garding assessors, which was signed Feb.
| IL, last, and the election was held under
| it; then it made radical change in the
law, signed May s, 1889, and some of the
assessors elected and sworn in, would like
to know where they stand.
1t is n fact, perhaps not generally
known, that anyone serving on an election
board, is in consequence, exempt from
duty as juror for one year and cannot be
compelled to serve. The law on the sub
ject reads: Services on an election board
exempt the party so serving from jury duty
for year"
A ''speak-easy' in the rear of one of
our stores did big business ON reunion
day, but has since be in bad plight on
account of its last customers carrying off the
key. A board walk leading to it contains
trap door opening INTO bottomless pit,
and the boys now have sign up keep off
the board walk"
At a swell party in neighboring
town, a young man remarked to one of his
lady friends that one of the strange ladies
reminded him of a spoiled negative at the
photographers. On being asked to explain
he said it was ease of "too much expos
urc and not enough development The
lady had erawled too far though her
dress.
"A good game of ball at the grounds
here last Saturday afternoon was spoiled
by some gentlemen who had bets up and
whisky down. They were little too eager
regarding the game and crowded over the
foul line, and when the manager of the To-
cal club demonstrated with them, started
a row, which, with the foul language used,
started the spectators home. Later in the
day they We're arrested and fined five dol
lars and costs, which, perhaps, will be
lesson to them
We lately made a note of the sale of
the lease of part of the Walker farm, near
Jefferson Centre at $400, an acre, but sale
made last week goes away ahead of that
\ half interest in a lease of about an acre
and half of the Montag farm, was sold to
the McCalmont Oil Co. at the rate of $1S,-
900 an acre. This included one drilling
well and everything connected with it, the
former owners to complete the well and the
new owners to pay all the bills of the sec
ond well just begun. Mrs. Kornrumph
and John Gunst of that vicinity leased 80
acres each at 81 200 bonus.
Exchanges are always malignng the
poor devil who borrows his neighbor's pa
per to get the news instead of subscribing.
Ii man is too poor to take paper (Which
is seldom the case) and still insists on read
ing that paper, it should be looked upon
as compliment by the scribes But at
the same time it is provoking for a local
publisher to become aware of the fact that
the man who borrows his paper of neigh
Dor, subscribes and pays for one of the
vile, sensational, unreliable sheets printed
at Buffalo, Elmira OF some other distant
place and sold on our streets every Satur
day.
A correspondent wants to know how
TO write a short love story. Write it like
all the rest are written. First. let your
hero fall desperately i'll love with your
heroine. Then manage to have him hit on
the head with a comet or something of
that sort. After which he will
be carried in an insensible condition to the
residence of her whom his soul loveth. In
about three weeks he opens his eyes and ex-
claim, ''where am IT. And the heroine.
who has been nursing him all the while,
will answer in sweet, soft tones, ''you are
here with me Charley, and I am so glad"
Then he rapidly RECEIVERS and they get mar
ried. You can put in the variations to
suit yourself, using either accident or sick
ness with which to PROSTATE your hero
But you must down him somehow. That
is imperative.
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