Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1889-10-18
LOCAL AND GENERAL

LOCAL AND GENERAL
job work neatly done at the CrrIzES
otice.
Tho Penn Literary Society has reor-
ganizod.
Mr.. d. II. Douthctt of Brownsville has
soli his store to Ham Burton.
Already the advertisement of the salve
for frosted feet begins TO show up in the
papers.
-Mcadville is pushing a movement to
start a shoe factory there with cash cap
ital of $eo ooo
When il thunders and lightnings on the
18th Of October, its a sign that these things
sometimes occur quite late in the fall
The next holiday to be established by
law should be sparrow Day"-a day set
apart for exterminating the pests
some OF our county correspondence
was received late this week. and had to be
cut down.
Here you, you small boy You want to
dig up a small tree somewhere, and jam it
i'm somewhere else, to-day.
Grant Ekas, Of Monroeyillc harvested
tweniy-seven and half bushels of buck
wheat from half acre
The number of drunk men seen on our
streets The past week are sure signs of a
hard winicr--for themselves and their
families
a 6ittanning paper says that the
farmers Of that vicinity are greatly pleased
with the variety Of buckwheat called the
japanese"
Those pastel portraits of Elzic Andcr-
sons two chcrubs, now on exhibition in
Boyds show-window, are about as perfect
as ono could wish for.
That was a strange suicide in the
Pittsburg Jail last Tuesday night. 4 sales
man named ". o. Way battered bis head
against the wall, till death ensued
The taxes of Butler are high, this year,
and that extra dollar for the dog is a
burden, but you don't want to kill the dog
Ii always makes the fieas mad to kill the
dog they are attached to.
"A locomotive tumbled over the r. X.
switch leading to the Ball Engine Works,
Tuesday evening, fell upon the big pipe of
Gas Go. and broke it, and that is the rea-
son you had no gas to cook your supper
with that evening
Mr.. G. Stock is kept SO busy that he
hardy knows which way TO turn, but he
found time yesterday to make a note of
his EtnaE stoves and ranges which ap-
pears in another place
We direct attention to the prospectus
Of the Country Gentleman 1t is the best
agricultural paper published, and we can
secure it for our subscribers at slightly
reduced rate.
-Mr. Campbell, Of Campbell & Murphy,
machinists Of Millcrstown; has purchased
The Berg lot On s Main St. lust below Mr..
VIM. Campbell's lot, for 50, 800, and in
tends putting up an eight thousand dollar
house. The firm Of Campbell q Murphy
were lucky in the Jefferson Centre field.
The man who comes To town early in
the morning. ties his team to "A htching
post and lets it stand there all day without
food or drink, while he buns around the
town, making an attempt to create a beer
eF whisky famine. is too mean 10 enjoy
good health Or pay for his local paper.
"A corps OF 7. Il. Il. engineers has
been surveying line up Buffalo creek and
through Rough run. II is thought the
route Of the Batter branch will be changed
as a much better grade can be obtained BIZ
continuing along Big Buffalo ami thence
mp the run, to interaect the other route at
or near Great Belt
some cotton and flannel goods, and
winter oloaks, that Ritter & Ralston had
ordered from New York, were caught in
somewhat damaged These have been re
eeived by the firm, have been placed on
tables IN the second tory Of their building,
and are now offered for sale See notices
q Great Wet Goods Sale in other columns.
Tho Batter County Medical Society
held a grand, good meeting at DIR. Nev-
man Office, last Tuesday afternoon. The
paper read BY Dr. Logan of Saxonburg on
rheumatism and the discussion that fol
lowed was the feature of the days proceed
ings. Several applications for member
ship were received; the Society is GROWING
and every physician in the county should
belong TO il.
The Opera House was crowded, Tues
day night, and it is estim ated that from
eight TO nine hundred persons were in it.
The attraction was "The Kinderrarten'
musical comedy given by company or.
ganized in Fo storia, o., and all who saw
snd heard it here were well pleased Nh
4 J. McCandless is making very success.
fnl manager of the Opera House. He Sc
cures the best attractions on the road and
will have none other.
Who is w. NJ. Mic kle.