Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1890-10-24
LOCAL AND GENERAL

"A nOnbreasable comb Is out.
This is a great year for ''deadlocks.'
-~The Next Worlds Fair is the lat
est
The next legal holiday viii be Thanks
giving day.
a day.
rabbits are npenipg, and it is said
they are plentiful
The fool with the open car window is
on the railroad again
The long and dreary winter evenings
are coming on apace.
The buckwheat cake and the sausage
have linked arms.
The pig prohibition ordinance of Nil
lerstown is to be enforced.
The chestnut crop is large and the
nuts Of extra fine favor.
-Buckwheat cakes and sausages are on
the bill Of fare now.
Some of our farmers are buying young
cattle to feed through the winter.
! The paIatable news has gone forth that
oysters are remarkably good this season.
IF you happen to see an Indian sum
mer-ing in this vicinity please report him
to headquarters.
Somebody is making cat census by
simply estimating two cats for each
house.
The instincts of some society young
men are much sweller than their immedi-
ate assets.
The ice man has ceased to make his
daily visits. His customers are now ex-
Dectcd to visit him.
-Blue eyed babies are in style now, but
don't drown yours if it happens to be
brown or black eyed.
The greatest attraction of the Worlds
Fair will be the log house in which Abra-
ham Lincoln was born.
"A druggist can compound prescrip-
tion and banker can compound interest.
There's big money in both
The new lodge room of the saxonia
lodge Of Odd Fellows at saxonburg was
dedicated last Monday.
-Kesselman d Co. presented the fire
companies with $50 each, and J. G. d w.
Campbell s25 each.
Mr. Z. S. Drew, successor to the Mil
lCr Bros, has lately made extensive addi-
tions to his stock Of fine furniture. See
his new advertisement in another place.
In addition to the ornery politics pre-
valent this season, the country seems to
be afflicted with new and destructive
style oe potato rot.-Franklin Ners.
--"Rinse in cold water, inside and out
side, and at once. while cold, pour in the
boiling stuff 'D-Writes woman who has
never broken glass jar while preserving
fruit
Coming soon, the king laugh makers in
old time minstrelsy with Rice's Worlds
Far Minstiels. Stranger, greater, grander
than ever, at the Butler Opera House, Mon
day evening, Oct 27.
ACCORDING to little book lately print
ed by the Penn'a Railroad Co. that compa-
ny owns enough rolling stock to make
train 725 miles long, and employs about
10000 people.
The hotel accommodations of Butler
are to be increased by the erection of
three. story frame C0z95 on the lot opposite
the Mexican st. school house by Thomas
Hays. Mr. Chas. Stoner is to be the
landlord.
Mr.. A. NJ. Douthett will have sale Of
personal property on his farm near
Browndale on Thursday, Nov. 6, 1890.
Mr. Douthett has purchased the Burton
store in Brownsville, is now the P. NJ. Of
the town.
-Messrs. Koonce and Williams, who
have lately purchased lots of the old Bre-
din property, will erect three story brick
block Immediately, and if Wills. Reed gets
lot, as he Is trying to, they may all join
| in block.
--Four-ffihs Of the members Of the Bar
Of Warren county have declared that they
cannot support Geo. II. Higgins, Esq. the
Republican nominee for Judge. in that
county, and VIC are informed by attorneys
who know him that he il utterly unfit for
the office.
Two little newsboys Of this town, who
are brothers and who look alike, are play
ing great game When you hand one Of
them dime or quarter for a paper, he
goes OF 10 get change and does not come
back, and the next time you meet him Cn
the street he blames it on his brother.
We direct attention TO the card Of the
Country Gentleman, one Of the best agri-
cultural weeklies published in the World.
1t is high priced paper single subscrip-
tions being $3.50 year. but wo can club
il. with the CITIZEN at NJ. .2j a year for both
papers, payable in advance.
The marriage license law requires
that the minister or justice Of the peace
performing the marriage shall return n du-
plicate certificate to the County Clerks of
fee, and the other day Clerk McBlvain re-
cciyed one from Zelienoplc by mail certify
ing that a certain minister Of the county
had married Butler county to the State Of
Pennsylvania.
AT The meeting Of Council Tuesday
evening, Contractor Osborn asked to be al
lowed to quit paving for this season, but
the Council kicked--thc idea Of leaving
that mud hole be tween Jefferson and Gun
ningham Sta. is absurd. The abutmcnts
for the new FrecpCrt bridge we're talked
over and the ordinance for the construc-
tion of sewers was amended 30 "a to in
clu1e Mexican st.
Obscene posters are again under die-
cussion IN several parts Of the country, and
the following bit Of law is being published;
The following IL the section: ANY per-
son or persons, who shall put up, in any
public place, any indecent, ,lewd or obscene
picture or character, representing the
human form in nude or semi-nudc con-