Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1890-09-26
LOCAL AND GENERAL

The scar and yellow leaf
Next holiday: Thanksgiving.
-Harvest moon: September osth-
Lawn mowers are still on the 60.
Able bodied idlenees is shame
The harvest moon fuils Sept. g.
Oct. il the last day to pay poll tax
Ones home is ones best winter resort.
Days and nights are now of equal
length.
Look cot for bad twenty dollar silver
certificates.
Etiquette now demands that all ladies
shall take off their hats-whentieygoto-
bed.
The cold weather has started the chit
dren taking about Christmas.
The oil-producers of Butler Co. viii
meet in Reibe. 5 Hall, this evening.
Somebody says that the hornets are
building high and small, sure sign of
mild winter
One family in this town put up $50
quar.s OF elde-berrics this season, and they
don't keep ho.el, either.
The Low.y House is putting on style.
The propriesors put $500 Cincinnati
II ~ l.:s lac
A new town in the Huudred-foot
erritory is~credited with five houses and
sixteen bottomless mud-holes. Its name
il McGinty.
The way those elephants and lions
growlcd about orr streets was caution,
and they didn't become good -natured and
begin laughing till Ritter got off joke on
the tgo-humped camel.
Unless we have a month or six weeks
more Of fine weather, and unless Con
tractor Osborne pu.s two or three hundred
men on that part Of the street that he has
excavated, il VII not be paved before Win.
ter and then everybody VIII be wanting to
hang the Town Council.
The houses Of Louis Giieb and Robert
Turner. who live on s. Mexican ST. near
the school house, were entered while they
were at the show "Wednesday night, aud
robbed Of watches, jewelry and money,
amounting in all to value Of about three
hundred dollars
Il girl.tbouehtlessly told friend that
the names of The donors would not be dis
PLAYED with the presents at her wedding.
OF course the news got abroad, aud when
the day came not even the presents were
displayed Taey consisted Of % plated
sugar spoons and 10 salt spriuklers.
Il school teacher IL authority for the
assertion that pupils who feve eecess to
newspapers at home when csmpAlcd with
those who have no, p'o better readers,
better spoilers, better gramme 'aus, excel
IN pronunciation ard read more under.
StanJlugly, and oblein q good Knowledge
Of geography Ia almost half the time II
reauirce others
Nothing opens 40 wide door 10 vice,
10 crime, 10 evil hahltA Of every description |
az the abacnee Of occupation, The down
ward course Of many pFomlAing youth.
tho iun of many hopeful lie, may be
distinctly traced to the void eeuaed by |
having nothing 10, do, The faor'tlea must
DO at work, and II not employed for COED
they viii he foF evil,
--Coopcr's big "ForepauEh" show that |
waa here "Wednesday employs four hun |
drcd and fty peonle, each ono Of whom
has his or her particular duties to attend
10, Managing big show " Ike manag
ing an army; the manager must DO man
of great oxecutiys ability, aud bis lieuten- |
ants must bc truaty aad intelligent men.
The expenses Of tais show average over
10000 a day, IT came here rom Kittan-
ming, held forth at Washington. Pa, Thurs
day, Ia at Uniontown to-day, win be at
Cumberland Tomorrow, and win then
strike down through West Virginia, Ken
lucky and Tennessee and end the season at
Richmond. Va, on the 1st Of November
THIS show had good audiences here, and
everybody was pleased with 1t. We are
under obligations TO Mr.. W. X. Peck,
press agent, for favors.
1t Il now stated in railroad circles that
the Baltimore and Ohio road has secured
control of the Allegheny anG Shenango,
and with the assistance Of other lines, will
form a route to Buffalo shorter than the
Allegheny Valley by 30 miles The Pitts
burg and Western win be used to Butler,
the Allegheny and Shenaugo to Mercer,
from thence the road will be extended to
Franklin, where it will connect with the
Western New York and Pennsylvania,
making the route to Buffalo go miles long.
cring Of late between the Baltimore q Ohio
and Pittsburg and Western Is now made
clear. The ID. Il o. has been anxious to
get iuto Buffalo and the oil regions.
Through the Valley and The =. a. w. it has
good line TO the lekcs. The new COM
bination win give Pittsburg another outlet
to the North. and viii be of great assis
tance to local industries particularly the
coal trade.-Piits burg Dispatch.
There are some things about the quaint
old town Of Harmony that you do not
notice by merely driving through H.. The
two wine cellars under the old brick houses
at the corners Of the square must be seen
TO be appreciated. They are both about
fifteen feet deeD. The one uuder the build
ing now occupied by DR.. Redmond, is
about 80 feet long by 20 wide aud the one
under The building now occupied by Mr..
Silver is lutte smaller. They are neatly
fioored with stone, and their ceilings are
some arches that will probably stand as
long as this portion OF the Earth's surface
remains infac-. They were built by the
Harrnonitcs at least eighty years ago. aud
they are to day as perfect as they weIc
when just completed. OF the old brick
houses. around the square, all are In a
good state Of preserva ion, excepting the
front Of the one occupied by Mr.. Silver