Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1890-04-04
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| announcement column this week.
Clerks find that gray blottng pads
excel all Others
The County Commissioners fixed tht
bond OF Collector MeAboy for this year al
ta0. 900
-l:arney MuihoIland fell from IL soaf
folding at the Plate Glass " Works. Weinea
day morning and was seriously iniuted
Il doctor who disco urages nostrums
tells bis patients to take plenty of butter
lnilh and get plenty of sleep instead Of ii
spring medicine
'fIle second trial of Father Boyle.
charged with criminal assault, resulted in
verdict Of acquittal at Raleigh, N. C., on
Saturday Ilc bad been in Jail about 10
months.
1t il said that old Mr.. Miller, who
owns sixty feet front on Main St, be
tween the Berg & Cypher bnlding and the
Reiber property on the corner, was lately
offered $40. 900 cash for IT,
Some years ago one had to go to
= ittsburg for IA good baby carriage, but
now the best of them can be had in Butler.
10 hnny Stehle has al good. carriages as
one need desire
We have often wondered why the
frames of passenger ears We're not made OF
metal. and are glad to see that lot of
New York and Philadelphia capitalists
propose putting five millions into an i'm
mense plant for the manufacture Of such
cars, after the Post patent, at OF near
Bradford, this State.
The great storm of last week hrst
struck the northern part Of Indian Terrific
nv, then travelled eastward through the
southern part Of Missouri and northern
part of Arkansas, then northeast through
the northwest corner of Tennessee, nearly
the entire length OF Kentucky, and scat
tered over Ohio, West Virginia and West
ern Pennsylvania.
The knights Of Pythias had "a great
time at Evans City last Thursday night.
The installation officers began work about
3 o'clock in the afternoon, but as the new
lodge started off with forty members, and
their goat or mule, or whatever it was,
eonld carry but one at time, they did not
finish the business till nearly six o'clock
next morning.
Charles McCandless of Karns City,
brakeman on the =. & W. X. r. was killed
on the track near the depot here last Sun
day afternoon. He was helping to switch
the ears at the time, and in attempting to
Jump from one moving car to another fell
upon the track, was ran over, and killed
almost instantly. he was married, his
mother lives on North street, Butler, and
his body was taken to Sunbury for burial.
A unique oratorial contest is to come
off in pittsburg in q few months. Arrange
ments are being made by all the colleges
in Western Pennsylvania to engage in such
a contest before the end of June. Any in-
stitution is permitted to enter and there
will be preliminary contest in each
place to select representative for the
contest. Ii is very probable that Carnegie
Hall, Allegheny, will be used as battle
ground for the candidates for oratorical
honors. The contest will likely last two
days.
An exchange says the latest swindle
is carried on by means of a double toun-
tain pen, one end of which is filled with
good, substantial ink, the other with ink
that fades away in day two. The
sharper writes his agreement, contract, or
whatever particular lay he may have chos-
on, with the ink that fades, and has his
victim sign with the other end of the pen
in the ink that lasts In a few days he
has slip of paper with nothing on it but
q good signature over which he writes any
sort of note that he can easiest turn into
cash. Look out for the fountain pen
swindler for he is dangerous.
The old remark that the Americans
are q nation of colonels has lost much OF
its force, but few realize that we are rapid
ly becoming nation of Knights. Even
now you couldn't throw stone with out
hitting Knight of Labor, or Knight of
Pythias, or knight of Honor, or Knight
of the Golden Eagle, or Knight Tcmplar,
or Knight of the Silver Horn, or dozen
or SO other varieties Of Knights. Now will
some plain man arise and tell us why this
craze for Knighthood is SO prevalent Ill q
country where every man is sovereign,
and therefore vastly higher in rank than
Knight9-Eg.
An exchange says old rubber shoes,
blankets, and all such remains of worn ont
goods are now collected, and sold to
chewing gum manufacturers, who have it
melted, the fiber, old buttons, ETC., strain
ed out, the rubber SKINNED off, and with
different varieties of favoring, for various
brands of chewing gum. Old rubber shoes
from stables, shoe shops, hospitals,
drug stores, barn yards and all
places where it is thrown, accnmu
lated and found there, goes with oil its aa-
sociations of use and filth into the mouths
Of those who have fallen.into the disgust
ing habit of chewing gum at all hours,
times and places. And yet it is well that
this habit makes IL market for much
cast off matter, and this gives employment
to the many thousands who are paid for
manufacturing chewing gum. Pass the
guml
The vernal freshness of the world ut
large was well contrasted with the wiles of
a bright and deep woman at Pittsburg
last week. A lady Of good address and
presumably, dazzling beauty, by repre-
sent;ng herself as woman of means wish
ing to establish herself in Butler in the
dry goods and millinery business, got
s., 900 or $40, 900 worth of goods cut and
boxed by the big firms there, and disap-
peared just at the important time, when
the payments would be made, and the
goods shipped. She called herself Mrs
Mary McGee and said she had $53, 900 de.
posted in the Butler Savings Bank. She
secured the services of leading salesman
in q well known city firm, to take charge
Of her new store, and had Philadelphia
drummer dancing attendance ON her for a
week. She was shrewd and close buyer,
and fooled them all. What her game was
is not known, but it is evident that she be-
a a mn r;nhtnnnl and left Mithnnf making