Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1890-11-21
LOCAL AND GENERAL

Eggs grow scarceI.
Colder weather coming
There are black suspenders.
Patent pill almancs are ready.
November meteOrs are meetin'.
There's call for canned goods.
Hens seem to be taking holiday.
Hog killing has begun in the country
The rain keeps on laying the dust.
Hush.
"A few otogenarian flies are yet seel
indoors.
Glade Run and vicinity is annoyed BY
"foot- pads"
Shoe salesman are out with summel
samples.
"A red fox was lately shot and killed
near Greece City.
You havn't heard much talk about {
street sprinkler for Butler lately.
Christmas comes ON Thursday, this
year, next Thursday four weeks.
Everybody is in 1.-THE midland the
teams about Butler are being ruined.
Christmas dollars are already flying
the sweet buy and buy time is here.
Hush.
The ladies of the South Side Reform.
ed Church will hold festival in the church
building tomorrow evening.
A horse belonging to a livery
barn in Butler was stolen from stable in
the Glade Run district few nights ago.
Butler county polled $500 votes this
Fall-a little less than the one-hundredth
part of all the votes polled in the State.
The narrow guage. rails between But-
Ter and Gallery are being taken up. All
the transferring is now done in Butler.
Time heals all wounds. Republicans
and Democrats are again speaking to each
other as they pass by
Breckenridge d Co. have determined
to open stone quarry on the Shearon
property near Branchton.
The Government is sending troops to
Dakota in anticipation of an Indian out
break.
-Four Pittsburg men are going to
Africa to traverse Stanley's route, inst to
see whether or no he is telling the truth.
If DR.. Koch's discovery is a success.
we will hereafter be vaccinnated for con
the same as for small pox.
"A tramp who was arrested at Scran-
ton, Pa, last Saturday, says be helped rob
a store at Zelienople, some years ago.
Hush.
The Pennsylvania Medical College at
has sent man to Berlin to
attend DR.. Koch's lectures ON his cure for
The store room of l. Rosenberg, the
merchant tailor, was entered by rear
window and robbed of five coats, two pair
of pants and an overcoat, last Sunday
night.
Report has it that new and cheaper
method of refining oil has been discovered,
that Company with fifteen millions of
capital has been formed, and that one of
its refineries will be built in Butler
-Messrs r. S. Nichols and L. NJ. Hew-
lit have desolved partnership, and Mr.
Nichols has formed another with II. W.
Young and Geo. W. Ziegler, .Jr. in same
business.
Every now and then an Y appears on
the marriage license docket, for a mans
name, which makes one think that no man
should be allowed to marry who cannot
write his name, and no man should be al
lowed to vote who cannot read.
AT the meeting of Council Tuesday
evening the contract for the Centre avenue,
Springdale, sewer was awarded to the OFT
brothers of Pittsburg at $5367 90. The
next lowest bid was that of Hughes,
$59l0.4O, and the highest was $763s. 40.
Since Rev. Bell has taken charge of
the M. Il. Church in Butler, sixty men,
bers have been added to the church roll.
The members of the church will vote on
the question Of admitting women to the
General Conference as lay delegates, next
Thursday evening-Thanksgiving.
A portrait in oil that has been attract
ing much attention of late is in the parlors
of Mr.. and Mrs. W. " Hardman of N
Main st. 1t is a life size painting of Mrs
Hardman and is the work Of Mr. Hiram c.
Wertz, of Greensburg, son-in-law of Mr..
and Mrs. Hardman. 1t is much admired
by those who are fortunate to get a view
of it.
AT the meeting of citizens OF the South
Side last Thursday evening, l.. p Perrine
was elected President, J. III. Harper and
George Shaffner Vice Presidents, Fred
Klingler Secretary and L. G. Wick Treas
urer of their Improvement Co. A Consti-
tuition and code of Bylaws were then
adopted and the meeting adjourned till
this evening.
The people of Butler with sons and
daughters possessing elocutionary or
oratorical talents are pleased that Miss
Mary Ayres has consented to give lessons
in Elocution. Her work is too well known,
here and elsewhere, to need the endorse
ment of that eminent authority Byron W.
King, of Pittsburg but his statement that
he will allow pupils of Miss Ayers a dis
count in time at his school will commend
itself to the coming speakers and elocu-
tionists of this town.
We publish, this week, the prospect
of the world famed publications of Harper
d Brothers of New York, and we will club
them with the CITIZEN at the following
rates-CITTzEN and Harper's Magazine, one
year $3.50, CITIZEN and Harper's Weekly,
one year $40, CITIZEN and Harper's Ba-
Ear, one year $40, CITIZEN and Harper's
Young People one year SO, plus 10 cents
for postage and money order, and payable
in advance.
Hush.