Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1890-10-03
LOCAL AND GENERAL

| No more plcnles ior tnls year
Wasp waists are no longer fashiona
BILE.
| Now take up your mating and pu
down carpets.
The Almanacs summer ended last
Saturday, week.
Every paper you pick up nowadays re
cords an attempt at train wrecking.
The buckwheat crop is good and there
are said to be plenty of chestnuts.
Rents in Butler are nearly as high a
those in the clouds.
The barn of Nicholas Hoover of Buffa
10 twp. was destroyed by fire last week.
The newest Congress gaiter, especial.
adapted for kicking, is called the Kilgore
| West Sunbury town is now Wes
Sunbury, P. o., aud not Coultersville a
heretofore.
Some of the township schools have al
ready opened and the rest will open lex
week
The frost of last Saturday night endet
the beauty OF most flower and plant beds
and ripened the 5uckwheat
The proprietor of the Hosiery Mill al
Freeport wants fifty girls to learn the
| trade
| A Butler county horse thief was az
rested at Parker, last week, by Constable
| Borland.
| What good news 1t is announced
that the cranberry crop, from Cape Cod t.
Cape May is the largest and best for years.
The eighth reunion of the 18th Regi
ment Association will be held at Kittan
ming on Thursday Oct. go.
The papers are again talking of the
proposed New York and Chicago "Air
line" railroad, and We suppose it will be
built some day.
The Mutual Gas Co.'S new pipe to their
Winfield twp. well was completed last
week and is said to have cost the Company
s6o, 600
The Pittsburg papers report an unusual
quantity of counterfeit notes in circulation.
The two-dollar silver certificates seem TO
be the most numerous.
Gilmore Campbell, son of the widow
Campbell of Lincoln Way, Butler, died
suddenly in Pittsburg last Sunday. and
was brought to Butler, Monday
The Chinese feast OF the moon occur
red on Saturday. As the moon itself re-
fused to join in the festivities a year of
misfortune is the Chinese outlook.
Mr.. r. b. Taylor has sold his stock in
the Butler County National Bank, and
Hon. Jos. Hartman of Millerstown has
been elected President of the Institution.
The Anti-Tobacco AMI Temperance
Society will hold its annual meeting at
Horace Glenu's, on Friday evening, Octo-
Der 10, 1890, at O'Clock. All are cor
daily invited. BY the President
The School Board of Middlcsex twp.
has struck a "pay- streak" and intends build
ing six new school-houses Immediately
See notice to contractors, in another
place.
A shoe dealer says that tie inside of
ha rp1a Of eka I. Il
sionally, with a solution of aqua ammonia
applied by a sponge fixed on a wire-a
very good idea.
The ''slang box" occupies prominent
place in many homes, and into it penny
or nickel is dropped by the offender for
each slang expression used. 1t is very
noticeable fact that the women contribute
the greater part of the slang money
The County Teachers Institutes for
this section of country will be held as
follows: Butler, Dec. Is; New Castle,
Dec. 10; Mercer, Dec. Is; Beaver, Dec. 90;
Meadville, Dec. 90; Indiana, Dec. %;
Franklin, Dec a. Greensburg, Dec. Is.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
announces that after September 22d, the
Cresson and E1ensburg special which per
formed the service between Pittsburg and
Ebensburg Saturdays only, leaving thf
former at 2:55 p. m. and reaching Ebens
burg at $40 p. m, will be discontinued.
While w. E. Stevenson and his family
of Centre township, W ere in town, show
| day, their home was entered and ran
sacked and robbed of small sums of money
laid away in three places. The houses o.
Calvin Robb, Jas. Mccullough and -
Acre, in the same neighborhood, were en-
| tered the same day
| "A Mission under the direction of the
Passionist Fathers, Timothy and William,
will commence in st. Paul's Catholic
Church of this place, on Sunday 0ctobel
5th 1890, and will close on the following
Sunday evening. Services at 5, and {
a. m. daily also at p. m. Every one ii
cordially invited to attend.
And now it is rumored new organi
cation is in progress entitled the "SoEs o
Rest" The principal rule of the order i
that anyone caught with perspiration upor
his brow shall be fined 4-cent paper o
smoking tobacco and clay pipe for us,
of all its members. A continued repetition
of the offense results in expulsion.
Mr.. Abraham Martin, of Oakland TIP.
has the largest colt ever known to be raise,
about here. 1t is but two years and fly,
months old and weighed last Saturda,
| 1,600 pounds. Mr.. Martin had it in hi
team and its immense size attracted atten
ton. 1t worked like on old horse, wa
shod all around, and is half Percheron.
Some strange stories were told at th
meeting of oil producers, the other even
ing 1t was as serted that the Standard
paying some men as high as $50, 900 a yea
to stay out of the refining business, and
one producer told of man up in Warrer
or Bradford county who tapped a larg,
tank belonging to the Standard and stol,
thousands of barrels of OIL and the Stand
ard dropped the prosecution of him il
Court rather. than produce its books.
| The Natural Gas Co. has notified il
customers that on and after Nov. 1st mex
its charges will be as follows-Cook stove
$2.75, discount 25, net $3.50; first heate
s2.47, I'd 2.2O, Sd I.92, 4th l.65 and tn