Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1891-01-09
LOCAL AND GENERAL

last week.
Col. Redic requests all persons owing
. him for costs as Sheriff to call and settle as
soon as possible.
You will save the expense of buying
new drinking vessels by emptying what
water is in them at night,
If the Citizen pleases you, be kind
enough to show it to your neighbors who
i. do not take it, and ask them to add their
names to our long and appreciative list OF
patrons.
AT the meeting of Town Council, Tues
day evening, the bids for the E. Pearl and
Fulton ST. sewers were opened and the
contract awarded to e. F. Hughes at
| 81, ,935 60, be being the lowest bidder.
). Revival meetings are in progress at
the NJ. E. Church, every evening excepting
Saturday, and will continue next week.
This is also the Week of Prayer in the
Presbyterian and.U. p Churches.
Among the most dangerous specimens
of counterfeit silver dollars which has. .ever
appeared is one dated 1883 and possessed
of as good and sharp ring as the. genuine
coin. 1t is made of antimony and glass.
s.. T. Mechling and T. Cramer, of
| Butler, who will start bottling establish
ment on the Biehl Hotel property, on
Water street, have most of their machin-
cry in place and will be ready to begin
operations by the first of next week.
Kittanning Press.
AT the meeting of the stockholders Of
the Salt Mfg. Co, Tuesday, Jas W. Drape, /
J. B. Bredin, j. II. Troutman, A. P.
Kirkland, N. Black, J. NJ. Lambing, Jos.
Painter, w. w. Acheson and W. J. Cassidy |
were elected directors. The entire plant
lie to be put in operation in few days
1t is the duty of all physicians to re-
port to the schoolboards any and all cases
of diphtheria in order that the boards may
take steps to prevent the spread Of this
dread disease. A little carelessness on this
point may cost the district dearly.
Did you turn over a new leaff If SO
try to keep it urned.over, try to disprove
the poets line s:
More than hundred thousand leaves.
But few days turned anew.
Are slowly turning back again,
As every year they do.
AT the meeting of the Veteran Legion,
Monday evening, the following officers
were elected-Col. f. NJ. Eastman, LIT.
Col. W. W. Maxwell, Major. Jos. Criswell,
O. n. Geo. Shaffner; Adj. B. B. Cross;
officer of the guard J. Glenn, Serg. Henry
Korn; @. NJ. S. Reuben McElvain; Colors
W. p. Black, Guards, Geo. Beschof and
Owen Griswold. Several of the comrades
spoke, and very pleasant evening was
passed.
Under the new law the members ofthe
new board of Co. Commissioners, who went
into office the LIST of January, will each
draw three dollars and fifty cents per day,
and will be allowed necessary expenses
when attending to county business, but
will not be entitled to mileage. They will
also be required to file statement of the
work transacted each day.
A father can give his young son no
better present than years reading of the i
american. Its contents will lead
the young mind in the path of thought,
and if he treads there while, he'll forget
frivolities and be of some account, and if
he has an inventive or mechanical turn Of I
mind, this paper will afford him more en-
terment, as well as useful information, than
he can obtain elswhere Copies of Z
this paper may be seen at this Office and
received. Price, 50 year,
weekly. i
During the food of last week, the |
temporary bridge connecting Butler and
Springdale was washed away, and q man
named Beach who keeps q store and boat
house near the north pier has turned many
an honest penny rowing people across the '
creek. The Co. Commissioners have J
made arrangement for replacing the {
structure. The contracts for a
substantial iron bridge across the creek at !
that point were let some months ago, but
winter set in before the contractor for the !
piers could get them in place. He is !
having the stones for the piers quarried (
and dressed up the Shenango road.
Our Millionares and others who smoke
tobies, may be interested in hearing Of I
their origin. 1t appears that in the old
lays the drivers of the Conestoga wagons, 9
70 common years ago on our national pike.
used to buy very cheap cigars. To meet
his demand a small cigar manufacturer in I
Washington, this State, whose name is lost a
% fame, started in to make a cheap "roll-
Up" for them at four for a cent. They be-
,ame very popular with the drivers and
u first called Conestoga cigars, since, by ,
usage, corrupted into "stogies" and
'tobies," 1t is now estimated that Penn
sylvania and West Virginia produce about G
700, ,000, 900 stogies yearly, probably ell for
nome consumption.
Eggs are selling at thirty cents per
dozen here, and mighty hard to get at that.
The hens have lazy, listless way about
them that is very discouraging to the far
ner who wants to sell eggs. 1t is a diff.
:ult matter to bring the aveaage Biddy toa
proper sense of her duty in this matter.
When eggs are only ten cents dozen, she
will get up at four o'clock in the morning
10 lay an egg, then wake up the household
cackling over it in an idiotic glee. But 9
when an egg becomes precious morsel
Mrs. Biddy is not so ambitious. In spite of
iii the Establishments and shelled corn
that can be layished upon her she will pur- |,
sue her shiftless course and permit human
ty to suffer for her dolessness and eggless- .
ess.-Punxsutawney Spirit.
Sick People.
Mr.. w. II. Shanor Of Whitestown is on
the sick list.