Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1891-07-24
LOCAL AND GENERAL
Have you muzzled your growlerf

this year.
The South Side Water Co. has pur-
chased the Acheson property for $1,000.
The angler first lies in wait for his
catch, and then lies in weight of his catch.
The blackberry crop is immense this
year, and considerable cordial will be put
up.
Butler has halt dozen of the best
equipped livery stables in this part Of the
State.
An idol collector in San Francisco
who has just died. had collection of 500
gods.
If everybody took up as much room as
he thinks he does, somebody would be
crowded off the earths surface.
When the present contracts are COM
pleted Butler will have about two miles of
brick k-paved street
-Messrs McClung and Scott have con-
tinued the big sewer pipe down therun be-
tween their properties.
The Worthington wooden factory pur-
chased twelve thousand pounds of wool in
Indiana county at 33 cents pound.
w Miffin st. is having an boom
Messrs Jos. Elliott, Ferd Feigel, and VIM.
Meter are building houses fronting it.
A new pest, in the shape of worm
which eats off the potatoe vines close to
the ground, has arrived in some localities.
Two cats in front of one cat; two cats
be hind one cat; one cal. between two cats.
How many cats represent the above august
assemblage.
1t is only slip from the sneeze to the
grip, and pneumonia is not far away: next
potions and pills to correct the said ills,
and doctors charges to pay.
A plate glass window in the residence
of Mr.. D. Osborne on the South Side, re-
fleets view of the greater part of the
town, when the sun is shining
-Messrs. Ash & Hazlett of Evans City
rodded the W. E. Reed house on n. Main
street, this week, and made a handsome
job of it.
Here is a valuable hint to housekeep-
Corks should be boiled and placed in the
bottles while heated.
The biggest bud in Butler at present
is on the stump Of a banana tree in AL
Heck's yard. 1t is about foot long and
is of purple color.
The reservoir water has lately been
unfit for cooking purposes and as there is
no necessity for such state of affairs we
think the Company is risking its charter
rights in persisting in it.
Persons who make themselves as mis-
erable as possible by fussing about the hot
weather should remember that it is much
better than none at all. No matter how
high the temperature comes, we've got to
have it. This is the cold truth
The American people consume annual
ly about 200, 900, 900 pounds of oatmeal,
and the American mills export to England
and Scotland above $4,000, 900 pounds.
Akron, Ohio, is the headquarters of the
oatmeal business.
The ladies of the Butler W. c. T. Z.
will hold a festival in their rooms in the
Reiber building on Friday and Saturday
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invited to be present and help the good
cause along.
| "A new remedy suggested for an aching
tooth or for neuralgia starting from tooth
is to apply bit of cotton saturated
with ammonia to the defective tooth.
Those who have tried it say that it gives
instantaneous and complete relief to the
very worst case.
"A French gentleman, writing to an
American friend, says he is learning Eng
lish by the aid of a small text book and a
dictionary, without any other instruction,
and he adds: "In small time can learn so
many English as I think will come at the
American and go on the scaffold and lee
ture"
Progressive hammock parties are the
latest The host or hostess provides sew
eral hammocks, each with girl in it.
The young fellows have to change ham,
mocks every time the bell rings, and at in
tervals are subjected to an inspection and
| Gua1 for onb lnp~ ba;r Of faaa
powder found upon their persons.
Our grocers are shipping in about a
thousand dozen of eggs per week from
Pittsburg, jamestown and other points.
The Pittsburg supply is said to come from
Ohio. What our farmers mean by allow
ing all this money to leave this vicinity
, when, by a little effort, they could keep it
here is beyond our comprehension. ru-
raj community should not be drained of its
money for the necessities of life, and yet
almost everything in market is being ship
ped in.
Keep your eye on the CITIZEN and see
which of our merchants want your custom
: oAu oiO suAiSiCutly COuitcU W luhlIc yOu
to call. There is much more in advertising
than you may think. 1t is not only to tel
of the goods that man advertises but tt
invite the people who read-the thinking
and intelligent-to make him visit, and
to judge for themselves as to quality and
price of what he offers for sale. Peopl,
read the advertisements. Don't make any
mistake about that. They are just as much
interested in knowing where to buy t.
advantage as the advertiser is in selling hi
goods.
' The north end of Main Street is ye
closed and the only passage to and from
the North or Sunbury road is an alley to
q the north end Of Mexican St. The gap il
the street north of Clay street or the wicl
1 House, will be completed this week, ant
f the whole street will probably be complet
ed in about two weeks. The paving bricl
n are little larger than building brick; bein,
0 81, At and q; and the street, wheh com
pletcd, will contain one and half million o
a them. There will be from twenty-five I,
thirty thousand yards of paving in it, an,
v the entire cost will be in the neighborhoo,
a of so, 900 dollars. Part of Jefferson str ee
east of Main is now being paved and i.
t. closed to travel, also Center Aye, S. S.
The West Penn Humane Society de