Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1891-09-11
LOCAL AND GENERAL

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lie saw within the pooli
Oysters are in the soup again.
The schools of Butler open next week.
Labor Day gave our hard worked
bankers a holiday.
The u. r. Presbytery of Butler,
met at Prospect Tuesday.
The school teachers and school diree-
tors of Butler meet tomorrow evening.
Hay fever has got some of our people
By the nose.
Services will be held by Rev. Reihl in
the Baptist church Of Brtler next Sunday
morning and evening.
A. Troutman & Sons tiger skin rug is
looked Mt by everybody, and their exhibit
of dress goods is always fine.
II. is reported that r. e. Crawford, of
Adams twp. was killed on the railroad
Thursday moruing.
The boot and shoe store of David
Barto, of Evans City, was robbed of goods
last week to the amount OF $3.50
L Stein & Sons stocking cave in their
show window is one of the eutest bits OF
window dressing ever done in Butler.
--Messrs Ritter Il Ralston show blank
ETY. blank, blanket window, and post peo-
pie on facts If you do not believe it look
and see.
"A good top buggy was stolen from the
barn of W. F. Hines in Brady township,
one night last week, and Mr.. II. can find
no trace oiit.
1t is now lawful to shoot squirrels and
the farmers are getting ready to make 1t
hot for the hunter who tresspasses on their
lands, tearing down fences and tramping
their grain fields.
The law allows So 90 for performing a
marriage ceremony, but some OF the
grooms are liberal Esq. McAboy says he
already has received several So and $40
| fees.
In California the fruit growers are in
constant fear of the scale bug imported
from Florida. Their common greeting this
time of the year is Brethren let us pray"
| A woman fell overheard in japanese
three years her husband has done nothing
but hunt sharks, and up to date has landed
about 800 of them and is still fishing.
The period of generation" has been
lengthened; it used to be 80 years. and
later increased to 34 now scientist says
| the average term of human life has increas-
ed in the last 80 years from 81 to AZ years.
The Butler W. C. T. U held their an
nual election Sept. Sd. Mrs. David Camp
bell was chosen President; Mrs. Sutton
having declined reelection and the other
officers retained. The delegates to the
County Convention to be held at
Mars, September 24-25, are Mesdames l..
4. Reeder, L. W. zuver, David Campbell,
with Mrs. Hovis, Huff, and Thompson as
alternates. SEc'Y.
On Saturday last Jas. A. Chambers, of
Pittsburg, made an assignment for the ben
eft of his creditors to VIM. c. MeCandless.
He is one of the stockholders of the Stand
ard Plate Glass works and is endorser in
$205, 600 of the paper of the institution.
The aggregate of his Indebtedness is placed
at $l42, 900, and his estate will pay dollar
for dollar
The rains of last week will make
| it advisable to get your pota-
toes out of the ground as soon as
possible, and if you cannot do that cut off
the tops, and burn them, as the disease is
due to minute spores that are carried down
the stems of the plants to the tubers where
they multiply very rapidly in wet weather
Dig your potatoes, you can, and spread
them over a dry floor.
-Tobacconists and others who deal In
cigars would do well to closely study the
law enacted by the last Congress, in regard
to the sale of cigars. The government law
on the subject says cigars must be sold to
the customer direct from the properly
stamped box. A dealer who takes out a
handful of cigars and lays them before the
buyer to choose from, makes himself liable
to fine of $780,
| Ono of the New York papers blames
the late Park Place disaster by which a
hundred people were killed or injured by
the falling of five story building-on the
fact that the joists of the building run at
right angles with the street instead fpar-
allel with it, as is usual 1t says that the
vibrating Of the machines on the 4th and
9th floors loosened the ends joists from the
beams, and that the building began falling
from the top. That method of construc
tion is in practice in Butler, and if it is
radically wrong it should be stopped.
The corrected population of Western
Pennsylvania as given in the census bulle-
tin made public is as follows by counties:
Allegheny, 551,959; Armstrong, 46,747;
Beaver, 50,077; Butler, 50, 1889; Cameron,
| I, ,23S; Clarion, 36,S02; Crawford, 65, 324;
Elk, 23,239; Erie. Sc, O74; Fayette, $4,000;
Forest s, ,4S2; Greene, s,935; Indiana, AZ,
l75; jefferson, 44,005; Lawrence, 1851;
Mexican, 46, 1868; Mercer, 55, 744; Somerset,
37,317; venango, 46,640; Warren, 81, $50;
Washington, IL, l55; Westmoreland, 112,-
Sl9.
The elegant new hotel on S. Mexican
| ST., opposite the school house, and named
the "Hotel Waverly" is now open to the
public. 1t is new house, with new
furniture throughout, and fitted with all
modern conveniences. 1t is well supplied
with parlors, sets good table, and has
some sixty well furnished bed rooms for
the accommodation of the public. Mr..
Chess Stoner, an old and well known
hotel man, is the proprietor, and the
travelling public will find him an agree
able host.
| A certain young man in Bellefonte
called upon young lady last week and in
the course of the evening he resolved to
kiss her and he made known his intentions.
She said ''John, if you 1 will scream" He
didn't believe her, however, and he under
took the liberty, and in moment he per-
formed the act with rousing good smack
The young lady screamed and brought the
father and mother down stairs into the
room "What on earth is the matteri" ex-
claimed the mother. The young man