Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1893-11-03
LOCA L AND GENERAL.


Oil is worth 10 cents barrel.
Hay is sold at s11 to $l4 per ton in this
market.
The wise men say that all indications
point to hard winter.
There is always room at the top for
large apples.
The bicycle aud the straw hat might
as well be called in.
-Meanness pays ssme.im es; but 1T does
not pay well enough to be worth while.
The ton pot bottle factory will be in
operation next Monday.
BE sure you read of Scha ul d Nast's
overcoat sale as it will be saving of mon
ey for you.
1t is reported that the sale of the
Brady's Bend Iron Co.'S. property has again
been postponed until Dec. 1st
Nearly every boy determines to whip
a certain school teacher when he grows
up.
John Arthurs, VIM. Broaden, John
Dunn and A. A. Goucher are building a
large creamery at Euclid.
The 193-year-old Mexican who died
the other day might have lived to ripe
old age had it not been for an attack of
acute rheumatism.
An inventive genius has devised a So
luton of bichloIide of silver to restore the
"thirst" of those who lost theirs by tack
ling bichloride of gold.
Fourteen "drunks" were arrested in
Butler last Saturday. 1t was our first
cold day and changing from beer to
whisky seemed to set hard with the boys
The County Com missioners have been
busy during the past few days putting up
the official ballots and the other matter re-
quired for the election next Tuesday.
the public schools in Titusville. 1t is the
first instance of the kind that we have
heard Of
Don't forget McMilen's 3-day sale of
hats and bonnets, beginning Thursday
evening and continuing Friday and Satur-
day evenings. They have hundred diff
ferent styles on their counters, all new,
and have reduced their prices by one
half.
The little advertising we did week
or 50 ago for place for an orphan boy de-
veloped the tact that there are several men
and women in Butler county who wish to
adopt or at least take orphan children,
both boys and girls into their homes
A Butler woman bought a new tangled
teapot from a peddler. Afterwards her
husband reproached hel, saying that be
had the same thing in his store for less
money. Her rejoinder was unanswerable:
"why don't you adyertisef One never
knows what you have in your store"
LET me see," said Bobbs to Dobbs;
"isnt this Dobbs that we were just talking
about relative Of yoursf' ga distant re-
lative." said Dobbs. Every distantf" u
should think so. He's the oldest of Il
children, and am the youngest"
The chestnuts are very wormy this
year and they are so plenty that they are
q drug in the market here Nearly all our
c.ooarS Iost ,nonau an tho f,rct that thav
bought and have quit buying them, but
they are worth about dollar bushel. In
Pittsburg they are quoted at and 5 cents
. pound.
Carnegie d Co, are laying large pipe
line from their works in Home stead to the
Armstrong county gas fields. The line
will be of 20-inch pipe from Homestead t.
Miltown, 14-inch from there to Bagdat
and the branches from there to the ga
fields will be smaller. The estimated cos
of the line is 100000.
The refusal of manager Ferris to stop
his wheel, in the Midway, Wednesday led
up to an encounter between the wheel EN-
ployees and the guards, in which tn
crowd that wanted ride took part ant
won. Ferris claims he has contrac
right to run the wheel there all this
month.
The amended ballot law provides that tn
voting booths shall be curtained. Th
curtains makes the booths SO dark that tn
voter will have difficulty in seeing jus
where to mark his ballot. The legislato
who proposed that amendment has grea
head-for blundering.-Er.
Boys il you take the trouble to wor
ou the following problem it will show e.
actly what people think You are. Plae
the year Of your birth on piece of pape
add your age at your last birthday lai
year, not this year, multiply the result b
1000 and subtract 677, ,423. Substitute fl
figures letters of the alphabet, for l,
for 2, for 3, ETC., and read the result vel
carefully.
III the following is true it will save
good deal of expense to family burnir
Oll lOi iiEntc. IL 10 "Oith u JiuE- w nun y
buy lamp chimney, place it in vessel
water, put the vessel on the stove, let tt
water boil, then remove the vessel fror
the stove and allow the water to becon
cold Take out your lamp chimney, ar
you will have no trouble about its crackil
when in use
1t re quires good strong buggy
sleigh to get over Butler county roads
the Fall and Winter. There is no econ
my in purchasing any other kind. Marti
court & Co. can fit you out in one that W
stand the racket and won't charge bi
price for it, either. When you want an
thing in that line call and see them befo
purchasing, and thus save money.
Samuel Simous said few even in
ago that he was going to buy his ri
Sarah Sinner, great, big, Christm
present; and the news has reached Mi
Sinner, and now that fair young lady
wondering what on arth the "great, bi
Christmas present" will be. Don't imita
Samuel Simons, nor any other person W
tells beforehand what he is going to
Keep it to YOURSELF and look over our a
vertising columns for the next six wee
USE DANA'S SARSAPARILLA, 1T
"THE KIND THAT CURES"