Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1893-10-06


Hughes Bros. are building boiler work
on the Maekey property above Fullerton
mill.
An apple tree on the property of Il
II. Goucher is in full bloom, and Mr.. G
is expecting a crop Of winter apples.
Communion services viii be held il
Bethany Reformed church next Sunday
at IL a. m. preparatory services Saturday
at > p. m.
The man who stayed from church al
summer becase the weather was too warm
will now remain at home because it is too
cool.
A fellow just back from Chicago
brought several souvenirs, including what
he calls souvenir sandwich, which he
will use for paper weight.
About hundred persons in this coun-
ty took advantage of the excursion rates,
and went to the Worlds Fair, Thursday
morning.
A gray mare belonging to Daniel Roe
nigk of Clay twp. was taken from his sta
BILE last Thursday night. The horse and
thieves were tracked to the forests of For
est Co. and there lost track of.
The session of the Council OF Tuesday
evening was sidewalk session-that is
there was more talking done about side
walks than anything, that night. And we
hope they will keep it up. These offsets
in the payements are blankety blanked
nuisances.
Col. w. T. Mechling's COW tell into an
old and unused well on the lot above his
last Sunday evening and was not discovered
till Tuesday evening. The well had caved
in some distance below the surface, and
the COW had plenty of elbow-room. but it
kept a squad ofmen working for over two
hours to make grade for her to get out.
"A BARRIERS sign is the pride of
neighboring town. 1t reads this way: ''R.
f. Leakins. Deleetable Barber and Remov-
er of Hair Suit Appendages. Tonsorial
Artist and Phyisognomical Hair Cutter,
Capillary Abridger and Cranium Manipuls
tor. Done with Ambidexterity.
Mr.. c. e. Miller will open, on or about
the 18th of this month,a new shoe store in
the room formerly occupied by Schaul
Bros, opposite the Vogeley House, Main
St., Butler, Pa. Mr.. Miller has procured
the services of Mr. Blackmore in the store.
They are now in the eastern market pur-
chasing their goods.
The rescue of Professor King, the
aeronaut, who made an ascension in Chi
caga last week. calls to mind that one
aeronaut who went up in balloon in the
Windy City was lost and never found
not even his remains, and it is believed by
his frienis that he and his companion-a
reporter on Chicago newspaper-were
landed in the wilds of Canada and perisLed
there. Several years afterwards it was re-
ported that their remains had been found
and portion of the reporters note book
with notes describing their intense suffer
ing, but this report was a fake. Nothing
has ever been heard of either of them.
An exchange says: ''What must be
the feelings of tall, gaunt, bony speci
men Of womanhood, with snappy man
ner, who realizes that she will always be
known as Pussy 7 Isn't it awful to meet
big. en- who are called Daisy9 Isn't
it narrowing to tumble across a woman
who is all thorns and find that she calls
herself Rose Isn't it ridiculous to meet
a woman nearly six feet high and hear her
addressed as Tinyl And isn't it absolute
ly idiotic TO find a colorless creature with
gray eyes and ashy hair who speaks of
herself as Pinky r. Yes, but what do you
think when you hear big strong man ad-
dressed by his wife as "Pettie," or long,
gaunt creature with u hat and 23x25
appetite called "Birdie7" Don't you smile
away down in your buskins and wonder
lightning doesn't hit it
There seems to be rivalry among trav
cling statesmen for the doubtful accom-
plishment of being able to tell the most
and the dirtiest stories. That is the prin-
ciple stock in trade of some of these jolly
knights of the road, and they seem to
think that their success as salesmen de-
pends mere upon the supply of vulgar
stories they have on tap than the qualities
and prices oe the goods they have to exhib-
1t. Some of them are veritable cyclope-
dias ofsmnt. A funny story, a good anec-
dote, or a fresh joke is all right. 1t is bet
ter than physic. But stories the merits
Of which consist solely in their flthiness
are better untold, and man whose brain
is storehouse of such wares is neither
useful nor ornamental to society. The re-
failing OF these stories about the country
is not edifying and refining in its general
influence, nor is 1t calculated to polish and
elevate the literary tastes of our country
merchants.-Er.
-At4 o'clock last Friday afternoon,
sixty-three men on bicycles left Buffalo, n
Z. with the intention of riding to Pitts
burg, via Erie, Sharon, New Castle and
Beaver Falls; distance 242 miles, in COM
petition for prizes offered by the Pittsburg
Press. A man named Bannister of Youngs-
Paul Cronenwett of Butler, was among the
first from the start. Nineteen of the rid
ers registered at Erie between 10 p. m. and
midnight sixteen at New Castle towards
noon of next day, where several gave up;
and but eight finished the race Bannis-
ter made his way up Fifth Ave, Pittsburg
and registered at 3;5S.30 p. M; Williams
came in so minutes behind him and Paul
Cronenwett at 5:13.50 Banuister made
the distance, 242 miles, in little less than
a hours of almost continuous riding, and
Cronenwett in little more than % hours
Cronenwett lost his way in the dark, be-
tween Buffalo and Erie, and also broke
his wheel, and had to push it for IS tmiles
to the next town, where he got another
one, and then got better one at Erie. BY
these accidents he lost over ar hours time,
and got behind all of the leaders, but he
made the best time Of all between Girard
| and Pittsburg, and passed all lthose remain
ing in the race excepting Bannister and
Williams, who were too far ahead Of him.
A strange incident of the race was that
Williams went to sleep on his bike, tum.
bled off, slept minutes, and awakened to
| find himself on one side of the road and