Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1893-12-08


ScrIbner's Magazine for 1894.
Town Topics for 1894.
Harrisburg Telegraph.
NoTR-An advertisers intending to make
canges in their ads. should notify us OF
their intending to do SO, not later than
Monday morning.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
-'93 is on he home stretch.
Now, expect rough wintry weather.
The blizzard maketh the coal dealer
smile.
Too many children of school age are
ont Of school.
The average trip around the world
comprises about %, 900 miles of travel.
Baby show in the NJ E. Church next
Tuesday evening.
We direct attention to the card of the
Harrisburg Telegraph, the best paper pub
lshed at the State capital.
Have you seen G. Wilson Miller's tre-
mendous display of Christmas candies. If
you haven't, you should.
The sale of the Brady's Bend Iron
Co.'S property was again adjourned till next
Tuesday, and that will probably end it.
"A very strange coincident happened
last Thursday, Butler and Yale both lost
at football by scores of 6 to 0.
Over at Indiana, Pa, on Thanksgiv-
ing day couple aged so and rs years
were married by Justice of the Peace.
Some of the enterprising citizens Of
Portersvills and vicinity have raised mon
ey for building creamery there.
1t takes girl about four hours longer
to clean The front windows of house than
it does the back ones.
Half the children in town have the
chicken pox, they say, and those of us who
ate too much "stufing" last week, had
something that might be called the turkey
pox.
Our first snow fell last Saturday, Dec
I'd. for this winter, and the boys that had a
sleigh out on the paved streets that night
were greeted with cheers.
-Fong 10y Chinese laundryman was
found hanging dead in his store in East
End, Pittsburg, last Thursday, and the
officers cannot tell whether it is murder or
suicide.
The Whom bill puts oil on
the free list. Foreign crude
oil. and il it becomes a law, foreign oil (par-
ticularly kussian) will. the oil men say, be
brought into this country.
In Pittsburg last Wednesday, the day
before Thanksgiving, thirty four couples
took out licenses to marry as against 72 the
year before, and IA the year before that
The shadow of free trade strikes to the
very marrow.
An evening session of Miss Maud
NitchelPs Kindergarten will be held in
the W. G. T. q. Rooms on Jefferson street
this, Friday, evening from to 0 o'clock
Everybody is welcome.
Mr.. Chas. Read, executor OF James
Denny, decd, Of Clearfeld twp will have
sale of personal property-stock, farm
implements, hay, etc., on Tuesday the 10Th
inst. at 10 O'Clock.
AT the annual memorial services held
by the Elks in the Opera House last SUM-
day afternoon, their departed brothers, W.
8. Waldron, w. II Refining. JOS III Liv.
ingston, p. II. Burchfield and w. Il. Reed
were eulogized.
She attended the Teachers Institute
and, after listening to the words of the in
structors, she said she would devote her
life to the noble work of teaching; then
She started to climb the ladder Of fame,
When she suddenly thought she'd wait
And ask Of the people who were passing
her by
If her hat was really on straight.
Rev. W. J. Miller of Leechburg Pa,
has been engaged to give lecture to the
Luther League of the First English Luth-
eran Church, corner Main and Clay streets,
on Tuesday evening next at 7:45 Mr..
Miller is fluent talker, sound reasonei
and will entertain and edify his audience
He is somewhat known to this community
as he has lectured here before. We be.
speak large and appreciative congrega.
tion. All are welcome. Subject "NeveI
Mind
We think it somewhat astonished those
Butler county farmers present at the in
stitute last week, to have man owning
little and billy farm in northeastern Ohio
come here and tell them he raised 35 bush
els of wheat to the acre year after year
but he went ahead and toll them how h.
did it-clover. rotation and thorough work
Mr.. Terry is great believer in clover. III,
feeds his horses on it. and it alone; and h,
plows it down and thus fertilizes bis grount
for big crops of potatoes ard wheat.
A fakir is going around the countr,
and getting away with good many dollar
OF the unsuspecting youth in the followin.
manner: On arriving at town he get
all the boys he can to sell pictures of tn
F, Worlds Fair. and requires each one O
them to put up one dollar as a gnarante
OF good faith. He gives them a few pic
lures worth about one cent each, an,
while they are trying to sell them the faki
disappears with the dollars.
USE DANA'S SARsAPARILLAr IT'S
THE KIND THAT CURES.D
New Broadcloths. Bedford Cords
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