Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1894-10-25
LOCAL AND GENERAL.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Take look at the gorgeous colored
leaves on the trees.
Some Batter people are said to have
been caught IN the blind pool business.
The Grove City foot ball team will play
here on Saturday.
Some Of the apple trees in Cherry twp.
are in fall bloom.
James B. Corey. of Bradford, Pa. is a
candidate for governor ON the platform OF
the reduction of the salaries Of public off
cials 50 per cent.
When about to order your reading
matter for the winter consider our offer Of
the CITIZEN and Tribune, both for $50
year in s1yance.
If you mail O package with written
matter in it, yon must pay first class rates,
,e two cents an ounce. The fine fer de-
ception Ii $40.
William Love will have o public sale
ON Thursday. November 1st. at 10 a. IN. at
his farm 2 miles southwest Of Saronburg
on the Glade Mills road.
The honse Of John Cumberland, in
Concord township, was destroyed by IRE
on Wednesday Of last week. Nearly all
l.
The Standard Oil Co. ard other par
ties are taking extensive leases in Snsque
hanna, Columbis, Luzerne and 5cbnylkill
counties and are going 10 thoroughly lest
the territory for oil.
town was blown open last Thursday night.
The burglars took refuge In freight train;
the train was backed upon q tre,tle; the
robbers jumped and ran for tie woods and
made their escape.
-Psganini would never let anyone hear
him tune his violin, aud il IL b elieved that
many OF the extremely peculiar effects he
produced were obtained by timing his in
strument half tone lower or higher than
the ordinary pitch.
An immense amount Of hauling is now
being done on the road from Valencia sta
ton 10 Cooperstown. and the bridge at
Sam Hays Mill il in bad shspe-a horse
went through II, Tuesday.
Monday was Nsrtincourt d Co.'S. first
day for the distribution Of their cards and
100 Of them went that day. These cards
cost nothing, and you can see what they
mean by reading the firms card in this
paper.
&C. Il. Miller, completed the first year
Of his venture in the boot and shoe bus-
meas last week, and he IL well satisfed
with his years business. He did six-thous-
and more than Re expected to do. and will
continue business at the old stand.
There are two classes OF human be-
ings-the one bsasting Of his Importance,
and the other being meek and humble,
and yet We wonld sooner loan ten cents
to the latter than We would 10 the form.
or.
The key 10 success, In any department
ot life Ia self-denial. Idleness, laziness.
wAstefulness, come from lack Of IT,; while
industry. promptitnde. economy, thrift,
and successful career are the result Of
il.
An exchange says Tf you would be-
come acquainted with the touRhs aud out
casts OF fifteen or twenty years hence spen d
an evening with some Of the children, in
nocent now, whose parents allow them 10
run the streets without restraint.
Down IN Pittsburg and Allegheny,
lately, the people have gone crazy over
''blind or discretionary pools" and the
thing became 70 notorious that the police
closed one shop" last Saturday, and ar
rested the proprietors, who skipped their
bali and did not appear at the hearing Gr
Cd for Monday.
A rollicking boy In this borough was
bnsily engaged in eating grapes at the
dinner table ono day last week. and, ~
most people do, was swallowing the seeds.
A young woman ut the table, noticing
him, asked n he wasn't afraid he might
have appendicitis The busy boy, only
half catching the words. replied. "Oh,
never mind; the seat Of my pants are all
right"
The Peoples telephone Co has a line
up between here and Cooperstown and are
doing large business. The office here IL
in j. Z. Forsythes building, llG West JEFF
ferson st. At Cooperstown the office Is in
the Jareckl store and the public who have
business between Butler and this thriving
oil town arc finding the telephone line a
great convenience.
AT the session Of the Presby byterian
Synod mt Tyrone, Pa, which opened on
Thnrsday last, Rev. Kamler was elec ed
Moderator. and reports from the different
Presbyteries showed that Allegheny, Phil
adelphia and Butler were the only ones
that did not require aid from the general
fund this year. Each Of these made hand
some donations 10 the iund. The Synod
will meet in Butler next year.
"A down town hOuse was raided last
Thursday night and ten men's names were
taken down for iuture use. quantity Of
cards, poker chips, etc. were found. The
raid was made by Dist. Atty. McJunkin
assisted by Thomas and Brown and the
young men were surprised about o'clock
in the morning. The crowd consisted Of
several Of the best known young men Of
Butler and q half dozen Others The
standing and good family OF the young
sports does not seem 10 bar them IRON a