Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1894-11-22

day goods.
Some e7enty persons in this town are
receiving temporary or permanent relief
from the Poor Board.
An axle on the 5:l5 train coming
south broke at Fairmont, "Wednesday
evening, which delayed the train for an
hour.
The County Commissioners request
the Collectors to pay in their Dog Tax by
the 3lst of December, so that 1t many De
audited with this years account.
Those are two young possums on ex'
hibition at C. E. Milger's store, were caught
by Jno. Cress. west of town. They are
sleepy little fe lows, but they are in a 1--we
store.
A new schedule went into effect on
the P. & W. Monday, bnt the changes
made are slight. The 10 20 m. is chang.
ed to 10 05; and the 6. 10 To 5 30 p m
The Butler W. C. T. c. will serve the
usual Thanksgiving dinner TO the children
of the poor at their rooms next Thursday
Nov. 29th al, $3.50 P. II.
The Committee of the School Board
will meet Saturday to decide upon a loca-
tiou for the proposed school building IN
the West Side It is probable that the
Rhngler lot, fronting On Broad and Aifiiin
Sts., will Do selected.
The frame building near the centre
Ave bridge occupied by Will CuDbison as
barber shop and residence was destroy Gu
by frs late Monday night. The hre was
first noticed by some railroad men VINO
were passing and who gave the ALARM ana
the building was already too far gone u
be saved, but the iremen saved the ad-
iournlng building occupied by Mr.. kirk as
a grocery.
"A few days ago one of our correspond
ents took trip, and one OF the points was
Petersburg, Va, where We stopped at the
Southern Hotel and noticed quite an I'M
movement on lis former management. a
little inquiry brought out the fact That D
months ago Col C. Snodgrass from Butler
Pa, bought this house and has made won
, deriul changes. Better comforts Tor the
guests and lower prices. This house now
ranks amog the best hotels in the South
A magnificent place to spend the winter
in this pleasant climate and escape the
cold blasts ofthe North EmpOrid VTG'Hian'
"A Farmers Institute will be held in
Butler on Tuesday and Wednesday, the
4lh and 9TH of December, aid at Centre
vile on Thursday and Friday the 9Th and
7th Thos. Edge of Harrisburg, Sec'y
of the Stare Board, and W. L. Chamber
lain. OF Ohio. will attend both meetings.
The Institute at FreepOrt, on Monday and
Tuesday Of this week, was a success in
| every way. At the organis alton M. n.
| Greer, of Buffalo twp, was elected PreSl-
dsnt. DR.. Mccullough, of Tarentum, Sec'y
A number of Interesting papers were read,
and freely discussed, by the farmers and
others present. On Monday evening a
very able and instructive lecture was de-
Iivered by W. B Powell Of Shadelard
| Crawford Co, ON the influences of climate,
| end soil on stock. Mr.. Chamberlain gave
the result OF his experiments on his farm
on his farm at hudson, Ohio He is an ex-
perimental farmer. Mr.. Edge gave very
interesting talk on The US of Commercial
| fertilizers, the elements that compose them
etc. d. w. Lawson, of Armstrong Co.,
spoke Wednesday night, as also did Capt
". G. Sloan, and others.
What lot of crazy election bets were
made on the late election and are now be-
ing paid. One fellow, Democrat, OF
course. wagered that be would roll pea
nut mile with tootbpick i'll snow
storm if the Democratic candidate fol
mayor of Buffalo was not elected. He
paid his bet on Tuesday, and attracted
great attention from the small boys who
hovered near and urged him on to greater
effort Awagsr between two other parties
in New Jersey was to the effect that the
iooser "a Democrat again) shouli sit on the
comb Of root all night. That was not 0
joke by any means, as the loser found out
about midnight when he was almost
frozen. TO add to his misery there came
from the room beneath him sounds of
wassail.and mirth with the clinking OF
| glasses and the passing of the bottle. Al
| intervals after midnight the winner of the
| wager, his heart and head softened by fire.
quent pGtations visited the man on the
root and poured red liquid into his half
frozen body, the result of which was that
| he passed the closing hours in comparative
comfort. Another wager was between
| two Berks county men, che loser ol
which was To dress in weman's clothes
garh and head procession of citizens
W ith brass band through the streets o
the town. He paid the bet, but be viii
never recover from the humiliation unless
| he has more nerve than the average man
| We are glad to note that these crazy bets
are dying out in Butler but at the same
time. quite a number of hats and some othel
articles were bought on the result OF TIT
election and some money changed hands.