Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1894-12-13
LUtAL AND GENERAL.

-Course tickets for Teachers Institute
81 so ON sale at Heinemans.
&c. W. Cooper of Slippeyrock twp.
started up is saw mill this week.
-Kellar, the magician, will be here
next Monday night. His bills represent
him as raising the devil.
A clue to the murder of old maa
Klaus is said to have been discovered. The
parties live near Johnstown.
Harvard Male Quartette, at the Opera
House, this evening, and the Gilnooleys to-
morrow evening.
If you want pretty house caander
or handsome office calsnder, call upon ID.
A. Heck.
-rwsaty sight elks, captured in Idaho,
haye been placed in schenley aud River
View parks, in Pittsburg.
No school for two weeks-Institute
and holiday weeks. School will begin
sgsic On Monday, the last day of the year.
Mrs Blinn sold her hotel in Evans
City to Il L. Cunningham Of Beaver Falls,
for u, 600. Mr.. Cunningham took poses
sion Monday.
A dead mao can drift down stream,
but il takes a live man to pull against 1t.
That is the time that tries a mans soal-
when The tide is ag iiast min. Advertise
iD the CITIZEN.
The teachers attending the Institute
next week will have an opportunity o.
seeing ths wonderful K.liar, tine magician.
Every person rhould See, at least once in
his life, the brilliant performance of this
great necrOmancer.
Many young persons. intending to
teach, will this year at the Teachers In
stitute. register az the same enrolment
fee as the teachers aud enjoy the full ben.
eft of both day and evening sessions.
AT the meeting of the School Board
last Thursday night it was decided to par
chase tue KliDgis lots, fronting on Nit
fin and Broad ST., 2l0x25i. for $1,000,
provided th. Connect annu.s that part Of
North ST. that runs through item.
-Four alleged cases Of selling liquor
without icen-s, heard by the Grand Jary
last week, were returned AS mot tree bills
and the county to pay costs" Consider
able rpiIe-work seems to be developing ID
this business ol returning persons for sell
ing liquor without license.
The 9Th annual meeting of the Penn
sylyauiA State Music Teachers Aassocia
tiou will b, held at Harrisburg on Dec. 26-
%, 94. Gov. Pattisnn will deliver the adj
dress Of welcome, aud an unusually fine
program has been arranged. Mrs. Il. X
Colbert, Vice President. for this county
can be consulted regarding arrangements
ior attending.
The holiday eeason ia the great tune
for handkercbiefs There is no better pre-
sent than good handkerchief, and some
of our advertisers, this year. make immense
displays Of then. Have you seen Stems
handkerchief show windowf lite a beauty:
Mrs Zimmerman's window is as pretty as
it can be; and Kaufman displays some
very iue goods in his window.
-Dr. Clarke Robinson's last lecture, the
one on the Tempest last Monday evening,
was splendid. 1t finished the course. and
the Doctor is now trying ~ secure Glass
here for his course OF lectures on English
Literature, which, no doubt, will be very
instructive and entertaining. Persons who
Mackey.
Since Wednesday OF last week A. w
Shannon Of Franklin twp, has had a strange
beehive in his lot. While he and some
other men were cutting timber On the old
Shannon place that day To ey fslled large
tree that proved to have hollow place 10
it about six feet long and foot or 80 In
diau.eJer; aud this Was filed with bees and
honey Gus cut the poo hiye off and took
1t home, and sci it up.
A timely hint to Christmas giYers II
offered by First Assistant Postmaster Gen
that Chrisrmas packages are subjsct 10 dif.
fsrent regulations than those which gov.
ern the transmission Of letters. The lack
OF sufficient postage stamps will doom
every such not fully prepaid package u
the limbo of the dead letter office. Ever
II ultimately rescued, Christmas will have
passed them by. Every rensmbrancsr Of
distant friends should paste this advice IL
q conspicuous place.
What a matter ol luck the oil business
isf The Gibson q Co. producer ON th,
John Johnston in the south west corner o
Penn rwp is one instsnce. o. q big vel
on u farm upon which two DRY holes wer,
drilled; and ths Forquer d o.. on the Esh
Gilman $50 feet south of IL. ia another
This we'll. when drst drilled, WAS suppo.et
to bs dry. and the owners expected l.
sbsndon il next day. but during the nigh
enough oil was struck To make II d TAI
producer; aud after the Johnson farm wei
was struck they drilled IL still deeper an
ro~ have the best well 10 the county.
vss doing sbout 1900 bbIs yesterds y
which at 30 cents boil. make its produc-
tIon worth si.6oo. and taking of royalty
the owner OF an eighth 10 it would max,
sbour si75. day, 30 long az tho well hel,
up To that production.