Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1894-01-05

washington EXCURSIONS
NofI-A11 advertisers intending to max.
canges in their ads. should notify us oi
their intending to do so, not later thar
Monday morning.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
oil opened at 80 GENTS this year.
The days of the calendar are number
ed.
Renew your subscription to the Crrr-
ZEN for the year 1894.
Rabbit hunting ended with last Satur
day.
Tho California Nid-winter Exposition
opened Monday.
Try an advertisement in the CITIZEN.
1t will pay you.
Wide awake advertisers will ponder
over that article on the fourth page.
e. Z. Abrams d Co., insurance agents,
have distributed pretty calendars for 1894
to their patrons.
Mr.. L. s. AcJunkin, the insurance
agent distributed rome handsome calen-
ders among his patrons last week.
James Nitchell's two daughters enter
tanned large number of their young
friends last Thursday.
There are 6S.S06 postofices in the
United States-157 First Glass; CAT Second,
3,424 Third and 65, ,382 Fourth Glass.
The holiday season Of 1898 will be
memorable because of it's mid weather.
The Lord is tempering the winds for the
shorn lambs.
Armstrong county lawyers have franz
cd new set of bar rules. every fellow
pay for his own" would be good one for
these hard times.-Pittsburg Times.
Communion services will be held in
Grace Lutheran Church, next Sunday ut IL
.. m. Preparatory services Friday even
ing at 7:30.
The new Post Office in the Thompson
field came 'nto effect Jan. LIST. 1894, it is
named AcFann p. O.. situated in Middle
sex twp, Butler Co., one mile west of
Glade Mills.
The Citizens Gas Co secured another
strong gas well on the Deitrick farm in
Connoquenessing twp. this week. 1t now
has enough gas to supply the whole town
and another good manufacturing establish
ment.
Notwithstanding the tired feeling that
" exhibited BY business In general, the
CITIZEN has added large number of new
subscribers to its list within the past few
weeks. Let the good work continue.
Ours is one of the few newspapers in
the country at present which does not con-
dnct coupon department" and offer
prisss to their readers, ranging from yell
low dog to house and lot.
H. w. Todd of Leasureyille won the
first of Traxler's prizes, and Mrs. Annie
Miller Of lis Norton Ave-, Butler, the
second. The jar contained 1249 pennies,
Todd's guess was 1850 and Mrs. Miller's
was 1243. The lowest guess was l55 and
the highest $3.50.
ALI the departments of the Plate Glass
works are now running to their full capaci-
ty, excepting the casting hall, where re-
pairs are being made; but wages were re-
duced Tuesday, from 10 to Is per cent, ex-
cepting those of the SLIPS day men.
The Pittsburg Commercial Gasette
publishes all the news, and what you see
in it you can believe. 1t publishes facts
not fakes. If you want to keep correctly
informed about affairs OF the world in gem
eral and those Of Western Pennsylvania,
Eastern Ohio and Northern West Virginia
read the Pittsburg Commercial Gazette.
Campbell & Templeton thank the
public for their liberal patronage of last
year, and invite its continuance for 1894
They have . complete house furnishing
establishment-Furniture bedding carpets
rugs, curtains, pictures. dishes, vases,
stoves, ranges, ETC., etc. The extent and
completeness Of their establishment make
it credit to the town.
The Normal School at Slipperyrock
opened Tuesday with an increase of Is per
cent over the attendance at the opening of
the corresponding term of last year. The
prospects are good for large term. The
hard times do not seem to have affected
the school. The new recitation building,
which is ready for occupancy. gives large.
ly increased facilities for work.
Both the Pittsburg Times and Dis
patch are after the school teachers with
propositions for summer trips:
The Times proposes to give the teacher
receiving the highest number of votes free
transportation with all expenses paid, for
self and companion. to the wonderland OF
the American continent, the Yellowstone
National Park. The one receiving the
second highest number OF votes will secure
trip, under the same conditions as the
first, to Niagara Falls and the st. Law
renee river with It's beautiful Thousand
I'isnds, and its wild and picturesque seen.
cry; the historic city Of Quebec, and home
by Lakes Ctsmplain and st. George, and
the Hudson river, ''ths Rhine of America. >
The one receiving the third highest nun
OF votes will be given two weeks trip to
the White Mountains, bv way of Boston.
''the modern Athens" the trip from New
York to Boston being made by sea. The
fourth will get trip to Cleveland by rail,
and thence by steamer the tour of the
great lakes, including the famous coppe,
region, aud call at Duluth, Procto,
Knotts Zenith City of the Unsalted Seas.
The fifth will have two weeks trip, tax
ing in Niagara Falls, thence across New
York State to Albany, down the Hudson,
through the Catskill mountains, the land
Of Rip Van Wrinkle, and home by New
York and Philadelphia. The fifty teach
srs who receive the highest number oi
votes after the first FIVE will be sent t.
Atlantic City or Cape May, and sntertsin
Cd ut the best hotels ct the expense of tn,
paper.
Ths Dispatch will send sixty teacher,
for ten days sojourn at Atlantic City, q
from Pittsburg, 10 from Allegheny and Q.