Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1895-09-26

For the business part Of the town the
evening delivery of mail has been changed
to afternoon-4 o'clock.
People who like to read snake stories
will find one or two in our Neighborhood
Notes.
-'I may not be able to point moral,
said the tomato can as the poor dog scamp
cred down the street, "but just the same l
adorn tail"
j. T. Brown of the island district OF
Franklin twp, had eight acres of corn, from
which he cut eight hundred shocks, and
each shock is producing over bushel OF
corn. Who can beat thisi
Our grocers are paying l5ets for honey;
3Octs for potatoes and tomatoes, 30 for ap-
ples 20 for butter, III for eggs; 40 to 90
dozen for cabbage, and 25cts a hundred
for pickles.
The Handicap Road Race under the
auspices of the Washington Pa, Reporter
will be run on Oct, Sd, from Washington
to Prosperity, distance of 30 miles. The
Aggregate value of the prizes offered Is
5000. Entry blanks can be secured OF the
Christman Publishing Co., Washington
Pa.
The Water Co. is building dam across
the creek above Boydstown, just below
Peter Whitmires place. 1t is said the
dam is to be twenty-f five feet high. Work
on the pipe line to the dam is progressing,
and if we have few weeks more of fine
weather, our chances for supply of good
water next winter will be good.
"A new cure for nervous headache is
announced. 1t is said TO be the discovery
of an apostle of physical culture and is
really very simple. 1t consists in walking
backwards, slowly and deliberately, until
the attack is over. 1t is an easy thing to
try at any event, and wouldn't do any
more harm than patent medicines, unless
the patient should back down a flight OF
stairs or into the cellar-way.
The pamphlet laws are now being dis
tribu.ed. If anyone is deSirous of know
ing anything about the laws which were
passed at the last session, he can apply to
the nearest justice of the peace. A man
may not know anything about them until
he is sued or under arrest. In other States
the laws are published in the newspapers
COR the information of all the people at the
expense of the State. In Pennsylvania
the people are kept in ignorance of the
laws under which they live.
hysicians say that all water used for
drinking purposes should be first boiled.
Thi3 does not mean to draw hot water from
the boiler at the back of the stove nor to
set kettle of water on the stove until the
boiling point is reached and then take off
% be cooled for drinking The water must
be boiled for at least 10 minutes; 10 would
be better. Typhoid germs are tough crit
tiers. and 212 degrees Of heat will not de-
stroy them unless that temperature is kept
up for some time. Boil your drinking wa
ter for Is minutes.
1t may interest those whJ prefer tn
tan shoe to know that the aforesaid shoe Is
thing OF some antiquity. In talk with
an old shoemaker few days ago the in
teresting fact was discovered that the tan
shoe, which is now on the top wave Of
popularity, was the prevailing vogue in
this country in 1920. They were brought
over from England in that year by an
English shoe merchant of Philadel-
phia The pointed toe was introduced in
to this country in 1856.
An amendment to the marriage
license law was passed by the last Legis-
lasure and signed by the Governor OF
June 10Th, which enables couple to Sc
cure marriage license IN one county and
go and get married in another county.
The clergyman performing the ceremony,
however, must make the return to the
officer who issued the license, and this he
must do inside of thirty days, or he will
be liable to heavy fine for not thus re-
porting.
-he0LS III Tue Itldil ScCllOli VI = lIISOuiS
are probably higher than those of any
other city in the United States excepting
New York. On Fifth Ave. from Market
to Smithield streets many Of the large
store-rooms command immense figures; the
corner room of the new Park building,
which is to grace the site of the old post
office, and which will, not be completed
till April 1st next, has already been rented
for ten years at &c., 600 year; aud two of
the other storerooms and several of the
offices of the same building have been
rented for term of years.
Wait for the Fall opening of the
Millinery Department of the Peoples
store, Oct. 8, 10, IL and IL.
A treatise on the proper care of the
ewes free. Call on or write j. w.
Palmer, eye specialist. Spectacles
and eye glasses accurately fitted. No
f e. Office Main St., Butler, Opp.
Arlington Hotel.
A Good Motto
for the housewife "Use Marvin's
Pancake Flour for dalicious, break
fast cakes.