Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1895-10-24

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LOCAL AND GENERAL.
We never know We have temper till
we lose it.
-Hanford's virginius at the Opera
House tonight.
Butler is to have a skating rink this
winter, at the Ball Park.
"A beautiful figure for o manageable
woman-$.
No, Maude, dear, the Esquimaux do
not vote at the poles.
A good color for foot ball team would
be black and blue.
People who live in glass houses are
liable e. ;ive their neighbors pane.
1t is ard TO believe that man is tell
ing the tiuth when you know you would
lie were yeu in his place.
Our grooers are paying IS cents for
eggs this week, % fer butter and so for
apples.
-Ruffs and Sons rustic show. window
caught fre.irom lamp, Friday evening, and
was destroyed.
j. G. Bars store-room in Vslencia
was broken into last Friday night, and the
safe jlown open and robbed of $40 worth
OF 10 cent stamps.
j. F. Brown of the island district OF
franklin twp, husked 324 bushels OF corn
from acres. and will have over 1000
bushels from acres.
The house. of Walter Winner of Worth
twp, was destroyed by fire. Sunday. The
family was away, the fire originated in t he
kitchen fas and but little was saved.
Policeman Skillman picked up three
of the bum tramps on our stree. S, Satur-
day, and took them before the Burgess,
who gave them half an hour to leave town
for oae year.
-Butler is the best apple market in the
State. One load after another of beauties
from about Craigsville and Freeport are
being sold hero at prices ranging from 40
to 20 cts.
Red squirrels are the worst enemies
rel will devour whole nestful of eggs at
amesl. Gunners should remember this
and try to exterminate them.
"A correspondent asks, "What should
Q bow legged man dof" This is hard
question to answer, hut when he hasn't
anything else to do he should be whoop-
ing for wider styles in trousers.
Travelling men say that the firm Of
Campbell d Templeton do the largest bust
ness of any firm in Western Penn's. out
side of the cities. They sold a 1925, ma
hogany bedroom suit, the other day, two
hours after receiving it.
The Nigel Bros. of this town carry
stock of hardware, oil-well supplies, iron
pumps. plows, nails, builders supplies
glass, bar-iron, chain, stoves and ranges.
ETC., valued at $40, 900, and are doing
very extensive business.
las winte approaches most of our peo-
pie prepare for it by repairing their side
walks, and taken as whole our town is
pretty we'll paved. There are few side
walks however that seem especially de-
signed to lame ali living creatures, and of
these the fag-stone are the worst.
Some one has found out how far farm
or has to walk to put in nd attend 20 30
acres OF corn. To plow the ground with
l6-inch pillow he walks $50 miles, to harrow
it thoroughly before planting he walks so
mile. and to cultivate it afterwards he will
havs to travel $50 miles, making a grand
total of $50 miles, beside gathering.
The scarcity of quail in Western Penn
sylvsnia has been so marked in recent sea
sons that it is very probable many sports
men will not shoot the little fellows. 1t is
argued that if given years respite the
birds will thrive and once more be plenty.
Iu some parts of the county the farmers
have signed papers agreeing not to shoot
quail and also to keep shooters off their
farms.
The reports 90 to show that large
proportion of the big corn crop will be fed
to cattle and hogs, instead of being sold at
unremunerative prices. This is the true
policy for the farmers. and they can not
fail to profit by it. Agriculture is q poor
business only when the producer is obliged
to market his surplus at time and in a
way dictated by the speculator-
AT the State Convention of County
Commissioners held in Meadville last we eek,
resolutions were adopted recommending
the passage by the Legislature Of an act
making the district attorney salaried
office; an act to pay assessors uniform
rate for actual work done; to repeal the act
creating the Office OF jury commissi oner
and place the work on the county commits
sioners; an act for the uniformity of taxa
tion, with exemptions only as provided in
section nine Of the constitution; to substi
tute the act of 1893 for the law requiring
assessors to make return of births and
deaths.
That's funny story that floats in from
Kans.s City. A female doctor has brought
suit for divorce because her husband won'
help cook the meals. Poor man; he should
not oppose that divorce He ought to be
glad to get rid Of woman like that
Said young man to Gossip the other day
people are asking why the young men o
the present day do not get married, ant
why there is such a great increase of wha
Il hope they will pardon me-are called
spinsters. I'm of the opinion that when I
man maries he msrries for home, ant
expects that his wife will see that he hal
oil the comforts. When was boy re-
membor my mother as a good woman wht
attended to her household duties; the hom
was always comfortable for father, and b,
Il Il i y III -E.