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


There are 10, 700 voters in Butler Co
The new oil field west of town Will
make things lively for some time.
Win. Dixon has good 9TH sand gas
Ser on his farm in Penn twp.
There are so ne grand patches of corn
in Butler county.
Read our new story, boys. You will
like it.
Now is the best time in the world to
plant fall and winter advertisement.
j. F. Finin has a garden of thirteen
acres near Mt Chestnut. He brings his
stuff to Butler and is doing well.
While T. B. Scott was working in the
yard of the L. z. Mitchell lot, last week,
he discovered lilac bush in bloom.
james Aiken of Bullion was buncoed
out OF $40, by couple Of strangers at
Union Depot, Pittsburg, Monday.
You'll be sorry if you fell to read the
first chapter of the Bidwell st CRY, in this
paper.
Citizens meeting in Seneca Hall, this
evening at 7:30, to consider the appeal of
the water cases TO the Supreme Court.
The drilled we'll at the P. & W depot
produces 700 bbls. of good water each day.
The water is pumped into the railway
tank and supplies the boilers.
Winter almost always '1ingers in the
tap os Spring" and at present Summer is
~ lingering like hot potato in the lap of
Autumn"
The First Ward Running Team will
60 to Reading next week, and to Atlanta
the week after. The Markhams will also
90 to Reading.
The contractor for the paving of Milf
fin St., began laying BRICK at the crossing
of Chestnut, Tuesday, and will probably
reach Washington by tue end of the week.
clan, and he gave a good concert in the
Baptist church last Thursday evening.
Some of the people on the program, how
ever, did not appear, probably on account
OF the chang of date.
Many OF the farmers are getting
onto" the sensible scheme Of handling tn cir
vegetables in crates holding bushel,
claiming that much time is saved by this
plan, as the potatoes, apples, ETC., are then
only handled once. The boxes cost but
little and will last fol years.
Some of the brick delivered for Mif-
fin st. have been condemned. They
absorb too much water, and are being sort
ed Part of the street will be paved with
brick made by the Mack Mfg. Co., a
pressed brick made of fire clay, very hard
but perhaps too brittle, The street is 60
feet more than a half mile in length.
One reason why people never pay any
particular attention to signs and adVer
tisements daubed on old fences, stables
and bridges is becsuse they do not know
whether they are reading the advertise
ucut vi 6DAuc nfsu tsftI Is Silll III DuSlutSS
or one thA. has been dead ior years What
ought to be the obituaries of many has
been firm that tried to do a sigu-board
business, are painted all over the bridges
and old stables of this country.
The American Publishers are an enter
prising lot. 1t is believed that every lead
Ing publisher in the United States has a
life of Gladstone already written, and
many Of them actually set up and stereo-
typed. One heuse in New York has act
nally printed an edition OF 5000 copies,
with the covers made, the sheet folded,
ste, so that all that remains to be done
when the cable announces the grand old
mans death, will be to write and print one
short chapter, giving the particulars Of the
tvent and its date, and the book will be on
sale within an hour.
"A very convenient mucilage, says In
vsrtion, can be made out OF onion Juice
by any one who wishes TO use it. A good
sized Spanish onion, after being boiled for
short time, will yield, on being pressed,
quite idIee puanti'y VI very auneSlfe
Huid. This is used extensively in various
trades for pasting paper on to tin or zinc
or even glass, and the tenacity with which
It holds would surprise anyone on making
the first attempt. 1t is cheap and good
musilsge and answers as well as the more
costly cements.