Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1895-10-17
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Plant q tree tomorrow.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.
PLANT tree tomorrow. 1.
-CIsrgymen are busy tying nuptis
kEots.
Creased trousers are no longer fashion
able.
The bicycle girl doesn't care whether
her bloomers bag at the knees or not.
The big pumpkins you see around
town were raised by Pierce Bros.
Swinging on the gate" is now trans
ferrcd to sitting by the stoye."
--Suorg drink keeps some people down
in the world, and helps. other people to
get ahead.
No matter how 8 range 1t may seem,
good joke is only appreciated when it is
cracked.
Plant fall advertisements now il you
want to reap an early and good crop of
customers.
The planning mill Of J. d E. Dumbach
in Evans City is now lighted by electricity
of their own making.
Some men are so constituted that
they can sit around all day and not feel the
least bit exhausted at night.-Ez.
Our Pennington correspondent notes
the price of butter and eggs in his town.
That's good idea. In this case COM
parisOus are useful
Our boys were badly treated at Allan
ia. They won second place in the hose
race, and then bad their place taken from
them for some trumped up reasons
How about the label on your paper.
If it don't look right to you step into the
Office, make small deposit and we will
ace that in a short time it Is changed
If you want to give pleasure to the
pretty woman, do not talk to her Of her
own beauty, but Of the ugliness OF other
women-Teras Siftinqs.
AT the session of the Lawrence county
Teachers Institute, held last week, reso-
lutions were passed favoring high schools
in each township.
The firm of Hsrtzell d Kemper made
voluntary assignment for the benefit Of
their creditors last week. Lew Cochran is
the assignee.
A very safe plan for persons to follow
In try ing to find what they want and where
to get it at the most advantageous terms is
to read the advertisements in the CITIZEN.
We lately heard new cure for catarrh.
A friend tells us that he mixes parts of
water with part of alcohol and snuffs ii
mp his nose, and that 1t relieves him In q
few days.
While you are reading do not overlook
the ads. You will find them interesting.
There is always something new in the. bus
iness columns of the CITIzIs. Never q
week but what new ads. appear.
The newspaper man learns not TO ex-
things be may say about other people, but
to gain nndying enmity If he mildly criti-
cises even their most glaring faults.
Jos. r. Ziegler will be the auc.ioneer
ct the sale at Ars. Catharine Dambaugh's
In Connoquenessing twp. on Wednesday
next, at 10 q. m, and Jas. R. Kearns at that
of Mat. Hinchbergsr In Jefferson twp, on
| Tuesday the 10th.
Every farmer should have good sgri-
cultural paper ss part Of his winter reading,
and we can recommend the Cxltirator and
Country Gentleman 1t is high priced
paper, $3.50 q year, but we can club in
with the CIrIzEH, at $2.75 per year for
both.
The Citizens Gas Co. is drilling anoth-
or well on the John Cranmer. Clarence
Double had an odd experience taking q
water tank up to 1t the other day. He got
the tank up the hill all right. but when he
dumped it, it rolled down the hill, jumped
Q fence and road, and landed in q potato
/ patch in the valley.
1t is now claimed that electricity beats
anti toxine in the treatment of diphtheria.
DR.. J. W. Wsss, OF West Pullman, ILL.,,
makes that claim. He applies electricity
to the throat, and alleges that the treat
ment has been successful in large number
Of virulent cases.
akn1 BAD thn
house Of VIM. Richardson, near Gallery, q
few nights ago. Mr.. Richardson lately re-
ceiYed some money from the Pension Dept
and these men called late at night, over
powered him, looked for the money but did
not find 1t, and then left hastily.
An Ohio man has di scovered O new
method of increasing the production OF
small OIL wells. With the aid of pipe
made for the purpose, he introduces
hydrochloric acid in large quantities int o
the rock. The acid eats into and dissolves
the rock, the refuse Is then pumped out,
and q pocket or cavern left, in which the
oil can accumulate.
-Mifiin st. 10 now paved TO New Castle
st. 1t is o beautiful street, and II would
pay some Of the property owners along II
and Jefferson streets to pave tho short
pieces Of street betwesn the two. The
water pipe has been extended to the end
Of the paved street, and plug put in, and
tie fiat part Of Duffytown now has fire
protection.
From $50 to 300 Presby yterian Minis.
ters and elders of Pennsylvania are In town
and the Synod opened in the Presbyterian
church, this morning at IL, with an address
BY Rev. j. P. e. Xumler, moderator foi
the past year. This afternoon the moder.
stor for the coming year, will be elected,
and as there are several we'll known candi.
eates, the election will be interesting.
The Deputy Seo'y Of Agriculture has
hxed the date for the Farmers Institute In
Butler for March 4th; Armstrong Go. March
I'd; Beaver, 9th; Lawrence, 9th; Mercer,
llth, and Vensngo 18th. Allegheny Co.
Feb. 24th. A considerable reduction has
been made in the amount Of money allow.
ID to each local manager below that Of
last year. This has been made necessary