Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1895-11-21
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Notice to Correspondents.

Asn next Thursday is Thanksgiving Day
we will publish on Wednesday, and ask
all our corresp ondents to mail their items
on kond ay.
Borough politics next.
The season of dances is at hand.
A days length at present is about 10
hours.
Scotch plaids and Scotch whisky are
in vogue.
The greatest fstterer is the wise pho
toTrspher.
1T is unkind to refer to the temperance
lecturer as q waterspout.
Some pheasants shot near MurrinsYille
were in msrket this week al IS cents q
pair.
y esterdsy. Wednesday, Nov. 20, 1895,
was our frst wintry day. Make note of
il.
The merchant who sdvertises his
gowns "one-hAH off" probaly refers to the
decollete affairs.
e. J. Nixon will have sale of stock,
farm machinery. hay, etc, on the Nanny
farm, near Kenfrew, next Monday.
a Golden eagle that measures feet
4inches, from tip TO tip was lately shot by
q. B. Patterson Of Mars
Frank Kemper has opened harness
shop ON 4. Cunningham st., No. Ill.
where he will make repairing specially
He will pay cash for hides.
-Kummer d Rsiber's meat market has
been in blaze Of glory and patriotism for
some days past; and their prices on meats
home dressed meats exclusively.
"A father snd two sons living near
Wexford, Allegheny county. we're lately
bitten by . mad dog: A lady of that vi
oinity lately died from hydrophobia, IS
noted in our Neighborhood Notes.
The big engine, next the door, at the
electric light plant, makes the electricity
for the street lamps, and the three smaller
engines that for the arc lights. There are
three are light circuits.
Our grocers are paying % for butter,
20 for eggs, rs tor potatoes, SO to 60 for
apples, Is for turnips, II cents pound for
cabbage, so for parsnips. 60 for onions and
10 to Is each for squsshes.
The usual Thanksgiving dinner will be
given to children on Thursday, Nov. 2S,
at $50 p. m. Citizens desiring to contrib
ute will please leave donations at the W.
q. T. U. rooms on West Jefferson St., on
that day.
Every country church, every grange
hall, and every place where public meet
ing are held, should have place to shell
tor horses and vehicles as well as men and
women. The horse should be made COM
Portable as well as his master. A merciful
man is merciful to his beast.
AT the meeting of the County Medica
Society in room 3. of the Reiber building,
Monday evening, paper on medical elec-
trioity was read by DR.. Thomas of Balo-
win; several propositions for new members
were considered. and the Society adjourn.
cd TO meet ON the second Tuesday oil Janu-
ary next. when 1t will have its annual
meeting, election OF officers, banquet, etc.
The goose bone ia nearly all white
this year, and those who know say the
result will be that the snow will be on the
ground from early December until late in
April. A long, cold winter, filled with
clustering storms, is ahead. There arr
other things that confirm this. Corn husk
are unusually thick and wood chucks ant
chipmunks are already fat enough to kill
We have made special arrangement
which enables us to offer The Ohio Farmer
the leading Agricultural, Live Stock ant
family journal Of this country, and tn Cit
isen both papers one year, for only $l.sO
The Ohio Farmer is 20-psge, S0colum
weekly, every way able. and pure in botl
reading and advertising columns. 1t aim
to help make the farm pay. For fire.
sample copy send address on postal I
Ohio Farmer, Cleveland, Ohio.
One hundred hand five members @
Post los, G. A. R., put in an appearance
At their hail in Butler, last Friday ever
ing, and, after inspection and some speeche
marched to the W. g. T. U. Hall, there t
partake of an oyster supper, prepared b
the ladies Of the Relief Corps, and tha
they enjoyed 1t was shown by their heart
ard unanimous sxpression..st its close. III
now thirty years since the war ended
Appomatox, and some of its veterans ar
hoary headed old men, and yet whe
they come together on these occasion
they are again the men and boys OF 1865.
Some OF our operators are interestin
themselves in the oil fields of Floyd, Pike
Knott and other eastern counties of Ker
tucky-a mountainous district, where o
is obtsined at about the same depth, an
from the same strata as in this county. I
70 there they take the boat at Pittsburg
Catlettsburg. and then another and smal
boat up the Big Sandy to point abor
40 miles from Prestonburg, which is reaci
cd by stage, and which Is the centre of OF
erations In that section at present. Th
people there are typical monntaineers, an
rather rough.
The undertakers of this state are no
compelled by law to take out licens
Under the provisions of this act, whic
was passed by the last legislature, ell III
dertaksrs doing business in tie cities
the State are required to take out licen'
prior to December of this year, and a
those who have commenced the busine
since June z. as well as those who her
after take itup, will be req uired to pass a
examination 90 to their fitness before sue
license can be issued. This act is of muc
more Importance to the general public tina
many would at first suppose, as the exam
ination will require all applicants to hsv
athOrough knowledge of sanitary law
disinfections, and the thorough preparatio
Of the dead, SO az to prevent the spread
disease Rapid strides have been made i