Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1896-11-19
LOCAL AMI GENERAL;
After the [ioot] ball is over,
After the field IS clear.

After the field is clear.
Straighten my nose and shoulder,
And help me to find my ear.-Ex.
AT Chicago last Friday December
wheat sold at s1t and "Msy" at S5s.
"A promise to pay is worthless witho u {
the ability to make the promise good.
1t is quite natural that the man who
likes to air his views should blow about
them.
IF slvortising is any good, and all
bnsiness men say it is, the good Of it is in
good deal of it.
whilst the price of rye is going up
there are many persons who persis. in put
ting it down.
The parlor lamps complaint: every
time that girls best y oung man turns up,
I get tur,. down.,
The :. ~ we begin this week will run
about twp months, and our story-readers
will fin. 4; very interesting.
-Inyitations have bsen issued for a
dance on Thanksgiving evening, in the
ArInory Hall, by the Atlantis Club.
The P. & W. --braksmea have lately
been taking Instructions regarding the air
brakes at a school at Bennett.
The great fight for home and native
land and postofices has already begun in
this county.
Every presidential election in turn is re-
ferred TO as ''the hardest political battle
the country has ever known"
"A heavy dew, one that would thorough
" wet your Shoes was on the grass yes
terday morniDg-Nov. Is, 1896.
Extensive Improvements in the p, S.
d L. e. R. r. are said to be projected, and
sAong them large car yards in Butler and
st HarrisYille station.
The only jary ont all night this week
was the one on the gas explosion case
nom Wick. In this case ten stubborn
fellows could net agree with the other two.
As the election is over, the best subject
to discuss just now would be turkey, espec-
iall7, one stuffed with oysters and "served
to turn" Thanksgiving Day, you know,
will soon be here.
Doctors gay that there are two things
which cause diphtheria quicker than any
thing else, q cesspool and decsying veget-
ables. Don't throw vegetable, or animal
matter or fruit parings iuto the closet.
Kalamazoo celery sells in our mark cts at
10 cents for 8 stalks. The enterprising
Hollanders who settled that part of Mich
ign earn half million dollars every year
raising celery.
Have you seen the splendid picture of
the Court House now on exhibition in the
show window of the Boyd drug store. 1t
was made and framed by Mr. Fisher of the
Butler Dye Works.
The stores of jordan q Co. and Kerr
d Sons, and the office of Hooks q Clark at
Mars were entered and robbed last Mon
day night; Spence, Booth & Co.'S and Car
ruthers & Co.'S. safes at Gallery ere blown
open same night.
"A boy with dime novel sticking out
Of his pocket, on being asked how old he
was, took the cigarette from his mouth
and replied: "I'm five at home, six at
school and four OH the cars, but don't you
give it away"
DIR. J. e. Faux now has elegantly
furnished and completely equipped dental
rooms on the second floor of the Bickel
building. DR.. Faulk has been in Butler
but year or SO, yet his reputation es
dentist has spread SO rapidly that he now
has very large practice.
The largest mirror il this country is in
the dining room Of the Hotel Savoy, New
York city. 1t is said the proprietors take
mean advantage of human weakness by
ordering ths head waiter to seat women in
fro2t Of it. They saved in six months on
the meals the cost of the mirror.
IA wornan came in and asked for con-
summated lye," said the grocer's new boy
with grin. "You didn't try to correct
hor, did youf" asked the grocer. "Mei
Nav. Pm on to me job better than that. /
just handed her box of consecrated lye,
and didn't say q word"
Some changes were made in the P.
r. r. time table last Monday. The trains
leave Butler as heretofore, but che after.
nooa traiu now leaves Allegheny at 2:35,
or % minutes earlier than heretofore;
and the only trains leaving Butler that
make connections for Blairsville and the
East are the morning or 6:25 a. m, and the
2:45, m.
-A"New man" social is the latest thing
out In the way of church entertainments.
The ladies invite the gentlemen to meet at
one OF their homes. and each one is given
task, such as sewing on button, cutting
spattcrn for some kind os garment, writ
ing q recipe for making coffee, aud doing
other house work 1t is said to afford
much amusement and bring in the money.
A man galloped up to doctors office
the other night alb ut 10 o'clock, and asked
for the doctor, and hc told crowd of men
who gathered around that child was
choking to death with the Group. One
OF the besG remedies for Group is in nearly
everybody's home all the time. It is or
dinary lamp oil. Try spoon full or two
oft the next time your child has a bad
cold.
The visit OF Department Commando,
Darte of the G. A. R. to Butler, with his
staff, last Thursday, was the occasion of
campfire being held in the Court
House that evening, with addresses
by Messrs Darte, Morrison, Lover
ing, Sample aud Others Capt Dart,
Il strongly in favor of a union or fusion Of
the u. A. X. and U. V. L. He said "w,
saved this country and it is ours.D bn
he thinks they would do better in holiint
possession with but one organization.
"A gentleman recently received the
following copy of an inscription on grav,
stone in 40 Old churchyard in England
with the request that be decipher it:
"BENE
A. T. u. TIL. ISST
ONERE pos EFT