Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1896-01-09

| L ntll DOtu OF t1c eFAs Ae tIleS.
Eight Bells Jan. 10.
No changes in the markets, this week
Don't miss Eight Bells at Park Thea
tre, Wednesday, January 18th,
Commencing jan 18Th, Burton, the
olotLier will have a 80 days sacrifice sale
See his adv. next week.
Don't fail to, see the 0ctorooD, By local
talent, in the Opera House next Monday
night. Secure your seats at Reinemans.
An exchange says that the worst thing
about some men is that whenever they
have a wrestle with their conscience, they
| invariably come OF victorious.
| Every election district in the State
will have to elect constable at the Feb
ruary election, and in addition all the
boroughs will have to elect high constables.
The story eatitled "An Artist in
Crime, which we viii begin next week,
| will be found to be an unusually interest
| ing one. See announcements elsewhere.
| Stein d Son advertise an immense
bargain sale of Dry Goods for five days
only, beginning next Tuesday and contin-
uing during the week.
| As we make practice of settling all
accounts at the close OF the year, commenc-
| ing the new year with clean ledger, We
trust all our subscribers who are owing US
will kindly remit or call at the office and
settle.
A petition is in circulation in Erie
asking the school board to provide the
city with a free library. Each subscriber
agrees to furnish number Of books to the
| library. By the act of June %, 1895,
school boards in this State are empowered
to providet free public library and main
tain the same by taxation.
AT its meeting of Monday evening,
the Council directed its Secretary to lraw
an order for s5, 600, in favor Of the contrac-
tor who paved Miffiin St. and decided to
| buy 800 feet Of new hose for the fire
| companies. A properly signed petition
for the paving of n. Mexican st. was pre-
sented and referred to the paving Com
mittee. A proposition to build a new lock-
up was considered favorably, and other
| business attended to.
A sure remedy for the relief OF chok-
| ing is this: To Immediately reverse the up
right position of the body with head down
and with body supported bv the hands
| and the feet elevated, when instant relief
will be obtained and the obstruction viii
| fall iImt he mouth. child can be seiz-
Fed by the legs, and head turned down,
and relief W Il be- instantaneous. A knowl-
edge iof,this may save life in such an
emer gency.
AT half past four of Monday after noon
Undertaken Berkimer ordered by tele-
phone a pillow and cross of cut flowers
for the funeral of Jos Lavery Jr., of Penn
twp. from the firm of A. NJ. 81 j. IL,
Murdoch of Pittsburg, and they were.in his
storeroom at Pm. That was quick
| work considering that the flowers are
| arranged after the der is received. The
| flowers cost $25., and the casket ordered
| for the same funeral was valued at $135.
Evans City dedicated its handsome
| new brick school-house last Monday. The
| town was crowded with people, and 30
was the Opera House that afternoon, where
re marks were made by Prof. Murphy, Su-
| perintendent Mccullough, Newton Black
| and David B. Douthett; and Prof. Murphy
| lectnred in same place that evening. The
| exercises of the day we're under the super
vision of w. G. Douglass and Allison
Douthett. The school-house is one of the
best in the county; it contains six large
rooms, with every modern convenience,
and cost the town $12, 900.
A really contented man, one who has
the opportunity OF acquiring considerable
| wealth, but will not stretch out his hand
to take advantage of it simply because he
has all he wants, is said to exist on Sol
dier creek, near the Illinois river, 90
miles west of Kirby, Or. He is W. d..
L
from which he leisurely pounds out $40
or s12 day. Under proper development
the le3ge would yield rich returns, and
Miller has had many offers to bond, sell,
form stock companies, lease and make
the most of his property, but he declines
all. He lives alone, his wants are few,
and he says: 1.-THE ledge will stay there.
I own it. I'm independent as a hog on
ice, and I'm happy and cOntented to stay
just as l am"
| We have lately had some very cold
| nights-nights when the mercury stood
near zero and the wind was blowing and
you could not hsye slept out of doors if
you had tried. This time last year we
were having long cold spell; and during
1t couple of New Yorkers a writer and
| artist went to Edmundton, a fur trading
town two hundred miles north of a station
on the Canadian Pacific and reached. by
rail, and from there walked thousand
miles northward in company with Indian
guides, with dogs and sleds to carry provi-
sions, to the barren grounds to hunt the
musk-ox. The artist hurt himself and had
to turn back, but the writer kept on; and
he says lin mis- articles now running in
Harpers Magazine) he slept out night after
night, with the meTcuiy so degrees below
zero, but he was clothed in fur.