Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1896-12-03

| A new color is called profanity blue
II is very deep.
| Tho hotel proprietor is generally Inr-
keeping with the public.
The store windows are beginning to
put on holiday appearance,
Hog killing time has come, and
stories Of big porkers are due.
| The man who wants the earth invaria
bly, gets it-when he dies.
Take look at the address tab on your
CITIZEN and see what it says.
The Treble Clef Club will give a con-
cert in the Opera House on January 22d,
| for the benefit of the hospital.
| 1t was cold last night, only 10 above
Eero-l5 Tuesday night and Il Monday
night.
Our grocers are paying Is cents for
butter and eggs, 20 TO 25 for potatoes, %
apples, 3 to a head for cabbage, 20 for
turnips, so for parsnips, 40 for beets and
| onions.
| New Brighton has adopted q curfew
ordinance, requiring children under 10
| years of age to be off the streets in the
| evening Mt 9 o'clock in tie winter and 9:3f
in summer. under penalty Of arrest.
| All the citizens of Butler are invited
to meet in the Court Room, next Wednes-
| day evening at o'clock for the purpose of
| organizing Board of Trade. The people
of Butler should look to the future and Sc
care some more induftries if possible.
The trustees of 6l:pperyrock Normal
have decided to rebuild Chapel Hall. The
building is to be 80 by LOO feet and 20 feet
| high. The outside will be stone ard the
inner wall brick. 1t is to be one-story
high, with tall stesple. The house will
cost $35, 900 and be built as early nextyear
| as the weather will allow.
1t ia said that President Cleveland
last Thanksgiving proclamation contain ed
the only reference to Christ ever made
by President in public document.
Here it is ''And let us, through the medi-
stion of Him who taught rs how to pray,
implore the forgiveness of our sins and
a continuation of heavenly favor.
Anxiety and worry are the friction of
the soul, irritating, disorganizing and
wearing out the delicate machinery OF life.
They dim the brightness and sour the
sweetness OF what might otherwise be the
hsppiest life. They repel sympashy, alien
ate friendship and destroy love. They
are productive Of no good, and work olly
evil both to self and others.
Up on the Riddle farm near Karns
City, one day last week, some men cut
down tree. The tree caught on d smI Iller
| one and was thrown into ravine, through
which an unprotected, 6-inch pipeline
passed or crossed. The tree hit the line
and cracked it, and about 100 bbls. of
| crude escaped before the pumps could be
stopped and the leak mended. " hose
loss is itf
When the people of Butler went to the
postofice Monday they found that lis in
terror had been transformed into dream
| of beauty and marvel of convenience.
New boxes new furniture, new decks. new
eyerything-and everything handsome and
convenient. There are now some four
hundred boxes, with combination locks,
-. rif
tributing desks, etc.
"A Business and Professional Mems
Carnival is to be held in Park Theatre on
Dec. IL and 18th. TO be given under the
auspices Of the Christian Endesyor Society
of Grace Lutheran Church, and under the
direction of Rev. e. Ii. Slaugh enhoupt, of
Tarentum. Already large number of
the leading firms Of Butler have been en-
listed in the project, and the sntertain-
| ment promises to be one of unusual attrac.
| tion and interest.
What is money anyway An OK
change gives the following definition of
the various class of men earning il. The
horney handed man calls it "pay," the
skilled mechanic "wages, "the city clerk
"sslary,". the banker "income," land
owner trent bill, lawyer "fees," burg
ular "swsg," the politician "boodls,' the
confidence man "green goods" aud the
j news boy "stuff," but it all comes to the
same at the snd of the week.
"A farmer in an Oregon paper says:
every year hear Of caterpillars destroy
| ing whole orchards, and there is nothing
| to be disposed of more easily. | bore
hole In the tree deep enough TO reach the
sap, fill it with sulphur and then plug it
up. The result is magical. The sap
takes the sulphur to every branch and
twig and the caterpillar at once dies |
have never known the remedy to tail and
l never knew tree to be injured BY it,
and have pursued this course Tor years
Our County Commissioners returned
last Friday from Reading, whore the
County Commissioners Convention was
held in the Berks county Court house. The
convention was in session two days, during
which great many subjects We're discuss
ed, and some resolutions passed regarding
some proposed new laws and cha ges in
laws which will be presented to tie next
Legislature, and action urged upon them
The next meeting or convention will be
held in Gettysburg, time not fixed.
"A practical women Of this town re-
marked the other dag that she read the ad-
vertisements in newspaper more closely
than anything else. "And long ago." she
said, ~ quit buying of those who do not
advertise. II always seems to ms that the
merchant who advertises invites mo TO
trade with him, while the one who does
not advertise impresses me with tho idea
that he doesn't care enough for my trade
to ask for it. Then too / know that the
merchant who advertises has fresh goods
for the reason l suppose he sells more"
, The season is here when humane
agents Of the various towns should look
carefully for horses that are allowed to
: stand out in the weather without proper
} blanketiug, and where case il found the
owner Of the animal should be punished.
There is nothing more disgraceful than 10
see horse left tied to post out ia the
snow and cold without blanket over il
while the owner ia loaGDg around store