Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1897-12-09

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Side Tracked" Friday night.
Christmas two weeks from tomor-
row.
---r l-sts5ide Tracked at the Opera
House, Friday night
The Wisner alley from jefferson to
North ST. is to be paved.
The best family medicine is large
doses of good example.
The paving of the Boulevard de
Fairview is completed
The production of the hens skill is
gradually increasing in price.
No matter how the weather starts
in, it usually ends up with rain.
Pay all the bills you can; put mon
ey in circulation; help on prosperity,
If young lady is a bud, then an
old maid must be full blooming crys-
anthemum.
We printed nu mber Of extra cop
les of the Poor House law last week and
there are some left.
4 The local Humane Society will
II meet for organization in the Court
House Friday evening.
1t is the easiest thing in the world
to criticise the faults of others, but the
most difficult to discover our own.
The man who is always complain
ing of the weather makes himself
miserable and has hard road to travel.
Sunday Schools are getting ready
for the annual Christmas treat and the
small boys are answering present every
time.
The Ariel Ladies Sextette, third Of
the Y. NJ. c. A. Star course, will enter
tain in the Park Theatre next Tuesday
evening, Dec. Ia
Mercer will settle the tramp ques-
tion by having all vagrants in the coun,
ty Jail and borough lookup pound stone
for street macadam.
"A Montgomery county farmer is
puzzled by a hen that lays eggs, the
yokes Of which when hard boiled turn
blue and taste like cinnamon.
The Bessemer railroad has ordered
ten new engines from the Pittsburp
locomotive works, two of them t.
weigh more than 10 tons each.
Ten thousand people crowded il
and around the first Presbyterian
church of Pittsburg last Sunday to lis
ten to Evangelist Dwight l.. Moody.
There is evidently something very
wrong whens a man wearing glasses
falls over wheelbarTow and ther
takes then. off to see what he fell over
On wager Of ten bushels Of pota
toes Mrs. Barbara Evans, aged 6s, o.
Elk county, chopped down three largs
pine trees and cut them into cord WOOD
In day.
Gold qrartz that assays $3.50 to the
ton Is reported to have been taken from
m oil well at billiards, az depth OF
l9s foot. A New Castle man makes
the report
The people Of Butler have done no
bly, on sidewalks this year, considering
the vast amount OF grading that had t.
be done. but there are yet some danger
GUS places, and these were reported Il
Council, Tuesday evening
-C.N Boyd opened his Drug Store
in Butler ON the 10th of December 1887
Tomorrow il the 10th anniversary Of tn
event, and he asks his friends to dro]
in on him ut the store between tn
hours Of 2 and 4.30 p. NJ and try hi
latest dope" trade smiles and max
merry.
The Odd Fellows Of Butler will
hold an open meeting in the Oper'
House next Monday evening. to which
all good Citizens are invited. Tn
meeting will celebrate the 55th ami
versary Of the organization Of. the Con
noquenessing Lodge in Butler.
The Elks had the stage Of the Ope
IA House beautifully decorated for las
Sundays services, and those Of them oi
1t faced large audience. Ad Bell pre-
sided, the opening ode was sung by tn
choir; K. J. G. Grohman sang the teno
solo Babylon; and remarks were mad
by w. A. Forquer, F. II. Murphy, F.
Gosser and A. N. Hunter; w +. Huf
sang the bass solo, Jerusalem; the Apol
10 club, Come Unto Me; Messrs Davis
Baxter and Huff sang, After Death, an,
the choir under lead OF Prof Davis san
the closing ode.
The people Of Clarion are delighte
with their present transportation facili
ties. IL you doubt 1t read this from tn
Clarion Republican. 1T makes on
laugh to read the different remark
made by our exchanges about the raj
road leaving Clarion. They seem {
imagine that we are grieving, that W
are forlorn and an isolated town. The
don't seem to understand the case a
all II is the people Of Clarion who ar
laughing For long time we hav
been using every means in our power
have the road terminate in the suburbs
The incessant rush Of the locomotive
continually coming and going, supply
ing the material for numerous manufa,
tories and taking the finished produc
to market, the dirt from the smoke @
the mogul engines the everlasting rus
and hurry has long shocked the aristo,
recy Of Clarion and having at last sur
ceeded in pursuading the authorities {
the Pittsburg Il Western to Withdraw
to more respectable distance from th
business centre Of the town Is gran
victory for our splendid city. and il
stead Of mourning we are rejoicing