Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1897-10-28
LOCAL AND GENERAL,

can secure their receipt books at the CITI.
ZEN Office.
LOCAL AND GENERAL,
This time last year it was showing.
Heavy snow storms in Colorado and
Nebraska yesterday.
Man is made of dust-at least some
women think their husbands are.
Ore trains are now running over
the new road to the mills at Home
stead.
A Mercer county apple tree is in
full bloom, the third time since
spring.
Last week water was worth 80 cents
barrel in Penn twp, Westmoreland
county.
The Ohio, below Davis Island dam,
is said to be so low that one can wade
across it.
The Deestrict Skule was the best
thing that struck Butler for along time
it brought rain.
Last Thursday night there was a
very pleasant change from fire to rain.
Let it rain some more.
The average man who claims to be
the architect of his own fortune never
gets the foundation finished
Large pipes for water are being put
into w. North ST., and the street will
probably be paved next summer.
A large new incandescent gas light
adds to the brightness of Walkers Mod
ell Cigar Store on s. Main street.
When wife hears dull thud on
the doorstep late at night, she knows
that that lodge" has adjourned.
"A postofice called Sherwin, has
been established at the Sherwin mines
in Clay twp. with Samuel Sherwin as
P. M.
John Stems new building is near
ing completion; and he has two splendid
store e-rooms and FIVE suits of offices to
rent.
A French countess has married a
New England school teacher who has
salary of $1,000 year. This is turning
the tables
We print on our. fourth page, this
week, the game law in full; it should
be cut out and saved by every hunter
in the county.
A couple Of fellows over in Green's
burg came to blows the other day dur
ing discussion as to which is the hind
end" of cook stove.
Is it proper to say there is no news
nf there are no news.-[Warren Mir
Dr. If in doubt, just say there ain t
bny ynews-Franklin News.
The season is now at hand when
he hunter pulls his gun through the
/fence by the muzzle and let's daylight
through himself or the other fellow.
A brown horse weighing about 1900
pounds was stolen from the barn of
ESQ. Hutchman of near Mars. The
thief is thought to have headed for
Beaver county.
While circus was exhibiting at
Collegiate, o. the snake cage was upset
and broken and 400 suakes escaped
among the crowd. Panic ensued and
several people were bitten.
The machinery for j. E. Zicrick's s
new steam laundry on W. Cunningham
st. has arrived and is being but in
place. Mr.. Zickrick expects to have
the laundry in operation by Nov. 1st.
The engineer corps now surveying
the Allegheny river is within six miles
of this place, The boat and crew of
seven men, whose duty is to remove all
obstacles from the surveying corps. ar
rived here Thursday afternoon. n.-Em-
1enton Herald.
John D. Albert of Franklin town
ship harvested 677 bushels of buck
wheat. 511 of oats 10a of cloverseed,
200 Of potatoes and about 80 of wheat.
This is certainly good production for
Butler county farm. The work was
nearly all done by Mr.. Albert and his
son, d. Fl.
We notice that an effort Is being
made to save some Of the shade trees by
undermining and lowering them. The
wholesale destruction of these trees has
been the most painful result of paving
.our streets, and every tree that can be
.shoulc be saved.
The Electric Light Co. is placing
iron boxes on their sfreet-lamp poles.
These boxes contain what they call
converter" things that reduce the
current from 1000 volts to no." which
will allow of the use of smaller wires
The poles are to be relieved of the
weight of several tons of copper.
The ore train that passed over the
new road, Monday, consisted of 81
steel cars containing 1915 tons of ore
The train left Conneaut Harbor Sunday
night and reached North Bessemer
Monday afternoon. 1t was hauled by
one of the big locomotives built for thil
service.
You sometimes meet man who il
response to your request for an adver
tisemeut fakorms you that nobody read
the ads in newspaper anyway. Tha
man is right. The nobodies do not reat
the advertisements in newspaper o
anything else for that matter. Nelthe
do babes. dudes nor idiots. But ever.
independent man and woman consult
the columns of a newspaper in order +
economically satisfy their wants.
There's no sense in boarding gold
every bank in Butler has from $1,000
to $40, 900 of it on hands and will Civ
it to you in exchange for paper if yo,