Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1897-09-30
LOCAL AND GENERAL,


e. Cunningham st. will be paved.
Part of Fulton street il closed to
travel.
The cuts on the p & w. to the
north of us are being widened.
-Archy Marshalls s barn near Porters-
vile was burned few days ago.
High School will occupy its new
building on Mexican ST., next week.
Business properties on Main and
Jefferson SITS. are for sale. See adv.
-Chestnuts are coming in and our
grocers are paying 60 cents for them.
Humane officer Skillman has three
cases of cruelty to animals on hands.
If you want to vote this year see
that your taxes are paid by next Satur-
day
The Chicora P. O. and Fetger and
Myers store were lately entered by bur
glars
The voters of Valencia borough will
vote on the borough Indebtedness ques-
ton at the November election.
On Thursday afternoon last the
Standard put the price up one ct.
Dbl. 1t has been standing at 20 since.
There is some consolati on in being
called diamond in the rough, for the
imitation gems are highly polished.
-Vanmeter and McElwee began work
ON Fulton ST. Monday, and are to have
that bit of a street finished in siz
weeks.
On Friday the first football game
in Butler was played between the Sen
iors and Juniors of High School
Neither side scored.
Time works wonders" is what Q
soldier thought when he returned from
India aged 81 to find his twin sister on
ly 81 years old.
"A girl may forgive man for kiss
ing her," says the Philosopher, but she
will never forgive him for not kissing
her when she expects him to"
"A girl may forgive man for kiss
ing her." says the Philosopher, 'bu
she'll never forgive him for not kissing
her when she expects him to.
A young Hambletonian stallion wa
lately stolen from the Hugh Collins
farm in Parker twp, and reward Ii
offered for him.
Some of the West side storekeeper
wash off their side of the street ever,
morning, and they wish the east sid
fellows would follow suit.
with yellow fever in New
Orleans and yellow journalism in New
York" says the Philosopher, there
the deuce to pay in this gloriou
Union.
None of the miners about Hilliar'
have started TO work yet. They ar
holding out for 40 cents, and are offel
ed but 30. They were getting so bt
fore the strike.
The bike race to Petersville. yesteI
day was dusty ride. One of the racer
came in frothing at the mouth, an
another toppled over just after crossinl
the line.
Somehow the word 'wheelwoman
dosen't seem to satisfy some hypercriti
cal persons. A Kentuckian in an en-
deavor to find better word brought
out 'cycladonna.
The gold shaft on the Daubenspeck
in Parker twp, is down thirty feet ]
is 6xs feet inside the timbers Th
shaft has already passed through II
foot vein of coal.
The new Bessie" road will
nominally opened for travel next Nor
day. The stations named in this couI
ty are-Odell, Meherg, Turin ant
Housewife.
Lots of Farmers want TO feed cattl
tnis winter, consequently cattle al
scarce. Grant Ekas passed throug
town with drove bought in the nortI
part of the county. Tuesday.
Mondays Pittsburg papers said
new hotel was to be built as a summe
resort near Butler, and it is reporte
that the new railroad, between Butle
and Punxsutawney. is a dead SUI
thing.
A paunaa Indian annau name