Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1897-11-04
LOCAL AND GENERAL,
25th is turkey-day.

week.
Thirty tons of machinery for the
new mill at West Sunbury, have ar
rived
First snow, just few flakes, Sat
urday, October 80.
The defective fue' is still getting
in its work
The P. & w. was hauling water
from the river last week.
L. c. Wick is enlarging his
planning mill. Success to him.
"A big crowd took in the U. V. l..
entertainment last Thursday evening.
ID. w. Humphreys store at Harris
vile was robbed last Wednesday night
M. Freisen has opened Merchant
Tailoring room at 21s S. Washington
street.
They make the genuine Buckwheat
Flower at the Etna Mills, Shepard d
Daugherty. Try sack of it.
Parker Twp. was we'll represented
in Butler yesterday in the School house
Worth Twp. in the bridge case.
The young bicyclist who rode over
pole pussy the other evening says his
mud guard didn't do bit of good.
Don't forget the concert in the
Episcopal church. Friday evening. A
grand programme is being prepared.
The Co. Commissioners have de-
cided to remodel the Jail, and archi-
tect Owsley of Youngstown is making
plans and specifications.
Five members of the family of
John Gephardt, Of Buffalo township,
have lately had typhoid fever and four
of Michael Mochel's
The local Y. NJ. c. A has issued a
very nice prospectus containing infor-
nation of the Association and its ap-
pointments for the coming year
About 220o children are attending
school in Butler at present The aver
age gain for the past few years has
been over hundred year.
The rain taat began last Sunday
night, and continued for about "a hours
ended as long drouth as we have ex-
perienced in the past twenty years.
The sparrows were in high glee last
n Sunday but they could not eat the corn
pn the sidewalks until it was tramped
upon and broken. They cannot swal-
low whole grain.
A Pittsburg man bought a fine
overcoat in Butler last week for $500,
and said he would had to have paid
$24.00 for it in the city. That speaks
well fg our clothing men.
Any person holding return cou-
pons from Port Dover to Niagara as
mementoes of the Point Dover excur-
sion should send them to w. B. Nc
Geary, Butler Pa, and receive Les fol
each coupon.
An exchange refers to golf as dude
shiny" All well regulated youngsters
have played Ghinny, but they would
lick the life out of the boy who talked
about '.snooding guilty out of bunk
er with niblicki
Miss Whites Glasses are desired to
meet for organization at the Y. Nj. c A.
rooms on the afternoon of Friday. Nov
8; the Architecture Class at half past
two: the Literature Glass at three; the
French Glass at half past three; and
promptness on the part of the ladie:
interested will be esteemed favor
"A few of the boys land perhap:
some of the girls) made themselves liza
BILE to punishment for malicious mis-
chief last Saturday night by breaking
gates and windows, pulling down water
spouting, and doing other things thai
will cost somebody something to have
repaired. That's not fun, it's meanness
The new r r bridge over the ALE
gheny is but fifteen feet higher at tn,
southern end than the northern, but al
distance it looks more like thirty o.
forty feet. The bridge is nearly mil'
long, the track on the long span is
about 100 feet above the water, and
one of those heavy ore trains weighs
lore and ALI over A, 900, 900 pounds.
The Boys of the 7S Pa, and others go
ing to the dedication of Pennsylvania
Monuments at Chickamauga Nov. 10Th
will meet at the Union Veteran LegioI
Hall at 5. P. M. Tuesday Nov. 11th- ant
proceed thence to p and W. station tt
take train. which leaves at $40 p. NJ
To those not holding State Transpor
tation. tickets will be sold at $14.25.
The first of the regular monthly
receptions given by the Y. NJ. C. A
during the winter months was attend
ed by about 300 people last Thursda.
evening An excellent program OF
vocal and instrumental music was par
ticipated in by Misses Pugh, Anderson
I and Sutton, Mrs. Lauks and Messrs
Leighner and Gumpper. Miss Daisy
Dale recited very cleverly. Later &
basketball game between the First ant
Second Y NJ. c. A. teams was played
The boys and girls had great spor
corning and beaning each other, an
everybody they passed, last Saturda.
night. 1t was fun for them, and mex
day the sparrows laid in their winte
supplies. Some amusing things haI
pened that evening and perhaps tn
most so one ON the Court House side
walk. AS four white boys passed thre
colored girls, one of the boys threw
handful of corn in the girls faces, an
one of them instantly let her fist fl
agaist the boys nose, knocking hin
back and making his nose bleed. The
the girls passed on laughing.
AS is usual on a rainy day an un
usual number of drunks appeared Of
the streets. Fights and disorderly cor
duct were the natural results. and on
man, named Joint and employed at tn
Muddycreek cut by Broadhead was $
badly used up in fight at the p. g. W
station, that he was supposed to l
dangerously injured