Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1897-11-11
LOCAL AND GENERAL,

When the frost is on the pumpkin,
as our friend Jim Riley sings,
And you hear the turkeys gobble,
then you think you re CROWN wings,
But the world seems even sweeter as
Jim Riley won't deny,
When the turkeys on the table and the
pumpkins in the pie.
Get out your red aannels.
The Pittsburg posy show will be
good for a week or two yet
Mothers in law are preparing for
their usual Thanksgiving visits.
The best fed turkeys in the barn
yard are wearing that worried look.
There il every reason TO believe that
ther will be enough Thanksgiving tur-
key to go around
Several local merchants have been
caught lately by -. counterfeit bills OF
the series Of 1891.
That "amoosin little cuss" in Wul-
ier's show window represents a new
brand of patent medicine.
Last Saturday the personal prop
erty of the Jacob Nicely estate in Frank
lin township was sold at auction.
Most of our hunters return home
via the alley way. The game is too
heavy to carry around to the front door.
"A. Klinordlinger of Pittsburg sold
the Jellison House in Petrolia to Mr..
Puff Of Tylersburg, who is now running
il.
"A tree falling across the p. 3. & l..
z. track few miles south of town de-
layed the freight traffic for several
hours ON Tuesday.
"A Butler man who il getting a
piano from Europe. has learned that
the duty on musical instruments, etc. IL
4J per cent of their original value.
The general merchandise stock of
the late s. s. Forresters store in
Prospect has been closed out at auction
sale preparatory TO settling the estate.
A fire along the Bessie in Clinton
twp, ON the Cooper, Ekas and other
farms last Friday, burned over several
acres Of grass and destroyed some fence.
Our advertising columns show that
our merchants are wide awake and full
of business. They present the attrac-
tions Of their stores in a business man
ner
The State Grange, Patrons Of Hus
bandry, met in Harrisburg. Tuesday
Wednesday. Worthy Master Leonard
Rhoue, made his report, and today Gov
Hastings is booked for an address.
AT the meeting Of the School Board
Of Butler, Saturday evening. a Dis
cipline Committee was appointed to
represent the Board at the trial of Miss
Smith for alleged cruelty to scholar.
The party going to Chattanooga viii
leave town this evening at $40, on the
p. IL W., 20 to Cincinnati tonight OF
the B. 6s o., to Nashville next day, and
TO Chattanooga Saturday. Persons
wanting berths for tonight had better
wire ahead for them.
DO you think this county should
own farm for the accommodation oi
the poor7 If you have not made nj
your mind" on the question. make you
inquiries ard form an opinion, as you
win be expected to vote ON the question
three months hence.
AT the Humane meeting in thu
Court House. Tuesday evening. 10 was
decided to organize an independent 30
ciety in Butler to be called the Butlet
County Humane Society" and obtain Q
charter under the state law. All male
members will contribute " and female
members 81.
s.. q. Purvis & Co.'S. planning mil
Is now running over time in order II
All orders from Phil'a. Theys latel.
completed the mill work for the Higl
School there. are now working ON tina
for eighty fine residences In the north
western part Of the city, and have al
order for n Blind Asylum In Camden
that will keep them busy all winter.
The Prospect Gas and Oil Co. 1
piping Portersville, and that town will
soon be illumina ted with natural gas
1t makes a noticeable improvement ON {
country village especially at night b
have few lights placed along tn,
streets. A. Hoch and son NJ. q. Of Mil
lerstown were in the western part o
the county attending to the work las
week.
Oliver Stougton's octagonal barn
about mile east Of Prospect, is
model dairv stable. A la<ge sill
occupies the centre and fifty or NOR
stalls are built in circle facing il
This way more cattle are comfortabl
gathered than Is possible any other wa
in barn Of equal size, Mr.. Slough
ton operates the Prospect creamer
which has large and increasing trad
in Butler.
The sea Of colors in the Shenle
Park conservatory. known az tn
"Chrysanthemum Show" is well wort
trip to Pittsburg; and while you an
there take look at the new pictures /
the Library building and another at th
new bridge over the ravin'
the steel span of whic
Is $50 feet from end to end (across
while the stone work IL 900 feet
length. with go foot drive and two Il
foot sidewalks II is a beauty and vii
cost, when completed, about $500, 900.
The most interesting article in tn
magazines for this month is somebody
description Of Thomas a. Edison
plant mt Edison n. j (among the hill
Of north ern New Jersey for extractin
iron ore in small particles from san
stone. The plant consists of three larb
buildings in one Of which the stone
crushed into sand: the ore Is extractt
from the sand by the aid Of electricit
or magnetism in the next, and tt
small particles Of ore are compresse
into bricks for use in the smeltir
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