Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1897-12-23
LOCAL AND GENERAL,
No Paper Next Week.

LOCAL AND GENERAL,
No Paper Next Week.
In accordance with our usual custom,
no paper viii be issued from this Office
next week. The next issue of the CITI-
ZEN will appear January 9th, 1898 In
the meantime we wish our readers
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
"a Merry Christmas is the wish send
thee from my heart,
A life full of love. in which no sorrow
finds part.
Or. if some pain fall to thy lot, love
guarded though it be,
Nav He who came at this glad time
then make it bless'd to thee.
Sound over all waters, reach out from
all lands:
The chorus of voices. the clasping OF
hands;
Sing hymns that were sung by the stars
of the morn,
Sing songs of the angels when Jesus
was born Whittier.
Soon here, 1893.
Remember the poor.
Saturday is Christ mas.
Fast disappearing, 1897.
According to the almanac, Winter
begun Tuesday.
The barber shops Of this place will
closed on Xmas.
Kris Kringle is making another re-
cord this week.
The Centreville School Board has
money to loan on first mortgage.
The Collegiate Institute gives an
entertainment Friday evening.
The best year-round sidewalk for
this climate as a plank walk, kept in re-
pair.
-Milch cows and sheep are in de-
mand and can be marketed to advan-
tage.
Look at tie address label of this
paper, and if you are in arrears, please
pay up.
Saturday last was a great Santa
Claus day in Butler, and our storekeep-
ers report immense sales.
Our worthy burgess fined seven
BOYS and scolded four girls for bother
ing the Salvation Army lasses.
The Grand Procession took the
middle Of the road, Monday, but the
Tumble Down Brigade clung to the
sidewalks.
The burglars who took Charley
Duffy's Julius Cesar coins should re-
turn them Charley was proud of that
collection.
The Savings Bank is presenting its
customers with beautiful calanders and
useful pocket books. The National is
also giving some very pretty calanders.
The workmen on the Mercer street
sewer tapped vein of nice, clear, soft
water at depth of about II feet. The
vein Of water il all of seven inches in
I diarneter. and is constantly flowing.
The number of voters in Butler now
now numbers 2462, according to the re-
turns of the assessors, divided among
the wards as follows: 1st 576, I'd 5S2,
3D. 452, 4th 800 and 9Th 424
AT the meeting of the bankers of
the stale in Philadelphia last week they
resolved to build monument to the
memory of Robert Morris, who was
Washington's banker during the Revo-
luton.
Nominations for civil officers of Co.
E. were made last Friday. The election
takes place the first Friday in 1898. The
company will be inspected sometime
during the first three months of the
year.
Did you read the opening chapters
of Treasure Island in last weeks CIT-
IzEN? If not send for copy and read
TIT will interest you. and if you are
not already a subscriber send us 81 and
get the CITIZEN year.
John Shanors new milk wagon is
copied after that of Harry st. Clair's
of Indiana, Pa, and was built by Beck
of that town. 1t cost 5000 and better,
and it is very convenient wagon for
the business.
Christmas evening the Y. M. G. Il.
team will play the second team of the
Sharpsburg Y. M. G. A. basketball
game in the gym. The Sharpsburg
team played here last winter in the first
game ever played in Butler
Tuesday evening Dec. 2S grand
musical entertainment will be held in
the " nj. G. A. auditorium for the ben
eft of Rev. w. FL. Collins, the retiring
Baptist minister. Arrangements are il
the hands of w. w. Walton. Mis-,
Ritts of st. Petersburg will sing.
Butler county's college boys ant
girls are home for their Christmas vaca
tion, and large numbrr there is o
them, too. How much better it woulC
be if first class college was located il
the county that could take care of tn
education of our youths in every line
and keep them near home at the sam
time.
Keeping a diary, like writing for
paper will improve both your gramma
and spelling Some people begin whel
they are young and keep it up for years
and their old diary not only furnishe
them with record of events, but ais
advises them of the changes that tim
makes in their point of view" Hcy
is this for an entry made by n school
boy MY dog died today, so did papa.
As each succeeding Christmas az
proaches, the weary receiving clerks a
the post office begin to look with suspi
cion upon the coy maiden who writes
10th century hand and usually appear