Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1898-09-15
-"Longings for luxury.


will sometimes give up tobacco for
three weeks after they are married.
-Martincourt & Co, now have their
weighing and measuring Machine in
their store on E. Jefferson St and you
can get ticket there
Hastings Hospital train went down
to Washington last week and took some
sick members of the 18th Reg, among
them Earl Thompson of Butler and E.
d. Hamilton of Sonora to Pbil'a hos
pital
The color of the paint on battle
ships has suggested a new tint to the
silk manufacturers, and for the fall
trade we will have dress goods, ribbons
and other stuffs in a shade that will be
called battle-drag. 1t is lead color.
The boys are always thankful for
any Information that will enable them
TO get ahead of a slot machine A
youngster recently discovered that by
putting mucilage on a cent and drop
ping it into the slot of music box,
the machine would run until it run
down, and when wound up would con-
tinue to run until the machine was
opened and tine cent removed The
idea isn't patented.
They were discussing the future
he gaszed into her liquid eyes of pale
blue and asked her if she would always
love him. Certainly" said the palpi-
tating young maiden, "can you not
trust me?" He was rising young
grocer and from force of habit he de-
INJURED NO" he said my terms
are strictly cash and | cannot trust
you" Tne absent-minded answer
spoiled the VIII ole business.
Our Town Council will hold an ad-
journed meeting at their usual place,
the Office OF j. d. McJunkin Esq IN the
Reiber building next Tuesday evening
the Goth. when and where all persons
who take an interest in the proposed
granting of street car franchises to any
company may attend if they see proper,
and help to discuss the matter. A
Warren Pa, company is asking for the
whole town without reserve and with
out compen sation
The Base Ball season in Butler end
ed last week with halo of glory oyer
the Bntler club. After the manager
added our own and only Rube to the
aggregation of foreign dukes and
princes from Punxsutawney and else
where that composed the club, it be-
come invulnerable and their last enemy
fed the town in dismay The club dis
banded. They were the best set of fel-
lows that have ever played under the
name OF Butler, we hope to see them
again next year.
I've had an awful time, said his
wife as soon as he got home. THE
clothes-line broke the bSby choked on
q tdtf- uilli hC was DiutI IuC Ibb BOb
her head fast in the cream pitcher and
we had to break it off-the pitcher /
mean The grocery boy sassed Mary
Jane till she cried and tried to scald
him, and missed him and took all the
hair off the dog. and / burned my
thumb to crisp, and nearly every wo-
man / know ON earth took this day Of
all others to call Anything else to-
dayl' asked the dry goods clerk absent
ly.
The 18th Reg. was taken from
Washington to Camp Meade near Har
risburg. last Friday night
They left Washington that evening
and were first taken to Philadelphia,
then to Reading and then to Middle
town, then marched six miles in the
dust, to somewhere near their location
in a clover and weed field, where
they put up their tents, but moved
them three times before the location
was settled The long ride, the dust and
the frost caused a number of the regi-
ment to become ill, and among them
our correspondent, L. II. Negley, who
is in the hospital, victim of chills and
: fever.
During the crush at the p. & w.
station, Thursday, to get on the trair
for thu Fair Grounds, big fat wo
man who surged with the crowd unit
near the steps Of the cars, suddenl,
changed her mind, turned around, sait
she would not be crowded that way AM
pushed out of the crowd. She pnshe'
past Capt. Boggs of Evans City and mo
ment later he noticed that his pocket boo
was gone. J. J. Maxwell felt hand il
his pocket. and spotted his man. Co.
Detective Bell spotted another, and tn
two were taken in charge but they di
not have the stolen books, and Bogg
thinks they were slipped to the obstreT
ero us fat woman. The men wer
taken to Mercer. but the fat woman an
another woman who assaulted detectiy
Bell slipped off.
All Pittsburgh looked like all Gre;
tion-were out last Sunday evening |
welcome home their soldier boys of ii
18th. Reg Liberty avenue from Unio
station down to Sixth street and Fift
Ave {, to Grant were dense masses
\ people. Ropes had been stretcht
along Liberty St, and it was the intel
ton to run the trains down the sire,
and have the regiment disembark clear
the crowd but after the bands and o
ganizations passed up toward the st
tion the people broke over. and Il
whole street was crowded Near the 1t
ton the crowd became so dense th
street Cur travel was abandoned III
boys climbed on top of the cars and
was almost impossible to move fro
one point TO another. The trains we
expected in at 6 p NJ but owing to
wreck on the main line they did n
arrive till 0 p. NJ, when the regimes
disembarked on Liberty, with the crow
surging around and marched up Fif
Ave, and to the Arrnory on Damon
1t was royal welcome to their hon
coming The regiment came home ,
furlough and will be mustered out
thirty days. Claude Ziegler Of Il
LAT Ward Ia n member of IL