Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1899-09-21
LOCAL AND GENERAL.

LOCAL AND uENEkAL,
Read it.
1t is good.
They that Sit in Darkness.
-Horseblanket patterns.
So. 90 oil is predicted for Xmas.
Stir in the apple-butter market.
Big crowd on our streets Saturday
evening.
Begin our new story, and you will
read it all.
Don't give up until coroners jury
has sat on you.
Most men are no better than they
actually have to be.
Local frosts last Thursday morning
and general Friday morning.
Excursion rates to New York-Sep-
tember % and 30 9-account Dewey Day.
"A Kittanning policeman arrested
his father for drunkenness, the other
day. and locked him up.
The Mercer, Clarion, Dayton,
Greensburg New Castle and Washing
ton, Pa, Fairs occur next week.
C B. Campbell, the West Sunbury
merchant and shipper, expects to ship
5000 bushels of apples to Pittsburg this
fall.
Members of the First Ward running
team have received splendid group
photos. of the team, taken by Mart.
Wagner the artist
Everybody got full at Evans City,
last Thursday full of delicious chicken.
The next reunion of the regiment will
be at Tarentum, October Is, 1900.
They that Sit in Darkness" is an
odd title for the story of adventure in
Northern Australia, the opening chap
ters of which appear in this paper.
West Sunbury Academy's fall term
commenced Tuesday with fifty students
in attendance. Prof Bruce Gill, and
Misses Elizabeth Campbell and Bessie
Wick are the faculty
MOT guilty, and county defendant
or plaintiff) to pay the costs, was the
favorite verdict last week-and it is
somewhat Of a reflection upon our
Justices of the Peace.
During the election ON the bond-is
sue in Pittsburg, Tuesday. the bars of
that city were closed, and those of ALE
gheny reaped rich harvest. The
majority for the issues is about 5000,
and the vote carries about $1,000, 900.
The Mars Lecture Course will be
opened next Monday, the 25th, by Col.
Copeland, who will talk on "Snobs and
Snobbery." There will be six lectures
in the course. and season tickets can be
had of Dr. Barr for 81 90.
"A newly married editor gets off the
following: What's the difference be-
tween honeycomb. honeymoon and
pretty girls A honeycomb is small
cell, honeymoon is a big sell and a
pretty girl is damsel."
The chemicals drained into the
creek by the Plate Glass works have
not only killed the fish but also the
crabs Last week bushels of dead and
dying crabs could be gathered up on the
rocks below Walter mill dam
Broaden Young and Mr.. Glenn, two
enterprising West Sunbury young men,
opened furniture and undertaking es-
tablishment and livery stable in that
town four months ago and have al
ready worked up prosperous trade.
They keep an excellent assortment OF
furniture.
Robert Kidd, administrator OF
James Criswell. late of Adams twp,
will again offer the place near Mars for
sale on Saturday, October 14th next nj
p. IN. 1t is Invaluable property, near
enough to the station to. some day, he
available for town lots.
The part of Negley avenue vacated
for the use of the coming Whitehead
manufactory was the part between the
Fair Ground road called Willow street
and the creek at its second crossing
from town, and not the first crossing
near town. Only about one sixth oil
the avenue was vacated and it was sup
piled.
The Sarvers Station Academy's fal
term began Tuesday with about thirty
students in attendence/ Gardner Lowry
Of Butler. who graduated from Grov,
City College last spring, is principal
and Rev. w. ]. Hazlett is president o
the board of directors The attendanc,
Is better than the promoters expect e,
for this term
1t is related that two young lawyer
were out driving near Butler one da,
last week and on coming to brook
occurred to them that the horse Nigh
want drink. They therefore drov
into the stream and commanded tn
horse to drink, but did not loosen tn
check rein. When they saw the hors
trying to reach the water. they got on
and lifted the back of the buggy so tina
he could get his head down.
-Secty. Carruthers has secured eigh
excellent attractions to make up tn
sixth annual Starr Course of entertain
ments under the auspicies of the Youn
Mems Christian Association. They al
THE Central" Concert Co, Novembe
2; Robert Nourse lecture ON ''Dr. Jekyt
and Mr.. Hyde Slayton Jubilee Sing
ers; Col l.. f. Copeland on ''Handsom
People; Sam p Jones; Elias Day, in
personator Mozart Symphony Club an
Dewitt Miller lecture I'm the Republi
Sufficient Unto Itself.
-WANTED-H Homes for four boy
aged respectively Q, s, Z and g. also on
girl baby. four weeks old. Apply [
Children's Aid Society, Butler
What Heck's prices mean. It's lii
buying goods on the installment pla
and making only the first payment.
FOR SALE-A surry. suitable fl