Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1899-01-05
LOCAL AND GENERAL,

Bills and pills
80 is ''up to date.
Sing ninety and nine.
All Butler had skate OF" Satur
day.
Now mark yourself down and get
to work.
The Grip Nip is the latest popu-
lar drink
The Harrisburg bill-mill has resum
ed operations.
Talking about Christmas trees,
O'Brien's was the light Of the town.
Our Water Co. is extending its
lines over Duffytown and Institute Hill.
"A recruiting officer for the regular
army will visit Butler this month or
next.
Part of our correspondence is cur
tailed this week on account of lack of
space.
"A substantial new bridge is being
built on the wagon road over the small
run at Branchton Station.
There are seven thousand seven
hundred and seventy seven different
remedies for the grip Which one have
you tried?
Now that the ought to- buy-ogra-
ply" for the season is closed you want
to recuperate, and pay your debts as
soon as possible.
The Demand for c. e. Miller's 1899
Calendar has been so great that the
supply is exhausted, no more orders
can be filled.
The year 1900 will appear on our
printed mailing lists as 100, so don't
be surprised at seeing 90 after your
name on the tab.
Travellers stopping at Branchton on
the p. B. a. l.. E. will find excellent ac-
commodations with Amos Hall who
conducts hotel, restaurant, grocery
store and livery stable at that place.
Secretary Caruthers has announced
that the annual State Convention of the
Y. NJ c. A. will be held in Butler Feb.
1856. 1t Is expected $50 delegates from
all parts of this State will be in attend
ence.
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Ask a neighbor or friend to examine it
and compare it with other country
weeklies as to quality of news and mat
ter.
-Chas. Eakin's general store at Eau
Clair was robbed some three weeks ago,
and at that time the thieves left a note
saying they would return in two weeks.
They returned last Thursday and took
some more.
The Butler football team and the
boys who are attending college and
came home for vacation played game
at the Ball Park, Dec. Goth. Neither
side scored nor was there any brilliant
playing.
The B. r. & p railroad have com
pleted the stone work on the bridge
over the Connoquenessing at the pump
station of the Water Co. east of town
and have temporary structure up and
track laid over it,
March -, 1900 Butler county will
be one hundred years old On that day
in 1900 the State Legislature passed q
bill creating out of part of Allegheny
county the counties of Butler, Mercer
Beaver Crawford and Erie
The home of Joseph Thorne of Clay
twp. took fire one day last week, and il
would have been destroyed, had not Mr.
Thorne who is So years of age, put up ;
ladder, and gone up it with water ant
thing for man of his age to do
An advertisement in a New Yorl
paper invites holders of the First Nor
tgages. four per cent Gold Bonds of tn
Pittsburg q Western, dated July 1
1897 to deposit them with J. P Morgan
81 Coo % Wall st.in eview Of the prob
able reorganization of the Company
The annual New Years reception Q
the Ladies Auxiliary of the Y NJ. c
A. was held in the Association buildin
Monday evening. Refreshments wer
served and excellent literary and mus
cal program was enjoyed by severa
hundred young.folks.
AT the session of Council Tuesda
evening, a Committee consisting O
Messrs Mccullough, Shuffiin and Hoff
ner, was appointed to confer with an,
person or persons wanting to build
street car line in Butler-The old Gem
atery matter was referred to tn
finance comlnittee-A clean the snoN
off your sidewalks ordinance was adop
ted. and many minor matters dispose
of
The latest bag" is that the lot
Pa. will be among the first regiment
mustered out under the late order |
discharge 10000 more volunteers. Tt
Il 9Th expects to receive their Decembt
pay to-day and new clothing is bein
issued, DR.. Leslie Hazlett of New Ga
lilee. Pa. brother of Corporal Howar
Hazlett of Co K, has been appointe
assistant surgeon of the 18th, The lat
Pa has been equipped with Krag-Jol
genson rifles
The other evening young coup
entered a certain store in town to pu
chase some confectionery The lad
seemed hard to please as to the kind 81
desired and wishing to assist in ma
ing a choice the obliging clerk sugges
ed ll-day suckers Thank you" sa
the young lady, ~ have mine with me
and she looked coylY at the young mi
hy her side. 1 have since been informt
that vounD connie don't sneak a. th.