Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1899-11-30
LOCAL AND GENERAL,

football this afternoon.
My son, Ben," this evening.
Read w. R. Newton's new adv.
Did you meet any of the meteors?
Don't put canned beans into the
stove.
Everybody is going to Punxsu-
tawney tomorrow.
Arthur Love at Y. NJ. c. A. to-
morrow evening.
Our store keepers are buying vast
stocks of holiday presents
The Mars Brick and Tile Works is
putting out 5000 bricks per day.
The Custom Tailors of Butler now
have Union, In good working order.
Don't stuff your turkey with ballots
oysters or brown-bread are much bet
ter.
Its all right to trayel on the down
ward path, providing you are going the
other way.
Foot ball Thanksgiving afternoon
at three o'clock at ball park, Butler VS.
Leechhurg.
A married man would have more
money if his pockets were as hard to
find as those of his wife.
The Board for the Concert by the
Pittsburg Orchestra will open at Reeds
on Friday, Dec. Sth, at A pm.
Some three-thousand fat cattle are
on exhibition at the cattle-show at the
Central Stock yards in Pittsburg.
Don't crowd too many live chick
ems in the same box, for market, or the
humane agent may have business with
you.
We direct attention to Cooper Co. s
new adv. They carry a complete as
sortinent of foreign and domestic
cloths
The Christmas number of Tbs
Saturday Evening Post"-one of the
best story papers in the country, will be
in all news-stands, Dec. 21st.
Teachers Institute commences Dec.
18th. three weeks from Monday. The
day sessions will be held in the Court
House and the evening enter tainments
in the Park Theatre.
Only one side of the moon Is seen,
but there are said to be two sides to the
honeymoon, one of which is only OBJ
served by the man in it,"
They have tried to abolish football
in several states, but it seems more pop
ular than ever. In. fact. this form of
ball can't well be bounced.
1T is distressing to note at weddings
that the women who do the most of the
weeping are married ones. 1t has a
wonderfully suggestive look.
In the published list of delegates to
the County Centennial Convention last
week the name of John 81. Grove of
Marion twp should have been John III.
Gormley
IT j. Hutchison, the Cooperstown
timer and plumber, is making very
neat little asbestos-front gas stove
which he sells for $2.5 80. At present he
Is working on large order from Pitts
burg firm.
If the sentence in the Carr-Gub-
rauson case is to be taken as precedent
it will cost young man 800 to put up
at a hotel in this county with another
mans wife, and another 800 for the
woman, if they're caught at it.
The new gas well on the John c.
Kelly farm, south of Butler, is the best
that has been struck near town for
some years. 1t has a pressure of 500
pounds, and the well and lease are
worth from ten to fifteen-t thousand.
Some of you who think you are
well up in spelling just try to spell the
words in this little sentence: 1t is
agreeable to witness the unparalleled
ecstasy of two harrassed peddlers en-
deavoring to guage the symmetry OF
two peeled pears.
The collapse of the Franklin syndi-
cate in New York, carrying with it the
money of tens of thousands of small in
vestors, is a calamity against which the
sufferers cannot claim not TO have been
forwarned No concern of this type,
protesting to pay impossible profits and
doing business on the endless chain
system has ever survived beyond very
brief period.
The popular song in England just
now is Tommy Atkins. 1t runs
something like this
Oh, Tommy, Tommy Atkins
You're good 'un, cart and and;
You're a credit to your calling and
your
Own dear native land.
May your courage never falter, may
your cart be ever true,
Oh, Tommy, Tommy Atkins,
Here's the country's health to you.
Elks' Memorial.
Program of service, Sunday, Dec 8,
1899, at 2:30 d. n, in Park Theatre.