Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1899-11-23
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.


Holidays will soon be here.
-Hurrahl for the Centennial,
Read W. R. Newton's new adv.
The 3:15 train for Butler now leaves
at $40.
Get ready to turn a new leaf on the
first of January.
Time to begin thinking of the
Christmas presents you will give.
BY the time man is able TO supply
all his wants he doesn't want very much.
All the world stage and many OF
the inhabitants are merely stage robbers.
November has been keeping up the
record set by October for fine fall
weather.
TIE bachelor who sews on his own
buttons understands the meaning of the
single tax.
The new cemetery road has peen
opened to Main street, but it is not yet
completed.
six and fourth cents" carries
costs in an ejectment case but not IN
SANDER case
Three Venango county preachers
robbed John Phipps' bee tree, and Will
be prosecuted.
Any old slouch hat with a feather
in it will make your girl fall and
winter bonnet
Next Thursday, Thanksgiving the
Butler postoffice will be closed from 10
a. IN. to pm.
W. S. Moore of Muddycreek has n
Durham bull calf, % months old, that
weighs 1910 pounds.
A girl is invariably disappointed
when the girl she is said to look like is
pointed out to her,
The man who uses religion as IL
cloak in this world may have smok-
ing Jacket in the next
The American Gas Co. is laying a
new pipe line from the Bolard gas well
in Winfield twp. to Freeport.
When married women talks of her
girlhood days she reminds us of the
amateur fisherman. The best catches
always got away from her.
At midnight Sunday fire alarm
was sounded for an old house on the
Geo. Reiber place near the transfer
station east of town. The house was
destroyed.
The Butler Palace Club Bowling
team will play the return game with
the Pittsburg team at Harry Davis
place on Diamond street, next Wednes-
day evening.
An oyster supper will be given by
the young ladies of the Unionville
church, at Unionville, on Thanksgiving
evening, Nov. 30 Come and bring
your friends with you.
The mangled body of man was
found on the West Penn r. r. near
Salisbury, the other day but as he had
bullet hole through his head, the mat
ter will be Investigated.
Three brides were taken from the
barn of d. F. Negley in Jefferson twp.
few lights ago. and Mr. Negley will
suitably reward anyone who gives him
information that will lead to the arrest
of the thief.
We considered the account of the
six octogenarians of Concord twp. pub
lished in last weeks paper. to be matter
of more than usual interest; and we will
be pleased to hear from other township:
in the same line There are some mono
genarians in the county.
Near Crescent City, ILL.,, last Thurs
day night the residence of John Meyers
was partially wrecked and the neigh
borhood was panicstricken.
meteor came from point in the sky +;
little east of south and struck the nortl
end of the house, tearing away part o
the upper story. The aerolite buriet
itself in the ground about three fee
from the foundation of the house
The first cast of lead was made a
the new White Lead Works last Satur
day. Four cars of pig lead from st
Louis came in few days ago, and par
of this was cast into buckles" to fit tn
pots or crucibles, into which it is plac
ed, with acetic acid on top OF it. TIL
acid eats into or corrodes the lead;
process that takes about three months
and then the corroded lead is groun'
and mixed.
Evans City is enjoying a good lei
ture and entertainment course thi
winter The Mysterious Trio-Proi
Sargent, wizard; Hugh J. Emmett, ver
trlloquist, and Fred III. Hanseu, whis
ler-appear there Nov. 30, and Thoma
McCleary lectures ON Dec 0. If Eva1
City would just pave its main street
would add immensely to the usefulne'
and appearance of the same and to til
value of the abutting properties.
Maj. John P. Penny, Tuesday ever
ng. in the Armory, conducted the frs
inspection of Co. E. 18th, n G.. P
which has been formed out of old CC
E. 18th Pa Vols. The Company mad
a splendid appearance, had fine aligl
ment and passed very satisfactory il
spection; the grace and nonchalence {
the veteran showing in their NOV
ments Capt. J. f. Moore and Lieut.
Geo. Mechling and A. L. Scott cor
manded
The concert of the Pittsburg O
chestra, which is to be given in t
Park Theatre, ON Monday evening, DE
18th, will be the first musical opportu
ity ever presented to the people of Bu
Ter. Mr.. Victorl Herbert. the condu
tor has national fame and under |
leadership this organization of fifty mt
icians is the finest in the land T
prices of the reserved seats will be ST.
$l00 and 75c and the members of :
Amateur Musical Club have all rea
dianosed of n LARGE numh of tickets