Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1899-11-02
LOCAL AND GENERAL,

Bowling matches.
Re ad w. R. Newton's new adv.
-Whitestown enjoyed the luxury o
n Dutch medicine show last week.
Braid Anderson has new machine
that makes dandy popcorn, and lots OF
Matches are made in heaven.
They've no use for them in the Other
place.
The rain of last Saturday spoiled
trade for the day, but it was very wei
come rain.
. w. F. Mates now has the restaurant
at the P. 81 w. station and is doing a
good business.
The trouble with great many
young men is they don't. like to work
between meals.
Everything particularly the
corn Tuesday night, and the sparrows
laid in their winter supplies.
Someone who is looking for bar.
gain in driving horses can find first
class one at j. B. Dicks livery stable in
Prospect.
Thousands of acres of timber was
DESTROYED by fire last week, and as pa
per is now made of wood Qike the wood
it will go up.
The rains of Monday and Tuesday
washed out some of the sinking and
disease breeding drains, besides bracing
up vegetation.
The James Harvey Post G. A r.
will hold basket social in the Hall at
Riddles X Roads. ON Friday evening,
Nov. 10th. Everybody invited.
The Bessemer intends to fill in
under the Plank road bridge from their
tracks to the abutment at the northern
end and make a forty-foot driveway.
BY reference to the Sheriff's cleo
tion proclamation printed on another
page there will be noted some changes
in the places of holding the elections.
The schools of Blairsville were
closed part of last week on account of
smoke from the forest fires, and at Con-
nellsville the electric lights were burn
ed all day.
The oldest prevaricator is bound to
admit that he never before saw the
streams and springs as low as they were
last week. Many springs that were
considered infallible quit flowing.
An epidemic of lamp explosions in
McKeesport and elsewhere has led to a
demand for investigation regarding the
causes Some people have inclined to-
ward the theory of inferior oil-others
toward the theory of inferior lamps
-Jefferies and Sharkley are due to
slug each other at or near New York to-
morrow night-that is to slug each 9th
er with their fists. the French rules,
which allow of kicking, not yet having
been adopted by our professional bruis
ers.
Chicken thieves have been robbing
the roosts of Lancaster twp. farmers,
Joseph Croft, Frank Neely, VIM Mar
tin, Mrs. Pribble and VIM. Kaufman
taI ha ry,ativ,c an1
each has lost large number of chick
ems.
-Horseless wagons took long jour
neys, Tuesday night; lawn mowers
climbed shade trees; and porch chairs
found their way to stable roofs. II
was the hardest work they ever did
by myi what larks
WIN. B. Clayton, representing The
Pittsburg Orchestra, which holds forth
in Carnegie Music Hall every Friday
evening and every Saturday afternoon
was in town, last Friday, making ar
rangements for concert by the Orches
ira to be given in the Park Theatre
some time in December
The First Ward Hose Co. s pump
kin pie supper in the Armory Hallow
cen was a great success. Nearly &
thousand suppers were served and tn,
ice cream and candy stands were wei
patronized The John A Irwin Hose
Co. and band of Evans City came up il
special car on the 1903 train as guest.
of the First Wards.
More barns have been built in But
Ter county during the present year thar
in the previous five years put together
and there are not nearly 80 many idl
farms in the county now as two year
ago. This certainly indicates that
Butler county farmer can still make
living and still be the most independen
man on earth.
AT meeting of the citizens of P,
trolia, held in the Town Hall last Satu
day, bon. A. L. Campbell and w. /
Fleming were appointed delegates
the convention to be held in Butler c
the 21st for the purpose OF fixing tn
date for celebrating and making all al
rangments for the County Centennia
Robt. J. Bottner presided at the NEE
ing and Dr. S. N Andre was Secy.
Tonight the Central Grand Conce
Company opens the Y. M. c. AS st;
lecture course. Reserved seats for II
season were put on sale Monday at 4
m Some boys held places in the lii
from nine o'clock in the morning al
seventy people lined up to wait the
turn at the board when the hour cam
The sale of season tickets was unusal
large
"A broken fiange on wheel and
sharp curve caused the caboose of a
cal freight to jump the track at Herm
station on the West Penn early Mond
morning. The belligerent caboo
smashed into two loaded freight ca
standing on siding and all were
molished. Several men were in t
caboose but none were hurt. TraN
was delayed several hours, that MOI
ing's Pittsburg papers did not rea
town until nearly noon, and the pc
railroad mems hearts were in tn
mouths lest they should be called