Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1900-11-01
LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The B. p r. Co. IS one thing an'
B. z. P. Co. is another thing.
The -'dawn's early light" is snuffet
ont by the fog these mornings.
Where there's smoke there's fire
don't always hold good in the smoking
car.
"A Blair county hunter mistook twc
girls for game and filed them with
shot
While we are suffering for rain
St. Louis and vicinity was flooded
Monday.
The hospital has eight typhoid fever
patients and ten others the largest
number they have ever had
Gen. y. Whitehill, the plumber,
has received his calendars for 1901, and
some Of them are beauties.
John A Richey is making pop corn
balls f5r Pl5ssburg firm, and will pay
from t. q cents pound for the corn
in the ear.
C. 3. Timblin writes us that dis
horse was cEt with some sharp instru-
ment. and not shot az reported; and was
found dead next morning.
The mail carriers complain Of the
screen-doors being fastened on the in
side-anyway it is high time they were
put away for the winter.
A Lawrence county farmer way
laid and attempted TO shoot DR.. Nc
Millen. Of New Castle, for making pub
lie scandal in his family.
The Woman's Hospital Association
will hold the regular Animal Meeting
to elect officers for the ensuing year on
Tuesday. NOV. 20, 1900, at D m. in Y.
NJ 9. A. rooms.
a number of Bessie officials who
had been inspecting their read-bed took
dinner in Butter, Monday; and mum
Der Of 3. 81 o. officials inspected the 2.
& w this week
Germany and England have form ID
an alliance 10 preserve the entity Of
China This is following up President
McKinley's policy Of protesting against
its dismeInberment.
-Four Polish miners attempted to
rob pay wagon in the coke regions Of
WestmoreIand Co Tuesday afternoon,
and all were killed or captured, though
they killed one Of the pay clerks.
The proposition Of Director Wilson
Of Pittsburg to pay 81, 800 per acre for
some Of the cabbage patches near Aspin-
wall for site for a filtration plant
causes some Of the papers TO put up a
kick
Cornelius Alyord. vino stole 300,
900 from New York bank. was captnr-
ed in a Boston hotel, Monday. He
seemed very proud Of his achievement,
and boosted of IT, lie wanted to shoot
himself but his wife would not consent.
An eagle flew from north 10 south
With Mrs. Barton in his mouth,
And then be fonnd he had a fool
He dropped her in the Goffstown school
A New Hampshire school boy wrote
this Of his teacher, and she whipped
him for it till the blood ran down his
legs, and now they are in court about
it,
There are fourteen machine shops
in Butler, employing about 200 machin-
lists, blacksmiths, apprentices, etc, their
wages ranging from 81 to S6 q day.
They are engaged almost entirely I'm
making oil well supplies and their bus
iness comes from the whole oil region
from New York 10 California. Last
week J. T. Sherman got an order from
the Pacific coast for six casing cutters.
and other rnachinists also receive orders
from that field.
This ID Founders Day at the Car
negie Institute and this IA the transla-
tion OF one the Japanese pictures:
IL you want to meet me, love,
Only we two,
Come to the tea grove, love,
Moonlight and dew;
Stand among the bushes, love.
And IL passerS see.
Say that You came. love,
To gather leaves Of tea.
The Monthly Reception for men
aud their lady friends at the T. NJ G.
A. Rooms on Thursday, Nov. /, at s ..
IN. will be nnder the direction of the Ia
dies ofGrace Lutheran Church Every
one is cordially invited to be present
and participate in this social time
Those who have before this enjoyed
these delightful receptions win be eager
TO come again. Those VINO have never.
heretofore, been present are urged 10
come on Thursday evening and find ont
how charming thesc occasions are.
Charles KalD OF Butler twp. while
hunting last week. shot enowy-owl
that measured forty one inches from tin
10 tip Of wings. Mr.. Kalb says IL ~ the
largest he ever saw. His shot broke
one wing and the owl immediately
clinched ~ talons through that wing.
Its plnmage is Of light gray color,
with large, slightly darker markings
like Plymouth rock chicken It's head
Is very largo IN comparison with its
body, watch IL small. with an unusually
strong backbone which enables 10 lift
and fly away with weights ~ heavy as
itself IL is very voracious, destroys
great numbers of field mice and other
rodents and for this purpogc should re-
ceiye the protection Of all farmers.
-Proposals for carrying the mails on
the Star Route in this county will be
received by the Department up to Dec.
4th. All bids must be by persons who
live in the neighborhoOd and intend
doing the work themselves aud the sue.
cessful bidders will be required to leave
individual or family mail in boxes along
the ronte. upon approval Of the neigh
boring postmaster.
The government wishes 10 deal direct
ly with the carriers. ~ heretofore the
PostRoute spectators have made money
off both. For instance the Government
pays 1854 annually for the route be
tween North Hope and Butler. while