Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1900-12-20
Buy Your Christmas Things
from Home Merchants.

Buy Your Christmas Things
from Home Merchants.
NOTICE-In accordance with our
usual custom no paper will be issued
from this Office next week.
The Hoosier Girl is coming.
The figures. "19O1" look all right.
Everybody goes to the Hoosier girl.
The year of Naughty. One will soon
be here.
-1O,S58 Butterflies will celebrate
Christmas
See Cohan at the Park Theatre,
Monday evening.
That canal treaty is getting some
digs in the Senate.
Ladies special bargain tickets for
the Hoosier Girl, 15c.
The diamond is the dearest. little,
love token of the season.
The glass combine is taking pains
to make diamonds for itself
One tree makes a whole picnic for
the kids on Christmas morning.
If yon can't laugh don't see the
the Hoosier Girl. Monday night.
It. A Morrison's wagon with old
Santa Claus on top, delighted the chill
dren.
Col. Haworth of the Waverly is en-
tertaining hundred school teachers, this
week.
Taxes not paid by the 31st will have
an extra five per cent tackled to them
by the Tax Collector.
The Oyster Supper given by the
Buttercup school netted the school
$2754 for new organ.
THOSE ice-wool fascinaters in Duff
fy's show windows are beauties See
Dnffy's adv. in another column
MANY rabbits in your neighbor-
hoodY
Don't talk to me, I'm juryman.
Dates for 1901 are in the market.
and some very handsome calendars are
being distributed by our business men.
Santa Claus has been busy for sever
al days in Butler. securing his stock of
pretty things and good things from our
stores.
-Schaul & Mast have some very
handsome scarfs for the holidays, and
are making drive in overcoats. See
new adv.
The second basket ball team of the
Y. NJ. c. A. defeated the Manchesters
Of Allegheny, Friday evening, in the
gym, 30 to 10.
"A plum pudding guaranteed to stay
in the same place in your stomach from
now till next spring is the latest novelty
of the season
Tomorrow is the reputed shortest
day of the winter, and after that you
can take out your watch and see the
days grow longer.
-Slipperyrock Is to have rural delive-
ry routes in all directions. and some OF
the small postoffices in the neighborhood
will he discontinued
"A good pen knife is always an ac-
ceptable present for boy, and r. L.
Kirkpatrick has lots Of them. and every
thing else to be found in first class
jowelry store.
"A Brotherhood of Rejected Lovers
has been organized at Marion, Ohio.
Brothers who-fall from grace are no
longer Of good standing and spoken of
as departed brothers"
Our stores and streets have been
crowded, this week. The Christmas
season is the time when everybody is
apt to be out good deal, and the faith
ers Of families are pulled through the
season by the leg.
Charlie Oliver has rented the Wal
dron store for candy store. The
Hughes store room is not yet rented; it
is 1870 feet long. with plate glass at both
ends. an air and light shaft in the cen
tire, and was built to accommodate the
Butler postoffice.i
"A Butler young man who spent
half year in West Point says that con
trary to the cadets testimony before
the Congressional Commission, they do
haze there His dose was to eat ten
slices OF bread soaked in greasy molasses
within thirty minutes and this was the
mildest ordeal Of the lot.
"A hundred years ago there wasn't O
single school ma'amin Butler county
in fact there were very few people Of
any kind in this county then. Thomas
Mexican was Governor Of Pennsylvania
Thomas Jefferson was thinking over
his first message TO Congress; there were
So sNhAp'sh0t IDI btitBihpub
and over in Europe little fellow nam
ed Bonaparte was raising shoel
-Barkeyville, Venango Co.. few
miles north of Harrisville, this county
IL excited over the arrest Of Geo. G.
Coast and Samuel B. Latshaw OF
charges Of Counterfeiting According
to an account sent from Grove City
they were caught in the act of making
the coin at Coasts house last Sunday
The two men and others have beer
under suspicion, and have been watche,
by detectives for some months
For goodness sake eat T. A. Morrison
candies.
Fine Toilet Sets Fancy Whis
Brooms, Hair and Military Brushes
Perfume. Atomizers and Hand Mirror
at JoHNsToN's CRYSTAL PHARMA ACY
For Holiday goods in Furniture go t.
Brown & Co.'S