Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1900-10-25
LOCAL AND GENERAL,

LOCAL AND GENERAL,
One little, two little. three little shirt
waists,
Four little, five little, six little shirt
waists,
Seven little, eight little, nine little shirt
waists,
Ten little shirt waist men
Ten little, nine little eight little shirt
waists,
Seven little. six little, five little shirt
waists.
Four little three two little shirt waists,
One little shirt waist man.
(The cool weather did it,
SO far as size is concerned there are
several odd friendships in Butler.
The School Board appropriated $50
for the Wayne street foot bridge.
The B. r. & P has added two new
Pullman sleepers to its through trains
The busting of the umbrella trust
means that il has ceased reigning when
its raining.
Other people don't amou Mt to much
when you use yourself as standard of
comparison.
Three Butler hunters secured seven
ty-one birds in the stone house neighbor-
hood last week.
Mr. Anton Krut, the florist, has re-
opened his store and display room next
door to the Morrison bakery.
West Wayne ST. grading has be en-
completed and the property holders are
now busy lowering their side walks
He was ten years in Office and died
a Christian, is the way Georgia edi-
tor closes most unique obituary no
tice.
The house of the widow McDeavitt
in Slipperyrock boro. was burned Mon
day, with all its contents Insurance
$500
Chicken thieves are getting in their
work in Butler and several residents of
the south end of town have been lossers
lately.
The Bessie" and the Street Car
Co have come to an agreement, and
this Will let the street cars in to the P.
& W. stati on
Philip Ruprecht, a Sharpsburg
jeweler. traced some watches. stolen
from his store some time ago to jewelry
stores in Buffalo, and recovered them.
Every boy should attend medical
college long enough to gain knowledge
that will aid him in carving a.
chicken when he becomes the head Of
family.
"A Pittsburg paper says that pas
senger trains are to be put on the Win
field Branch on November 10th, and
that the Branch is to be extended to
Denny's Mills in the near future.
Someone turned loose horse and
buggy hitched near the Nancy Adams
pump station, Saturday. 1t belonged
to Lawrence county man named Rod
gersSand on Monday had not yet been
recovered.
A valuable horse belonging to Jas.
Timblin of Concord twp. was found
dead in the pasture field, Friday morn
ing, shot through the heart. Some hun
ter who was too free with his gun is
supposed to have done it.
Policemen Ray and Mitchell arrest
ed thirteen men and boys in a gambling
room in Main St building, Saturday
night They were taken before Burgess
McNair and each fined 81 and costs
The same room was raided last winter
when in charge of other parties and
several criminal court cases resulted.
New York is the commercial centre
of the United States, and some of its
banks do tremendous business and
yet it seems marvellous that clerk. or
mote teller" as he was called of a
National Bank could steal 800, 600 with
out being caught at it. That is what
G.. L. Alvord of the First National of
New York is said to have dom, and
through an accidental discovery, he
is now a fugitive from justice
The extraordinary power of loco
motive to generate steam was illustrat-
ed near Myoma, the other day The
bursting of an injecting pipe allowed
the steam to escape, and the engineer and
fireman were driven from their cab
Nearly all the steam in the boiler escap-
ed before the engineer could get at the
break and fix it; and ten minutes after
the train was again on the move, and it
came into Butler but half an hour late.
If there is dangerous piece of road
in Butler county it is that starting from
the Three Degree road north of the
Nancy Adams pump station and run
ming for mile westward along Glade
Run to the Brownsville road. 1t is
built along the hillside, guard rails are
either broken down or are entirely
wanting, no cutters, and so narrow that
two teams cannot pass except at long in
tervals. The Hammil hill on the Ren
frew Butler road is full Of buggy
breakers and pipe line is uncovered
and obstructs the Three Degree road at
sharp turn at the Patterson farm in
Penn twp.
Every word in the Chinese language
has logical reason for its existence
and peculiar formation, and each word
consists of one indiyidual character or
number of them combined in order to
make complete word Take the word
field, square divided into sections or
lots When the word man IS written
beside the word field the combination
makes the word farmer, indicating the
avocation of man who is associated
with fields and agriculture Still more
suggestive is the Chinese word for truth.
sincerity, faithfulness, honesty. 1t is
formed by the combination of man
and word thus expressing that one form
of honesty consists of man standing
by his word. The word for box is in
dicated by square having four sides of
equal length, while prisoner is literal