Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1901-11-07
LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ii things goes kinder wrong Win me
Sometimes. you know, they will
| kinder want to slip away
Where everything is still:
When silence presses down the lips
OF noisy. cracking things;
Where melancholy, sad, forlorn,
Spreads out her darkling wings.
And there / like to think of all
Philosophers have said,
And OF all the sadder stories that
I've ever heard or read.
And this time it showed the day be-
fore
All our hunters are wishing for
rain.
A West Virginia .'oil well' is flow
ing fish
Some of our local correspondence
had to be shortened this week.
A new schedule will go into effect
on the Fittsburg and Western on Nc
vember II.
The Y. u. c. A. has membership
contest OH hand and, Ralph Kirkpatrick
is in the lead
Hon A g Williams has our thanks
for copy of the latest edition OF
Smulrs Hand Book"
The managers of the P. r. r. are
thinking of blasting seven-mile hole
through the Alleghenies-
Nearly eight million entrance fees
were paid to the Pan-Am. and yet it
was not financial success.
Frances fuss with Turkey, and our
Miss Stone matter with Bulgaria may
bring about general European war
Some boys work harder having
fun" on the last night of October OF each
year than they do any other night of
the year.
The postoffice at Stamford was dis
continued June 18th last and majority
OF its patrons now get their mail at
Portersville.
Aaron Leidecker is opening coal
bank ON his farm at Karns City. He
can drift to four-foot vein and expscts
to employ Is or 20 men
The Odd Fellows Of Pennsylvania
meet in Carnegie Hall, Allegheny, today
to select site for their new home for
aged and infrin brothers.
The box-trick on the stage OF the
Opera House, las: week, was something
new, and we can only account for it by
duplication and substitution.
-Excepting for the fatal mortar-box
on Centre Ave Butler boys were unusu-
ally quiet on Halloween. There was
very little throwing of corn and beans
The evening train on the Bessie now
GOES north as far MS Greenville, only.
There will probably be a general shak-
Ing up of the railroad time tables next
week.
Harry Reiber will open an Oyster,
Fish, Poultry, Butter and Egg Depot in
the Miller building on s. Main St., next
to the Wells Fargo Express Office, to-
morrow.
The Pan-Am Expo. closed last Sat
urday. midnight, and is reported to have
lost three million dollars; but at the
same time, ten times that amount Of
money was left in Buffalo on account of
it.
The Supreme Court has refused
to grant the appeal for new trial for
the Biddle brothers. convicted OF the
murder of Grocery man Kahney in Pitts
burg, which means that the Biddles
must hang.
Butler defeated Kittanning at foot
ball, Saturday. IL to 0. The game was
watched by an enthusiastic crowd. Nc
Dowell made both of Buffers touch
Z downs. The Kittanning boys journey
ed In a four horse coach.
The local early train for PGnxsu- :
tawney now leaves Butler at 7:30 a. m.
OF ID minutes etEltcr budu ucActololO,
and arrives at 1886 p m. or ten minutes
earlier than heretofore Our schedule
will be corrected next week
Nearly 400 people attended John
Burrys sale in Franklin township last
Friday. Coffee was dealt out by the
bucketful and sandwiches by the
bushel Johns fine herd Of Jersey cows
went for an average of $35 each.
The postoffice department is said to
prefer room with eide entrance
There is no such place available in the
central part of Butler, and if room is
not secured in the central part Of the
town, people will not rent, the boxes
and the receipts of the Office are thus
decreased.
IT is reported from the East thai
Admiral Caillard. commander of the
French feet has seized the Turkish por
at Smvrna in Asia Minor. Caillart
was sent to enforce payment by thu
Sultan Of claim for damages made by
Frencnman named Quay.
Employees of the p. 81 w. narrow
guage division have received bad cut
r. n O.