Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1902-12-18
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Merry Christmas.
Sunday schools are filling up.
Only seven days till Christmas.
This is the sweet buy and buy
season.
Hot Scotch is being brewed, and
skates are on foot.
-Lyndors now has ]. of p and is
building a lookup.
1t will pay you to read the adver-
tisements this week.
Read the low prices on goods our
merchants have to offer you.
The school teachers visited the Car
Works. yesterday afternoon.
3. 1T is the number of things that we
don't yet know that make life worth
living"
I'm the Good Old Summer Time"
seems to be the only new song that is
popular
--Chas Schneurs residence near
Herman was destroyed by fire early
yesterday morning. Some of the furni-
rure was saved.
The all mimic show, or pantomime,
! at the Grand Opera House, Pittsburg,
will begin next Monday and will con-
tinue for four weeks.
Taxpayers should not forget that
this Is the last month for the payment
of 1902 taxes at face. After Dec. 3lst
five per cent will be added 10 all unpaid
taxes.
Three bad leaks in the spouting
around the cornice on the west wall of
the Court House have caused three very
lively rivulets to trickle down the Court
Room walls.
According to a sage who lives In
Knoxville. Tenn, we are all to take an
involuntary, saltwater bath. Saturday
when the waters of the Gulf and At
lantic will roll over and swamp us.
"A local youth has received an offer
to catch for an eastern club at sliding
salary ranging from $50 to $400 per
month according to his batting ability.
ard the Lad generally bats at q 400
clip.
Whether it is attributable to the
Rural Free Delivery, the Fashion
Plates. the annual Institute or what
not there is no doubt OF the fact that the
country girls dress just as tastily, neat
ly and well as the town girls.
The girls of Pennsylvania are grad
ually pushing the male teacher into the
background. A report recent issued
from the Department Of Pu blic In
struction shows that while the number
of male teachers has fallen off 900 the
number OF female teachers has increas-
ed 1905.
Negotiations were concluded Tues
day by Fl. G. Frick. A. W. Mellon and
George w. Darr for the sale of the
properties of the Union Sharon Steel
Company to the United States Steel
Corporation for $45, 900. 900 In bonds Of
the latter corporation.
Under the spur Of public clamor,
amid warm enthusiasm, which was
intermingled with a few misses, and
despite the desperate efforts of the Tam
many members to defeat the measure,
the Pennsylvania tunnel franchise was
passed by the board OF alderman OF
New York city, Tuesday night by a
vote OF Al to 36
AN epidemic Of diphtheria among
the children Of Passaic has been traced
to the school room. In these days slate
pencils have been abolished and lead
pencils take their place. They are col
lected and distributed daily, and one
child with diphtheria managed to spread
1t broadcast. Every child has an al
most uncomfortable desire to bite the
end Of lead pencil, and In this way the
disease was spread with fatal results.
Internal Revenue Collector VIM
Brown, Indiana Pa. went into Mont
Martins hotel at Mars Saturday. asked
some questions and told Martin how
much money he would haye to pay
The officer was stranger TO Martir
who became suspicious, remembered
the Saxonburg hotel robberies, ant
straightway brought in the borough
Constable. The Revenue officer wal
brought to Butler as highwayman
Here he was identified and released.
The Cumberland county teachers
institute before adjourning adopted
resolution requesting their representa-
tives in the state Legislature to urge tn
enactment Of q law requiring each 0
the school districts In the State to rails
an amount Of money for school pur
poses by taxation equal TO the amour
received by each township from tn
& State BY State appropriation, and to Fl:
the minimum salary per teacher at n
less than $40 per month. These meas
ures have frequently been suggested a
the method by which adequate compen
sation can be secured for county schoo
teschers.
The following irreverent and some
what shocking lines, according to tn
Utica Press. constitute the yell of tn
students of the Syracuse Medical Col
lege:
well man, sick man, dead man-stifl
Dig EN- up, cut 'em up. what's the diff
Humorous. numerous. blood and gore,
Syracuse Medicos, 1904"