Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1904-12-22

Hushabuy, my dear"
For Christmas day draws near.
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No Paper Next Week
The CITIZEN force will take &
their semi-annual vacation. next I
\week. No paper will be issued, J
but the Office will be open during }
the greater part of the week 5
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"A Merry Christmas.
And Happy New Year.
Remember the poor.
No paper next week.
Shortest days of the year.
Gas meters are real frisky.
The postofice is busy with Christ
packages
New Years comes before Christmas
next year.
The express Offices are having tre-
mendous rush.
Our merchants are having a large
holiday trade.
The sweet buy and buy season is
with rs again.
The wise Christmas shopper is the
one who has is all over.
Plymouth Rock turkeys promise to
be popular for the Holidays.
Christmas trees and treats at all the
churches and at Salvation Army hall.
Springs and wells all over the coun-
ty-and the country too-are going
dry.
Some people are going to the Park
for water, at 10 cents trip-to fill two
jugs.
The passenger train between North
Bessemer and Butler has been taken OF.
Bee card.
The extensive coastirg that some
Of the boys are doing is making the hill
roads into Butler, dangerous
The postofice will observe the usu-
al holiday hours-Monday. the 26th and
the following Monday. Jan. I'd.
-Schlicht Il Nigel paid twenty cents
q pound, live weight, for their turkeys.
and they got them-30O of them. See ad
Persons desiring new currency to
be given as Christmas gifts can obtain
same at the Butler Saving and Trust
Co.
The Salvation Army will have a
Christmas Tree for all who come, in
their Hall, on the Wednesday evening
after Christmas, the 2Sth inst.
The stores Of Butler have taken on
. holiday appearance 1t took hours
of hard work to fix them, but they are
now fixed and open every evening.
The Oil Exchanges and Banking
Houses Of Butler will be closed on next
Monday. On account Of Christmas day
falling on Sunday, this year, the follow
ing day will be observed. The same
will hold true as to the observance OF
New Years day.
This time, last year, Butler was in
the grasp Of the typhoid germ; but the
world has travelled q long distance
gince then-s40, OQe. 900 miles, accprdina
10 the astronomers besides turning on
its axis daily-and the town has taken
Z new lease Of life.
The sessions Of tho Teachers Insti.
tute. held in the Court room, this week,
have been very largely attended, the
room at times being crowded to its limit
Three hundred and forty-five teachers
each of whom paid s1.75, signed the
roll, and besides these there were many
spectators in ATTENDANCE. The weather
has been fayorable. and the institute il
conceded to be one of the best vet held
In the county,
The people of Zelienople think they
have kick coming" on the construc
tion of the abutments of the new bridge
the stone work on their side Of the
creek being defective and pot high
enough Bat tke people of zslienople
- nos look at this thing from the pro
per stand point. The state is bnilding
that bridge, and what do they expect
for q paltry $4,000. Now if the state
were paying al, ,oOo, 900 for that bridge
they might reasonably, expect some
thing substantial.
-Fourteen million bushels Of coal are
tied mp In boats in the rivers abou
Pittsburg waiting for rise. The ex
penditures made by the river coal in
terests from which they are now receiy
ing no return on account ol the prolong
ed lcw gtage Of water is an object lesson
n what the advantage would be Il
Rittsburg to have deep water stage
suitable for coal commerce the yea
round on the Ohio river The total in
vestment of the coal companies OF
which they have been receiving no in
terest charges for the past eight month
on account Of drogth ia stated to be il
s4cess af $1,000 oOa Owing to the fac
that nearly all the larger coal boats can
not be moved on less than nine feet 0
water the coal and heavy iron ship
ments are stored in the pools until tn
stage is brought by nature to the prope
depth.
-LJST-A Butler lady lost a sma]
gold watch. with ribbon lob, on MiffIil
QF Main ST., last Saturday evening. He
{QH name is engraved in the back cass
and her monogram on the front case
The finder will be suitably rewarded h,
leaving it at this Office.
Might as we'll buy suit which look
right, fits right, wears right, try Rite
q Rockenstein's,
West eunbury Academy.
Acknowledges no superior in its liz
q work. Every young person needs a
education. Do You ant one? Here