Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1906-09-20

Bankruptcy sale, estate of w. w
Waters.
Bankruptcy Notice.
Borough Ordinance.
Notice to Contractors.
Bickels Fall Footwear.
Modern Stores Curtains.
Campbells Furniture.
Adm;nisrr arors and Executors OF estates
can secure their receipt books AZ tn'
CITIZEN office.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
TERMS: $3.50 Per Yeal
If paid In advance. 1.O0
Each subscriber, by consulting the
little tab on his paper, can tell the date
to which his subscription Is paid
Splendid weather.
The farmers need rain.
New railroad schedules.
-Nutting accidents are ripe.
Get your apple-butter kettle in or
der
Political spellbinders were plenty
this week.
The skiddoo, straw hat date has
been extended till Oct. LIST.
Hereafter the County Offices will
close at p. m. on Saturdays.
Howe Lyon and J. b. Doutt will
build six new houses on Morton Ave
The Erie R. r. Co. is said to be
projecting a line through this
county.
The p. B. &N. G. are completing
their tracks on w. Wayne st.. with the
paving.
AT Bartley station, last Saturday
night, one man hit another and knocked
him through large pane of glass.
The Brsdy's Bend & Butler Street
Railway Co. was granted charter for
their line from East Brady to Chicora.
last Friday
"A vein Of ''smokeless coal has
been discovered near Pittsburg. What
a god-send that will be to that town
il it is big enough.
In the olden times, fair held be-
fore the first Of October was counted too
early for any use. Now the latest is
over before that date.
In passing hung-out washing now.
adays none but the expert can tell
whether those long black things on the
line are hosiery or gloves.
Never answer advertisements that
promise to pay you $50 dollars week
f,r sitting at home and doing nothing.
Save your stamps and common sense.
The 1oist and 1Osd Regiments are
holding a reunion ia town today. The
old boys are ''iust az young as they
used to be- and are having good f@e.
-Psrts Of Penn. Jefferson Clinton
and Middlesex twps. were the scene OF
an unusually heavy rain. last week,
which washed the road in several places
The Butler Drying Park Associa-
tion divided $4,000 among the stock
holders, last week; and placed as much
more to the surplus fund for improve
ments for next years Fair.
A few soft brick placed among oats
that are heating, on account or being
threshed while wet, DO wonders
Several Of our farmers saved their oats
Crops BY doing that. this year.
The American girl may run from
mouse, but she is brave enough in other
ways. She will read about the poison
ous adulterations of candy and then SIT
down and eat until her best fellow cries
enough.
The Phillips shops on East Cum
ningham st. are to be enlarged. This
company makes its own machinery;
and sells gas engines and drilling and
fishing tools, and also repa.ifFs poilers
and engines
There is good deal in magazines
these days about dry farming, Just as IT
it was something pew. The fellow that
has forgotten to take the Jug out to the
end Of the furrow has known all about
II before this
Nearly all the Fairs Of the neigh
borhood have been held. That OF the
D,yton. Pa. Association occurs next
week-Sept. 25-2s. Dayton is in the
eastern part Of Armstrong county and
they have good Fairs there
Don't forget to bear Pr. Schwartz OF
Worthington deliver his talk on Raies-
tine in Grace Lutheran church. this
evening. DR.. Schwartz spent several
months in the Holy Land this year. and
will doubtless give an interesting and
instructive talk.
The rate regulation act must be q
terrible nightmare to the railroad men
IL late reports are true. " is now az
serted that some railroad officials are
yefusiug to pass the butter at family
meals. for fear of running afoul of its
anti-pass provisions,
An applicant for the position Of
teacher in one of our township public
schools was asked, What is your posi-
tion with regard to the whipping of
childrenf" She replied, my usual po-
sition is on chair. with the child held
firmly across my knees face down
ward"
-..Stop. look and LISTEN ia and old
MOTTO regarding railroad affairs; but
the man who looked at his watch the
other night. didn't stop to listen
whether 1t was going or not; made a
rush for the station and got there hours
before time. His watch had run down
the evening before. @
What would you think Of squir-
rel that worked day and night, without
sleep or rest or pleasure storing up
Lashels and bushels OF nutsS he could
h9t eat; for which He could haye no pos
sible usea Isn't man Just as simple
who denies himself all the peace and
ioy and comfort of life hurrowing away