Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1883-07-18
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Mr.. B. vosbrink has leased another 5
acres of his Oakland township farm.
The next meeting of the State Teachers
Association will be held at Chautauqua.
Seamless Hose. pairs for 25c. at
PATTERsoN's, Duffy Block.
We have not, as yet, heard anybody COM
plain of the dry weather.
The overseers of the poor of this town
shipped the goods of the Hogue family TO
Slipperyrock last Monday.
-Freeport and vicinity was visited by a
heavy rain and hail-storm last Friday, which
greatly damaged the grain and grass.
The driven we'll agents have arrived at
Titusvil!e and have sent about 300 notices to
its citizens to pay royalty.
Some people think that trains will be run
ming over the new railroad by the middle of
August.
See Patterson's 2Oc Suspender. Cheapest
in Butler county.
The officers of the Grand Lodge of the A.
o. wv. for this State visited the Lodge at this
place last Tuesday.
Mr.. Nelson McCallister has been commits
stoned postmaster of Eau Claire P. O., this
county.
-Dabbs, the Pittsburgh Photographer seems
to excel all others in getting good expression,
and his taste in giving Positions prove him to
be a born Artist.
Our genial shoe merchant, Mr.. B. c.
Huselton, now rejoices in the possession OF
beautiful big boy, two weeks old to-day.
Moving machine accidents are now in or
der. but we trust we will have no serious ones
to record.
Summer Underwear for Gents. Cheap as
PATTERsoN's, Duffy Block.
The Legislature at its regular session pas
sed two hundred and ffty-three bills. OF these
the Governor vetoed sixty leaving one-hundred
and ninety three to become laws.
While O'Brien's show was in Lykens, Dau-
phin county, few days ago, farmer of that
county was taken in and done for, by the same
game as was Mr.. Croft, of this county.
The Postmaster General has issued an or
der forbidding the delivery of money orders
or registered letters to the Louisiana Lottery
Company.
The amount of comfort afforded the lady
of the house by the use of Days Soap, is indeed
beyond computation, Many are the homes
made happy thereby.
-vennor predicts big storm for tomorrow,
on account of the conjunction ofMars and Sat
curry on the after noon.
If you would like to easily see tae spots
which are now disfguring the face of the sun,
get piece of smoked glass and by looking
through it at the sun you will see what is for
eign to the great luminary's general appearance
The 22nd Pa, Cavalry will re.unite at
Brownsville Pa, on the 18th of August next.
All members of the regiment are requested to
send name and address to l. ]. Dawson, Coal
Center Pa.
-Chrolithian Water proof Collars and Cuffs
nearly as cheap as Linen, at
PATTERsoN's, Duffy Block.
The largest trestle on the new railroad is
that on the Painter farm, in Clay township.
1t is 700 feet long and 50 feet high, at the high
est point 1t is built of oak timber and is en-
tirely completed.
Sheriff Donaghy, trustee of Samuel Van
deventer and Elizabeth Vandeventer, his wife,
in right of said wife and Charles Duffy, will
sell the farm in Washington township, con-
tain he nf
August next. See notice in another place
Though fifty per cent. better for teachers
than similar schools the State Normal School
at Edinboro is at the same time fully twenty
per cent. cheaper. Send postal card for its
Handbook. It is suggestive publication.
Address J. A. Cooper, Edinboro, Pa.
A tablespoonful of saltpetre dissolved in
in pail of water and sprinkled on cabbages,
will keep off the worms and not injure the cab
bage. 1t will also free your cucumber and
squash vines from the striped bug and borer if
occasionally poured on the earth.
The Goth meeting of the Pennsylvania
State Teachers Association was held in Will
Transport last week. Superintendent Murt-
land was in attendance and reports that some
gramme was gone over at their meetings, and
there was one excursion down the Susquehanna
in boats, and another by rail to Watkins Glen.
The strike of the miners lately in the en-
ploy of the Mercer Mining & Manufacturing
Company still continues. The manager of the
company, Mr.. Lewis, thinks that's large per.
centage of their miners would not have struck
had they not have been intimidated by miners
from down the road.
"A very destructive hail storm passed oyer
parts of Middlesex and Clinton townships
this county, on last Friday evening. The
crops on the farms of John Mahan, Martin
Monks, gJr., Archibald Montgomery, James
Love, John B. Cunningham and others, are re-
ported as having been almost entirely destroy
ed, the hail cutting down every green thing.
The investigation made by Commissioner
Dudley, of the Pension Bureau, relative to the
charge of non-performance of duty by Drs
Huselton and McMasters, of the Board of Ex.
amining Physicians for the Pension Bureau in
Pittsburgh, have resulted in the re-instate-
ment of the two physicians. Both Drs. Husel-
Commissioner Dudley last Wednesday, that
were restored to their positions.
"A year ago Erie was ringing with a mar
velous case of prayer cure, in which it al
legged that Miss Zue Van Dyke, of Ednboro
that county. had an immense tumor prayed
away. The correspondent, while giving tn e
details of the alleged miracle, expressed the be-
lief that no such cure as had been claimed had
been effected. The opinion was met by state
ment published over the lady's signature, in
which the cure by prayer was stoutly maintain
ed. few days ago five celebrated surgeons
assembled at her bedside and cut away from
her huge mass of ia pounds. Her life is by
no means assured.
Unless the Western Union Telegraph CON-
pany signifies its assent tn the demands of its