Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1883-06-27
The picnic season is upon us.

The potato crop is looking well.
The corn crop still lags behind.
The preserving season is at hand.
The young birds are learning to fly.
The house fly is becoming numerous.
The summer tourists are on the wing.
The hay-making season has commenced.
The CITIZEN office will take rest next
week.
The glorious Fourth will be celebrated
next Wednesday.
The currant worm is destroying the cur
rant and gooseberry bushes.
The blackberry crop will be large one
this year.
The Dude still hangs around the church
door Sunday evenings.
The Star Route trials cost Government
over million dollars.
The Franklin papers speak Of Judge
Turnkey as "a Christian Democrat.
Every lady in the land should use Days
Soap, it will save her time, labor and patience.
The cats, also, enjoy diet of locusts, at
least one of our exchanges saysso
The storekeepers of this town are now
paying Is cents for eggs and 121 cts. for butter.
Seed buckwheat is worth $1.25 per bushel.
| of af1a
Lawrence county, was entered by burglars a
few days since, and 500 werth of goods stolen.
The smile on Davy Niggle's face nowadays
means that he's the father of fourteen pound
girl.
The longest day of the year has come and
gone, but it is not too late yet to plant cucum-
bers for pickles.
| The egg eating contest between two Law
renee county men resulted in favor of Ather-
holt, who ate 80 eggs in fifteen minutes.
| The al ,ernoon express from Allegheny, on
the West Penn R. R., will hereafter stop at
Bennetts station, for the accommodation of
passengers from the P. & w. r. R.
L
by Jos. Wuller, has acquired quite reputa-
ton. Ask Gallagher about it..
The Harlansburg correspondent of the
| New Castle C.ta.'dian, notes the death of two
old citizens of that place-Dr. H. B. White and
DR.. Henry Hall.
The Texas pony men were not arrested for
fast driving, although it is forbidden by the
| Borough ordinances to drive through our
streets faster than horse can run.
The bustles now worn by the women are
immense, and what with bustles, side and bust
pads, ETC., walking skeleton can now be made
into first class woman.
The Gibson distillery at Gibsonton, along
the Monongahala, was destroyed by fire lest
Wednesday evening. Ten thousand barrels
of whisky valued at $500, 900 were consumed.
The angel of death is aggin in the land.
Mr.. David Walters, of Middlesex township,
lost three children last week by that dread dis
ease-iiphtheria.
The summer term at the North Washing
ton Academy will begin on Tuesday, July "a.
Special attention will be given to book.keep-
ing, penmarship and elocution. See card in
another place.
There will be preaching in the Baptist
church next Sabbath, morning and evening.
Communion service in the morning. Preach
ing on Saturday at II o'clock. All are earn
estly requested to be present.
The number of people in Butler last We'd
nesday run into thousands. 1t is not exaggei-
number went to j. N. Patterson's store and
purchased clothing. The bargains they
found there were truly great surprises.
The catching tines for farmers are here.
The cultivation of farm crops progresses slowly
| on account of the frequent rains and the weeds
are getting long ways the start of the most
careful husbandman.
The heaviest feeces yet noticed in this
vicinity are those which Mr.. Weller, of Slip.
peryrock township, Lawrence county, took
| from twenty French Merino sheep-24O pounds
of washed wool or an average of 12 pounds
from each.
The board of pension examiners who hold
| their sessions iu Mercer, will meet every We'd
| nesday in the future, except the 4th, of July,
by order of Commissioner Dudley. This is
| necessary on account of the number of appli
| cants coming before them.
The house, barn and wagon shed that Mr.
| Gideon Allen, of Clay township, lost by fire
| Some days ago were not insured. The fire is
supposed to have been the work of an incen-
| diary as it started in three places in the barn
at the same time.
The sympathy felt for persons who are
swindled by travelling rogues is sometimes
| wasted. An exchange expresses the opinion
that in nine cases out of ten the persons who
are swindled deserve to lose their money "be-
cause they fall into traps while expecting to
profit by some dishonest transaction"
Prospect last Friday evening, ives the 10Th
that he has delivered in this county within
two years, and the 99th that he has delivered
In this State this year. The Colonel seems to
be very popular in this county and State
The bodies of two women-llrs Blechen
| and Mrs. Cornelia Walberb-were cremated at
Washington. Pa a few days since. Twenty
| bodies have now been cremated at the Wash.
ington furnace, nine of them, including the
| two mentioned above, being from New York,
and most of them being those of Germans.
The "Butler Sensation" that has been GO
ing the rounds of the papers had some founda.
/ ton in fact Miss MarsbaI1 ,yos orn,~oI 4o
the Professor, and the wedding was to have ta-
ken place at her uncle Samuers house in
Adams township, last Thursday, but by the
advice of her parents, she has broken the en-.
gagment
| The house of Rev. w, A. Edie, of Beaver,
and formerly of this county, was visited by
| might hawks last week. They got couple