Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1884-06-25
LOCAL AND GENERAL


Notices Of Applications for charters.
New local notices.
LOCAL AND GENERAL
The full ripe grain is bending
In waves of golden light;
The new-mown hay is sending
Its sweets upon the night;
The breeze is softly signing,
70 cool the parched flowers;
The rain, to see them dying,
Weeps forth its gentle showers.
Last Saturday was the longest day OF the
year.
ESQ. Pringle has sold his store to MI
McFadden.
The first volume of Blains book Is no"
being delivered to subscribers here.
Read John Bickels midsummer adVer-
tisement He offers some great bargains ~
make room for his Fall stock.
While class was reciting in the German
Lutheran school, of this town, last Monuay
morning, three boys tainted from the excessive
heat.
There is not licensed hotel in Forest
county. 1t is now one of the few genuine tenn
perance counties of the State.
The harvest is ripen:ng, and the imple-
ment men are on the quI vlve Tor macninei!
purchasers. Prices are being cut
The notice of the Comstock Light and
Heat Co., of their intention to apply ioI
charter, is of interest to the citizens Oh Aiie'
gheny township.
of sixty-three county superintendents ol
school chosen in this State last month, there
are 20 Democrats, 33 Republicans and Miss
Anna Buckbee, of Potter county
Banged girls are now the chief consumers
of flax seed. They stew it gently and use the
Jelly to stifen the bangs and make 'em stay
where they're put.
No girl is successful with hammock
until she can get in and out of the blamed
thing without everybody finding out whether
the stripes on her stockings run round anu
round or up and down.
"A fashionable exchange says; silver
collars for pet dogs are inscribed; I'm MISS
Daisy Jones dog, whose dog are you? MUST
be rather embarrassing when dude catches
the dog and reads the inscriptions"
p. W. Lowry, Esq., took his Sunday School
R.R., last Friday. The boys took their lunch
baskets and fishing tackle with them ana
greatly enjoyed themselves.
The family of Milton Koon, of Worth
township, Mercer county, were poisoned
couple of weeks since by eating parsnips. Mrs.
Koon died few day after, and her husband Is
yet in a critical condition.
The Media american boasts of standing
population of 2200" in that borough. we can
not boast of SO large standing population In
our borough, but when it comes to the sitting
down population we will show up figures with
any town of its size.
-Neshannock township, Lawrence county
il trying to increase the efficiency of its schools
by employing better teachers, and to get better
teachers is offering better pay, raising the sal
aries one-third-frem $50 to $40 per month.
Its action might be commended to the consider
alton of other districts.
-Walla Walla, w. T., has an ordinance
strictly enforced, prohibiting any boy or CIR
under fourteen years of age being out alone
after dark That is a good example for other
towns to follow. In the good old days the
knee strap and the hickory gad saved the me-
cessitY for any such ordinance.
Mr.. Charles R. Barchfeld, representing
the firm of McWhinney d Co., of Pittsburgh,
visited our town on business last week. Sew
eral years have passed since Charley's last
visit to the town, and his many friends here
were glad to see him and to again take him by
the hand.
The sparrows have attacked the bees.
They eat the heads but take care to leave the
bodies alone. 1t is about time this pest Of a
bird was banished from our midst. They
drive all the song birds away and do nothing
but breed, and fight among themselves.
Most of the Pennsylvania delegates to the
Democratic Convention will reach Chicago by
Sunday evening, July 9th. The delegation
from this State will have their headquarters at
the Grand Pacific Hotel. The Convention
will be composed of S02 delegates, exclusive Of
the territories. Under the two-thrds rule, 5S5
votes will be necessary to make nomination.
An exchanges says: "Milk in the manufac-
ture of ice cream is first boiled and afterwards
partly congeaied. In boiling lacteal acid OF
sulphide of buteric oxide, again solidiies as a
b-sulphide of stumakake in the congealing.
This, when taken into the SYSTEM produces
peritonital cramps, frequently ending fatally
Cat this out and show it to your girl.
--The Academy Commencement at Prospect
last Friday was great success. large crowd
assembled in the grove and all seemed to enjoy
themselves. Col. Balm lectured in the U. p
Church that evening. The room was crowded
and the receipts amounted to Sl03-50. For the
term just ended the Academy had ll6 scholars
enrolled.
A dispatch from Oil City, dated last Fri
day, stated that Calvin N. Payne, one of the
heaviest dealers in the Oil Exchange, laid
down that day. He at one time was considered
one of the wealthiest men in the business, but
uall lv hae ak inc he
ing House showed difference of 81, 800 against
him, which he was unable to meet.
Two young men of Concord township, late.
gelyes Of their staying qualities. Each procur.
sd bis fayorite whaleboae, toed the scratch and
busted each others breeches in fine style
Some twenty-five cuts were delivered, when
both retired, one exolaiming, "Pve got the
best whip, and don't you forget it."
r-0ne of our Democratic contemporaries
likens the adoption of the popular vote system
and the discarding of the delegate system OF
making nominations, by their party in the
county, to a lot of dancing devils, Chinaman,
some dressed up fowls, dog and monkey.
If the change is going to have such terrible
effect on their party, it should be reconsidered.
1t doesn't pay to try to beat the printer
out of a few dollars. A former stakeholder in
the defunct. Erie bank, who resides in Girard
tetired from the hank several years ago and
aayed three dollars by not publishing the fact
OF his retiring. He will now be compelled to
pay his share Of the loss, which it is estimated
will take every dollar that he is worth There
are several others in the same boat.
A petition was recently circulated in the
Warren oil exchange, for the purpose of show.
ing how many men sign petitions without
reading them. 1t was petition to Congress
Yhich ended With an appeal to alloy tie siga.
ars to iinmediat -ly lynch certain member Of
the exchange. The best part of the joke was
that the member who was to be lynched signed
it in good faith, as a memorial TO Congress.
The County Commissioners have not vel