Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1888-06-15
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
HOT WEATHER VERSES.

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LOCAL AND GENERAL.
HOT WEATHER VERSES.
This world is but fleeting show,
And no wise man regrets it;
For man wants but little here below,
And generally he gets it.
Then why should we quarrel for riches.
Or any such glittering toys,
Light heart and thin pair of breeches
Will 70 through the world, my brave
boys"
Wool is worth - cents
A. Troutman 4 Son will buy 25,00(
cunds of wool.
Which of the leading orators of the
nineteenth century has been the greatest ad-
ccate Of poultry raising? No "hen and a
alf," |" or as" puzzle about this.
Mr.. John Waite RS cf Evans City, who
As burned by gasoline som e time ago, died
ut Friday, after days of frightful agony. He
1T a wife and four children.
The railroads in this vicinity have got
be fare down to s. for the trip to Chicago
nd return, during the sess on of the Nation
Republican Convention. An immense
rowd will 70.
Mr.. BENJAMIN Swain of Zelienople. now
n the seth year of his age, planted with his
|wn hands his corn aud potatoes this year
dr. Robert Kirker plowed his lot for him
Fithout charge.
The bastie that ladies claim improves
heir dresses is going out of style. In one
fashionable church in Buffalo last Sunday
ot hustle could be seen. This is going to
e hard on the fashions.
Al Lebanon, this State, few evenings
ince, young man died while in the act Of
ating dish of ice cream. Cut this item
,ut, young gentlemen. 1t may be of great
ervice to you some evening while prone
aiding w ith your best girl and lean pock.
kt-book.
Many Methodists and others hereabouts
nay be interested in knowing that. with the
Election OF Eve new regular bishops and one
missionary bishop by the recent General
Conference Of the Methodist Church at New
York, the number of the form er is increased
% sixteen and ofthe latter to two.
A primary election without candidates
Eas what was held in Butler Last Saturday.
There were no announcements for either
Congress or State Senate, and but one for
assembly, and the enterprising Democratic
elector. voted for whoever he happened to
think OF at the time.
Another question for the mathematically
Inclined: Two men purchased eighty pounds
bf meat. at four cents per pound. In divid-
ing il one man took thirty pounds, and the
bther ffty, the irst one agreeing to pay one
half cent per pound more than the man who
took the fifty pounds. How much did each
pay per pound for his meat.
Prof. L. s. BArtz, Of the Centreville
Normal school, assonished his Mercer frie nds
by taking ont q license and slip
ping his head into the matrimonial moose
The hsrpy partner WIS Miss Annie M.
Bard, of Centreville. Rev. w. +. Slemmons
performed the ceremony. Here's our hand,
and may the Normal continue to
progress Wesfcrn Press.
A minister of Clarksville, Mercer county,
recently preached . sermon from the text.
@Was Ny Molher-in-Law q Monkey" We
Ire not advised as to what the outcome of
the discussion by the reverend gentleman.
bat are quite sure that the average mother
in-law would not think kindly of a son-in.
Iaw who would compare his wife's mother
with the an imal kingdom.
-Children's Day was appropriately OBJ
served in the Presbyterian Church here last
Sunday morning. The church was beauti-
fully decorated with flowers and ferns, Rev.
0ller and Ir. Boyd made neat addresses to
the children, Miss Alice Wick sang a solo,
and the children sang several hymns. Il
was q service long to be remembered by all
present
I'm the Pennsylvania community of
every inhabitant is compelled TO
rigidly conform TO the rules. Every one is
required to attend church t~ice every Sun
day and hear two sermons from Ftaher Hen
rici. Any one found out of bed after nine
0 clock On any night is Immediately banish-
ed from the town, and all are required to rise
n Eve in the morning. In addition to three
meals daily, free luncheon is served to the
Ehole community at nine o'clock every
and at three every afternoon.
Our own Sam. Miller, thee famous War
horse Of the Conncquenessing, writes to
Pittsburg paper as follows:-Why is it that
the pension interests Of the old soldiers are
kept back 30 long in the House, while the
m embers ere pounding away on the tariff?
The old soldiers are watching them and in
tend to vote accordingly, l have been q
De mccrsf all my life, but will vote for the
m en- who advocate the interests of soldiers,
~ every soldier should.
s NJ. 20. {, Eleventh p. z. c.
~ &A-h-A>s 49, - ~unc Ao.
A pair of '.jars'' such rs are used in
drilling q well either for oil or gas, are made
BY splitting the iron, welding the ends to.
gerher i'm proper shape; then splitting one of
the pieces at the butt, inserting the other jar
and wel ding together again. They are made
II three machine shops i'm Butler, every day,
md the black sm ith who attempts to make a
vet must know his business. At the machine
shops here blacksmith makes $3.50 q day
and his helpers $3.50 and $50, while ma
ch inissz make but - day.
Some people oyer in springdale are COM
planning OF the condition of part OF Centre
avenue, and ssy that there is a frog pond on
it. Where The run crosses the street some
draining and filing is needed. and the best
thi Dg to put on a wet piece of street is blast
furn ace c.inker or cinder, and though the
ut uf can be had in New Castle at 81 per car
load, the railroad company wants $40 q car
for hauling il here, which makes the price
too high Some time ago the p. & w. Co.
brought four car loads here on its own ac-
count and had the street Commissioner put
IL on the streets around the depot, which are
nov the best in the town, and We hope they
viii reduce their price for hauling the stuff