Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1888-08-17


New Locals- Once . Week Ex cursion to
Atlantic City, Sunbury AcAde my.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Who il w. N. Nickler
The merchants of Greenville will picnic
aa Slipperyrock Park next Tue-day.
-voten should go that they are register
ed before the 5;h Of September.
Hay sells at from SO to sll ton deliv-
cred, in Butler.
-Hish~ay robbsry seems to Be becoming
common crime.
Nobody, here, seemed to pay any atten-
tion 70 the meteoric display.
Dogs sre beginning to use their summer
pants. If the heat continues they will need
muzzlin'
An exchange speaks Of "tramP 500
miles long" What mouth he must have
for pie.
Florida has Q yellow fever scare on
b \ Is. and people are fleeing from Jackson
vilie-
The Producer and Consumer PIc-Nic
will BE- held sf Slipperyrock Park, Wednes-
day. Sept. 18th.
Twenty-Five tickets were sold at the p. 4
W. depot here, Lest Wednesday. for the Nj
agra excanion.
-Tbere's some talk in Pittsburg Of capi-
talisss Of that place building IN immen se in
d<peadsnt refinery there.
The propsistcrs Of the stores in Spring.
dale, Who have been kesDing open ON Sun
day, were notified by the Chief Of Police last
Saturday evening. 70 keep closed next day.
The Normal School Association of Gen.
treviIle will give picnic st Slipperyrock
Park On Tuesday. the 23th. which Is expect
ed to be grand affair.
-"Zeuo," the new p,stoGice in the Glade
the Zeno Markle farm. and kn. Best, the
storekeepsr. h the postmistrsa.
-Our prun II being repaired this week, /,
aud ve are under obligations To the propris-
tor Of the Record for the use Of his press, and
also 10 hD employees for favon.
The Medical World Of Philadelphia
thinks that sli physicians should have dis
tiagaishing mark. sach - peculiar cut Of
coat or 'doctor's button" A
-Our srseess are pay Is cents for butter,
IL for eggs. 20 for potatoes. rs for tomatoes.
sto 10 pr dozen for coru, cents for black
berries, 20 cents for apples AMI IS cents for
oats-
Five Thousand peopls gathered on the
Brcoklyu bssdge, N. ", lest Saturday 10 zee
the big lumber raft come in. 1t was started
from the coast Of Nova Scotia moath or 20
go md contained three million feet Of lum-
ber.
That proposed slagging match did not
take place in Spungdale last Saturday even
ing. We ore Informed that Mr.. Spicher
was On hands and ready 10 spike his oppo-
sent. bst that the opponent did not put In
N appearance.
1t 10 tAesgAt that Mercer will b success
full in the race for the Miners Hospital. One
Of the Ueaben of the board ID from that
sswa, and The hospital should be located in .
nice. qsiet place, and therefore Mercer.-the
very csatre 81 Mercee-is "a eminently suit
able lecafioa.
The committees for the different towns
and tswasAips ars aow collecsiag money for
Tie Soldier's Moaumeat, and everybody is
expecssd 10 give soosshiag. A tribe from
each vueer sad snx payer IN the county will
aggregate large saoagh SUN 10 erect .
cFeditable Doaament
while Mr.. Edwin Cochrsne Of Jefferson
twp-, wes u.lssdiag hay With patent hay
fork, . few day. ago, one Of his hands be-
cane eata1gied IN the rope which was drawn
- tightly - 10 almost sever the hand from
the arm TIE Assh was terribly lacerated
bat - boaes vsss brokea-
The Hsrd1an Piano. sold BY Msssrs.
nellor Hoeae, y msssiny With great enc
CO. IN Bstlss. Mr. d. A. Heck, Capt. II. A.
Ayres, Judge Hasen and Mn. Adams have
lssely purckased them, and Prof Lamb put
. 6se Essey Organ. paFchassi from the same
frn, in the rooms Of the Y. W. c. T. U. last
Saturday.
-Cssnty Superintendent Snyder informs
~ tAat he ha1 advertised - examinatiou In
Butler for the last saturday in July and that
those teacAen Who came here, expecting to
Be examiued, came OF their own notion. He
bod Q special examins&ioa here on Weduea-
tor the Fairvisw schools.
-The sarvey la>sly uade bv the p. & w.
R. r. engineers from the junction of that
r.sd vith The shes:sgo ea:t Of town. around
the eievaied ground near the West Penn de-
Pos. sorsh through Elm and Frankiin SITS :,
vsst through the alley between Penn and
Gay Sts-. and o. West and around the bend
u the creek towards the Fair ground, has
gIvea rase 70 considerable surmi.e, and the
object 10 sappoeed 10 b the obtaining OF q
more desirable location for passenger depot
in the town, and The making Of the open
Froesd ic the ws-teru part Of town available
for locations Cor manafactories.
John F. Barrett. editor Of the Scranton
pa Truth. 70 one Of the busiest Newspaper
men in America In addition TO erecting q
rPaendid n~v baiidiny and equipping it with
one ot hoes web-Perfecting prssss. he has
Jusa written thrilling and romantic story
tor Collier's Once A Week, entitled masked
narrsage. which will appear In No. l6 of
th4f popslar pebticetioa. A recent issue OF
the Eoseon Pdet peys Barrett glowing tri-
base. and warmly urges his election to Con
Eres; bat be speaks % wider constituency
70 O.cs weeE. and his story Of "A Masked
seosafioas Of The year.
a
n6sa gooa Joke ~ country JUS
. o6 Ae rceGe. sae oeasr dsy. be came
D.u YIN NJ nosse sod 0ogey. one Gay
NJ .o~svs evening sssuod Iof
nome nut rev mites out Of iowa ne De-
came very oIeepy and got out OF his buggy