Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1889-07-12
LOCAL AND GENERAL
who il W. NJ Niekle.

this year
-Jahn Miller i. to lecture at CentreTille
next Tuesday evening-
The 18Th p. V. will reune at PunKsn-
tAw.ey in October.
-whe4; harvest Is little late-it got in
the wet and hAs a bag bead. however
-Meaars Andrews shuttIeworth, the
IAnndrymen, have diasolTed partnership
The Batter Military Co. win go into
camp al Grove City. during the latter part
sf nerf week
-wm- AekmAn. r W. brakeman
was run over and killed at New Castle
junction lAst Saturday.
The Regina GAyotte~ dance Fran
eaise for the piano, for sale at J. r. T.
Stehle'A
The betting IN Butler fast Monday
was 2 to ia favor 81 Sullivan, and eonsid-
srabI~ money changed hands.
Considerable clover va. cut last week,
ANT thi- NreA Ia Dfsh spiefiuiu haIftrl
weather.
-croxs in lewisspxn's yicinity are
feeding on locu-ts and letting the corn
alone.
A big distillery II TO be built At Union
town Fsyette county didn't vote that
way.
The spring chicken is here. II is
light weight but it takes heavy purse to
sustain IL.
There l. straw enough for the oats
crop. and il viii be big one IL the filling
turn@ out right
C. G. Fleming, formerly OF this county,
was drowned last Friday while bathing in
the creek near wellsyille. o.
The festival in Rink on the 4th, for
the benefit Of the new Reformed church
was n great success. and netted over 800.
While drilli=g for water ON the Andy
BogEs lot on West Penn ST., "A few days
ago. eas wAs struck at 10 feet
The tax rate for Butler this year will
he 36 mills, divided a. follows, schools II
mills, borough ;, county 5, and poor 2.
Since the GOOD. the artesian or drilled
wells in Pittsburg and Allegheny have
be.n of great service 10 the people Of the
two cities.
The Standard Plate Glass Co, Of But
icr, is laying pipel line to the 5arvers sta
tion rAs field. They have 1900 acres leas-
ed there.
1T Is little early yet, but persons who
want 10 be census enumerators may begin
20 arrange their business affairs in order to
be ready when the lightning strikes.
The company that intends developing
the limestone Of Winfield TIP. has pur-
chased ffty acre. from Daniel Denny for
furnace purposes.
Mr.. Alex. Kelly. Of slippcryrock Tp.,
was caught IN the belt Of saw-mill in
Clarion Co., last Wednesday. and had leg
broken.
On our second page to-day will be
found striking and instructive illustration
of the comparative wsrth Of the various
kinds of baking powders now in the mar
kef
Mrs. iieckert, widow of Francis Heck
ert. and Mr.. Miller, her sister. also wild
ew, and both Of Connoquene2aing twp,
died last Friday within a few hours Of each
other, and were buried ON Sunday. They
we're both aged ladies.
-Messrf. w W. BlAekmore aud l.. NJ.
Grisb will leave town to-day for the East
ern AhDr market, and they expect 10 open
their new store on y. Main st. by the Int Of
August See their card in another place.
Mr.. Jaa. NJ Crookshanka, Of Winfield
Tp., Il yet travelling for the waring Manu-
iacturing Co, Of Coiora, Nd. mannfnc-
iarrra of phosphate aud agricultural i'm
pIe'nents and has good trade in this
conliy.
-k. u. Bogg., Of Boggs A. Buhl, Ale
Fheny, has roid his beautiful new residence
On North avenue, aud has purchased the
adjoining lot Ii0rl70, for s6j, 900 The
firm il said 10 be worth over a million.
Part Of the State Orphans school
commission inspected the Home here last
Monday and expressed themselves well
pleased with IL, and promised 10 send fifty
more orphans 10 II. Our Home ~ one Of
the best in the State
Esq. Walker has bottle Of alleged
whisky ia HE possession, taken from a
crazy drunk man On the sth, which Ii
curiosity. It's no wonder the fellow was
temporarily insane after drinking such stuff
a@ that
The new time table on the r. a. W.
X. X. Nv 40 very unsatisfactory that there
ir general complaint regarding Il, and the
road ~ losing its trade between Butler and
Allegheny. revisal Of the time table is
expected for ths near future aud would be
advisable.
The National ensign will hereafter
have forty-two stars and thirteen stripes
When Vermont and Kentucky were ad-
Initted In I79i aud l792 an effort was made
TO have the number Of stripes increased 10
hfteen- but u was voted down in Congress.
There was lots Of fun aud lots Of er-
r"rs In the game of base ball played here
On The 9TH between the Centrcyille club
and the Y. n. &. A Of Butler There 1.
more fun In game like that than there l.
in dozen games between proiessionals.
Mr. A. w. Mccullough Of this place II
now in the employ Of the Pittsburg Plate
Giasf Co, aa Field Supt. His duties are
." lease and drill for gas, and maintain
supply for the works At Tarentum. Crcigh
t"n aud Ford City. The Co, in now drill
ing three wells In the saryers Station field
aud intend piping the supply from that
field 20 Ford City, and the bulk Of their
supply for the Tarentum aud Creigbton
works cones from the MnrrayAyiile field
Capt Ford ~ the principal stockhoider of
the Co, which has two and a hall milliona
invested Ia their plants and employ about
1890 men. Their plate glass plant at Ford
City, below Kittanning, will be the largest
IN the world when completed.