Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1889-08-23
LOCAL AND GENERAL

LOCAL AND GENERAL
job work neatly done at the CITIZEN
Office.
The prize fair pumpkin is assuming ma
jestic proportions
Read Nathan Browns poetry. It's
good.
ANDY Carnagie is raid to be buying
stock in the y. &W.
--Buckwheat blossoms and the honey
therefrom are materiaiizing.
IF the corn il little short the oats
il Away above the average yield.
Mr.. Samuel Marshall has purchased
the Kirk grocery on y. Jefferson St
The people Of North Washington are
arranging for celebration on Sept 10.
Nathaniel Campbell and Warren Al
bert arc building on New Castle St, West
End.
DIR. Linn and H. 2. Scott, Esq. have
taken down their front fences; keep up the
good work.
While Eli MAJ aud wife were visiting
in Exams City last week, they lost a child
by brain fever.
The Hundred Foot belt passes right
through lit Chestnut jay Could says
sDv
Mr.. WIN. Biehl has built MI addition
of four rooms 10 the rear Of his store Snild-
ing ON Main 1t.
"A telephone wire IL 10 connect Batter
with Pittaburg. and the poles for the same
are being delivered
The Pension Department, in the Kauf
man case, has ruled that a dinhonorablc
discharge il mo- bar to pension.
We acknowledge the receipt of a com
piimentary for the Millerstswn Fair, which
opens SEPT. . and closes sept. 9th.
The Butler Gas Company got good
gas well cn the Atchison half acre, along
the Frrtport road on the hill south 81 town,
Last week
SOME cf the young ladies Of Butler
hare arranged for ricbic al Forest Grove
to-day and quite "a number Of our people
are going
The contest for County Superintendent
OF Common Schools for this county promis-
cS To b. vigorous. The election takes
place In May
III merchants want Bible authority for
advertising. they will find il 10 Numbers,
sx4is. H. 'Behold, ! 20 unto my people;
ccme, therefore, and will advertise"
Doc Mosier asks us TO say that he IL
taking contracts for painting and refers To
the job done AZ Bichls.
The Miller refinery, Ia Manchester,
Allegheny, was destroyed by fire early
"Wednesday morning aud the engineer,
named Miller, was killed.
"A terra Gotta lumber company has
been organized by Pittsburg iinancicrA.
The immber IL made Of sawdust and clay,
and u expected 10 supcrccdc lath and pIas-
Ter.
The employees of the National Tran.
ait %. will picnic at slippcryrock Park on
Monday, sept Ind. The managers In But
ler mru Y. A. IIite, G. H. Watson and n.
". Wing.
Mr.. John NJ. IIntchison who was crush
i'm coal bank near Greece City some
months ago, aud who has been lying help
iesAly paralygcd since, IL al present In
very prccarioua condition.
Mix took tumble ON Jefferson street
laAt saturday moming--SmithS horse run
"H and the riE ran Into Borelana'n milk
wagon. upscttIng IL and scattering the
cans over the street
The striking 1000 barrel we'll on the
MonlaR farm, recalls the days OF Thorn
uruch. where In the midst Of dry or nearly
dry holes. Phillips struck his famous Ensb-
ur.
The Hundred Foot territory IL at
rrsannt attracting a. much attention as
amy part " the oil field. What IL called
tho hundred foot" strata of sand stone,
lieA about iarec hundred feet above the
regular third Nand stone.
The owners aud managers of the Ford
city plate FiaNa works are provoked over
being talcn ~ Ny a stranger, who secured
position Ia the work. aud then, with an
aeccinplAee, made plans Of the most impor.
tant aud secret parts Of the works
"A method VI distinguishing the muAh
room irun the poisonous tondntool ia said
tn bc nv rprinklinE salt on the side. II 1t
tunH black the mushroom Il good. lryel-
low Il II poisonous. Time should be given
the salt 10 act.
-At th. meeting Of Council. Tuesday
evening the ordinance prohibiting further
hurials Ia the old Catholic cemetery near
The West Penn depot was adopted, aud
Aug. ~. isao, fixed a. the time for Il "a 20
into effect.
The Masonic Fraternity ~ Butler aud
vicinity wili picnic at slippcryrock Park
rcat Tuesday. AuE. "a The train will
leave the T.. a W depot al 1890 am,
nsuuis ~ The Germania Orchestra y. w.
i-"wry, Jos. crisweli aud W. A. stein,
Committee.