Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1890-06-13

| now is the size OF the city or town IN which
you live.
Picnic lemonade will be made this
season in the same old way. The girl
holds the lemon and the fellow does the
squeezing
A young lady Of Portersyille has gone
to Kentucky as missonary-the most
sensible mission We have heard Of for q
long time
a family reunion was held at the resi-
of James Frazier, Sr. near Euclid station,
Wednesday. \ car load Of Fraizers came
up from Pittsburg by rail, that morning.
Miss Saliua Gibson has been recon-
mended by Congressman Craig for Post
mistres IS OF Freeport. There We're SIX ap-
plicants for the office.
Two census eHumerators, one IN New
York and one in Ohio, have already COM
mitted suicide The Altoona Times says
they preferred to take their lives rather than
the census
When you see census enumerator
negotiating for the purchase OF a baseball
mask you will understand that public
opinion in regard to his schedule of ques-
tions has begun to assert itself
If you have any difficulty in keeping
warm these rare days of June our advice
would be to stand near thermometer and
discuss the state of the weather and the
probabilities of d further rise OF the mercury
with fat man. This ought to fetch you.
An improvement on snake stories is
telegraphed from Tuscon, Arizona. Two
hunters in the desert found a winged
monster resembling huge alligator, pur-
sued and killed it. 1t measured 81 feet in
length and so feet in greatest diameter,
with head feet long.
Eugene Perry, young boy OF Wayne,
Neb., who was III the habit OF leading his
COW to and from the pasture, tied the rope
around his waist one day last week-the
COW ran away, and trampled and dragged
him to death. Now this trick by which
Eugene lost his life is common one.
The Norristown Herald has heard ofa
third rate show, consisting of clown,
eight horses, six performers and two lem
onade and peanut venders which goes by
the grandioquent name OF Blanks Triple
Behemoth Unsurpassed Shews, Wild West
Amphitheatre, Renowned Cirque and Mar
vellous Equescurriculum.'
The corners of all the lots in the
English Lutheran part of the South ceme-
tesy have been marked and persons inter
ested III lots in that cemetery can now
readily find them. Some Of the lots are
now being improved by their owners, and
it is hoped that all the owners will take
similar action.
In the large towns cement for side
walks is superceding fagstone and brick.
Cement sidewalks were laid in front of the
West Penn depot in Allegheny last week
and this. If the weather is dry the
cement can be walked upon "A hours after
it is put down.
The Meadville Gazette reports that ga
dangerous team, consisting Of horse and
an ass went down Chestnut street a few
days ago at fast gait. The horse drew
the buggy and the ass held the lines and
piled the whip" Such teams are fire.
quently seen in more places than
Meadville.
"A curious case of mistaken identity
came to light in Kittanning last week.
Some time ago Miss Lizzie Zimmerman, of
Bfedy's Bend, had David Gall, of Bradford,
arrested on serious charge, claiming that
she had made his acquaintance in Butler
county. On Tuesday of last week, she
made affidavit that he was not the man,
and he was discharged from custody.
North Washington Academy will close
its present scholastic year with commence
ment exercises on Friday evening, June
Goth, at 8 P. NJ. Barcalaurate sermon by
Rev. j. g. A. Fullerton in Presbyterian
church, on Sabbath evening, June 15, at
SP. NJ r. b. STARKY,
sec DOaru OF trustees.
AT the meeting of Council Thursday
evening two sewers in the northern part of
town that empty into cutters and drains
were declared a nuisance and ordered to
be abated. There are somo more Of them
and they have been a nuisance and dan
ger to the health of the town for some
years.
The concert given by the Orchestra of
the Germania Band from the porch Of the
Lowry House, Tuesday evening was listen
ed TO by large audience whose hearty ap
plabse demonstrated their appreciation Of
the very excellent music rendered by the
orchestra, which is entitled 70 the thanks
! Of the community.
Out in the wild and woody west vii
| Ian was hauled before the Mayor Of the
town and accused of killing eleven men,
| but the Mayor said that was nothing; then
| they accused him of stealing twenty seven
horses and the Mayor again shook his head;
| but when they accused him of using the
word Not in connection with gentle in
quiry as to the weather, the Mayor order
| cd him TO immediate execution.
Some private telephones with which
| electric batteries are connected, and which
will not work without them excepting for
short. distances, have been in use in Butler
| for some time. The patent of the Bell
Telephone Co. covers all such telephones,
and on Friday last an agent of that compa-
ny arrived in Butler and invited the users
of all of them to donate them to the Bell
Co., or be prosecuted. They donated.
The Democrat primaries passed off
| quietly in Butler, though as nobody knew
who were running for the o ffices there wos
considerable pulling and hanling at the
polls At one Of the polls in Butler we
noticed paper stuck up with the names
OF the suggested candidates upon it and at
another news item cut from a local paper
answered the same purpose. Under such
circumstances few people went to the polls
with their tickets made up, and the major
ity of the tickets were written at or near
the polling places, and most of the names
on them were suggested by persons stond
ing there "
| f-tS 80 -
"A nitcning post Is handy thing, and
there should be one before every business
| house and residence in the town well