Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1890-07-11

''Is it hot enough for rouf
Mr.. James Sutton CT Evans City has
sold his mill TO his son.
The salary of the postmaster of Butler
has been raised to $, 800.
A number Of counties are boasting Of
empty iails. Butler county always boasts
the other way.
If the Census EnumeratOr missed you,
vou should inf orm him Of the fact immedl-
stely.
An electric car line from Allegheny
to Butler via the old plank road is talked
of
Allegheny thinks she has a large
enough population to be a city OF the
second class.
The P. & W. trestle at st. Joe was on
fire. Tuesday afternoon, but was not great
ly damaged.
-Messrs Ritter & Ralston are now of
fenng exceptional bargains in dry goods,
and arc displaying beautiful line of rugs.
Rev. W. F. Winner, of Butler, will
preach in the Beulah Baptist church, Oak
land twp. next Sabbath at II a. m. Sub
ject. "Gideon's Victory"
If you can't afford ice drape your
water jugs in a flannel petticoat. Wet
the petticoat, and your water will become
cool.
Don't drink too freely of cold water
when your body is heated. An instance
of the danger Of doing so is noted in our
neighborhood notes.
The Chauta1qua season opened on the
1st and will end with Grand Army Day,
August Goth. The opening of the Seven
teenth Assembly will be on August 5th.
A Census Enumerator asked 3 woman
where her two children were born. She
replied: Zone over to mothers and the
other in the spare ROOM"
On account the many Improvements
now being made in the Normal School
buildings at Centreville, there will be no
summer school held there this year.
The latest "biggest plate glass works
in the world" is to be built at Irwin sta
tion. The plate glass business is being
overdone.
-Messrs Dodds & Heckart, the contrac-
tors, have completed house for John III.
Reiber on Mercer street in a very satisfac
ry manner.
Tuesday was our hottest day, the
mercury standing "a in the shade; yester
day morning the mercury stood at 43 a
difference of 81 degrees.
A car load of water-melons arrived in
Butler Wednesday, and the melons were
distributed among our grocers. If you
havn't had the cramps yet this summer,
now is the appointed time.
Nearly all the reports of the Census
Enumerators of the county have been re-
turned to Supervisor Mates, and he esti
mates the population of the county at 63,
900.
The life of Will Kennedy, the livery
man has lately been threatened by an at
tack of blood poisoning originating from
wound on the hand, but we are pleased to
hear that he is recovering.
To those of our prepaid subscribers,
who wish to read funny paper, we will
send the monthly edition Of Judge, called
the Magazine of Fun" for one year for 60
cents.
The Re iber field east of town is being
filled up with earth from the quarry in
Boyd's grove in Springdale. The cars are
loaded with steam shovel, and unloaded
by a scraper attached to the engine.
When a subscriber comes in and pays
for his paper two years in advance, the
editor feels encouraged. That's what
Warren McDeavitt of Brady twp. did last
week, and it was novel experience for us.
The graduating class of Slipperyrock
State Normal School, this year, consisted
of eleven young ladies, and the commence
ment exercises were attended by a large
number of people.
Prof Morrow and Prof Beer of Slip
peryrock Academy are at loggerheads and
one or the other will be dropped from the
faculty. The students seem to prefer
Prof Beer, and the Board of Trustees is
said to stand IL to against the re- election
of Prof. Morrow.
What with the paving and sewering of
Main street, the new buildings going
up everywhere, the rebuilding of the bot
tie works, the building Of an addition to
the Plate Glass works, the building of the
new transfer station, and a dozen other
enterprises, it promises to be busy sum-
mer for Butler.
A sharper is making the rounds of this
section with an improved plow-share,
which he loans the farmer on a contract
that if it proves satisfactory he will recon-
mend it to his neighbors. The contract
proves to be promissory note. The best
plan to adopt when signing papers for
strangers is not to sign.
If it be true that the leading educa-
tional book publishers have combined and
formed trust, it is the province and priv
ilege of school boards to boycott them. 1t
can be done. No set of men should be
allowed to regulate the prices of text books
for our public schools or to levy tribute
upon system which vitality interests the
welfare of every child in the country.
An oil-well man was stopped on the
hill west of town last Sunday night, forced
to get out of his buggy and was then rob
bed of his watch and money. His assail-
ants were three ragged men, who had
black horses, and who after robbing the
oil man jumped upon their nags and rode
away in the darkness. There were no
snakes in the neighborhood
"A bogus Special Pension Examiner is
said to be now cruising through Pennsyl
vania, defrauding pensioners of various
sums OF money. He is about 40 years of
age and represents himself as DIR. Mascor
or Sam Barnett He weighs about 16O