Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1891-07-31
LOCAL AND GENERAL

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There is place for everything-ex-
cept boil.
About the easiest thing that people
can do is to make themselves disagreeable.
The woman who begins life as young
mans darling often ends it as an old mans
slave.
People who are always wishing for
some other kind Of weather are getting it
this year.
his farm of 100 acres in Penn twp. to II.
c. Welsh for $4,000.
A newly married couple from Summit
township had their picture taken by Zuver,
Thursday morning
| During the storm of last week the
streets and alleys Of Zelienople were
deluged, and some fine shade trees were
blown down.
Some thirty young men and women
were examined by Superintendent Nc
Collough for Provisional certificates last
Saturday.
For some months we have been
advertising the "Good Cheer which is
one of the best soaps ever put in the
market. Try it.
A mass meeting Of laboring men to be
addressed by several labor leaders of this
vicinity will be held at the Nixon House.
Saturday evening.
Five children of Mr.. Elias Rape, OF
Forward twp, are down with diptheria
and one of his children died of same
disease few days ago
Rev. Phillips Brooks the other day re
ferred playfully to a brother minister of
the ultra conservative order as ''that dear
moth-eaton angel"
The front wall of the Armory building
is being built % inches thick and the side
and back walls is inches, on account of
the heighth of the building-sixty feet
| District Organizer Hughes, of Pittsburg
will be in Butler on Saturday in the inter
est of the Knights of Labor, and will ad-
dress public meeting that night.
| Smith was about to die, and was mad
about it. Let me place your head lower
on the pillow. DEAR" said Mrs. Smith,
| gently. "Sayw said Mr.. Smith, family,
"who's doing this dying, you or II"
| A Philadelphia mother spanked her 8
year-old boy while he had a shoe BUTTON
in his mouth, and the button went down
his throat and caused his death by strangu-
lation shortly after the spanking.
There is trouble at Tarentum. The
lot owners of the camp-meeting grounds,
and the clergy cannot agree as to Sunday
services Presiding Elder Petty has for
hidden them and the trustees intend going
ahead and having them.
AT the meeting Of the School Board
last Thursday evening, Miss Johnston was
retained as principal Of the South Side
School, and it was decided to open the
schools, Sept. 14th for an eight months
| term.
The ordinary watch gives 116, IA, 600
ticks during year. So says an item in
| the curious condensations of an exchange.
Our own count varies slightly from this,
but we're not going to engage in an un-
seemly controversy over matter of a few
ticks.-Franklin Nelcs.
A man was killed on the steps OF an
elevated railroad station in New York by
having an umbrella jabbed into his eye by |
the man in front of him. The man
who carries an umbella or a cane under his |
arm on a crowded street deserves Danish
ment to country where it never rains. |
"A. X. Blood & Co. of Warren, Pa, are
erecting a large lampblack factory at
Branchton Station Of the p S. & L. S. r.
r. They purchased three acres in fee, and
have five hundred acres leased for gas with
one well Of 500 pounds pressure. The
buildings will be of sheet iron.
While the Fire Companies were test
ing new style of nozzle, the other even
ing they busted a rotten hose, and the
Council that evening ordered $50 feet of
"a inch, rubber lined hose, waved. auto
matte couplings, 300 pounds pressure and
guaranteed for 36 months, at go cents per
foot.
After three weeks experience with
sick baby, we are Of opinion that the best
| thing ever thought Of for q case of cholera
inlantum is an alcoholic bath-saturate a
flannel rag with alcohol and bind it around
the child's bowels. We are also of opin-
ion that beef tea and some of the prepared
foods are much safer than cows milk.
The Beaver Falls Journal says that
"a resident of Harmony, Butler county,
writes to Justice Piper regarding the
pollution of the Connoquenessing. He
wants to know if the practice of dumping
dead cattle into the stream can not be
stopped by law. He says that the butchers
in that place all dump the offal in the
| creek.
Butler county has another "original
package" case on hands. On Saturday last
q member of the firm of Flemming d Son,
druggists of Pittsburg had hearing be-
fore Esq. Beitty of Harrisville on the
charge of selling liquor to minors, and was
held for Court. 1t is said that some boys
in that vicinity had liquor shipped to ficti-
tious addresses, and lifted the packages.
The musical season will open in But
Ter next week, and it goes without saying
that Butler people appreciate good things
The first meeting Of the p. N. NJ l. for
the purpose Of enrolment will be held in
the Jefferson street school building Mon
day afternoon, and that evening recep-
tion will be held in the Presbyterian
| churchroom, Of which see notice in anoth-
er column.
The barn Of Peter Criley of Jefferson
twp. was struck by lightning and consum-
ed by fire last Thursday evening. Mr..
Criley lost his entire crop of hay for this
year, also six tons of old hay, $50 dozen
| of good wheat, some rye and wagon. He
was insured in the Hannahstown Co. The
barn was struck just after the last load was
| hauled in, and it burned with the wagon.
The Pulaski Mineral Springs have