Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1891-06-26
LOCAL AND GENERAL
nsecrsucker ice cream is the latest

top OF the telegraph poles lately, but good
natured Americans continue to "smile.'
The only Sunday trains in and out o
Butler are on the P. & W. X. R., anJ ar,
noted in our time table.
1t was probably the man who married
a rich wife who first started the joke Oh
the difficulty of finding womans pocket
According to law, widow is entitled
to her third, but the men are generally shy
after she has buried her second
The farmers Of Allegheny and Butler
counties will celebrate the 4th at James
Magee's Grove, near Valencia station. All
are invited.
Tho average human life, it is said, is
growing longer because of better and more
abundant food and more careful observance
of the laws Of health.
| The body of young Robert Taylor of
Allegheny twp. who was killed by lightning
last week. turned black almost immediate
ly.
Says Josh Billings: "Just as aoor as a
man loses his property, then we all re-
collect at once that he was always cussd
fool.
The grandest, prettiest, sweetest, most
luscious box of strawberries we have had
this year came from the nursery of the
Pearce Bros. of Butler.
| The Lutherans Of North Washington
are building new church. The O'ConnOr
brothers have the contract for the masonry
and Eli Gibson for the frame.
A swapping turtle that weighed TWEEN
ty-two pounds was caught in the Slippery
rock near Centreville, few days ago and
sold to New Castle restaurant keeper
1t is now legal to fish with hook AMI
line in streams not stocked, but the gig and
seines are prescribed by law at all seasons
of the year. The penalty for violation of
the law is severe.
The Public Works Committee of the
Allegheny City Council, and the railroad
companies are at loggerheads as to whether
bridge or viaduct shall be built across
to Heirs Island.
The fire companies of the town, led by
the Germania Band and the Markham Hook
and Ladder Co. with their new hook and
ladder truck, made a handsome parade on
our streets, Monday evening.
-Edisons latest invention, the kineto-
graph, not only record sounds, but pho
tographs the producers every gesticula-
tion. 1t will be dangerous machine to
have in a parlor when the young man
calls to see his best glrl
In some parts of this county the frost
and dry weather of the early spring injured
the growing crops more than in Others, but
from all we can learn there will be good
average crops of both grain and fruit in
this county.
A Farmers Alliance orator told the
farmers at Sedgwick, Kan; that ''there
was no more reason why they should be
Republicans because their fathers were Re-
publicaus than that they should be bach
elors because their fathers were bachelors"
-Messrs A. Trontman & Son are the
first to put down a new side walk to the
full width of the same in the business part
of the town. This is matter that should
have the immediate attention of all our
business men, and where grading is needed
to any extent, the paving should be done
in blocks.
AT a late meeting of the school board,
a committee was appointed to consider the
advisibility of putting the Smead- Wills
system of ventilating in the Jefferson St.
school building, and We think that the
committee should go slow in the matter,
as that system is wrong fundamentally
wrong.
An exchange recommends this and as
it is easily done it should be tried: Now is
the time to destroy burdocks. Don't 90
forth with the grubbing hoe and blister
your hands but take the oil can and pour
little coal oil into the top Of each plant
That is all. The oil "will do the rest"
and most effectually.
The entertainment given by the
'Model School" in Normal Chapel of Slip
peryrock Academy, last Friday evening,
was very pleasing and very successful
one. The school is composed of children
and they all did well. The receipts netted
$45 to $50, which will go into the gymna-
SUM fund. The Model School re-opens
September Sth
The State Board of Norma, School
Examiners completed the examinations at
Slipperyrock Academy last Thursday, and
awarded diplomas to twelve Seniors and
forty Juniors. The examination papers
| and the discipline of the school were high
ly commended by the visitors. The Com
mencement exercises will be held July
2, 1:30 p. m.
Don't forget the entertainment to be
given in the Opera House, next Tuesday
evening, by the Butler and South Side
Councils of the Royal Templars of Temper
ance. The talent will all be local; and
part of the programme, both musical and
literary, will be original. The proceeds
will be for the benefit of the order and the
tickets will be sold at 90, 80 and 40 cents
each.
| The County Commissioners of Ly-
coming Co. have taken a step that might be
duplicated, in part at least, by the Commits
sioners of this county. They advertise for
forty well regulated, and continuous
tobacco chewers. County treasurer He'll
man will supply each man with large
plug of tobacco, after which Janitor Bastian
will lead them out TO the court house lawn
and boost them into the trees. After
mounting the shade trees, there will be
nothing for them to do but chew, and spit,
in order to destroy the insect life that is
busily engaged in cutting off the leaves of
| the handsome shade trees
The first through train on the Pitts
burg g. Western ran over the Ellwood
short line Saturday, the road having been
formally opened on Friday. The road is
probably the most costly one in the State
the expense being 100000 mile. The
road is only 81 miles in length, but is very
important from the fact that it is the con-
Meeting link in the Beaver Valley. 1t
| starts from Limeton on the Pittsburg &,