Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1891-06-19
LOCAL AND GENERAL
next week.

The devil feels good when he looks a
bypocrite-
The best medicine in the world is fruit
in it, season
1.-The sure way to succeed-eat water
melon.
An inch of rain means a hundred tons
| of water to the acre.
The successor to ''Annie Rooney" has
not yet appeared.
-Fourty- -four stars on the flag week
after next
Postmaster Eastmans salary is now
s24OO year.
Many man does not cut his teeth
until he is on his last legs.
The girl who wants time to consider
ought to get six months.
| There is nothing so discouraging to a
tippling mosquito as bar.
| Doubtful things are the most uncer-
| tain in human nature.
Butler people can now 90 to Erie, stay
| there four hours and get home same day
The store of Andrew NJ. McCombs at
Myoma station was entered on Tuesday
night of last week, and robbed of goods to
the value of about 800.
The Pittsburg Dispatch is now occu-
pying its splendid new building at corner
of Smithfield and Diamond streets, near
the new p o. building.
Nearly all the sewer assessments were
paid last Saturday, and the list OF munich
pal liens filed is much smaller than was
anticipated.
Several boys who were candidates for a
naval cadetship from a district in Michigan
were rejected because the examining physi-
clan found that their hearts had been affect
ed by smoking cigarettes.
An Atchison (Kas) man has sent 50
bill to England in an envelope every week
for the past 90 years and has never lost 9
dollar. This information came out in a
recent trial in the Probate Court.
Mrs. William Smith Of the far west,
found her William, who is a deserter from
the matrimonial ranks, in Butler Tuesday
night, and with the little Smiths settled
down upon him.
Rev. FL. E. Sondora, licentiate Of Ian
caster. Pa. Theological Seminary, will
| preach trial sermon in Bethany Reform
ed Church, North street, Butler, next Sun
day-morning and evening.
-Theo. Helmbold of Saxonburg recover
ed some of the goods stolen from his store
| few weeks ago, at New Castle. They
had been taken from some tramps, who
were arrested at New Castle Junction.
The two Councils of Butler Royal
Templers ofTemperance will give an en-
| tertainment in the Opera House. June 80
for the benefit OF the Councils, consisting
Of musical and literary performances by
home talent
Tomorrow Saturday will be "Ficld
Day" for the Young Mems Christian Asso-
Citations Of Pittsburg. McKeesport, Sbarps-
burg, Butler and other places and q pro-
gramme has been arranged for Geneva
Park, Beaver Falls, beginning at 3 pm.
The School Board of Butler will elect
thirty-six teachers next Monday and there
are already double that number of applica-
tions on file, while over in Sharon, last
week, the School Board had not enough
applications to fill the schools
A well-known physician has good
| word to say of the much condemned prac-
tice of lacing. He thinks that tight lacing
is really public benefit, because it kills off
the foolish girls and leaves the sensible
ones to grow up into women Of use and
service in the world
The Salt and Chemical Go. was reor-
ganized Wednesday, with J. III. Troutman
as President; Jas. w. Drape, Treasurer;
II. c. Heineman, Secretary; w. j. Cassidy,
Manager; and Messrs ]. M. Lambing, New
ton Black, A. p. Kirkland, Drape, Cassidy,
Heineman and Troutman, Directors
| Jesse Richards, the young man who
taught short hand class in this town last
winter committed suicide at e hotel in
Wheeling last Saturday, by shooting him
self through the head and then cutting his
| throat with razor. He came to Butler
from Phillipsburg. Clearfeld Co.
-Wm... Newell, miner of Coaltown
was instantly killed last Thursday, by the
slate of the roof of the mine in which he
was working falling upon him. 1t was
feather-edged stone and slipped down upon
him. He was about sixty years of age,
leaves widow at Gomersol, and ia said to
have some grown up children east of the
mountains.
Long a. Doyle have Jefferson street
| graded up to the school house lot. There
is quite cut in the street fronting the
churches and down about the depot the
fill is higher than the lower floors Of some
of the houses. The contractors have erect
cd stone crusher in the Rciber quarry,
and will crush their stone with il, and
haul the crushed stone to the street
| We understand that some Of the school
boards of the county are delaying their as
sessments in the expectation of receiving
their proportion Of the increased appropri-
alton provided by the late Legislature,
but we think they will be disappointed, as
that money has to be collected before it
can be disbursed; and If they get it next
year, judging from the difference Of opin-
ion as to the amount the Boyer bill will
bring in, they will be lucky.
Since Monday last the trains of the p.
s. & L. II. II. II. that leave Butler at SOS
1920 am. have run through to Erie, and
will continue to do so. The distance is
l2l miles and they make it in five hours.
Trains leave Erie for Butler at 8:l5 am.
and 3:20 pm. slow time, and arrive at But
Ter at 2:30 and $40, Butler time. The To-
cal freight that leaves Wallace Junction in
the morning and arrives here at six pm.
returns at pm. and runs through to the
Junction which is IA miles from Erie.
1t is evidently not known by MANY
township Auditors of this county that the
Act of the Assembly of 1874, approved by