Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1891-07-10
LOCAL AND GENERAL


E-Suffer little sums to come unto us, foi
OF such is our income made.
The 5 and 10 cent store is being dec
GRATED with an iron ceiling.
The Butler bottle factory will be shut
down for two months.
The state Teachers Association is in
session at Bedford Springs
ID. E. jackson is selling off his stock
of dry goods, etc, at cost. See his notices
on this page.
Some of the children have lately been
annoyed by what they call the ''three days
itch and the four days measles"
A girl named Turk, who lives on Insti-
tute Hill attempted suicide Tuesday eve
ming by taking laudunum.
Some of the rockets they now make
are too big. A 7-year old child was killed
at Youngstown 0. last Saturday by being
struck by one.
The demand for sugar must be very
large this season. We see that our cash
grocer, G.Wilson Miller is shipping it by the
car load.
AT the meeting of the Butler School
Board on Thursday of last week, Jno. A.
Gibson of Meadville was chosen Principal
of the High School.
The Southern part of the county was
was favored with hail storm last Satur-
day evening, which did some damage in
some places.
Wednesday Aug, Goth, will be the
next "red-letter day" for Butler, as on
that day, the union re- union of the surviv-
ors of the 18th and Tooth Pa, Infantry and
4th cavalry will be held here.
Now muzzle your dogs, or they will
be spirited away by the High Constable,
and after 4s hours be planted in the Dog
Cemetery that he will start under the new
ordinance.
The Butler Camp Meeting Association
has sold its property in Butler twp. to
John Cradle for $1,000. 1t contains 16 acres
and is partly improved. There will be no
CampReeting in or about Butler this year.
Main st, people should put their side
walks in order as soon as possible. Work
of that kind can be done for four months
yet, but you can count on wet weather
half the time, and eight weeks soon slip
by.
On Wed nesday oflast week the new
copyright law, and the new tariff law
went into effect, and since the 4th inst.
the official flag of the United States has
borne fourty-four stars. A correct emblem
of our country has seven red and six white
stripes blue field, and white star for
each state.
The employees of the National Transit
Co. and their friends will picnic at Slip
peryrock Park next Thursday. There will
be special trains and excursion rates badges
will be furnished by the committee; and
Coleman's orchestra of Titusrille and the
Germania orchestra of Butler will furnish
the music.
The large auditorium Of Chapel Hall
Slipperyrock Academy was crowded last
Thursday to hear the Commencement ex-
ercises which were creditable, alike to gradu-
ates and faculty. The names of the grad
yates for the year are, Robert G. Allen,
Plaingrove; Samnel l.. Cheeseman, Por-
tersville; Ida V. Heginbotham, Saxonburg,
Jennie Il. Hill, Culmersville; Charles W.
Lawrence, Plaingrove; Elizabeth N. Loke
Harlansburg; Mabel f. McCarnes, Slip
peryrock; Harriet NJ. Miller Mcdonald;
William A. Ralston, SilpperyrocB; Jennie
G. Robson, Allegheny City; Ada NJ. Will
son, Slipperyrock.
The Citizens of the vicinity Valencia
met on the 4th and had a very pleasant
Celebration, in the grove of James Magee
near the Station Rev. Kirkpatrick was
chairman, Rev. Galbreath opened with
prayer, D. B. Douthett, Esq. made pleas
ant Introductory speech A good brass band
composed of men and boys of the Village
furnished good music. A. Will
liams, Esq, of Butler amused
the crowd until dinner was called. After
dinner S. Nixon addressed the farmers
league on Equal Rights, Income Tax,
Eleventh Commandment, DC, and offered
to pay for the advertisement of the names
of those parties In the Pennsylvania Senate
who were responsible for the defeat of the
Resolution to amend the constitution so as
to elect United States Senators by vote
of the people. Whoever they were let
them be known as the enemies of the best
interest of our country.
Some parties at Wampum have arranged
an ingenious and successful way ofcatehing
fish. 1t is boat in which the seats are so
arranged that the boat can be dipped, the
water almost coming over the side. Just
after du SIX in the evening two men take
their places in the boat and row up one
side of Beaver river for distance ofabout
a mile, keeping the dipped side Of the
boat as near as possible to the bank. This
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is on the rise, as the fish then congregate
along the shore. AS the boat passes along
the shore the fish become frightened and
jump into the boat After going up, the boat
! is rowed to the other side where the same
tactics are pursued. No light is used, and
the darker the night the better. The part
les using this system have been at it for some
time, and every night come in with large
catch. The fish are unable to escape owing
to the bottom of the boat nearly touching
the bed of the river, thus forcing them to
jump directly into the boat. There is no
law covering this ingenious method of
poaching, but it is probable that the Fish
Warden will find some method of stopping
it.