Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1892-06-17
Awful hot, but good for the corn.

Through the next four years and more.
Awful hot, but good for the corn.
A first class 'sbike" with pneu eumatic
tires costs $50.
The report of the Presbytsrial societies
will appear in next paper.
A fire at Euclid Station Tuesday
morning, destroy ed the old creamery build
ing, and Dunlap's barn and water tank.
e-The Butler Presbytery was in session
in Butler this week, also the Presbyterial
Missionary Society.
Some eight-hundred men are at work
double tracking the P. q W. between Cal
lery and Harmony.
The Murtland brothers, of Magic, have
disposed of their stock to Balsiger q
Badger.
An Arkansas cook recently used arsenic
in place of soda. 1t was q miserable act,
but it brought the whole house down.
Treasurer Wilson gives this his last
notice, to al owing for Mercantile Tax,
to pay up Immediately and thereby save
costs.
The finest strawberries we have had
this season were raised by Wilson Derrimore
Of Jefferson township. Large, solid, we'll
favored berries.
The verdict In an F&B case tried in
Court, this week, is m unusual one-not
guilty and the costs divided equally be-
tween the young man and the girls father.
The barn Of J. G. Snyder, Esq, in
Brady twp, was struck by lightning last
Thursday evening. It was not burned,
but one of his cows was killed.
On Saturday night the 4th inst the
sheep shed of Robert Allen, In Brady twp.
was s------ lightning and % head of
uncl;pped sheep were killed. Six sheep in
the shed were not killed.
Philip Bickel, youngest son of Philip
Bickel, decd, dropped dead on Jefferson
street last Friday morning. He was IS
years Of age, and had not been in good
health for some days.
The personal in the CITIZEN of last
week stating the marriage of Edward
White of Butler and Flora Meals of Con-
cord twp. was untrue. 1t came to us by
mail and was the work of some mischiev-
ious person.
John laval. the Jefferson street Liv
erman. sold of everything at his public
sale or last Saturday, and everything was
disposed of ct reasonable price.
up to Monday Of this week Burgess
McAboy had forwarded to Titusville tor
the citizens Of Butler the sum of $730. .25,
and to Oil City $500; and II. J. Klingler d
Co. sent five barrels of -four and one Of
corn meal.
Every house on the south side of Slip
peryrock street, Aillerstown, from the P.
6W. depot to Main street was burned
last Monday night. They were all frame
and the loss will roach $50, 900, with less
than $l0, 900 insurance. Nillerstown has
been the scene of 20 many fires that some
years ago, whom she had one on the 1st of
April, and the fact was autographed to the
neighboring towns, it was supposed to be
ajoke.
The Commencement week of Grove City
College will be June 1928, 1892 Sabbath,
500 p. NJ, the Baccalanreate Sermon will
be delivered by the President, in College
Chapel; Monday, 200 P. NJ, Field Sports,
500 P. NJ, Entertainment by the Webster
Club; Tuesday. 500 r. NJ, Presidents
Levee; Wednesday, 1000 A. NJ, Alumni
Meeting, Loo P. NJ, Dress Parade and
Military Drill, 500 P. NJ, +. W. Governs
Cantata, "The Rose Maiden" and Ethel
bert Nevin's "Wynken, Blynken and Nod, "
given under the direction OF Prof z. q.
Hcfiey, assisted by we'll known musicians;
Thursday, 800 A. NJ, Commencement
Exercises, Grove City Park. Military
Escort, 500 r. NJ, Entertainment by the
Shakespeare Club.
Middlesex twp. was the scene OF a
glycerine explosion last Thursday. A
shooter" from Butler put q shot in one
Of the wells of the Fisher Oil Co. on the
Jno. Jack farm. The shot did not explode
and squib was lowered on top Of it, then
the shot exploded and threw the squib to
the top Of the derrick where it exploded
and demolished the top Of the derrick and
also set it ON fire, and 1t was burned.
JEFF Davis and the shooter" felt and heard
the squib coming up and saved themselves
by hasty exit Then the IA quarts Of
glyccrine in the shooters" wagon, nearby,
exploded, and scattered that wagon over
the surrounding country. The team had
been unhitched and the horses run away
when the squib exploded. The explosion
was heard and felt at Glade Mills.
Lanes Family Medicine