Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1892-08-05
The fly crop is immense.

The horse-buyer is in the land.
The season for Fairs and Family Re-
unions is again upon rs.
The man who sits down on pie at
pic...o is his own worst enemy
The P. H. C. had bad day for their
picnic.
Ritter & Ralston advertise "knock-
down" sale this week.
oliver Wendell Holmes description OF
uf an afternoon tea-"Giggle, gabble, gob-
BILE and git"
We wouldn't like to be aharvest hand,
but what fun it must be to have harvest
hands appetite.
A woman always looks under the bed
for man. A man goes ont between the
acts to look for him.
One place is just about as good as an
other for Q man without money. IN fact
he is nowhere anywhere.
Base ball tomorrow and Saturday
afternoons--Our Boys of Pittsburg vs. But
lers.
Only few people are willing to bear
the insupportable fatigue of doing their
thinking.-P unx'y Spirit.
Contr actor John Nicholson secured the
contract tor the temporary school buildi ing
on the Jefferson street lot ut 81, $50.
The most popular forms Of foliage just
now are cabbage leaves, shirt sleeves and
leaves of absence.
Tho citizens of Prospect viii tender
the students of Prospect Academy re-
ception in Academy Hall, next Tuesday
evening.
The Clerks Club had fine day for
their picnic and sold 500 tickets at 40
cents each. Their picnics may well be
described as the Queen of picnics.
The youngstown base ball club is the
best that h as been here this summer, but
the rains of Friday and Saturday spoiled
the games.
The Delano picnic of last Sunday is
reported to have netted the institution a
thousand dollars. Five thousand people
were out from the cities
The Critchlows of this county have al
ways borne good name in every respect;
but according to the Pittsburg paper
whose article we reprint in another place,
the three brothers who went to Allegheny
county became addicted to violence.
All the astronomers had their eyes on
Mars Wednesday evening, as i. is nearer
the Earth than usual at present, and on
Wednesday evening was on line with the
Earth and Sum.
The Rupert excursion train started
from Butler this (Thursday) morning with
avery nice crowd inside, and the best of
weather outside. They will have q jolly
time.
The Butler Fair, this year, will be a
stummer-Excursion rates on all the rail-
roads, good music, races every day, liberal
premiums bringing the best displays, special
premiums bringing special displays, and
ample accommodations will bring you all
to Butler during the first week of Septem-
Der. Entries close Monday evening, Aug.
%. Send to Secretary for premiums Lists.
The New York Herald has announced
anovel plan for the present presidential
campaign. To the person who most near
" predicts the popular plurality Of either
Harrison or Cleveland, it will give . free
trip around the world, paying all expenses;
to the person making the second best pre-
diction it will provide . trip to London,
Paris and return, and the third best pre-
diction win be rewrrded by trip to Lon
don and return. Competition is open to all
residents of all parts of the United States,
the only conditions being that the predic-
tion must be made on ballot which is
printed in the Herald every morning.
Any one can make at many predictions as
he has ballots