Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1893-08-04

Il But / can't go to sleep at all,
For a woman next door is screeching {
song,
And the last line is s'After the Ball" !"
She has finished at last, and over my eyes
The lashes begin to fall
"a I cease my curling and groans and signs,
a For peace comes after the bawl.
" Hay is said to be worth $40 a ton in
l. France.
Thomas NJ. King has been elected
President of the P. & W.
Next Thursday is the day fixed for the
7 great picnic at Conneaut.
: Rev. Butz of zelienople will Conduct
services in the German Lutheran church
next Sunday morning at 1880.
Though silence may be golden,
speeches viii be very silvery when Con-
gress meets.
The sale of the property of the Brady's
Bend Iron Co. has again been postponed,
this time to Sept. 1st.
Frank Eyth, the veteran fisherman of
Centreville, yanked pike out of the Slip
peryrock, near Clarks mills, last Friday,
that weighed 16I pounds.
-Berks county farmers are preparing to
feed their wheat to the cows. At 60 cents
bushel wheat is cheaper food for cattle
they say, than bran at 81 per 100 pounds.
| 1t seems remarkable that anyone
should die of pneumonia during the warm
weather, yet citizen of Clay twp, Mr..
| VIM. Tebay, died of that disease last week |
The 199th Reg't. Pa. Vols. will hold |
their next reunion at Mercer, Pa. Sept. 1st. |
All the comrades are respectfully invited
to attend.
A man wheeling keg of beer on a
wheelbarrow passed through Butler early
Friday morning He said he was going to
Chicago.
Boarding house keepers cannot recover
from defaulting boarders unless they comply
with the act of Assembly by posting notices
in every room. These notices are for sale at
this Office.
|
ing town has refused to believe that man
can live next door to a saloon and never
enter it. Why, men have been known to
live next door to a church and never enter
it.
james Humphrey of Worth twp.
threshed the wheat from fourteen acre
Ea1I ot h,c al |
26 bushels to the acre. Who can beat
thatf.
The Rules and Regulations of the
Board of Health, as adopted by the Coun-
ell last Tuesday night, will cost the town
pretty penny, as their execution will
require the services of a clerk constantly.
The P. II. C. has invited the mer- i
chants of the town and their employees to '
accompany them to their picnic at Con- I
neaut Lake, on the 10th and number OF !
them have signed petition to close their |
store on that day.
-Schaul g. Mast intend removing to the :
new Reiber building; and Mr.. Kirkpatrick
the corner of the Diamond now occupied l
by Cleeland g. Ralston, and will open an !
other jewelry store on Oct. lst.
-Lost:-A German silver folding pro- t
tractor in leather case. The makers name G
is Grove and the case contained also
drafting pen. A suitable reward will be
given for its return to this office.
In county in New Jersey which spent
$3.50, 900 in constructing 80 miles of.macad
emizei road, land has risen in value from
800 to $175 and 5000 an acre, and the :
farmers who thought they were going to
be ruined are now reconciled.
Harry Moorehead's pacing horse Mac
took heat and won second money at z
Syracuse, n. Y. last week, best time 2:16t
on half mile track. Mr., Moorhead has ,
had Mac in northern Pennsylvania and
New York for some time and took piece
of the money in every race except one. AT
Bradford he won the race and got mark
OF 2:1s4. 4
The partnership heretofore existing ,
under the firm name James McNees q Co. I
manufacturers of stoueware at Halston ]
Station, has been dissolved Mr.. James 7
McNees will settle the accounts of the !,
firm, and the business will be continued by
Fl. L. McNees. They make very good
article of stoneware and also stone pump
which is already in extensive use.
There was another slump in the wheat t
market in Chicago, Monday, and at ono
time during the day "cash" wheat sold at
but 53a cents, while that to be delivered 4
in September sold at 573. In the Pitts
burg exchange that day wheat was quoted
at 60 to 65, rye 50 to 81, and oats at "a to
3s. Four car loads of white oats were sold
that day at 80 to a.
Tho City Council of New Castle has
formally condemned the water supply of
that town, which is said to be ''wholly un-
fit for domestic use and an epidemic is
feared unless something is done at once.
Much of the water that is used never
reaches the reservoir, but is pumped di-
ASo''s iH'" eiS Anoinn' oiAu .Aio PiPSS H"'0
frequently been found clogged with decay
ed fish. The water is Got filtered but
runs through big stone heap through
which snakes, eels and small fish can easi-
ly pass. An effort will probably be made
in Butler in the near future to better our
water supply.
USE DANA'S SARSAPARILLA ITS
"THE KIND THAT CURES"
-WAJTED-Agents for household ar
ticles, address with stamp,
W. l.. Brown,