Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1895-07-18
LOCAL AND GENERAL.

and tomorrow evenings
The Protected Home Circle will pic
mic at Rock Point, Monday, August 5.
Keep cool; if you can't keep cool,
keep az cool as you can.
1t is against the laws of the borough
to throw rubbish on the street.
Word comes from the lake shore grape
belt that there will be about one-haif the
usual crop. The price will be bout
twice as much ss!last year, so that mat
ters will be eyened up for the growers.
The Citizens Gas Co, struck an i'm
mense gasser on the John Cranmer farm,
at " Jne stnut, and will have an abund-
ancc # gas for next winter. The rock
ressare of this well is 545 pounds.
oe..nor & Mace shipped car load of
horses 10 Philadelphia last Friday and two
car loads of fresh cows to Bucks Co. yes
terday. They are now buying and ship
ping all kinds of live stock.
The Building Committee of the Grace
Lutheran church will receive sealed pro-
posals for the new building up till P. M.
OF Saturday. The plans and specifications
can be seen at the home off Fl. Conard,
308 Franklin St.
Ore Of the Pittsburg dsilies of last
Saturday bew allied this Midsummer In
sanity" for Lavel in foreign lands and
hints that sone of the people of the two
towns might be benefited by trip out the
Butler plank road.
The large numbers of people who as
semble on our streets almost every even
ing around the takers suggest that an open
air garden, here people under pretence
of eating and drinking something could
sit and chat, would be profitable institu-
tion.
The P. d w. R. R. Co. drilled a we'll
for water at the crossing of Centre Ave.,
and have well that produces 25 barrels
of good, soft water per hour. They are
using it in their locomotives but it takes
over two hours to fill tank.
In Chicago, recently, woman was
arrested by the police while riding a BIZ |
cycle and wearing q green satin JACKET |
and old gold knickerbockers, on the charge |
that she was "personating a man." Great |
Scott! what do we fellows look like any
howl
"A famous physician says that nag
ging is disease with which about one |
woman in fifty is afflicted, but that only |
one woman in 5000 has an incorrigibly |
bad temper. On this ratio the allow
ance for our town would be about one. |
Wonder who our female cyclone is
"A hypnotist of Ravenna, O., put 49,
year.old youth in hypnotic trance and |
he remained in that condition for one |
week without food or drink. What |
grand thing the possession of such power |
would be to the keeper of a Summer |
boarding house.
AT the July meeting of the Butler |
County Medical Society, DR.. Cunningham,
of zelienorle. read paper on Cerebral |
Hyperaenia," which will likely be publish |
ed in Pittsburg Medical Journal Drs. |
A. c. Davis, of Sarversvllle, and E. j. |
Fitbian, Of Harmony, were elected to |
member ship. The society is in flourish |
ing condition.
"A law which the recent Legislature |
of this State placed upon the statute |
books fixes the weight of a ton OF coal |
at 2, ,240 pounds. Dealers who sell less
than that number of pounds for ton
can now be fined. This matter of the |
"heft" of ton OF coal isn't burning |
question in Butler, but amounts to some |
thingwhere people buy coal and get only |
200 lbs. to the ton.
The Filbert Paving Co., of Pittsburg |
were the lowest bidders for the paving of |
Mifin St. with Brady's Run brick and the |
contract was awarded to them at $14, 606.- |
g. The bids for that kind of brick ran |
from that sum to s15,935.0O. Work is to
be begun in ten days, and in the mean
time the Water Co. will finish lowering
their pipes.
Two hundred persons were injured by
the falling of a floor at Atlantic City, last
week, on which the Elks were holding
Their annual convention. The accident
was caused by the giving way of rotten
wooden pillar. Nobody from Butler was
there, as our lodge belongs to the other
faction.
-Fifty-three thousand delegates repre-
sented the two and halt million members
at the great Christian Endeavor con-
vention at Boston. Butler county was
represented by Misses Cochran, Brown,
Borland, and McNees and Mrs. Colbert of
Butler; Rev. Starks of North Washington,
Rev. Thompson and Miss White of Evans
City, and Miss Mccullough of Fairview.
--One of the greatest places for trout in
America is up in Cameron county, about
nile miles from the Sinnemahoning. 1t is
very rough country, full of gnats, mos
quitos and rattlesnakes, but that is to be
expected. Trout do not care for polished
society. In fact they are of rather re.
firing nature, and shrink from the fascinat-
ing stare OF the dude.
AT twenty-five, when a man is young,
he thinks he knows it all; he likes to wag
his active tongue and exercise his gall, he
struts around in noble rage-the world is
all his own; he laughs to scorn the world
of age and lists of self alone He wears
window in his eye, to see his whiskers
grow; he thinks the ladies pine and die
because they love him SO. At forty as
you may suppose, he's knuckled down to
biz: it's not till sixty that he knows how
big chump he is.
Some good horses are in training at
the Butler Fair Grounds. John ShGnor,
lesse of the track has quite q string and
some exceptionally well bred colts that
are showing speed. Will Weigle has eight
head in training and among them sorrel
ReldiDg called Blond, who has q mark of
2:144; he also has Alonzo McCandless stall
lion, Storm Bird 2:35, who is showing fast
this season and DR.. Leighner's stallion,
Crawford Prince, by Crawford 2:07a.
Jacob Emel Of Ogle has his stallion, Ogle
Boy 2:30 here, and will make the starters
in the 2:30 class 60 / me this Fall. He
also has DR.. Bells Hal Broaden colt.
Ramsey Byers of Meadville has four or