Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1895-06-13
LOCAL AND GENERAL.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.
IT. Z. Morrison's new delivery wagon
is truly beauty.
School teachers for the borough schools
will be selected next Friday evening.
The corn is up again and is doing well,
excepting where the cut worms are num-
erous
1t is estimated that two-thirds of this
county is under lease and the owners re-
ceiving rentals or royalties.
The post office room has been repa-
pered and the walls ntheir variegatsd colois s
present highly artistic perspective.
-One-hundred and fifty cyclers from
Pittsburg and other places took dinner at
our hotels Sunday.
There were three church weddings in
town, eslrrday, one at the English and
two vi the German Catholic church.
The fellow with sisters now locks up
his neckties, suspenders and other articles
of wearing apparel.
A six-foot snake was killed on the
South Side last Monday. Who'd thought
iti
The store of W. J. Marks d Bro. at
Glade Mills was entered and robbed of
500. in cash and some valuable papers
last Saturday night.
The school board of Petersville Inde-
pendent will meet on Saturday July 9th,
at2p. m, for the purpose of electing
teachers. They pay $4,000.
AT the Democratic convention in Butler,
Monday, Aaron Reiber was nominated for
District Attorney, and Jesse Heydrick for
County Surveyor. The resolutions en-
dorse Cleveland and his position on the
money question.
When the wells of the Boydstown or
Henry field are abandoned they should be
plugged both above and below the salt
water; otherwise the salt water may find
its way into the strata of rock from which
our people are now securing considerable
water.
CLARK Wilson, late Of Parker, has
opened grocery store at 354 Centre Ave.
South Side. The name of the firm is
Wilson & Co., and besides the usual gro
ceries, and canned goods, they will keep
kitchen utensils, wood and tin ware etc.
Miss Ida Bippus and her pupils in
music will give a concert in the Opera
House in Evans City, next Wednesday
evening. They will give good concert
in both vocal and instrumental music, and
an accomplished elocutionist will recite.
Tickets are on sale now.
Thirty six years ago last Thursday night
the great frost OF June 9th, 1859 occurred.
I was very cool last Thursday evening
and there were fears Off repetition of the
event. This has been remarkable spring
with, as one of our exchanges puts it, the
mercury jumping from the cellar to the
sixteenth story and back again, in short
notice.
We neglected last week to mention
the fact that our friend and neighbor
George Shiever had purchased an interest
in the "Esgle" paper and printing office.
George has been the foreman and local
writer of the paper for number of years.
He is reliable, progressive man and we
nj IN,
The High School will hold their second
annual picnic at Cnnneaut Lake. Tuesday
June 18th. They will take special train
leaving here at a. M. and return, leaving
the park at 10 p. m. The tickets are also
good on the late morning train. An or
chestra will furnish music for the occasion
and being the first of the year it is antici-
pated as the most enjoy able event of the
season Tickets can be bad from the stu
dents and exchanged at the depot. All
are invited especially the Juniors of next
year and friends of High School in gener-
al
The June number of the sprightly
1dioo ltOm 1Onh AOPlOot op
pears in new and specially designed
modern art cover, and presents as its lead
ing feature brilliant metropolitan story
entitled, ga Very Remarkable Girl.
Cynthia Platte, the remarkable girl" in
question. is bright, cynical, observant and
wholly independent of the conventional
trammels that bother those who surround
her. There are other characters equally
fascinating. No more interesting compan-
ion than "a Very Remarkable Grip could
we'll be found for an idle summer after
noon. Short stories. sketches and verses
make up the remainder of the book
Town Topics Publishing Company, 20S
Fifth Avenue, New York.
Fifteen tramps were killed and some o.
them burned by the wreck Of an oil-tank
freight train. near Kane Pa, Tuesday
night.
Some Grove City students ducked 9
Lieutenant of their military company who
magnified himself and his Office, and wer,
suspended for so doing. Thirteen of tn,
students were invited to leave the school,
but were reinstated few days later.
The town of Cameron in West Virgins
was destroyed by fire carly Monday, morn
ing. Fifty-two houses were burned be
tween 1.30 and o'clock. Wheeling wa
asked for help, and while train wa
speeding from it to Cameron, carrying tn,
fire apparatus the train struck some cattle
the engine was thrown from the track, an,
the enjineer and two other men we're in
stantly killed.
Pennsylvania Railroad Company'S Sum
mer Excursion Route Book.
The most complete publication of it
kind. The passenger Department of tn
Pennsylvania Railroad Company will, o
June l, publish its annual Summe
Excursion Route Book. This work, whicl
is com piled with the utmost care and ex
actness, is designed to provide the pull
lie with short descriptive notes of tn
principal Summer resorts of Easter
America, with the routes for reachin
them and the rates of fare. There al
over four hundied resorts in the book
which rates are quoted, and over fiftee
hundred different ways of reaching thei
or combinations of routes are Set out
detail. The book is the most complet