Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1895-08-15
LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Some Western men have herd Of
unbroken horses in town, for sale.
Bert Martincourts new and handsome
residence is nearly completed.
Charley Leslie is building house at
corner of Penn and Broad ST.
The paving of Miffiin St. will change
its grades from one end to the other.
Both ends of the street will be raised.
S. B. Badger has opened his general
store at Boydstown (Sonora P. o. and
buys produce of all kinds.
Cincinnati sausages are said to con-
tain brick dust. We could loan them
some dogs.
Scientists say that mosquito is as
poisonous as a eopperhead snake, the only
difference being in the size of the bite.
A Farmers Alliance picnic will be
held in Ziegler's Grove, near Harmony,
tomorrow.
Clara Wilkes won three straight heats
in the % class at Warren, yesterday. She
stepped it in 25; and now Grove thinks
she's million dollar borse.
Contractor ScheDck is making rapid
headway with the new school building.
Part of the brick-work of the first story ID
in place. 1t will be an immense building.
-Grasshoppers must be very bad in
New Jersey, if the story be true that at
recent big picnic they climbed flag staff
and ate up an Irish flag, thinking it was
good eating because il was green.
The weather this month has been Just
right for buckwheat and the crop in West
ern Pennsylvania, the paradise of the
buckwheat grower, will be the largest
gathered in years.
-Ifyo want a rattlesnake you can get
one from E. S. Kregar of Greece City for
one dollar He caught three in bis oats
field this year, and has them in large
glass jars. Last year he made $l8 out of
rattle snakes.
There are some vague and intangible
railroad rnmors in the air. We have not
succeeded thus far in running any par
ticular one of them to grass, but there is
railroad or two in the air, sure. Some
of our ablest railroad prognosticators say
they can feel it in their bones.-Punrsu-
f1lrneu Snirif
Quite number Of our citizens attend
ed the services connected with the laying
of the corner stone of the new Episcopal
church, last Sunday afternoon, and the
stone was laid and new church dedicated,
but the copious rain that set IN dismissed
the assemblage unceremoniously.
The item regarding the picnic that ap-
peared in our issue OF last week was not
intended to reflect upon the members of
the Protected Home Circle snd their
friends who were themselves imposed
upon; and we greatly regret its publica-
ton. "The item was greater mistake
than the fifty cent excursion"
The General Synod Lutherans of
Butler have given the contract for their
New Church to Mr.. Raucher at $5,346.
1t is to be built of brick, and the contract
does not include the Sunday School room,
which will not he built at present. The
congregation now numbers some eighty
members. Their church will be one of the
finest in town.
1t has been reported that some of the
parties camping near Kiester station are
In the habit of furnishing intoxicating
drinks to small boys who visit the camp
Some of the boys from this place claim to
have received beer there last Sat urday.
There is very strict law against this,
and the parties furnishing liquor to these
boys are liable to get into q peck of
trouble. e.-Signai.
Weeds along railroad tracks are now
killed by the electric weed killer" 1t
consists of car carrying dynamo which
sends heavy current into sort of rake
of fine wires dragging among the weeds
on each side OF the track. As the wires
touch them the weeds are "electrocuted'
down to their smallest rootlets. 1t is pre-
posed to introduce the same system in
far ming.
AT the last session of the Legislature
an amendment was passed to the marriage
Ii cense law which was signed by the
Governor on June 18th. The amendment
makes marriage license now good in any
county in the State, instead of simply in
the county Issued. The party performing
the ceremony must make the return to the
officer who issued the license. 1t would
be well for clergymen and others authoriz
ed BY the law to preform marriages, to
make note of the above fact, as there is
heavy fine for a failure to properly re-
port within thirty days all marriages per-
formed. The act went into effect at once.
In all other respects the law remains as il
was.