Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1895-08-08

Monday morning.
Administrators and Executors OF estates
can secure their receipt books at the CIT
IzKN Office
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Even in dog days cats have their
nights.
Less than one month, boys, till school
begins.
We have had splendid rains during the
past few days.
We have had very little real ummer
waether thus fer.
The Markham Il d L. Co. will give
lawn fete in the near future.
The Tooth Reg. (Roundheads) will
reune at Rock Point, Aug Sth.
Butler county girls cannot guess-none
of them won prize in the six-Pointed-
Star contest.
The encampment at Glencairn of the
2nd Brigade, N. G. P, will continue until
Satur y of this week.
~ real philosopher says that worry
ing 4 fretting oyer troubles is like try
ing ~ cure boil with rrg-comb."
a tremendous crowd, estimated at
fourty Thousand, visited the camp at
Glencairn, Sunday,
Most of our people are re-ti-cent on
this partisan squabble, but will be heard
from aiier it devil opes itself
The Odd Fellows of the county will
meet al EvaLs City on Tuesday the 9th
list IT, dt dicate the new Hall, there.
LII. Elie is from two to three feet
lower llsn il has been before in twenty
years.
Mr.. Berkiner, the undertaken, has
purchased the interest of his partner, Mr..
Taylor, in the busine ss.
The cornerstone of the new Episcopal
church vii be laid, with appropriate cere-
monies, next Sunday afternoon at O'Clock.
Rev. DR.. VIM. White will preside.
The running team of the First Ward
Hose Co. will take part in races in several
Pennsylvania and Ohio towns this season,
and wind up at the Atlanta Exposition.
AL. Wilson now has his shop on Mon
roe ST., north of Brady. He makes pieces
of furniture, like odd sizes of book cases,
to order; and repairs all kinds Of furniture.
The traffic from Butler to the differ
emit oil fields is immense. If you don't
think so, be around any morning between
6 and O'Clock, and see the teams start
out.
After Oct. LIST the Government will
cease to distribute seeds. The results OF
the present system are saiG to be unsatis-
factory and not such as to justify CON
tinuance of the system.
1t is now announced from Chicago
that the corn crop this year will be the
largest ever known, exceeding any former
record by 2OO,OOO,OOO bushels. Corn is
still king.
Where did all the liquor come from
that was consumed at Rock Point last
Mondayf Elwoodi Quite a number of
young men from Butler were drunk and
disorderly that day.
-Mifflin street is now closed on account
of paving, and Brady street, below First
on account of sewering. Psrt of the ditch
on Brady street is being blasted from the
solid rock. The curb-stone for Mifflin st.
is coming from quarry at Rock Point.
AT the meeting Of the School Board,
Tuesday evening, F. G.. Hosack of Worth
ington and Minnie Painter of Buffalo
were chosen to fill the vacancies made by
the designations of teachers Hutzler and
Miss Cochran, and their salaries fixed at
$50, and $40.
Our grocers are paying 60 to rs cts.
for apples, so to 60 for potatoes, II for
eggs, Is for butter, II dozen for corn,
80 dozen for celery; Is to 90 cts a dozen
for cucumber, to cts. q doz for pickles,
/ ct. lb. for cabbage, 80 cts doz. blnch-
es for beets.
While party ofyoung men were on
their way to Hazel Dell in Lawrence Co.
last Friday, they came across tree that
was full OF black snakes. They attacked
the reptiles with clubs, and killed 45 in
an hour. The largest snake was over six
feet long.
Some of the buggies in this town now
have rubber tires. and it would be well for
the horses TO have rubber shoes, for some
of our horsemen who have no regard Tor
either their horses hoofs or the peace and
safety of the community, speed their
horses on the paved streets nightly.
AT the meeting Of Council, Tuesday
evening, the bids for the Mifflin St., bridge
were referred to the committee; the solicit
tor was ordered to prepare the ordinance
assessing the cost of the Cunningham St.,
sewer and some sidewalk and other mat
ters were referred to the proper commit
tees.
The new history of Butler County,
beautifully bound volume-is being de-
livered this week. Praise or criticism of
80 large work is impossible on short
notice, but we know that the publisher
has endeavored to make his work as COM
plete and correct as possible. The engrav-
ings of several of our former citizens, and
many of our present ones are excellent.
"A fifty-cent excursion is mistake.
Too many of the sports and chippies of
the town "took in" the one of last Mon
day, and the sports got drunk, and the
chippies did business in the bushes, and
lots of respectable people who were there
that day wished they we're somewhere
else.
Our millers are paying rs cents for old
and 20 cents for new wheat. The new
wheat thus far marketed is not frst-class
and would hardly reach second grade.
The berries are shrivelei up and, while
hard and firm, do not give good yield of
-four. Perhaps the best wheat has not yet
reached the market.
Shoes are going to be higher; not
worn higher, but costing more. Prices are
25 to SO per cont. higher than at the same
time year ago, and still have an upward