Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1896-07-09
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
The Poets Plamt.

what micded we the swollen cneeki
When with our old six-dollar gun
We shot bull frogs along the creek
Alas tkose days are past and gone.
Their memory is pleasant dream
And pIod on, and on, and on
Ard aings are not Just what they
seem.
Good harvest hands were in demand
last week.
The luscious watermelon has made its
appearance.
-Msjor NeKinley's daily mail now aver
ages 1000 letters.
-"How's your conduct" is the Latest
form Of salutation.
Pipe Lie picnic at Conreaut on
Thur day Of next week.
One half Of 1896 has already vanished
with the fight OF time.
Beer may make q man fat, bat too
much will make him lean.
Bicycle riding is on the increase, not
with anding the falling of.
Bicycle exercise ia great thing. If q
man doesn't ride, dodging brings most Of
the muscles into play.
When man feels he needs to rub
MP against the world, all he has to do is
to try end learn to ride bicycle.
The borough ordinances should contain
one imposing a good, healthy fine for
throwing bansn. skins on the pavements.
-Messfs Young and Stoughton printed
very creditable illustrated edition, last
week. zslienople ia booming and the
Neus will boom with it.
The Gcrmanis band will give q con-
cert at the ball park, Saturday afternoon.
In connection with the game between the
B1tlsr team and the P. A. Cs.
The Sunday train on the Shensngo
leaves Butler al $50 A NJ. and returning
leaves Conueaut Lake at P. M. The
Saturday evening train also connects fol
the lake.
The r. A. @. club Of Pittsbnrg. the
crack amateur team Of the city, will cross
bats with the Butler club on the grounds
here, Saturday afternoon. red hot
game can be looked fer.
"A Kentucky man has lost three wiveI
in two yesrs. Tnis is pretty tough, but Il
does look a. though he has lost no time
whatever .else may have slipped away
from him.
"A daily mail has been established on
the road between Ssrvers Station ant
Riddles X Roads, and Philip 5nider. 0
Clinton twp. has been awarded the con
tract for carrying the mails.
"A subscriber wishing to show his ap
probation Of q newspaper, said: The tw'
classes Of men which the world coult
least AFFORD 10 do without are the preach
ers and newspaper men, for the preacher
tell us the truth, and the newspapers tel
Us everything else.
At the meeting Of Council, Tuesda
evening, The Butler d Pittsburg X. X. Go
asked for right Of way through the town
and presented an ordinance TO that effect
which was referred TO a committee 0
Council. All the railroads passing through
town should be required to keep up safetI
gates.
Two large crowds OF spectators wit
messed the ball games last Saturday, an
were delighted 10 see the Batter club wi
their 11th and 18th victories. withot
meeting with o single defeat. Some 9
the plays made by our club that day wer
the equals Of those ever made anywhere
and that IL the kind Of game they usua
ly play. The Butler club will play wit
the Oil City club at Conneaut, next Thar
day, and with Pittsburg team in Butlc
on the following Saturday.
One Of our bicycIists had an odd Q,
perience few days ago. He was ridir
ON the road between Salisbury and Green
burg, and while passing through wood
grcy-gquinel on the fence ran him rae
Then the squirrel got too smart and q
tempted to cross the road in front Of hi
and both wheels passed over him. I'll
rider stopped as soon as he could, ar
looking back saw the squirrel dragging Il
latter half Of himself into the woods.
chapel or Normal Hall, the last Of u
original frame buildings OF Slipperyro'
Normal was destroyed by fire on Thursdt
ali DEfh Thu Era nri0iUa at
from gas jst left burning in the bas
ment, and when IT was discovered Il
building was already doomed. The pc
pie Of the town, and the students, work
hard TO save the ladies dormitory. 7
bHiding cost about sls,000 and was
sured for 10000 with 81 $50 on the fnrnitul
The destruction Of the building necoHsit,
cd the holding Of the commencement Q
erciles in the grove adjoining the grount
"A man Wit h double-ended founts
pen ia visiting people in parts of Weste
Pennsylvania. He offers harvesting q
other farming machinery at very low rat
asking the farmers 10 sign an egreeme
to receive and pay for it when deliver
if satisfactory. Tie agreement ia writ
with the fading end Of the fountain ,
and the name signed with ths indeli
end. The agreement fades off in day
90 and n note IL written above tho sig
ture Instead. BE on the lookout for
slippery "ous."
Since the the story Of the POTTERY:
murder was published in Tuesdays fe
It has been learned that John Adding
was pardonsd from the Western penit
tiary st tho instance Of Governor Cui
for some valuable service rendered
during the war. Addlington had
served xix years Of his sentence whom @
Curtin came TO Pttsburg and on learn
Of his imprisonment, and that be WAS
lieyed by many TO be innocent, bo at o
had him pardoned Mrs. AddIington
In Pittsbufg At tho time Of her husbar
release, afterw ards going West with j
Oliver She ia now living aud own,
grocery In Esbraska town. Adding
told a friend after his release that he
to have been murdered on that
Years night, and that the assassin mad
mistake in the darkness.--New Ca
News.