Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1896-08-13
IN THIS PAPER
BEGINS THIS WEEK.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The scurcher, as fast as he could pedal
Bumped into Deacon Brace;
The scorcher fell from off his saddle,
The deacon fell from grace.
The amy worm is mr-ching west.
ward.
There will be good demaud for apple
barrels this fall.
"A hundred people were killed by the
heat in New York City, Tuesday.
Read about the The Great Butler
Fair" n another place.
Judging from the number of items We
see in our exchanges, this is a { eat year
for snakes.
The G. II. B. A. picnic to Rock Point
yesterday had 500 om Butler and 200
from the narrow guage,
They are now making French cham
pagle out of dried apples. There is get
ting to be less and less in name.
-In all the large cities of the couutry
the heat cansed scores of deaths and hun
dreds of prostrations, last Sunday.
There is too much fast and careless
driving on our streets. Rev. Davis was
knocked over at a crossing q few days ago.
If you want 10 write any unkind thing
put it down in lead pencil. Then you can
erase it after you have read it.
ALI the entries are now in for the road
race which is to take place next Wednes-
day, over the Butler, Prospect and Har-
mony course.
Last Thursday was probably as hot a
day as we will have This summer. The
mercury was up in the nlnties and a" an
imal life suffered
ii this hot weather continues all the
silver and gold in the country will melt
and run together-and the money question
will be set led.
The P. o. Department has ruled that
notices of lodge dues, insurance assess.
ments, etc. Can 90 through the ma'ls at
at circular rates.
Last week was great one for picnics
The Lutheran Of Wednesday, Niagara ex-
cursion of Thursday and P. H. G. of FIJI
day were all largely attended.
The first baby is always source of
wonder to the parents, but imagine what
Adam and Ewes feelings must have been
when Cain arrived. They had never even
seen baby before, you know.
This will be another camI aign of edu.
cation. 1t will be kind of financial study,
in which every one will go thro' and come
out with sixteen grains Of sense to every
one they had before entering.
AT the meeting of the military compa
nv last Thursday evening Capt. McJunkin
was elected without opposition, and
George Mechling and A. t. Scott we-e
elected iieutenants.
The P. o. at Keister has been discon-
tinued for the present, ,and al mail for that
Office not otherwise ortered is going to
Coaltovn, but the Office will probably be
ro1opened as soon as Miss Stevenson se-
cures place for it.
DIR. Mcllroy has opened q handsome
suite of dental parlors in the Reiber build
ing on Jefferson street, opposite the Hotel
Lowry. DIR. McIiroy was formerly Known
as the ''Peerless, Painless Extractor of
Teeth"
Some twenty of our firemen left on an
early train for McKeespcrt, yesterday, tc
take part in :he races. In the afternoon
the Butler running team won the State
Hose Race" beating the next best team
fully five seconds, and w,nr'1g the prize
Of 800 Another race is sch hedued for
today.
The hot weather of last week set hard
upon the horses. Down nea- Myoma good
animals fell dead in the fields for William
Cox, Jacob Kline ard Mr. Kaufman; and
We hear of similar cases from other parts
of the county. The Pittsburg papers not
ed an unusual fatality among horses during
Thursday.
The people of a neigbboling town have
found kerosene an effective remedy fol
mosquitoes. After series Of tests the
people were given ohcial notice that
everybody should pour little coal oil il
rain barrels, stagnart pools and wherever
water had collected. No great quantity o
oil is required. A teaspooaful is Sufficient
for barrel of water. The diminution in
the number of mosquitoes was easily
noticeable, and now the pests has been al
most gotten lid of.