Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1896-07-30
NE1GHBoRKooD NOTES.

Herman Auth, of Winslov ST., E. Z
! Pit:sburg, left his home about T. IN. o
/ Wednesday Of last week te ling his " fe {
| intended going 10 see man 10 have the
roof fixed; but instead OF 80 doias he
| catered the house OF neighbor, helped
| himself 10 some small articles he tancled
| was discovered, chased, and upon his re-
! fusal TO stop, was shot dead by a police
man. There is nothing particularly re-
markable about that, bat at the inques;
next day it was developed that Auth was
an employee oi.the Westinghouse Co., and
had been for seven years; that he was a
competent, reliable, conscientious work
man, who made good wages and worked
over time when asked to do SO; that he
had good home; that he was temperate,
and moral man, and that his character has
heretofore been above reproscb.
While Harry Anderson and William H.
Cox, OF MshOningtown, Lawrence Co,
wers riding along they noticed two hawks
high in the air apparently carr! ing some
tnlLg bet cen them. The two birds lit
ON tree, and Mr.. Anderson, who had his
rife with him, took aim and shot one of
he hawks. The other stteL pied To hy
away with its burden, but was compelled
to drop the latter. and the dead hawk and
the object it had been carry .ng dropped 10
the earth. The two men went up To the
dead hawk and found q black snake,
which measured six feet and nine inches
in length, 1t was still alive, but hardly
able TO crawl. They killed it. The hawk
was of unusual size, and measured FIVE
feet and eight inches from tip 10 tip Of
wings.
While out picking huckleberries few
days ago George Jacobs, OF Roland
Center cOdntv, was bitten by a rattle
snake. 1t was several hours before he
could reach home and summon medical
assisiauc4, and by that time his srm was
swollen almost to bIrsting His side was
swollen and spotted from bis neck to the
hip, and doubts were entertained of his
recovery.
The largest rattlesnake that has been
seen in the neighborhoOd of Oil City for
many years was killed by Mrs. Lewis and
Mr.. LUwrey. The ladies were driving
along the President road when they sa@
the snake ahead of them. One held the
horse and 1he other hunted club and
killed the snake. 1t was over four feet
long and ce-ried fifteen rsttles and but
ton.
In neighboring town a goodlookiDg,
weli-to do bachelor was being teased by
the young ladies of club Tor not being
married He SAID: "Iii marry the one OF
you whom, on a secret vote, you elect to
be my vie" There were nine members
of the club. Each girl went into corner
md used great caution in preparing her
ballot and diss Iisiog her hfpd writing.
The result of the vote VAS that there
were nine votes cast, each girl receiving
one The man remains a bachelor, the
club is broken up, and the girls are mortal
enemies, united in the one determinstiO
that they will not speak to the man sgsin.
Cleveland celebrated the centennial of
it's existance, last week. One hundred
years ago ON W Wednesday,-July %, 1876,
General Moses Cr,aveland and his party
founded the settlement at the mouth of
the CuyahOgs river which has since
grown into the Forest City, and now
claims to be the metropolis CT Ohio
W ednesdsy the 22d inst, was accordingly
celebrated as founder day, and was par
ticipated in by Governor Coffin and suite,
of Connecticut, and other distinguished
citizens of that State, which Originally
owned the famous WesteIl Reserve and
whose sons and daughters were the hardy
pioneers which largely settled it. Sena-
tor Hawley, of Cor nee ticut, was the ora
tor OF the day, and among the distinguish
ed guests were Major Mckinley and Gov.
ernor Bushnell. The occasion was worth
lily observed, and Jno. d. Rockefe er
made le citv a present of a Park and d
million dollars.
Miss Lizzie Templeton, of Salisbury, has
quite curiosity in her garden in the
shape of a jsponiGa bush on which are
growing pc aches ard pears. 1t ia planted
betwe cen peach and pear tree and on the
side next the peach tree are peaches and
on the other side are pears nicely formed.
ADuBois man loaned the Baptist con
gregation of that place $40, 900 to pat iu-
to chdrch b1ndiOg costing $22, o 90, and
after collecting $5, 900 on his claim, be iSsu-
ed on the pIope. ", bought it in and is re-
modelling il for an o-era house.
They have new postmistresS at Wood
lawn, Beaver county. Miss Matte b.
Richards has been appointed to take tha
place of Mrs. Sarah WekleT, removed, and
yesterday the Office was transferred TO the
new official.
Mrs. Wekler has q daughter, Annie,
aged II. The correspondence which pass
ed between a young woman of the town
aud well know q young man aroused An
Die's curiosity to an ir:eslstable pitch, and
shs opened their letters. She kept on
opsning them until the posto1ice lnspec-
tors were notified and they laid trap for
h, mean things. They found that she
was making a business Of reading pretty
much all the private correspondence of the
young 70 lks that passed through the Of
fce sealing up the letters again like a
good, careful girl. Money was placed in
one of the letters to tempt An 1ie, but she
simply opened the letter, read it and seal
ed it again without taxing a cent. She is
an honest GIRL and therefore would not
take that which did not belong to her.
But her mamma was removed.