Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1897-06-17
LOCAL AND GENERAL,


The Springdale Hose Co. s new cal
riage is daudy.
Dime Social" this evening in tn
U. p church.
Some of our farmers are planting
corn this week
twenty-five barber shops in Butte
is too many for profitable business.
About fifty teachers were examined
in the Jefferson street building, Satur
day, Saturday.
Some of our people are riding VI
the Shenango these days just to see the
steam shovels at work
A terrible storm swept over tn,
Sisterville oil field. yesterday afternoon
doing much damage.
Quite number of the young peo
pie of this county graduated at Slip
peryrock and Grove City, yesterday.
The shipment of strawberries form
the Chattanooga district for one day
last week amounted TO $500 crates.
j. T. Finin has three acres of peas
in his garden on the fat, west of town,
which will soon be ready for market.
The Germanias first concert at the
Court House attracted large audience,
whose appreciation was shown by their
frequent applause.
Monday of this week was the 120th
anniversary of the adoption of the stars
and stripes as the national banner of
the country.
Clinton twp. has travelling, color
ed, speak -easy-the officers are now af-
ter him. His headquarters has been in
"Jolly" hollow.
The Directors of the Y. M. c. A.
have agreed upon Star entertainment
course for next winter. A full note of
which will appear next week
The Butler p NJ now has salary
of s., 500, an increase of 800, and the
Evans City p M. s salary has been in
creased from 81 900 to 1,100
All the crops are looking well, ex-
cepting corn, which hasn't good
start, as yet. There will be some ap-
Piles, here and there over the county.
Money does not always bring hap
piness. Barney Barnato, the diamond
king of South Africa and London,
jumped from steamer into the ocean
the other day and was drowned
The old Sullivan law office ON S. w
corner of the Diamond is being torn
down. Part of it was built by Walter
Lowrie. probably in the twenties, and
the other part by Mr.. Sullivan, proba-
bly, in the forties.
There is no use to raise the cry that
there is poison in ice cream, for it will
be eaten as much as ever. and the i'm
pecunious youth need not expect to de-
ter his best girl from insisting upon
promenading where ice cream signs are
most prominent.
The National Senate is still at work
on the tariff bill and the State Legisla-
ture is still looking around for some
thing new to tax We are short of
money ourselves, and if you are behind
with us, and make an appropriation of
little of your surplus in this direction,
it won't come amiss.
Evans City is the best business town
in the county, after Butler. 1t now
boasts first class Thornburg's
and live local paper, the Globe, edited
by Young & Mickey. The town has
an ample water supply, its main street
is severed and ought to be paved. If
the people there should pave their main
street this year. they wouldn't tear it
up next for ten times what it cost.
Another horse was stolen in Buffa-
10 twp. Monday night Somebody left
an ''old plug" at Jacob Frys stable, and
took a gray horse. with light name and
tail, SPAWN Jumps on right hind leg,
scars on front fetlocks, heavy neck and
shoulders, weighing about 1900 pounds,
and good style horse, in its stead.
County reward SEQ, and the Association
will also pay something Send infor-
nation to G. w Cramer, Silverville,
Pa.
1t is now proposed to authorize post
masters and deputies to open letters on
which no postage stamps have been
placed to learn the name of the writer
and thus avoid sending it to the dead
letter office If all who write would
have their names and addresses printed
ON the envelopes they use, as the post
Office requests. no such trouble would
occur. We furnish envelopes with youl
name and address printed on lin 500 Oh
1000 lots) for little more than you pay
for the blank envelopes
Since the advent of road scrapers
the disposal of the stones that the
scrapers loosen has become a serious
question. Some of the supervisors ol
the county have been throwing then
into the fence corners, where they pre-
vent the moving of the weeds, and thu.
become nuisance to the farmers, and
others have been piling them along tht
road where they are dangerous Ths
proper thing to do with these stone.
would seem to be to haul them to some
point on the road where they can b'
used to advantage or else to some low
place on neighboring farm.
The old black oak at the corner o
Main and Clay Sts., on the Englisl
Lutheran lot, was felled last Friday
was solid, and stood so plumb that i
had to be sawed entirely through befo-
it could be toppled over SomeboI,
counted III rings on it, but it is proba
bly, many years older than that, and i
seemed to be one of the primeval fores
trees. It's pity it was not left stand
as these old trees are becoming scare
in town The front wall of the nev
church will stand just outside of wher
tfe stump now is. The old ''Wither