Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1897-08-19

Parker, Sept. l4-17.
Washington, Pa, Sept. 15-17.
Indiana, Pa, Sept 15-17.
Stoneboro, Sept. 81 %.
Waynesburg, Sept. 21-23.
Mercer, Sept. $3.50.
Carnegie, Sept $3.50.
Burgettstown. Oct. 81.
Bloomsbury, Oct. 1916
Butler Fair-Sept Z, s, 0 and 10th.
Some of the lilies in town are very
pretty.
A p. o. has been established at
Eidenau
Go to Klondike and freeze up with
the country.
The new school building on Mexican
st is nearing completion.
Cheap excursion rates to New Cas-
tie Fair September 1, 2, 3 and 4.
The wood and earth dam at Boyds
town is being replaced by one of stone.
Tin horns were in evidence Friday
night-after the news of the running
teams victories.
AT the wrestling match in the Opera
House, last night catcher Blue threw
giant Muldoon-very Unexpectedly.
The greater part of the new paving
ing is now completed, and the sooner
the sidewalks are put to grade the
better
Some people think money is going
to be plenty in the near future and that
therefore this is good time to buy real
estate.
Hills Haul-all has been the attract
ion of Main ST. since Tuesday, when it
began ambling up and down Main st.
at cents an amble
The hail storm that passed over the
southern parts of Adams and Middle
sex twps one day last week did con-
siderable damage to the corn
AT the New Castle Fair pext Thurs
day week ''the largest wedding ever
in Lawrence county" will occur on the
grand stand The exact size is not
stated, but you are invited" 3"
The Teachers Institutes of Allie
gheny and Mercer counties will be held
next week, and Butler County the week
after. All the other Institutes of this
section come later.
Following lakes of OIL mountains
of coal and inexhaustable mines of gold
in Alaska, comes lakes full of pearls in
Arkansas, pearls of value equal to that
of the finest stones from the ea-t
The house fronting on Mercer ST.,
in which Fields was shot and killed
some years ago, is being removed to an
other location and the Gospel Prohibi-
ton church will be erected on the lot
made vacant.
Don't let your foot hang when rid
ing bike, for it may catch between the
pedal and the frame. A little Butler
girl got hard fall and went home with
a sore foot the other night from that
cause
The old John Smith property at
Gomersal ill Cherry township changed
hands last week, w. S. Crafty of Mud
dycreek township buying 100 acres of it,
including the buildings; and L. S. Nc
Junkin and others of Butler buying the
other so acres.
A friend in Middlesex Twp wrote
us, Monday, for the date of the Wash
ington Co. Fair, and we looked over a
Washington, Pa, paper and couldn't find
it. Our Fair Managers have sense
enough to keep that date standing in
the local papers
An elopement is reported from Eu
cid. An old man living near there,
and said to be worth $4O 900, and the
wife of a miner, disappeared few days
ago, and they are supposed to have
gone to Ireland. The man is widower
ehu hio idihiy 10 6lOWu Out ouC
woman left three small children.
Miss Barbara Geible of Summit twp.
who has been lying at DIR. Shultis' office
under the care of DR. Shultis and Dr.
Hunt is rapidly improving. Her injury
was remarkable one; her bowels were
peirced by the handle OF hay rake
were sewed up, and to allow them time
to heal were made imperative or inactive
for ten days, by the use of opium.
The use of crimson clover for feed
ing purpose is looked upon by the farm
.ers as dangerous, and many refuse to
feed their cattle on it after it has flow
cred. The State Board of Agriculture
has sent out a caution to the farmers to
be very careful of clover, for if fed to
to stock after the seed natures it often
proves fatal.-Ex.
"A woman who knows says that
there is absolutely no use in heating
the glass jars before pouring hot
fruit into them. Simply tie twine
string to silver plated spoon or knife
and place in the cold jar and pour in
your fruit, draw out your spoon and seal
at once. You won't break a single jar
by this method, while many jars are
broken by the old way: II you have
never tried the above plan, do so and
You will be agreeably surprised at the
result.
The corner stone of the new English
Lutheran Church was laid last Sunday
afternoon with appropriate services, and
remarks by Revs Roth. Kunz
man and Graham The copper
box 5x6x8 inches was placed
in hole cut in the lower part of the
corner stone, and contained copies OF
the Bible, the Lutheran Church book and
Catechism, the Constitution and min
utes of the Synod, the constitution and
historical sketch of the congregation
catalogue of the college, copies of the
Butler papers and the young Lutheran
and proof coins of 1897 fresh from the
mint of the denominations of I, 5. 10
25 and so cents and 81, the box wa.
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