Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1898-06-09
LOCAL AND GENERAL,

On the rivers--fur away.
An kinder fall TO wishin
was where the waters swish;
Fer if the Lord made fshin,
Why-a feller ought TO fish.
The people of Mars raised flag
pole, Saturday.
The miners of the Claytornia mine
struck for better wages Tuesday.
The hotels at Bedford Springs have
opened with increased attractions, see
cards
Quite number of Butler county
men went to Mercer, Tuesday-but not
to Jail.
VIM. Cox, of Adams township, has
raised a company of 1l9 men, and
rendered their services.
Next Tuesday. the 14th is flag
day" when flags in Butler, Coaltown
and other places will be raised
The new School Board organized
Tuesday evening with L. McQuistion for
President, A. c. Krug Secretary and T.
M Baker. Treasurer.
Our grocers are paying 10 cts. for
butter aud eggs, 20 cts. a dozen
punches for onions, % for rhubarb.
Strawberries are selling at 10 a box.
The assay of the rock sent from the
Klondike shaft in Parker twp was not
satisfactory, and some more rock will
be taken out from different strata.
The Woman's Hospital Association
will give festival in Y M. c. A. Hall
on Monday and Tuesday evenings. next
week. Strawberries and ice cream.
Proceeds for new hospital
The flag pole at Glade Mills will be
raised next Saturday. at 2:30 p. m. 1t
is hickory pole $50 feet long, the flag
is 25x40 feet. Several good speakers
from Butler and other places will be
present.
Dan Maloney was in town Monday
talking so loud you could hear him a
square away. He has q wonderful
voice and he will use it at the big horse
sale in Kittaning next Saturday See
advertisement.
The Central Hotel on the Diamond
had ninety guests for dinner on Mon
day, and nearly rs many next day and
yesterday. 1t is doinga good business
and can accommodate its guests with
the best of bed rooms. Some people
forget that the Central is a hotel.
The National Transit people raised
the pole on the Diamond, Friday after
noon. 1t is a pretty pole. and is 50 feet
out of the ground and in. After the
raising young Allison climbed up the
pole and loosened the blocks and the
crowd put S3 81 cents into his nat.
Some spiders are cannibals The
big, yellow one on exhibition in Boyd S
showwindow started east with two
companions but he or she ate the other
two. This spider is of the deadly ta-
rantula species, and was brought here
from Phoenix, Arizona, by Dr. Bell
Intelligent, moral and 81 ngle'
young men are wanted for he new
military company. That's pretty good,
but not as good as the railroad notice
'All persons knowing themselves to be
in beastly state of intoxication will
please not ride on the platforms
Butler will have no electric street
lights till Sept. 1st. AT the meeting of
Council. Tuesday evening, the commit
tee on light reported shortage in cash,
so tAe lights will be discontinued for
the next three months. Harry Rim
mer secured the contract for the First
st. sewer at auout $4,000.
"A woman stopped at Matthew
G reer's place in Buffalo twp. the other
day and asked the road to Chambers
burg. Franklin county, Pa, and Mat
thew got out his map and directed her
through Freeport, up the Kiskiminetas
valley, etc. The woman was walking,
was neatly dressed and intelligent. and
thought she could make it in about two
weeks.
The Glass blowers and other EN-.
rloyese of the Bottle Works raised a
splendid flag at the Works, Tuesday
evening.
Their procession down Main street
with the band, the flag held out by
boys and about hundred men in line
with glass canes ornamented with
small flags and ribbons was a very
creditable one.
The Fifteenth regiment is to be di-
vided part going to Fort Washington,
Md. andp art to Sheridan Point Va.
The two forts are along the Potomac,
few miles below Washington Capt
Lev. Walker has charge of the battery
at Siieridan's Point.
Lieut. Col Mechling with Cos z, q
G., will occupy Fort WASHINGTON, on
the Maryland side.
Look out for two plainly dressed
women who are driving about the coun-
try swindling the women by selling
them silks which they say are worth "a
yard Their silks turn out to be poor
stuff, and not worth more than so cents
yard. They also sell q cheap line OF
laces at high prices. If they should
drop in, tell them you buy of your
home merchant and get goods that are
just what they are represented to be.
No woman who marries an old sol
der after the first day of July will be
entitled to pension if he dies. The old
soldier with comfortable pension has
furnished inducements for many de
signing woman to wed, especially as hi:
death does not stop the pension. But
this will all be changed next year, and
the veteran who gets married after tn,
time named will have the satisfaction OF
knowing that he furnishes all the n
fractions himself
The Butler Deweys and the Times
club played a game of ball on Saturday
in which the Deweys came off victo
rious. Ayers of last years Butler cluf
started in to pitch for the Times bu'
was knocked out of the box in the sec