Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1898-07-28
Now for the oats

Quiet w.
Now for the oats.
Keep az cool as you can.
Camp me eting 1T Gallery
Teachers Institute August Goth.
Butler Fair, September 6, Z, 5, Q.
Plenty Of hot weather yet to come
Recent rains have been worth
millions.
After this week the banks will close
Saturday noon.
Regular Army Recruiting Officers
here next Monday
Every time you lick revenue stamp
You help lick Spain.
The dog star now aids Old Sol in
keeping things warm.
Having is pretty well along toward
the end and oats are beginning to claim
attention.
Harlan Book put up 45x50 barn
lately. Isaac Jones. of Portersville,
was the contractor
I'm the United States there are no
less than 13 different varieties of the
Presbyterian church family.
Local news is very scarce this week.
It's high time somebody was robbing
another store in Portersville
The Patriotic League will meet in
YMC A. Hall on Monday evening,
August 1st Everybody invited.
This is excursion day. All the good
people are going some where to-day and
the lawyers are coming back home.
DIR. Clark was in town yesterday
and did a great business. The $l5
day license dosn't shut out me,l like him.
There will be no meeting OF the X.
Ts. of T. on Friday evening this week
ON account of the Christian Endeavor
Convention.
Two children met with terrible
deaths in this county during the past
few days One by twirling fly wheel
and the other by fly poison.
A great deal of unnecessary whist
ling and steam letting is indulged in by
locomotives within the borough, to the
great discomfort Of residents along the
tracks
Some of our farmers had their
wheat threshed last week; and rue OF
them told us that he Immediately scat
tered his wheat straw over a sod-feld
that he intends plowing down for wheat
in few weeks.
The Bessie" Railroad provided II
coaches for the Union Sunday School
picnic from the Hilliard valley and vi
cinity of yesterday, and yet some people
had to stand going up. Eleven hun
dred tickets were sold
The government has abolished the
practice of letting mail contracts tc
contractors who sub-let them at starya
ton prices. Hereafter the contracts
will be made direct with responsible
persons in the sections where the route
is located.
Our grocers are paying 10 for butter
and eggs, go for potatoes, 40 for apples
3 to for berries Il a pound for cab
bage, 80 a bushel for green beans Oul
millers are selling wheat for 85 to 75
oats for 35 and rye for 40. Hay is sell
ing at SO to 50 ton.
1t is strange fact that very few
people of the name of Butler live il
Butler county and none, 50 Tar as w
know, of the blood relations of Col
Richard Butler, after whom the coun
ty was named, though there are hun
dreds of them over in Indiana Co.
The regular annual crusade
against the dogs is due Because
these are dog days" the edict goe
forth in some towns and cities wher
they ought to know better that Tia
dogs must be muzzled, for fear they q
mad Any dog that would not 90 mat
at being muzzled in such weather a
this does not deserve to live.
The Orphans Court sale of tn
James Criswell estate in Adams twp.
has been adjourned until Saturday An
Goth. This is one of the most desirabl
properties in the county good land
good buildings, good orchards, goo
water, and within few minutes wal
of two towns and railroad stations.
you are thinking of investing in farr
you will find no better opportunity.
Lessons in order are never to b
slighted. This may not be amiss fo
beginners. Children should be taugi
to put things back in their places a
soon as they are old enough to use thel
and if each member of the family wei
to observe this simple rule, tine hous
would never get much out of orde
and large amount OF vexation AM
useless labor would be avoided.
On the face of the new revent
stamps which are now being distribu
ed, is engraved representation of Il
ill-fated battleship Maine. There is !
inscription excepting the denominatio
They are oblong in shape. The battl
ship is pictured as going at full spe,
: through heavy sea. From the ty
smoke stacks is pouring volumes
dense smoke. The stamps, millions
which will be used. are silent throul