Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1898-08-04
LOCAL. AND GENERAL.
NOTICE.

NOTICE.
On and after Saturday, August
6, 1898, the banks of this place
will observe the Saturday half
holiday and will close at noon, II
O'Clock sharp.
John BERG & Co., Bankers,
Butler Savings Bank,
Butter Co. National Bank.
-Camp-meeting season.
Oats harvest this week.
Butler Fair, September G, !, s, 8.
Stamp. brothers, stamp with
care.
bargains. clea ring and remnant
sales.
Some fine blackberries reach this
market
Not very great year for building
in Butler.
Homegrown roasting ears are com
ing into market.
-Germania concert tomorrow even
ing at Court House.
Thirty three Niagara Falls visitors
from Butler, Tuesday.
During the Summer months the
railroad travel is immense
The outlook is that the farmers
prosperity will continue.
1t is the people who worry most
about the hot weather that feel it most
The corner stone or the new Capitol
at Harrisburg will be laid next Tues
day.
AT the meeting of Council, Tuesday
evening, T. S. McNair was nominated
for Burgess
A man who keeps q good watering
trough along the road is public bene
factor and gets 500 year.
Our grocers are paying ID for butter
10 for eggs, 80 for apples, 60 for pota-
toes, to for berries, 35 for turnips.
"A lot of Pittsburgers have leased
1900 acres in this county for game
preserve. How the mighty have fallen.
-Blacksmithes are always on a strike,
but they seem to be about the only class
of people VINO make any money in that
way.
Harry Mocrehead is at Dunkirk, N.
Y, this week where he has Mary Rms
SELL Navy Bean and View View enter
ed in the races.
Don't forget the stamp Cn your
check The penalty for failure in this
particular is fine of from $50 to $500,
or imprisonment.
George Krug bought 5 spring lambs
from John j. Reiber, this week. that
averaged almost 100 pounds apiece.
They were fine ones.
The Butler Camp of the Woodman
of the World have erected a fine monu-
ment over the grave of James T. Lane.
at Middletown Washington.
The p s, W. and B. & o. R. R.
Cos have leased part of the old Robin
son property at foot of Federal ST., late
]y burned over and intend building a
station upon it.
Geo. Walter & Sons now have one
of the finest Touring mills in Pennsyl-
vania and are turning out an excellent
-four. They have built wing past the
Bessie r. r. track, so that horses can
not see the trains pass by.
The recruiting officers of the 18th,
here this week Alfred H. Jennings,
of Petrolia, was the only one out of
seven applicants that was accepted, he
was assigned to Co. X, 4th Artillery
Wallace Rimer and J o. Mitchell were
taken on trial and were taken to Green
vile for final examination.
An unusually large number Of barns
have lately been struck by lightning
An exchange says that: 1.-THE gas
es generated by heating straw and
grass and confined within, wooden
structures, escaping through cracks or
crevices in the building seem to attract
the mysterious fluid which we call
lightning"
Many people are preserving the
newspapers with accounts of the war
and pictures from the first engagement
These will make a valuable historical
work when the war is over and will
also amply repay them for the trouble
spent in their collection A scrap book
of clippings along the same line would
also prove satisfactory.
An exchange says when the signs
of the zodiac are in the heart is the time
to cut uuderbrush so that it will STAY
killed. This year cut willows, sassa.
frass, sumac, elder or in fact, any other
brush, on August is, 10, September IA
Is. October II, IL, 13, November 8, 8
or December 5 and 6, and they will moi
bother you again.
BY request we this week, print
that part of the new Revenue Law re.
lating to stamping checks, etc, except
ing the paragraphs relating to fire and
life-insurance policies which are yer,
lengthy. The part We give is from
Schedule A. and besides the taxes ther,
enumerated there is Schedule B. relat
ing to proprietary medicines. plasters
waters, etc; refining companies; distri-
hutton of personal property exceeding