Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1899-07-20
LOCAL AND GENERAL,


understand;
There's somethin' sort O. thrillin' In the
flag that's wavin' high,
And it makes you want to holler when
-=the boys go marctin' by;
But when the shoutin's over and the
fghtin's done, somehow,
We find we're still dependin' ON the
man behind the plow."
The picnic season is booming.
The mosquitoes bill is now due.
Mars Institute expects to open next
No more legal holidays for som
time.
Most of the wheat is safely gather
ed in.
You can pay taxes now at the dis
count.
To get free pass TO the Philippines
enlist.
A new oil field north of town will
help out
-"Ah, there. Didn't see you at the
peckneck.
Bible School at Grove City, begins
next Thursday.
The bids for the Poor House will be
opened next Tuesday.
The Masonic picnic at Cascade park
was well patronized.
The Council of Freeport has offered
$50, 900 for their water works.
kissing does not go by favor with
the bug. It's hit or miss with it.
Great sale of horses at the Butler
House stables, Saturday afternoon.
-Chas. Duffy dry goods store build
ing has been given new coat OF paint.
Railroad men are at work putting
in the new Bessemer switch at Geo.
Walter & Sons mill.
-'Lockjaw" is becoming epidemic.
III new 1OIh Slty idiciJ ehSAS
fatal cases in four days.
The debt of the Y. NJ. c. A. is now
a thing of the past; enough money hav-
ing been subscribed to pay it.
Stone work on the new L. q w.
bridge over the creek at the bottle
works is progressing rapidly.
According to the Chicago Tribune
eighty-three of the people hurt in this
country on the 4th died of lockjaw.
The total tax-rate for Butler, this
year, is BIT nills-4t for County, IL for
Borough. 10 for Schools and for Poor.
If driving about Kelster and your
horse needs shoeing or your wagon fixing
stop at c. " Latshaw's blacksmith
chop.
Somebody told us bear joke-that
is one that don't have any clothes on
the other day, but it's too good to put in
the paper.
AT the meeting of the County Med
ical Society in Butler, Tuesday, the
threatened epidemic of smallpox was
discussed.
1t is said that the telegraph and
telephone companies intend to put feed
boxes ON all their poles, and thus evadt
the 81 90 year tax ordinance.
County Superintendent Painter is
in his office in the Court House every
Saturday and also will be excepting
August) every Wednesday afternoon.
New potatoes are coming to marke
freely, and our dealers are paying 81
cents bushel for them. There will bt
an immense crop of potatoes this year
also of oats.
Co. G. turned out for the funeral o
private Martin Thompson. who wa
buried last Sunday afternoon, as dit
also the K O. T. NJ lodge of whicl
Martin was a member
The r. b. 81 T.. Z. r. r. track a
Keister Station has been raised five o
six feet, making great improvement
on the grade at that point The station
house has been raised eight feet and
foundation is being built under it.
An exchange tells of little fellow
who went to church on a recent Sunda,
and was greatly interested In the col
lection He watched the ushers for
time, then whispered to his father
Papa. morn half the folks has got il
freel'
A large force of bricklayers an
carpenters are at work on Evans ,
Templeton new machine shop. built
ings on Wayne street. Adam Hoffnt
has the contract for the addition to I'll
main building and Shull & Badger Il
the new brick All told the building
will cost about $1,000.
Some people had quiet laug
When they read the Pittsburg Dispatc
Of yesterday, but we'll bet that Ji
Israel wanted to kill somebody. I'll
foreman mixed his interesting accoul
of the political fight in Centre Count
with an account of a small pox cas-
and the mixture made amusing readin
Our genial Board of County Coz
missioners, (all good judges of w
man. have received word from a ms
in New Castle stating that he wants
Butler county wife and asking Il
Board to select one for him. App
cants will please send i'm their names
once.
Immediately on the heels of IL
kissing bug" comes another nc
species, called the bicycle bug" T
latter is said to resemble the June bu
and its mode of operation is to stril
the rider in the face with such force
to knock him from his wheel. The bu
is as yet confining its operations 70 Il
east.
The billiard valley is the coolt
part of Butler county and yet man
there had very warm pair of hands,
few days ago. He held plate of bul
ing sulphur under hornets nest
over his door, and then accidently spi
ed the burning sulphur over his |,
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