Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1899-07-27
LOCAL AND GENERAL,
Butler Fair September IS.

LOCAL AND GENERAL,
Butler Fair September SIS.
ID. A. Heck is stocking up his store
Lawn fete ON Brandon lot, this eve
ming
-Elks Carnival at Meadville all this
week
What are you going to take to the
Fair?
Evans City is to have a freezer
factory.
Il noticed the bug but 1 didn't see
the kiss "
Butler County against the State for
Big Fairs.
Oil leases must carry 25-cent reye-
nue. stamp.
Does prohibition prohibit the Pro-
hibitionist7
You could almost see the corn grow
ing last week
Wise men are wrong much oftener
than fools are right.
No amount of culture will make a
man stop snoring in his sleep.
Bigger, better, grander than ever
Al. ~ Ea,- = .
Some oats were cut and shocked
last week-a week or two earlier than
usual
If Robert went to any warmer
place than this has been lately he can
be sure of it,
Some of the railroad engineers
shorten other peoples lives by their use
less hooting at night
"A horse was taken from the barn
of Robt Whitmire, of Oakland town
ship, Sunday evening.
The Wadsworth Bros. of Slippery
rock solicit contracts for brick and ce-
ment work See card.
The Fair is county affair and
every citizen of the county should CON
tribute to make it success.
WIN. and Lewis Beatty are opening
a coal bank on the Andrew Lemon,
farm three miles west of town.
-Alonzo McCandless of Franklin
twp has a field from which he cut four
tons of timothy to the acre. Next.
After harvest all farmers should
take day of" and there is no better
place to spend it than at the Big Butler
Fair
"A reflective middle-aged man never
sees very young couple billing and
cooling that the sight does not suggest
souvenir spoons.
The interior of Geo. Krugs stable,
on the alley back of Main ST., was de-
stroyed by fire early this morning.
Loss about 5000
Some Bad boys have been setting
fire to school-house in Marion town
ship, and hundred dollars is offered
for their names See adv
"A party of town boys camping near
the mouth of Thorn creek treated the
train crew to turtle-soup the other
evening, and it was hot stuff.
The horse sale at the Butler House,
Saturday, shows that horses are advan-
cling. One heavy horse brought $50;
the seven sold brought nearly 5000.
A new plant for the manufacture
OF fire and paying brick has been estab-
lished at Mars. The high prices asked
for land kept similar works from To-
eating near Butler
After the Salvation Army finished
their services, Thursday evening, on
our Main St., two Mormon preachers
addressed the crowd, and sold Mormon
books. containing 400 pages, at 10 cents
each
Two painters from Pittsburg came
out to paint the stacks of the Plate
Works last week They went to the
top of each stack with slip-nooses and
beginning there painted down. Large
numbers watched them doing it.
The books of County Treasurer
Harper show balances due from col
lectors on State and County tax fol
1897 of 81, 476. 04 and for 1898 $7,O13. .OS
The Collectors have been notified by the
Commissioners to make immediate
settlement of these delinquent taxes
Some months ago drunken mar
drove over the off-sett at the bridge al
South end of Main St, and was serious
ly injured. He brought suit against the
borough and was non-suited because he
was drunk at the time; but the place il
really dangerous one, ON account O
the steep grade of the street, and it il
there yet
The introduction of dynamite ant
nitro-glycerrine into fire-crack ers ant
other explosives caused remarkabl,
increase in the number of 4tb of Jul,
accidents, and the percentage of death
from lock- jaw resulting from these &C
cidents was unusually large. The
matter should receive the attention o
all the state legisl atures
Butler county's creameries are max
ing and shipping between 10000 AM
$4,000 pounds of butter per month. A
present the butter is bringing on a
average Is cents a pound, making near
ly $1,000 of an income from creamer
butter Ten years ago the creamer'
was an unknown quantity here and th
county is to be congratulated on it
progress in this line
-Freeport is an older town than Blu
Ter, by about three years, and will celt
brate the centennial of its organiZatio
in September of this year The bouI
daries or limits of the county of Butle
were defined by an Act of Assembly {
1900 and the county was organized fc
Judicial purposes in 1902; but the tow
of Butler was not laid out in lots ii
1902 II might ha we'll for us IN fnn aif