Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1899-06-08
LOCAL AND GENERAL. ..
Delightful weather

LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Delightful weather.
June the month of roses.
Vegetation is on the jump.
Gardens are growing nicely.
The bicycle business is booming.
The late rains came when needed.
-Antiseptic Barbering is the latest
fad.
Good rains. and things looking up
now
Butler shguld have Union Passen
ger Station.
The annual family reunions are be
ginning to be held
The roads Of Butler County got
worked last week
The cut in the school appropriation
Will not anect IL tnls Year
Johny Wiseman's aggregation Of won
ders will be here tomorrow
-Two-cent letter postage began July
1st 1885, or fourteen years ago
-one-third of the people who go mad
are said to recover their senses.
The corn is getting worked this
week, and it is growing very fast.
Base ball does not catch on here
this season. Everybody too busy.
The Butler market is full of nice
Strawberries. now selling at for 25.
odd things happen in politics -
there is but one vote between Sutton
and Eichert
Jos. Grahams silo was struck by
lighting few days ago, and also a
week before that
"A Cleveland jury has decided that
IL o'clock is "a late az a young man
should court girl.
We may not admit that clothes
make the man, yet there are many who
owe much to the tailor.
ALI of our borough school teachers
of the past year are understood TO be
applicants for reelection.
a son Of Asa Campbell, the Petro-
lia butcher last week shot a black
snake six and half feet long
The fisherman goes on the principle
that the fish that bite and get away are
liable to get hooked another day
Monday June 8, was just forty
years from the great June frost which
killed all the grain OF that year, 1859.
The Bessie has changed its time
table. Both trains north leave earlier
than heretofore 9-15 A. NJ and 5:t5 p
NJ
The Butler School Board will meet
ON the 18TH next Monday, for the pur-
pose Of selecting teachers for the next
term.
Sunday, June IL. will be Children's
Day, and preparations are being made
for its observance in some of the
churches.
Twenty five thousand tons of ore
were hauled from Conneaut Harbor to
the Carnegie factories. over the Bessie
last Sunday.
Butler is to have glorious Fourth.
Some Of the young men of the town are
TO meet this evening to make arrange
ments for the parade.
"A Frenchman asserts that if the
world was birdless man could not in
habit IL after o years time, "a insects
would destroy all verdure
The mercery got upinto the ninetiei
last Monday, and it seemed exceedingly
hot Prostraf;ons from heat were re
ported from all tie larger towns.
At the meeting OF Council, Friday
evening it was decided to allow thu
boys to shoot crackers etc. from Friday
June Both to Wednesday July :th.
Two SpriDgdale men traded Nive
last Monday night. Then they got Z
fighting. the two women joined in, ant
next day some Of the crowd were il
Jail
We get the pointer from an ex
change whose editor doubtless know
all about it, that if you want to kiss
girl in quiet spot. don't select he
month
There will be public sale on Tues
day, June 18th. ut | p. m, ut Mrs. Lew
Cochran's on Fulton St, Butler House
hold goods, buggy, harness. carpente
tools, etc.
The crop of locust blossoms is III
usually abundant, and that is said t
augur big corn crop. though what thu
connection between the two is we leav
for the wiseacres to say.
The Evans brass factory and ma
chine shop on S. Mexican St. is to b
enlarged, "a the firm wishes 10 engag
extensively in the manufacture Of tn
Evans Gas-engine. G. A Templeto
has purchased an interest in the plan
"A teacher in n Sunday school recen
ly called boy to the floor to scold hi
for stealing birds eggs. She cited q
instance when she had caught him at
and said that no doubt the poor moth'
bird was grieving yet. mo she isn't
said the boy, she's on your hat
Quite number Of Butler coun
people took In the New Castle Fai
Tuesday, and among them ID. l.. Kir
patrick and wife of Renfrew. Just
they stepped of the cars at the Ne
Castle station they were jostled by thr
men and very handsomely dress
woman; and shortly after Mr.. Kirkp;
rick noticed that his booklet book GO
tanning $50 in cash and some valuai
papers, was gone. He went 10 !
police station and gave n description