Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1899-07-13
LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Iron is up, 80 is lumber
Butler needs more hitching posts.
Too many bad dimes in circulation
Five patients in the hospital and al
doing well
DO you know enough to come il
ont Of the rain!'
Walters mill IS to have a switch
from the Bessie.
Butler had hot old Fourth 50 had
all the other towns.
Lots of rain here and great floods in
the South and West.
The Middlesex School Board wan
slale teachers only. See adv.
The John Lawell property in Leas-
urville is for sale See ADV.
The Rock Fishing Club is camping
on the shores Of Conneaut Lake
Dogs killed sixteen sheep belonging
to Geo. Krug last Sunday night.
Will Cubbison has opened a bar
ber shop in the Arrnory building.
The Maccabees are building large
frame hall at Renfrew to replace the
one burned.
-You will find a nice cool place TO
eat n geod meal at j. A Maxler's Centre
Ave. restaurant
The Penn'a editors had warm re
ception in Washington. few days ago.
1t was 9j IN the shade.
The broken glass, to be seen ON any
of our streets, anytime, makes work for
the doctors and bicycle repairers.
-Messers Carbon and Root, owners
Of the Butler House. are making exten-
sive improvements in the building.
Don't come to Butler, Saturday
afternoon. to attend to legal business
the offices are all closed that afternoon.
-Millerstown had big celebration
on the 4th. but their ball club got taken
into camp by the Standards Of Butler.
Score 0 TO 0.
Brother McClymonds mas moved
the old Signal plant from Slipperyrock
TO Chicora and is row publishing the
Il
The prosperity and solidity of the
Butler County National Bank is set
forth In the Financial Statement that
appears in this paper
The A. w. r. X. 90, has purchased
90 acres or the Mcclure property adjoin-
ing the brick and tile works, and may
locate their shops upon it.
The Bessie" hauled quarter Of
million Of tons Of ore from the lake to
Homestead last month. and nearly as
much coal and coke up the road.
1t has been all horse talk in the May
or's Office Of late. Bijah McNair sits in
Judgment on all fast drivers, and drops
dollars into the borough treasury.
The Midway Plaisance' Of the
Elks Carnival iD Allegheny (Boquet
and Allegheny avenues) was opened by
prayer That beats New Castle
Now that the scientists have discov
cred that sun stroke is caused by exccs-
sive heat, and that sleeplessness Is caus-
ed by nervousness. the human mind
may rest.
The Italian camp on the new rail
road near Craigsville was the scene Of
hot old time on the 4th, and immediate
ly after IL both knife and bullet wounds
were in evidence
If you have work for tank builder
call up George Perry on the Bell tele-
phone in Adam Douthetta store at
Brownsville, Mr.. Perry il thoroughly
competent in his business.
George Grove started a creamery
and chop mill at Brownsville last fall
and now he handles from 1000 to 5000
pounds Of milk daily and makes 1900
pounds Of butter each month.
Three Of the racers on the 4th rode
from Butler to Pctersville and returned
In les4 than an hour. They must have
gone up the hills like streak" and
come down like several streaIts
1t is safe to say half the farmers Of
Butler county harvested hay Monday.
They generally report n half crop OF hay
and large crops Of wheat, oats and pota-
toes. Berries are unusually plenty.
Everybody went to see Mrs g. ID Mil
ler's night blooming cereus last Friday
evening. very large and very beautiful
bloom. The plant has three more buds.
Mrs. Miller's Autograph cactus Is also
worth seeing
Everybody seems to want to live as
long as everybody can. A young man
who has poor health, no money, and no
body dependent upon him, was advised
TO commit suicide, the other day and
did not take kindly 10 the advice.
How strangely sounds the voice OF
distress at midnight. A few nights ago,
Cat about 2:S0 o'clock n woman thought
her husband was dying Of heart disease.
and Ms she was afraid TO leave the house
she stood Mt window and screamed and
awakened the whole n9ighborhood.
-Thirty-segen years ago. lin 1862
Michael Flemming Of Clearfield twp.
buried an old iron kettle containing u
potato and piece Of wood The other
day, while digging post hole he came
across the remains Of the kettle, nearly
all inouldered away, but the potato and
piece Of wood had turned 10 stone.
Flemnling had the potato in town the
other day, md it looks like piece OF
marble
Sunday last while David Forsyths
.jf Brownsville was Mt church, thieves
rsnsached his house. They secured
no money but took about twenty pounds
Of butter and some household articles
"wednesday of last week they stole
some money from the house Of Mr.
Edgar in the same neighborhood and