Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1900-07-02
LOCAL AND GENERAL,
This is picnic day.

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look up to.
A sun umbrella gives one shade
the best of it.
The Chinese opendoor has proved
to be trap-door.
The coffin trust will have the dead
wood on all of us.
The late storms Knocked over lots
of wheat and corn.
Mrs, Pape is having clearance sale
OF her Summer Millinery
Patterson Bros. make speciality OF
picture and mirror framing.
Whitehill, ihe Plumber, sells Wells
bach lights and mantels. See notice.
Go. B of Punx'sy picniced at Cas-
cade Park Monday. Co L was invit
cd.
The hot spell of last week caused
quite number of deaths in the larger
towns.
The photographers of Butler will
close their galleries from July 21st to
August 18th. See notice.
The joint action Of the powers Is
disl leasing to the Chinese. They have
their own ideas as to Joints
To an American rebellion in China
is about as ineligible as would be a
feud in den of rattle snakes.
Tax Collector Maxwell gives notice
of five per cent discount on borough
taxes paid before Aug. 31st, next
The blacksmith shops in Butler will
be closed on Saturday, August 4th, on
account of the horseshoers picnic at
Youngstown.
John Morall has moved his watch
and clock repair shop to the Stein build
ing in one of the front windows of
the Palace Club.
Forty girls are now working in the
shirt factory. 215 dozen shirts and
overalls can be cut and sewn (but not
finIshed) in one day.
Mat Hinsberger has Two hens of the
Golden Wyandotte variety, which laid
81 eggs from April 26 to July 1st and
hasched out 32 chicks.
S. T. Paisley, the fugitive ex-Supd t
OF Highways of Pittsburg, died at New
port News, near Fortress Monroe, Va,
last Thursday afternoon.
If the passenger steamers persist in
carrying baled cotton in their holds,
some people will prefer going to the
Paris Expo. on freight train.
Late pensions Martha Alexander
of Hooker, so per month; John Flem
ing of Rattigan. so per month; Sarah
Walker of Butler. s. per month.
With ten National tickets in the
field it does not reflect upon the intel
ligence of the average citizen if he can
not name and designate them all
Forty three barrels of lime, applied
by compressed air, were recently requir-
ed to whitewash the interior of the Erie
railroad machine shops mt Meadville.
-Pittsburgers number 319,734 and
Allegheny people 129, 1853. gain of
about 25 per cent. in the ten years, and
making city Of nearly $50, 600 souls
The aggregate tax rate for this
borough, for this year is, is 344 mills,
divided as follows: County, general 5,
county poor 81, borough 70, school II,
borough poor A.
New Castle was excited Monday
night over incendiary fires in three
planning mills, and the capture of the
incendiary-a volunteer fireman and
insurance agent named Artz
port of P;ttsburg is the decrease in the
population of the point wards; many of
the residents having moved to the coun-
try. Electric railroads scatter town
populations.
AS the dreaded fungus, called the
potato blight, is again getting in its
work it will be well to use the govern
ment formula on it, if not too late The
formula is four pounds of sulphate of
copper, dissolved in 25 gallons or bar
rel of water, mixed with 25 gallons OF
=! barrel of strong lime water To dis
solve the sulphate in water, you mus.
put it in thin bag and suspend it in the
water; and it takes at least pounds of
unslacked lime to make strong lime
water. The mixture is blush water
which is poisonous, and which must be
sprinkled or sprayed on the plants as
soon as the blight appears.
During the storm of last Thursday
evening the final of the Court House
was again struck by lightning and the
balance of the cross came tumbling
down to the street. Pieces of it were
picked up and are being saved as me
mentoes But little now remains of tn,
final, excepting the iron rod 1t was
raining hard at the time, and the elec
tric fluid passed over the roof and tC
the ground, doing no further damage
During the same storm the houses o1
Chas. Oliver on w. Pearl St., Georg,
Shaffner of Fairview Ave, Pierc,
brothers just west of town and J. c
Moore in Centre twp. were struck ant
all more or less damaged. Lewis Her
old OF Butler twp north of town had
three valuable cows struck and killed
and Esq. K sck's house on the Merce,
road north of town was struck, and alst
derrick on his place south of town.
The telegraph and telephone lines il
and about town, were all struck ant
more or less damaged, and the fluid fol
lowed the electric-light wires into New
tons music store and put the lights out
The only strange story of the storm
comes from Euclid, where, it is said,
house was struck and two women in il
badly shocked, but not seriously injured
or burned, while the collar button OF
one Of their necks was melted
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