Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1901-07-18
LOCAL AND GENERAL.


The wet days run to forty
Before the dampness stops.
Great harvest weather.
No darkey is safe from arrest in
Butler these days.
All The big shows are giving Batter
the goby this year.
If you want to break something try
picking few cherries.
-Pennsylyanians carry nearly bill
lion dollars of life insurance.
e. Otto Davis has received car
load Of Merrill pianos. See adv.
The dog-days are so called because
the 'growler" is so much in evidence.
Paying that bill of $95, 900 was
something new ON the Turkish carper.
The fellow who invented the sue
cessful air ship now looks down on the
other inventors
The Weather Bureau comes high,
but noboiy ever thought of looking for
a prophet there
-.5hirtwaists are all right Even po-
tatoes peel their jackets when conditions
get too warm for them.
The Butler Public Library was re-
opened last week and the new catalogues
are furnished for Is cents.
Sparks from an engine set fire to
the Goetz planning mill. Saturday noon,
bnt little damage was done.
ALLEN Mccall wishes to trade his
pretty little place near Mt Chestnut
tor town property See card
Weeds do harm in the field of youth
therefor the law prohibits the sale of
tobacco to boys under sixteen
Our farmers have been busy har
vesting hay and wheat, this week
Extra hands are scarce this year.
The outrage of last Saturday even
ing, will canse the after-dark providers
to be looked after little sharper
Kansas and Nebraska are suffering
from drouth, and the injury to the corn
crop is estimated at three hundred mil
lions.
This is the season of Summer Sacri
fee Sales, and the announcements of
oar storekeepers should be scanned care
fully.
Over one-third of the entire popula-
tion of the United States live in cities
and towns of over four thousand popu-
lation.
"A srnqll blaze in Joseph Langbine g
paint shop back Of Miflin St, caused
more excitement than damage, Friday
morning.
These Victor Talking Machines are
immense. Both Newton and Kirkpat-
rick entertain crowds with them every
day and evening
The most brilliant object in the
Southern sky at present is the planet,
Jupiter His disk and satellites are
visible with field glass.
The drouth in Kansas and other
western states was advancing the price
of corn and wheat, but some rain fell
yesterday and the day before
The children of two wen-known
West jefferson street families had
general row Tuesday and several charges
. of assault and battery have resulted.
The white bricks for the front of
the new Wuller building came to hand
few days ago, and now Steele is Sur
prising his friends with Songs of Joy.
AT the meeting of the State Board
OF Health at Wernersville, last Thurs
day. it was stated that there are now
wothousand cases of smallpox in the
state.
Now that a Frenchman has invent
ed flying machine that both flies, and
goes where it is told to, the attitude of
the politicians on aerial franchises will
be interesting.
-Four Mormon elders or missionaries
began by singing Gospel songs and
wound up by declaring Joe Smith was
aprophet in front Of the Court House.
Monday evening.
The Kneipp cure is becoming popu-
lar. The idea seems to be that the more
you have both bare feet in the dewy
grass the less likely you are to have one
foot in the grave.
The Gormley store at Fenelton
changed hands last Saturday for "a, 800,
young Mr.. Sipe being the purchaser.
The whole sale amounted to 81, 900. J.
r. Kearns was the auctioneer.
In spite of automobiles, bicycles and
all the new tangled contrivances for con-
veylng human kind over the surface Of
tae earth, good driving horses are in
greater demand at better prices than
ever before.
There has not been night this
simmer when one could not sleep under
blankets in the Hilliard valley; and as
the east end of the valley is clear of coal
mines, with an abundance of the best
of water, and shady groves, it could be
made one of the great hot weather re-
SORTS of the countrv
"A gentleman near Spartansburg,
says an exchange, owns bird dog that
is especially good at fetching things out
of the water In order to show the
boys what the dog could do he threw a
5O-cert piece into Clear lake and told
the dog to fetch it. The dog dived and
brought back two-pound catfish and
35 cents in change.
-Riebold has been having an epidemic
of mad dogs. Two dogs belonging to
Anthony Burr went mad and both were
killed. Dogs belonging to Philip Burr
aud another neighbor also showed signs
OF rabies and Were killed On SATURDAY.
small Iet dog which was following
Charles Riebold as he was cutting grain
teean frothing at the mouth and snap.
ping at him and Mr.. Reibold killed i,
with club. The dog left half -a-dozer
pups a month old at home.
The fall term of school af the Ru,la,