Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1901-07-11
LOCAL AND GENERAL.

-Muzzle yonl dog,
Filtered water soon.
-Phinny's : IT, s. Band will give two
concerts at the Park, Monday.
Our photographers will take four
weeks vacation, beginning with Mon
day the 22ad
Some of our correspondence had to
be currailei this week and some omitted.
We will have more room next week
-Alonzo McCandIess had four acres
of as fine wheat as you would want to
look upon, and recent hail storm com
pletely demolished it.
Hotel and boarding house keepers
can ger rate cards with the laws on de-
frauding clearinghouse keepers print
ed on them at this Office.
The city engineers of Pittsburg are
now studying the best way to cut out
the hump" which improvement is to
be made within 1S months
-Som- slight changes have been
made in the Penna, 3. r. & P. and
Bessie time tables Always consult the
local time tables before going to the sta
tion. ~n
The rear end Of one of the Pittsburg
Prov yision Cos buildings at Herr's Island
fell ont, Tuesday, and a man named
Duermeyer fell with it, go feet, ana was
not hurt.
Some more Lawrence county farm
ers have applied for injunctions re-
straining the street car people from
running over their farms, under the
new laws
The certified copies of the registra-
tion of school children for this year are
ready for the secretaries of the different
school boards at the Office of the County
Commissioners
The Penn'a r. r. Co. has purchased
the Herr's Island stock yards and have
eased it to Mr.. Allerton OF Chicago
who will improve it. The East End
yards are To be discontinued
The Sarver Station Academy closed
the last of June with public debate
and contest between the Demosthenes
and Cicero literary societies. The
Academy had forty students during the
spring term and has been very success
full.
-Four youDg men whose homes are
to the north of town, abused their
horse few days ago; the Humane Soci
ETY. Of Butler prosecuted them, and the
Justice fined them each $40 and costs
Otaer men, young and old, given to
boozing and fast driving may take this
as a warning.
No matter how careful you are of
your milk supply during hot weather, it
occasionally sours, and besides that raw
milk in refrigerator will absorb the
flavor of everything about it. The
remedy is TO boil your milk. Some of
the best restaurants and hotels in the
country now furnish their customers
with little pitcher of hot milk with each
cup Of coffee.
About thirty horses are being train
ed ON the Fair Ground track this year.
Harry Mnrehead has a string Of thir-
teen. Chris Sleighner four and VIM
Dean seven There is plenty of fast go
ing to be seen by anyone who will take
the trouble to go to the grounds. The
track is in excellent shape and
there is not town in Western Pennsyl-
vania that can show more beautiful or
faster horses than Butler.
Saturday night. June 30 and Sun
day. June 30 saw the P. 81 W. between
Butler and Foxburg transformed from
a narrow to a broad guage railroad.
The road has had standard guage ties
and heavy rails for sometime After
the last passenger train passed Saturday
afternoon. 300 men went at the work OF
jerking up the rails and laying stand
ard guage The work was done in quick
time. The change in guage means the
loss to Butler of the Transfer, which
was located in the old Reiber meadow.
Hereafter freights viii have their trucks
changed from standard TO narrow
guage at Foxburg.