Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1903-05-28
LOCAL AND GENERAL.

tn cir note books.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Summer Schedules.
Boys going swimming.
Band concert. this evening.
-Cuba's 4th-of-July comes on the
20th of May.
The Sionx Indians play ball here
Memorial Day.
The new train schedules should be
l)oked over by travellers.
A case Of small pox is reported from
Butler twp. and two from Clay twp.
A million of sheep were frozen to
death by the late blizzard in Montana.
1t is said that no remonstrances
will be filed to the applications for
license.
AT SherW in ten new miners houses
have been erected on the hill west OF
the mine.
Our Water Company completed the
connections of the new filtering Plant,
Tuesday.
Iowa was storm swept, Tuesday,
with death and destruction reported
from all sections of the state.
-One-half of Montana was under
three feet of snow, last week, and the
other half under two feet of locusts.
John W. Conrad has a three story
business block underway on his lot on
Race street. The upper stories will be
fats.
Thirty days at the County Home
was the sentence given some ''hobos'
captured out the West Penn R. r. the
other day.
The Pittsburg papers of yesterday
reported the robbing of Harry Dawson
of Evans City by negro in Pittsburg,
of his watch and money.
The Modern Woodmen of America
will give strawberry and ice cream
festival at Cooperstown, next Tuesday
evening, June ID Everybody invited.
Ont in the country rye and wheat
are growing magnificently, oats and
corn well, and the late rains have start
ed the grass and clover to growing
nicely.
Andrew Barnhart's barn in Con-
noquenessing twp. and Miss Dauben
speck's house house ON Cleveland st.
were slightly damaged by lightning
Saturday night.
We had nice rain here. last Fri
day; while out in Salina county, Kansas,
they had a tornado which killed some
people, swept away houses and trees,
and killed cattle.
If you want Farmers Institute"
held in your town, you should attend
the meeting of the Board in the County
commissioners Office, on Tuesday, June
Oh, and put in your application.
The County Court has issued an.
order restraining the sale of the o. S.
Electrical plant in Butler on the
Thompson judgment, petition in
involuntary bankruptcy having been
filed
-Seven-hundred thousand quarts of
strawberries were shipped north from
Norfolk, Va. in one day, recently. They
are picked by negroes. who earn from
S. co $l.25 day, and grab them by the
handful.
The 9:10 a. m train of the B. & o.
is scheduled to make the run to Allie
gheny in hour and Is minutes. the
lao in hour and 90 minutes and the
5:24 D. m in hour and II minutes.
An elegant Home for Incurables is
being built on the Rev. Hickey farm in
Clearfield twp. 1t will cost, complete,
about $4,000 and the money is said 10
come from the Donnelly estate. Mr..
Schenck of Butler has the contract
"A soap manufacturer was once ask
ed why he did newspaper advertising
altogether. ana didn't use sign boards,
etc. He said that in his experience he
had found that the man who does not
read the newspapers never uses soap.
During a wedding celebration in
Lyndora, Tuesday night, Paul Matey
was cut 50 badly that there were fears
for his life; John Yorkins was also cut
and taken to Jail to await the result of
Matey's injuries aud another alleged
cutter Is a fugitive.
The conscience of one of our sub
scribers, at least has not become scared
He writes as follows: Il have been
reading so much lately about the fate
of delinquent subscribers that 1 have
not been resting well at night Find
enclosed two dollars for subscription y
"There are others"
During Saturday nights storm
lightning struck a large oak tree on the
plank road, jumped from the branches
of the tree to the caves of James Donald
sons grocery store building, ripped off
shingles and siding and stripped wall
paper from the wall and finally disap-
peared in the cellar The damage was
slight
The house of VIM. Baker on Cleve-
land st. was also struck A slat in the
the bed in which Mr. and Mrs. Baker
were sleeping was split and the occu-
pants stunned, but otherwise uninjured
Butler is proud of her schools and
her scholars-and each succeeding year
increases her admiration thereof. The
Commencement exercises of the gradu-
ating class of the High School, Tuesday
night. were very creditable-the essays
were excellent, and the music was good
the class made some fun for the audi
ence, and their perfect self possession
was noted by all. The graduating clas,
was composed of eight young men and
sixteen girls, or "a in all, which with
the twenty-five who graduated in Janu
airy, made 46 for this year-the highest
number yet graduated from High