Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1904-07-21
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
-Encursion season.

The soldiers leave for camp today.
Temptation Sales" are the latest.
Mars seems to be popular as con-
vention town
The 24-mlle rural reuters now get
their $50 per month.
Dent pick holes in the weather-lt
has been leaky enough
Don't forget the Lutheran Reunion,
next Thursday, the 2Sth.
The meat dealers OF Butler have
not yet raised their prices.
The Summer Theatre is catching
the boys dimes, this week.
The country is infested at present
with dog and medicine shows.
If you sent your dog to the country
tie you- calf loose for burglars
Some Tarentum parties are build
ing big hotel near Saxonburg.
-IU6 II. Il. CO Cdob VI
town. was on fire yesterday morning.
A big. jolly crowd took in the G. NJ
B. A excursion to Conneaut, yesterday.
The Department of Agriculture is
warning farmers against the ginseng
craze"
-Two-thousand Butler county peo-
pie went to conneaut Lake. last
Thursday.
Several hundred Butler county peo-
ple wen. to the dedication at Grove
City, this morning.
The aggregation Of monstrosities at
Broad and Clay Sts. drew tremendous
crowd Tuesday evening.
Happiness is matter of habit. and
You had better gather it fresh every day
or you'll never get it at all.
Tho Leedom- Worral Grocery Co.
is receiving their stock and will send
fonr meu out on the road next week.
IF. E. Niller's flour mill at Evans
City was destroyed by fire last Thurs
day morning. Loss $4,000; insurance
5000
People who know Of herbs that will
save life ought to have such herbs nam
ed and classified by persons able to do
such work.
The druggists beat the doctors at
base ball; yesterday the lawyers beat
the druggists, aud now the printers are
getting together aud will wipe Jne earth
with the whole bunch.
The Pennsylvania r. R. Co. has es-
tablished an "a Ia carte" or pay for
wha t-you-get linine-car service on the
trains 0i its main line which Is an i'm
prOvement on the dollsr-a seat idea.
Y Oar grocers are paying is to 1sc for
butter, Sc at for cherries, 81 a bu for
peas. &c lb for lettuce, 2lc for cab
bage. 30c doz for bcets. soc bu for
new potatoes, 75c bu for apples, Doc a
doz for cncumbers, 20c doz for onions
The postoffice department has de-
cided that the names of subscribers to
all daily papers delivered by a rural
carrier must appear on the paper, in
stead Of being delivered by the carrier
10 news boys method.
: = The Butler baseball team defeated
the Saxonburg team. Tuesday. at Sax
onburg. to6 Mel Clark hit the first
ball pitched for home run McLaffer-
ty also had home run. Pitcher Roe
per OF Saxonburg had his hand split by
. batted ball.
wv. Il. Thompson of Middlesex twp.
has large bronze. turkey gobbler. that
has Matched ont a brood Of Plymouth
Rock chickens, and he (the gobbler)
takes the best Of care OF them. The
question again arises. who is the moth
or Of those chickensg
Certified copies Of the registration
Of school children made at May regis
tration are now at the Office of the
County Commissioners ready for deliv-
cry. The secretaries Of the several
school boards of the county are request
ed to call or send for same
Last Sunday was very sultry day,
and In Butler people suffered from the
heat, particularly at Sheriff Hoons
funeral. In Pittsburg there were seven
deaths from heat that day, and deaths
were reported in several Of the larger
tows OF the county.
$4,000 people attended the st.
Louis FAIR, each day of last week
$50. 600 people went down from New
York to Coney Island, last Sunday; and
along the Jersey and Long Island coasts
there were probably a million people
people cooling off in the water that
morning that's different
A writer in an exchange has tried
the following with good results: 1t ID
now time for the troublesome cucumber
bugs to commence their ravages 1t
may not be generally known that a
teaspoonful Of saltpetre dissolved in q
gallon OF water and sprinkled on the
vines clears them of the pests without
injury to the vines.
Securing the war news from Man
churia will cost the newspapers of this
country and Europe at least ten mil
lions of dollars. before the thing is over
and then the censorship at both bead
quarters is so rigid that the stuff allow
ed to appear can hardly be called news
The only way to keep track OF the wa
is to secure good map of Manchuria
and sift the actual happenings from tn
reports ms best you can.
"A case OF chicken stealing which
proved remunerative TO the victim Is re
ported from Greenville. Albert Martil
farmer living near that place had 2
fowls stolen recently and while huntin,
for clue the following morning foun,
pockethook containing $50 near IN
coop. Taking stand at an upstairs win
dow Martin was soon rewarded by zee
Ing A nei0hbor approach and look care