Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1904-09-29

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Notice to Assessors
.a,o,n,,,,asors and Executors of estates
..a secure their receipt books at the
CITIZEN ofice- and persons making public
sales their note books
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
"Are you going to elope"-is what
the girls are asking each other.
The sounding board Of the opera
house is over the orchestra and boxes
The Standard is said to be paying
81, 500 barrel for settled oil production
Pay your taxes on or before Oct. g.
if you want to vote for President. Nov
-Squaw winter comes with the first
snowfall, and after that comes Indian
summer.
The frosts of last week spoiled near
Iy all the corn fodder and abou. third
of the buckwheat.
The P. .. at Woodsfeld, Ohio, vas
robbed Of registered letter containing
$40. 900 few nights ago.
ANY color so it's brown" says
Fashion, this season, and the leaves will
soon get into the fashion.
-Vesuvius is on another tear Vesu
vius is nearer Naples than Butler. that
is the reason we make note of her.
The home of Joseph Stoughton of
Clay township. was totally destroyed by
fire, with all it's contents, last Friday
evening.
Eight new houses have been built
in Eau Claire this summer. 1t is pref
ty town and the excellent Academy
there ia said to help it
C II. Parker and ]. W. Mckee
have purchased the old Odd Fellows
hall building On w. Jefferson street.
from C. A. Abrams for 1900.
The Butler County National Bank
is NOT in politics, but it has issued an s.
page folder containing the election fig
ures for every state in the Union for 30
years back Get one at the bank.
In Pittsburg. Tuesday, a young
woman secured verdict of $1,000
against the Kelly e. Jones Co. for iDiu-
ries received by leap from the 4tRl
floor. duriug FRA. there being no fire
escapes.
An Allegheny county man who was
kept in Jail 13i days as witness on a
murder case, and who contracted con-
sumption in jail has brought suit for a
hundred thousand against the county.
He ought to have a million.
The Butler and Pittsburg Street
Car Company claim to have secured the
rights Of way from Butler to Etna-ex-
cepting in few cases The proposed
new line will follow the Three-degree
road through Brownsville and Mars,
and connect with the present line to
Etna.
The Guatemalan red ants imported |
into Texas to destroy the boil weevil
are increasing and multiplying and get
ting in their work, reports to the con-
trary notwithstanding This statement
comes from the Department of Agricul-
ture, and not from the cotton market.
The house Of James M. Stoughton
Of Clay twp. was destroyed by fire with
all its contents, on Friday, the 10th. |
The FIRE originated from defective
hue and was first discovered on the
roof. This is the third house or barn
that has burned on Mr.. Stoughton's
premises within IS years. His loss is
abcut $4,000 and his insurance $1,000.
The State Banking Department has
served notice on all trust companies
that the law prohibiting them from do
ing commercial banking business will
be enforced aud that all companies hav
ing such departments must abolish
them. The effect Of the order will be
to compel trust companies to become
State or National banks IL they want to
continue in the banking business.
Jupiter and the moon make a pret-
ty picture in the eastern sky these even
ings. Jupiter is the largest of the plan
ets-larger than all the rest put to.
gether-aud he has four moons, which
gives the almanac men something to do,
as he only gets around the sun once in
twelve Of our years, though he turns on
his axis every ten hours.
Sunday evening tall young man
named McClung, evidently dementcd,
made an effort to steal collection lift
cd in the Young Peoples meeting at the
United Presbyterian church, made an
unsuccessful dive for the church collec-
tion sitting In front Of the altar, after
the service. and picked up lady's um-
brella as he passed out of the door.
The umbrella was taken from him.
AT tho reunion OF the 18th In Pitts
burg, Saturday. Maj. A. B. Hay, of
Allegheny, was elected President of the
organization and Will Lowry, of Bnt-
Ter, LIST Vice President Col Blakeley
introduced resolution asking the Leg
islature to donate money for monu-
ment on Lookout mountain in honor of
the Pennsylvania men who participated
in the battle of November, 1853, and it
was adopted unanimously.
Clarence Ludlow Brownell, in his
recently Published book on Japan. says
that the death rate for children is low
or in japan than IL is in Europe and
America. This Is as 1t should be In a
country where the houses are off the
ground foot or two and have no cell
lars and the air inside is as fresh as it
is out; whore too. in such places at least
as Toxic. everyone bathes and has a
good scrubbing every day. From s00,-
mn 000 ono raruona sx<x 30 ~.