Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1904-08-11
LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Lowry House was closed ye,
terday.
-SIipperyrock voted for waterford
80 to Sc.
Butler has good milk. according t
the inspectors.
Both agencies are paying $3.50 70
oil this morning.
Dog days are having a bad effec
on Italian temper.
That "deaih-trap' at Mars shoul'
be remedied promptly.
I'm the Chicago wheat pit. Monday
September wheat scared to $1.01 an
May to $102.
Karl Schluchter. the tailor. has re
ceived his fall and winter samples TO
suits and overcoats- See card
Two miles of tank cars were start
ed for California from the Mckee
Rock plant, the other day, PCS cars
each Al feet long.
There will be public sale of stock
farming tools. hay, etc on the Lyman
billiard farm in w. Sunbury on Wed
nesday, Aug. Both. at 10 am
On Monday T. w. Phillips 81 Co
purchased the plant and interests OF thu
Butler Home Natural Gas Co, paying
therefor the sum of about $500. 900.
The cool breezes of Sunday ant
Monday were probably due to the tre
mendous hail storm that passed ovel
the country to the north of us. Satur
day evening.
If the Japs could get around tht
Russians as fast as those Jap mice II
Boyd's show-window can get around
the centre-pole, the war would have
been over lcng ago.
The new bridge below Zelienopl'
will be "A feet wide and 100 feet long
The state has awarded the contract tt
the Nelson Buchanan Co.. and the ces'
will be about $50, 900.
One wonders whether the priest
and preachers of Kittanning realize the
the tremendous task they have under
taken in trying to reform the seventy
confirmed bachelors of that town.
The Pittsburg Heat and Light Co
is leasing land for gas and oil from W.
Sunbury to New Castle, and it Is said
to have lately purchased John Tebay a
interests in and about Pennington
There will be no McCandless reun,
ion, this year, but the committee has
fred upon the third Thursday of August
next. 1905, as the date for the next
meeting. For other reunions see list
in another column.
The gist Of the watering trough
law il that any person erecting and
maintaining one is entitled to credit
On his taxes, The troughs are to bt
ave miles apart and the property owner
and the Supervisors must agree on thu
compensation, which is not to exceed
% per year.
Our native sparrow, commonly call
ed "chippie," is one of the deares
and most lovabie little birds the goot
Lord has created and yet one Slippery
rock girl has sued another for slandei
and asks $4,000 damages of her for being
called '-chippie-"
According to dispatch from Gin
cinnati, @. e. Sonricker Of Harms Cit,
was held up in that town by his wife
who made him stand and deliver at tn
point Of pistol. He says she tool
eighteen $50 bills from him in room
in hotel, and then left.
The hay -feverites are fleeing to tn
hills to escape the bloom of the rag
weed, which grows everywhere-except
ing in the middle of the dark blue sea
We know how to exterminate the rag
weed, and will begin on it as soon Al
we get all the mosquitoes killed off.
There was considerable excitemen
on the steamboat pier at Ceioron. Chan
tauqua Lake, few nights ago, when
number Of excursionists were precipi
tsted into the water by one Of tn
branches Of the pier breaking away
Several persons had narrow escape
from drowning.
The Rock Fishing Club went up t
Conneaut Lake. Monday, TO go int
camp. 1t is composed of young me-
who have been there before. and knoy
what to expect, But the boys who ar
having their first try at camping out il
the woods few miles east OF towr
probably wished they were home. Mon
day night, when the mercury fell to tn
forties
up to date Constable Kramer ha
sent about three dozen stray, unfettel
ed or uumuzzled dogs to dog-eternity
as per Borough Ordinance duly enacte
by the Town Council; while the remair
der are either tied up, locked MP or mu.
zled. That may be all right during tn
heated term, but when cooler weathe
comes the dogs noses should be given
chance to get well.
Almost all fruits and flowers hay
their legend. One about the peac
comes from Japan and tells how til
poor pious old couple were searching (,
food by the roadside. The woman foun
q peach, which she would not eat O
though starving. till she could share
with her husband. He cut it exactly
half when an infant leaped forth.
was one Of the gods, who had, he sa
accidently fallen out of the peach @
chard of heaven while playing. I
told them to plant the stone of Il
peach. and 1t brought them happine
friends and wealth.
Remember. always" exhorted Il
preacher, that whatever you SOW, tn
also you shall reap
Not always" replied Subbubs; IN
II your neighbor keeps chickens"
Butler Fair, August 80. 2
Sept. 1st and End.
New goods at sacrifice prices at RI
ter & Rockenstein's backward seas.
sale
A chance to buy seasonable goods