Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1904-07-28
LOCAL AND GENERAL.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.
The Butler Golfers will hold Q
tournament. tomorrow.
And now the Chinese baseball team
Of Butler wants whack at the law
yers.
The new Nile green khaki suits
worn by the officers of the Guard are
very fetching
Though our School Board elected
teachers and raised salaries. there have
been ten designations since.
Thirty thousand people went 10
Grove City. last Thursday, to attend
the dedication of the Wayside Inn.
The annual reunion of the 102d Pa
Vols will be held at Kennywood Park,
Pittsburg, Tuesday. Aug. O.. Roll call
at Casino at 9:30 IN.
The Butler county militia company
and the 10th Reg band left Butler, last
Thursday noon, for Oil City, and went
on with the regiment that night to Get
tysburg.
-Petrolia is booming. Several new
houses have been built there this sum-
mer, and r. S. g. Campbell was in
town, yesterday, letting the contract for
another.
A mink, weasel or other animal is
working havoc in chicken coops in the
south-central part Of town, from five to
twenty chickens having been killed in
several pens.
The street car line to the new Fair
Ground, on the hill west of town, has
been completed. The buildings are
nearing completion and the new track
is already in fine shape.
The rear walls of the new theatre
rise sixty-fve feet above the sidewalk.
The front wall of the Butler County
National Bank building rises about
seventy-five feet above the sidewalk.
AT Rochester, Pa, last Thursday,
the P. r. r. Co. laid 90 feet Of track on
Island Lane, and after o O'Clock the
borough officials tore it mp and threw
the ties and rails into the Beaver river.
While wealthy family in Ale
gheny were at their summer residence
in the country. last Thursday. thieves
went to the house. in broad daylight
with furniture vans, and took almost
everything in it.
"A Brooklyn judge has granted di-
vorce for two years, with privilege or
re-marrying at the end of that period,
which leads the Bradford Herald. to re-
mark that the return coupon is new
thing In divorce politics.
Are yon going to Youngstown on
next Tuesday, August End. Every
body else IL going with the Protected
Home Circle Fare, only si:25. Train
leaves Butler at 7.30 A. NJ. Youngs-
town at 500 r. NJ.
The fremen tested the new nozzles
at the Diamond plugs, Tuesday even
ing, and they are success. When the
nozzle men shut off the water it escapes
at the ping. Water was thrown as high
as the top Of the Bank fsgetaff.
Crop reports from all over the state
are favorable. Grain. grass and fruit
were retarded by the cold and wet
weather bat alike seem to have been
singularly free, this year, from damage
by insects and worms. The continued
wet weather, however, may cause the
potatoes to rot.
The dog catcher captured IA ca
mines their first day, Monday, and a
dozen on Tuesday. High Constable,
Kramer, has cage built over the bed
of an ordinary wagon and has too assist
ants welding the nets. The dogs are
kept at the pound on Mercer st. for two
days and are then sold or shot. The
redemption fee il $500.
Go into any restaurant or any hotel
in the large towns, during the heated
term, and the cream given you to put
in your coffee may be putrid; while. if
you ask for glass Of milk you will re-
ceive as good, or nearly as good, an ar
ticle as you would in the country, fresh
from the springhouse. The reason
probably is that cream from old milk ia
mixed with fresh, warm strippings, and
canned and shipped before the animal
heat in it has escaped
Officers Of the Pittsburg drygoods
Co. were entertained and driven over
town, yesterday, by the Board of Trade
Several sites which the Board offered
gratis for the location Of the proposed
woolen mill were visited The sites Of
fered were on Yogelcy's Island, on the
Duffy property near the Lead Works,
the Anderson property west Of the
Brewery, the Negley property, the Salt
= works, the Duffy property at North
Butler, on the Ferd Reiber farm, and
on the Ritz. or old McJunkin, farm on
the West Penn road. If the wooden
factory is brought to Butler the shirt
factory will be consolidated with it.
Jacob Shilling, Of Clover Creek,
Blair County, has closed another CON
tract with the Smithsonia institution
at Washington to furnish it with 100
rattlesnakes Shilling has been en-
gagged in capturing rattlesnakes on the
contract for number OF years. Every
year he supplies The Smithsonian insti-
tuition with new specimens. All the
snakes are captured with forked hick-
ory stick The poisonous fangs are
always removed by Shilling before he
ships the snakes, TO guard against mis-
haps at the other end of the line. 1t il
estimlted that hs derives an income OF
$4,000 year for snake catching
--bourke Cochran. the New York
tongrsssman, recently told meeting
5f the Women's Federatian Of Clubs
that between polygarny and divorce
the difference IN all In favor or the
former. Polygamy." he continued
''comprehends group OF wives At one
time, while divorce simply means tan.
dem" This simply shows that Mr.
ftDckrnu In bia zaaI fo he eynnhat;,. :, =.