Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1904-07-14
LOCAL AND GENERAL.


LOCAL AND GENERAL.
-Muzzle or tie up your dogs.
.-Bad weather for harvesting.
The postoffice at Greer has beel
discontinued.
Chicago school teachers are rate
by the pound.
Niagara Falls, Saturday, for "a. 0O
Five day limit.
Its either overcoat. raincoat or nt
coat this summer.
| The Maccabees' Insurance rates
have been doubled.
Our Sixteenth Regiment band is il
demand everywhere.
Half million people have already
seen the st. Louis Fair.
The Druggists beat the Doctor 4
again, yesterday. II to z.
The powder warehouse will be near
the railroad, east of town.
-Slipperyrock will vote on bond is
sue for water works. Aug. 9.
The Y. NJ. c. A. boys are camping
at Ayonia, on the Lake near Erie, Pa
The State Board has advertised for
bids for the rebuilding of the Zelienople
bridge.
= Each of the Fire Companies receiv-
ed $3.50 out of the Firemen's celebration
on the Fourth.
The Wabash makes it Sl2 to st.
Louis and return from Pittsburg. next
Tuesday. See adv.
Evans City low has curfew law
which sends the youngsters off the
streets at S:5Op.m.
Thirty nine rural routes in Wash
iugton county are to be discontinued on
account of bad roads.
"A new microbe-the bacillus OF old
age-has been discovered, and the
Lord have mercy on us.
The survivors of the Johnstown
Hood will hold reunion in that town,
beginning next Monday.
The public is anxiously awaiting
that audit of the Epidemic Fund There
is said to be ten-thousand left over.
Throughout tie laud 81 were killed
outright and 1922 injured on the Fourth.
The dynamite cane did the greatest ex-
cution.
Sheriff Gibson's blood-hounds trac-
ed man mile and half and treed
IN in less than half an hour, a few
: days ago.
July FL to Aug. is the date and
Gettysburg the place Of the next annu-
al encampment of the National Guard.
Co Lis preparing.
Teller James H. Ekas of the Ma
tional Bank of Tarentum has confessed
10 embezzlements extending over a pc
mod Of nine years and aggregating s1S.
600.
The Butler Choral Union will meet
in the Second Presbyterian church next
Thursday evening, the 21st, at 8 pm.
All members are urgently requested to
be present
The postoffice at Reibold will be
discontinued today. Subscribers there
shonld notify us of their new address,
ct once Esq Schilliug was postmaster
there for II years.
The Home Gas Co. has about COM
pleted its job of clamping the JOINTS of
its gas mains to prevent leaks, and
rsome Of the paving is reported to be re-
placed in bad shape.
&C. III. Hosford purchased the Lowry
House property from the Davis brothers
and intends remodeling it. The consid
Grafton is not yet known. but is said to
said to be about $50 900.
Nothing pleases an editor more
than to receive well worded, plainly
written communication-like the one
we print this week regarding the gold
en- wedding of Mr. and Mrs. Adams.
The Leedom -Worral Grocery Co.
has bought out the Butler or Goehring
Grocery Co, The big building on Cen
tire Ave- is said to be thes 1O5th of it's
kind built by the same corporation.
The increasing severity Of the war
IL shown by the names of the stations
along the line of march. Gen. Sakhar-
off reports having been compelled to re-
tire from Makhuntsguiga to Tchjou-
tzziandiandza.
Robert Marshall's barn and hay
shed, a short distance south of Flick, in
Middlesex twp, were burned the night
Of the Fourth. Fire crackers are blam-
ed. Most of the farm machinery was
burned and the loss is about $500.
Someone, who signs himself. "Mif-
din, Jr.. North Hope, Pa" became
philosophical and wrote to Quiet OBJ
server" of the Gazette about rain, and
q o. asked where is North Hope, Pa,
spyway?" Ye gods, what ignorance,
Twenty thousand men employed in
and about the Union Stock yards and
meat packing houses in Chicago quit
work, Tuesday noon, on account of a
decrease in wages; and the whole num-
ber. including those at Omaha, Kansas
City and other points, who went out on
strike is sald to aggregate 10000.
AT the July meeting of the School
Board Miss Ella Purvis resigned al
teacher in the High School and Miss
Gertrude Siebert of Wayne st. was
elected her successor at s65 per month
Miss Olive Cribbs resigned to take
position in the schools of her hom,
town, Clarion, and Miss Laura Bale,
also resigned.
While driving from Butler to Pros
pect few evenings ago Rev. Bartholo
NEW OF the Prospect Lutheran church
found large dry goods box containins
several dozens of ladies' corsets lvino or