Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1904-09-01
LOCAL AND GENERAL.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Fair this week.
School next week.
Now for the oysters
-Elderberries are plenty.
This is the first autumn month
The Pittsburg Expo. opened yester-
day.
The buckwheat crop looks very
promising.
Trim yonr shade trees ten feet from
the sidewalk-is the order.
Only fifty cases for the Grand Jury
to begin on, next Monday.
A terrible lot Of love is wasted on
cats, dogs and unmarried men.
-"Jeffries put the bug on Monroe in
two rounds"-said the rewsboy.
The Phillips Co. is running gas line
from Butler to its new wells in Clarion
county.
How many highest points in But
Ter county" are theres We have beard
Of several
The Shanghai incident takes the
place of tie Shanghai chicken of fifty
years ago.
The Druggists Association Of Pitts
burg intend putting the old blue laws
to the test
The Alameda base ball team defeat
ed the Mt. Chestnut team. Saturday.
score 18 to 9.
Beer is said to be an antidote to
mosquito bites, but it must be applied
on the outside.
-Farme.s are busy taking out pota-
toes. which seem to yield very well.
but are said to be rotting.
We go to press half day earlier
than usual, this week. in order to give
the printers chance to go the Fair
Have you noticed the Marriage
License lists lately-fellows are coming
here from all over the continent for our
girls Hurry up il you want one.
Pink potatoes and red-haired girls
are ia d-mtnd. Our consul at Buda-
pert, Hungary. cables for ship load OF
pink pptsroes: and New York theatre
maoager wants two hundred red-headed
girls
Monday il Labor Day. and the la
bor organizations have q parade in the
morning and an elaborate program
speeches. dancing, sports of various
kind. etc-at the Park in the after
noon.
Thousands of dollars 90 out of this
county every year for melons. Every
farmer in the county who clears piece
of new ground should try melons on it
the first year starting the plants in the
house
-Some funny things happen in this
world A 81, 500 bull got out Of its field
In York county. the other night. and
charged the headlight Of an express
train that came along. Bull meat was
cheap in that neighborhood. next day.
"A 2l-year old horse from near Pc
tersville ran of near the John Weber
place. a few days ago. and threw the
girl and her fellow head over heels.
The girl had long and sharp stick
with which she prodded the horse. mol
flowers.
The barn of Clel Parker, near
Aiken's Corners was struck by light
ming and destroyed by fire on the 23d
ult. He lost his harvest for this year.
and part Of bis household goods, stored
In the barn while building his new
house He was insured in the Butler
County Merchants Mutual.
AT o'clock Tuesday morning the
fire whistle blew for blaze In the hay
NOW OF Hummer Bros barn on Cliff st. |
The blaze had good start and the Sec
ond story and the slate roof were prac-
tically destroyed before streams from
the First Ward and Goodwill hose
quenched them. The loss is about
$1,000, covered by insurance
The Standard Steel Car Co. has re-
ceived an order for 1000 40-foot drop
end gondolas from the B. g. o. railroad.
The gondolas are to be built after the
latest designs Of the car company and
contain number of improvements
The order calls for delivery In October
and November. There are enough or
ders on the books of the company to
keep its plant in partial operation to
December /. The plant has not been
working up to its capacity for several
months. owing to the general dullness
Of the railroad equipment business.
The seedless apple is no longer a
mere matter of curious speculation, but
m accomplished fact. as several bushels
Of them from Colorado are on exhibi-
I. tion AZ the Worlds Fair. This latest
wonder Of the orchard is the result Of
long and tedious scientific work by hor-
ticulturists A very curious fact about
the tree which produces this fruit is
that 1t is blossomless. free from worms
and hardy enough to endure severe
frost The biossomless feature Of the
new tree is not only its most striking
popularity. but the one which recon-
meuds it especially to fruit growers par
ticularly in cold climates. Already
seedless apple nurseries have been start
cd In several states and seedless apple
buds are in great demand.
Some forcible remarks were indulg-
ed by the people Of Butler. Monday,
when they learned that the street car
people intended charging 20 cents for q
round trip ticket to the corner of the
Fair Ground But the company 10 am
ply justified in charging that much or
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