Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1904-09-15


Adminis.r Asors and Executors of estates
OTTIZEN of1ce. and persons making public
Gales their note books.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Mother circus coming.
The Butler Firemen will go to Erie.
Glenn Avenue low has a new iron
bridge.
Cash wheat was quoted at $1.17,
Tuesday, and -four began crawling up.
Nearly q million foreigners have
come into this country during the past
year.
Geo. F. Keck, the merchant tailor,
has received mis- Fall and Winter suit
ings.
in Colorado. where the women
vote, the Dems are afraid of the Corset
Issue.
The Fair Association cleared four
thousand and will improve the new
grounds.
Indiana had great Fair, last week,
and three candidates for Judge were
electioneering.
Pick of the cucumbers every day.
The rest will grow faster and there will
be more of them
Between seeding, cutting corn and
raising potatoes the farmers are being
kspt busy these days.
Many Of our people are suffering
with severe colds, the result of the
warm days and cold nights.
Never dig potatoes when the
ground is wet. 1t may try your patience
70 wait, but il is best to do it.
Its a Yankee show that will be
here ON Saturday, the oath. 1t has
never before been this far west.
The County Home farm raised 1853
bushels Of oats. this year-six hundred
bushels more than the figures said last
week.
Now that the four-legged dogs have
been banished from the town, the two
legged ones are prowling about at
night.
The epidemic Of typhoid at Branch
ton. among the Italians, continues.
These people are said to live like a lot
Of pigs.
The resources of the Butler County
National Bank now aggregate the tre-
mendous total of -, 706, 342.30. See
statement
The survivors of Capt. Fielding's
Co. 103d p. v. held pleasant reunion
ct his home in Slipperyrock twp, last
Saturday.
This years wheat crop is put down
at about 900, 900, 900 bushels. Last year
there were 121. 900. 600 bushels exported.
This country requires 500 600. 900 for
home use.
Fifty Butler people went to Mercer,
Wednesday. Mercer is a nice town
with hundred old maids, but it is the
Fair the boys want to see and some of
them will make music there.
Wonder what the Japs did today, :"
said Butler man as be arrived at this
Office. the other morning. Nothing
yet" said another. "Oh, yes, they did, "
said tie fist, "their day is about over,
It's about P. M. in Manchuria, now.
and their days work is about done.
-Agriculture will be taught in Erie
county schools. The superintendent of
the Waterford schools has a class Of rs.
and a teacher from Wisconsin has been
secured who will spend some time at
7 Waterford and afterwards visit the
other schools.
AT Wesley. Venango county. few
days ago. Robert Jones struck Charles
Marshall on the head with a hammer,
inHicting wound that may cause Mar
shalls death. Marshall attacked Jones
In the latter's house, and is said to have
received just what he deserved.
> "A few of our citizens are just be-
ginning to build. 1t looks late and they
are taking their chances on the wealth
er. but it can be done. In a western
town few days ago lot Of mechanics
built six-room house for one Of then
numbey, in distress. in one day. When
6p.m. came around the house was com
pleted. barring the second coat Of pain
and the skim coat Of plaster, which
everybody has to wait on.
Everybody In Pomeroy, Ohio. wen'
10 the county fair, last Friday, and thu
only persons left in the Court House
were the County Treasurer and on,
County Auditor. upstairs. Two mask
cd men entered the treasurer's Office
held him up. robbed the county safe Of
$4,000 in bills, then bound and gagged
the treasurer and locked him in th'
vault. His daughter discovered his pre-
diciment two hours later, and they hat
great time getting him ont
The persistent appearance of tw'
OF our oldest citizens-both men up II
the seventies-on front seat in tn
Court room at the hearing Of ever
''spicy case" that is tried. has been th
subject Of comment among the attor
neys for some time. The two men d
not sit there with baited breath" 70
they are both Prohibs; and they are no
rejoicing over the dapravity of human
nature for they are both church mem
bers. and yet they miss nothing. The
take it all in and come back for NOR
like lot Of school girls after GOSSIP
and one of our young attorneys
searching his Bacon" for plausibl
explanation.
1t was q courageous and prais,
worthy act on the part of the resolr
lions committee of the teachers inst
tute to speak ont and denounce sue
proceedings as in their judgement wei
not profitable. These meetings CO.
the codnty a good round sum and ever