Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1904-08-25

Admiuistr avors and Executors of estate
can secure their receipt books at tn
CITIZEN Office. and persons making pubii
sales their note hooks.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
School begins Sept. 8.
This is Orphans Home Day.
Dog days ended last Monday.
~. A. Mcdowell builds dandy step
in cement.
AN Ohio cutlery firm is looking TO
new location.
--St. Louis had tornado as well al
. Fair day, last week.
"Heavy floods in Arizona was th'
most novel headline in yesterdays dai
lies.
-Troutman has q merry -go-round
this week. and it is doing a good bust
mess.
There's large crop Of wild par
snips, down the creek, that ought to bt
harvested.
Some fellows are going around after
night, IN Winfield twp. clipping the
horses tails.
-President Ramsey of the Wabash
has ordered five-hundred cars from the
Works here
w. +. Marshall and Sheriff Gibson
have purchased the Burton grocery at
11e w. jefferson st.
The ladies of Grace Lutheran
church will have an ice cream and
lunch counter at the Fair
The Park Institute of Allegheny,
managed by Butler county boys. sends
us an adv this week. Read it.
The Lancaster county tobacco
fields were pounded by hail. last week,
and the loss was put at $500, 600.
The drugstore fuss has reached
Pittsburg, the Sabbath Observance As
sociation is after the Sunday sellers.
5-Connellsville has 70 cases OF typhoid
from using we'll water. Epidemics OF
typhoid are being reported from all di-
rections
The little Rocky Fords arrived in
Butler. last Friday, and sold at two for
twenty-five cents; but they are not 70
dear now.
The Crystal Pharmacy, on Main
st.. oppo,-s The Hotel Lowry, will take
charge Of your packages, on Fair Day,
free of charge.
DIR. Martin Of Philadelphia favors
the use Of copper utensils in the kitch-
=. He says they kill typhoid germs,
and are not DANGEROUS.
Jupiter Pluvius or the weather
man, was real mean to the North
Washington graduates, last Friday, and
- the county school teachers next day.
Part Of our edition of last week was
delayed few hours by an accident to
our press; and we are under obligations
10 our neighbors of the Herald for the
use Of theirs.
Fifty or sixty business and profes-
sionaI men found It necessary to go to
Pittsburg, Tuesday there was dou-
bic header between the New York and
Pittsburg teams
The eight Foresters of Butler. to-
gether with the lodges OF Kittanning
and Ford City. held picnic at the
Park. Tuesday, and it did not rain.
The hoodoo is broken.
The will be a public sale at F. h.
Neeley's in Penn twp. on Tuesday.
Sept. 9th. consisting of a horse, COW,
chickens. farming utensils and house
hold goods Sale positive.
The season IL three weeks late, this
year, and one wonders where the vege-
table display for the Fair is coming
from, but we hear OF a pumpkin ''as big
as . barrel" on the Raseley farm west
Of town.
As each county In Pennsylyania Ii
10 have place in the new State Capi
tol, for the statute Of one of its distin'
guished citizens, it is time some inter
est was being taken in the matter in
Butler county
The branch railroad from Summer
Vile on the Pennsylvania low-grade t.
Clarion was completed, last week, ant
the contractor received present Of
go, 600 from the people Of that towr
for completing the road before Sept. 1st
Tuesday morning either king fish
er or crane few over town from nortf
TO south, closely pursued by hawl
and from its cries evidently in distress
Near the Court House two little martini
came to the rescue and soon had Mr.
Hawk seeking relief from their attack
high up in the air. while the Gran,
found safety in the creek valley.
"A physician gives directions il
handling splinter which are wei
worth remembering: When splinte
has been driven.deeply into the hand j
can be extracted without pain by steam
Nearly fill q wide-mouthed bottle wit
hot water. place the injured part owe
the mouth Of the bottle and press tight
ly and in minute or two the steam
will extract both the splinter and in
flammation.
"A car load Of bananas and melon
came to town. last Saturday, and tina
evening there was 'blood on the moon.
The sale of bananas at cents dozen
watermelons at 10cts and cantaloupes a
10 cents basket was very offensive t
our dealers. The car that the stui
came in was direct from the Florida o
seaboard line; and it was probably
csse Of the Pittsburg market bein
pverstocked, and the sale Of the stuff
pay freight
The war against the billboard no
sance goes on with unceasing vigor an