Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1905-06-22
LOCAL AND GENERAL.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Good minstrel troupe at the Park
this week
Annual examinations at Slippery
rock Normal, this week.
Only ten weeks to the Fair, an'
summer just started.
Dining room girls are scarce. Al
our hotels are short on girls at present
The Majestic is being furnished
with new and more commodious seats
The strike in Chicago continues III
recorl-it is settled one day, and some
body is killed the next.
A wise doctor has just discovered
that love is disease that can be cured
by the proper medicine.
The Odd Fellows will lay the
Cornerstone of their new building dur
ing the first week of July.
The annual donation day for the
Zelienople Orphans Farm School will bt
held next Thursday. June 80.
Ninety in the shade" causes long
lists Of deaths and prostrations from
heat to appear in the city papers
The Octogenarians will have an ad
iourned meeting on Saturday. June "a
at 9 o'clock, in Y. NJ G. A. rooms.
These are the days when multiply
ing bugs and growing weeds remind
. the farmer that he is guilty of original
sin.
The property occupied by the W.
u. r. Co. on Fifth Ave, Pittsburg. late
ly changed hands at nearly $4,000 the
foot front.
Men owe more gratitude to their
fellows than they realize. Think OF the
large number of people who might
write poetry but don't.
During the downpour of last Fri
day evening the storm-sewer on lower
Elm street bursted. damaging the paw
lag to the extent of about $500.
The assistant counsel for the 'fel.
lows in Allegheny" paid the costs, $3l2
il the sixteen cases of the mysterious
Hay Phillips against the Pittsburg pa
pers, last week.
A cloud-burs over the Evergreen
valley. along the plank road. did some
damage, Tuesday evening. Girtys
run for time was raging torrent, e
feet deep.
Lecture by Rev. Purvis of Grove
City. at Academy Hall, Carbon Black,
next Tuesday evening; and commence
ment exercises of Cabot Institute, Fri
day evening at 8 o'clock.
High c6:.sars are no longer fashion
able, during hot weather. for the rea-
son that they are liable to agitate youl
pneumogastric nerves, which are locat
ed somewhere in your perithrottle
curves.
The regulation r. f. d. mailboxes
cost from 80 cents to s.. and the 2. o.
department insists that such boxes bt
used. The irregular or disapprovet
boxes in the county are now being re
ported.
ALI Clinton twp. was in Butler
Saturday, on another road case. Thes'
cases usually start in the lower cour
and 60 up higher. but this time the
complainants went the limit. and left
the whole matter to the Judgment OF
Esq. Keck.
The J. S. Campbell Hose Co. had {
house warming, Tuesday evening, tt
celebrate their entrance into their new
quarters in the Younkins building OF
North st. Several hundred guests at
tended and greatly enjoyed the hospi
tality of the fire laddies.
A six-inch frontage on Main street
Butler, running back $50 feet. and con
tanning in all ninety square # changed
hands last week for s10OO-the highes
price ever paid for property in th'
county. The Miller bcys owned it ant
Cypher wanted thence the price
An electrical storm. seen from
safe distance. is a beautiful sight. On
passed over the country about five mile
to the southeast of Butler last Sunda
night, and the bolts Of lightning, a
seen from here, passed from the lowe
clouds to those above them, making al
kinds Of pretty pictures.
sioners of Allegheny county in adopting
widetires for all wagons that are t
use the county roads means that every
effort will be made to protect the i'm
proved highways. Whether the rule
as to the various widths will prov
what is needed time alone can tell.
Its an i'll wind that blows nobod
good" The recent hot wave vanquisl
ed the epidemic of spinal-meningitis
the tenement section of NewYor Sine
the first of the year cerebro spinal meI
ingitis has taken 1907 lives in Ne
York city, of which LIZA or more tina
70 per cent were of children under
years.
AT the meeting of Council, Tuesds
evening, the contract for paving pa
of E. Penn, with Butler brick W,
awarded to Mr.. Schaffner, and an ord
nance for paying E. Diamond st. ws
adopted The borough treasury
empty, at present, on account Of ia
collections being slow, and the Counc
decided to borrow $4,000
This is the season of danger fro
lightning. The Scientific Americs
says if you are afraid of lightning. he
is very simple safeguard to remembe
Simply put on your gum shoes or ru
bers and then stand up so that yo
clothes won't touch anything, wheth
you are indoors or out Of doors, you a
perfectly safe, for rubber is q nonco
ductor, and you are perfectly insulate
The sun will reach its northe,