Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1905-08-03
LOCAL AND GENERAL.

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LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Evening red and morning gray
Will set the farmer to making hay:
Evening gray and morning red
Will pour down rain upon his head.
The Phillips Gas Co. has raised tn,
price to Is cents thousand.
-Cloudbursts and washouts have
done considerable damage lately.
According to tradition the alleged
dog-days begin July Sd and end Aug
11th.
Advertising is an art that pays
Few things are 30 profitable when well
done.
The Street Car Co. is making a IA
foot cut on their grade to the Fail
Ground.
1t requires 80 years to grow maple
shade trees a foot in diameter. Nc
wonder trees are valuable.
The Union Cemetery Association OF
Eau Claire and venango twp. will ap-
ply for charter See notice.
Some of the houses of Valencia are
to be moved back to accommodate the
new trolly. which will parallel the rail
road there.
Many talked of statue or painting
has been explained to mean this or that
and duly admired when it meant moth
ing whatever.
1T has been announced by scientists
that this year in the United States the
greatest number of flies ever annoying
the inhabitants will appear.
A threshing machine with traction
engine and wind-stacker costs $1S75 90.
Jos. Elliott of Petrolia bought one, the
other day, from G. c. Johnston.
What with mosquitoes and sere-
naders some people on w. Pearl and
Bluff streets, that we might mention,
got but little sleep last Friday night.
notwithstanding the wet weather
our farmers generally got their hay and
wheat up in good shape, but the oats is
down, and in bad shape for harvest
Ing.
Some Of our farmers have their oats
up in good shape. They thought, at
first. that they would have to pick up
each straw and clip it of with the scis-
sors. but it wasn't 30 bad AZ it looked.
Potatoes bid fair to become a drug
on the market before next fall All of
the western states have fine crops Of
spuds, and the consumer will profit by
the low prices even If the producer
doesn't.
! The prevalence Of cholera infantum
suggests the publishing Of the old Sci
entific American remedy for it. ie..
wrapping the child's body with a wool
en- cloth that has been soaked or moist
ened in liquor
"A farmer with load Of hay upset
ct the crossing Of Main and Jefferson
streets, Tuesday noon, blocking, for a
time. all the street car traffic. The
wheel of the wagon probably caught in
the curved track there.
While Jacob and Martin Long of
Jackson twp. and all the family were
in the hay field. few days ago, thieves
in waiting, broke open the house and
ransacked 1t securing five pocketbooks
containing about $500 In ALL
1t Is an old saying that wheat that
has had some rain on it after being put
in shock makes better -four than the
wheat that has escaped rain. Flour
makers may be able to give satisfactory
answer as to whether the old saying is
correct.
The new route from Butler TO Pitts
burg, landing you at the Union station
is interesting That bridge at Aspin-
wall is an immense affair, and from il
the new road rises over the hills and
then drops to the main line near the
city limits.
The epidemic Of yellow fever al
New Orleans Is being spread by the
mosquitoes-at least some people think
90. These insects will get into house
no matter how well it is screened, and
the best way to kill them is to burn sui
pher in the closed room.
Seven hundred tickets were sold a
the station here for the w. o. w. ex
cursion to Erie, yesterday morning. ani
In all about eight hundred people went
Rumors Of wreck spread over th,
town that morning. but there was moth
ing Of 1t. A large number Of citizens
also went on the excursion to Rocl
Point.
The confusion of trenches, tubes
overhead carriers, lumber, etc. on the
the river, just above Aspinwall, mean
that they are building the plant ther
for the alteration of the water suppl,
Of Pittsburg, but only the artists ant
contractors can tell what it will lool
like and how 1t will work when com
pleted.
Samuel Shipley, IA years old, an,
Denzil Graham. II years old, are in jai
at Cadiz, O. charged with placing angl
irons and linchpin between the raj
joints on the railroad track In an al
tempt to wreck the Cadiz branch train
The boys are alleged to have said the
had never seen railroad wreck an
wanted to see one. The train passe
over the distractions safely.
The local baseball team took Brui
into camp, II to A, last Thursday. FIR
day. with Witherup in the box, the
shut out the fast Washington, Pa. Co
]egians. 80. Saturday. with Harkir
In the box, they were defeated b
Washington. 3-2. Monday the Indian
team arrived for two games. Ths
afternoon the home players playe
"dopy' and Witherup was hit hard, til
visitors winning. IA. Tuesday E
Marshall held the visitors safe until tb