Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1905-08-10
LOCAL AND GENERAL.


Three women may secret keep
III, az has been said.
One of the lot has heard it not
And the other two are dead.
Get a 'fshine"-its only ) cents
now
Good bill at the Summer Theatre,
this week
Race street and part of New Castle
street being paved
The Bessie r. r. is to be double
tracked through Butler.
Next Monday will be the big day at
Harmony-K. of P. outing.
The new Street Car Co. has opened
an Office on the South Side.
This week put most of the oats in
shock and some of it is already thresh-
ed.
-Boyers No. 50 has new carrier
w. z. Hutchison, with W. A. Sproul as
substitute.
Plant trees, plant plenty Of trees.
Don't do as do but do as say, and
plant rlore trees
Two hundred tickets were sold for
the p. H. c. excursion to Conneaut,
yesterday morning.
In base ball circles Wsynesburg's
def of $1,000 for series of games has
been covered by the Butler club.
Quite q number of Butler people are
at Cambridge Springs and Chautauqua,
but they may be home tomorrow.
The Juniors of the w. Sunbury
Presbyterian church will give lawn
fete and festival, Friday evening.
Stop, Look and Listen" before
you cross railroad There have been
too many crossing accidents lately.
Thieves entered the home Of Ches-
Ter Andrews, near Glade Mills, Sunday
night. and stole some clothing and $50.
The total of the number Of yellow
fever cases in New Orleans and vicinity
ID rapidly reaching the thousand mark
The fremen were called out at 4
o'clock, yesterday morning, by false
alarm. Somebody should be kicked for
IL.
"A lawn-fete will be held at Union
vile church, Unionville, on the even
ing Of the 18th, Tuesday. Everybody
invited.
A New Orleans man, in Pittsburg
last week, said he would rather have
the yellow fever dozen times than ty-
phoid fever once.
The Chinese are the smartest people
on earth. When Chinese laundry
man goes to dinner be puts up the sign
BACK In minutes"
There are but fifteen new cases on
the criminal docket for next Quarter
Sessions. but some important cases were
left over from last term.
Our paper, this week, is filled up
with excursion notices Everybody
who can spare dollar and day will
60 some place, this week or next.
The Butler base ball club is being
boycotted because 1t Ia not In some kind
OF 4 union. Great Scottl Between
trusts and unions what 10 this nation
coming to?
Spring chicken is good-so good
that some people will have it If they
have to steal it. @. II. Leidecker of
the Sd ward had some young chickens
stolen from his coop the other night
The schedule Of Farmers Institutes
az arranged for Western Pennsylvania
gives Butler county four, with four lee
turers for each. as followe-Nov. 27-2S
at Eau Claire; Nov. 1890 at Connoque-
Messing; Dec. IL at Prospect and Dec.
4 at Karns City.
The new road law requires the cleo
ton Of the three supervisors; for one,
two and three years; next February,
they to elect road commissioner. 1t
also makes some ch hanges in the levying
and collecting Of the road taxes; and
provides for report to the State Com
missioner of Roads.
"A child Of Martin Bauer, Of Lincoln
Way. agtd seventeen months, died Mon
day, after an illness lasting over three
weeks. It's death was caused by chol-
era infantum, and not by ''cerebro spi-
nal meningitis in It's most virulent form,
after three days Illness" as mistaken
ly reported by one Of our dalies.
Five fine farmers of Summit twp
bought FIVE fine buggies from fine
young man. paying FIVE and twenty
dollars each for them. In advance. The
FIVE farmers came to Butler one day
last week to claim the five buggies. but
they were not fndable, and the fine
young man had disappeared.
The ball games between the New
York and Pittsburg clubs in the latter
place, last week; and the Taggart di-
vorce case, being tried in Wooster, O..
were the sensations of last week The
ball games were of unusual interest on
account OF the fight for the pennant;
and the other case was the effort Of a
Major in the regular army to secure a
divorce and get his children from fool
wife.
The sale OF the property of the
Evans City Coal Co. by Receiver VIM.
Bishop to John A. Turner of Grove
City was completed. Monday. in this
place. The property includes 359 acres
OF coal In fee, with eight acres of sur
face in addition. The coal vein is one
hundred feet below the surface and is
from 3S to 40 inches in thickness, with
solid slate roof and fire-clay bottom.
The main shaft is 10x14 feet, and the
mine is worked on the double entry sys-
tenn and has $50 yards OF main sntry