Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1905-08-17

Wicks Sale.
r. g. Rs locals.
Devoe Paint
Adminfstr ators and Executors OF estates
can secure their receipt BOOKS AZ Wy
CITIZEN ONCE. and persons making puone
sales their note books
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Next week is Fair week.
August %. %, "a and 25.
Show posters ON the Court House!
The soap habit is now found to be
injurious to the skin.
Next week is Fair week and every
BODY hopes it will be a fair week.
The baker sells rye with kimmel in
IT: the barkeeper sells rye with hin,mel
in it.
Give your farm nice name and
paint it and your own maine on your
barn.
It's easier to collect crowd than it
ia to collect money from delinquent sub
scribers.
The eclipse of the Moon was total
Monday night-tEe clouds did 1t FOR
this section.
The mercury was but SO last Sun
dav. but az the air was still, the heat
was oppressive.
There is tremendous yield OF po-
tatoes, this year. but the wet weather
is causing them to rot.
Unless you are six-feet-six there Is
no use of your applying for a position
on the State police force.
A total eclipse Of the sun will be
visible in this city on August 3Oth. start
ing at 5:29 o'clock in the morning and
ending at 7:20.
On some of the straight or nearly
straight stretches Of P. r. r. road be-
tween Pittsburg and Chicago the spe-
cial travels over mile minute every
day.
A four-foot blacksnake was killed
ON s. NJ Wilson's vacant lot on w. JEFF
ferson street and five-foot house snake
was killed at John Wagner's place on
Monroe street. last Thursday.
-Seedless apples. stoneless prunes'
crowless ROSTERS and the rest OF those
wonders of cultivation are outdone by
the Denver man who claims to have
bred chickens that are all white meat.
A man uamed Surrena of Grove
CITY became 80 confused on our Streets
Tuesday night, that he could not find
his hotel until next morning. and then
stated that he had been robbed OF $l2O.
The man who is SO happily situated
that he enjoys himself better at nome
than away, should not take vacation.
Neither should the man who wants to
become millionaire lose any time ID
ling about summer resort
A man residing at Norrisville, Pa,
has murdered his son because "he was
Of NO use to him" The Oil City Biz
zard thinks that ''were all fathers who
have useless sons to emulate his exam
pie there would be boom in the under
taking business.
Members of the Rescue Hook and
Ladder Co. who attended the Bradford
tournament, last week, telegraphed
home to the Fire Committee Of Council
for leave to purchase four-wheeled
hose cart offered for sale by the Brad
ford department. The request was
granted, money sent and the cart is now
In Butler. They paid but 800 and the
cart is said to be worth about $500.
Are you troubled with fiies2 Twen-
ty drops of carbolic acid eyaporated
from a hot shovel will Danish flies
from a room quicker than all the sticky
hy paper ever manufactured. But
be careful Of the carbolic acid and don't
let the children get at it. A small piece
of camphor gum held over lamp will
do the work equally as well,
The grape crop along the Lake
Shore district promises to be the largest
in years; the vines are simply loaded
and the clusters are large and splendid
ly formed. Very little disease of the
vine and fruit has been reported thus
far, and unless some unforeseen damage
occurs the grape crop for 1905 will be a
record-smasher both in quantity and
quality.
-Conneaut Lake has become a very
popular place with Butterflies. About
five hundred of our people went there
with the Mason's excursion last Thurs
day, and some stayed over until Sunday
evening. The big hotel there sold 800
dinners at rs cents each that days and
sets up a very ordinary meal The
bathing and boating are the attractions
of the place. The Special that left the
lake last Sunday evening at O'Clock
consisted of seven coaches, all filled.
The First aud Foremost, Modern
and Most Enterprising, Comprehensive,
Complete and Carefully Conducted Fair
of Western Pennsylvania. Brilliant,
Bswildering and Beautiful; Biggest,
Brightest and Best. The Butler Fair
this year will provide Entertainment,
Amusement and instruction for the
thousands who will throng the grounds
You can't afford to miss this Fair. Make
your plans now to attend.
The Pennsylvania experiment sta
ton at State College has examined a
sample of bran submitted by West
moreland county farmer with state
ment that cattle refuse to eat it, and
when they do eat it are purged, and
that hogs eating it sicken and die, one
farmer in that county having lost SIX
hogs in this way. Upon examination
the bran was found to contain rice
hulls.
People who were puzzled as to the
meaning Of the billboard standing