Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1905-07-27

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. CTTIZEN Office. and persons making puoii
sales their note books.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
The chronic kicker cuts no ice.
Court adjourned till September.
Just four weeks till the Butler Fair
The season for trout ends July 31st
All these days are fine to the bare
foot boy.
Don't forget the Fair dates, Angus
g. 90, "a and 25.
The County Home is ten miles NJ
the hill on hot day.
-'Tempus fugit'-that is. as has
been remarked before, '-fy-time.
Beaver county capitalists have
way of their own of fixing things.
West Clay street with its asphalt
paving will be one of the prettiest II
town.
About 300 Butterflies took in the c.
M. B. A. picnic at Conneaut Lake,
Tuesday.
Fine day for the picnic, and every.
body got gay and went. That free cof-
fee did it.
The Sunny side of Life" and the
sunny side of the street, are two differ
things, these days.
Butler county people like to "go.
Fifteen hundred of them went to the
lake, last Thursday.
Green corn from neighboring farms
is coming to market, and bringing
about 90 cents dozen.
Butler has hump" project on
hands. The hump in the Cleeland and
Cherry alleys should be graded.
Every one who missed the fair last
year has regretted it ever since Don't
make the same mistake this year.
The water Of spring near Maharg
In Penn twp. is blamed for putting six
people to bed with typhoid fever.
Two many children are being burn
ed to death by bonfires Keep the kids
away from open fires. and the match
boxes.
Write; plainly. Whether the word
was intended for cor" or ''eo" in the
Forquer will is supposed to be Of con-
sequence.
All the preliminary work for the
Butler Pittsburg trolly line has been
completed aud the contracts will soon
be awarded.
Give Whatever countensuce and
help you can to every movement and in
stitution that is working for good. Be
not sectarian.
The camp boys came home in the
rain Saturday evening. In this militia
~ business there's difference between
going and coming.
"A shortage Of $4,000 in the &C
counts of the late Treasurer of New
Castle is being investigated This
time, however. nobody was killed.
Our Town Council made hasty
trip to Warren, o., to see soIae asphalt
paving, last Friday; got home that
evening and awarded contract for
some Of it.
= Homer e-made noodles were the great
luxury OF the late camp on Lake Erie,
: and will now be added to the regular
army rations. They are good in houses
as well as tents.
The 10 normal schools of the State
have held their commencements for the
year, graduating over 1000 teachers.
Some of the schools had very large
classes, breaking the record.
"A Centre twp. farmer phoned Sher-
if Gibson for his dogs Friday morning,
saying that Last night some mean,
low, contemplate cur, had stolen his
hay-rope, and he would give $50 for his
arrest"-but the dogs are at Titusville.
"A man in one of our neighboring
counties came into court with his head
cut and bruised, inflicted by his wife.
The Judge asked what kind Of an i'm
plement she had used and the man re-
piled that it was with the framed mot
TO. sGod Bless Our Home"
The lines Of the new Independent
Telephone Co. of Slipperyrock will con-
meet that town with West Liberty,
Prospect, West Sunbury. Hallston,
Branchton, Anandale, North Washing
ton, North Liberty. Grove City, Mercer,
Harlansburg, New Castle and Butler.
Supervisors Shearer and Plobner OF
Butler twp. address letter to the citi
zens of the township, asking them to
join in the movement to haye the state
improve the roads of the township
The state now offers to pay 6-Sths oi
the cost. the other two-eights to be PAID
by the county and township. and But
Ter twp should be the first in the coun
ty to secure all she can get.
The Crawford county Court House
now managed by our old fellow towns
man Maben Lowman Is one of the mic
est, pleasantest and coolest places ir
Meadville. and all Butler county peopl,
in passing through the town should &c
up to the square and call upon him; bu
the jail is an old and ricketty looking
affair, and the State Board of Charitie
says it is the worst in the state.
-s'If had been on that jury. ant
had been offered $500 to keep the yer
dict over $500. 900, I would have takel
the money, put it in an envelope ant
handed it to the Court, with my expla
nation" said one man, 1T was too lit
tie for SO large verdict, but if he ha
given me 5000, I would have put it il
my pocket"-so runs the world away.
-Minnesota comes to the front wit
the greatest fish story of the season
They have a well in that state ths