Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1906-08-09

Bricker's Livery.
Excursions.
Administrators and Executors OF estate:
can secure their receipt books at tht
CITIZEN Office.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
TERMS: $3.50 Per Year
If paid in advance. Loo
Each subscriber, by consulting the
little tab on his paper, can tell the date
to which his subscription is paid
Butler schools open Sept 4th-
Get the kids vaccinated in time for
school
Two and half cents is the latest
railroad rate.
To the pure all things are pure, ex-
cept canned goods.
1t il New York clergyman who
proposes church roof gardens.
Fifty Butler people bought tickets
for Atlantic City, last Thursday.
The K. o. T. NJ excursion took 800
Butterflies to Erie, yesterday morning
None of the Kittanning lawyers got
taste of bad water" in Butler. Tues
day
In some countries criminal prosecu-
tious always follow fatal railroad acci-
dents
The alleged horn-swoggling pho
tographer wasn't such bad fellow al
ter ALL
Wet paint as test Of human curl
osity has a rival in the broken chewing
gum slot.
AT late wedding near Chicora
the table was left piled high with all
sorts of tinware.
Some more up-country boys are IN
trouble from trying to wreck trains by
placing stones on the track.
Twenty men working on the big
cofferdam at Aspinwall, were made un-
conscious by bolt of lightning, Tues
day.
The pretty boquet in the CITIZEN
Office, this week. is made up of Hey
drick's gladiolas- of them seed
lings.
Alands tailoring room, the Jeffer-
son street fruit market. residence OF l..
M. Wise, have lately been entered at
night.
The prevalence of typhoid-fever is
annoying the people of Pittsburg. The
record for the first half of this year is
2,491 cases
The mercery stood near 100 in the
shade on Main street, last Sunday after
noon. and the day was considered the
hottest we have had.
The Common Council of New Cas-
tie held mp the franchise for the Pitts
burg, New Castle and Butler franchise
for time and then granted it.
The increase in postal receipts
moves an editor to remark that ma
tion's happiness and prosperity can be
measured by the letters it writes.
About twenty teams were at work
at East Butler last week grading for
the buildings Of the bed-stead works
and the Valvoline or Wolverine refine
ry.
The dates and places selected for
the next Farmers Institutes in this
county are Connoquenessing, Jan. 7-S;
Sargersville, 9-10, and Eau Claire, H.
~.
1t costs only hundred thousand a
year to keep the Pittsburg Court House
CLEAN If it cost half million the tag
payers would. probably. kick, but Pitts
burg Ia such dirty town.
I'm almost every large town In the
country people have been killed and
prostrated by the heat, this week But
has been hot enough but nobody has
as vet. succumbed to the heat.
There are some pike left in the
Slipperyrock Oliver Brown has caught
nine this summer. one Of which weighed
"A pounds Jonathan Morrow has had
OFT, Martin Eyth 3, and A. Cooper OF
A. The favorite fishing place is called
.'Elliott's Hole"
The stiffness of last Sunday morn
ing was broken into by the fire alarm
Some straw in an annex of the corrod
ing house was burning and made
great flame, and firemen played thre,
streams on it for sometime before i
quit
--The body. of John Bell. the old MAJ
who died at the County Home. wa
claimed by relatives and buried at Wes
sunbury. The requirement of the Law
in such cases is that the body be claim
ed by relatives Two Butler men VIII
offered to bury him were refused per
mission TO 90 so.
The Pittsburg- Butler trolley peopl
say they will have their cars runnin
by October 1st. The stations along th
thirty seven miles Of line from Butle
will be Renfrew, Mars, Valencii
Bakerstown, Allison Park, Glensha'
and Etna. landing rassingers at Libert
and Market streets.
During the late electric storm
lightning struck the electric wires Of
building and passed from one Of thei
to the water-pipe making halt inc
hole in the water pipe through whic
the water poured. The wires we
properly insulated but were placed II
close to the water pipe If it had bee
gas pipe the bolt would have fred Il
house
4 Lady reader gives us the followir
receipt for preserving sweet corn. .whit
produces an article superior to both Il
canned and dried products Boil COZ
on ear till milk sets. cut from cob al
mix thoroughly with salt at the rate
one pint of salt to four Of corn; pack
jar and cover with cloth and plate. 81
4 T. II