Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1906-10-04
LOCAL AND GENERAL.

LOCAL AND GENEKAL.
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-"Gotyerpreacheryet.
Milk is now cents quart
-"Didyouhearofany ymoreightsT'
Mars has several czses of typhoid
Butler drug stores now close at
pm.
Saturday is the last day for paying
taxes in order to get vote.
The assessment valuations. this
year, will be startling-so tbs said.
The East Butler Improvement Co
will build hundred houses this Fall
Two hundred people attended the
Samuel Badger reunion in Concord twp.
Tuesday.
At the Majestic, last Friday even
ing the amateurs sized up with the pro-
fessionals.
Butler continues to boom. an air
brake factory and an automobile -facto-
ry are projected
: Some of the theatrical pc pie, here
last week. took sick, and the troupe are
in Butler, this week, taking rest.
The Concord Township High School
at Middletown will be dedicated to-
morrow, the 5th. Miss Mary Marshall
will be principal.
"A reunion will be held at the home
of Henry BeiRhey in Lancaster twp. /,
Wednesday. October 10th. in honor OF
his S0th birthday.
A hundred Butler firemen are at
Gettysburg. today. and so1e Of them
will probably take in the York Co. Fair
and Harrisburg dedication. tomorrow.
"A social will De held on Friday
evening, October ., at 7:S0, in the
Simpson school honse. An excellent
program has been arranged. All are
invited.
Quite a number Of our building con-
tractors are bidding on the 30 houses =
tir-. blocks Of ten each that the East
Butler Land 60. intends erecting imme-
dieteIy, and for which the contracts are
- be awarded tonight.
-E. H Kerner. a tobacconist OF
Evans City. harvested about 1000
pounds Of leaf tobacco, this yer. from
his farm in that vicinity. and says that
the plant can be made TO earn from $s5
to $f2J an acre. in this county.
The new car-wheel foundry and the
bolt and nut works on the grounds OF
the-Steel Car 90. will be ready for ope-
ration in abont month, but the pro-
posed psssenger-coach plant ma not be
built here on account Of the lack OF
room.
=. G. Kuntz. farmer Of near Clar-
ion. got drunk In that town last We'd
sesdsy evening and was arrested He
was ared NEXT morning and vert home
and on Friday morning blew his brains
out. leaving family Of ten children,
the Oldest Of whom is 16 years.
AT Pittsburg. Monday. a drunken
man threw bis boy over the railing OF
bridge into the Monongahala river and
then followed the boy over the railing
into the water. The boy drowned, and
the father was ished ont alive, but next
morning knew nothing about 1t.
Walter HoIlefreund had potato
patch on piece Of ground a short dis
tance south OF Cottage Hill. Saturday |
be lifted the crop and piled up 45 bush
sle Of potatoes TO haul In Monday. Sun
day morning he went out to look at
them and found that some needy neigh
Dor had taken possession Of them dur
ing the night. A few bushels that the
thieves could not haul away were found
hidden in the McCandlesg wood.
Since the corn has been c1t the /
fields appear yellow with pumpkins.
The country Is full Of them-and there
are few OF them In town, too. and big |
onss al that. A big one on iot on W.
Pearl st. may lead to some legal CON-
plications, ar the foots OF the vine are
on one mans lot and the pumpkin on
another mans. The two men w II have
no trouble dividing the monster itself,
but both men claim the glory OF raising
Il. OF course. no long a. the pumpkin
continued az real estate with tbs roots
attached to lot Of No. he clair led the
whole glory Of It's production. but the
owner Of lot No. slipped ovsr and
pulled up the roots. which turnei 1t by
equitable conversion" or otherwise
into personally. and gave No. ne best
Of the argument. If any Limb OF the
Law In Butler knows Of any Supreme
Court decision ON the Division OF Glory