Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1906-06-14
LOCAL AND GENERAL.


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This is flag day.
June is shy on legal holidays
This is School Day at the Park
The country is beautiful just now.
Next Thursday will be the longest
day.
Phillips & Co.'S. new electric sign is
beauty
Our flag was adopted 100 years ago,
June IA, 1777.
Greater Pittsburg will be the 9th
city in the union.
Butler Schools will have sixtynine
teachers, next winter
Wool is bringing in the neighbor-
hoo1 of 30 cents per pound
We are now enjoying one OF the
most pleasant months on the year.
The colored gentlemen who secured
the job, are catching dogs these days.
Our local industries are all in ope-
ration, and times locally are very good.
TO the farmer and gardener tickle
the earth with a hoe and make things
grow.
The outlook for a heavy fruit crop,
of all kinds. in the county is said to be
bright.
The Western Allegheny is to have
passenger trains running in about
month.
Gasoline engines can use alcohol
instead of gasoline with no material
change.
Fine homegrown strawberries are
in market this week The crop is said
to be good.
Two teamsters were fined ten
dollars each. Monday, for not taking
out licenses.
Lawns about town present beau
tiful appearance since the rains freshen-
ed up the grass.
"A local grocer, recently married,
inserted the following adv. in a paper:
Wanted, boy"
George Mardorf has moved his re-
pair shop to the old postoffice building,
next door to Eyth's book store.
according to Chicago physician
strawberries cause insanity. We have
observed the craze for them
Walking on the railroad tracks is
always dangerous. as was again illus
trated at Gallery. last Saturday night
The newest shirt-waist. said to be
q bunch of holes surrounded by EN-
broidery, is called the Swiss Cheese. +"
The farmers of Clinton. jefferson
and adjoining townships are now
shipping milk to East Pittsburg on the
Bessie"
The transatlantic steamships have
become 30 infested with gamblers that
all the companies have had to post warn
ings against them
Its an ill-wind that blows nobody
good-the Car Works was full of water
last Thursday. and the bar-rooms were
full of car workers
A city woman who took the silence
cure for her nerves broke ont in rash
but her husband who suffered from
headache. recovered.
Grass and fall grain in this section
look good but corn. oats potatoes, ETC.,
were badly washed out in many places
by the late heavy rains.
Iron beams in porch roof lis nov
city for Butler. John s. Campbell uses
sthem in his new front porch, to support
q new second-storY bay window.
Il In Washington county, last week,
girl was saved from mad dog by
COW, which charged the dog, tossed 1T
with her horns and trampled it to death.
Fishermen claim that Lake Erie
has become vast breeding ground for
the obnoxious German carp and in a
few years all the food fish may be killed
out.
On Saturday last by vote Of IA to
g., the Grand Jury Of Butler county
agreed to the plans for remodeling the
Court House-the cost not 10 exceed
$4,000,
Railroad officials who saved $,5, 900
ayear on salary Of $3.50 month, ex-
hibited the same remarkable economy
possessed by late State Senator from
Crawford county.
Even in England they have their
beef scandals that make vegetarians. A
butcher in Farringdcn road, LONDON,
sdvertises: Wanted, respectable boy
Cor beef ssusages. p-Ez
During row between the Italians
and Turks working on the new trolley
near Bakerstown. Monday, an Italian
shot and killed Turk named Rustem
Seme; and wounded one named Usef
Feto.
-The vaccination aot has been de.
ciared constitutional. and Chief Justice
Mitchell in handing down his opinion
also stated that the teacher has a right
to send home all unvaccinated pupils.
and should do 80.
Benson creek. Kentucky, was full
of fish, last week but is not so now.
Fifteen thousand gallons of whiskey
from collapsed warehouse, ran inso il
the fish got drunk and the people raked
them out and took them home by the
basketfulL
The dates set for the musical concerts
and recitals by the Davises of Pittsbure
are as foIloya. Saxon Station NJ II