Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1906-07-12

The Commercial Hotel is doing a
great business, Every room is occupied
some nights
Even an ice-house will burn, and
Tommy Morrison is out few hundred
by Monday nights fire.
The former Butler county man
whose name has been mentioned in the
Hartje scandal threatens suits.
The Wolverine Oil Co. have some
big oil tanks up at East Butler, and are
grading for very long brick building.
Work on the paving Of several
streets is in progress. w. Wayne st.
will be paved with Butler and Dubois
brick
MIR. Fieldman, the great Socialist
orator, will hold forth near the Court
House, tomorrow and Saturday even
ings Hear him.
| The East Penn ST. people do not
want the cars on their street and have
entered proceedings to have the or
dinance annulled.
When the kids are told to yell 'all
about the robbery and accident, that's
what they yell. The Car Works fur
nishes the daily accident
| There is no remedy for the rose bug
nuisance, excepting covering the plants
| with mosquito bar, or knocking the in
| sects into pan containing some lamp
oil.
The Butler Business College is a
very prosperous institution. Prof. Re
gal secures good positions for his best
graduates, as you will see by reading
his ads.
The Derrick's oil report gives the
South Penn's well on the Andy Fehl
ninety bbls. per day, and the Winona
Cos. on the Goodgasel % bbls.-the two
best IN the county.
Butler has the automobile fever,
every week some one gets new one.
Edward Huselton. Clark Culberson, DR..
Atwell and W. II. Larkin are among
the latest autoists.
Riley Howey, farmer living near
Wooster. Ohio, tried a sauerkraut diet |
ou his hogs. He put several gallons Of
it in the trough. Two hours later 10 of |
his porkers were dead.
The County Commissioners. yester-
day, awarded the contract for the
masonry of the McFann bridge to
FL. N. Henan, and for the Bonnie Brook |
bridge to the Winters Co.
To destroy smut in your corn field
wash the seed before planting IN So
luton Of one gallon of water and half
an ounce of formaline. Do not let the
seed soak, and spread it ont and let dry |
thoroughly before planting.
The telephone system of the New
Nixon was put in by the Peoples COM
pany and it works perfectly. Sixty
rooms are provided with telephones,
and girl will preside at the office
switchboard.
Someone suggests that Butler let
the professional baseball team go, and
depend on the College boys, at home for
vacation, to see the game p'sJe,: = it |
should be- There is lots of first class |
baseball material in Butler if it is only |
x;xrnv, q ohapco RI deveIon
Major Miller and two friends of
Franklin, Pa. took trip with his big
war balloon, from Franklin few days
ago and landed near Emlenton. They
enjoyed the trip, and at one time saw
over quite section of four counties.
Ballooning promises to succeed auto
mobiling as the rich mans fad.
According to State Superintendent
Schaeffer's Interpretation of the school
laws, any township that does not have
township High school must pay the |
tuition of scholars who have passed the
district school and wish to enter High |
school, even If the High school is in an
other county.-Ex
-Lyndora is such a nice quiet place.
A boarder spanked his boarding house
mistress the other day for not setting
up better grub and is now in jail on
charge of assault and battery; and
hubby tried the same on his wife and Is
now in the hospital nursing razor
slash, while the wife is in Jail.
-Waldamere Park, where so many
of our W. 0. W. brethren are today is
one Of the grandest spots on earth. 1t
| is a heavily wooded tract along the
lake, about four miles west of the cen
tire Of Erie. The charm of the place is
the lake-f front, from where, any sum-
mer evening. one can see the sun sink
below the hill of water-a very pretty
sight on clear evening.
The best story teller on the Dia-
mond is young and truthful attorney.
He fold story the other night about
yiscious dog, which attacked and killed
hog, and then made one meal of it,
The story was applauded, and the young
attorney started for home delighted
with his success, but was called back
| by another who said, Say, Jim, if you
don't really care, John and | would
rather not believe that story.
Mrs Lille M. Coad, nee McGarvin
and said to have been a native of this
county, was shot to death by her form
er husband at Warrington, w. Va, on
Friday, the Goth ult, by Jas. L. Coad,
, who at the same time shot man nam
ed Williams, and then killed himself.
! Coad deserted his wife, who sued for a
divorce and got it, and then kept a
boarding house. Three children of 8,
| II and 10 years are left orphans by the
tragedy.
One Of the prettiest spots along the
Allegheny is the point at Mosgrove
where the B. r. 81 p crosses the river,
and also the Valley r. r. and it is here
0 that Fl. B. Mckinney, native of this
q county, has built an ideal summer no:
g tel, the advantages of which are set
( forth in card in another column. Ii
. is spacious and well appointed build
,por NTH cyNrinnr xrator IN auaru ronry,