Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1883-08-15

Somebody slipped into Wick & Clark:
meat market the other day and took five dol
lars in silver fl IN the till.
There will be preaching in the Baptist
church on next Sabbath morning and evening
This being the last of the associational year
all are earnestly requested to be present.
Mr.. B. C. Huselton is already receiving
his stock of goods for fall and winter wear.
Ben always keeps his stock up to the top
notch.
An excursion train on the w. P. & S. R.
R., will leave Butler for the Conneaut Lake
encampment early next Friday morning, and
return that evening.
An exchange offers the following as GER
tain cure for the disease of newspaper borrow
ing: Immediately upon receiving your paper
carefully cut out some item-it makes no diff
ference what it is. The borrowers boy will
come after the paper-he will take it home
within three minutes he will scoot down the
street to the newspaper Office and return with
newspaper of the same date as the one bor-
rowed By the time the clipped paper has cir
culated among the female borrowers, the street
will be alive with hurrying boys. Not one
woman would sleep a wink without knowing
what the cut out item was. Next week pur-
sue the same course and similar results will
follow. In obstinate neighborhoods these pro-
ceedings may last three or four days, but no
female borrowers"
The continuous blowing of the steam whis
ties of the town at half.past five last Thursday
evening, announced to our people that the last
rail on the new railroad, which has been chris
tened the ''West Penn and She
mango Connecting Railroad had
been spiked. The last few rails were run off
and spiked very quickly. A great many Ital-
ians were employed on the road, but all the
spiking was done by Americans, not one
Italian in hundred having strength enough
in him to swing a spiking hammer. 1t will
take week or two to ballast the road and the
company expects to have regular passenger
trains running on it by Monday the 9th, inst.
The distance from Butler to Branchton, in
Slipperyrock township, where the new and
old roads connect, is % miles, to Mercer 80
miles and to Greenvile SO miles. Through
trains will run between Butler and Greenville.
At Greenville connections will be made with
the N. Y. P. & O., and E. & P. railroads, for
points west and north.
Our military company left town last Fri
day noon on a special train on the new rail-
road, and as we have heard nothing to the con-
trary, we take it for granted that they are en-
joying themselves at Conneaut Lake. The camp
grounds are located on the east side of the
Lake, directly back from Oakland Beach and
between the beach and the main road. Bri-
gade headquarters are located on the table
land near the Lake, between Fair Point and
Oakland, splendid site overlooking the en-.
tire Lake, and the troops will occupy the ia.
ble-land from that point to beyond the cross
road leading from Oakland to the main road
The camp is known as Camp Van Horn, in
commemoration of the heroism of Captain Cor
nelius Van Horn, who escaped from hostile
Indians at or near the site of the camp. All
mail matter intended for the camp should be
directed to Camp Van Horn, Evansburg P. O..
Crawford county, Pa. The routine of camp
duty, in which the public are interested is
guard mounting at $50, A. NJ; drill from 9 tc
IL and from to 6, and dress parade at $50, p
NJ The inspection by the Adjutant General
takes place on Thursday and Friday; the
grand review by the Governor at P. NJ. Fri
day, the 18th, and the troops will break camp
Immediately after.