Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1898-06-30
Monday is the glorious Fourth.


The hardware and oil supply stores
now close mt p NJ
All the Barber shops of the town
will be closed ON the 4th
The iron for the cells of the new
Jail arrived this week.
-Picnics, dances and lawn fetes
without end next week
Public reception at the new hospital
tomorrow afternoon and evening.
Now that the new Jail is nearing com
pletion. you had better select your
room.
National Transit Co. employees
picnic at Cascade Park. Wednesday
July 18th.
Some dogs killed six sheep for A. J..
Critchlow of Forward twp last Satur-
day night.
Everybody gets little printing done
occasionally. THE CITIZEN Office is a
good place to buy it.
Either personally or by sight Col.
w. F. Cody is unquestionably the best
known of all living men.
The Relief Fund collected last week
together with the balance of the flag
fund will amount to about $500
The new military company will be
mustered into the service of the State
on Friday evening of next week.
Buffalo Williams show will be here
next Wednesday-an that will be
about the middle of wheat harvest if
the weather is fair
The NJ E. church in North Wash
ington was struck by lightning, and
damaged to the amount of about $3.50,
last Saturday night
The Butler p. O. will be closed next
Monday, July 4th) from noon to p.
IN. The carriers will make the usual
morning deliveries and collections.
Company E of the 18th is becoming
famous. On Saturday last they beat
the regulars by two minutes in loading
and firing 10inch gun.
ALI the County Offices now close at
noon of Saturday, and therefore If you
haye any business in the Court House
Ii
The Bar of Butler Co. will take a
vacation from July 18th to July 2Sth;
and as most of them have promised to
leaye the town,a halo of glory and good
ness will hover over it.
The wheat is changing its color and
will be ready for harvesting in a few
days, if the weather is dry. 1t is look
ing good, but great deal of it was put
down by the heavy rains and storm.
There are eleven hundred horses
and Congress of Rough Riders of the
World. and not a single commonplace
person or inferior creature in the whole
outfit
The store of Conway Kuhn in Mid
dletown was robbed last Thursday
night A number of pairs of shoes, and
some other things were taken. Conway
followed the thieves to Oneida and lost
track of them there.
Part of the 18th Reg. passed
through Pittsburg, last Friday, ON it's
way from Fort Delaware to a Fort in
Michigan Glenn Hutchinson of Butler
is member of Co. Fl of that regiment,
which went to Michigan
The long heralded Beech Greek
Extension promises to become a reality
Contractor Ryan and force of men be-
gan work Mt Carbon Centre, Monday
and fourteen hundred men are at work
between that and the Allegheny, where
the piers are going up at Mosgrove
Station
The election in Evans City Monday
resulted in favor of those favoring
Water Works by majority of seventy
The Council will now bond the town
for about $12,0 900. and put in spring
| water plant on Wallis hill. The vote
was 14S for and 7S against The entire
vote of the town is about 236
Some of the horses with Buffalo
i Bills Wild West seem to be able to do
most everything but talk, and the fa-
nous bucking broncos are addicted to
the use of slang, in what is known a.
! moDg the Indians as sign language. .
Come off is what they very plainly
,hus say to their would-be riders
The Woodmen of the World order
ed very pretty monument for John F
Lane, n member of their Order, who
died last December and it can now be
seen at the shop of F. NJ Renno. II
will be shipped shortly to Middletown
Washington county, where Mr.. Lane il
buried Mrs. Lane is living in Beaver
county
The enormous arena of Buffalo Bill.
Wild West and Congress Of Rough Rid
ers of the World would hold all the
canvases of half dozen circuses at on,
time. The seats are arranged acros
one end and two sides. They have
capacity of 20, 900 and are canopied 8,
that the spectators are protected from
both the sun and rain. Over the aren;
proper where the exhibition is givel
there is nothing but the blue vault o
the'sky, so there are no stakes or pole
to interfere with the free movemen
of the horses, no canvases to be blown
on peoples heads
"A dispatch from Grove city, Mon
day, states that: ''As the result of tn
earnest efforts being put forth by tn
striking coal miners here, over 400 me
who were working last week have bee
induced to stop, all the mines abou
jackson Centre, Stoneboro and Sand
Lake now being idle, while but II me
at work at Hillard. Tents and fixture
from Pittsburg will reach the men thi
week. when the force of campers wi
be about doubled. The names of tn
two camps already instituted have bee
changed to Cawp Dewey and Cam
Sampson, while those to be institute