Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1899-06-22

Professional card, Black & McJunkin
Excursion.
Adminisrr auors and Executors of estate
can secure their receipt books at the ClIl
ZEN office. and persons making public sale
their note books.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Ninety in the shade is hot.
Large crowd at the lawn fete.
Home grown berries in market.
Pipe Line picnic, Wednesday, July
18th.
-Tarentum camp-meeting Aug. II
to 20.
The dining table and chair trust is
the latest
New ''Shelter-stations" along the
Butler Branch.
The First Ward Hose Co realized
about $7j on their picnic.
If your kidneys are weak. you want
to read that big adv. on 4th page.
-Railroad engineers are again sur
veying line from Gallery to Rochester.
Green corn and black berries from
the sunny south" are in market here
On Thursday last the mercury
ranged in the eighties and next day in
the forties.
The whole county seems to be be-
having itself its mighty hard on
the newspaper men.
The P. W. dates for Atlantic City
are July 13 & 81, and Aug. 10 & "a.
Tickets good Is days, $40.
The Springoale Hose Co. holds a
lawn fete beginning this evening and
continuing Friday and Saturday even
ings.
The Parker township School Direc-
tors were in town Tuesday, again try
ing to get that knotty school question
untangled.
Pay day at the Glass Works and
new railroad swelled the throng on our
streets last Saturday evening very per
ceptably.
AT Petrolia few nights ago bur
glars robbed the p. d w station and
the P. o., and entered the Smith and
Stoughton stores
Industrial and fantastic parades
sports and music and a great display of
fireworks in Butler on the 4th. The
whole county should be here
If all the fools who speed their
horses on Our paved streets were bur-
led on the same day, there would be a
good many funerals in Butler that day.
Everybody ran every way last
Friday because every fire bell in
town was ringing for small fire in
John McKeevers house on Brown Ave
Make an "unearthly noise" und er
your maple trees. and the worms will
drop off dead-so lis said A conch
shell, base drum. tin pan, or any old
thing will do to make the noise with.
The Sterling Club holds moon
light picnic at Slipperyrock Park this
evening. They go up on the regular
Bessemer train at 5:15 and the return
train is to leave the Park at II 80 D. m
A lively fist fight occurred on MaiI
st. Saturday night between two Plate
Glass workman. They had little al
tercation while at work during the day
and continued it when they met in the
evening.
Last Saturday was bi-weekly pay
day at the Glass Works and about ten
thousand dollars was paid out to EN-
ployees. 1t was also monthly pay day
on the new railroad-400 men received
$4,000 or more-and part of that mon
ey came to Butler
The salaries of some Of the post
masters of this vicinity have been rails
ed-Butler from 81, 400 to 81, 500; Evan.
City 81, 100 to 81, 200; Parkers Landina
81 200 to 81 400; and Natrona 1000 t.
$1,100. Grove City went down peg
$1,7OO to $1,000. The annual list Of
changes is long one.
"A coal miner from up the Bessi,
came to Butler last Saturday, with hi
boy, bought bicycle and then go
drunk. Some friends took charge o.
him and put him to bed in boarding
house; but next day, Sunday, he wa'
drunk again, and lying around S. Mair
street with quart bottle of alcohol il
his pocket The bottle was taken fron
him, and after he had partially sobere
he and the boy started home. walking
1t would be interesting to know wher
a drunken man can get a quart of alec
hol in Butler
The First Ward and Rescue hos
rann;ug teams are practicing regularl
twice weekly on the Fair ground track
]. Z. Zickrick, of the Butler SteaI
Laundry is training the First Wards
Neither team is using their runnin
cart yet, but as there are no hose race
until August there is no hurry. Bot
teams expect to attend tournaments &
Scotdale, Bradford and Scranton durin
the season. The Rescues came nea
aeating the First Wards at McKe'
Rocks last year, and hope that perhaI
they can accomplish that feat duriu
the present season.
About 500 Butterflies and 200 peopl
from E, -ove City and Meadville attend
cd the Firs* Ward Hose Co.'S picnic {
Conneaut Lake last Thursday. III
crowd would hay,s been much large
but for the rain that ttqi Soout startlr
time in the morning Ie fTaliis i,s''
the runs each way in three SAG Hf'
hours. The Maccabee and
Bands and the ball teams from 'fo'
City and Allegheny Colleges and ma.
others stopped at the Exposition Hote
In the afternoon Grove City beat Allie
gheny in the ball game 10 to 3. Nearl
every person left the lake on the earl
train at in the evening.
The salaries of the Butler teache