Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1899-09-07
LOCAL AND GENERAL.

If body meet body
At the Butler Fair
Need body ask body
Why the others there?
Ev'rybody comes to Butler
Just because they know
Ev'rybody else is coming
To Doc Leighner's show.
The sound of the threshing machine
is yet in the land.
Our town schools opened, Monday,
with $500 scholars in attendance.
The Oil Well Supply Co. has pur-
chased Quigleys sucker-rod factory
Two little coffins were in Yves.
Roessings hearse at the same time last
Sunday afternoon.
The fall of rain was so heavy along
the plank road near Buxton's, last Fri
day, that the planks were washed mp IN
piles.
Every woman wants new fall suit.
Examine Mrs. J L. Zimmerman's new
stock of dress goods and ladies suits.
See adv.
We hope there will be lots of Punk
sutawney people here, this week if for
nothing else than 70 see a respectable
Fair Grounds.
The extraordinary cold weather OF
last winter killed nearly all the quail in
the county; but there are few left and
they should not be di sturbed.
Every pupil of our public schools
will be furnished with Vaccination
Blank" this week and these must be
properly filled ont and certified by par
ents and physician, and returned to the
teacher.
The regular semi-annual meeting OF
the Butler Library Association will be
held at the residence of Mrs. G. L. Herr,
on north Mexican St, ON Tuesday after
noon, Sept IL, at half past o'clock.
Important business requires a full at
tendance.
The McCauley- Patton Co. are hold
ing forth in our Opera House this week
and are giving great satisfaction. They
did their rehersing here. are a talented
crowd and learned their parts well; and
our people are Patt-ing 'em On the back
with large and appreciative audiences,
and starting them on their way reJoic-
ing.
AT the meeting Of Council Tuesday
evening new ordinances were
ordered drafted as follows
one revising the schedule of licenses for
peddlers, etc and one requiring the
West Penn r. r. Co. to keep watch
man at the West Penn depot; several
sidewalk and-light matters were refer
red to the proper committees and West
Wayne st. will be graded if the proper
ty owners sign release.
Ever since the p. & w. was built
into Allegheny it has been paying the
West Penn ten-thousand dollars year
for the use Of mile or so of track be-
low Sharpsburg, as the West Penn oc-
cupies all the ground at that point be-
tween the hill and the river. The p. ~
w. has been doing this in preference to
tunnelling through the hill or going
around by Evergreen, which would
make its route few miles longer.
Now there is trouble between The two
companies on account of the additional
traffic of the A. q w. (or B. II. & p. }
over the p & w.
Last week we had an item saying
that fresh water was seldom found in
this section below 700 feet; but Billy
Marks informs us that about Glade
Mills they occasionally had to casei it of
in the boulder above the ''100-foot,
or ut about 1900 feet below the surface
The "100-foot" just below the boulder
there was full Of salt water; and III
about North Washington, says Phil
Harper, they would occasionally get q
little saltwater in the hundred foot al
six seven and eight-hundred feet, but
never got fresh water below the salt