Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1899-08-03
LOCAL AND GENERAL, ),
Butler Fair September 5-s.

Our next Fair will be Two-two
What are you going to take to the
Fairf
Leather is going up, and shoes will
be dearer.
The Institute at Mars il to be locat-
ed on Crow st.
The world owes every man a right
to earn living.
August is another long month and
usually is our warmest one.
The Fire Blight is killing the
branches of the apple trees.
To agree with everybody is as bad
as not to agree with anybody.
Winfield township intends issuing
bonds for a new school house.
1t is high time to consider what
you are going to take to the Fair.
Your character cannot be essentially
injured except by your own acts.
Our running teams will take in the
races at Scottdale beginning Aug. Sth.
Bigger better, grander than ever
the Great Butler Fair-September jS
No man ever successfully posed as
an optimist while he had the toothache
A rolling stone gathers no N oss
but it gathers in many an unexpecting
cyclist,
The ladies of the l.. o. T. NJ. are
said to translate their motto Leave
Out The Men
There is hope for any young man
who il willing to unlearn what he
thinks he knows.
If it is buggy you want-cheap
and good read Martincourt a. Cos
adv. in this paper.
A large number Of Butler young
people are attending the Y. P. G. L.
Convention in Pitisburg.
The Fair is county affair and
every citizen Of the county should con
tribute to make il a success.
After harvest all farmers should
take day Off and there is no better
place to spend it than at the Big Butler
Fair
A thousand people from the north
ern part of the county went up to Con
neaut Lake yesterday with the $. s.
picnic.
Ed. Livingstone, former cook Of Co.
Z, 18th, and Mr.. Bond have opened
restaurant and lunch room at III West
Jefferson 81.
We understand that Butler parties
are arranging to lease and operate the
Claytonia Coal Co 9 mines on the Besse
mer railroad.
The speed classes Of the Big Fair
this year are better than ever before
and some great speed contests are as
sured Sept. So.
To worry and fret over trifes has
great deal to do with nervous depression.
Don't depress your nerves and make a
monkey of yourself.
Ed. Williamson, the Western I'm
ion operator, bought Harvey Kirk 8 res
taurant in the Younkins building and
took charge of ii Monday night.
The posy on the editors desk, this
week, is a Golden banded Japanese lily
from Mr. Jesse Heydricks garden, and
the gladiolas are from same place
If man was to start out with the
intention of calling everybody by his
right name he would be knocked down
before he got block away from home.
Largest Excursion Of the season to
Conneaut Lake, Friday, Aug. 49,
United Presbyterian Reunion. Every
body invited Inquire of p. B. & L. +.
r. X. Agents.
The skeleton Of baby was found
along the Bessemer road neal Anan-
dale station by some railroad workmen
last week. How it got there il as yet
unascertained.
Many statesman, says an ex-
change, owes his choice diction and
smooth sentences to n $7-aweek. ste
nagrapher and a good many Of them
owe the stenographer 81.
AT the meeting Of Council Tuesday
evening it was decided to sewer Lincoln
avenue, in the First ward. also to pur-
chase strip of the Yost property for an
outlet for the West WAYNE street bridge.
Last Saturday morning the post
master at Clarion discovered that the
pouch containing the Butler mail had
the strap cut and number Of letters
had been opened. The previous even
ing the baggage room at West Clarion
had been broken into.
About 70 tons Of glass sand are
crushed and slipped daily from the Nc
Kee quarries at West Winfield, and &c
car loads Of lime and limestone are sent
out by the Morris Limestone Co. The
Limestone Co has one order for 10, 900
tons Of ballasting for the Allegheny
Valley railroad. One hundred men are
working in the quarries
We are led TO believe that a mum
Der Of road supervisors in this county
are not obeying the law, recently enact
cd, requiring that they pick the loos'
stones from the highways at least onc'
each month. There is disposition or
the part OF the travelling public to see tc
1t that this good law is obeyed, and W.
sound the warning to any supervisor
who may be lax in their duties alonl
this line, that they are apt to b
brough before the bar Of justice an
subjected TO the prescribed punish
ment.-Ex.
A Hagerstown man, says an ex
change. who chewed 20 cents worth OF tc
bacco a week concluded to try tc
bacco cure. In two weeks he ate u
$50 worth of cure. and for the mex
two weeks he used 10 cents worth 9
candy. five cents worth Of peanuts an
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