Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1899-05-11
LOCAL AND GENERAL,

Proctor, W. Va, is the latest boom,
oil town.
The Wallace Shows have the finest
horses of any show on earth.
beginning with next Monday our
groceries will close at $50 p. m.
The K. o. T. NJ. band will give its
next open air concert on the South
Side, Monday evening.
The costumes worn by the ladies OF
The Great Wallace Shows were espec-
tally imported for them from Paris.
Sunday morning fire alarm was
sounded for supposed blaze in Capt.
Ensmingers house on w. Cunningham
street.
Patterson Bros are doing great
business in wall paper and painting this
spring. They handle one of the best
ready mixed paints ON the market.
M. Gallaher, of Clay twp, who has
engaged in the undertaking business,
wishes us to say that he can furnish the
hearse and everything else necessary for
a first class funeral.
-Duffy's carpets can't be beat. Their
stock is complete in all the best grades,
and also in rugs, art squares, linoleums,
oil cloths and mattings. See their new
adv in this paper.
The p. o. at Silyerville was robbed
last Sunday night of all the stamps on
hand, and Roy Cramer's till of all the
money left in it, The thieves got about
$45.0 in all
The Westmoreland county end of
bridge across the Allegheny at Freeport
has again been closed, owing to the
neglect of the County Commissioners to
attend to the matter.
On Monday morning of this week
nearly all of the old employees of the
Plate Glass Works reported for work,
the casting hall resumed business
yesterday, and everything is lovely.
In commenting on the Great Wal
lace Shows, the Pittsburg Pa, CONNER
cial Gazette says: This show on its
first visit here. eclipsed in every respect
any big show that had ever visited Pitts
burg, and we have had them all"
Happiness is not matter of en-
vironment. Some men are constantly
bubbling over with the sunshine of joy,
who have nothing but the shirts to their
backs and the blue sky above them.
Others have millions and are miserable.
The large crowd that assembled on
s. Main St., Tuesday night, to hear the
excellent concert given by the Germania
Orchestra, showed that some kind of an
open air park or concert garden would
pay in Butler, during the summer
months
The regular quarterly meeting of
the Woman's Library Association will
be held at the residence of Mrs. s. B.
Martincourt, on West Jefferson street.
next Tuesday afternoon at 3 o'clock.
Much important business is to be trans
acted. and every member is requested
to be present.
Women and children do not need
male escorts to attend the Great Wal
lace Shows. Polite attendants are EN-
ployed to protect and direct them, see
that they secure good seats, and that
they are not molested by boisterous
characters. There are never any but
well behaved crowds at the Wallace
Show. At Butler, May 1S.
AT the meeting of the Palace Club
of Butler. last Saturday evening, the
following officers were elected-Pres-
ident George c. Biehl; Treas, DR..
Hoover; Sec'y, Geo. w. Strickland;
Room Committee, Phil Krause, Zeph.
Lauffner. Alf Reiber Jos. Woods. Ed.
Colbert and Sam1 Vanderlin. The
Club now has over 800 members. and is
in fourishing condition.
The New Castle Lodge of B. P. o.
Elks have issued their prospectus and
bills for an Industrial Exposition,
Street Fair and Carnival. and Midway
Plaisance for the week beginning Mon
day, June 9Th. 1t is to be an extensive
affair with a great street parade on
opening day, local exhibits, foreign at
fractions. and continuous daily per
formances.