Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1899-07-27
Butler Fair September IS.
1t is high time to consider what
you are going to take to the Fair

Butler Fair September 1-s.
1t is high time to consider wha
you are going to take to the Fair.
Lots of people are going to take
vacation next week. Going TO Coyle:
Vile
The big bridge of the a. & w. owe
the Allegheny is to be finished by Sat
urday.
F., Some farmers of Butler twp. inten'
to prohibit hunting, and stock theil
farms with quail.
The railroad divides the town o
Mars into two factions regarding th'
] location of the Institute
The Hays Bros livery on w. Jeffer
son street is doing good business. SCI
their card in another column.
The windows of the Broad and JEFF
ferson street tschool-buildings are to bt
fitted with Chamberlain strips.
A large crowd turned out to hear
the band concert given by the Germa-
mia, last evening. on Wright's lawn on
L. Pearl st.
The speed classes of the Big Fair
this year are better than ever before
and some great speed contests are as
sured Sept. SIS.
The County Commissioners. this
week, advertise for bids from heating,
plumbing and electrical contractors, for
the Poor House, up TO 10 o'clock a. m.
of Aug. 10.
The First Ward, Rescue and Camp
bell running teams are doing some tall
practicing 1t is only two weeks until
the Scottdale fremen's tournament at
which all expect to compete. Then
comes the Bradford tournament the
middle week in August and that at
Titusville, August % and %. Some
Butler team ought to bring some prize
money home.
The Werner Co. of Akron, Ohio,
will, this week, publish their history of
the Army and Navy from the era of the
Revolution TO the close Of the late war
with Spain. The Army history was
written by Col Wagner. and the Navy
by Commander Kelly, one of the most
talented officers of our Navy. The
book will be handsomely bound and il
lustrated
Evans City is to have an ice cream
freezer factory. Some men there have
purchased patent right for thirteen
states for $4,000, and they are going TO
begin the manufacture of them in the
Shoup broom factory building The
company will operate under a West
Virginia charter, and expect to make
all kinds of novelties and useful articles.
Farmers are complaining of
strange blight that is playing havoc
among the apple trees The leaves at
the end of twig will wither and die,
then the twig, and finally whole
branches laden with fruit There is no
sign of an insects sting and appear
ances would indicate that the sap of the
tree just quit flowing to the doomed
branch.
The following students and gradu-
ates of the Butler Business College have
accepted positions as follows: Mr.. VIM.
Liebler, stenographer with the Pitts
burg bridge Co., Pittsburg; Miss Daisy
Dimit, sales lady with dry goods firm,
Scottdale, Pa. Mr.. Leo G.. Eyth,
stenographer and book-keeper with
Maginn & Lewis. Pittsburg; Mr.. Geo.
Thompson, stenographer and clerk with
T. Mellon & Sons Bank, Pittsburg.
"A coaching party from Meadeville,
consisting of DR. Flood, the editor;
Judges Henderson and Singerly and
other men with their ladies passed
ThusdaY night in Butler. They left
Meadville week or so before that and
took in Franklin, Clarion, Kittanning,
Butler and Mercer and are likely home
by this time. They had two rigs-a
six-seater and an eight scatter, the latter
drawn by four horses.
Our hospital has five patients at
present The typhoid patients and the
Austrian who met with an accident are
doing we'll Two charitable citizens of
the county donated vegetables last
week, and more of the same are needed
of all kinds The regular quarterly
meeting of the Women's Hospital AS
sociation will be held on Tuesday even
ing. Aug. 1, at pm. at the residence
of Mrs W. d. Brandon.
On Tuesday of this week the En-
pire Glass Co. of Zelienople made its
first run of glass-blowed cream color
ed vases which lot of girls, sitting on
long bench immediately began paint
ing, each girl putting on one color
after which the vases went to the oven.
The first run was complete success,
and the works are now in operation,
with about two dozen employees. The
Mineral Wool factory there is also go
ing, and there are no idle men in the
town.
Butler Fair September 5S.
improvements,