Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1899-07-13
The Mcdowell laundry now has q
plate glass delivery wagon.


plate glass delivery wagon.
The First Ward Running team goes
TO Titusville Aug. 22-23. There are
s4O0. in prizes to capture there.
Hicks SAYS we will have warm
weather, with. lots OF thunder storms
during the balance Of the month
A. F. Elder has started up his bed
spring factory at 1872 ". Jefferson st.
He makes a good spring at a reasonable
price.
Five buggy loads Of Butler young
people drove ont to Holyoke church last
evening to attend a lawn fete, which
: was not there Are they mad today?
Evans City has No. l, half mile
race track, and twenty some good horses
are in training there, in charge Of Jacob
Emrnel and Fred Jamison. They are
all going fast.
The press reports say that 5000
square miles, (or a space twenty times
the size Of Butler County was flooded
in Texas, and that $4,000 people were
made destitute by the food
"A certain sect has fixed upon next
Tuesday as the day when the world is
coming to an end. If our subscribers do
not get their paper next week, they will
of course know the reason why
The kissing bug is getting in its
work in Pittsburg and Allegheny. Sey-
eraI bad cases have been reported this
week The bug bites peoples mouths.
and caused their faces to swell.
"A local clothing merchant says he
is having the best summer trade IN
dozen years experience in Butler On
the morning of July 4th, he did TlOO
more business than on any previous
Fourth
Over a thousand tickets were sold
at the station here yesterday for the
Pipe Line picnic, and over two thousand
in the county The crowd on the
grounds was estimated at from three to
four thousand.
Ritter & Conleys great structural
iron works in the lower part of Allegh- !
eny were destroyed by fire last night. |
The loss in machinery Is put at Tl0O,O |
and building etc at $4,000. Hundreds
Of men, some Of whom are from this
county are thrown out Of work.
Cambridge Springs is the incest
place in this vicinity for newly married !
couples to pass their honeymoon; and of
all the hotels there. You will find The |
New Cambridge" the most satisfactory |
for rooms and rates. and table.
Thomas Lightbody Of Youngstown,
o. will be one Of the bidders on the |
Poor House He will be remembered
by Butler people a. the man who built
the walls and tower Of the Court House
the only good parts Of that building
The School Board Of Parker twp.
has called a general meeting Of citizens
Of the township at the Stevenson school
house for next Saturday afternoon, to
try and reach an amicable settlement Of
all their school troubles We hope they
will succeed
LOST -About two weeks ago. A
small link wrapper-chain between Andy
Thompson's coal bank and Baxter
Campbells. with hook on each end.
The finder will please leave the same mt
Breaden's in West Sunbury. or at my
place. and oblige- S. Campbell.
Il ia now six months since City Treas
urer Blevins Of New Castle was'murder-
ed and the affair is yet mystery. The
detectives however are following every
little clue they get. A letter found on
the road near Portersville few days
after the murder NAV vet throw some
light upon the affair.
The Eik's vi and pair Of antlers
that came to Butler for the Elks lodge
here the other day, weigh $50 pounds,
and have been mounted in the Hall
over the Exalted Rulers" head. The
head belonged 10 an elk that once climb
ed the hills and wandered in the valleys
of Idaho.
The Gallery Elgin Butter Factory
is the name Of the creamery III Gran
berry twp Of which w. II. Crime is
manager It il cooperative affair and
the stock holders are all farmers. 1t
cost over $1,000 and makes over !. 900
pounds Of butter n week. which is whole
sailed in Pittsburg. besides furnishing
cream for ice cream makers.
That was jolly party that met the
down train at Harrisville station last
Thursday afternoon; and as the young
and newly married couple boarded the
train they were showered with rice, and
one wag pinned card bearing the
legend married today TO the back oe
their seat The names Of the young
couple were Frank Wilson Of Freedom
and Elizabeth Brown Of Harrisville
Mr.. Pisastratus Picafilly has no mid
die name and does not think he needs
any. He was christened Plsastratus
Ignatius, but as he IL a modest NAV he
dropped some Of IT, He lives in New
England town and he has lately written
n book which he entitled Peace and
Quiet with Singular Name and
there is where his trouble began. Ev
cry days mail now brings him letters Of
felicitation or coincidence, and one wag
dropped into verse thusly:
have heard Of Mr. Lily,
/ have heard OF Mr.. Filley,
! have heard Of Mr.. Wiley,
Who makes me very lily.
have heard Of Mr. Tilly,
And also Mr.. Gilly;
But your strange name,
My dear good sir.
Has knocked ine almost silly.
Summer Tours to the North.
For the Summer Of 1899 the Pennayl
yania Railroad Company has arranged
TO run two personally conducted tours
TO Canada and Northern New York
The first tour, leaving July ~. in
cludes Niagara Falls. Toronto, Tnous
and Islands. Rapids Of the st. Law
renee Quebec. Lake st. John, The
Saguenay. Montreal An Sable Chasm.
Lakes Champlain and George, Saratoga, |