Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1900-09-06
LOCAL AND GENERAL,
Ice getting scarce.

LOCAL AND GENERAL,
Ice getting scarce.
War expands our geography.
-Butler is up-to-date now-got every
thing.
1t was the warmest August in thir-
ty years.
That twenty-foot fshworm story
is hard to swallow.
The oyster gets into the national
game in dozens and halfs.
Autumn begins on the 21st, when
the Sun crosses the line"
The Kittanning Fair last week was
as ''hot and rotten" as usual.
Butler has two-thousand school
kids, and some precincts to hear from.
There's not only trace of gold in
the trolley, but there's big money in 1t.
National measures in China seem
to narrow down to the peck of trou-
Bile"
Even the oyster teaches us that
there may be something good in hard
case.
When you are talking for votes just
tell the farmers how to make road with
a hoe
We go to press half day early, this
week, SO as to have some time at the
Fair.
Allegheny is to have a half-million
dollar hotel, on North Ave, with roof
garden.
There are quite number of cases
of typhoid-fever scattered over the
county.
The Harrisville station has been
moved to the Braham property, near
Forestville.
Besides the Agricultural Fairs at
present we are having the hay fever and
the straw vote.
j D. Todd of Leasureville will have
a public sale Of personal property on
Saturday, Sept. 18th.
Fifteen people are working and ten
looms are running in the silk mill in the
Witherspoon Institute building.
The American eagle is rejoicing in
full crop. this year. The grain bins
of Kansas and other states are full.
"A remarkably cheap excursion to
the Falls, Saturday; and things are so
arranged there now that they don't rob
you.
j. A Thompson, of Snyder and
Thompson, has bought his partner s
interest in the livery stable ON W. JEFF
ferson st.
About two-t thirds of the borough
taxes, amounting to sixty thousand dol
lars were paid in to Collector Maxwell,
last week.
The School Board of Middlesex twp.
has ordered twenty dozen copies of the
New Testament for use in their public
schools this winter
West Sunbury Academy opens
Tuesday, Sept 18th. Prof Bruce Gill
again has charge, with Miss Bessie
Wick as music teacher
-Back Of the Court House is favor
isn place for some men 70 drop their
hJtilrs and Ia, Sc III 'sh on the pave
ment and pun tire the tires of bicycles
There is a borough ordinance
against tying horses to shade trees and
people who do so make themselves liable
to arrest and fine. Nothing is more
provoking than to have young shade
tree gnawed or pulled over.
While you are watching the races.
tais afternoon. it may interest You to
know that mixture of ginger-ale and
whisky. with bit of lemon peel and
ice) is called Horses Neck"
The McCauley-Patton Co. is play
ing to large audiences at the Park this
week. Their play for tonight is ''The
Minister'S Son." tomorrow night they
give Mr.. Hurleighs Adventures, and
Saturday night Just Before Dawn"
Down at the power house the rapid
revolving of the core Of the dynamo by
the engine generates electricity which
passes from the arms of the dynamo to
the large wire suspended over the street
car tracks. The trolly takes the cleo
tricity from the wire to the motors un-
der the cars, which are similar in con
struction to the dynamo--the axles of
the car being the cores The electricity
enters the arms of the motors and causes
the cores Tor axles) to revolve, or in 9th
er words, the operation at the power
house is reversed
The boys of Butler had a great time
last Friday afternoon. Two of the cars
were unloaded and brought up town
that morning, and that afternoon the
boys were given free ride down to the
Fair Grounds and back At least hun.
dred piled on each car for each trip, and
the noise they made scared off all the
ghosts. The cars bear the legends
''Duffytown." East End" and Spring.
dale" The ride to the Fair Grounds
and back is smooth and comfortable.
That evening the company had the band
out and gave some adults ride to the
grounds, and then the kids again took
possession of the cars and had a great
time. Both the cars and track were Sc
verelv tested by the crowds of humani
ty upon them. On Saturday the cars
were running, and one of the conductor.
took in oyer hundred dollars. Or
Sunday as many people went to the
Fair Grounds as are usually there the
last day of the Fair; and the line is do
ing tremendous business this wsek
Four cars are in use this week; they
were built in Philadelphia and cost
IA, 900 each.
"A queen in form and size
Got diamonds in her eyes
is the latest song.
Why Zinc and Grinding?
Zinc com hine1 with lead and oil form,