Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1900-06-07
LOCAL AND GENERAL,
Summer heat.

Summer heat.
Three big" days Of it.
Short weight ice is poor weigh to
make money.
Taking the shady side of the street
is a summer resort.
When Nation comes to its census
it knows where it is at
The Bessies new freight engine
weighs $40, 600 pounds or 110 tons.
The 17-year canary birds are
coming out again; the woods are full of
'em.
Chinese boxers differ from our own
sluggers in that they do not wear short
hair.
The Carruthers q Co. machine shop
is to be moved from Gallery to Parkers-
burg, w. Va.
Photographer Nick Criley is pre-
pairing photographs of the 1st Ward
running team.
The first part of week after next
18th to 20th-is Commencement week
at Grove City College.
The interior of Papes store is very
handsomely decorated, and they have a
1o,r.o c,,ppl,- nf HoUc
-Fifty-two thousand interrogation
points are now travelling the country
SO get your pedigree ready.
Those four wise-looking little owls
in Bashline's grocery attracted great
deal of attention, last week.
Gill Moser has rented the Palace
Club and will have a restaurant there
with seating capacity of $50.
The W. Va pools are SO adding to
the supply Of oil that operators fear the
price will go down to dollar
The first Centennial event of the
county happens next week, so clean
your street and lay in lots of grub
The Report of the Borough Auditors
ON the accounts of the Overseers of the
Poor can be seen in another column.
II. Fl. Burton's sacrifice sale which
has been advertised for the past month
will continue until further notice. See
adv.
Did you notice how chilly it was
Monday morning. 1t was the 4lst an
niversary of the black frost of June
4, 1859.
1 j. King an old Butler county
boy, manufactures milk cans at j32
Grant street, Pittsburg Try his cans
See adv.
Chicago is making war ON unneces-
sary noises, but this does not mean that
she intends refraining from blowing her
own horn.
Butler will be splendidly decorated
next week Some of the decorations,
already up, are the handsomest ever
seen here
-Robinson's Circus will come to But
Ter from Punxsutawney, and will prob
ably be the first big show to pass over
the new road.
Mrs. Zimmerman's store-room at
corner of Main and Jefferson has been
remodeled, and her new stock will be
in it in time for the Centennial See
adv
The polishers of the Plate Glass
Works struck because they don't like to
work, Saturday afternoons, and the
whole plant was shut down for day OF
two.
"A "substratum of alcoholic insanity
is something new to the medical world,
lately discovered by DIR. Hutchinson,
superintendent of the Asylum at Dix.
mont.
Three coaches attached to the north
bound B. r. & P, Tuesday morning
contained the official family of ALLIE
gheny City. They We're guests of the
railroad company.
Base ball enthusiasm is revivine
again in Butler Numbers of young fel
lows play at the old ball park each even
ing and even the printers threaten t.
organize .eam.
g. Walter & Sons will have fin,
display in the fantastic parade the thirt
day of the Centennial They ar,
having two new wagons built, one o
them by VIM. Siebert, which will maxi
their first appearance then. They vii
also have yoke of oxen
James A. Thompson formerly o
the Shredder House, and Bird Snyde
have purchased and are running tn
Hays Bros livery and sale stable on w
Jefferson st. They have abundance o
stable room and first class horses an,
rigs. Give them trial
Now that the telephone fre-alar1
system has been completed all you hav
to do, if your house is burning, Is t.
call up Central, and tell them where tn
house is, and the fire companies wi
come and put ont the fire. It's so cas-
that it's worth having n fire inst to 90
the system work.
THE Sun do move and So doe
the human mind in the matter of invel
tions. The latest in water heaters is
long coil of copper pipe with some ga
jets under it-when you turn on til
water the gas is ignited automaticall
and the water is heated almost instan
ly, and when you turn the water of
out goes the gas. A Monarch" can |
be seen in Huff's plumbing office G
Cunningham st.
About twenty horses are beir
trained on the Playground track for tn
seasons trotting and pacing race
Harry Morehead has eight, Charlie
Jamison is training eight for Ben Ma
seth and three for J S. McAnallen {
Evans City, and VIM. Dean of Miffi
st. has two flyers in the harness. Wi
the horse racers, hose teams and bycic
riders the track is very lively pla