Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1900-09-20
LOCAL AND GENERAL,

LOCAL AND GENERAL,
Band concert tonight.
There are no flies on the screen
doors these days
-Whitehills water works waken
worlds of wonder.
Talking through your straw hat for
this year is about played out.
The Lowry brothers sold their livery
stable yesterday to Henry Bickel
Compulsory education compels the
building of enough school houses.
The Bessie" is making some
changes and improvements at Euclid.
English school boys will now be
taught that Spion Kop belongs to them.
John Bickel has refurnished his
store room and increased his shelving.
The Cops of Philadelphia played a
star part in the late primary election
there
If the Town Topics Co. secures a re-
turn date for Butler it will have pack
ed house.
1t showed in Wisconsin and Michi-
gan last Sunday and it was cold here
next day.
Straw votes are tiresome. 1t was
the last straw. II you'll remember, that
broke the cam els back.
Boys who place nails on the street
car tracks will be tracked to their homes
and nailed by the police.
Fishing is good in the Connoquenes-
sing. Hen Zimmerman caught six bass
while visiting at Harmony, Tuesday.
Some hunters who have been shoot
ing grey squirrels in the vicinity of
Great Belt, are liable to be prosecuted.
Putting an electric-piano in one of
our billiard halls increased the business
from s. to s25 day. or 500 per cent.
Newton did it.
"A radical change has been made in
the character of the seasons waltz, but
then young people always find pleas
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AT meeting of kids at a North
Main street house, the other evening,
the President announced that the first
thing in order was, the reading Of the
moments" of the last meeting.
The Swedes are the cabinet makers
and wood-workers of the world If the
furniture factory people locate here,
they will be forced to send to Sweden
for some experts to begin with.
The grading of West Wayne st. has
been completed and the Council is relay
ing the sewer on the street The work
of lowering the sidewalks have also been
commenced by the property owners.
A gang of drunken loafers have
been hanging around the alley on Main
st. at D, L. Cleeland's jewelry store
making nuisance of themselves to the
business men in the vicinity and pedes-
trians
The season for musk melons is about
over, and lots of people will regret it.
. They could eat melons the year round.
A carload of the large Greenville mel
ons retailed in our town few days ago
at cents pound, and then our grocers
lost money on them.
Manager Cole of the First Ward
hose team has not received the purses
won by the team at jamestown and the
boys are getting anxious for their
money. The jamestown officials were
to send it last Saturday.
-Pittsburg is to have a two-million
dollar, twenty-story building at the
corner of Fifth avenue and Market
st; and the buildings on the triangle at
that point should be torn down, and the
space devoted to public uses
The p B. g. l.. E. R. R. Co. will
have new time table in effect, Sunday,
Sept. 90. The most important change
will be in the time of arrival of No. II,
which will leave Erie at 1910 p. IN. and
arrive in Butler about 4:40 instead of
1:55 pm. Train No. 2north bound will
leave Butler five minutes later. No. IA
will continue to leave Butler at 8:18 a.
m. Central time, as heretofore.
During the last court the jury wa
annoyed by the noise made by vehicles
passing around the Court House The
street was torn up in front, and the
number of wagons passing around was
greater than usual Sometimes the jury
could not catch what the witness was
saying. This could be remedied by cover
ingthe brick pavement around the
building with asphalt