Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1901-07-25
LOCAL AND GENERAL,

Horse millinery
Big Butler Fair-Sept. 3-45-6.
Bad news about the apple crop
Harvest hands and school teachers
are scarce
The mercury is singing ninety and
nine these days
W. r. Newton advertises his Vic
tor Talking machines
The new B. r. & P. coaches are ~
feet long. and seat rs people
Get ready for the next great event
the Big Butler Fair-Sept. 80
The shirt factory started, Monday,
after being shut down since the Fourth
The p. r. r. Co intends building
ten million dollars worth of stone
bridges.
There are q few ''shop-lifters' in
Butler. as our store keepers occasionally
discover to their sorrow
Big Butler Fair Sept 1856.
The Methodists picnicked at Alame
da park. Tuesday; the German Luther
ans. Wednesday. and the Baptists, to-
day.
After a heavy rain the otner day
Councilman Grohman surveyed his
ward and discovered some deficient un-
der-drains.
Don't forget John Wiseman's show
at the old Ball Park, tomorrow evening.
He has the biggest and best 25-cent
shows on the road.
There are plenty Of idle men in the
Pittsburg district at present but none
excepting those raised on farm would
do for harvest hands.
Unless the Hilliard valley was an
exception, it was hot all over the coun
try last week, and particularly at the
alleged summer resorts
At Conneaut Lake, Monday. Mil
vale defeated Butler too The game
was played in 45 minutes Smith and
anderson was the Butler battery.
Get ready for the next great event
the Big Butler Fair-Sept. 3-6
The Amalgamated Association of
Sunday Winkers il now one of a neigh
boring city's most prominent organiza-
tions. The person who can't wink goes
dry.
"A training school for nurses has
been established at the Butler County
General Hospital, and all applications
should be sent to Miss Agnes Cook,
Superintendent.
Very few of the snake editors are
taking a vacation this year, and that
fellow in West Virginia who jumped a
ten-foot rattler through the window Of
car going at full speed has done the
best, so far
The Park is great success. AL
though there was nothing but little
"sacred music there, last Sunday, a
thousand people went out; and few
stopped ut the old quarry and had a
drink Of the best water in sight.
An engine that ran wild on the b. r.
e. p few nights ago, from Punxsu-
tawney, eastward, ran six-miles in six
minutes. and the railroad men wonder
ed that it kept the rails on the sharp
curves. 1t died" ON the grade south of
Du Bois. and was recaptured uninjured.
Big Butler Fair Sept 1856.
-Ph. Cooper Of Jefferson twp. had a
two year old colt fall through the plat
form into his water well last Monday.
The well is about IA feet deep and has
about six feet Of water. and it took two
hours, and the assistance of neighbors
TO get him ont. The colt was uninjor-
ed
The r. III. G. excursion to Conneaut
Harbor will include ten days trip to
Erie, Buffalo and Niagara Falls. There
will be boating. bathing with toboggan
slide, ball game. potatoe race, tub race,
foot race and other sports with valuable
prizes. Dancing with best music and
best Of management.
Monday morning 800 boys, members
Of the Boys Brigade of various Pitts
burg churches, passed through Butler
on the Bessemer railroad enroute to
Conneaut Lake where they will camp
ten days and then take two-days trip
TO the Buffalo Expo. The Brigade is
perfectly organized and disciplined ON a
military basis.
"A cloud Of winged ants lowered
about the topmost pinacle Of the Court
House steeple, Wednesday, causing
much comment. Some supposed them
bees. and that they had an untold
wealth of honey high out of harm
way. a climb TO the windows above
the clock showed many of the insects
had come in and settled on the floor.
The old maids of Coal Spring twp,
Mercer county sent invitations to the
old bachelors Of the neighborhood to