Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1901-08-08
LOCAL AND GENERAL,

Get ready for the next great event
the Big Butler Fair-Sept. 3-6.
The old St Cloud hotel in Mercer
was destroy ed by fire last Saturday.
The Rock Fishing Club of Butler i:
camping on Grand Island, in the head
of Niagara river.
-Hyrnan Fisher, the handsome young
merchant of Renfrew, will begin his
August SALE Saturday.
New Butler county peaches and
oats came into market this week, and
loose hay is selling at $40.
-Shoestrings in all the colors of the
rainbow, and then some, are now IN
sight. Sandals come next.
Big Butler Fair-Sept. 1856.
Nearly FIVE thousand people went
TO Atlantic City last Thursday, from
Pittsburg and vicinity. over the P. K.
R.
Improvement is the order of the
day-Dan Wuller has made a wonder
full Improvement in his block, and al
Ruff is doing likewise.
That dentists yet have pull was
demonstrated the other day by the War
Department, which commissioned 23
of them as Lieutenants.
An explosion of gasoline in a Phila-
delphia grocery and the fire following
caused the deaths of seven people and
the injury of forty others. Monday.
Get ready for the next great event
the Big Butler Fair-Sept 3-6.
AT Pittsburg, Monday, the st. Louis
club made 20 runs while the Pittsburg-
ers made but six. 1T was something
fierce" Our Rube ought to have been
there.
The Star Course Committee of the
" VI. G. A. invites yorr attention to
the display of talent in the window of
G. N. Boyd's drug store on Friday, for
this seasons course.
A. Ruff & Son intend having nov
city in front of their store-an illuminat-
ed sidewalk and entrance-and their
show windows will be deepened and fit
ted with plate glass
The tremendous base ball event will
happen in Butler, next Saturday. when
the Zelienorle Zephers will go up
against ard down before Smiths
Strong-armed Stormers.
A freight wreck on the p & w.
near the Plank Road bridge, Friday
kept passengers who wanted to 60 in
four different directions waiting for an
hour or so at the station.
Co Supt Painter will conduct a
number of educational meetings in the
county during the last week of August.
The places and dates or holding the
meetings will be announced next week
The dogs of Middlesex twp. have
been acting bad Of late. w R. Thomp-
son had four sheep killed and ten wound
ed; John and James Parks, the Ump-
stead boys. David Newell, and the Nc
Clelland boys have lately had sheep
killed.
John A. Richey is now occupying
his new and handsome, three story bust
ness house, the entire lower story of
which is store room and ice cream par
lor. The rear end of the building is
four-stories, and the basement is a well
equipped kitchen and work room. He
makes the Best of Bread, Cakes, Ice
Cream and Candies
Passengers on the P. & w. now get
a good view of the rebuilding of the
Fort Wayne bridge in Allegheny as
their train passes under it. Most of the
spiles in use came from this county.
The bridge is to be an immense double
decker, and is being built around and
over the old one, while constantly in
use
AT the August meeting Of Council,
Tuesday evening, Dunbar ST. citizens
petitioned for sewer, which was grant
ed and an ordinance passed for it's con-
struction. Messrs Kreitzer, Zahrad-
neck and other citizens of the Plank
road asked for an additional arc light
which was granted. The opening of
Negley Ave. from Playground Ave. to
the Pierce road wds ordered. A motion
was passed to extend w. Wayne st.
from its present terminus at the creek
westward between the lands of Muntz
and Yost, Best and Krut and through
the lands of G. Duffy to Playground
Ave.
An unusually tall or short person
attracts attention everywhere and un
der all circumstances. A few Sundays
ago, while thousands of people were
lounging in the park at Niagara Falls
observing one of the wonders of the
world, an unusually tall young man
walked through the crowd Everybody
noticed him and remarked his height
and bets ranging from seven to ten feet
passed regarding it. He was bashfu
young fellow and walked straight tC
the bushes of Goat Island to hide him
self; but now that French physician
has discovered a method of making oul
bones grow longer to order, ten-footer'
will cease to be novelty.
The First Ward hose racing team
leaves next Thursday to attend tn,
State Convention and races at Union
town Delegates from all the other fir,
companies are also going. The Firs
Wards will compete in a 25O-yard hos,
race. a hook and ladder and hub race
and if they capture first in each even
will bring 1926 home with them. o,
Aug 81 they leave to contest in tn
great international races 1T the Buffal,
Expo Here the distance run in th
hose race will be 300 yards with 10
yards of hose on the cart The purse i
$1,000 Teams from all parts of the U
s. and Canada will run and the F. w. will
deserve brass band and red fire recep
ton if on their return they still retail
their title of Worlds Champions.
New fall designs in Extra Super In