Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1901-08-01
LOCAL AND GENERAL,
Big Butler Fair-sept. s-4-5-6.

Big Butler Fair-Sept. 3-4-5-6.
Let mosquitoes sing ON airy wing
AS they speed in the twilight sky
For oft their song like that of the swan
Is the last before they die.
Let each merry be. fall OF muslcs glee
As he fleets ana darts and wheels
For who krc KS. pray, il its not their say
OF grace 2e+ore their mealsf
Potatoes jumped from 81 TO s6 pei
barrel. yesterday.
Butler defeated Zelienople at that
place Saturday, 5 to 7.
Get ready for the next great event
the Zig Butler Fair-Sept. 3-6.
Restaurant privileges of Alameda
Park have been granted to Kirk & Gov
ert.
-"Cresceus" trotted mile in 202z
at Cleveland, Friday, thus breaking all
records.
The Butler Brick and Tile works
are running day and night and employ
ing sixteen men.
Tie liopess connected with the
Sparks show give birth to three babies,
last Sunday. in Butler
The charter of Paraffine Primary
No. s. r. z. p has arrived and is placed
in the Office Of Z. Fl. Negiey.
The potato crop il generally re-
ported 10 be very poor and new potatoes
do not get below 81 per bushel.
Don't mind the heat. Think how
hot it was this time several years ago
when it didn't rain for three months.
The Brooklyn bridge brokea a pair of
it's suspenders last week, and the affair
il developing into municipal scandal.
Big Butler Fair-Sept. 3-45-6.
j. &. McNally's horse III. J. p"
took third money at Cleveland last
week; and has take four 3d's this sum-
mer.
The rev lookup in the alley is
small, but has room to grow At present
it will not require q County Superin-
tendant
j. G. say has opened lumber yard
on the Mckee property near the West
Penn station, and will make a speciality
of oil well rigs.
AT the meeting Of the Adams twp.
School Board, week or so ago, there
was bot a single male applicant for the
ten or dozen schools Of the twp.
The disappearance Of Jas. l. Clark,
the Oakville store keeper, at Latrobe,
Pa. il more Of mystery than ever. No
trace Of the missing man can be found.
Get ready for the next great event
the Big Butler Fair-Sept 3-6.
Religion pays" said the preacher
with emphasis. Righteousness is the
best investment A good man cannot
be kept down Look at Jonah and the
whale
AN exchange calls attention to the
fact that there 10 penalty of $40 for
neglect on the part of township supervi-
sors to have suitable fngerboards at
road intersections.
The Alameda Band" has been or
ganized in connection with the Alame-
da orchestra and il practicing regularly
under the direction Of Prof Davis in a
room in the CITIZEN building.
The new show window of Steele's
Surprise Store has 3 glasses in, the
largest being 140ix159t inches, the next
491x159l and the curved corner 14x159i
all made at the Butler works.
"A Main st. merchant asks why it is
that when the business men have con-
tributed to the band-stand on the Dia-
m ond and helped to buy uniforms that
they can have no band concerts.
Big Butler Fair-Sept. 3-4-5-6.
The Supervisors of Clearfield twp.
secured $454 Of the leftover money
from their Poor Board, and with ii and
the money received from the A. 81 w.
X. r. Co settled the Brownfield judg-
ment.
"A Pittsburg preacher criticized the
wearing of shirt waists in church last
Sunday, and member 80 attired told
him bis clothes were paid for and his
way Of wearing was none of hi
business.
Last Thursday was picnic day and
thousands went to the Orphans Home
and the Park, while several hundred
more left town that morning for the
lake. 1t was model picnic day and
included the regulation shower.
The Orphans Home, under tn,
management OF Rev. Prugh is one o.
the most creditable Of the public insti
tutions Of Butler. The house was built
about 1S43 by Mr.. Mccall, at that tim,
agent OF the Clymer estate; and in th,
early fifties was occupied by the My
lerts. who afterwards moved to Scran
ton
This ID a year OF insects In tn
spring and early summer fruit tree
suffered severely from lice, next tn
gooseberry and currant bushes wer
stripped by worms; now potato vine
are swarniing with bugs-toth the ol,
slate-colored variety and the Colorad
beetle, and other plants, particular
cabbage, are being eaten by a hair
white caterpillar, vastly more Dc
structive than the ordinary cabbag
worm. The same insects come ever
summer, but this summer has an unul
al abundance.
The NEW FALL PATTERNS in Cal
pets now being made up by one OF th
Oldest Carpet firms in tho country wi
arrive at Brown IL Cos very soon, 0
they are now III the loom This is tn
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The fall term Of school at the Butl,
Business College opens Monday, Sept.
1901. Read their new ad. on this pag
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