Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1901-05-23
LOCAL AND GENERAL,

The musicians may condemn rag
time" but they can't beat 1t.
Five hundred people walked out to
the site OF the proposed Park. Sunday.
The powder trust il the latest and
none Of the Others dare hold a candle TO
It,
The boys propose making noise
enough next Fourth to waken old mem
ories.
The straw hat mas had hard strug-
Gle. this sprng. bur It's now going to the
head
Since Monday there have been quite
number Of changes in the railroad
time tables.
Prof. L. Otto Davis has opened a
music and piano store in the Armory
building See card
IF you didn't buy yourself rich at
the Rummage Sale, it was yonr own
fault. Ii was all there.
The innocent bystander" and the
"didn'r know ir was loaded man al
ways get the worst of it.
$. q. Purvis 81 Co. took Thousand
loads from the Koch-Schnltis cellar, for
the horrd yard ernbankment
The morning trainsI to Butler last
Monday were crowded with people on
their way to the Sunday School Con-
vention at Slipperyrock.
The Postoffices named Bonus and
Glenora have been discontinued ON ac-
count Of the establishing of Rural De-
livery and mail for them should be ad-
dressed to Parkers Landing
A class of liz young men and VIC
men are expected to graduate from the
Slipperyrock Normal in June The ex-
ercises will be held the last week OF the
month. Monday the Normal base ball
team defeated Allegheny College to 2
j. @. A. Sullivan, Esq will offer at
public sale ali the Court House in Butler
at 1o'clock D. III. Of next Monday, the
27th. hundred acres OF land, lying be-
tween the railroads, and adjoining the
Kearns property, east of town. For
particulars see advertisement and bills.
A greet mob assembled around the
lookup nc Connellsville, last Saturday
evening, wanting to lynch u negro who
had killed aud robbed a white man, but
the officers fooled the crowd, and got
their prisoner to the Uniontown Jail.
The new train on the p. 81 w.
leaves Bntler at II 30 a. IN. and IL due in
Allegheny at 1890 pm making the
run in the same time as the b. X. & p.
trains. The new train on the Bessie
leaves Butler at 2:40 p m. and is due at
Erie at $50.
The old feature OF the celebration
of the 4th Of July that of reading the
Declaration of Independence was a
good one. The document is grand one.
It should be read. and its reading will
in no way interfere with the red-ness Of
the hre-cracker.
"A flock of several hundred chimney
swallows have their night quarters in
the stack of the county boiler house at
present People who have never seen
these strange birds going to bed should
come up to the Jail any evening about
half-past seven.
That Butler needs a larger, safer
and better public hall, or opera house,
was amply demonstrated at the Park
Theatre last Sunday evening. There
were not seats for more than half the
people who attended an alarm of fire in
that building at that time would have
caused the death of dozens; the seats
are uncomfortable, it il hard to hear in
the rear part OF the room, and the air is
bad in the front part.
"A visit to the proposed Park irn-
presses one ve1y favorably with the To-
cation chosen The valley leading to it
and through which flows the run, known
to older citizens as the John Sulliva N
run, is very picturesque valley, with
sloping hills on each side. The run il
remarkably straight from the Mercer
street crossing OF it up to the Park
ground, about mile and half, and
where three runs meet which fact pro
badly caused the location to be made
there