Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1902-07-17
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Great harvest weather

Some people call automobiles
Devil Wagons"
The Court House is now closed at
noon, Sitardays.
Co Lis enjoying tent and bugle
call life this week
The com is getting the long needed
cultivation this week.
A landslide on the Bessie near Eu-
clid, last Saturday, delayed all traffic
for some hours
The new Mirror Works will be To-
Gated on IN acre of ground near the
Plate Glass Works.
Next Wednesday, 23d, will be
Lutheran Day in Butler. Everything
is coming our way, this year.
Jail prisoners who will not work on
the Poor Farm, are feasted on bread and
water till they change their minds
Frank Mitchell is improving the
Jefferson street School building, and
Taylor & Deen are adding fire escapes
to it.
The Forepaugh-Sells Show makes
long night runs. They will come here
from DaD3is, aud 90 from here to
Wheeling.
The Forepaugh & Sells Bros Show
pays Diavaio thousand dollars week
for iooping-the-loop on his bicycle. The
show agent says 50.
Some Pittsburg and Allegheny peo-
pie vino we're coming to the picnic last
Saturday were held up by the wreck at
the tunnel for four hours
During the inspection drills at
Gettysburg, Tuesday, many of the men
were Frustrated by heat, and the field
ambuiances were kept busy.
j c. Graham agreed to raise his
building on S. Main street four feet,
add 90 feet to the rear end. put in a new
floor and cement the cellar-all within
six weeks
The trench for the new water lines
will average about FIVE feet in depth,
and from the Power House TO lower end
of Lyndora, as it zigzags through But
ler. Is over four miles in length, which
means some digging.
The Gallery Brick and Tile Co. have
purchased ten acres from Samuel Sta
Piles, will erect S25,0 plant and
make fire brick. building tile, ordinary
brick and tile and pressed brick. They
expect to begin in about two months.
The old Muller farm near Zelieno-
pie has been purchased by Mary e
Moorhead of Pittsbarg, and will proba-
bly, be used as annex to her Christian
Home in the city, as Miss Moorhead is
famous for Christian work.
The new railroad from Bradys Bend
to New Castle will open up the coal
country tied up by Emmett Queen in
the Donegal and Fairview township
deals noted in the property transfers
He secured 1000 acres for $40, 00O
Some of the railroad stations of this
county are not provided with toilet
rooms. The station at Gallery does not
have one, and passengers who have to
wait there fo- delayed train are liable
to distress.
Base ball has ceased to interest us
as it did in days of yore, though there
seems to be constant improvement in
the art. One of the Pittsburg pitchers
here last Saturday had six curves-the
up, down, in, out, straight and drop.
Hes a wonder.
Some of the wells drilled to the 81
sand pass through the 100-foot, the salt
water from which is not packed off and
rising spoils the the springs in neighbor
hood. We are told that the spring Oh
the Tillie Logan place along the Saxon
burg road, was spoiled in this way
some months ago.
The boys in khaki are enjoying
themselves i'll camp at Gettysburg thi!
week. 1t used to be 1.-The boys in blue,
now its kshki, and the War Department
is thinking of adopting cloth of ;
brown green color. The boys il
green" would sound odd, and some
members of Co. L are said to prefe
red
Camp Jehu, or Jah-hoo or Jahoo o.
jay Hoo as one of the girls wrote it i
one of the most interesting points in tn
county at present. 1t is located on tn
John Younkin's farm near Buttercup
and is populated by dozen of the bes
girls of Butler, vino Shoe and Hoo al
the jays who come in sight.
The graduates from the thirteel
State Normal schools in Pennsylvani
this year numbered over 1900. As
large majority will follow teaching til
they can strike something better, it
easy to understand why there are abou
fifty applicants for every good payin
school position in the state
The largest crowd of the season fo
Alameda Park is expected for mex
Wednesday, being the occasion of tn
annual reunion of the nutherans G
Western Pennsylvania, Eastern Obi
and W. Va, and includes the thre
synods These reunions are usually a
tended by from eight to fourteen thor
sand people.
The First Ward Hose team is agai
practicing for the racing tournament
with prospects of Il better team tha
ever before. A 300-yard course hs
been laid out in the old Wheelmen
park and a dressing house, built equil
ped with lockers, shower bath, etc. I'll
tenn will race at Jeanette, August 1.
and at Bradford in October.
The tents used by the Adam For
paugh aud Sells Brothers Enormor
Shnvs United this year are the large
taat have ever been constructed an
they have been subject to new proce
OF waterproof, which. it is said, is el
tirely successful, so that they affol
not only shelter from the rays of Il
sun, but also from the rain and storI
thus insuring comfort and safety to a