Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1902-07-24
LOCAL AND GENERAL.


Camping out is slow.
House famine in Butler.
Butler should own its own City
building.
Rural Free Delivery is booked fol
Aug. 10 Friday.
The Street Car Co. needs about Q
hundred more cars.
You can excurt To Niagara Falls,
on Tuesdays. for S145.
1t takes an expert to tell whether
it's smallpox or chickenpox.
Hold ups, robberies and bar-room
fights are becoming frequent.
The U. S. Steel Co. intends doub-
ling its tube mill at McKeesport.
The new Mirror Works has secured
a location ON K. Cunningham street.
The postoffice at East Brady was
robbed Of $500 worth of stamps one
last week
The best school teacher is the one
who makes two good ideas grow where
one bad one used to was.
The hay and straw dealers of Pitts
burg and Allegheny propose erecting a
large warehouse or depot for their busi-
ness.
The barn on the McKeever place in
Summit twp. was struck by lightning
during the storm of Saturday afternoon
and destroyed by fire.
Our Town Council has not yet Sc
cured location for new garbage fur
mace, but will probably secure one out
side the borough limits in the near fu-
ture.
The Khaki boys got home last Sat
urday. They had been in the cars all
night and were pretty tired, but they
all said they enjoyed their trip to Get
tysbnrg and their experiences there.
Some three-hundred Street Fair
people arrived in Butler. last Sunday,
and had trouble securing boarding ac-
commodations. All our hotels and
boarding houses are crowded at present.
Last week the boys were gambling
in corn. this week they have been doing
the same in oats. and as the supply of
that grain is short, the country over,
somebody will likely make some mon
ey.
Goodville, the town on the line of
B. r. IL P. where the "Buckwheat Re-
union" IL to be held, August 7th Thurs
day, is nice little town. and our
people should patronize their novel
picnic.
The postoffices at Leota, Jefferson
Centre, Maharg, Buttercup. Whites
town, Mt. Chestnut. McCandless. Flee
ger, Sonora and Coylesville will be dis
continued as soon the Rural Delivery
begins.
-Pittsbnrg is to nave some more
''sky-scrapers. Fl. G. Frick intends
building one on the Cathedral lot, Fifth
avenne and Grant street, which will be
occupied by Siegel, Cooper & Co., who
now have great department stores in
New York and Chicago.
There still remains a number of
fools in the land. This was evidenced
lately when the government stopped
the mail Of q company of sharks in Oil
City. who are selling town lots in the
Blue Sky addition of that place. 1t
was discovered that they were doing a
land Office business and investigation
developed that the fellows were issuing
deeds to plots in the heavens --Ex.
This month Of July is said by our
older citizens to remind them Of July in
the year 1856. To that year there was
rain nearly every day in July, and in
consequence the harvest was not only
delayed bnt most of the crops badly in
jured. Wheat grew in the head while
standing in the field uncut, and rye,
hay and other crops were also damaged.
1t looks as IL about the same IL to hap
pen this year. Much wheat is not cut
yes, hay has been damaged, corn could
not be worked and in fact nearly all the
crops are not only retarded but are
damaged by the recent rains.
The giant hippopotamus with the
Adam Forepaugh and Sells Brothers
consolidated shows has grown so large
that new den had to be constructed
for his mightiness to ride in. 1t is the
largest ever built and is handled by a
team Of twenty horses. The utmost
care must be taken in loading it on the
show trains because of its enormous
size. The beast continues to grow and
there seems no limit to his ultimate
size. Already he is larger in the body
than majority of elephants. He east.
ly is the leading feature of wonderful
1y complete menagerie carried with the
consolidation. 1t will exhibit here or
Aug. 2
The Cincinnati Carnival Co. strucl
Butler 160 strong, Sunday. to hold 9
street fair at the PAX. Rain interfer
ell Monday but BY Tuesday the tents
Ferris wheel, high dive ladder, etc.
we're all in place. Then came a strik
and row. The. high-diver, Ferris man
Jerusalem man and Hall Of Fame mar
asked for reduction of the percentag
of earnings which they pay Sturgis, tn
head man, for carrying and advertising
them. This was refused, war was de
clared. and il had got to the poin
where knives We're drawn when tn
Park police squelched it, Later tn
matter was adjusted and the fair pre-
ceeded, giving very creditable perform
ances
The climax in the alleged robber
of nearly quarter of million dollar
in money and bonds from the venerabl
Jacob Byers was reached at Greensbury
Monday when William s. Byers.
: lealing lawyer of the Westmorlan
county bar and the Democratic nomi
nee for Congress, was arrested ON an in
fornstion containing three separat