Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1903-07-09

The East End Hose Co.'S. fine new
cart arrived on the 3rd.
The iron work on the Wayne street
bridg. is being put in place.
Even the street cars got full wher
Carrie Nation came to town.
The Ministerial Association wants
all business houses closed on Sunday.
The Blacks will reune in the Park
on the 2Sth See notice. Everybody
| invited.
The six hundred and some acres at
Bonnie Brook are said to have been
transferred to an iron company, for roll
ing mill purposes yesterday.
William E. Cory of Pittsburg has
been appointed assistant to President
C. NJ. Schwab of the U. S. Steel cor
poration, the latter having been practi-
cally deposed by J. p. Morgan and
other controlling financiers.
The pump house Of the Slippery
rock water works, owned by John
McGonegal. was burned June p. The
pump was ruined and the tank which
supplies the town was saved with diff
Guilty. The loss was about $1,000.
| "A class of five graduated from
| North Washington Institute last week.
They were Nettie Daubenspeck, Pearl
Varnum, James Thompson, from the
literary department and two young
ladies from the music department.
The heavy rain of last Sunday
afternoon flooded parts of N. Wash
ington, w. Penn and Main streets.
The same thing happened some years
ago and attention was then called to
| the fact that some culverts and surface
sewers in that vicinity were entirely
| too small.
| The Standard Trust Co. besides
being an ordinary. everyday, American
bank is also Dutch, Slavonic, Hun
garian (or Magyar Polishan d dsItalian
baLk Ch riley speaks all these Ian
guagcs and is doing rushing busint S.
with the foreigners II you don't
believe this read the signs
| The Institute Hill burglar got in
consider able work last week, robbing
Mrs. NJ. H Brown of 800, which she
had saved to pay on her house, H. FL.
Gardner of $10 Mrs E Smith of $40,
Mr. Reilly of $40, and attempting rob-
berries at Mrs. e S. Edwards. Harry l..
Graham's and John L. Walkers.
| Over in Ireland the other day they
had an international automobile race in
which course of $40 miles was covered
IN hours and 80 minutes or nearly a
mile minute. The Dutch won. the
French We're second, the English star
and his chauffeur had their collar bones
and legs broken. while the Americans
were last. Auto racing 9promises to be
good way of,killing off rich sports.
| Work has been started on the trolley
line from the Marshall and Forcht
farms to Butler, the line starting on the
Forcht place, coming down the Mar
shall hollow to Kohler's and into Butler
by way of Lyndora and Pierce ave.
The Butler Construction Co. has the
contracts for building the line and
grading the two farms, the work ag-
gregating about 100000.
The Sc. Louis Exposition managers.
/ learning from experience that the Mid
| way is the most attractive part of a
great Industrial exposition, will make
their show nearly all Midway. One of
the features will be three acres of artifi-
cially frozen ice, with real snow floating
through the air where you can enjoy an
hours skating during the hottest days
of July and August.
| The new law under which the secre-
| taries and directors of school boards of
the county are to meet, provides that
the County Superintendent shall set the
date for such convention, which may
last two days and shall be held annual
ly. This convention is held aside from
teachers institute week. The directors
draw pay for the day and mileage as
well.
A. E. Winner, stillman for the Penn
sylvania Refining Co. at Karns City,
was a pleasant visitor at the CITIZEN
Office last week. There are four rein,
cries in Butler county, two at Harms
and two at Petrclia. and all are running
day and night. every day in the year
and could dispose of far more than they
make. The Pennsylvania refinery puts
out kerosene, gasoline and benzine OF
/. all grades. and about twenty five grades
of petrolatum. ranging from the finest
white cream to parafine.
The following graduates and students
of the Butler Business College have re
Gently accepted positions as follows