Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1903-08-06
LOCAL AND GENERAL.

An advertisement in paper is
worth twenty on billboard.
A circus can pull sick boy out
of bed after the doctors have failed.
The paint brush has been doing a
GOOD work in various parts of town
A fox that has been stealing lnsti-
tute Hill chickens was shot by John
Rankin. Monday.
The new Sth P. o. district of Butler
includes the section north of North ST.
und west of Main st
The Car Works built eleven hun
dred and thirty four cars last month,
which they sold for about $500, 900.
The P. b C. people had unusually
bad luck with their outing-a wreck to
begin with and heavy rain at Oil City.
.ss Charles Kerr and Newton Turk
were he'll mp by three armed footpads
It Oniela, last Thursday. and robbed OF
415
BY the explosion of a lamp at a
SIavonic dance in New Castle last
Toursday night. several dancers were
burned
The hay crop is month late this
year, but it is immense; and the cows
viii have hay to eat and the farmer
hay to sell
The sober second thought of most
towns hic h have exp-rimented with
the street fair is that it is nuisance
and fraud
"A young lady named Gallagher who
vas in the P. Il. G. picnic wreck on the
/ Bessie last week is reported as having
nervous prostration ever since.
Tho Alameda basket ball team
trimmed the Geneva College team II to
"a at the Park. Monday evening. Ford
Hays had his eyebrow cut open.
Out at Prospect somebody has seen
. black snake as long as an anger stem
and AZ thick ~ barrel. He was on his
road home from either Harmony or
Butler.
The Park Theatre has bsen renoyat-
cd and repainted. and will be opened
next Thursday, Aug 18th, by Harry
Clay Blaney's Across the Pacific :"
See notice in another column.
The managers of the Hospital will
receive bids for the addition to be
built to it. until the Goth: and the
Council of Butler will receive bids for q
fire-alarm system until the 25th. inst.
Al. Scheidemantle's creamery on
Yellow Creek in Muddycreek twp,
and also residence and store room
were burned on Wednesday of last
week. Loss $4,000, insurance $1,000.
The agent for Barnum & Bailey's
s'xreatest show on earth has secured a
lotion Pierce Ave. and is advertising an
exhibition in Butler for Saturday, the
9ad inst. Their announcements will
appear next week.
Small boys have erected a sucker
rod toboggan on Judge Bredin's lot on
3. Main st., that has everything else Of
that nature in this part Of the country
heaten mile The kids take Is foot
Jump at the end OF the shoot.
These be bargain days at the stores.
When one can by good straw hat for
10 cents. q suit of underwear for 25
cents, pair Of shoes for dollar and an
Ill wool suit for $500. things may be
said to be cheap
The Jacks" under frame house
In the West End slipped, Friday morn
ing and the house fell. If the jacks
under that Opera House in Pittsburg
had slipped, the other day, there would
have been both news and dust in
Diamond alley.
The Twelfth annual reunion of the
s'Sixteeners" of the Soldiers Orphans
School of Mercer will be held at the
Humes House in Mercer on Angus II,
IL and 13, and all those who attended
the school are invited to be present.
-Four Butler young ladies took ride
ON teamster's wagon two miles out the
Millerstown road one day last week and
came back, three hanging to the eeat
Of blackboard with the person who had
given them lift and the fourth riding
akraddle the horse.
Our town was visited by pickpock-
ota. Tuesday One Of them rubbed
against Thomas Steele of Criswell at
the Jefferson and Main st. crossing. and
secured his pocketbook, containing $50
IN cash and some checks; and another
bumped against b. 8. Warren of Pitts
burg at the B. u o. station and secured
his book, containing $3.50 in cash and
eome checks.
A new town called Hercules is to b,
located on the Porter farm in Slippery
rock twp. where large number oi
men (the promoters claim 10O0) will
commence work developing 1900 acres
Of coal and limestone taken up by h
b. Lang of Erie. They also state thai
they will build brick and tile works
and expect to have 5000 people in th'
new town within year.
AT Tuesday nights meeting of Coun
c.l the ordinance for the opening and
grading of Walker Ave. and providing
for the payment of 1900 to Prof. Mack
ey by the borough on condition Of prop
erty holders on the street paying $3.50
was adopted j. g. Runkle and Georg
6pang appeared and stated they wer'
ready to pay the $3.50 The ordinance
granting to the Cottage Hill Street Ca
i Co. the right to use Wayne, Main. Nc
Kean, Washington, Franklin and Pear
ets was also passed. Attorney Wis
appeared for g. E Thomas to state tha
. sewer pipe under the Race st. bridg
extended foot and a half above the
bed Of Sullivan run, helping to dam tn
stream. The matter was referred +
the Sewer Committee. Barney Nc
Keown appeared for residents Of Lin
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