Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1903-08-27

CampboIi6 q furnlture
Ketterer Bros shoes.
Patterson Bros Wall Paper.
Pittsburg Organ and Piano Go.
New York Real Estate Co.
Adminis.l asors aud Executors of estate
can secure their receipt books at the ClTl
ZEN Office. and persons making public sales
their note books.
4 LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Large additions are being built to
the car works
&C. E. Miller is having his store
trout renodeled.
The police are after Hunkies who
are dynamiting fish.
--Branchton is having a boom in
limestone operations
Monday. Jack Grubbs received a
e100 bull pup from Denver, Col
The Elwood basketball team tackles
the Alamedas ut the Park, Friday even
ing.
-Geor.e Mardorf has handsome
automatic, electric sign for his Amuse-
ment Arcade.
Awarding the contract for the ad-
dition to the Hospital has been postpon-
ed for one month
Tax Collector Slater and his assis-
tant, R. A. White, are the Busiest men
in town this week.
This is triennial assessment year
and the assessors are getting ready 10
start on their work.
As school opens Sept. 7th, it would
be advisable for all pupils to be vaccl-
mated before that time.
Some property op Wood ST., Pitts
burg, changed hands, last week. at ten
thousand dollars foot front.
Queens junction will be the name
of the new town, at the junction OF the
Bessie AMI Allegheny Western.
Three or four hundred dwellings
have been built in Butler already this
year end still the cry is more houses
The Good Will Hose Co. entertains
the South Side fire laddies at smoker,
in their handsome apartments on w.
Jefferson St, this evening.
A stable belonging to James w.
Mckee of the Southern Oil Co. on Bra
dy st. was damaged by fire to the ex-
tent of $500. Tuesday afternoon.
"A carp % inches in length and
weighing "a pounds was caught by j.
]. NANNY and others in shallow place
near the West st bridge, Monday.
The Y. NJ G. A. of Du Bois pic
niced at Alameda Thursday; Friday the
Baptist Sunday school will picnic and
ON Saturday the Knights of st. John.
james vances pocket book was
stolen at the circus. Saturday, but he
lost only soma small change, having
taken $50 out of the purse before start
ing.
AT Washington, Pa, last Fridays
young Jew accused of larceny saturat-
ed his clothes with oil, touched lighted
match to them. and died horrible
death.
Geo. W. Phillips of Allegheny has
bought the Dikeman farm at Valencia
aud will lay it off in building lots The
farm contains 80 acres and was sold for
$50 per acres.
The two-minute trotter has arrived.
At Readville, Mass, Monday. Lou Dill
Ion, mare, lowered the trotting record
of 2:024. made by Cresceus in 1901, to
two minutes fat.
An earthquake shock was felt in ST.
Louis, lately; and the managers of the
Expo. are trying to devise means OF
harnessing the next one that comes for
exhibition at their Fair
An insurance agent lately stated |
that fifteen millions of dollars went
from Western Pennsylvania (the Pitts |
burg district) to the eastern life insur-
ance company, annually.
AT Cramps yards in Philadelphia,
Saturday, theabig, new Cruiser penn
sylvania" was successfully launched.
She will be powerful ship. and will
cost, complete, about seven millions.
The oilmen will have fac simile Of
the first oilwell drilled by Col. Drake at
Titusville in 1869, at their reunion at
Alameda, Sept. Gil. and will give a
gold prize to the most interesting baby.
AS the doings of the Penn'a R. r.
il distressing one OF our contemporaries
we JuSC t6li GIL tudb TIC low AOdu 10
coming up the Connoquenessing, and
will hit out East OF Butler somewhere.
Harry Snow, an 1S-yearold son of
Matthew Snow Zeigler Ave. is alleged
n to have tried TO shoot his father, yes
teriay morning at their home on Zeig-
ler Ave, A warrant is out for his ar
rest.
he I'D
farm is wonderful thing A rheumat
ic grasshopper that was going around
on three legs drank freely of its waters,
and can now jump over any house in
Saxonburg.
Dan Patch" is a horse, and as he
paced mile in second less than two
minutes, the other day. at Brigton
Beach, his owner probably values him
ct several times the usual limit for a
human life by railroad accident.
The river barge, Annie Roberts,
loaded with 1900 excursionists sprang
leak, Sunday, and sank in The Mononga-
hela river. Fortunately she went down
in q shallow place and the water reach
Cd only to the first deck The passen
gers were panic stricken, but none were
hurt.
Sheriff Gibson and his deputies are
still prepared for war at North Slip
perYrock The striking miners refuse
to 20 to work unless an interpreter
named Sigardi is discharged. The Coal
Co. has ordered the men to go to work
or be evicted on Sept 1st, and trouble
II anticipated.
Some Butler boys attended the Kit
tanning Fair, last Thursday, and as
they were eighteen miles from home,
and across the river, they broke the
wheel of fortune. peeped into the hooch-
ie choochie tent. munched gingerbread,
ate peanut, drank lemonade, and did
other foolish things. Everything goes
at the Kittanning Fair-also the Punxy
and Indiana.
Butler county will have no Fair,
this year, and so fair day and the
Barnum & Bailey show drew the largest
crowd to the town that has been here,
this year. The sale of tickets for the
afternoon performance was about ten
thousand, and for the evening perform
ance about six thousand. The average
price of seats was 75 cents; and deduct.
ing expenses here the show probably
took about ten thousand dollars out of
the county The only trouble was in
feeding the crowd at noon. This town
would stand few more hotels very