Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1904-09-08


z,rmermans Announcements
GenIt's Ear Drum
Yarns Wanted
ExcurBiouA
anufuts.s 1sors and Executors Of estate
mTTzfN once. and persons making puDii'
Salss their note books
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Chilly EVENING"
Summer on its last lap
Tho school bells are ringing.
The leaves are beginning to turn
Last week of vaudeville at th'
Park.
Are you.goins to the Mercer Fair
next weekf
The bells will soon ring for the
straw hats
In blowing an acre the team covers
eight miles
Campaign orators are oiling up their
talking gear,
Shaking the plum tree Ii popular
svocation just now.
The last Of the season excursions
are being advertised.
The Lyndora Theatre opens next
Monday with Roanoke.
Get the sidewalks fixed up before
the bad weather Of winter.
The Lick Hill road east OF Kearns
ID reported In bad condition
Tubes have been cut - a ton, and
plates and steel bars s. to ~ ton.
The harvest home picnic is now a
8svorite function in the rural regions.
That pig-pen up the valley Is worse
than nuisance per &C." its one per
smell
The Butler base ball team defeated
the Car Works team, 8 to 2 and Z to 4,
Monday.
The cider mills are getting ready to
begin operations, with promise OF big
business.
The Pittsburg baseball team has q
new pitcher whose name IL pronounced
eRubber-tire."
Some people prefer to take their
summer vacations in the fall. and 1t Ii
not q bad idea.
Our story ends this week-hope you
enjoyed 1t. We will try to secure an
other-jnst ~ good.
All the states. but four. have made
the first Monday OF September 0abor
dsy) legal holiday.
The worst sidewalks in Butler are
on Main st.. and they should be liked
before the snow flies.
School children In their Grst term
should not be kept In school more than
half Of each school day.
Docking horses tails Is against the
lsw lin some ststes) but there is consid-
srable Of It done in Bntier.
The County Home farm produced
1913 bushels Of oats. this year. 139 bu- OF
wheat. 90 Of rye. and plenty of fine
potatoes,
The sale Of the Lowry House furni-
turs was stopped, last Friday. Mr..
Kemp did not think he was getting
enough for bis stuf.
The plumbers got the compliments,
this year. When they passed In their
Yigs, with high hats. the girls said "Oh,
sren't they scrumptious."
edward BiddIe. John Hiddle. Mrs.
6o6sl-Isn. al, 1862."-is the legend
cut 10 the new stone. lately erected. vt
the scene Of the tragedy. by unknown
hands.
The Collegian's basket ball team de-
fssted the Lyceums Of Pittsburg IA to
Q, Msnday evening. at Alameda Park.
Butler has two remarkably strong
teams.
w. G. Mitchell's hotel In Kittsnning
was discovered to be burning, Last Sun
day evening. but the flames were ex-
tinguished before any great damage
was done.
.-Eds will have nfemsns conven-
ton In October Quarters have already
been secured for 100 firemen and large
crowds Of visitors are expected to be in
attendance.
On Wednesday OF last week-the
LETT day for the Ave per cent rebate
Tax Collector Slater received t27. 400
In taxes the LARGEST item being the
Steel Car Co.'S ten thousand.
Rossvills waite, who killed Officer
ekidmore and wounded Policeman At
tinson st New Castle. Il still at large.
Tbs authorities believe that friends are
shielding him In the rural districts.
The contract for macadamizing the
etsts road in Hickory twp. Mercer
county. was awarded, Last Friday. at
Harrisburg to Booth u Finn, Ltd, Of
Pittsburg, for t35.0O0. Work will be
started immediately.
"A very religious man ran clothing
store, Hs always told the clerks to do
uothiDg that was not warranted by the
Bible. One day he learned that clerk
had charged customer % for $50
suit Of undsrclothing. and took him to
task. Can you think OF bible quota
ton that would warrant such con-
ductf" The clerk said he could, and
quoted this: Behold he was strang-
sr and ] took him In.
Labor Day" ID the day You do
nothing. The mechanics of this town
took day OIL. Monday, and had pa.
ysds, oil the stores closed at noon and
nearly everybody went to the Park
where addresses were made by J. d.
Pierce. National Organizer OF the
American Federation Of Labor, who
hss had some lively experiences In the