Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1906-08-23
The surface drainage of the northern
part of town is very defective.


part of town is very defective.
Up in Forest county they now have
a snake with wings-something new.
The pretty bouquet in Boyd's dru
store is composed of Heydrick's gladiolai
and Mrs. Ekas' lilies.
This is to be the big day of the Fair
but some people came yesterday. There
were 700 passengers for Butler ON the
early train of the Bessie" Yesterday
m orning.
An attempt was made to burglarize
the house of Frank Mills of Chicora
during his absence few nights ago,
but the screams of the girls frightened
the burglars away
The Island district is coming to the
front. About thirty houses will be
built there this summer. J. Fl. Doutt
lately purchased some lots on w. Wayne
st. extension and will build eight eight
roomed houses.
Some overhead bridges are needed
in Butler. One at the Kearns Crossing
just east of town is the most crying
necessity, but the Centre avenue and
South Main street crossings should
also be bridged.
AT the meeting of the School Board
last Saturday evening, Prof. Hall won
over Mrs. McMichael for Principal of
the Institute Hill schools by vote of s
to 6. Prof. Hall will have both the
Springdale and Institute Hill schools.
The tipple OF the National Coal Co.
located on the Bessie" almost two
miles north of Butler. was destroyed by
fire, last Saturday, also the boiler-house,
machinery room and some mine cars.
The loss is put at from Sc, 900 to $4,000.
Nature and history repeat them
selves. Valparaiso was almost destroy
by an earthquake in 1870 and had
severe shocks in 1929 and '73. 1t is
the chief commercial port of Chill and
is surrounded by hills. Santiago, the
capital of the state, lies about 20 miles
southeast on higher ground.
Butler is to have some more hotels
Earl Clinton intends building on the
Stehle Place triangle; the Gels Hotel at
the corner of Mexican ST. and Centre
Ave is in course of erection; the Nc
Nance at the corner of Centre Ave. and
Cliff st. is to be built this summer, and
G. H. Kennedy has projected a tene-
ment house on Race st.
Prof. .Winston's educated sea-lions
are offered as a special feature of the
trained animal circus with Barnum q
Bailey Seal acts are more or less
familiar, but it is said that these sea-
lions are so much cleverer than any
thing of the kind hitherto presented to
the public as to constitute a distinct
novelty in trained animal displays.
Winston's sea-lions, it is announced,
climb ladders, present little playlets,
execute difficult selections on ordinary
instruments, perform almost
incredible feats of juggling, and in
other ways evidence their superior in
telligence and training
John j. Jennings bought tickets for
the newsies and also 600 for the kids,
and gave them to Frank Kohler for
distribution. Frank had no trouble
with the newsies, but the crowd of kids
at bis Office yesterday morning was
pusz1er, He atter-rted - Ia - -
form in line, but that was too slow for
the kids. who crowded around the
window and trampled upon and hurt
each other. Then he got several fellows
to help him and they went among the
crowd and distributed them as best they
could, one to each child, but some kids
got three or four and some none-it
couldn't be helped.
Those women who are in the
habit of making up" to deceive the
uusophisticated eye with fictitious youth
and freshness are wrought up over the
report that there is poison in rouge.
Carmine is harmless, but some of those
who deal in cosmetics find that it is too
expensive, and cheap substitutes are
employed which have an unfortunate
effect upon the health. 1t is distress
ing state of affairs for middle aged
women who look weirdly young, for
they put much Of their trust in the pink
saucer. Only the debutantes who, it is
said, are the only women who dare look
old nowadays. will find life still worth
Lying.