Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1906-08-23
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Clever colored chorus at the Park.
this week
The blacksmiths took day off last
Saturday, and went to the lake.
The special Oh the P. R. R. leaves
Butler this evening at 700 pm.
Butler has new broom now, and
our streets will be kept cleaner.
We 60 to press day earlier than
usual this week on account OF the FAIR
ALI Butler seems to be changing
hands. The real estate men are busy.
The Grand Lodge of the Knights OF
Pythias is meeting in Dubois this week,
Aug. 2l-25.
The buildings of the new bed stead
factory at East Butler are to be OF re-
inforced cement.
The Bruin and Mars base ball
teams, both good, play on the grounds
here. this morning.
They say 1t was colored cupid
who shot through the club room win
dows, but he few away.
The health officers have lately been
investigating the bad breath that comes
from the Red Row vicinity.
Vegetables took tumble in Butler,
Monday, when the hind-wheel OF Albert
Schneur's wagon came off.
The Pennsylvania and B. q y. IN
tend spending about five million each
on their Pittsburg terminals.
A horn socket passed through But
ler the other day on its way to Fenel-
ton. Do you know what horn-socket
isf
The rice cream Of commerce has
been discovered to be poisonous BY
and by we'll have to live on boiled wa
ter.
"A young Pittsburger named
Krumm, was drowned in Conneaut
Lake, while in swimming, last Satur
day
The finest favored blackberries we
have eaten this year were from the
farm of Peter 0esterling of Summit
twp.
-Pittsburg is booming. One of the
-inrrenseii its- csrffai
II eight hundred thousand to six
\ millions.
Majestic Theatre was crowded for
the opening performance, Monday
night. The troupe here, this week, is |
a good one.
The Martin family that reuned at
Alameda Park Tuesday. are descend
ants of Thos. Martin. decd, of West
moreland county.
The bill posters Of Butler got busy,
Monday, and the town is now billed for
Barnum & Bailey the only show on
Earth so great that it can afford to dis
pense with the street parade.
DIR. G. T. Cox, the eminent bacteri-
ologist and discoverer of poslam, the
new cure for eczema, has decided to
give his discovery to the public, the
same to be furnished them free OF
charge.
Everything was wide-open to the
vices of this world at the Kittanning
Fair, last week, while the Butler Fair
Is vide open to the beauties of Heaven,
this blessed day. Go up the Hill and
see for yourself.
The store, bakeshop and dwelling
of Peter Grillo in Bredinyille was burn
ed between 10 and / o'clock Sunday
morning The building was two
story frame structure, and the loss
amounts to about $4,000.
That Mississippi negro who was shot
through the head and heart. and is YET
taking his three meals day. beats the
Clarion COUNTY negro who got well al
the hospital here after being shot
through both lungs.
A horse and buggy left standing il
front of the Court House, last Saturday
morning, and which had been driver
here from Saxonburg by J. M. Burnap
was quietly stolen by some unknown
person, and has vanished from the sigh
of those who knew it.
A hundred lodges of Pythians wer
represented at Harmony, last Thursday
The crowd was we'll fed, the dedication
exercises followed, some sports were in
dnlged in and everybody was happy. ]
W Hutchison of Butler, Ell. Hutchi
son of Harmony. and A. e. Barnhart o
Chicora are among the officers OF tn
order.
The City League base ball seaso
ended last Thursday evening. with
game between the typos and lawyers
The lawyers had the printers beaten o
a score of 10 to 6. but the printers ha
the last half of the last inning. dusk 81
in. the lawyers couldn't see the bal
the printers got start and score
itVe runs on muffs and -errorg, and wo
,he gangs.
That Fayette county convict foun
his wife and family in this county, net
Butler. IL he had kept his mouth shT
here nobody here would have know
why he was separated from them. Z
was in the zen. for eleven years for xii
ing three men, and during the riot th
led to his crime and conviction, w
shot in the head and leg.
The grading for the new trolley Iii
yas completed last week, and the stea
shovel and dinkies were shipped to M
honingtown. Lawrence county, whe
they will be used in removing 3O0,O
cubic yards Of ground, etc. from lin
stone quarry. The same company h