Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1906-09-06


Farm for Sale.
Stems new furs.
d. q G's fall styles.
Modern Stores blankets.
Campbelrs furniture.
Excursions.
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The picnic season is about over.
Our farmers are plowing for wheat
now.
No more holidays now until Thanks
giving Day.
A Concord twp. farm changed
hands last week for 5000.
Five men from Evans City are
serving ON the jury, this week
People laughed and cried till their
eyes were red at the Wiggs show.
-Saxonburg got roasting on the
liquor question in Court, Monday.
The Street Car Co. want to double
track their lines on Main ST.. Jefferson
st and Pierre Ave.
There was little prize fight on the
Diamond, Monday evening. but it only
lasted for one round.
The Court House is now open Sat
urday afternoons, and 1t is the coolest
place in town on hot day.
The proposed extension of the
street car line to East Butler will ne
cessitate viaduct half mile long.
The Commercial was the only ho-
tel in town that closed its. bar and gave
its bartsndsrs day off-Labor Day.
The Hamilton Bottle Works, en-
. ploying about $50 people, re-opened
after the summer shutdown. Tuesday.
5000, 900 fares have been paid in
the Butler Street Railways since they
were started. six years ago September
|, 1900
The ''mine-cure" Is something new
for whooping cough. You take the kid
for walk in a coal mine and 1t comes
out cured
The moving picture machine work
ed overtime at Goldfield. New, Monday
night II took 81 hours to fight the
forty-two rounds.
The young people of Butler believe
Ia going to school, The school rooms
are crowded. and quite number left
for college, Monday,
The Majestic theatre was crowded,
last Thursday night. to see the cabbage
patch show. and they say the play is
better tnan the DOOk.
Children in Washington schools
are to be taught phonetic spelling de-
spite the assertion that the system does
not require any teaching"
The tax payers Of Butler paid the
collector f131, 900 during the sixty days,
plus the collectors com mission. But
lsr has becc'ns one great town.
-The gallant police led the labor pa
rade on horseback. Monday; and the
carpenters came next. but the street car
men seemed to have the most men in
line.
The gambling spirit is born in some
people. You can see the young men
throwing dice and matching pennies in
the Railways of the business section Of
the town.
When bad liquor is taken from pris-
oners in Butler it is poured into the
gutter; when the stuff is Of superior
brand u is sent to the hospital Frank
lin News.
A barn near Waters Station, in
Forward twp, was burned, Monday
II Is said to have taken fire from the
haystack, which took fire from spon-
taneous combustion.
The fight between Cans and Nelson
of GoIdHeld, New, Monday night, was
awarded to Cans on o foul, Nelson bav-
ing struck him below the belt several
times in the AID round.
Cannot something be done soon re-
garding the alleys bounded by Main, E.
Jefferson, Mexican and Cunningham
streets. They are impossible at pres
ent. and winter Is approaching.
Commander c. 81. Harlow, U. s. N.
will be at the Butler postoffice, with an
examining surgeon, on Wednesday,
Sept 10th. at 10 am. to examine such
yodng men rs may desire to enlist 1.
An agitated writer. evidently
poet. is afraid the spelling reformers
will interfere with the word love But
would 1t have any deleterious effect on
the tender passion to spell 1t luvi'
Splendid show at the Summer The
atre, Alameda Park. this week This
II the last week OF the shows there, and
Manager Walters has given as good
shows and had successful season.
T'he Lead Works here was sold to
ths trust the National Lead Co.-some
fine ago. and now the property il re-
ported sold to the Gar Works o., who
intend using the building as part Of
their plant.
--sfhree piano salesrooms were opened
In Butler. last week, and Mayor Bell
taxed them 800 each, as per the Boro.
Ordinance. One paid and two thought
the price too high for short stay and
appealed to Court.
The Butler schools opened, Monday,
with 241s scholars-all not yet enrolled
Pnpils from outside the town will bs
admitted to High School at "a pei
month, and to corlmon at $3.50 PEI
month ~ thara fo ro0vr Orr IJ;rr