The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-08-01
From MarseiIIes.

MARsEILLES, july H.
Our old assessor George d. Cohcran and
family left us this week for their new home
at independence, Mont gomery Co., Kansas.
We commend him and his wife to theirnc
ncighbors as citizens above reproach and
worthy in all respects.
The Marseilles manufacturing Company
are now turning out twenty windmills per
week.
The Pitts Company are finishing up their
three hundred and thirtyseventh thresher.
They intended to turn out three hundred, but
the calls were for four hundred. Next season
five hundred will be made
Harvesting is over and thrcshing com
menced
The continuous drouth, and especially the
scorching blasts of Saturday, are telling on
corn.
Joseph Hanna and others who noted the
thermometer, say Saturday was the hottest of
the season. and the most disastrous in its eff
fects. The pasturage except in the woods, is
nearly burnt up.
The hot weather is also hard on little chill
dren.
MIR. Wooley lost twin child three months
old, and Mrs. Bimrick, of Grand Rapids, q
child three years old.
Father" Marsh, one of the pioneers OF
Brookfield, is quite helpless and his long
life is drawing to close.
Reuben Blawis NJ. d., formerly of this
place, Is now located at Glencoe, a suburb of
Chicago, with his son-in-law DR.. Peiro. They
have Chicago Office at al East Adams ST.
Our street crossings have been put in bet
ter shape than ever before. Uncle Fuller
improves each year in his efficiency as Street
Commissioner.
There is an uncompleted Jos at the corner
OF Clark and Main streets, but perhaps the
commissioner thinks il will not rain, hence
no hurry but he must remember that every
body is praying for ram and they may over
do Il,
VIM. II. Furscrson is still unable to be out
of his bed. He had aparalytic stroke on Sat
urday last.
Mrs. James has returned from visit to her
daughter Mrs. Hicks, who has been very
sick. Mrs. Hicks lost her only child, "A sweet
babe OF ten months
An ong the various methods proposed for
protection against fire is the following: To
bore an aresian well near Richards outside
"a a tar whnnl- and pco Gu IN vh ool tr ,nrn N II, A
water to a reservoir on the bluff two thou
sand feet distant and TO an elevation of one
hundred and twenty feet, and 10 tap this main
or "standpipe" by east and west supply
pipes reaching east TO east school house, and
west to the house of Mr.. Amin. The distance
between these limits is about seven thousand
feet. The estimate cost Of artesian well, and
main to reservoir in working order, is from
$4,000 to $4,000, and for supply main, $1,000
Total $4,000 TO $4,000 There arc three ar
tesian wells in this village, averging one hun
dred and fifty feet in depth. The Clark street
well has an average flow of over barrel
minute, or sufficient to supply barrel day
to each Of fourteen hundred families.
The water of these wells coming from the
st. Peters sandstonc) passes the twenty-five
inch vein below the surface, and the sulphur
of the coal becomes mechanically mixed with
the water.
The sulphur not being soluble in water
soon settles leaving the water almost ALSO
lutely pure and soft. The sulphur might be
avoided by properly tubing :he wells.