The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-04-17

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Too early to take u swim
Once more croquet Is all the rage.
tncleworms have begun to move
The ne west thing in dress goods Is baby
The hoys around town have discarded shoes.
The little folks are planning for May parties.
Spring suits are pending in courts and tailor
shops.
The smoke from MANY bonfire rises on the
evening air.
The soda fountains are being placed in p"si'
iion TO fzzlc.
Ice-crcam will soon chase the heat from one :
eommissary department.
Charlie Bastlen is starting 4 moustachc' LOOK
out for frost, young man.
Ira Nelson says he throwed shoe in the FIRST
heat at the spelling school
How does our Mr. Williams spell economical!
E-1-R i-n-o.m,Lc'l-', don't 1t!
II is time that our Court House square was be-
ing cleaned up and put in order
On, GOOD friend Lukins, at Strcator, has bran
splinter new house! Good enough for him.
The conundrum among the boys is: why
didn't Jake Shuler 90 to Marscillcs last Sunday"
George Washington Eichelbergcr wears Grape
cause nis dog went and run away with another
man
Kites viii soon be in season and mothers may
expect t. find their tooth-brushes filled with
paste.
Yilc post Office business at this place is i'm
mense, and calls for far better accommodations
Than VS. have.
The supply of sunhowcrs will be rather slim
next Summer, rs many Of the buds have been
allied by the frost.
Charley Edwards don't know that the girl he
was flirting with Sunday evening was Sam Dagan,
por Il wasn't either.
some Of the lawyers have caught the spirit
HAT pcryadcs our courtroom ana are putting
tone on their Offices.
Gate hinges for simmer use made Of extra
hardened wrought iron is the way oar hardware
meu should advertise.
Cont loaf around on the dry goods boxes
Such shiftlcssncss i, more than rcprchcnsible
shcu fishing is so good.
The shovel brigade has been doing effective
work on the business streets lately and much
iidier appearance ia the result.
George Beck would have been the handsomest
maa in town Sunday evening, if-hc didn't have
'omc two or three successful rivals
The election is over and those little attentions
2ud courtesics which 90 to make up lfe's hap
piaess aren't SO plenty as they were.
Yenrzcr has nine elbows in the pipe and keeps
lhrcc geese setting on his stove to prevent the
draft in his chimney from carrying off said
EARNING pan-fuct,
The March term Of Probate Court will begin
next Monday
In the name of Christian charity won't some
body send blonde an almanac
Myers new saloon on La Sale ST. was opened
Wednesday evening with ,cry mpoSing cercmo-.
Iies. Roys should never rap on the sash Just
sbeu aiclow is kissing his girl
Charley Petit went down in the a-c.q-u-c-I
d.tsc-t on Tuesday evening Another warning
20 printers not to take so strongly to water 1t.
look a waale 70 bring him, however
Poems dila,iug on the soft evening air. the
by the basket fall We pay ten cents for all such
ctusans written on one side only
The rason that Wal. Yentzer stayed until . /
O'clock y. NJ, the last time he called to see his .
Dorothy, was that he had on some Of his papa's
pantaloon stays The old man is a slayer any.
how
T. f. Porter is building small house on his /
lot gIiniuiutr a. m snriur ~ tp
and icircshmcnt stand.
Porter gently whispers to u, that's a dddcuccd
i-li-Hiely story IN other words, It's false.
Cream up Chat column, deacon, or give it a new
Reading We suggest this The Scum of Our
Exchanges Tongue Luucl
Thank YOU, but we copy so little from your
coNEmnS That we deem the change unnecessary
man was passing up the street yesterday
noon who saw flock Of Sandhil cranes flying
4siag qp In the imitlcss realms Of the air, but
he didn, s"c the hitching post Then he went
through tho melton. Of feeling badly in his wso.
Ehagus.
4 student ftGm Chicago was visiting young
lady on the west side aud after a little while
she shivered and remarked that she ought to
have something around her. His overcoat cape
Sas latgc enough for two and lac never got home
Sntii fOUr o'clock.
This will be a tul! season in the manufacture
of rag carpets. The times have been 20 hard
hat many people will continue To wear rags al
Stile longer; besides, the daily papers have
draSn heavily on coioring material in their re.
rCrls Of the Brooklyn trial.
Tho following bit Of conversation was over
heard between two young people ut gate on
superior street, Sunday evening:
I'll am glad the spring is opening with
IS soft warm airs, giving promise OF the beauu-
al unfolding Of the tender buds.
sHE.-I am s0glad, too, il is getting SO much
warmer Batter spreads so much easier.
When you see sofa and TIVE lengths Of stove
pipe an front stOop, and child on the prem
SIS eating slice Of bread and jam, it is safe to
believe that Ihe family has just moved in. When