The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-05-05

Shrewd, active and enterprisng in business, no
/ miiation could ever draw him aside from the
line OF rigid probity, or into any conduct to
sully his character rs high.tonsl Christian
gentleman
/ The Proposed History of La Sale County.
| As mentioned in TIE FREE TRADER several
weeks ago Messrs. II. F. KETT e Co., of Chicago,
are about taking steps 70 gather the material for
publishing complete Historical and Biographi
cal Directory of La Sale county. The book will
! give succnct and accurate history of the coun
/ ty from its earliest settlement; history of its
cities, towns and villages; their business and in
dust'ies, schools, churches, &c; the war record
| Of the county; biographical sketches with por
traits of the earlier settlers; fall list Of the vot
ers OF the county; together with large map of
the county, coored by townships, and locating
timber streams railroads, villages, churches,
&C. The book Will also contain the constitution
of the United States and of the state of Illinois
with an abstract of the laws of Illinois, and gen
eral and local statistics of great interest and
! value.
The publishers have already issued histories
of Henry, Bureau, DeKalb and other counties on
the plan proposed, and, will be seen below,
with such success as TO elicit the highest COM
incubation, not only Of the people of those coun
ties, but OF all Others who have taken pains to
examine their works.
At their request we publish the following note
from the publishers to the people of this county,
with the endorsements appended;
To THE CITIZENS OF la SALE COUNTY:
/ Below we give the names OF some Of your
prominent citizens TO whom we have submitted
our work recently published entitled THE His
tory Of Henry County, Illinois, You viii see
/ that our proposition 10 attempt similar work
/ Of La Sale COuRty meets their cordial approval
No enterprise, unless based on great merit and
promising incalculable benefit to the communi-
! Nv, could receive the endorsement of these men.
/ All we ask of you is to give our scheme sim
| liar examination,
/ TO produce volume embracing all branches
/ of interest in County's eXitence 10 date, such
as We publish must appeal to the pride and pro
cure the united support OF the best class OF peo-
! pie, without which our undertaking cannot be
carried TO successful termination All we ask
/ :, ~ uIprcjudiccd examination.
H.F. KETr u Co.
ENDORSEMENT
We have examined volume entitled The
| History Of Henry County" recently published
! by Mes-rs H. +. kErT x Co., Of Chicago, and
| find il contains a vast amount of information of
/ ipcstmabe value and interest to the people
whom il represents. These gentlemen contem
plate publishing II similar work OF La Sale
CountV if they receive sufficient encouragement
to warrant them in so doing. We would like
very much to see publication OF our County;
and from the faithful manner they have done
their work in other localities and their very Ia
yJrablc endorsement by both the people and the
press, we believe they win furnish all they agree
/ 10 i'm their prospectus. We trust our fellow citl
zru~ will give the scheme a friendly eXamina-
| ton and if possible their support.