The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-11-08
VARIOUS ITEMS.

Rockford glove factory.
The c., b. & q. passenger depot at Aurora
is being fitted with the pipes for heating by
steam.
The Pontiac city authorities sold the $4,000
of city bonds through the banks of that place
for premium OF onc-half of one per cent.
The Forest City Furniture Company, of
Rockford, made an advance of 10 per cent. on
The wages of their employees last week.
An Elgin couple were married last week
the groom aged Il, the bride "a. There's moth
ing like marrying young and settling down.
Rockford now has % lawyers and plenty of
students reading law
The Elgin Watch Co. are building an add.
ton to their machine shop 230 feet long
Mr.. n. NJ. Holmes, for many years supcrin-
tendcndent of bridges of the Chicago, Rock
Island X Pacific road, was killed, October 2G,
by the ovcrturnlng OF an engine upon which
he was riding. He resided ut Geneseo, H.,
and left a wife and five children.-Rdilrdy
Age.
Billy Cummings, the popular conductor on
the Chicago, Burlington Il Quincy, who was
recently presented with a gold headed cane
at Mendoza, Ill.,, is said by the Sandwich Ga
zette to have replied in speech closing with
these simple and touching words which was
received with thunders of applause:
The INTERPRETATIONS aqua springs to my
organs of vision, when | look upon this evi.
dence of your good opinion without any pes.
simistical entanglcments to mar the happiness
of this extremely happy occasion, and permit
me to inculcate syllogistlcally my transcen-
dental gratitude for your generous kinetc en-
ergy. This cane Will be retained TIL mortali-
ty shutfles of her COIL in fiduciary capacity ;,
with the utmost veneratlon for those who com
pose the environment this evening. My friends,
| cannot discover words in ten languages suf-
ticiently elongated termlnally to elaborate
enthusiastically my humanitarianism to you
on this To me most eventful occasion.
In conclusion permit me to insinuate 10 you
all comfortable optimistical nocturnal au-
reyoir.
a Princeton man raised this season radish
weighing 1919 lbs. The seed, of course, came
from Jersey.
The Sisters of Mercy are about to open a
hospital in Joliet
The hunters tell us that we are going to have
a mild, dry winter Mild, because the ducks
are thiny feathered, and dry because the musk
rats are building their houses close down toI
the water, They build high above the water
when we are to have a wet winter. Let us
bear in mind these predictions and see how the
hunters come out-Heary Republican.
An Aurora boy ~ years old, fell last week
into scalCing kettle in a slaughterhouse and
was terribly scaldcd. He will recover, it is
thought.
The citizens of Aurora are taking up sub
scriptlon to pay the debts of their citizen sol
diers. The guards have been having spat
lately over their commanding officer and it was
even given out that the company had disband-
ed.
The Joliet steel rail rolling mills turn out
$50 tons of steel rails per day
'r'.o n,o"..ins.on shvpo of tile O. u A. road
are to be enlarged by the addition of a car
shops, employing 100 men.
Morris is bothered with chicken thieves
he supervisors of Grundy county have pur.
chased so acres OF land for poor farm.
Adjutant.General billiard has issued orders
providing for target practice by each company
Of the Illinois National Guard this fall at such
times as may be most convenient to each com
mand. Ten rounds Of ammunition will be is
sued to each enlisted man, and arecOrd will be
kept of each ones score.
A Mrs. &C. Rogers, of Fairbury, has 'stuck"
that place for $1,000 damages, sustained by
falling INTO ditch.
A Peoria Transcript man made trip to
Farbury. He calls it Gods country" gives
the town $500 inhabitants and made an limo.
cent believe Peoria made no whisky, but turned
all her corn into sugar
Williams, the colored candidate for the Leg
stature IN Hamilton county, OHIO, ran away
behind the rest of his ticket last Tuesday The
Republicans are not yet able to vote the straight
ticket when a colored man is on 1t.