The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-05-03
HOME MATTERS.



Fred s. Eames and Mrs Eamcs have taken up
their abode in Ottawa, Mr.. Eames on thursday
resumng his connection with the National Ci'y
Bank as cashier.
Miss Belle Wallace, after an absence oil some
weeks, has returned to Ottawa. Mrs. WalIacc
will return in June.
Rev NJ. X. Whittlcsey, Jacksonville, made VI
tawa a visit this week, calling on his many
friends here.
Philo Lindley, committee clerk at Sprlngheiu'
has returned to Ottawa.
Messrs. Brush Il Leland and H. 7. Gilbert have
moved their offices to rooms in the Sherwood
block fronting on La Sale ST. lhey are most
handsomely fitted up, and more suited Ior inc
dolce far nieate than busy lawyers "deii," bu'
the gentlemen evidently look to their clients
bodily as well us mental comfort.
viii T. Dickcy and wife have deserted the
hotel and taken up their residence at the corner
of Congress and S. Division SITS, east side.
d. B. Snow, of Nicholson IL Snow, started fol
Kansas on Thursday for short vacation to bene
fit his health.
Rev T. j. Valentine, 4 former pastor OF tho
Congregational Church, of this city, and wife
were in the city this week.
Mrs. w. II. Hull has gone to Wcnona ILL.,
Miss Bowers, of Peru, is the guest of Miss
Kate Eldredge.
Miss Vincie Bushnell has returned to this city
l.. II. Tower, Esq, is lying very sick AZ Ms
home in Wenona.
Geo NJ. Leland, master in chanccry, has re
moved his office to more comfortable quarters II
Sherwood's block. The rooms are those former
ly occupied by the Young Ladies' Reading Room
and have been nicely fitted up for Mr.. Leland
Miss Shonessey, who has become well know
to the trading public Of this city as plcasan
and agreeable saleswomsn, has taken position
at H. j. Gillen's, where she will be found in Thu
future
Prof Charles H. Smith, of the Ottawa iligl
School, will read a paper before the teachers in
stitute, to be held at Morris to-day
ELSEWHERE.
John Dillon, announced for an entertainment
last week in Joliet, was too beastly drunk" IL
appear. In La Sale he was "oh'" to such al
extent that both the pieces the company wa
billed to produce Were curtailed,
Bro. Haskell the evangelist is al work thu
week in Mendoza. The Ncns welcomes his ad
vent by saying "this man Haskell has so Ions
been connected with the ring, the stage and thu
green room that his language and very action
partakc of an otfhand devil-to. pay character tina
is certainly amusing if not absolutely funny"
A horse. horse! my kingdom for Il horse
clipper-D0c Yentzer It al,
Recorder Arnold went up to Mendoza on Sun
day last For an amateur, the Mendotaitcs thin
he tells some pretty tough fish stories.
E. c. Metzser, eX-chief of the Peru fire depart
ment who will make his future home in An
Arbor, Mich, was presented with gold watc
last week, rs a token Of his success as chief,
bud Randall was in town this week, "busted
as usual bud was n genius in his way an
would have made n journalist of the first class
but he thought, with the poet
Old Plato, the learned divine,
He fondly to wisdom was prone;
But had it not been for good wine
His merits had never been known.
BY wine we are generous made,
1t furnishes fancy with wings;
without it we ne'cr should have been
Philosophers poets or kings