The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-12-27

lead to believe from individual comments that 1t
was ine effort. or course, the idea developed
WAS that intellectual and moral training make
the perfect man"
| McCALEB.-Mrs Catherine McCaltb, mother
Of the late II. A. McCalcb, died o! pneumonia In
L0stant on the 18th. aged about 1SIl years. She
WAS the mother Of ten children, of whom only
four ARE now living, She Mas born in Muson
county, Ky, April 20, 1901; was married April s.
1920; first settled in One, thence moved 20 IndI
ana, and thence To Illinois IL 1882.
BUsHNRLL.--The Wenoun Ind,r SAYS this week
that Hon. Wash. Bushnell, nf Ottawu, would
make u most excellent congressman, und al
though we have not seen the gentleman for
years, we have no doubt the name OF Wash
Bushnell upon the ticket vould awake some o,
the old fire and enthusiasm in La Sale county
that has been dormant for years" Has the
machine " Of the -th no irrrors for the IndexS
DRs. HATHEwAY AND NANcg-"lIarry Wheel
or has been operating in Ottawa for week past
He is telling some wonderful stories about doe
tor they have down IN that burg who brings to
life drowned persons who have been beneath the
water half an hour more, and cites as An exam
pie the little son Of A. Schcrcr OF that city, res
cued from the river last Saturday after being i'm
mersed half an hour and rcsu,citatcd IN twenty
minutes" Thus says the Aurora Bt0con or
course, our doctors are "had," but it took several
twenty minutes" to rcsuscitate this boy.
HOLMES. few Of our people for
Obvious reasons were able to make the ac-
quaintancc of Mrs. j. A. Holmes (wifc of Prof
Holmes, of our High SCHOOL,, who died Il fort.
night or more ago, Of consumption. The Prince
ton Tribune however, speaks of her in this way
|" Mrs, Homes was the second wife, by whom
there are no children. Owing to her long, pro.
tractcd enfeeblcd condition, the children by the
first wife lived with their grand parents in dis
tant portion of the sulc. Her acquaintance at
WenOna Lacon, Sparland, Henry and elsewhere,
will remember her tenderly and in precious
memory, while they will drop tear of sympathy
with the disconsolatc husband, bereft now sec
ond time by the relentless sickle Of lime. She
was lovely, gentle woman, loved most by those
who knew her best She lived for others good,
regardless Of her own"
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Railway Age Publishing Co., has been very sue.
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