The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-10-02

fines collected by justices that should be paid
into the school fund OF the county, and that pro-
baby exceed in amount the per diem due JUS
tees, are withheld, because such justices feel
that the county board robs them Of their lawful
dues. 1t is easy to discern where the question
of honesty and morality comes in, but hard to
determine who is honest and moral in this mat
ter" Mr.. Mason argues the Boards action is
unwarrantcd by law, and not only unjust but
impolitc.
| The telephone exchange is open for business,
and the town is supplied with adjustable ears.
| Politics will take q rest for q week.
| So
And the boys in the recorders Office will, at
last! have something to amuse them!!
And the Journal will have to go back to Tur-
kistan for "leader"
And when Nattnger gathers up his fish poles
he'll instruct Bert to telephone his wife he's
gone to Wedron for san item"
And Marvin objects because those Rock Is
land fellows do swear so!
1929 '-brcken out in Ottawa.
| Mitch rattlesnake took final airing in the
recorders office on Wednesday. The statement
that Brad attempted to skip out through the
microphone is a misake-the instrument had
not been put up. Gas. pipes for use a Ia trapeze
were in great demand, however.
A republican meeting (?) was held in Rutland
on Thursday night. A republican confdentially
puts it thusly: "There wouldn't have been any
body there if the democrats hadn't turned out;
and as it was We haa to call on democrat to
presidew
The newspapers of the county have little to
say as to the action of the Board of Supervisors
| in voting to build new court house. So far as
We can learn by inquiry the action has been APP
proved generally by the people.
The Streator Free Press says:
There has long been crying need for new
court house and perhaps there could have been
no more appropriate time for the board TO de-.
eide to build. The county is out of debt, times
are good and every body feels encouraged to make
Improvements Of a substantial kind. All hail to
the new court honse.
Mendoza Rtportcr:
| We do not believe that any supervisor or any
man whose business calls him to Ottawa TO do
business with any OF the county officers, can hon
estly oppOse a new building if the cost is kept
within reason. The necessity is admitted by all
to be urgent + We consider the scheme
not extravagant for buildings of the size needed
for La Sale county, and as the question is now
settled we hope the board will put more money
into sodity, safety from fire, room and comfort
than upon ornamentaton and ostenatious dis
| play
For years the interests of this county have suf
fered incidentally on account of The wretched
condition of court house and Jail. Both did very
well in the days of our infancy, when we were
rather destitute of this worlds goods and found
it imperatively necessary to practice economy in
all things, but now that we have developed into
one of the wealthiest and finest counties in the
state, not only the dignity, but the business in.
terests of the county, requiring suitable court
rooms and vaults for our valuable records and
court rolls, demand the speedy erection of a sub
stantal court house. Nendotd Eagle
The Mendoza Post GERMAN, though favoring
a new court house, objects to its erection upon
the present site, and thinks the board, for its
precipitate action in that regard, will hear of
something to its disadvantage at the next spring
elections. Bosh!
Streator Monitor: "On Wednesday evening,
while the spell-5ound audience was held enrap-
tured by the marvellous acting of Jane Coombs,