The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-10-01
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| NAsH.-Miss Lura Nash has gone to Indianap-
oils, Ind.
Hook. Charley Hook, jr., is recovering from
his attack Of fever.
TAYLoR.-Major ". NJ. Taylor, Chicago, WAS
in town on Thursday.
KlNG.-Mrs. s. f. King and Miss Gertle King
have gone to Chicago.
MAcY.-Miss Macy has about recovered from
her late serious ilAess.
LYxcu-Miss L. spauldlng, Chicago, is the
guest Of Miss Anna Lynch.
Pmpps.-Mrs. w. T. Phipps returned from her
visit in the eas: on last Saturday.
FEvRR.-Mr. j. II. Leighton, OF the flint works,
is laid up with malarial fever.
CnEEvER.-Miss Fannie Cheever has gone to
visit her sister, Mrs Dent, at LeMars, Iowa.
HorKINs.-Miss Fannie Hopkins will be mar
ried at the Congregational church on next
Thursday.
GEo.-Geo. Spencer, who has been i'll for some
weeks, is slowly recovering, though not yet able
10 work much
HAMILroN.-Mrs. Nancy Bridge and Miss Em-
ma Burri Boston, Mass, are the guests OF Mr..
and Mrs. A. Hamilton.
j. ID. Hour thanks are due our occasional
correspondent ~. D. H." for Cleveland papers
of Monday and Tuesday.
EAsT.-H. p, Burgess, for long time with the
c. b. Q. railroad company, has started on a
five weeks trip to New York and Boston.
DAY-Tonica .Necs; ed. Thompson's drug
store was draped in presidential mourning =
whole day ahead OF any other business house"
DIcKEY.-Mrs. Jesse Dickey arrived in this CITY
W. 49, ~, 80
mer with Mr.. and Mrs W. 7, Dckey, at Crooks.
ton, MINI.
LYNCH. Miss Anna Lynch entertained the
young people Of Ottawa on last Thursday eve
ning the guest of honor being her friend, Mise
Spaulding, of Chicago.
GREEN.-Mrs. Mary o. Green, mother Of Sam'l
Chapman, died on Monday night last, at the ripe
age Of S. useful years. The body was taken 70
the Grower school house cemetery for burial.
STONE. A Mr.. Stone, late Illinois state man.
ager of the a. & P. Telegraph Co., and member
of the Board OF Trade, will open produce ex.
change here shortly. He will not do bucket
shop business.
FRED.-Morris Hcn}i S0th: "Mr. Fred Hos.
sack, who for the past year and half has beer
buying gram IN THIS city, leaves to-day for Dee
Moines Iowa, where he will 20 into the dry
goods business"
FALLs.--Utica Gazette: "Miss May Wilson, OF
Bloomington, Miss Emma White, Of Kansas City,
and Misses Cora and Lille Leland, OF Ottawa,
were in town Wednesday, visiting Starved Rock
and Clark's Falls"
A.-Ed Bradford, Mitch0 genial clerk, has
concluded to go west. he goes to Oskalooss,
Iowa, to join the surveying party of which Mr..
Robert Wilson IS member, laying out a new
branch of the c. & N. w. K. Il.
MEIGs.-Jou,nal: "Misses Anna and Belle
Megs arrived home from their eastern trip, q
day or two since. They visited New York city,
Catskill mountains and other noted places east,
during their three months absence"
'FRIsCo.-Cards announce the marriage Of
Lieut.. Winston Fish, T. s. A., and Miss NJ. Ger
trude Cameron, on the odd ult., at Chicago The
happy couple proceeded at once to San Fran
cisco, where Lieut.. Fish has been stationed.
CoTroN.-J oseph Albrecht showed us on las:
Saturday ripe cotton raised by him at his place on
the west side. So far as we know this is the first
cotton that ever ripened In this county. We are
afraid, however, cotton raising will not be very
profitable in the county
GODFREY Thomas Godfrey, son of Philip
Godfrey, who has been so dangerously i'll from
typhoid malaria fever for the last five weeks, we
are happy 20 learn from DR.. Godfrey, the attend
ing physician, has passed the crisis OF the fever
and is now fairly conyalescent.
VESTS. w. Williams, Moab Trumbo, Abner
Strawn, L. N. Hess, J. I. Warner, and other cap
itaists from Ottawa and vicinity, started Thurs
day last for the west to look after lands. locate
dozen or more railroads, and investigate the feas-
ibility OF buying out the interests of Gould and
Vanderbilt in the states and territories lying
west of the Mississippi!