The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-10-07
The Taltler.


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The Tartler.
A girl from Cincinnati
Kept on growing fat and fattah,
Though she dieted on battah
For yeah.
In vain she tried to scattah
All the adiposal mattah,
Till the doctor said she'd bettah
Stop her bean.
Baltimore dmericdn.
The prohlbltionists have at last found a
lawyer who Is ready to be slaughtered ION
principle;" and 1t is announced that n
Kllbourn, of this city, will be their candi.
date for county judge. Gilbert and Reeves
will 60 1t cross lots.
The Morris prohibition convention on
Tuesday nominated Rev. G.. l.. Taylor for
congress, after Revs. Heath and Shay, of
Streator, had declined. The hat was pass.
cd and 1910 raised in the convention for
tie cause, Of which 500 were sent to Tay.
lor with the instruction Ego It," 1t Is said
the central committee will substitute John.
son, of Marseilles, on the county ticket IN
Taylor's place as candidate for county
clerk.
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| La Sale Democrat. "The Christian edi.
sor Of the Ottawa Republican,, William
Cullen, uttered what he knew to be bare.
faced talsehood, last week, when he said
that G.. B. Stockdale was retired from the
schools of Peru. For more than eight
years Mr.. Stockdale was principal of the
Peru schools, and during all that time was
beloved by the scholars and respected by
the parents, and when on account of the
reduction OF wages he handed in his resig-
nation to the board of directors five of the
SIX members went to him and tried to per.
suade him to take the schools, offering to
increase his wages. To lie about so pure
a gentleman as Gerald B. Stockdale makes
every man IN Peru feel keenly the insult
ing charge, who, on election day, will fling
back the vile utterance with their solid
votes. Such stuff as printed in the Repub
lican OF last week will make votes for our
candidate for superintendent of schools"
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The La Sale Democrat suggests Gov.
Cullom Is wasting his time talking tenn
perance to an Ottawa crowd-"by all
means he ought to come down to La Sale
and go over to Streator. The miners and
workingmen just dote on him" and his
truck-bill.
The Peru HeraId: "The German Demo
Gratis of Peru are viewing with contempt
the efforts of the Republican press and
black.leg politicians to win over their sym.
pathy on the plea that the Democratic
ticket is made up of Irishmen. The Ger
mans were not ignored III the convention.
They were offered the senatorship, and
representatives but refused the honor to
make room for the gentlemen nominated,
believing 1t would be stronger combina-
ton. We are requested to state that no
clap.trap argument can ALLEVIATE them from
their duty, and they despise the influence
at work to produce dissatisfaction. All OF
which goes to prove that the Germans are
a thinking people and will vote just as
their conscience dictates"
$50 |
The Peru Herald in an article on Know.
says: 1--WE have the example |
in late Republican convention They
must have German on the ticket Why II
Because he could carry the German vote
Does any one suppose that the nominee
would have been selected tor any other
Do these men really admire the
Germans or have they an unbounded re-
spect for the nominee? Not bit of 1t. |
He is used simply as a tool to work into
what Is called German Knownothingism
and win over the vote to American Know.
nothing influence. Who ever heard of an
American born citizen being nominated to
carry the American vote?"
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In predicting that the new road across
the bottoms at La Sale may be the cause
of raising the land itself above the high
water mark by assisting in the formation
of river deposits, the La Sale Press adds
this bit of local history ana anticipation
at may not be generally known that
large portion Of the city of La Sale as
originally laid out and as now lncorpora-
ted is located on this sefsame bottom corn
field, but such is the case. The city limit
south is the section line, passing just this
side of Noonan's brick yard, and on the
of Union street lying over
/ 900 feet south of the canal. The eastern
limit is 1000 feet east of the Vermillon,
and the municipal territory here extends
to the river south, and would probably
have zone further If the river had not bppn