The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-09-09
life threatened, and he had to call meet
ing of citizens to prevent being mobbcd.
Our Neighbors.

running order.
The S,reator window glass works started
up on Sept, lst
l., r, Sample, of Marsellles, has just in
vented new hay.loader.
The Grand Ridge band have picnic
at Starved Rock on the 10th.
A shirt factory has been opened IN Au
rera which employs forty girls.
The new Mendoza organ factory turned
out It's first work last week,
The cabbage worm is running the cab
bage In the neighborhood of Mendoza.
\ stock company has been organized in
Aurora to build water works for the city.
John Ash, of Streator, who was BLANK
eted" at the Aurora encampment, has died
OF his injuries.
The Streator paper mill has shut down
for two weeks in obedience to the orders
of the western ASSOCIATION.
\ school census has been completed at
La Salle from which the population of the
city Is made to be about 5000.
VIM Carberry, of Morris, died Of yellow
fever IN Brownsville, Texas, on Wednes-
day last. He WAS telegraph operator
! there.
Joliet has just finished new high
school building. The cost is about $4,000
1t has all the modern improvements, and
is really fine public building,
| Members of the |. o. O. +. fraternity, of
S;reator, are canvassing the project of a
joint stock company to erect building
tor the use Of the fraternity in that city.
The new German Catholic church, OF
Streator, was dedicated on Wednesday lest
by Bishop Spaulding, with the usual cere-
monies The church Is not quite finished,
but was dedicated thus early because Of
the anticipated absence of Bishop Spauld-
ing in Rome.
The window glass department of tine lie
Sale glass works has been closed for some
time, and will not be opened soon. The
company intends to continue the manu-.
facture of bottles, there being greater profit
in this line than IN any other Most OF
the men engaged in the wind Nv glass
manufacture have left, or are leaving, for
other points, Rock Island, Pittsburgh and
ST. LOUIS.
A stranger created q sensation last week
in the Mendoza Presbyterian church dur
ing the sermon. Daring the perfect silence,
when every one was listening to the elo-
qucnt words of the minister, there came
tho sound of most unearthly yell from
the back part of the church that startled
every one. 1t was case OF epilepsy, and
the man was at once cared for.
NORR0r: 1.-TWO Streator bellies were
challenged the other day by their father
to 60 down Main street IN their old clothes
and carry pitcher of milk. Before he
could recall his offer of go they were
clothed in their old garments and on their
way down street. They manfully ran tn e
gauntlet OF inqulring eyes, and with no
'fivaIs rsr lnv ruturu anu I'm unrequited love,
they wobbled along in tkelr old shoes and
ragged robes and won the money"
f0in Neies a luaar rainbow is a
rare phenomenon, as the moon is in posi-
ton to form one but small portion of the
time, and 1t still less frequently happens
that it and a rain cloud are both in the
relative positions required. Last Wednes-
day evening faint bow spanned the west
ern clouds as the moon was darling her
mild beams through rift IN the clouds
that rested on the eastern horizon. 1t
lasted some 20 minutes and disappeared at
s O'Clock.
At Aurora during this week a company
has been organized for the establishment
Of cotton MILL and the land purchased
upon which to build It, The Chicago.
Burlington II Quincy Railroad Company
have agreed to build side.track TO it. The
orignators of the enterprise are S. f. and
L. s. Hobbs, of Selma, Ala; r. NJ. Hobbs,
manager of cotton mills at Valley Field,
Can, and n. Il, Hobbs of Aurora. The
capital stock already taken is $4,000,
and capitalists are ready to put in Sl0s, 900
more wher needed The foundation of
the mills will be put in this fall, and the
superstructurc next spring. 1t is anticl-
pated that the mills will be in full opera
ton withih year.
The Mendoza Union Far was held this
week, opening on Tuesday The entries
were much larger than expected for the
first meeting, but the buildings are COM
modlous and there is ample room. There
were several herds OF very fine cattle, and
of much better grade than most people
expected to find in that section of the
country. Floral hall was filled with an
unusually fine display Of goods rarely ex-
hibited at county fairs. The agricultural
department was said to be as fine as ever
seen at state fair. The sheep and hogs
were fine, while the horses of all grades,
especially the imported heavy draught,
were as fine Us one could desire to see, q
correspondent says.
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