The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-06-17
Our Neighbors.


license to $500
The La Sale Press was % years old OIL
Saturday last.
The Rockford watch factory last mont
turned out 2,700 watches.
Mari, Prentice has concluded to remain
ahe Cement Hotel Utica.
a. r Jordan, of Morris, is candidate TO
the office Of county judge.
The Republican Grundy county convention
will he held at Morris to-day.
Col Plumb has consented to become can
ctids.e for Mayor of Streator.
A new census of Morris has been taken
giving her a population of APT.
THE IL sale police force will give their an
ausI bal IA next Tuesday evening.
The ",iarseiles coal company" has beer
incorpo, "a with capital of $4,000,
The nrus of the Marseiles guards have
seen tul ned over to the Streator company
The Clark & Black Paper Co" OF Mar
settles and Yorkvllle has been incorporated,
The Streator National bank has received its
circulating notes, ana is now paying them
ont.
The S'reator prohibltionists have decided to
put ., unicipal ticket in the field at the
coming lection.
A delegation of prohibit!onists went out to
Farm Ridge from Strea,or to organize club
n1 Tuesday evening last.
The Peru Plow Co. has been recognized,
ard tie works will be again put in operation,
with capital of $4,000.
Bills = doctors and for other expenses in
the Jolat small pox cases have been present
cd, aggregating over $4,000
The Utica Sewer Pipe Co. has Just placed a
new boiler OF one hundred horse power. They
have also erected new smoke stack
Their are two tile works at Morris, one
sorkln' IA hands the othar 1G. The produc
lion OF both is from 1000 to $4,000 Der day
according to size.
Bishop Spaulding confirmed about 200 chill.
dron at tie Strea!or Catholic church on Friday
last. In the evening he spoke In Oriental
hall on "rhe Catholic Church"
There beng now no night clerk at the de-
pot the night mail for Earl from Chicago is
carried through to Mendoza, and bro't back on
Cummings tram next morning.
The bridge over the Fox river at YorkvilleI
In, ia an unsafe condition for long
til4e. ! low days since one span went down
carrying a man with 1t; but he succeeded in
reaching The shore.
The election held at La Sale on last Tues.
iny for the proposition TO assess the additional
sum Of S5,l75 for the building and grading
o. ~" 'ottom road, was carried by hand
syuo a... rity
I'm Safe has been experimenting with coal
a,hes ior s.dewalk material and Is 80 we'll sat.
E.ua "j,l the results that the city council has
VT. &" use ashes altogether in the future, so
f. sa practicable.
r.. 4epot of the c. p. & $. W. road at Mi.
=, ~ was struck by lightning last Friday
,;;.,ll, ~ burned to the ground All Its con.
aeIts c.crte,r ,astroyed save couple of trunks
and some lignSNAess.gage'
According to tl1 GAru,?'ctc, the st. Charles
cooperative creamery Nat Friday morning
received $4,000 pounds o. nt.k, aid S"'!tzer's
factory 12000--a total OF Az now handled
IN 81 Charles daily
F""sf"-' capitalists have their eye on an I
sther) Industry, the Daley Harrow Works, OF
Hlnckley, yNl il satisfactory arrangements .
can be made the business will be transferred ,
TO that city and a stock company organized {
Rockford Register: The Joliet, Rockford 6
4 Northern is in reality the c. b. q q. The
work Is progressing rapidly and host Of Ia
borers are employed. They expect to have {
The road through to Rockford by October.
Willie Meehan, son OF Town Clerk Meehan
II Utica, was. run over by the Joliet accom-
modstion Tuesday morning about 10 o'clock
snd hsd leg so badly crushed that amputa.
lion was necessary The little fellow Is about
rs years old.
Peru is now being visited by small poX,
~ yc.lms having died within week. The
disease was brought to that city by family
late from Germany. Mayor Hattenhauer has
lad the houses OF the sick quarantined, and 1t
Is not feared tina. the disease will spread.
A large barn belonging to Stephen Barnes
III Blackstone, was struck. by lightning on
Saturday evening and was burned All farm
Ing implements with hay, gram, harness, and
six head OF harness were also burned-a loss
Of $500.
Tie ram of Friday night last was very Sc
yefs IL the south end of this county. The
water of the Nermillon at Streator was with
IN ak stones of the bridge, overlooking con-
siderable country Masons creek was higher
than has been known for 20 years. Several
sashou.s are reported on the railroads.
Democrat ION Wednesday evening OF last
week the La Sale board of education met and
appointed l.. A Thomas, of Henry, superin
tepdent of the schools, and Lynden Evans, q