The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-04-15

man ufacture OF hydraulic cement, sewer pipe,
fire brick drain tile, terra.cotta ware. The ad-
jacent hills Of the Illinois river supply an mex.
haustitle supply OF fire clay, cement rock, glass
sand and coal" The Sewer Pipe and Terra Cot
Ia Works employ 80 men and have $50, 900 in
vested; James Clarks Cement Works employ
100 men and make 10000 barrels OF cement per
annum; the Fire Brick Works employ 80 men
aud have capacity OF 10000 daily; the lower
Ceusnt Works, some distance west OF the village,
employ 100 men and have II capacity OF 800 bbls.
daily. The business men Of the village men
toned are: f. +. Taylor, general store, since
1851; j p Hazel, grocer; Ira Connovcr, baker;
Il, +. Wagenknecht hardware; Learned 4 Co.,
dry goods and groceries, Highly Il Briggs drugs;
Z. T. Pusifer, grain dealer; Niccum Ditefscn,
boots aud shoes; A. b. Fctterer, general store;
J.B Cundif, confectionery; c. &. Perrin, black.
smith; Pollard " Stevenson, butchers; DIR. XIV.
Leland, drugs; John Mcdowell, confectionery;
f. Fitzgerald, harness; j. Z. Mcclure, dry goods
and groceries; II y. Gilbert, grain dealer; Den.
mis- Lynch, dry goods The sketch shows Utica
to DC a very lively village.
The Times Is doing It's best to get up scare
shout the new Court House, having only now,
after the plans had been approved for over one
year and the wall nearly finished discovered that
the top story, for court rooms, Is not 10 be fire.
proof II was never intended to be So Rather,
it WAS from the first distinctly understood that
, thi, story would not be tlre-proof-a fact that
caused Uncle John Miller to insist upoL motion
ustructing the building committee to supply
vaults for all the Offices in addition to building
the lower stories fire proof, which has been done
Really the scheme of the Times to get up a row
"all by tselT' is too utterly too for it must no.
imagine the people of the county so beastly *
norant on this subject as the Times Is II should
attend the sessions of the Board-whch it has
never yet done; or it might keep informed by
reading the FREE TRADER.
The came paper is doubtless at the bottom OF
scheme to call together the Board In extra ses-
sion to modify the plans, petition tor which the
supervisors OF Bruce and Peru, at least, refused
to sign ION the ground that the plans had been
thoroughly endorsed by committee Of the
Board aud then had been adopted by the Board
itself"
What 10 true in Kankakee county is true, as 1t
happens, In La Sale. Says the Kankakee Gczctte:
1.-The publication Of the officers reports is az
fordng the tax payers Of the several townships
great satisfaction where the reports are made
with sufficient detail to furnish an intelligent
idea Of where and how the money has been ex-
pended. In most cases here in nearly all the
spirit Of the law has been complied with; but
occasionally report is seen which gives simply
the gross amount OF money expended by the
officer without showing for what purposes it was
paid out. This kind OF a statement may proba-
bly, be technical compliance with the law, but
IL certainly does not give the people the knowl-
edge which the law contemplated they should
gain from these reports. The expense Of publ.
cation is not large even when the reports are
made out In detail, and the officers should see
that their statements are full enough to satisfy
inquiring taxpsyers'