The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-07-22
Our Neighbors.

The Peru pillow works have begun opera
lions under the new management
The La Sale guards have secured 20 names
for membership In the new company.
On last Friday night a gang OF tramps helo
nm a brakeman at Joliet and robbed him OF 800
Thieves broke into the house of John Trapp'
Streator. on Sunday, securing S39 in money.
Conductors Kennedy and Hand, of the Fox
River Line are members OF the orKVliie r'le
club
prohibition club of - members was or
yanized at Riverside, Streator, on Sunday
night.
Mayor Welsh, of La sale, last week vetoed
an ordinance abollshing the office OF CHIEF Oh
police.
Judge Plllsbury has almost recovered from
The pistol sho. wound that he received several
weeks ago
party of La Sale excursionists will enjoy
Sunday tomorrow by going to Dubuque, via
the l. c. r. X.
The new Mendoza organ factory Will employ
Us hands. The older company has recently
enlarged us TOIhs
A boy in StIea,or, grandson OF MIR. small,
was run over on Monday by wagon, having
his thigh bone broken.
Tom Halhgan, of the Pekin road switch
ward, Streator, was badly squeezed between
two locomotives on Monday last.
Two promising boys died IN Elgin this
week, from lockiaw, the result Of wounds in
f,cted by toy pistols on the Fourth.
The Plano Manufacturing Co. have made
$3.50 harves,ers this year and 700 mowers,
and vet are unable to meet the demand.
The contracts of the Z. B. & Q. and G. "
N. W. railroads for coal, have been renewed
with the Vermillion Coal Co., at Streator.
The school census JUS. completed, gives FL.
gin population OF 11,328-an increase OF
1921 since the national census was TAKEN
The Three Id railroad having reached
streator is at the end OF its rope and will prob
ably call an indefinite halt In construction.
A new paper Is to be started in Joliet. 1t
will be controlled by three saloOn.keepers and
will take up the cause of the liquor dealers.
Contracts have been letfor walllng and grav-
cling the La Sale bottom road at $3.50 per
cube yd. for wall and sec. per cubic va. for
graveling
The back tax raised IN the town of Kendall
some years since to pay the Fox River Rail.
road bonds, $1,000. is being paid back by the
Supervisor
The Aurora street car company expects to
be IN readiness to commence the construction
Of their horse railway before the close of the
presen. month
A party from Mendoza last week went to
La Sale, and taxing little pleasure steamer
went down TO Hennepin and back reaching
home at l0P.M NJ.
A pleasure party returning home to La Sale
on Monday night from party In Hall tp, In
band wagon, were upset by the driver. For.
tunately no one was hurt
The Streator representative at the window
glass blowers convention, at Pittsburg, last
week, tailed to secure PERMISSION to start that
factory until September next
The canal commissioners have put up a
uOth nv ppm lAOSh tuC ShiOoSc 'oooON
Brick Company, which is shipping clay from
Rockwell to Chicago on canal boats.
The La Sale Democrat remembering the IN.
crease of 20 per cent to La Sales assessment
by the Board of Supervisors wants the Board
abolished as having outlved Its usefulness
Peru NeoS Starved Rock last Sunday
witnessed novel experiment In the line OF
pleasure: picnic party with no admission to
ladies Gentlemen from Ottawa and Streator
we're numerous
Wednesday week the commissioners OF
highways for town Of Rutland let the contract
for rebuilding two bridges and abutments
on the Bluff road. One at the Walbridge
creek is feet span, and one at Russell run.
On Thursday last week water broke into
ihe Eagle Creek shaft, Streator, from the sand
bed above the coal, Their pumping appll-
Ances are not quite equal to the task of holding
The water level, so new pump will be put IN
Immediately.
Mat,niessen & Hegelers big chimney sends
Oat large quantities OF sulphurous smoke con
stan,ly, and is beginning to show the re-
suits of Its labor on the bricks at the extreme
iop. near view of the structure shows the
appearance Of an ordinary chimney that has
stoOd the storms OF decade.
The colored citizens of Chicago and Men
ia are making preparations to celebrate the
Emancipation Proclamation on the 22d day
ofSeptember next 10 Mendoza. The Chicago
Light Infantry, l. n. G., commanded by Capt.
Brown, and their celebrated brass band of 20
pieces have been engaged to take part.
The Aurora Creamery Co. on Tuesday made
large shipment of butter to Providence, r. l.
They are now receiving at the creamery $500
gallons of milk daily, and 800 pounds of cream,
about equal 10 as much more milk, or total