The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1883-11-17

4 Missouri man writing to the Prairie
Farmer suggests a method Of road making
that is worth consideration. The key
note" he says, cot the whole trouble Is free
the ground Of water, and you Will have no
mud or slush, and consequently firm, dry
road tel 10 travel at all seasons Of the
year" The best way he concelves to do
this is drainage, pure and simple" There
are few sections IN the state where there Is
not fall enough To drain It, and the same
may be said of the roads. The usual meth.
Cd of road making has made the bed con
veX with bitches along the sides. These
bitches having no proper outlets become
reservoirs of water, saturating the road bed,
and the more it is travelled the softer 1t he
comes. The remedy is find an outlet,
and drain off the water; then begin on the
road bed, sinking from in. 10 8 in. tile
IN the depressiOns on either side, these
drains to have openings for cross drains OF!
small tiles every six feet, which shall
cro's the road bed from lateral drain to lat
eral drain, the cross drains to be laid with
fall to carry the water freely into the later
al drains. This system, 1t is claimed, will
give road which, il a little sloppy on top
after rain, will be solid at all seasons
The cost any farmer can figure out who
has cone any thing.
kF*
Ola McAdam, when he made roads,
would not have any stone placed on the
track which would not pass through ring
one inch IN diameter He said larger stone
we're cruel to horses and would not pack
well.
All, there! There's nothing like it,
That most eminent OF all the distinguish
ed sous Of Boston, Prot. John l.. Sullivan,
Is to be in Streator Wednesday evening IN
order to give his many admirers an oppor,
tunity to pay for the privilege of seeing
HIM. He was here once before but at chat
time he was only part way up instead OF
perchcd on The very top round Of the lad
der OF fame, Us he is now.-Stre0tor Free
Press.
He's the champion slugger, and has
had his picture in the P0itre gazette.
The Strea:or Free Press seems to have
at last caught on The Ottawa Journal
is the worst liar in the state. In proof OF
this we offer its Issue of yesterday where
It pre,ends to give a long and circums.an
tial account of scene in the probate court
when the Will OF the late w. &. Gill, OF
Usage, was offered tor probate. 1t describes
the "Gill children" and "a law" as
minutely as if they actually existed, when
the fact Is Gill was young man and had
no children. Too much Of the Journals
news" is made in the same way"
AS TO the Fox River Il. r. stock, the
Streator Free Press says: "A paper bear
ing the signature of August T. Post was
served on Supervisor Fades and Town
Clerk Bean to-day, notifying them that he
WAS the owner of certain bonds issued by
the town of Bruce 10 pay for capital stock
IN the Fox River railroad, and said bonds
having been declared INVALID he would
now demand the stock in lieu thereof, and
warning them not to dispose of the same.
The paper was merely a personal notice
from Post, and not issued from any court.
Constable Bale, who served the papers, has
lot OF them for all the towns along the
I;pe of The road tina. took stock and issued