The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1883-09-08

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The town of Batavia has an Improve.
nent Association like our Home Improve
menL Society. During the past year The
Association has done much 10 Improve tIic
appearance OF the town ana propose 10 GO
more next year. And now comes some one,
who may perhaps have ridden over that
famous drive from Los Angeles TO Mona
60, California, and suggests, as we ma IN
The Aurora Beacon, that II would be a
wise thing 10 form an association when
3hall include citizens from all the towns
between Aurora and Elgin, and from those
towns too; that the Obj Get OF the association
be to promote anything which vii! con-
duce 10 the beauty OF The towns along me
river, and the "boulevsrdlng OF the roads
between them The highway commission
ers are necessarily conservative III attempt,
ing "A work which will cost unless backed
by u strong public sentiment and II Is to
furnish this sentiment that the ASSOCIATION
ahould be organized 1t will not require
any exorbltant outlay to make the roads
bet yeen Aurora and Elgln rs fine as any
in Illinois, If tie work IS gone at IN sen
siblc and systematic manner, ana done
gradually. There is hardly land owner
on The way who could not b. made to see
that 1t Is to his interest TO level, enrich and
cultivate the roadside TO q handsome
sward" Which contains a hat that may
BIC useful IN this neighborhood where the
opportunities tor magnificent drives be.
tween Ottawa and her neighbors are I'M
eaualed. The comfort Of solid roads is
amply proven in town, where the drives
are excellent, and still more so by the
magnificent roadway constructed from OF
tawa out into Deer Park and Nermlllion.
No finer roadways exist and we can only
hope that representative men Of our own
rural towns will take the opportunity to
drive over them, and see what little mon.
ey can do. The people of that part of the
county would not have that gravel re-
moved tor ten times its cost. All that rs
now necessary to make this road "Boule-
yard" eight or ten miles long, IS system
attic tree planting, which we believe will
yet be done
The mining outlook at La Sale, says
the Press, lis decidedly gloomy. Several
days ago the operators on the line of the
!. G. road received notice from the G. u n.
w. II. K. Co. that they must have coal
from some source, and If the mines here
could not furnish it without further delay
IT would have to be sought elsewhere {
This means substantially that three-iourths {
# not more OF the coal trade of La Sale is
as good as lost and that for the coming
wear the coal shafts on the Central road =
Will have very little patronage, and con- /
sequently very little work to offer the mi. G
ners, even il they should now accept the t
terms offered by the operators" The diff I
iiculty seems TO be that while La Sale .
coal commands no higher price IN the g
market than Streator coal, yet the miners a.
there demand materially higher wages II
than the Streator men, which the operators /,
cannot pay and operate successfully. p
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The StreatOr Free Press says: ut is p
funny, but its true, congressional candi-
dates are already developing in this dis. !,
,rict. La Sale county will have to choose al
between Judge Eldredge or Henry Mayo, a,
and the present Observation-Disclosures that 8,
is. Will county will probably present Of
Judge Parks, and Kendall its favorte son, II
John Il. Marshall. The straws are blow a
ing In the direction of Parks, If we arc not
mistaken, and we think we know a straw ~
when we see it." "
What Is funnIer still is the sudden men. a,
ia, physical and moral collapse of the 81
Hon. VIM Cullen, according to the Free V,
Press, when last summer the editor of that o'
paper didn't get the postmastership al ~
SIeator! Really so great tumble from al al
the dizzy height on which the honorable a. ~
gentleman stood in 1880 to his present pit. ~,
able condition is quite unprecedented! W