The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1883-06-30
Vicinity Items.


day for the summer.
Geo. Raymond has tile factory ready
for business at La Sale.
Jacob Gerner, of Hector Is to build a
new church in Lostant.
Hon. w. Bushnell delivers the Fourth
of July Grafton at Lisbon.
Strea,or Lodge No COZ, |. o. o. F., has
147 members in good standing.
Rev. j. Il. Hoist, rector of Christ (Epis-
copaD church, Streator, has resigned.
Rev. G. S. Young, of Ottawa, will deliv-
er the Fourth of July Grafton at Seneca
In 10 years the Aurora high school has
graduated 100 persons, of whom li3 are
ladies'.
John, son of L. Z. Kelly, of Earl, some
time since ran rusty nail in his foot and
has been attacked with iockjsw.
Hon. S. c. Whey nule daughter Rosa
las, week was thrown from horse while
riding, and had her le;t arm broken below
,he elbow,
Mrs Mary \. Harper, motherin-law OF
John Parsons Of Wenona, committed sui
eide IAs, Wednesday by hanging heEseif
70 The bedpos, She was insane.
Edward Best. Of Esrlville, who has har-
vested great crop OF strswberris, saved
them BY getting up and building smudge
ares around The patch tina, night IN May
when Ice formed IS thick as window
glass;
Commencing July Isl the dry goods
merchants o, Aurora will for one year
close their respective places OF business al
G o'clock p III. The plan worked wei
las, wear, giving general satisfaction to al
interested.
John Swanson, car greaser in No =
shaft, was caught between two cars Wed-
nesdsv and had one bone in his shoulder
broken. He has policy in the Accident
Insurance company and will get $7.5O a
week while laid up.
joel Haws, one Of the Oldest and best
known residents of Putnam county, died
at his home near Magnolia on Sunday. lie
was over 80 years of age and had settled
near Magnolia before the BIackhawk war
He died very suddenly.
The Department of Agriculture at
Springfield, figures out that in Illinois the
area of the growing crop of oats Is larger
than IN 1882, when 10OOOOOOO bushels
were produced, being one fifth of the total
Of the country And the condition OF theI
growing grain is rated tour per cent bet
ter than a, the corresponding period last
year.
After July 8, post office orders tor oil
sums from one cent to one hundred dollars
NAV be sent TO any point in the United
STATES at the following rates; For sums
not exceeding $40, cents sl5, 10 cents (;
$50, Is cents $40, 30 cents; $50, % cea's ;
$50, 30 cents; $40, 30 cens, $50, 40 cents ;
300. ~ cents. The limit has heretofore
been $50
The consolidation 0f revenue districts
aas been made and Aurora holds the
gort.r Ia the state two diatrlcts have been
vrnsd ONT. one NJ winch il Sterling, ia
-srrtinry being placed under the !urisdIc-
ion OF L. 3. CrOnker, 81 this district Int
office renMns in Aurora, ADD Nr W ood'
cnck former COLLECTOR at Sterling, has beeI
ven, rs csuanI 10 Que " the italian ports
IRA. Zimmerman, tue widow Of the maj
Klnneman NAo WA killed in Sucato
,nafr Iaat wlater, gave birth onTuesday 3
win boys, one Weighing eight and III
other ten pounds. THIS is the third pal
Of twins, aud eleven children IN eleve
years. Six of the children are living an
the mother has been supporting her IAN
lily by washing, with some AID from va
Fellows and others.
The Aurora postmaster, TO avoid delay !
the distribution of the Chicago moInin
mall has made arrangements to send
Riverside every morning on the train leu
ing Aurora at 7:l0 messenger who's
duty II IS to board the mail car at th
point, assert the Aurora mail by section
and tie up in packages for all the larg'
hrms-.the manufacturing establishment
banks, newspaper offices and princ'p
business houses-in separate package
Thus, on reaching that city at 10 o'cloc
most of the labor is accomplished and
the letter null and daily papers can
thrown in In less than five minutes.
Seneca Record: Last Sunday evenlr
about six O'Clock George Olmstead al
Joseph H. Ross, two young mer at the 81
of 90, who were working for G. A. Wi
marth, went bathing in the Illinois riv
about half mile east of the wagon bridg
They had been IN less than five minut
when Ross called out to Olmstcad to con
and help him as he was going out beyol
his depth. Olmstead undertook to he
HIM back and was dragged under twice
Ross who chung to Georges fingers In b
exci,ment to be saved. Olmstead reach
,ha ehore with difficulty without bell