The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-06-07


accepted the road will run within a short
distance of A. Gum, sr.'s residence, north
of the city, with prospects of making sta
ton at that point. We cannot see living
chance to keep La Sale from advancing
TO the lead of all cities in this part of the
state. Coke ovens are surely to be built,
and that will as surely bring iron works
here as the heavens are above us. These
mammoth institutions will start in La Sale
at no distant day and branches will spread
west until the time will come when we
will have one continuous city from the
Little Vermillion river to the Spring Val,
ley coal fields. The outlook is, indeed
bright and promising for La Sale and its
immediate vicinity"
The railroads understand the value of
good printing, and some Of the finest and
most expensive work of the time is being
done for them, not only in the shape of 18th.
ographic hangers and time cards, but in
book work, and some of the finest speci-
mems of pamphlet book work and wood
engraving are found in the guides" &c,
of the summer land" roads Man is nat
urally a hunter, whether the trait is indul-
ged Or not As a boy he devours "The Boy
Hunters" or "The Gorilla Hunters" or
1.-THE Desert Home;" as man, "Tenting
on the Brule," and the sketches in Forest
and Stream or The Aogler make him rest.
less and Disconnected The summerland
roads, a plague on them, know this but too
well, and are responsible for many bit Of
covetousness Of good mems riches and leis.
ure. The stroke comes year by year.
Many poor fellow, stupid with the grind
of years hard work and weltering with
the heat Of summer remembers the breezy
bats Of the Wisconsin Central or Grand
Rapids u Indiana roads in times past or
the charming b. IL o. summer books pip.
ing the glories of the mountains. These
are hardly forgotten. when now comes an
other, entitled, Forests, Streams and Lakes
of Northern Wisconsin and Michigan" is
sued by II. V, Whitcomb, of Milwaukee,
Gen. Pass. Agt. of the Milwaukee, Lake
Shore IL Western Railway The region
referred to has been made accessible only
within the past year. and its wealth of seen.
ic attractions, its climatic and other advan-
tages and the unequaled attractions it holds
forth to disciples of the rod and gun, will
cause it to become one of the most popular
resorts i'm the northwest for invalids, tour.
lists and sportsmen. A large part of the
country has been heretofore almost terra
iacognito, and the descriptions are so well
written that If the reader does not pack
up" on the instant it is because he can't,
for the land IL u veritable sportsmans par
adise. A hotel directory, descriptions of
two sportsmen's excursion cars, and a
promised schedule of the game and fish
laws of the two states complete most at
uhttlN' HoluHit, "ilNh VIII NC SUM ny WI
Whitcomb on application, or by c. A. Cole
80 Clark st, Chicago.
Ole0margarine is said to be composed of
old grease, tallow, lard, cotton seed oil, DC,
heated with chemicals. The largest facto
ries are In New York, with large factories
in Illinois and Ohio, who palm off 10000
600 lbs. of this stuff as butter yearly, This
is the encouragement an honest butter pro
ducer gets when obliged to SELL as in this
city now, good butter for half price, and no
market in the great cities. La Sale coun
ty makes about 100000 pounds of butter
annually, and the entire state about S..
100000 pounds. Chicago is said to be max
ing 10000 pounds of butterine a day.
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An exchange gives the following as the
origin of that beautiful and patriotic holt.
day to which the Both of May is dedicated
Decoration Day; "Mrs. Sarah Nichols
Evans, who died recently in Des Moines,
Iowa, was one of the four ladies with whom
the observance of Decoration Day origin
ated. On the 18th Of April, 1862, Just one
year after the fall of Fort Sumter, Mrs.
Evans, with the wife and two daughters of
Chaplain May, of the Second Regiment,
Michigan Volunteers decorated the graves
of considerable number of soldiers buried
on Arlington Heights. In May the year
following they rendered the same sadly
pleasant attention to the graves OF soldiers
buried at Fredericksburg. In 1874 Congress
took notice of ceremonial so significant of
the Nations obligation to the dead, and
made the Both day of May a legal holiday.
II was becoming, after such a record, that
Mrs. Evans should have formal recogni.
ton by the Grand Army This was given
her by Croker Post, No. 12, Des Moines,
February, 1883, the same recognition being
extended to Miss Ella May, now the only
survivor of the four, few months later
II Is one OF the objects, we believe, Of