The Ottawa free trader., 1885-06-06
Timely Topics.


| Plcnics have not ripened yet.
The Fourth of July fails on Saturday.
The Earlvillc schools close next Friday.
The Streator high school commencement
takes place June II.
c, Lingenfeder, n Peru harness dealer, fail.
ed for g. 600 one day last week.
The FREE TRADER exchanges, with few ex.
ceptions, were remarkably dull last week.
Morris has invited Co. d, OF this city, to be
present at its Fourth of July celebration.
Commencement exercises were held in the
elegant high school at Princeton last night
The Illinois river has just been stocked with
shad by order Of the National Fish Commits.
sion.
Mercer, of the Princeton Tribune, calls the
editor of his cotemporary, the Ne,cs. an
inidel.
Aurora had Belva Lockwood us an attrac-
ton one day this week, and Streator John p.
st. John.
The council last Tuesday night ordered the
payment Of s4215 to J, o. Glover, Of Chicago,
for bonds and interest.
The Times man, of La Sale, says that he
saw the "outskirts of the tornado" the other
day. OH you naughty man.
The Marshall County Democrat has the best
collection Of country correspondents of any
paper that comes to this desk
Joliet is a city of 10000 and is without
public park. Ottawa and Streator, with about
the population Of Joliet, have two parks.
ylr ~, I
acres of land in Bureau county and are testing
the capacity of number of natural gas
flows.
The MarseilleS Register was top-heavy last
week with anti,license matter. Its editor
drinks nothing stronger than weak solution
of lemonade.
The ladies of the Lutheran church will give
a strawberry festival next Monday night at
Schaefer's hall Fitzgeralds Band will fur
nish the music.
Flirting had regular boom this commence
ment week, but now the market is steader,
and the plain, common.sense style OF counting
is in vogue again.
An ordinance went into effect last Tuesday
in Streator which prohibits throwing bills on
the streets or in the stores. Dodgers, bills,
&C., must be posted up.
If the death of Judge McRoberts had oc-
Cured the day Of the election, special cleo
ton for three judges would be required to be
hed.-Vdie Shaw on Elections.
Buggy riding these fine nights depends so
much upon the credit Of the individual that
hn .rol har md la,ly -
make the business somewhat dull.
NJ j. Fnlen, brother Of County Clerk Fin
len, and member Of the firm of d. Heenan
Il Co., Geo. NJ. Rigden and Fred Leroy are
the candidates for the Streator postotlice.
Miss Emma X. Strawn, of Lacon, was ad-
mitted to the bar last week, having passed
very crcditablc examination at the state CAPT
tai. In class of % she stood second best.
The matri monial market has been ratbee
dull, with an occasional spurt during the last
month, and this dullness promises to continue
until the revival of business, which the first
frost always brings.
Peru still remains without any police pro.
lection, and Hib Corwin is afraid that some
sand-bagger will hold him up some of these
dark nights. just say you are newspaper
man, llib and you will not be molested.
Commencement exercises were held at the
east side high school, Mendoza, Prof. jenkins
principal, last night. The following are the
graduates; Cartha Girard Hattie Cippcrly,
Eva J. Rice, Lcttia A. Wcstgate and Marga-
ret f. Amber.
The Lacon Home Jou,ndl began Volume
XLVII May 2S. with, as it says, every avail.
able inch filled with geod-paying ads, our job
hook full OF orders and subscription list en-
tirely satisfactory" Happy man; thou art
indeed to be envicd
The Mendoza Bulletin Is now run by gas
not the sort Of gas used by its editor, but by
an engine that uses gas. 1t is to be hoped
that this improvement will awake the afore.
said paper from its slumbrous lethargy to
join the living present and forsake the ways
Of the dead past.