The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1885-01-17

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The next season wool dropped from 40 to
50 cents per pound and the firm lost be
tween $4,000 and $4,000, and later on
the firm met with another heavy disaster
BY the burning of $4,000 worth OF wool
stored in Chicago, and which went up in
the great fire. The result of these heavy
losses was that the firm was obliged to
close lis doors, and the WOODEN industry
then was over
The paper mil owned by II. b. Williams
is closed for the winter, having at this
time a large surplus stock on hand. 1t
gives employment to Is men.
The horse-collar factory was established
in 1865. In 70 A. f. Dunayan L Son pur-
chased the business, which employs about
ten hands II has capacity Of y dozen
collars per day, manufacturing % different
grades, ranging in price from So to $2j per
dozen The firm has, piled up in It's store
rooms, $4,000 worth of horse. collars await
ing shipment The demand is principally
in the spring months, and the collars man
ufactured here are sold throughout this
and adjoining states, and in New York,
Pennsylvania, Virginia, and California
The firm buys for cash, getting inside
prices on material, and by strict and honest
dealings the firm sends It's goods over a
wide area Of territory, competing in pli3e
and quality with any factory in the United
States This the Dunayans are enabled to
do, as they make collars a specially In
the sumner season leather ty.nets are
manufactured here The junior member
and another agent are on the road in the
interest of the business, The firm have
$4,000 invested in their mandatory A
F, Dunavan, very courteous and obliging
person 70 meet, kindly showed the FREE
TRADER man through the building, where
every workman was busy as mailer in the
manufacture of that portion of the collar
entrusted TO him This factory was also
damaged blythe high water, which flooded
the basement, tearing up portions o! the
floor
Dayton has a neat, two-story public
school, presided over by Ottawa ladies'
Miss Jennie Crane in the higher depart
ment, with Miss Mary Miller in the prima-
ry. About 70 pupils are in attendance
a Sabbath school of Is members is one
Of the organizations of the village. The
superintendent, Basil Green, being absent
his place is supplied by JAS A Green.
II i the proud boast Of the little village
that it never had saloon within its
borders
Chas. Miller, Jesse Green 0. ". Trumbo
and Geo. " Makiuson are the only names
on the roster of postmasterS OF the place.
The latter is probably the oldest postmaster
in this state, having been appointed by
President Buchanan in "a Thirty years
of continuous service as postmaster at Day. |
ton will, unquestionsbly, give him re
under the new administration
The office is little structure-9x4 feet, in !
the only store the village possesses
Jas. Timmons runs the Dayton Hotel
and has monopoly of that business, and
he fears no rival
In the first few months of its existence
Dayton had more Inhabitants than the Chi
cago Of those past days Yet it is pleas
antly and very Economically situated, and
will always from its traditional and historic
associations be an object Of much curiosity
and interest 10 the tourist In the summer
weather il is a popular fishing resort and
the stamping ground of many pic mic
party.
Tuesday night, Jan s, the Fox river at
Dayton reached its highest point in the
memory of the oldest inha bitant Within
10 years, with one notable eXcepton-the
Use Of '59-the river had not reached such
I height In a few hours, by the gorging
II the ice AZ Hewland's Rapids about
nile from it. mouth, the river at Dayton
'oSe 20 feet above high. water mark, reach
ug TO the second tloO- Of the old wooden
Mills. The chimney of the pressed brick
works was demolished aud a large lot of
lumber swept away. The river banks on
10Th sides were strewn with ice, thousands
" tons being piled up by the food Tues
lay last there were fears entertained of an
'ther freshet, as the ice was beginning to
,orge rs it had done the night of the 9Th.
One of the oldest roads laid out by the
tate was the one which crossed the Fox
liver at Dayton. Ten years ago the bridge
vas carried away by the ice, and since that
lme no means has been provided to cross
be river at that point The county agreed ,
ONE time ago to pay half the expense,
eaying TO the toWnshipof Dayton and Rut
aud one fourth the cost each 1t is not at
i probable that this bridge will be rebuilt
NJ some years, unless the townships named
IKE 4 more active interest in the agitation
1 the project
The representative of the FREE TRAD