The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-02-27
From Ophir.

. OHprR, Feb 22-Pleasant weather thi
FOR winter.
! Ed. Willsy and family have gone 10 Kan
sas 70 make that their future home
. Henry HOrnberger and Miss Mary Rotl
were married last Thursday In Mendoza
Mr.. Henry Miller ana Miss Clara Hesen
gerger we're the same day made one. Pc
dro wishes them joy
Grandma Phillips, who spent the fal
and winter with her son Joe AT Plainfeld
returned home last week
Mr.. Hapeman Is selling great deal OF
lum Der in Homer. lie has a good stock OF
A No lumber, and treats all alike.
Our elevator is doing nothing owing e
the poor roads.
Tell Z. Graph, of Homer, TO the Mendota
Bulietin, in a recent issue, had this to say
"Pero, of the FREE TRADER, says Triumph
is doing lots of business, while our Homer
elevator, &c, is doing nothing. Pedro is
mistaken, there was $1,000 worth of bust
ness done there last week" Holy Moses
IT. T. a., Homer never saw the day that
she did $1,000 worth of business. You
must be sadly off your base, or else you are
lacking brains. Don't know which.
Mr. Pat Devine has moved ON MIR. o..
COnnor's farm, near the suburbs Of Homer.
Walter Reeder has gJue 70 Kansas 10
Join his brother viii.
The Homer Masons will give select
ball in Homer soon II is distinctly under.
stood that no one will be admitted unless
holding an invitation card.
Homer is laboring with revival. Mr.
Peck, a converted jew, is the eXhorter.
Link Short has gone 10 Tennessee on d
prospecting tour.
Farmers, test your seed corn early, as
there is lots Of il that is worthless.
Our Scotch friends have put in big
week at curling for the championship and
q Scotch medal viii give particulars in
my next.
Mr. Curry, of Milwaukee,, is here visit
ing friends and seeing his best girl.
Mr. Chester Mclaughlin has enrolled
himself on the FREE TRADER list Some
one has started the story that Ches was
going TO work at Spring Valley this sum.
mer. Such is not the fact; he will stay al
home, as he can ind plenty TO do at his
trade here, and he says so 90 per day will
be his charges Chester is one of the oes,
wOrkmen that We have in this part Of the
county, AS every one can testify 10 that ever
had him employed, Give him a call and
get his estimates on building before you
hire any one else.
David kGrtZ'5 gun lottery came off &C.
Cording to Programme. Everything was
fair and above board. VIM T. Whom
held the lucky No. q. Billy set them up
70 The boys right royalty.
The great, the immense J. Il \. K. r.,
whose owners are worth millions, pay their
section hands the enormous sum of SllO
per day. Hadn't they better do as McCor.
mick did, have a lockout.
Any pleasant Saturday afternoon in Homer
no one will have any trouble in counting
from 10 to IS school mans ana dude peda.
gogues, and some If them will make a man
sick TO see the smart antics displayed by
them. Go take tumble,
la conversation with granger from No
Q, Troy Grove, he told me that Billy Wen.
ner is the best teacher they ever had in the
school Pedro believes that viii has good
sense, and is perfect gentleman, and ne
that is not afraid 70 work. PEDRO
[Our correspondent sends a lengthy ac-
count of the Homer horror, the facts OF
which are embodied in the article on that
subject with others in another place. 1t is
no, fair 10 him that the public should think
he had neglected the most important item
Pedro" is a model correspondent and we
want him and the rest of world 10 know
that we know L. l--EDs.