The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-03-24
Utica Vibrations.

Utica Is organizing brass hand OF eight
pieces. There Is no escape. Hazel Is nail
Ing the shingles down on his roof with
eight penny nails, Ben Edgcomb drives to
La Sale for his dinner and the inhabitants
all lock themselves In at seven o'clock
stuff cotton In their ears and 60 70 bed on
practice nights
Burglars effected An entrance into JAS
Clarks residence this week. yet only 50.
cured square meal for their trouble
Sobieski lectured this week to large au-
diences in Clark's hall on temperance.
Ward Robbins, a ten-year Old boy was
the victim of the new lassolng regulation,
being thro sn down and receiving broken
leg. DR.. smith has the boy In charge.
T. Griffin was In Chicago this week.
Since the fnEE TRADER has Snowman nd.
ditiOna interest IN the welfare Of our town,
IL does not require an expert to see that its
columns are carefully perused and contents
noted. The truth il, those who are constant
readers of The paper thoroughly enjoy the
benefits derived from 1t, but the occasional
reader only catches the end OF thread here
and therein fact he comes in just as the
minister is pronouncing the bcnedicton, and
says: Well, II was pretty good what there
was of it, but it was an awfully short ser
mon"
Utica has two factions; they work together
like two balky horses-One Ia ahead, then
the other. The desire OF either seems to be TO
" get the mastery OF the other, whether the
object sought for is OF political, social, mu.
nicipaf financial, or of u religious nature. "
Is to get there and hold the fort. This fca,
ture has never been more clearly demonstra.
ted than in the history of the town board
suce that organization frat shed its light up
on Utica as an incorp0l sted village. We have
had men In the past IN the council who seem
cd TO realize that their only mission was 81
ence.-rigid. unrelcnting silence, The in
habitants expected some good To come out
OF Israel" But the truth is we are, IN many
respects, whole century behind the age
not In intelligence, not IN depOrtment-not in
finance; but especially in that beauty OF style
that characterizcs a live, wideawske, thor.
oughly go.ahead town. Now we have OK.
plodcd the idea-stye! Look ut our side
walks on the business streets. In many pla
css the knots stand out like warts on the
back of 5O-yesr old toad. Then look at the
uugainly pieces Of TIMBER stretched along in
front OF the business houses, serving rs hitch
ing posts for horses, gnawed in two here
brsced up there, and an occasional upright
post-standing out a. q reflex Of antedeluyian
barbarianism and rejecting the image Of q
Rip Van Wrinkle.
But II the front view. with dilapidated sur
roundings, miserable excuses for crossings
hogs running the streets at will-if all these
mementos OF the wisdom Of past councils doe,
not satisfy you, let us step into the alleys
most any one will do. Here we find con
giomeration OF substances, which, to snalyst
or account for their presence, one would have
TO resurrcct the slecpers OF 80 years" =,
well q consult the present generation TO fnt
out how this mass has accumulated.
0But there Is q day OF reckoning, and tina
dsy will dawn with the advent Of the ne v
town board. We have four aldermen to clcc
--one Of these TO ill the vacancy occssloneC