The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-04-07

expensive,
Dennis HeatOn has set his brother up in
business by presenting him with a draying
outfit There are not any flies on the new
dray line, you can just bet your boots
Cornelius Reardon and Maggie Egan Of
north prairie were married at st Patrick (
church here by Father Donovan on Friday
last
Mrs Lizzie Shaw has purchased the
Mullaney restaurant
The G A have engaged Corporal Tanner
for his lecture on Army Life at Roak' s
Hall on the 10th
The new band showed up on Wednesday
evening, when they gave an open air concert
Now, while the individual practicing OF
members of q brass band may make life a
burden anywhere within q mile of them.
must say | can forgive the torture of last
winter; for collectively they are immense;
and |, like the rest Of the town, will enter q
kick il they don't do it some more and often
Seneca is proud Of them and don't you
forget it.
Summer dropped down on us all of heap
on Wednesday, and one thermometer in
town here had the brass (or silver) to say
100 in the shade. Seneca never gets left,
let me tell you.
Now the town election is over, the village
figdt on the 18th begins to loom up. Its a
little previous as yet but the candidates are
beginning to come out like the butterflies.
Seneca has the liveliest II year old in La
Sale county in the person Of Tommy Craven
who on Sunday tackled a freight car buffer
for ride to Chicago! And he got thee.
After an experience as newsboy he was
picked up by the police and returned home
on Tuesday none the worse for wear.
On Tuesday evening the |. o. 0. f.
Lodge installed the following officers: A NJ
IIurn, n q; C b Saunders, V e.; A l.
Irwin, sec. Robinson, treasurer.
Ransom.
The village of Ransom is growing grad
ually, and number of very fine new resi-
dences have been put up the past year
Richards Bros, contractors, have all they
can possibly manage, having under way
now, some three or four large houses. One
for Henry Hagi, Grand Rapids, 2Sx2S, 20
feet high and wing l6x29 One in the
town of Brookfield for Hugh McElroy, also
a large building
Mrs G. Reed and daughter have opened
carry complete stock This will add
materially to the interests of the town.
The town election was quiet and order.
ly, politics unnoticed.
sTREAToR.
One 10 spend day and night in Streator
goes away with firm conviction that
there are more different phases of life In
that city than in any other town in the
state. Nearly all nationalities are crowded
in, and small cottages are springlng up
in every direction for mile away. For
the past few months Streator has been af-
ficted with the Pentecost Band, parading
the streats nightly, and holding their SER
vices on the corners while hundreds biloxi
ade the highway. Ii would take keener
imagination than is extended to most
mortals to portray lite picture of these
deluded wanderers, prostituting religion
by discardng all rules of decorum that
has enveloped the pulpit from time imme-
mortal. Seven women, and three or four
men, illterate almost tOa fault-shouting
until they are heard for blocks away-now
all in unson-clapping their hands with
dealeniDg roar, and uttering incOherent
words and calling on the name of Su-
preme being with every breath. And
then, falling flat upon their faces In the
middle of the road while q harsh, female
voice leads In prayer" This, religion!
This the "still small voice" that comes In
the spirit of the descending dove to com
mune with the soul or redeem the fallen
Hardly; on the contrary, more In appear
and like the wrangling of the combined
elements of a menagerie turned into pit
to war with themselves and work their
own destruction. Or, II you please, col
ony of infants struck with that gripping
tiend. the collie, and all yelling at once.
That they excite sympathy In their delu-
sions, no sane mind will deny; but the
strangest part Is that the authorities toler
ate. No, Ottawa can do without them
GARFIELD
has two atOres, elevators, blacksmith shop,
post office, shoeshop, town hall, brass
band with twelve piece, good school and
church In fact the little station puts on a
heap of style. ID Stewart, the grain
man. this season will handle threshing
machines and engines attached, setting
them up for the farming community. j
WINTERS has complete stock OF dry
goods.
Farmers In that vicinity are sowing oats,
and the number Of acres being put In Is
much larger than In former years.
FABER.
Marseilles.
Miss Hiltabrand will soon open mil
| linary establishment In her fathers build
ing, at the head Of Main st.
Mr.. Adams goes next week to Mexico, to
represent the interest of the Marseilles
M'ft Co. at that place, He will be gone
some months.
Ed. Clark of Gobleville, Mich, and for
some years resident OF Marseilles, has
been In town few days. He leaves soon
for Denver, Colorado, with the intention of
locating somewhere west.