The Ottawa free trader., 1889-10-26

ICllSU vi MdCOu CUuuty, piioS hohSt W.
MarOa, drew many spectators 10 the
county fair. The horse won In 03 min
utes, the bicycle being a half minute
later.
The daily edition of the Ottawa
FREE TRADER, which enterprise was
started on Tuesday, has reached this
Office. 1t Is nice, clean daily paper,
ably edited and strong in all its fea-
lures. 1t will meet with success pure
lly upon merit, and the Free Press eX-
tends it a welcome.-StreutOr Free Press.
p. II. Humbert OF Serena and Miss
Nellie Ferguson were united In mar
riage by Rev. Father Beers yesterday.
Mr.. Humbert is a prominent farmer in
Serena. while Miss Ferguson is Il
daughter of Chas. Ferguson of this
city. Mr.. and Mrs. Humbert will en-
| Joy a trip to Chicago, after which they
will reside in Serena.
A good deal has been said and a
great deal of anxiety expressed as to
whether the electric cars were going
| to frighten everything from the street
This theory has proven itself "A falacy.
Saturday, reporter saw car pass
right along by team with five young
ladies and three gentleman. Three OF
the ladies (they were pretty, too) kept
right on chewing gum and never
seemed to mind the car at all. This
settles 1t.
The best bleached muslin sold. or
the best made. can be bought for &c or
less at retail The best 24-hundred
linen costs about SOC or 60c. From
two to three yards of muslin-say 25c,
and yard linen. 30c, goes into a shirt;
cost of making, SOC, total of Sl.O5,
and that is about what our merchants
sell shirts for. Yet occasionally kid.
glOved pilgrim will come along and
sell the boys half dozen inferior ones
at 500 apiece; and the buyers are
thinking they are getting bargain.
The High School orchestra has been
organized for the season, and made its
debut Yesterday. On entering the
chapel the students were treated with
an entirely new selection entitled
Marching Through Georgia" Much
enthusiasm prevails among the MEM
bers of The O. III. S. over the new mu-
sical organization, which is composed
of the following gentlemen: Ralph
Brewer, Elmer Roberts. Arthur Col
/ lins, Will Severson, Mr.. Dunaway and
Mr.. Baker
Potatoes are dirt cheap this fall, not
even the tariff of 10 cents bushel
having the power to keep the price up.
A man at Earlville recently sold 70
bushels for So, and Leland man 40
bushels for S.. But when the bulbs
yield 100 bushels on less than half an
acre of ground, as they did on an
Earl patch, the grower can't expect to
get the earth for them: but if the far
mer will pile them on piece of dry
land. cover them freely with dry
straw, then with eight or ten inches of
dirt, and when the earth has cruSted
by freezing, heap manure upon the
pile, he'll have ''new" potatoes in the
spring worth three to four times what
he can get for them now.
The Mayor announces that test
case is to be made of the first man
caught driving a horse over illinois
river bridge faster than a walk. 1t
is time there was a notice OF fine Tor
, fast driving posted on the bridge, but
it was generally understood when the
. bridge was building that drivers
would be allowed to test horses over
, it, and that has been the general prac-
tice since. If the bridge is not safe
for that kind of driving, of course the
people ought to know it: and if one is
liable to Il fine for so crossing the
bridge. he ought to know that. But
since trotting has been the general
custom, would it not be better tC
agree to a case and try conclusions by
agreement rather than to arrest the
first man the police can overhaul and
fine him s. without notice..