The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-10-19
CITY lind COUNTY,.
From Fridays Daily.


morrow for a short visit.
Geo. Fox. for a few days past, has
been suffering with rheumatism.
Luke Neary, the well-knOwn Utican,
is seriously i'll with typhoid fever.
C. Bernhard, of the Lincoln Volks-
blatt, is visiting friends in the city.
Will Quinn of Chicago is visiting
his mother on Walnut street for a few
days.
Hon John S. Armstrong of Sheridan
was in the city Thursday on court
business.
Take trip through Rome at the
opera house tonight, with Geo.
II. Mcdonald.
Mrs. Andrew RhOades and son Man
ley are the guests of Chicago friends
for few days.
The Peru PlOw and Wheel Co, has
thrown coal aside and is using crude
oil in its furnaces.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bowman of South OF
tawa mourn the loss of their infant
child, who died Thursday.
Rev. Gregg, of the Presbyterian
church, is enjoying a visit from his
parents, who are residents of Chicago.
NJ. began of the firm of NJ. & w.
began, left for New York to accom-
pany his sisters to Ottawa, their future
home.
VIM. Calvin, who has been confined
to his house with sickness for two or
three weeks, is better and on the
street.
J. Scott & Co. are now showing over
| lO, 600 yards of New Carpetings. The
assortment has never been equaled in
this city.
People do not have to go to Chicago
for candy; they can buy it just as
good, and q great deal cheaper, at the
Kitchen.
The Millinery department of }. r.
Scott & Co is more popular this sea-
son than ever. New millinery is offered
every day.
Peter Vierd, an Italian miner, was
burned Thursday by an explosion of
fire damp at No. shaft, Streator. He
may recover.
Buy the pure Jersey Cream Caramels
sold only at The Peoples Candy
Kitchen. Try them and you will never
eat any other.
Mrs. +. J. Toland is the guest of her
brother, J. Y. Lee, of the Chicago
Daily Ne,cs advertising department,
for few days.
Miss Gertrude Harris, who has been
spending several weeks among friends
lin Indiana and Ohio. returned We'd
nesday, much improved in health.
Diseases of babyhoOd such as collie,
fatulency, dysentery, and diarrhRa,
larc happily relieved at once, by the
prompt use of DR.. Bulls Baby Syrup.
A TT. Madison paper has started the
project of organizing a G., b. 4 q.
! league Of base ball teams, representing
so" towns only. A meeting is to be
held soon at Ottumwa.
Mr.. Bowermaster, south side, who
was reported by one of the dailies to
be in a condition to lose finger from
blood poisoning, is all right, and his
hand improving nicely.
Mr.. Mahcr says he will finish the
i. work on Norris street as soon rs his
department is allotted funds. Resi-
dents Of the street are restless. but
they have nothing at all to say.
Baldwin & Prisler are placing the
; Cheever monument in position in OF
tawa avenue cemetery. 1t is work
of art such as only an Ottawa mOnu-
ment house could have produced.
DR.. r.. +. Dyer received telegram
Yesterday afternoon from Mrs. Walter
Strawn of Risk, III. calling him to her
relief. She is quite i'll. Miss Rae
Parr, who is the guest of Mrs. Strawn,
is also i'll.
Mr. Wendley Stason, IA wcil-to-dc
farmer near Grand Ridge, has this
season field of 80 acres Of corn
planted on timothy sod which will
yield 20 bushels to the acre. Mr.. StaSon
is not complaining Of the yield, Ger
tainly.
Warren Wiley and wife of Walthan
were in the city Thursday. Mr. w
SAYS that the crops were never better
i'm La Sale county, and that many
farmers. in his neighborhood at least
will have to build more crib room tt
hold their immense crop OF corn.
The first car to ascend the south side
hill landed at the top Of the bluff al
four o'clock yesterday afternoon, in
charge of Supt. Irwin and Electrician
Mitchell The car apparently climbed
the steep grade as easily as it ran on
the level. Cars will probably run
regularly tomorrow.
Rev. Taylor Of Streator, was in town
, Thursday looking for convenient
, hall in which to hold services unit
such time as he could arrange tC
build a suitable church building in
this city, which the reverend gentle
man, who is of the Free Methodist de
nomination, thinks can be done next
spring.
Harmon Highly, late Of Utica, now
located at Whitney, Neb., where he Il
engaged in the banking business, was
. in town Thursday, resting after the ex
, element of the Hunt Club meet neal
: Marseilles last week. Mr.. Fl. says ht
finds the winters of Illinois more
pleasant than those of Nebraska. anC
; he usually spends those months either
here in Ottawa or Utica.
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