The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-03-15
| like a brick, shivers the brick to atoms
with a hammer, and there you are.
The rabbit skin has stuck to the clay,
and only the crisp, white meat is left.
Our NeighbOrs.

kOWSkl. ue magistrate ucNci ao-
tempts to pronounce his name for fear
Of dislocating his jaw and calls him
Jack.
The Utica Gazette is "really comfort
ed to know that Ottawa does not IN.
tend to let people suffer for means OF
transportation TO Starved ROCK" but
intimates that Utica will attend to
that. She'd BETTER
A worthy old burgher of Morris, ra-
Their noted for his sOmnolent habits,
usually spending Is hours out OF every
"a in bed, is annoyed by frequently
finding a huge placard on his door as
surfing the amused passers-by that HE
is not dead but sleepeth."
Pontiac has had boOmlet, resulting
in the addition of paper mill to the
manufactures Of that town, to be run
ming by the lst of April. At the same
time an electric light plant has been
put in, so that the town will be abreast
with the age in the matter OF illumi-
nation.
The Peru Neus- Herald scribe has
seen the plans for the new hotel at
Starved Rock, as drawn by W. II. HUI.
eel, one of the proprietOrs. The hotel
will be constructed on the light fancy
style of architecture usual in summer
hotels, with all modern cOnveniences
and will include sample room, bill
lard room, sc. The cost will be about
1925, 200.
o. +. Avery, the newly appointed
census supervisor of this district, mar
rowly escaped drowning near Pontiac
on Wednesday. He undertook to cut
nj
gave way under him, immersing him
in water four feet deep. He manag-
ed to scramble out and "gOt a move
on him" towards home for dry clothes.
There is trouble in the little city OF
De Kalb. 1t has made a venture in
the boom business that has come to
grief. A Chicago boot and shoe facto-
ry was to be located there and the peo-
pie had put up bonus Of $50, 900 to
secure the concern. Then came the
news that the firm had failed and
made an assignment, and the DE kalb
boom is off.
That IDEAL" which the Ind. Times
recently referred to as in embryo and
fraught with such wonders for Strea-
tors prosperity has materialized and is
revealed to be a purchase, by cOmpa-
ny of wealthy men, of 1850 acres of
land surrounding the city, to be used
for the purpose of erecting manufactu-
ring establishments thereon in the i'm
mediate future!
Streator is hopefully turning piOus.
Bishop McLaren confirmed a class of
10 at the Episcopal church in StreatOr
last Friday evening, as the first fruits
of Father HuntingtOn's late mission
and the Methodist church has taken in
60 new converts on probation in the
last two weeks. as results of the prea-
ching of the cowboy evangelist. who
is still wrestling with the powers of
darkness in behalf of StreatOr.
The Rockford Star makes the proud
boast for that rising city of big boOms
and loose morals that it can show more
young men to tie acre with whisky
bottles in their pockets than any other
town in the state. In single resort
the other night eight out OF dozen
hauled out their bottles and went to
drinking. Rockford should follow the
example of Aurora and offer prizes for
essays setting forth its attractions as
a place for fine residences and family
homes.
The enterprise of those Aurora dali
lies is irrepressible The De Kalb Ne,cs
says one of them, stimulated by Nellie
Bly's trip around the world, got Sally
Shy to make the tour of Kane county
in four days. On her arrival at Hamp-
shire, the thrilling account of her trip
narrates, upwards of l3 people assem-
bled to greet her. One enthusiastic
fellow made her a present of length |
of drain tile, the bell tOlled and the |
band played "There's none so sweet as
Piatt county has horse thief Attic
ton. Four horses have been stolen |
within a month near Monticello, and |
on Sunday Joseph Kile lost fine span
of mules, buggy and harness. Thus
far but one of the thieves has been
caught and sent to the pen. The Piatt
folks should get up anti-horse thief So
cieties. In this county they are so
well organized that a thief never gets
away, and the sport Of running him
down is joined in with all the eager
zest and enjoyment of an Old-fashion-
ed wolf chase.
Alas one of AurOra'S most pTomiS-
ing booms and gorgeous real estate
hiPpNu III oHO puu,
as it were. The arrangement had all
been made with big iron industry Of
Chicago to come to Aurora, for big
bonus and certain acres of land, the
plan as usual being to drop on a sub
urban tract, give a fraction of it to the
new industry, cut the rest up into
town lots and rattle them off at prices
that would pay for the land, pay the
bonus and leave nice surplus over.
But the owner of the coveted tract re-
fused to tumble to the racket" He
declined point blank to sell at price
that would leave the bOOmers.a silver.
So the project has gone up, victim
TO the Sacra aura flames, or words to
10 that effect.
The Morris Business Mems Associa-
Jon are apparently beginning to feel
Is if they had "bitten off more than
hey could chew" when they undertook
% raise fund of $1,000 to be used in
aid and encouragement
manufacturing establishments to To-
ate there. AT their last meeting the
epOrt was the but $4,000 had been
aised after strenuous efforts and the
prospect looked gloomy for much more.
Meantime the Post says: With our
dwindlinp. with tenement