The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-03-15
Our NeighbOrs.

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Application will be made by the OF
tawa Electric Street Railway company
TO the Trustees of the Village of Mar
settles, at their meeting next Tuesday
evening, for permission TO put down
an electric street railway in that town
The Peru Ne,cs- Herald says the last
cold snap was a godsend to the brew
ers. butchers and ice dealers Of that
place, nearly all Of whom got In a suf'
| iicient stock of good six inch ice fOl
the summer. We believe our Ottawa
brewers, dealers, &C., were equally for
| tunate.
The Champaign Times says in 1851
potatoes were worth but six cents a
bushcl in that city, and the Paxton
Record testilles that in 1860 John Bop
ley of that place bought and cribbed
60, 600 bushels Of corn at 10 cents a bu.
shell. An! but remember in 1857 and
1860 a bushel Of potatoes even a cents
would buy a quart Of good whisky and
bIshel a corn gallon ! but how
now? Talk of hard times then
Charlie Hynds, "A popular Morris
newsboy, had rather thrillingice adj
venture on the raging canawf yes
terday morning. He undertook to
make short cut across the ditch on
the ice, but ten feet from shore the
ice gave way and, like McGinty, he
went down to the bottom, but when
he rose to the surface he found himself
under ice. With great presence OF
mind he worked himself to the open
place when with what strength he had
l. H. In1 Inc
fortunately came in time to rescue
him, but it was close call.
The two little Morris dailics, the
Necs and the Post, are having slight
wrangle over a question as to the pros
perity of Morris, the Post cOntending
that the town is not holding her own,
while the Ne,rs maintains she is just
booming! The Post finally puts in a
settler in this form: eff the Ne,cs
thinks values have not deprecated, we
would be glad to contract with 1t for
the sale of number Of pieces OF prop
erty in Morris at % per cent discount
on ifs value ten years ago, in fact al
most any piece of property in Morris.
Does the Ne,cs want to speculater 1T
looks like a pretty clear case OF put
up or shut up"
They are all coming west. The hea-
w stove works of Rathbone, Sard & Co.
that for many years were leading in
stitution at Albany, N. Y, pull up
stakes and move to Aurora, ILL.,; the
equally heavy stoves works OF Fuller
& Warren, of Troy, n. Y, have about
decided to move to Joliet, ILL.,: and
now the statement Is made that the
Cleveland Cooperative Stove and Iron
works have decided to move either to
Springfield or Rock Island, in this
state, whichever of those cities is rea-
dy first with five acres of land and a
bonus of $4,000. BY the way, as the
case appears to be still open, what is
to prevent Ottawa and StreatOr from
putting in bids?
The Joliet Ne,cs appears to have two
strings to its bow, so that It's music
Is somewhat discOrdant. In one col
umn its whines dolOrously over the
prospect of being flooded by Chicago
sewage, and says 1t is having dlscou-
raging effect on the welfare of Joliet,
turning away factories that would
come but for the nuisance; and in the
very next column jolly Yankee Doc
die air introduces the announcement
that the great Fuller Il Warren stove
works of Troy, New York, are to be re-
moved to Joliet. The grounds have
been picked out and all the prelimina-
ries settled. "The entire plant will
not be removed at once" says Troy
dispatch, "but as buildings are erect
ed at Joliet and the facilities for man
ufacture increased there, the opera
tions OF the concern will be decreased
in Troy. The cOnrern employs 200
men and its payroll aggregates more
than 81 900, 600 year"