The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-02-22

more about weather prOgnostics than
the Signal Service bunglers.
At Monday evenings meeting of the
Toilet Business Mems Association Mr..
Paige stated that he had been trying
for week to buy 40 acre tract near
Joliet for a factory that did not want
"A bonus, but had not yet succeeded,
the land wanted being held too high.
1t is said over 200 were present at the
late Oswego prize fight but not one of
them has yet been found. An Aurora
paper, however, hopes it is not true
that among those present we're two
Aurora policemen, the marshal of Os-
wegOin false whiskers, and the sheriff
of Kendall county.
The 9. b. & q. Co. once more makes
its stockholders happy by declaring a
| dividend. 1t is but 1t per cent. for the
quarter, while the dividend used to be
> per cent as regularly as the quarter
came round. Then for a while there
was none, but the Q. is gradually reco-
vering from the big strike.
Ice is being shipped pretty freely
from the Wisconsin lakes up north.
Three to five trains day loaded with
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and are switched on to the Rock Island
Schlitz Brewery Co. were filing their
beer house at Ottawa yesterday with
ice from Milwaukee.
Two Swedish lady evangelsts have
been laboring so successfully at Utica,
in this county, that the M. f. church,
on account OF their crowded Sunday
school and increasing church member
ship, has decided to enlarge the church
building. Thirty Swedes have lately
been added to the church and Sunday
school.
The Peru CAL states that "The ma
ny friends of w. j. Dawell throughout
the county, and especially in Ottawa,
where he lives, are urging him TO come
out for the Office Of county treasurer"
Their are no flies on Mr.. Dawell, and we
have yet seen no one named who would
make a stronger candidate or better
officer if elected.
Walter Reeves, attorney for Fred.
turned to StreatOr on Friday from Dan
vile, H., where he had succeeded in
collecting from the Second Nat. Bank
$1,000, being the part used by the con-
dence men in the purchase at the bank
of draft on New York of the 5000
out of which Gleim was swindled.
This makes $1,000 Fred has thus far
got back, to say nothing of several
thousand dollars worth of experience.
The Rock Island Railway company
has leased for term of years of Marsh
Wilson and Isaac Hoge, an 800 acre
tract of land on the south side of the
railroad three miles west of Morris, for
the purpose of converting it into a
huge cattle yard and erecting upon it
sheds, sheep pens, hog pens, &c. The
yards at GeneseO, H., and West Liber-
! ty, Iowa, are no longer able to meet
the wants of the company, and the
new yard grows out of the resulting
necessity.
Rev. j. II. Morphs, of the Grand
Ridge IndeT announces, with the 18th
number, the discOntnuance of the pub
LEGATION of that paper. 1t was aclean,
live, readable little paper, and was
helping him, the publisher say, "tO
supplement a meager salary" But 1t
gave OtfenSe to some of the brethren,
and so, "on the ground that it would
| likely lead to a division in the church,
the rock of otfenSe is removed" The
church must have queer membership
to be content with what the parson
breaches but ready to smash things il
he prints it.
The Streator Monitor has an "idee"
for the farmers that no doubt will cap
ture them forthwith. "If they would
discharge most of their help" says the
NJ, "let their farms lie fallOw, take it
easy and work but eight hours a day.
! they would get prices for their pro-
ducts that would astonish them. If
they were able to work unitedly this
way they would do no more than other
trusts are doing to rob the people"
But the Monitor thinks there can be no
farmers trust because farmers have
"tOo much conscience" Better not
risk your pile on that.
A number of the veal thiest business
men of Marseilles, says the Ne,cs, have
Joined in organizing home Building
and Loan Association, placing the Ca
pital at $4,000 Such an association
has been in successful operation in OF
tawa for twenty years and has helped
to build up many comfortable home
and done much other good, but the
class for whom it is especially adapted
are people in moderate circumstances,
mechanics clerks, and other wage-ear-
ners, rather than wealthy business
men"
There is a tremendous commotiOn in
Rockford among the faithful over the
appointment by Chris. Manner, the new
collector at Chicago, ofWillis Kimball,
of Rockford, to the comfortable posi-
tion of stamp agent. What makes the
case particularly dreadful is that Kim
ball held the position under the late
: democratic collector, lisa democrat and
was president of the Grover Cleveland
Club in the last campaign, while the
, Republicans had especially reserved
the position for A. Z. Floberg, boss
among the Swedes, whose vote makes
, Winnebago the banner Republican
, county of the state
The lottery business has run against
snag in Elgin. 1t got to be quite
rage among her merchants to give tick
cts wi th each sale for chances on pic
lures, dolls, schromos, and such trifline
PARTICLES, when finally one more daring