The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-05-03


tertainment a banquet was given tc
the Odd Fellows and their friends.
Tuesday, April 30, 1890.
Boulanger born, 1887.
captain III be no more, but will eat
and drink and sleep as soft as cap
tain shall; simply the thing l am
shall make me live. Who knows
himself a braggart.
Let him fear this, for 1t will come to
That every braggart shall be found an
. AIS Wen that Ends Wei, w., 3.
The Easter collection at st. Column
ba's amounted to SS25.
Matt White has gone to Nebraska
to spend week on his farm.
Judge Stipp will be in Ottawa to-day
to sign several bills Of exceptions.
A new tile sidewalk will be laid in
front Of st. Columba's church this
week.
There Is no difference between the
foot-light favorite and her Jokes. Both
are aged.
Thomas NJ. Corrigan and Mary Nc
Mahon, of Peru, were given license 10
marry yesterday.
Judge III. II. Gilbert has bought a
fine residence in Chicago at 5234
WOOdlawn avenue.
The new fire cistern on West Pearl
street is now completed and ready for
the use of the public.
A large number of young people will
receive first communion Sunday morn
ing, May II, at $50 mass.
Miss Bertha Heeley Of Chicago. is
the guest of her little friend, Miss
Nora Dwyer, on La Sale street.
jeremiah Odds and wife have sold
80 acres of land in Troy Grove town
ship to Thomas Brown for $500.
Fred Sanders has returned TO OF
tawa after spending three months in
La Porte, Ind. He is now "a full fledged
jeweler. and has accepted position
with Il. II. Trask.
The housekeeping season is here,
and it came with rush. For the next
few weeks carpet-cleaners, painters
and carpenters will be in great de-
mand. So will patience.
T. A. Zellers, general manager for
the United Glass company, is in New
York City inspecting the company's
plant located there. He will visit
Cleveland, Pittsburg, indianapolis
and other places, returning home in
two weeks.
Twenty members of Occidental
lodge and Humboldt lodge, A. f: Il A..
NJ, attended the meeting Of Waltham
lodge at Waltham last evening. After
the meeting banquet was spread and
the Ottawa delegation had very
pleasant time.
The officers of the O. ii. S. Alumni
Association and the committees APP
pointed to make arrangements for the
annual banquet and reception tonight
at 100 o'clock, will meet at the high
school and report progress. A written
report is expected from each COM
miItee.
Tuck Lee, the Main street laundry
man, arrived at Hong Kong Friday,
and reached his home in China one
day later. His mother has selected a
bride for him and the marriage will
take place at once. When Tuck re-
turns he will bring along his little
girlee niece
Mr.. Charles j. Skinner, of Alshuler'S
clothing establishment, received Il
copy of the Sioux Falls Oak. argus
Leader yesterday, which contained an
account Of the partial burning OF the
family residence. The damage is about
$500, which is fully covered by insur-
ancc. One of the lights in gasoline
stove was left burning and the fire
ignited some clothing suspended from
a clothes rack. The family wardrobe
was entirely destroyed. Mr.. Skinner
may go to Sioux Falls this week.
Mrs. Gunnel Simeon, a pauper,
escaped from the county asylum by
jumping through window at an
early hour Yesterday morning. County
Agent Gibson will gladly receive any
information as to her whereabouts.
She is large, tleShy woman, % years
old. She came from Adams town.
ship and has been at the asylum one
year. She told Major Gibson Sunday
that she would run away if
he did not let her 60 home soon. She
has neither friends nor relatives. How
she managed to elude the vigilance of
the night Waterman is not known.
DR.. Gaylon Battey, Of Beloit, Kan
sas, a former Illinois man, having been
raised at or near Princeton, was in the
city Yesterday. DR.. Battey is "A mem
Der Of the Kansas legislature: and his
name is familiar to horse men also.
who have read his breezy contributions
to Wilkes Spirit. He said the boom
in Kansas has died out, for the time
being, the crazy speculation in lands
apd town lots of two and three years
ago having done the state more dam
age than good; for everything in that
line is utterly dead, in spite Of the
fact that it produced more last season
than ever. 1t will take some time for
the state to recover from the craze,
and then it will be great state.
Wednesday, Apr. 30, 1890.
first inaugurated presi-
dent, 1899.
Let men say we be men Of good gov
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