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

Maj. j. M. Thompson will address a
meeting of farmers at Nermillionvllle
church on Saturday evening, Feb'y
%. The public generally are IN
vited.
Eighty acres Of land located in Otter
Creek have been sold to Frederick
BeuckendOrf for a consideration or
81, coo by j. II. Mason aud. wife, or
Livingston county.
Patrick Moloney, well-known resi-
dent of Wallace township, has pur-
chased the Leland property on De
Leon street, North Ottawa, and Will
remove to Ottawa soon to reside in
the future.
The defendant in the case of Quincy
v. Davis has taken an appeal to the
appellate court, and thirty days have
been allowed to file 1900 bond. The
bill of exceptions must be filed within
sixty days.
Next Sunday Rev. l.. b. Roland will
occupy the pulpit at the Congrega-
tional church. The gentleman resides
in Grand Rapids, Mich, but is now
making a tour of the United States as
an evangelist.
Major II. c. Gibson returned from
Buckley, lroquOiS county, Monday
evening and reports that the death OF
his sister, Mrs. McKinlay, is momen-
tarily expected. John f. Gibson re-
manned in Buckley. .r.
The portion of the county asylum
formerly occupied by the warden and
matrOn is now occupied by inmates.
80, Al
and the windows have been covered
with a heavy wire screen.
The 13-year-Old daughter of +. A.
Springstrad died yesterday at the fam
| lily resioo"ce in Wedron township.
The funrr will take place this after
noon at o'clock, and the remains will
be inferred in the WedrOn cemetery.
Letters of guardianship have been
granted to Benjamin w. Hadley, who
was yesterday appointed guardian of
Lemuel Hadley, a minor. A bond of
81, 900, with John Holcmen and George
f. CoOtland as surety, was approved.
Marriage licences were given the fol-
lowing yesterday: Frank G. BOrruSch,
Villisca, Montgomery county, Iowa,
and Emile Sandoski, Mendoza; Adam
Patton, Galva, and Jennette A. HOr-
ME, Troy Grove; VIM. Fenton Jacobs,
and Eliza NJ. Porter, Ottawa.
Factory A. of the Pioneer COnStruc-
tion Company's works in this city will
resume operations next week, and
about 100 or l25 hands will again 60 to
work. This factory has been shut
down several weeks undergoing re-
pairs, but the machinery in Factory b
| in the meantime, has been running
night and day.
Stephen Flood was givena judgment
against a. X. Wallen for $l0l by
Squire Trenary yesterday. John Golf
also got a judgment for $3.50 against
Wallen in Squire Weeks court. Wal
len is the man who has been engaged
in digging the CatOn-Catlin well on
the north bluff and Flood and Golf
were employed to assis in the work.
Joshua Blake, who is here from
Waco, Texas, brother OF George Blake,
is manipulating $50 acres of land with
| in Il short distance of Waco, and is
earning his living by the Sweat of his
brow" He will remain in Ottawa for
a short season among his many friends,
and then return to the land of "taran-
tulas" undismayed. He speaks IN the
highest terms of the 'LOne Star
State"
Mrs. Nelson, mother of Mrs. ID. r. A.
Thorpe, was SO years old Monday and
| the event was celebrated in pleasant
manner by the old ladyS friends. Mrs.
Mason, more familiarly known as
Grandmother Mason" lives on east
~
Although she lacks but two years of
very good. She is a pleasant CONVEX
sationalist, and a listener is always
captivated by her stories. A number
of friends called Monday afternoon
and extended congratulations and well
wishes that she might live many more
years.