The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-03-29
NeighbOrhoOd Items.

drainage scheme. IL Is understood
Mr.. &. Gmelich will be prevailed upon
TO accept the tOga, the wearing OF
which Mr.. IiOerner no longer finds
agreeable.
At last, after eight months waiting,
SAYS the Marselles Netcs of Tuesday,
Congressman Hill has decided to re-
commend the appointment OF A. l.:
Stone as postmaster at that place, and
there Is no doubt the appointment
will at once be made. Mr.. Stone had
several strong rivals and Capt. Hill was
puzzled, but the scale turned in favor
OF Stone as the best party worker, ana
AS under at present prevailing civil
service ideas no other qualification
counts, Stone naturally gets the plum
Sunday was "A lovely day, just such
an one as assails boys with an almost
irresistible temptation to go fishing
but of course Ottawa boys had too high
TO desecrate it in that way. AT Morris
they are less scrupulous. THE south
bank Of the river" says the Post, was
lined with fishermen. The water was
rather high and roily, yet a large num-
her of fish were caught. Pickerel ana
black and rock bass take the worm
with will, and the lively way they
lump above the surface Of the water
leads one to believe the river is alive
with fish"
We reckon Joliet, with all her gold
and silver and copper mines, her oil
and gas wells, will have to cave now.
A Galesburg man has project that
immensely Ovcrlays anything OF that
sort. Scientists tell us, you know, that
some 80 miles below its surface, this
globe is a molten lake of fire. Now the
project OF the Galesburg man is TO sink
a hole to this molten mass. What
then? Why all this interior heat can
be brought to the surface and piped
around like gas, oil or water The heat
will supplant the furnace and stove;
Coal will be played out. The world
will have done forever with fuel
Advertisers have reason sometimes
to regret too free indulgence in tigura-
ralive language. A Joliet dealer adj
vertsed that he was selling shoes for
a song" Whereupon he had call from
Mrs. Humpty, who had brought her
little daughter Mary Ann, who was a
"foine singer" to sing for pair of
shoes. Relishing joke, the dealer let
missy sing a nice little song, and gave
her a pair of shoes. But it was no lon
ger a Joke when the old lady insisted
on earning pair in the same way ana
struck up in an ear-lascerating voice
with Darling, | am Growing Weary"
The store was cleared in the widest
CONSERVATION, but whether on retiring
the old lady helped herself to a pair
the truthful narrator in the Ne,cs fails
to chronicle.
Rock Island had the rather novel 6
perience of case of highway robb"ry
in which a worthy citizen was held
up" and robbed of 5000 by a couple of
lusty negro wenches playing the foot.
pad. Knowing he had the money, they
iured the man into dark alley where
they gently relieved him of his purse.
The wenches then started for Daven-
port, Iowa, where they would have
been safe enough, but passing large
millinery establishment on the way,
the gorgeous display of finery was too
much for them. They each purchased
love of bonnet, and while the head
gear was being gaily trimmed they pur-
chased each a satchel, then each fine
wrap, and thus engaged loitered so
long by the way that the police over
took them and their dream of wealth
came to a disastrous end.
Aurora has had an Enoch Arden case,
with variations. A year ago Il. e. De
mars, running out Of work at Aurora
left his wife with friends and went to
Kansas City, where in time he got
lob on the elevated railroad. He work
ed steadily, saved his money, mean
while corresponding regularly with his
wife. and week ago went to Aurora
intending to return with her to Kan
sas City. Imagine his surprise, on re-
pairing to his wife's residence, to find
her eating breakfast with another man
whom she introduced as her husband
-''for you know, Tom, | was divorced
from you four weeks ago" And such
appears to have been the fact, but Mr..
Demars protested this was the first he
had ever heard of it or that such a
thing was thought of. Mr.. d., howe
yer, agreed to accept the situation, on
ly insisting on securing custody of his
two-year old son who was with the
mother.
If, as the editor of the FREE TRADER
informs us, these dangers from the
electric carsl on the bridge are imagi-
nary, and we can be assured the editor
in his wisdom knows more about this
matter than the people who use the
bridge, then we stand ready to offer
our humble apologies. Grand Ridge
Herald. The editor of the +. TRADER
makes no claim that he knows more"
about the dangers on the bridge than
those who use it, but he knows as
much, for he knows what the truth is,
and nobody can know more; and the
truth being that the cars having cross
ed the bridge over eighty times a day
for six months and passed hundred
teams each day and thus far there has
not been the slightest accident on the
bridge or serious threat of one, the in
ference is as fair as it is conclusive,
that these dangers so much worried
over are "all imaginary" YOnr hum
BILE apologies" are in order, sir.
K;mball South Dakota Gl,nn6,c.