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Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1920-12-17
PUBLIC SALES
The following public sales In the
county are beinq ad /ertised:

Leonard ScidmOre'3 public sale
which was to have been held Dec. H.
viii be held Saturday, Dee. IS. at II
a. IN,
Public sale To he held four miles
southeast of Prairie Center. on the
Nidelnan farm, Tuesday. Dec. u.
1870, at 10 80 O'Clock, consisting of
horses, cattle, farming implements,
etc. owner, IT, NJ. Olsen.
Public Sale to be held on the Dana
homestead in Waltham TWP, on
Thursday, Dec. %, 1920, commencing
at o'clock. Consisting of Horses,
Cattle and Farming Implements. n.
w. Dana, owner.
Public Sale-To be held Wednes-
day Dec. 20, at 10 O'Clock in Dayton
township, consisting Of horses, cattle,
hogs. sheep, farming implments. etc.
Catalogue mailed on request. Owner,
j. j. McGrath.
Public Sale--To be held six miles
north of Marseilles, Thursday, Dec.
80, 1920, consisting of horses, cattle
and farming implements. Walter
Jewell, owner.
Public Sale-To be held Monday,
Jan. 3, at 10 O'Clock, in Rutland town
ship, four miles east, one-half mile
north OF Ottawa four miles west, one
mile north Of Marseilles. Horses, cat
tie, farm implements, harness, etc.
Owner, Glen A. Parr
Public Sale-To be held in Wallace
township, two miles west OF Ottawa,
on Wednesday, Jan J, 1921, at II
O'clock consisting OF horses, cattle
and farming implements. Matt Gaha1,
owner.
Public Sale-To be held on the
LongWorth homestead in Dimmick
township Tuesday morning, Jan. II,
1921, at 10 o'clock, consisting of
horses, cattle, farming implements,
etc, C. A. Johnson, owner.
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1920-12-17

be fair enough
said Mr.. Robin
Red breast.
"It's H great
comfort to think,
when the summer
u over and when
X Ia time to
fnoye, that we've
aided to our
friends and that
more people know
us and like us"
"Oh. yes" said
Mr.. Robin Red
Breast, "and 1t
thrills me to
think that people
afe beginning to
see what birds do
in the way of de-
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1920-12-17
FOR SALE
FARM 8.

FOR SALE--l56 acres situated By
miles from market and same dis
lance from one Of the finest sub
urbs out OF Chicago. improvements:
room house, barn thirty-six by seven
ty-two. with forty-three COW stanch-
ions: room for eight horses; floor all
concrete; corn crib, granary, deep
well: school across the road. This
farm has a great future. A bargain:
why pay the fancy prices. Address
S.. care this Office. Reasonable price
and terms.
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1920-12-17

ana ll'N hdu
book before them with lot Of figures
III II. | couldn't understand the
figures, but | heard what they had to
say. can hear better than | can
read"
$50 can l." agreed Mrs. Robin Red
Breast, "und so can all of our fam
lily"
THE farmer was telling the other
farmer that some one had said that
grusshoppers had eaten beans in the
vegetable garden, n.bbed the leaves
from the fruit trees when they We're
young, eaten the fruit, nibbled at APP
Piles and peaches and plulns and had
Filled any amount of good fruit.
He also told how different insects
hurt the bark Of his trees, and how
they had destroyed fields of oats. and
that beetles had done Il great deal of
harm to his asparagus.
"Thp white grubs had hurt his po-
tatoes aud cooling moths had spoiled
his apples.
He went on 10 say that all Of this
could happen and had happened and
would happen in the future, especial
ly SO If people didn't realize that the
birds were their friends and what
they nbbled in the way of cherry
now and again was rs nothing com
pared to the great good they did"
Mrs. Robin Red Breast pruued her
feathers and looked very happy.
THE farmer said that We had been
watched as Il family and that one of
us had been seen to eat n thousand
cutwormS in two weeks and 800 in one
week. Every one ought TO know, the
farmer said OF the great harm that
cutworns did to crops and of the
great ne,E we were to those who had
farms and fruS orchards and vege-
table gardens.
Then the other farmer said he had
heard that a Mr.. and Mrs. Phoebe
Bird he Lnew often took TO their chill
sdren in the nest 20 insects in little
over half an hour.
''' H'iiI liitl lit iIl~f'l~ lIltN Ntf
we're hrrnful onrs, too.
II also heard them say that the
hlackbirds would get rid Of the insects
In Il field where In ce was hay and
grnln, but that often people thought
what the hlackhirdS took amounted to
more. That WAS wrong and people
were beginning to know that the crea-
lures who could do harm to the crops
were the locusts and glasshoppcrs and
other little insects"
"Thcy really know now of the good
we try TO do:' asked Mrs. Robin Red
Brensl.
''f1ey seem to-" said Mr.. Robin Red
Bre..st, "and they say that people are
going to protect the birds more and
more and do nice, kind things for
them to bring them around the houses
and farms"
"HOw nice that will be-" said Mrs.
Robin Red Breast. I'VE so enjoy be-
ing helpful because we are having nice
meals and yet doing good work at the
snme time"
Were happy doing it and they're
happy having it done, SO that ought to
u a. IA
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1920-12-17

Alf, ltuhlll hbl
Breast.
Tell II to me-
chilpcd Ms. Rob
IN Red Breast.
MS quite II
long story, but |
will ten II To Nol
II Nou would like
10 hear IT, said
AR. Robin Red
Breast.
II would, in
deed. no matter
how long il is
said Mrs. Robin
Red Breast.
II heard a
farmer talking to
another farmer,
nnl lul. lnI IL
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1920-12-17
When There Is a Drouoht.

When in need of rain in Germany,
farmers Cct out complicated device
and sprinkle the ground. A number
OF spr.nkIcrs attached 10 one long
fe"d-pipc are drawn across q field. 4
pump supplies thom W,,l waiter ANA So
II whole field may bc Watcrel at the
same time.
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1920-12-17

FOR RENT-Seyan-rOOm house in
South Ottawa; all modern con
veniencas, including electric lights,
gas, furnace. storm windows and
storm doors: one block from stree.
car line: renter may move in by Jar.
]. For particulars call ELMER AN
DERSON, at the VI. & +. Bani-, or at
home. Phone SG7-X.
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1920-12-17
CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING
MISCELLANEOUS
PAGE SEVEN


SELL TO DEALERS ANYWHERE
Big commissioner; best homd2 brew.
Purity Brand Malt and Hops: every.
thing for home bottling; free recipe
with catalogue. PURITY MALT EX-
TRACT co, 1870 w. Randolph, Chi
cago.
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1920-12-17
Well, Isn't That Correct?

Toledo Rlade--"It's the belief Of
some that when Bostonian and die
tiOnary disagree, US the dictionary
that's wrong. boston Transcript.
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1920-12-17
Handy.

II say, Jack, what are those water
proof gloves for?"
"Why, so that You can wash your
hands without gcttin' them wet"-
Boys Life.
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1920-12-17

fabrication experts are In attend
ance, ready and willing to help you
with any mbricating difficulties that
you may have had or are now ex-
periencinP.
DO NOT CHANGE FOR WINTER;
CHANGE FOR ALL TIME
MERS MOTOR CO.
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1920-12-17

CANADA TAXES-I would like to
meet several persons who have
taxes to pay on Canada land. particL.
larry in saskatchewan; | will attend
to the payment without charge; the
object is to save exchange. I have a
credit there from land, but Canada
drafts and money are at discount.
Tel. 6lS-W. r. b. FARRELL.
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1920-12-17
AUTOMOBILES

| FOR SALE-l9lS Ford roadster. witt
winter top, glass sides, Phone
l4G-K.
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1920-12-17

W2ANTED-Men owning rig or auto,
to sell we'll known line lubricating
oils house paints, barn paint and
roofing materials direct to farmers.
commissions paid weekly; special
monthly bonus paid on sales; old re.
liable concern selling farm trade for
years; financially responsible anil
standing back of every material sold.
Write us today for our complete sales
proposition. CENTRAL PETROLEUM
CO., Cleveland, Ohio.
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1920-12-17
UPHOLSTER RING.
BIZ ALWAYS RIGHT-spring over.
hauling OF furniture done right ~
Geo, Bauchle. Telephone SAX. 1919
Was Main street.

FOUND Horse blanket, corner Main
and La Sale SIS. Owner can have
same by paying for this ad.
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1920-12-17
Professions! Cards !
N. Z, A, KE,Ei..Is !. 7

DENTIST,
1925 Columbus St.. Ottawa, I'll
All work guaranteed first class
Of1ce hours 8 a. N. to 1880 p. n
Sunday hours to II.
Phone 225-Y.
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1920-12-17
WANTED

NANTED -EVeryone Interested N
good, big early corn. grown on small
stalks, to call at Ottawa Banking d
Trust Co. and see sample grown by
w. T.. PriChard IL Sons.
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1920-12-17
HOUSES.

FOR SALE-Three modern houses in
East Ottawa, west OF Orleans street
for one half value. Miss Gertrude
Harris.
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1920-12-17

Leonard Scidmora'3 public sale
which was to have been held Dec. IL,
viii be held Saturday, Dee. IS. at II
Il. IN,
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1920-12-17

FOR SALE Barred Rock cockegels,
heavy boned, vigorous, we'll barred.
Bradley and Thompson strain; choice
$3.50. White Pekin ducks. choice
$3.50. MRS. WALTER JOSLIN, II. >,
Leland. Ill Phone PIP on %.
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1920-12-17
HANDLED ON ALL CARS
AT LOW RATES.
EASTROuND,
WESTBOUND
SOUTHBOUND.

SOUTHBOUND.
Southbound cars leave Ottawa sta.
ton for Grand Ridge, Mckinley Park
and Streator In a. m, 5:55, 1885. 9:55,
1850. In p. m, l.: So, 3;55, 5 SO. 500,
HOO. ...
h--Joliet daily except Sundays and
holidays. .E-t
c-Morris.
d--Ladd
f-Princeton.
g-Ladd. daily except Sundays ana
holidays.
MIA Sale.
ALWAYS BUY TICKETS AND SAVE
MONEY.
TICKET OFFICE OPEN FROM $40
a. NJ. no 1885 p. M.
TICKET FARES TO
CHICAGO
Via Joliet, M, and Chicago & Joliet
Electric Railway:
$500 Found T:'p S S.; sLS5
(Return trip limited to ten days.
FAST FREIGHT SERVICE.
Phone Agents for Full Information.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-27

4 paid nineteen dollars. They are
quite worth sending a crook 10 jan
for"
They were walking toward her home
now quite as if they had gone to scnoo1
together. Conrad was wishing they
had He would by this time have had
her tucked off somewhere in the west
where the boundary Of a ranch would
protect her from city crooks.
Then I am only 1s-dollar nero
instead of a few-thousand-dollar one,
he laughed. IF you would let me
know when you are going to be carry
ing those diamonds about again VIII
be glad to trail you with the hope OF
being a real hero. / suppose need
a bigger excuse than a pair of boots
in order to get better acquainted with
you? ?" There was a wistful query In
the big westerner's voice.
Il was going to ask you to come IN
and meet the incest man in the world,
the girl said and felt that both the
incest man and herself were going TO
like the nineteen-dollar hero
"Your husband 2" Conrad was con-
scious of a nasty wait.
MY father" Jean laughed softly
! Conrad didn't know whether or not
the moon had been shining before, but
| it certainly was now, and as he looked
down into the trusting girls eyes he
thought most of the beams had CEN
tered right there. 1t wasn't going 20
be many more moons before he toIo
her so. either.
1 paper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-27
GoMPERs AND HIS HAMMER.

Samuel Gompers has made public
an attack on the ruling of the Kansas
court Of Industrial relations in the case
of the Topeka millers. He is quoted
as follows:
The principle of government OF
court regulation of industrial condi-
the principle of paternalism In gov
eminent. 1t is the idea on which the
socialistic and communist state is
based.
This is about the attitude that Mr.
Gompers might be expected to assume
in view Of the fact that he holds tina;
the labor, unions alone are entitled to
regulate Industrial conditions, hours
of labor and wages" Jealous of their
own power, the labor leaders insist
that they, and they alone, are the only
true friends OF the laboring man, and
that only thru them can the welfare
of the wage earners be conserved.
Their methods OF dealing with these
questions have failed SO often that ii
seems they should be willing to accept
help from whatever source it may
spring.
Every time Mr.. Gompers has given
his support to measures whose pri-
mary object was to reduce the people
thru privations, to a point where they
would accept dictation by the labor
chieftains he has forfeited the good
opinion OF the public until at present
there is a determined reaction against
his policies, and a corresponding los.
of prestige by labor itself.
The cause of labor received Sc
we're blow when Mr.. Gompers heartily
applauded the Boston police wher
they left their posts of duty and
turned the city over to the forces Of
evil. The welfare of the wage earn.
er received another setback when the
efforts of the coal miners to freeze the
nation into a compliance with theii
demands received unreserved endorse
ment from Mr.. Gompers. The ranks
of labor were again hurled back wher
he selected the anarchist, w. z. Foster
to organize the steel workers and lead
them in a strike intended to paralyze
one of the country's big Industries.
Instead of knocking the Kansas
court of industrial relations Mr.. Com
pers should welcome it as a powerful
aid to the cause which he processes tC
have at heart. He should be CON
WINGED by this time that neither EN-.
ployers of labor nor the public can be
permanently dubbed into submission
to his dictation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-27
LITTLE BENNY'S NOTE BOOK
BY LEE PARE.

Me and Pubs Simkins was te1egraf-
fling to each other during the joggriffy
lessin yestidday by making noises with
our ruler agenst our desk, the different
sounds not meening enything special
but sounding as if they mite. and all of
and Charles Simkins will rename an
hour after skool. I've stood that noise
long enuff. y
Meening teIegraffing. me thinking,
Aw' heck, G. gosh. And atsrecess Pubs
sed, I got a good ideer how to get out
OF it, I got my pennife with me, let's
US sneek back up in the room before
pencils and wen she sees the swell
point ON them and finds out who did
it she wont make US stay in
Sounding like a pritty. good Of a
ideer. and we quick went up and there
was 4 pencils on Miss Kittys desk in
clooding a red one, and Pude quick
started to sharpin them, and the points
count of him, trying TO be in sutch a
hurry, and then started to sharpin
them and the points still kepp on
breaking, me saying, Aw this is a
becky pennife.
They're hecky pencils you meeil. sed
Pubs. WITCH by the time We got them
shapened they looked more Ike
stumps than wat they did like pencils
and the shavings was all over the desk.
witch jest then the bell rang for the
end Of recess and we had TO run out
agen SO We could come back with the
rest of the class as If we lad bin out
all the time, and the ferst thing Miss
Kitty saw was wat was left of her 4
pencils. inclooding the red one. making
a fearse face and saying, Who did
this. whose bin at my pencils2
Wich me and Pubs dident raise our
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-27
George Matthew Adams
Daily Talk
TRUST.

TRUST.
Trust is a very big thing-one of
the biggest things in the world.
When someone whom you have
trusted proves untrue, there comes to
you a grief SO poignant it seems that
half the world has lost it's light. Like
when something goes~wrong with the
electric connections and you are left
alone in a great room that minute
before was brilliant with light.
1 like babies-and children. I be-
lieve it is because they live in a world
of trust Put a baby on a table and tell
it to jump off-and it will do sc be-
cause it trusts you.
Take trust out of the world and you
leave it without a heart.
Trust is the cornerstone of character.
Without it, business would crumble as
tho built on dry sand. Trust is the
thing that ties friends together. When
you go to sleep in your railroad berth,
you do SO in perfect confidence, be-
cause you trust the engineer.
If people trust you, you may well be
glad. For to be trusted is greater than
to be the ruler of a country or to own
bushel of rare diamonds.
When folks mistrust a store, or a
business, or a man-then it is that the
end of each begins to loom.
Be deeply proud of your ability to
trust. Guard the trust of others in you
as you would your very life. And to
trust yourself is not the least In trust
ing.
Trust is where all things start.
Each night we close our eyes and
trust the great God to keep us safe
and then we fall asleep-trusting Him
further in our dreams to bring us to
day again, or to take us into a happy
eternity il He thinks best
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-27
why Russ1ANs SUBMIT.

Probably it is a matter for wonder
in the rest of the world that the Rus-
sian people submit to the autocrstic
and ruinous rule of Lenine, Trctzky
and their few well paid followers.
Some light is thrown on the situation
by a contributor to the North Ameri-
can Review, who writes as follows:
The peasants of Russia. some hun
bred and thirty-five million of them,
live SO independently and isolated.
scattered turnout the vast plains and
boundless forests, that they have no
of the great industrial centers. They
bother their heads little about the
endless ordinances.
To a certain extent the peasants are
better off than they were before. They
certainly have many more comforts
and they are not starving asaFe the
city folks. The improvement in their
lot they do not owe to the Bolsheviki
but to the revolution which preceded
and resulted in the all-Russian con-
stituent assembly. This. and not the
soviet government, declared: THE, use
OF all lands, mines, forests and waters
| is free to all citizens of the Russian
! republic regardless of nationality OF
creed" The RED Robbery system
] ny Which TIE SONlSl government IeQ1S-
| tributed the land, allowed the most
| powerful to seize the Hons share. OF
course they have changed their modes
Of living. They grow no more flax
wheat or vegetables than what Is
needed for their wants, and of that
they bury in the safest place all but
the smallest Quantity. Proving and
| reqVisitioning Commissars and govern
ment agents have until now forced
them at the point of the bayonet to
give up all the surplus they could find
All their horses and cows have beer
taken except a single one. It wa:
| obedience or the bullet.
| The peasants have either themselve:
seized the land of their old masters OF
landlords, or had it doled out to them
by the government. which has retained
some per cent for Communist use
In either case, they are very uneasy as
to their title, and. valuing land above
| all else, are most anxious to hand II
on to their children
The government has not yet felt SUI.
| ficiently strong to tell them outright
that It is not theirs to have and to hold
as all land has been nationalized and
belongs to the government.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-27
lpLAN ZOE A sew LEAGUE.

Col. George Harvey. than whom
there was none more violent in oppo-
sidon to the Wilson form of a league
Of nations. advocates that the United
States stand sponsor for an associa-
ton of peoples who would pledge
their respective governments for all
time never 10 engage in offensive war
fare until the question in dispute had
been submitted to and decided by the
People themselves.
But it may be asked what consti-
tutes offensive warfare?" Which ma
ton was on the defensive in the
Eusso-Japanese war? Japan struck
first. and without . formal declaration
q war. yet she could adduce abun-
lance OF evidence to prove that her &C
ton was in defense of her realm.
We're the Russian aggressious in
China up to 1903 such as to convict
her Of offensive warfare, or was she
engaged in defensive warfare when
she belatedly lined up to oppose the
japanese advance.
Was the United States guilty OF
offensive warfare against Spain, in
Cuba? Or did Spain begin the war hy
her tyranny and cruelty in that Is
Land? Were We defending the United
states or humanity? Was not Spain
defending her realm as against the
United States?
Who was guilty Of offensive war
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-27
JUST FOLKS
CHRISTMAS TIME.
BY EDGAR A. GUEST.


Oh, / am glad I lived TO know
Those Christmas days or long ago,
To see the candle-1ighted tree
With all the pomp of mystery,
To stand before it open-eyed
AS some new tinseled toy I spied,
To wake before the dawn had come
And find beside my bed a drum.
And then to rouse the house with JOY,
As now does many little boy.
Those glorious Christmas days, it seems,
Have vanished in the mist Of dreams,
Yet other little boys must know
The self-charms of long ago;
But there's no table long drawn out
For all the folks to sit about,
No shouts of giee. no welcoming smiles
To those who'd driven miles and miles
To be with us and share the day
Those good old friends were called away.
The mother smiling at the door
Her eyes with tears just brimm1ng Ger
Glad tears that seemed so strange to me
Because, TIL I'd grown old, 1 thought =
That Christmas day with Joy was fraught,
That It IS touched With grief and woe,
And h0wsceyer large the list,
There always is a loved one missed.
The gifts were simple. then. but oh,
With. love they set all eyes agiow!
AUST what I wantedis each exclaimed;
Tbi 2~ very a ting lad ioaeed to i1s 'oa'
And then the gift for mother camel
Loves altar candle were aflame
As we produced our big surprise
Which Brought the tears into her eyes.
But We who were the children then
Are now the women and the men;
The girls arc mothers and they cry
As mother did in days gone by.
And | haxe learned thru changing scenes
Just what the Christmas morning means:
/ feel their kisses on my cheek,
And find IL difficult to speak
I've come TO understand and know
Just hoz they felt 30 long ago.
Copyright. 1910. by Edgar A Guest.)