Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1922-07-03
OTTAWA FOURTH TO
Be SANS ANY FETE
TOURISTS FILL CITY
NO CELEBRATION TO MARK MA.
TONS BIRTHDAY Bet CROWDS
FLOCK HERE JUST THE SAME.
OUTINGS TO FEATURE DAY.

Ottawa today prepared to celebrate
grand and glorious old fashioned
Fourth of July. While there will be
no municipal celebration, there is
hardly small boy, and very few
small girls within the confines of
the city limits who do not have an
ample supply OF noise makers on
hand to rock the city tomorrow
There is no chance for anyone let
ting the Fourth get by without no.
ticing 1t, because judging by the
sale of fireworks and flrecraekers,
Ottawa will have plenty of noise
from early morning, until most OF
the populace is ready to sleep at
night
Stores to Remain Closed.
None of the business houses VIII
be open tomorrow. by the terms of
an agreement reached by the county
merchants association at their meet
ing in April. The loop will be EN-
tirely deserted in so far as business
in concerned. The merchants clos
ing tonight and remaining close until
houses and cigar stores will be kept
open. Drug stores will operate on a
Sunday schedule.
Ottawans who have commented on
a smaller number of tourists Wis
itors this year than for several sea
son found that crowds of motorists
who passed through the city Satur-
a /,
as any pre-July 4th crowd, ever to
visit here. The crowds of tourists
started coming into Ottawa early on
Saturday morning and kept up thru
out yesterday and today. The great
majority of these were en- route to
Starved Rock state park
Tourists Poud Into Town.
Thousands and thousands of Wis
itors, most of them from long dis
lance, visited the park yesterday
The motor parking space at the park
the camping grounds and the hotels
were filled with visitors yesterday,
and an even greater crowd is ex.
pected tomorrow. Many of the wis.,
itors arrived Saturday and will re-
main until SUNDAY night.
Allen park in South Ottawa look.
ed like tented city when the great
crowds of motorists who visited
there yesterday pitched their tents
and prepared to make themselves
comfortable for the night The day
was one of the largest in the history
of the city's free parking grounds
The concrete roads leading into
Ottawa from each way yesterday,
looked like crowded city avenue
so many machines were on the high.
ways.
At Amusement Parks.
Special programs of celebrations
will be staged in all of the amuse-
ment parks around Ottawa tomorrow
at the state park, Mckinley park,
the Ivy Way gardens, Glen Park.
and all the other parks in this part
of the country The city of Peru,
will stage very large municipal
celebration, which has been widely
advertised and promises to attract
great many visitors.
At the Ottawa golf club tomorrow
there will be big picnic for the
Fambers and their families with
fireworks in the evening.
Many other smaller picnics and So
Sial gatherings have been planned
for the day
u Thursday Closing Starts July 6.
The holiday will be one of two
which will be observed this week.
The first Thursday half day closing
of the season starts on July 6, and
the stores will continue closing each
Thursday thruout the months of
July and August